It is perhaps providential that the youngest son of Ireland's Pirate Queen, Granuaile, was born on the high seas aboard his mother's galley. Saved at birth from Barbery Coast pirates, Tibbott Bourke, seems destined to fulfil his birthright and, like his father, become a minor leader in the twilight world of Gaelic Ireland. But national and international politics catatpults him into the prominence in a period of immense change, as the battle lines between two incompatible protagonists - the antique Gaelic world of his birth and the exploitive, acquistive world of Elizabethan England - are drawn...