The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-10
GRA1NUA1LLE, OR GRACE 0MAz1EH

GRANVILLE, OR GRACE 0MALLEY.
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This Famous sea- queen wac the daughter
{ of Dubhdara O'Mailley (O'Mailley Of Enc
Black Oak), lord of the Isles of Arran and
the territory of Ui-na- halle, or O'Mailley's
land, a district comprising the present
County of Mayo, and who, according to
tradition, for many years, in addition TO
not a little smuggling, added other specu.
lations to his connection with the sea in
short, like Lambro, Haidee's parent, he
was noted for his bold and successful
cease Grainne succeeded to the command
of his piratic squadron, and soon surpasted
his plunderings by the extent and ma9ni-
&tude of hers. The natives along the entire
Western coast trembled at her very name.
This life, however, did not prevent her
twice yielding to the influence of that sly
Htoxopholitic deity, who "rules the camp, the
court, the grove" and who for her spread
! his wings to the blasts that swept the dark
and stern cliffs of Ui-na-haille. Her first
husband was Donnell O'Flaherty, a distin-
guished chief of the sept of that surname.
8who formerly possessed all Western Con-
Suaught, and whose character about this
period may be recognized from the inscrip-
Btion which the terror stricken burghers Of
Galway are said to have placed above the
western gate of that city: ''From The
lferocious O'Flaherty's, good Lord deliver
)" After his death her second spouse
was Sir Richard BeaFke, head of the Mayo
sept of that Norman-Irish clan, whom he
governed under the title Of .s.Mac William
Fighter" 1. e., the lower, the Earl of Clan.
ricardo being chief of the upper or senior
sept. Sir Richard died in 1888. Grainne'e
plracIes became 80 frequent and notorious.
before and after her first marriage, that At
length, in 1879, abe was proclaimed as an
outlaw, reward of $500 was offered for
her apprehension, and troops were sent
TO take the castle of Carrick- a. Uille, in the
bay of Newport, which was her chief
stronghold, and her defence Of which was
lso spirited that the 5eleaguers were com.
PEELED to ignominiously retreat, after a
Siege of more than fortnight. However.
the extension of English influence In Con.
Enaught ultimately induced her to come tn
terms with the government, and in the
summer OF the year 1893 she sailed for
England, and obtained an interview with
Queen Elizabeth at Westminster. to the
Iastonishmept of her majesty's farthingaled
|and ruffed DANES dhonneur, who appeer to
have been considerably struck with the
Imien and appearance of this marine Anna
|zon.
That s1nburnt brow did fearless thou ghts reveal.
Her ortmson mantel her gold brooch SHSt did bind:
r,d Her flowing garments gI reached unto her heel
And part silver bodkin fastened up behind"
The queen consented to pardon her
transgressions upon a promise of future
amendment, which Grainne rather reluc-
family gave, and, after a short soiourn.
returned to Ireland, debarking at q little
creek near Howth Castle, to which She
proceeded, but the gates of which, ss IL was
customary at dinner time, ,she found closed.
Indignant at such dereliction of national
hospitality, she seized the infant heir to the
title, who CHANGED to be rambling with his
attendants along the beach, and conveyed
MIN to the castle of Carrick- a -Uille, nor
would she consent to restore him until she
had exacted heavy ransom, and an
express stipulation that the gates of Howth
castle should never again be closed at
dinner time, and that a cover should alwavs
DC IN readiness for any stranger that might
aELlveLa sI custom scrupulously observed
through many generations. Grainne
reached very advanced age. and at her
death, which occurred early in the seven
teenth century, was inferred in the monas-
tory OF Glare Island, which she had endowed
ana where some remains of her tomb are
still visible: Her celebrity was long the
subject of bardic song, and yet forms the
theme of ballads, and the subject of legends
among the peasantry.
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