New TV Feature on Grace O’Malley.


A new TV feature on Grace O’Malley – Ireland’s Pirate Queen with her biographer, ANNE CHAMBERS, ★ will be broadcast by the European TV Channel ARTE at 5.30 pm on 3 February. ★ Dedicated to culture and travel the popular ARTE channel is broadcast across all European countries.


Filmed on location in Murrisk, Croagh Patrick, Louisburgh and Rockfleet Castle last summer, as Anne states, ‘it brings the amazing story of Grace O’Malley to a wider audience. This in turn will no doubt positively impact tourist footfall in the areas associated with her story, especially along the Wild Atlantic Way, and encourage her many fans worldwide to follow in the footsteps of our great Pirate Queen.’


Anne’s latest book to be published in March - ‘LIVING LIVES: A Biographer’s Journey’ (Red Stripe Press) presents the pros and cons of writing this particular branch of literature through her experiences over the past forty years as a biographer of some ten remarkable lives. As well as Grace O’Malley, these include historical figures such as Lord Mayo, son of the Pirate Queen, 18th century Lord Sligo, known as ‘Champion of the Slaves’, prima donna Margaret Burke Sheridan, ‘Ranji: Maharajah of Connemara’, ‘Eleanor Countess of Desmond - an amazing survivor of the Tudor wars in Ireland and T.K. Whitaker ‘Irishman of the 20th Century’.

GRACE O’MALLEY

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

RANJI MAHARAJAH OF CONNEMARA

Indian Prince KS Ranjitsinhji was the most famous cricket-player of his generation

T.K. Whitaker: Portrait of a Patriot

In 2002, an eighty-five-year-old former civil servant was voted 'Irishman of the Century'.

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