Grace O'Malley, an Irish 'Pirate Queen'
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Graceomali - A Pirate Queen
Graceomali inherited her land from her own mother. She had to firstly prove her worth in a male dominated society. A woman could not become a chieftain by law, that was you'd have to go back two thousand years to get the warrior women chieftains. Women were looked on really as child bearers and bers of charitable good works That would be the high light of their expected careers. And most important, if she's setting herself up as a mariner, a seafarer, she's up against the most powerful, i suppose, thing in nature, and that was the sam. The brigan low why there were very good men and very liberal to
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