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    Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530–1603 with a Forward by Mary McAleese
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    Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530–1603 with a Forward by Mary McAleese
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    Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530–1603 with a Forward by Mary McAleese

    By Anne Chambers

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    About this ebook

    Grace O’Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land and at sea in the 16th century. In 1979 Anne Chambers’ original biography of this famous Irishwoman, who over the centuries had been airbrushed from historical record, put her on the map once again. The biography became a milestone in Irish publishing and the catalyst for the restoration of Grace O’Malley to political, social and maritime history, as well as establishing her as an inspirational female role model in the classroom.

    In the 40th anniversary edition of this international bestselling biography, drawn from rare contemporary manuscript records, the author presents Ireland’s great pirate queen not as a vague mythological figure but as one of the world’s most extraordinary female leaders. Political pragmatist and tactician, rebel, intrepid mariner and pirate, wife, lover, mother, grandmother and matriarch, the ‘most notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland’, Grace O’Malley challenged and triumphed over the social and political barriers she encountered in the course of her long, pioneering life.

    Breaching boundaries of gender imbalance and bias in a period of immense social and political upheaval and change, Grace O’Malley rewrote the rules to become one of the world’s first recorded feminist trailblazers.

    This updated anniversary edition brings Grace O’Malley’s story to a new generation awakened to the global focus on gender equality as well as positive ageing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateOct 26, 2018
    ISBN9780717151745
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    Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530–1603 with a Forward by Mary McAleese
    Author

    Anne Chambers

    Anne Chambers is a bestselling biographer, novelist and screen writer. Her biographies include Adorable Diva: Margaret Burke Sheridan; Ranji: Maharajah of Connemara; Granuaile: Grace O’Malley – Ireland’s Pirate Queen; At Arm’s Length: Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland; Sea Queen of Ireland; The Geraldine Conspiracy; Finding Tom Cruise; and Shadow Lord – Theobald Bourke: Son of the Pirate Queen. Her books have been made into radio and TV drama-documentaries for Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, RTÉ and have been translated and published abroad. She has appeared regularly on radio and TV programmes, most recently on the BBC’s popular series Who Do You Think You Are, on Nationwide RTÉ 1 and RTÉ Lyric FM. She was short-listed for the GPA Irish Book Awards (biography) and for the 2004 Irish Hennessy Literary Awards (short story). She holds an MA in History from the National University of Ireland and is a member of the Irish Writers Union and the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild. Over the years Anne’s name has become synonymous with Grace O'Malley. Her biography of the Pirate Queen has become the inspiration for documentary film makers, composers and writers from a range of creative disciplines worldwide, as well as for students in all educational levels, both in Ireland and abroad.

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    • 2/5
      The book was a bit disorganized. Reflects different grammar rules than what I usually see, not sure if that reflects mistakes or that Ireland uses different rules....

      While this was about a pirate queen I have no idea if her galleys had cannon. How much if at all they used muskets and several other thing that could easily been included.

      Overall this book felt more like a recitation of facts than relating the life story of an exciting individual.
    • 5/5
      A riveting picture of Irish history and the woman who should be as famous as Elizabeth I.
    • 3/5
      Sometimes meandering but always fascinating tale of the historical Irish pirate Grace O'Malley. Largely written out of history by the Irish historians of her time for being a woman in a man's job, Chambers here goes a long way toward redeeming O'Malley's place in history.
    • 4/5
      Grace O'Malley, AKA Granuaile, is one of those truly amazing historical figures who is both a product of her time and yet so impossibly modern in other ways. In a time when women didn't inherit and widows were lucky if they retained a home and a livelihood, Granuaile led her own army and her own fleet of ships. Reading this history can be frustrating, though, because so little is known about her, and Chambers is (understandably) reluctant to speculate. The sense of Granuaile's personality that come through the few primary sources is so tantalizing.