Granuaile: Grace O’Malley: Grace O’Malley – Ireland’s Pirate Queen

‘There came to me also a most famous feminine sea called Granny Imallye … with three galleys and two hundred fighting men … She brought with her her husband for she was as well by sea as by land well more than Mrs Mate with him. This was a notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland …’ Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1576