The Sea Queen

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Cook, Judith (2004). Pirate Queen: the life of Grace O'Malley 1530–1603. Cork: Mercier Press. ISBN 1-85635-443-1. This event should be a celebration of the sea, the history of the local area and the characters who contributed to this history and made the area what it is today. A historic character, Bobby Bell, the town crier will call the audience together and introduce the outgoing Sea Queen, and some of the community groups represented in the up and coming procession. One Piper will then escort the Crown from the west end of the harbour representing the Royal Burgh of Anstruther Wester, to the stage, followed by a second piper to escort the Sceptre down the hill (Hadfoot Wynd) representing the Royal Burgh of Anstruther Easter, and athird piper will escort The proclamation, the Anster Fisher Lass and Lad and the new Sea Queen to the stage from the East and the Scottish Fisheries Museum, representing the Royal Burgh of Kilrenny and Cellardyke. Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press". dib.cambridge.org . Retrieved 8 March 2017.

Several characters have been selected to represent the townsfolk in the initial year, if more community actors wish to be involved more characters will be researched. The main thing is history. This is the event’s unique selling point. The area has galas, stalls, bouncy castles and fairground rides aplenty in summer. Maybe this could be something completely different!?! Current Events: The Marki Shalloe Theatre Festival, October 21 – November 5, 2006". Theatre Gael . Retrieved 8 April 2007.

Tales of adventure 

Ships in the Irish Lighthouse Service". Commissioners of Irish Lights. Archived from the original on 3 February 2007 . Retrieved 10 February 2007. Petition of Grany Ny Maelly, of Connacht, to Burghley, 17 April 1595, National Archives, Kew, PRO SP 63/179/f. 7 a fearless leader, by land and by sea, a political pragmatist and politician, a ruthless plunderer, a mercenary, a rebel, a shrewd and able negotiator, the protective matriarch of her family and tribe, a genuine inheritor of the Mother Goddess and Warrior Queen attributes of her remote ancestors. Above all else, she emerges as a woman who broke the mould and thereby played a unique role in history. [28]

Tradition but not the written sources states that O'Malley met with the Queen at Greenwich Palace, wearing a fine gown; the two of them were surrounded by guards and the members of Elizabeth's royal court. [24] Son and grandson of fishermen, William became owner of Martins Oilskin Factory, he was a member of the Scottish Fisheries board and by investing in new technology he was instrumental in the development of motor fishing vessels and the move away from steam. He also invested in boat building in the town and built his second big drifter the Royal Sovereign, on the Bulwark in 1936. Willie Carstairs became Provost of the United Burghs and will represent the businesses of the town. Cellardyke Sea Queen Outline Draft Version 3 22/8/2017 The Sea Queen Committee and Rector will make the final decision based on the voting and a scoring system set up for the purpose. It’s one of those odd ironies of history that we know far more about Grainne O’Malley, the notorious Irish pirate, from her enemies than we do from the countrymen she fought to support. On the one hand, this is because she made a definite impression on the English – few Irish chiefs ever travelled to London to meet the monarch. On the other, it may have been prejudice on the part of the Irish – women did not normally go to war at this time, after all. The primary source we have for the history of the period is the Annals of the Four Masters, and one could make a case that monks would be less likely to want to record a woman so careless of convention. But one also has to remember that they were writing after the Nine Years War had been lost – after English rule had been firmly imposed on the once more unruly Irish. To those people, Grainne was a reminder of a more free time, a potent symbol of refusal to submit that it may have been more politic to censor from the record. Besides, there was no need to write down the tales of her prowess. The people were already telling them.Public spilling onto the historic scene and overzealous stewards in luminous vests interfering with the historical picture Meeting with Elizabeth [ edit ] The meeting of Grace O'Malley and Queen ElizabethI (a later illustration from Anthologia Hibernica, vol. 11, 1793)