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 "AT ARM'S LENGTH  - Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland"
Anne Chambers chose fourteen Irish Chiefs and Peers representative of the Gaelic, Anglo-Norman, Elizabethan, Jacobite, Cromwellian, Williamite, Victorian and Edwardian-created aristocracy/ ruling class in Ireland and elicited their opinions on a range of issues of historical and present-day interest. She recorded the fate and fortunes of families descended from the Gaelic Chiefs she interviewed and of those who superseded them.

Chiefs/ Peers interviewed:
O Brian (Conor), Lord Inchiquin, 32nd great-grandson in descent from Brian Boru.
O Donovan (Daniel), lord of Clan Cathal.
Mac Sweeney Doe (Thomas Sweeney), 21st Chief of Doe.
Mac Donnell (Count Randal), 25th Chief of the Mac Donnells of the Glens
Edward Plunket, 19th Baron of Dunsany
Desmond Fitzgerald, 29th Knight of Glin
Brigadier Denis Fitzgerald (deceased)
Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo
Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse
The Earl of Mount Charles
Thomas Packenham, 9th Earl of Longford
Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin
John Kilbracken, 3rd Baron Kilbracken
The Honourable Garech Browne, son of the late Lord Oranmore and Browne.

"At Arm's Length: Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland" was launched by Dr. T. K. Whitaker in the Heraldic Museum, Kildare Street, Dublin, September 14, 2004.
From left:  Madam Mac Sweeney Doe, Mac Sweeney Doe, Anne Chambers,  O Brian/ Lord Inchiquin - President of the Standing Council of Irish Clan Chiefs & Chieftains, The Hon. Garech Browne, Count Randal Mac Donnell of the Glens,  Mac Sweeney Doe.



From left: Madam O Donovan, Mac Sweeney Doe, O Donovan, Madam Mac Sweeney Doe.



 From left:The Marquess of Sligo, The Hon. Garech Browne, Anne Chambers, Count Randal Mac Donnell of the Glens, The Earl of Rosse, Lord Killanin, Mac Sweeney Doe
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Press Comments.
Irish Times Weekend Review, Sat, Sept.18, 2004, journalist Fiona Tyrrell.
Photographs: Irish Times photographers Moya Nolan and Joe St. Leger.
Anne Chambers and Conor O Brien/ Lord Inchiquin at the launch of  "At Arm's Length".


Bill Butler and Dr. T. K. Whitaker.


("Evening Herald") Facts may emerge from history books, but it is the story-telling, the spinning of old memories that captures the imagination ... History is second nature to Anne Chambers, research is a labour of love and  when she writes of those far-off days, dry-as-dust facts are transferred into the power to excite as well as inform .

 ("In Dublin") The most striking aspect of Anne Chamber's work is the tremenduous excitement  and love which she has for her subject mattter.  But despite her intensity of feeling about the past there is little romanticism in her approach ... she has little time for the simplictic view that sees history in terms of national heroes.

("Irish Independent") Anne Chambers is one of the rare exceptions. She has that qualty of ... seeing, feeling and understanding the period she writes about as if she were a contemporary.

                                                                                                                18th October, 2004