Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'Malley, 1530-1603 [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 195 pages
• Publisher: Mercier Press,
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1856354431
• ISBN-13: 978-1856354431
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #794,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been so much better, April 15, 2008

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S. Radler (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'Malley, 1530-1603 (Paperback)

Having just visited the Clew Bay area of County Mayo, I bought this book hoping for an interesting read about the life of Grace O'Malley and was sorely disappointed. The book is about 5% Grace and 95% general Irish history of the era, which, while important, makes for very dry reading at times. Furthermore, the book suffers from occasional mangled grammar and glaring factual errors, for example, referring to two men once as being uncle-nephew and later as being step-brothers. Although several people in the narrative do have the same name, this kind of mistake is inexcusable if a competent editor had been on board.

Furthermore, the index is woefully incomplete and the one supplied map is not very helpful. There is no scale -- a cardinal sin when printing any map -- and many places and castles mentioned in the book are not on the map at all; their inclusion would have added a lot to my comprehension.

Sail past this book if you want a lively read about Grace O'Malley.

5 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pirates in history, April 13, 2005

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Erin (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'Malley 1530-1603 (Paperback)

This book on Grace O'Malley is a very well written book. If you're into adventure read this story Grace O'Malley. I traced back my family history and I'm actually related to her. I'm an O'Malley too.