Author: Anne Chambers
Publisher: Wolfhound Press (IE)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Anne Chambers
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
ISBN: 9780717148288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Originally published: Eleanor, Countess of Desmond, c. 1545-1638. 1986.

Author: Anne Chambers
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717151751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Set in a period of invasion, military conflict, social and political chaos perpetrated by the Tudor conquest of Ireland, the story of Eleanor, Countess of Desmond recounts the heroic efforts of a woman to protect her family against insurmountable odds. Aristocratic, educated, intelligent and able, Lady Eleanor Butler's destiny was as a wife and mother. But marriage to Garret FitzGerald, the powerful Earl of Desmond, hurls her headlong into a maelstrom of invasion, rebellion, intrigue, appalling cruelty, double-dealing, confiscation plantation, famine, social and political meltdown, as she and her husband become embroiled in a struggle to the death against the formidable, Machiavellian government of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Enduring imprisonment, exile, poverty, hunger and deprivation, her only son held hostage in the Tower of London, her mission to save the House of Desmond, her husband, her children and herself from annihilation becomes Eleanor's obsession and for which she will sacrifice anything, including herself. When all seems lost, like some latter-day phoenix, she rises, time after time, to bravely confront each new challenge. The life of Eleanor, Countess of Desmond is the story of the triumph of the human spirit against the most horrific adversity. In this vigorous and deeply moving biography that has all the constituents of a Shakespearean tragedy, sourced from primary contemporaneous manuscripts, including the Countess of Desmond's own letters, Anne Chambers, author of the bestselling Granuaile, vividly brings the life of this neglected heroine to light against the backdrop of one of the most convoluted and traumatic periods in Irish history.

Author: T. Evan Williams
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781490981000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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This is the first of two volumes distilled from the recently discovered secret memoirs of the great Desmond Countess of Tudor and Stuart Ireland. The life, loves, triumphs and tragedies of a great woman, as recalled from childhood by the long- forgotten old woman.

Author: Marian Broderick
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847174612
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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From patriots to pirates, warriors to writers, and mistresses to male impersonators, this book looks at the unorthodox lives of inspiring Irish women. In times when women were expected to marry and have children, they travelled the world and sought out adventures; in times when women were expected to be seen and not heard, they spoke out in loud voices against oppression; in times when women were expected to have no interest in politics, literature, art, or the world outside the home, they used every creative means available to give expression to their thoughts, ideas and beliefs. In a series of succinct and often amusing biographies, Marian Broderick tells the life stories of these exceptional Irish women.

Author: Desmond Seward
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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This volume is a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca.1122-1204) one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages. First, she became First Lady of France as the wife of Louis VII, and then First Lady of England when she next married Henry II. Many saw her as a ruthless hellcat, governed by a lust for power, who schemed against her husband and dominated the lives of her sons, Richard the Lionheart and King John. Shakespeare portrayed her as a "monstrous injurer of heaven and earth." Yet there was another side to this powerful queen consort. Worshipped by men and idealized in the songs of the troubadours, she was the sex symbol of her age. She also became renowned as a generous and strong ruler, throwing off the constraints that shackled twelfth-century women. Among her achievements was her patronage of the abbey at Fontevrault, a refuge for battered wives

Author: Richard Sainthill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375102100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 673

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Author: Louisa Stuart Costello
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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