ELEANOR COUNTESS OF DESMOND 1545-1638
In this vigorous and moving biography, which has received glowing tributes and media reviews and was short-listed for the GPA Irish book awards, the amazing life of this remarkable 16th century woman for the first time is revealed.
The ’Hecuba’ of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland, educated, sophisticated, as astute and politic as those who threatened her and her family, Eleanor Butler FitzGerald, Countess of Desmond, was a woman of immense courage and indomitable will, with an almost superhuman capacity to withstand personal suffering, loss and deprivation. A pro-active participant in an unparalleled era of upheaval and destruction visited on her family and her country, her life is the story of the triumph of the human spirit against the odds.
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’A brillent biography... alive with blazing reality. Not only a wonderful read but a superb history of the period.’ Irish Press
’Chambers writes with the assurance of someone who has saturated herself in the social and political atmosphere of Elizabethan Ireland. This is an enthralling book.’ Irish Times
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