Grace O'Malley was chieftain of the M ille clan in the west of Ireland, following in the footsteps of her father Eoghan Dubhdara M ille. She was a product of the Gaelic world of her time and, despite her interaction with English officials, may have known no English. She was apparently well-educated and was regarded by contemporaries as being exceptionally formidable and competent. Upon her father's death she inherited his large shipping and trading...