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Grace O’Malley, the Fearless 16th-Century Irish Pirate Queen Who Stood Up to the English
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She debated with Queen Elizabeth I, sat at the head of a prosperous pirate empire, and told the English where to go.
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If asked to name a pirate from history, many people will mention Blackbeard or Captain William Kidd. If pressed to name a female pirate, they might mention Anne Bonny, who terrorized the Caribbean alongside Captain "Calico" Jack Rackham in the early 18th century. Anne Bonny, however, was far from the only female pirate to terrorize the seas. More than a century before Bonny's birth, another woman ruled the waves, debated with Queen Elizabeth I, and sat at the head of a prosperous pirate empire. She was Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen.
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