Tibbot na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo
Tibbot na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo was an Irish peer and parliamentarian. A prominent member of the MacWilliam Burkes of County Mayo, Tibbot was a Member of the Irish House of Commons and was later created the first Viscount Mayo. His successful life followed, and usefully illustrates, the difficult transition for Irish aristocrats from the traditional Gaelic world during the Tudor conquest of Ireland.
Rockfleet Castle, main base of Risteard an Iarainn
Sir Henry Sidney, 1573
Sir Richard Bingham
Gráinne O'Malley, also known as Grace O'Malley, was the head of the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland, and the daughter of Eóghan Dubhdara Ó Máille.
Grainne Mhaol Ni Mhaille statue Westport House, in Westport, County Mayo
Clare Island, associated with Grace O'Malley
Rockfleet Castle
The meeting of Grace O'Malley and Queen Elizabeth I (a later illustration from Anthologia Hibernica, vol. 11, 1793)