Grace O'Malley
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Gráinne O'Malley was the head of the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland, and the daughter of Eóghan Dubhdara Ó Máille.
Gráinne Mhaol Ní Mháille statue, Westport House, in Westport, County Mayo
Clare Island, associated with Grace O'Malley
Rockfleet Castle
1793 illustration of O'Malley meeting Elizabeth I
Nine Years' War (Ireland)
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The Nine Years' War was a conflict in Ireland between a confederacy of Irish lords and the English-led government. The war was primarily a response to the English Crown's advances into territory tradi
Grace O'Malley
…Tibbott-ne-Long's foster-father, "with the intention of the Queen accepting their surrenders of the premises and re-granting them by letters patent." As the Nine Years' War escalated, O'Malley sought to retrench her position with the crown. On 18 April 1595 she petitioned Lord Burghley, complaining of the activities of…
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, depicted in a Vatican fresco, c. 1610
Statue of Red Hugh O'Donnell at Curlew Pass, County Roscommon commemorating the Irish victory over the English in 1599
Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, c. 1594