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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,

from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,

relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

On the western edge of Ireland, where the Atlantic breaks into the inlets of Clue Bay,

power in the 16th century was measured as much in ships as in land.

Coastal lordships rose and fell on their ability to command the sea, to trade,

to tax passing vessels, and to defend their harbours with armed galleys.

This was a world organised around kinship and

clan authority, governed by Gaelic law and custom, and increasingly pressured by the

expanding ambitions of the Tudor state. Into this charge, maritime landscape was born one of the

most striking figures of early modern island. The woman later remembered as the pirate

queen, Grace O'Malley, or perhaps more properly, Gronia O'Malley. She's the source of

fascination for a number of you who have written in, including Kendra Poulson from Ogden,

Utah, who is keen to find out more. Hi, Susanna. I would love to listen to an episode about Grace O'Malley.

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