A Guide to Making Decorated Papers

First edition. An excellent practical guide to making paste, block-printed and stencil papers. Also covers the art of Suminigashi, Oil Marbling, and Orizomegami. Each technique is defined and then the materials and methods described. Well illustrated, with several stunning photographs of the papers in color. 79 pages. boards, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

ANNE CHAMBERS

Crafts & Hobbies

W.W.Norton&Company

80 pages with many b/w and colour illustrations. Paperback.

Suminagashi: The Japanese Art of Marbling : A Practical Guide

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Richly detailed and often thought-provoking This is an enthralling book.-Dervla Murphy, The Irish Times. ""A truly marvelous story one in which truth is more brave and more resourceful than fiction.""-Irish Post. Set in a period of invasion and 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 Garrett FitzGerald, the powerful Earl of Desmond, hurled her headlong into a maelstrom of rebellion and intrigue as she become embroiled in a struggle to the death against the formidable, Machiavellian government of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Enduring imprisonment, exile and poverty, her mission to save her family from annihilation becomes Eleanor's obsession, for which she will sacrifice anything, including herself. Anne Chambers 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.

Eleanor: Countess of Desmond

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Gill & MacMillan, Limited

The timely 40th anniversary reissue of the definitive biography of Ireland’s pirate queen.When Baptista Boazio published his world map in 1612, Grace O’Malley was the only woman of power represented. Forty years ago, Anne Chambers’ groundbreaking biography put Grace O’Malley on the map again when it became a milestone in Irish publishing and the catalyst for her restoration to political, social and maritime history and in schools ’ curricula.This international bestselling biography draws in Ireland’s great pirate queen from the vagueness of myth and legend and presents the historical reality of one of the world’s most extraordinary female leaders. This handsome new hardback edition brings Grace O’Malley’s story to a new era awakened to the once-forgotten female voices of history.Praise for Anne Chambers’ Granuaile'You cannot be what you cannot see, and with women all too often airbrushed from history, the importance of this biography cannot be underestimated.' Director, National Women’s Council of Ireland'A superbly researched work … it salvages the 16th century Mistress of the Western Waves from the rather frivolous folklore which surrounds her.' The Irish Times'A historical reality which is equally if not more compelling than the legend.' Sunday Tribune'Grace O’Malley … a woman who can truly claim to have been 400 years before her time … and Anne Chambers’ biography is as innovative as its subject.' Enda Kenny, former Taoiseach of Ireland

Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603

Community & Culture

Gill Books

Grace O’Malley is the story of one remarkable woman’s quest for survival and fulfilment, by land and by sea. 
In 1979, Anne Chambers’ original biography of Ireland’s pirate queen, airbrushed from historical record over the centuries, 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 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. 
This updated edition brings one of the world’s first recorded feminist trailblazers to a new generation awakened to the global focus on gender equality as well as positive ageing. 
'You cannot be what you cannot see, and with women all too often airbrushed from history, the importance of this biography cannot be underestimated.' Orla O’Connor, Director, National Women’s Council of Ireland 
'A superbly researched work … it salvages the 16th century Mistress of the Western Waves from the rather frivolous folklore which surrounds her.' The Irish Times 
'A historical reality which is equally if not more compelling than the legend.' Sunday Tribune 
'Grace O Malley … a woman who can truly claim to have been 400 years before her time … and Anne Chambers’ biography is as innovative as its subject.' Enda Kenny, former Taoiseach of Ireland

Grace O’Malley: The Biography of Ireland’s Pirate Queen 1530–1603

Apart from the occasional or passing reference, historians have ignored or forgotten her. Now in a vigorous, moving biography, Anne Chambers writes about the amazing life and the ambitions of this truly extraordinary woman. A woman of courage and indominable will, with an almost superhuman ability to withstand suffering, loss and deprivation, Eleanor, Countess of Desmond was relentless in pursuit of her own and her husband's interests. Eleanor shared the Tudor and Elizabethan stages with great and colorful characters. Machiavellian as they at intrigue and negotiation and ever mindful of her central purpose, she outlived both opponents and supporters. Wife of the rebel 15th Earl of Desmond, she became to the armies pursuing them in the Munster hills an obsessive myth, "object of their fear, hatred and lust; the she-devil... What self-respecting woman-and a Countess to boot-would willingly live like a wild animal in the woods and bogs?"

Eleanor, Countess of Desmond: A Heroine of Tudor Ireland

History

Europe

Wolfhound Pr

Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley c.1530-1603

Wolfhound Press

Using state papers and manuscripts of the period, Anne Chambers reveals the woman behind the legend and presents one of history's most remarkable women against the turbulent political environment of her time. What emerges is a woman who challenges our predisposed sense of convention, who, over four hundred years ago, was one of the first women to break the mold and make a unique contribution to history.

Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley 1503-1603

The scene at Ballynahinch station, when the Prince was about to take his departure, conjured visions of scenes from the Arabian Nights'. His Highness' native Indian servants and some 30 hefty Connemara men employed by the Prince, lined up at the station. When his Highness entered the station he was lustily cheered."- Galway Observer, 1926 "...His Highness the Maharajah entered attired in the garb of a sportsman, the springing step and elasticity of movement proclaiming his distinguished career in the athletic world..."- Connacht Tribune, 1924Indian Prince Ranjitsinhji was the most celebrated cricket-player of his generation. In 1924, the inhabitants of Connemara, on the west coast of Ireland, were amazed when this exotic stranger fell in love with Ballynahinch Castle and decided to move in. For the first time, biographer Anne Chambers reveals the reasons behind Ranji's strange decision to move to one of the remotest parts of Ireland during a time of violent political unrest. Using rare documents from Government and personal archives, private photographs and personal stories from people who knew or worked for The Ranji', as they called him, she brings this intriguing story to light.

Ranji: Maharajah of Connemara

Granuaile: Life and times of Grace O'Malley c 1530-1603

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