While in County Mayo I took a snap of a tower on Achill Island.
It apparently was one of Ghrianne's defence towers, Ghrianne was also known as Granuaille (Anglicised), or Grace O'Malley - the Pirate Queen of Mayo.
On our final day in Mayo I spotted a biography of her in a Westport bookshop. She was the daughter of a local, 16th C. chieftain and rose to become a chieftain in her own right, based in Murrisk, and a woman making her own way in a very male dominated society.
She led an extremely interesting life that's well worth reading about.
6 comments:
Sorry for nit picking! You have wrongly spelt this woman's name which is G[h]ráinne or even Gráinne
The h is inserted not for the spelling but only for the sound in pronuciation and then you have also omitted the accent over the letter a and needs to be as á this is obtained by pressing alt simultaneously as the letter on keyboard. What it does is to extend the pronunciation of the vowel in this case to a long soft aa.
The ai ia was a typo, but I'm loathe to put accents in Blogger due to the way it treats some characters. I have yet to find a way of inserting an ampersand into a blog text, as it interprets it as something strange. Not sure how it's interpreted within the replies section, so I'll try it here --- & ---
So & works in the replies...
Gráinne visit Elizabeth 1st to make her complaint.
That's taking it a bit over the top - it was only a typo...
Yes, perhaps but I wrote when intoxicated -ok
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