Malie Rennick

Persona

Malie Rennick was born near Ard na Caithne, Co Kerry in 1558, the year Queen Elizabeth came to the throne. She grew up in a staunchly Catholic family, and both her parents were strong supporters of anti-English and anti-Protestant sentiments. Her mother and father were massacred by English troops at the Seige of Smerwick in 1580, during the Second Desmond Rebellion, and Malie, with no other family to tie her to the area, moved to Tralee. There she met, and married Seamus McKinneach, and began to gain a reputation for making a variety of high quality woven items, from belts to baskets. She also makes a point of knowing which end of a sword to stick in the other person, so she will not die as her parents did.

Interests

• Rapier
• Period Sword fighting
• Natural Dyes & Dyeing
• Hand-spinning & Wheel Spinning
• Brewing & Mead-making
• Costuming & Sewing
• History (Irish/English)
• Knitting
• Cooking
• Basket weaving
• Wool preparation
• Weaving

History

• September AS 42 (2007) Joined the SCA
• September AS 42 (2007) Started attending Lions Gate Rapier Practices in New Westminster with Warwick Drakkar
• December AS 42 (2007) Participated in my first Tournament when I entered Gerhard's Riposte at Baroness' Birthday Tournament XLII/2007
• September AS 43 (2008) Joined the Retinue of Prince Raknar and Princess Chiara
• November AS 43 (2008) Participated in, and had the honour of winning Gerhard's Riposte at Baroness' Birthday Tournament XLIII/2008
• February AS 43 (2009) Attended A&S, Days of Dance and Newcomers, where I exhibited a display on wool preparation in the 16th century entitled "From Sheep to Stocking". I also was a participant in the Rapier Demonstration
• July AS 44 (2009)Taken on as a student of rapier by Lord Warwick Drakkar
• July AS 44 (2009)Taken on as a student of Arts & Sciences by Maeda no Kiku Mariko
• October AS 44 (2009) Taught a basket-weaving course at the University of Tir Righ session
• October AS 44 (2009) Received my Award of Arms from Their Highnesses Princess Renee de Josselin and Prince Ulfgar Hjartar Bani Thorvaldsson
• March AS 44(2010) Became Web Minister for Lions Gate
• July AS 45 (2010) Ran gate for the resurrected Tournament of Armies in Lions Gate
• February AS 45 (2011) Became Don Warwick Drakkar's cadet, with her Husband Seamus, and daughter (in-utero) Scotia the Loud
• March AS 47 (2013) Ended term as Webminister of Lions Gate