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Granuaile: Grace O’Malley – Ireland’s Pirate Queen
by Anne Chambers
The story of one remarkable woman’s quest for
survival and fulfilment, by land and by sea, in a time of profound political
upheaval and male chauvinistic bias. Grace O’Malley was the original
trail-blazer and mould-breaker.
There came to me also a most famous feminine sea called Granny Imallye … with
three galleys and two hundred fighting men … She brought with her her husband
for she was as well by sea as by land well more than Mrs Mate with him. This was
a notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland …
Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1576
Fearless leader by land and by sea, political pragmatist and tactician, rebel,
pirate and matriarch, the ‘most notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland’
Grace O’Malley challenges and manipulates the turbulent politics of the 16th
century — a period of immense social change and political upheaval. Breaching
boundaries of gender imbalance and bias, she re-wrote the rules to become one of
the world’s documented feminist trail-blazers.
In Granuaile, the original international bestselling biography of this historic
icon, from rare and exclusive contemporary manuscript material, author Anne
Chambers draws Ireland’s great pirate queen in from the vagueness of myth and
legend and presents the historical reality of one of the world’s most
extraordinary female leaders.
First published in 1979 Granuaile has become a milestone in Irish publishing and
author Anne Chambers the catalyst for the restoration of Grace O’Malley to
political, social and maritime history.
Over the years Anne’s name has become synonymous with Grace O’Malley. Her
biography has become an inspiration for documentary and film makers, composers,
artists and writers from a range of creative disciplines worldwide, and is now
recommended reading in schools curricula in Ireland and abroad.
In this 30th anniversary edition, as well as some textual additions, the
inclusion of new transcriptions of contemporary 16th-century manuscript
material, located and deciphered by the author, will be of special interest to
students, teachers and historians as well as to the general reader.
Granuaile is available now on Amazon.com
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