Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas

Grania is the basis of the new Broadway muscial The Pirate Queen.. Here is an extraordinary novel about real-life Irish chieftain Grace O Malley. From Morgan Llywelyn bestselling author of Lion of Ireland and the Irish Century novels comes the story of a magnificent sixteenth-century heroine whose spirit and passion are the spirit and passion of Ireland itself.. Grania (Gaelic for Grace) is no ordinary female. And she lives in extraordinary times. For even as Grania rises as her clans unofficial head and breadwinner and learns to love a man she enters a lifelong struggle against the English forces of Queen Elizabeth -- her nemesis and alter ego.. Elizabeth intends to destroy Granias piracy and shipping empire--and so subjugate Ireland once and for all. But Grania aided by Tigernan her faithful (and secretly adoring) lieutenant has no choice but to fight back. The story of her life is the story of Irelands fight for solidarity and survival--but its also the story of Granias growing ability to love and be strong at the same time.. Morgan Llywelyn has written a rich historically accurate and passionate novel of divided Ireland -- and of one brave woman who is Ireland herself.