ABSTRACT
The publisher Clo Mhaigh Eo bridges the medium's growing use of the Irish language with the popular topics of Irish history, legend, and lore. This chapter looks at the Clo Mhaigh Eo coimici Grainne Mhaol, by writer Gisela Pizatto and artist Bruno Bull, about the legendary pirate queen of sixteenth-century Ireland. The story is notable because women's place in Irish history was long neglected, and O'Malley's story is thus found mostly in English annals. As described by Pascal Lefevre, ‘Mise en scene in comics concerns the representation of a scene by specific organization of its virtual but figurative elements such as decor, props, and characters'. The cluster of men at the castle's gate is seen in most of the panels depicting Granuaile's divorce scene. In literature, ‘the castle gate marks the cultural boundary between the castle and the outside world'.
