Chambers A. Granuaile: Ireland's pirate queen. Grace O'Malley c. 1530-1603

Forth Edition. — Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2003. — 206 p. — ISBN: 0-86327-913-9.This tantalising description is one of many descriptions in the Elizabethan State Papers of a most remarkable Irish woman. To the sixteenth century English administrators and military men who firstly by persuasion and later by the sword came to conquer the land of her birth, this ‘notorious woman’ provoked awe, anger, revulsion and admiration.
But in Ireland for over four hundred years she was destined to remain a prisoner of indifference as Irish history chose to ignore her unique contribution to the social, political and maritime history of her time. But folklore, poetry and fiction showed no such bias and must be congratulated for preserving the memory of one of the most remarkable women of history, Grainne (Grace) O’Malley, or as she is more familiarly known in Ireland, Granuaile.