ThezO'Brien Press •z Lily's Dream
The Normans
A Lissadell Story
John Farrelly
Judi Curtin Rachel Corcoran
Deadly Irish History, Vol. 3 • $13.99 Paperback • 144 pages • 5.1x7.7 May 2022 • JNF025070 978-1-78-849287-4
$13.99 • Paperback • 288 pages 5.1x7.7 • August 2022 • JUV016040 978-1-78-849327-7
This latest installment in the popular series also sees Lily finally on her way to realizing her dream of becoming a teacher. Nellie's older sister, Johanna, starts walking out with Harry the footman, and is extremely worried when he enlists and goes off to fight in World War I. He send letters to the girls from the front and tells them all about the Christmas Day truce in 1914 … but then a telegram comes. Harry is missing, presumed dead. Will he return to Lissadell, safe and sound? Meanwhile, when Isabelle, the children’s nurse, becomes unwell Lady Mary asks Lily to work with the Michael and Hugh Gore Booth in the afternoons until they are ready to go away to boarding school. On a visit home, Lily meets the Master, who tells her that Miss O’Brien is courting a young man – and if she marries, there will be an opening for a Junior Assistant Mistress in the school. He assures her that her current level of education will be enough, and that once she is old enough, he’d be happy to appoint her.
Throw In
Ayeisha McFerran
Twin Power
David Caren
Emma Larkin
Great Irish Sports Stars, Vol. 6 • $13.99 Paperback • 176 pages • 5.1x7.7 May 2022 • JNF007100 978-1-78-849281-2
$13.99 • Paperback • 160 pages • 5.1x7.7 May 2022 • JUV032000 978-1-78-849275-1
“Will you please come back and play for the club Aoife?”. Aidan asks his twin sister this question every week. Twins, Aoife and Aidan Power, along with their four best friends love playing Gaelic football. They spend most evenings after school playing football in the green in their picturesque rural village of “Droichead Beag”. Aoife and Aidan are skilful and fast but when they combine on the same team, “Twin Power” is unleashed and they have an almost telepathic communication on the pitch, leading to some spectacular scores. But while Aoife loves football, an incident at a match almost two years earlier saw her stop training and playing with her local GAA club, Droichead Beag GAA. Aidan knows what happened, but Aoife refuses to tell her friends. Could it have something to do with their Under 12 counterparts in Gorman GAA, the rival parish team of Droichead Beag, where old rivalries run deep? And how will Aoife’s refusal to play affect their school team when the children’s teacher Ms. Kelly, herself a former All- Star football player announces an exciting new school’s football competition, “Star Schools GAA”? Parish rivalries re-surface and threaten to get out of hand as the children of Droichead Beag National School fight tooth and nail to get their hands on the coveted first ever Star Schools Cup.
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You can’t go far in Ireland without bumping into a flippin’ castle. They’re everywhere! There were thousands of castles of all shapes and sizes in Ireland. Because most of them are now in ruins, you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re really ancient but they only started springing up in the late 12th century. That’s just a dozen of your granda’s lifetimes ago (or two dozen of your dad’s lifetimes. Or seventy of yours. Or three hundred and forty of your pet hamster’s). The latest book in the 'Deadly Irish History' series, The Normans is jampacked with all kinds of interesting facts and stories about castle life. Highly illustrated with cartoons and comic strips, as well as illustrating how castles were built and what medieval fashions were like, it's also full of things to make and do, quizzes and puzzles.
Ayeisha McFerran is an Ireland women's field hockey international. After taking up field hockey at age 7, McFerran began representing Larne Grammar School as a Year 8 pupil in 2008. She made her senior debut for Ireland against Spain in January 2014, the day after her 18th birthday. In March 2015 McFerran was a member of the Ireland team that won a 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League Round 2 tournament hosted in Dublin, defeating Canada in the final after a penalty shoot-out. Between 2015 and 2017 she was named three times as an NFHCA All-American while playing for Louisville Cardinals. She was a member of the Ireland team that played in the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup final.
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