Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the history podcast, that's not

your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and reader of books.

And welcome to another from the vault episode,

going all the way back to my favourite, my favourite pirate in all of history, Groniawiel, the Irish

pirate queen. Now, when I first recorded this episode, this specific one, it was in retaliation

to another podcast that asked me to do the intro to their Gronna O'Malley episode, except

they kept calling her Grace, which, if you don't know, is not her name, was never her name.

And it's, it's not her name.

It's not the anglicised version.

It's nothing.

It's what some dude several hundred years after her death decided was a better name for her. So, no, no. It's a

colonial outwashing of Irish history. So, Gronia, Gronia, if you can say Yon, you can say Gron. Gronia. You can say

Gronia. Both are acceptable. We don't care. So as long as you try, I think,

is the sort of way of it, if you give it a good go. And the original intro to this episode

was nearly 12 minutes long and it was me ranting about colonialism and the theft of names and culture and

identity and putting it through a colonial lens to make it more palatable for for colonial masses

and the ignorance that comes along with that and the willful ignorance that

comes along with that. So it was a very long rant and I decided to cut most of that from this.

Now, this is a From the Vault episode, so it is a bit older. It's when my, you know,

equipment wasn't as good. So you're going to hear a lot of, right?

You're going to hear audible noises of breath and things.

So sorry about that.

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