During China's Qing Dynasty, a fearsome female pirate queen named Ching Shih ruled the South China Sea. She led the Red Flag Fleet, commanding over 1,800 pirate ships and around 80,000 pirates.

So when I found out that a UK-based studio had made a VR game called The Pirate Queen based on a forgotten female leader who was prolific in the South China Sea, I was shocked. How had I never ...

Forgotten Women is a series dedicated to giving women ... badass – defied convention to become Ireland’s most famous pirate queen, at a time when most clans, as well as the seas, were ruled ...

In particular, there were special rules for female captives. If the captive was ugly, she was immediately released. If she was pretty, a pirate could marry her, but then had to be a faithful ...

Kirsten Sheridan, the Oscar-­nominated writer and producer, who wrote several episodes of hit series Say Nothing, is set to bring the story of Ireland’s iconic female hero Grace O’Malley to ...

The Irish filmmaker — also the daughter of Jim Sheridan — has optioned “Grace O’Malley — The Biography of Ireland’s Pirate Queen” by renowned biographer Anne Chambers. The feature ...