Editing Grace O'Malley (section)

==Last years==
Sir Richard Bingham disagreed with the decision of the Queen and initially did not obey her instructions, which O'Malley had personally delivered to him on her return to Ireland.<ref name="40th"/>

O'Malley had to threaten him "that she would else repaire againe into England" if he did not comply. Therefore, he reluctantly agreed, "to enlarge Grany O'Mally, her son Tibbott and her brother Donal na Pippe,&nbsp;... upon such slender surytes."<ref name="40th"/>

Grace O'Malley rebuilt her fleet with three large galleys and began to return to her former life. Bingham struck, quartering a troop of his soldiers on her ships to accompany her in her voyages and later forcing her into service against some of her own kinsmen who he claimed were in rebellion.<ref name="40th"/> Bingham quartered another detachment of his soldiers on Grace O'Malley's property in Burishoole, leading to her impoverishment. Unable to bear the strain, she, her sons cousins and followers "were forced to withdrawe themselves into the Province of Mounster, where they do remaine in great distresse". In April 1595 O'Malley sought the aid of the Earl of Ormond at his Elizabethan manor at [[Carrick-on-Suir]].<ref name="40th"/> Ormond wrote to Burghley on her behalf.<ref name="40th"/> At some time between 17 April and 5 May she returned to England to plead her case with Burghley. O'Malley was rewarded when in August 1595, a commission was granted by the queen and the Privy Council to investigate the lands in Mayo claimed by her two sons, her grandson Dónal O'Flaherty, son of Owen, Dermot and Dónal O'Malley of "Owel O'Maillie", and Miles MacEvilly, Tibbott-ne-Long's foster-father, "with the intention of the Queen accepting their surrenders of the premises and re-granting them by letters patent."<ref name="40th"/>

As the [[Nine Years War (Ireland)|Nine Years' War]] escalated, O'Malley sought to retrench her position with the crown. On 18 April 1595 she petitioned Lord Burghley, complaining of the activities of troops and asking to hold her estate for Elizabeth I.<ref>Calendar of State Papers Ireland, 1592–1596, p. 321</ref> She added that "her sons, cousins, and followers will serve with a hundred men at their own charges at sea upon the coast of Ireland in Her Majesty's wars upon all occasions&nbsp;... to continue dutiful unto Her Majesty, as true and faithful subjects".<ref>Petition of Grany Ny Maelly, of Connacht, to Burghley, 17 April 1595, National Archives, Kew, PRO SP 63/179/f. 7</ref> Throughout the war she encouraged and supported her son [[Tibbot ne Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo|Tibbot Bourke]] to fight for the Crown against Tyrone's confederation of Irish lords.

In September 1595, there was a conspiracy against Sir Richard Bingham; he fled to England and was imprisoned. Sir Conyers Clifford was appointed Governor of Connaught.<ref name="40th"/>

She most likely died at [[Rockfleet Castle]] around 1603, the same year as Elizabeth's death, though the year and place of O'Malley's death are disputed. Her family's usual burial place was in [[Clare Island Abbey]].