Hi THomas!
Thank you for the blessings! I will be agood teacher. The stories are not mine. I know that you love native sounds but this time I will give you some sounds of your Celtic blood line. Real good sounds.
Granuaile's Dance - Celtic woman
Grace
O'Malley
She is known by many names: Grainne
Mhaol (Bald Grace), Grainne Ui Mhaille (Grace of the Umhalls), Grania, the Dark
Lady of Doona, Grace O'Malley, and Granuaile (Gran-oo-ale).
She was a contemporary of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Edmund Spencer, Walter
Raleigh, and Francis Drake. She was a mother, a pirate, and one of the many
great women of Ireland.
Born c. 1530 into the O'Malley family, the hereditary
lords of Umhall which included Clare Island, Inishturk, Inishbofin, Inishark and
Caher, Grace married into two of the powerful families of Western Ireland, the
O'Flaherty of West Connacht and the Burke of Clew Bay. Tradition has it that she
is buried (1603) on Clare Island at the Abbey which bears the O'Malley
coat-of-arms; Terra-Marique-Potens. Indeed a fitting family motto, for Grace was
powerful on land and especially on the sea.
Granuaile's life parallels the House of Tudor's efforts
to reconquer Ireland. She married Donal O'Flaherty in 1546 while in this same
period of time Henry VIII was pressuring prominent Irish chieftains and
Anglo-Irish lords to submit to the rule of the King's Lord Debuty. The
O'Flaherties and O'Malleys did not submit and, denied access to Galway Bay, they
poached on merchant ships bound for Galway. They were so obstreperous that the
Mayor and Council of Galway reported them to the English Council. Grace busied
herself with her three husband's death in 1567. Before this, another
historically important woman, Elizabeth I, assume the throne of England (1558).
In time, the paths of these two extraordinary women would cross. Read moreKindly Regards Georgios
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