Pirate Queen: The Life Of Grace O'Malley [Paperback]

Judith Cook (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Mercier Press (Dec 31 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1856354431
ISBN-13: 978-1856354431
Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 200 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,706,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in County Mayo, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She had a fleet of galleys under her command (four of them Scots). In 1559 her husband was killed in an ambush and not long after she took as a lover a survivor of a shipwreck. Clansmen came over from Scotland and murdered him. She tracked them down and had them killed, and from then on follow episodes of plunder, kidnapping, piracy and general mayhem. In 1586 she was captured by the Earl of Ormond and was actually on the scaffold with a rope around her neck when she was saved on the orders of Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth offered to make her a countess. Grace refused, but was officially allowed to be a 'privateer' thereafter. She may also have been an intelligencer for Elizab

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Judith Cook is well known as a crime writer and investigative journalist. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Cornwall.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been so much better, April 15 2008

By S. Radler - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Pirate Queen: The Life Of Grace O'Malley (Paperback)

Having just visited the Clew Bay area of County Mayo, I bought this book hoping for an interesting read about the life of Grace O'Malley and was sorely disappointed. The book is about 5% Grace and 95% general Irish history of the era, which, while important, makes for very dry reading at times. Furthermore, the book suffers from occasional mangled grammar and glaring factual errors, for example, referring to two men once as being uncle-nephew and later as being step-brothers. Although several people in the narrative do have the same name, this kind of mistake is inexcusable if a competent editor had been on board.

Furthermore, the index is woefully incomplete and the one supplied map is not very helpful. There is no scale -- a cardinal sin when printing any map -- and many places and castles mentioned in the book are not on the map at all; their inclusion would have added a lot to my comprehension.

Sail past this book if you want a lively read about Grace O'Malley.

2.0 out of 5 stars pirate queen,not so much, May 22 2012

By Mary Ellen Snyder "mary ellen" - Published on Amazon.com

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This review is from: Pirate Queen: The Life Of Grace O'Malley (Paperback)

too wordy and to much factual rather than story, not much about Grace O'malley more about the era. I was disappointed looking for more story like book

5 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Pirates in history, April 13 2005

By Erin - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'Malley 1530-1603 (Paperback)

This book on Grace O'Malley is a very well written book. If you're into adventure read this story Grace O'Malley. I traced back my family history and I'm actually related to her. I'm an O'Malley too.

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