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 Ireland. A...
by admin | Oct 27, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
The extraordinary true story of Red Hugh O’Donnell — kidnap, gaol, dungeons, escape. Ireland in 1587 was a tough place. The old Irish clans struggled desperately to hold on to their lands. With the Spanish Armada threatening her in the background, the English queen,...
by admin | Oct 27, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
It’s 1916 but Amelia Pim’s thoughts are on Frederick Goodbody and not on the war in Europe. Then Frederick enlists. The pacifist Quaker community is shocked but Amelia is secretly proud of her hero and goes to the quayside to wave him farewell. For her friend MaryAnn,...
by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
Alice Colossus is a bright but shy twelve-year-old who has spent her life in an orphanage in upstate New York. Then at summer camp the girls keep mistaking her for someone called Miami. Is this a clue to Alice’s real background? Determined to solve the mystery, Alice...
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 Michael...
