Are you a human sponge? Do you thirst for facts, trivia and knowledge? If so, this is the book for you! Based on the hugely popular Historopedia by John and Fatti Burke,...
Discover the WARRIOR KING that was BRIAN BORU! Brian Boru grew up in a large warrior family over a thousand years ago in Killaloe, County Clare. One of twelve sons,...
Little Lamb learns that helping others helps her to feel stronger too. Young readers will love this story of strength and courage set in the Irish countryside. Little Lamb has...
What made them support the Rising in 1916? The answer lies in their childhoods. A skating accident, a Fenian nanny, the loss of a parent, poverty, tales of the Famine,...
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a gifted student, a writer of poetry and fluent in many languages. He was also one of the great leaders of science in the 20th century....
Michael Davitt was born the son of poor farmers during the Great Famine. When his family were thrown out of their home by their landlord, to survive they had to...
Michael Collins had many roles in his short lifetime. He fought in the 1916 Easter Rising. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Army, Minister for Finance, leader of a network...
In 1918, sailors from the famous polar ship Endurance recorded a ballad about one of their fellow crew members. The chorus went: Hail, hail, Tom Crean, hail, hail, Tom Crean,...
James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1881. He abandoned a career in medicine to pursue his dream of being a writer. After meeting the love of life, Nora Barnacle,...
