by admin | Oct 28, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
The dramatic story of the Norman conquest of Ireland in the 12th century. Full of battles and warfare, but a story of love, too, between an unlikely pair – wilful and wild Irish princess Aoife, and Strongbow, the greatest of the Norman knights to come to...
by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
Lockie is a bit of a misfit. Orphaned, he is placed in foster home after foster home, but somehow he never settles in. ‘Troublemaker’ is the general verdict. He runs away and meets up with some colourful characters – Dadge and his strange friends...
by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
When Katie’s father returns from the Great War, he is shell-shocked, his personality destroyed. Now, four years later he has more or less recovered, but another war is breaking out, this time at home in Ireland. The Treaty with the British has been signed by...
by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Class Novel
The mysterious arrival of Bella Blackwell, ‘The Bird Woman’, to the village of Ballyglen disturbs the peace and quiet of the Murphy household next door. Granny Rose is suspicious of Bella, and Rory doesn’t trust her, but ten-year-old Mia falls under...
by admin | Oct 23, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
It is 1916 and Europe is at war. From the poverty of the Dublin slums twelve-year-old Jimmy Conway sees it all as glorious, and loves the British Army for which his father is fighting. But when war comes to his own streets Jimmy’s loyalties are divided. The...
