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Chambers is the author of the definitive, international bestselling book, Grace O’Malley: The Biography of Ireland’s Pirate Queen 1530-1603, which the Sunday Tribune hailed as ‘a historical reality which is equally if not more compelling than the legend.

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Wonderful reception for the 'Pirate Queen' at the Howth Halloween Festival.
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05.11.2025 19:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Looking forward to bringing Grace O'Malley back to lovely Howth to celebrate the Samhain Festival on 30 October.

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27.10.2025 17:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Look forward to bringing Grace O'Malley back to lovely Howth to celebrate the Samhain Festival on 30 October.

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As part of national Culture Night Anne's talk on Castlebar-born ★Prima Donna, Margaret Burke Sheridan,★ takes place at Christ Church, the Mall, Castlebar, at 7pm, on Friday, Sept 19th.
Her display of a selection of the Diva's personal and operatic memorabilia will be on display at the Linenhall.

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MARGARET BURKE SHERIDAN RETURNS TO CASTLEBAR

Castlebar will come alive on Friday 19th September 2025 with The Margaret Burke Sheridan Trail
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01.09.2025 20:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Relating the amazing lives of descendants of Grace O'Malley, including Howe Peter Brown, 2nd Marquis of Sligo 'Champion of the Slaves', at the annual O'Malley Clan Rally in the shadow of the Pirate Queen at Westport House.
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11.07.2025 20:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who was Grace O'Malley? Biographer Anne Chambers, has written ‘Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603' and she is in studio to tell us the fascinating elements she discovered about her through her ...

Who was Grace O'Malley?
17 Mins • 02 JUL • The Ray D'Arcy Show
Biographer Anne Chambers, has written ‘Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603' and she is in studio to tell us the fascinating elements she discovered about her through her research.
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02.07.2025 20:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anne with the O'Malley Clan Chieftain Grace O'Malley at Rockfleet Castle at the 2025 annual O'Malley Clan Rally held in Westport..

02.07.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Author Anne Chambers with some members of the annual Wander Women Tour from America at Grace O'Malley's castle of Rockfleet, June 2025

21.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MARCONI & IRISH PRIMA DONNA MARGARET BURKE SHERIDAN Lecture-concert on the encounter and patronage by inventor Guglielmo Marconi of Irish soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan, with Puccini's arias.

★MARCONI & IRISH PRIMA DONNA MARGARET BURKE SHERIDAN★ ★Free event all welcome★ Thursday, May 29 · 6:30 - 8pm GMT+1, at the Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. Click this link to reserve your ticket
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20.05.2025 20:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Author Anne Chambers presenting a copy of her biography of T.K. Whitaker at the annual T.K.Whitaker Lecture at the Central Bank of Ireland in 2018 given by Mark Carney, newly-elected Prime Minister of Canada.

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03.05.2025 11:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To celebrate Mayo Day, ANNE CHAMBERS, author of the biography 'FROM RAKE TO RADICAL: An Irish Abolitionist' (New Island Books) presents the remarkable life story of Mayo man Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo from Westport House.
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24.04.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Diamond Mountain high above Letterfrack, magnificent Connemara National Park, and shows Letterfrack and Tully bays, part of the territory ruled by Donal O'Flaherty, Grace's first husband, whom she married c. 1546. The ruins of Renvyle Castle, which she later attacked by sea, is also nearby

26.03.2025 19:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks to Colm McGuirk from the Irish Mail on Sunday, published on March 16th, 2025, for the interview 'Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley was too regal for blockbuster treatment'.
#graceomalley

23.03.2025 16:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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GRACE O'MALLEY RETURNS TO GALWAY CITY
Galway City Museum - March 22 @ 2pm - 3pm
This event is free of charge, but advance booking is essential as places are strictly limited. please contact the Museum on (091) 532460 or email museum@galwaycity.ie
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14.03.2025 15:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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