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The Northamptonshire Inspection & Advisory Service (NIAS) can confirm Paul Bracey’s view of the way Ireland’s rich stories help to provide a ‘sounder map of the past’ and increase ‘choice, range and fun in our teaching’. (see pages 6-8) At Naseby CE Primary School the excited curiosity of Years 1 & 2 at the prospect of studying an Irish pirate became almost irrepressible when it gradually dawned on them that the pirate was a woman - the fearless Grace O’Malley, also known as Granuaile (pronounced Gran-oo-ale).