Her story was long consigned to legend and fantasy. An Irish pirate queen who commanded a fleet of ships from Spain to Scotland…in the 1500s?! Not likely. But in the 1990s, historian Anne Chambers found a trove of documents in a dusty old chest at Westport House, and the tales of Grace O’Malley were proven to be marvelously, fantastically, true. Join Katie on location in Ireland for a swashbuckling tale like no other!
Music featured in this episode included Kevin MacLeod, Doug Maxwell, David Lim, Half Pelican, and Fiddlesticks.
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THE VIKING Coppergate Woman
THE MOTHER Olympias
THE SORCERER Gunnhild
THE FREE WOMAN Harriet Jacobs
THE ROPEMAKER Mary Pattison Irwin
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THE WOMAN IN THE CHALK Cranborne Woman
THE ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST Sybil Stockdale
THE WITCH Mother Shipton
THE PHARAOH Tawosret
THE PAPER DAUGHTER How Jiu
THE EMPEROR Wu Zhao (Wu Zetian)
THE ADMIRAL Bouboulina
THE FARMER Cherokee America Rogers
THE ORACLE Pythia
THE PSYCHOANALYST Sabina Spielrein
THE POET Hester Pulter
THE GIRL OF IRON Mary Peterson Ipsen
THE TRANSLATOR Malintzin
THE WHITE ROSE Sophie Scholl
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