Book Review – Mythical Irish Wonders

Book Review – Mythical Irish Wonders

How can the year be divided into four? Who was the king with the silver arm? What are ‘brain balls?!’ – ‘Mythical Irish Wonders’ is a collection of myths detailing the obscure, lesser-known stories “handed down to us from Irish Saints and Scholars”. Captivating...
Book Review – The Sackville Street Caper

Book Review – The Sackville Street Caper

The Sackville Street Caper by Alan Nolan is based in Dublin in 1858. It is an adventure story with lots of funny parts thrown in. The main characters are Bram Stoker, a boy who wants to be a successful author and is looking for adventure, and Molly Malone, a part time...
Book Review – Championship Journey

Book Review – Championship Journey

This is a story about the boys in a GAA football team called Smithgreen that don’t usually get to a final but this year its different. There is some good players that are nice and some others that think they are better than they are. Derek is a good player but has an...
Book Review – Lily’s Dream

Book Review – Lily’s Dream

“Lily’s Dream – A Lissadell Story” is about Lily and her best friends Maeve de Markievicz, Nellie, Nellie’s sister Johanna and Harry. Lily felt lucky to have a job as a housemaid in Lissadell, but she always dreamed about becoming a teacher. Lily was...
Autumn Dolch Word Mats

Autumn Dolch Word Mats

Dolch words are a list of 220 “service words” developed in the 1940s by William Dolch. They consist of a series of sets of words which are considered to be vocabulary which occurs most frequently in children’s reading material. This resource contains each set of words...