Anne Chambers
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137 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 10 May
Anne Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's what he put in.
But he added also, this woman did my son, Sir Philip, the famous courtier, the beloved of England at the time.
He met Grace O'Malley.
This young man sat down and spoke to this woman.
And what they spoke about, we don't know, but he brought it back to court.
Oh, no.
Grace O'Malley both wrote or understood and spoke English.
That is quite obvious.
There's never a need for a translator when she meets up with the military and administrators from Tudor, the Tudor government here in Ireland at the time.
And when she went to Elizabeth, there is no mention.
I found one of the highlights of my research with Grace O'Malley, and here we are talking always about Grace O'Malley,
You know, it was the letter written by Queen Elizabeth confirming the meeting in 1593 in Greenwich Palace and also talking about her.
And, you know, there's a little, I suppose, feminine competition there because Elizabeth is the same age as Grace Somali.
They're elderly women at this time.
That's when they met as elderly women.
And she says, I must have sympathy for this poor aged woman.
So I love these little things that come out of these official documents, you know.
We're talking about my fellow townswoman, Margaret Burke Sheridan.
And I was asked to write her biography for her centenary in 1989, and I was only given two years to do that.
So I had to get my time off from the central bank, which was a bit of an aberration then, and I had to negotiate that, unpaid, of course.
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