In 2005, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil were already well-known for their collaborations on shows such as Les Miserables and Miss Saigon. They joined forces again for The Pirate Queen, the story of an Irish Chieftain: Grace O’Malley, a pirate and rebel of Renaissance Ireland. The show is based on Morgan Llywelyn’s historical novel Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas (1986); Llywelyn herself relied on Irish historian Anne Chambers, who wrote a biography about Grace O’Malley.
O’Malley, also called “Grania,” lived during the 16th century, and through her passion, bravery, and outright
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