Leagan Gaeilge le Caitlín Ní Chualáin den leabhar Diary of the Naughtiest Girl le Jeanne Willis, maisithe ag Alex T. Smith agus ar tógadh an bunsmaoineamh ón tsraith leabhar The Naughtiest Girl le Enid Blyton. Dialann Scubaidín is the Irish-language edition, written by Caitlín Ní Chualáin, of the book Diary of the Naughtiest Girl by Jeanne Willis, illustrated by Alex T. Smith. Inspired by the Enid Blyton The Naughtiest Girl series of books, these are the laugh-out-loud innermost thoughts of of the naughtiest pupil there's ever been.
Before the outbreak of the Troubles, a typical firefighter's year might have included call-outs to chimney fires, the occasional house fire or road accident, then everything changed, and Northern Ireland's firefighters spent almost every day of the next thirty years racing to the scenes of atrocities, running towards the gravest danger.
Collette Wolfe was on holidays in Lanzarote with her husband Anthony when they got the call that all parents most dread. Their beloved daughter Leanne had died, having taken her own life. On the morning of Leanne's funeral, her diaries were uncovered by her sister, and the family awakened to a nightmare within the nightmare: to witness in written form the devastation of years of unrelenting bullying by a group of Leanne's peers, and to have been powerless to prevent it. There began a journey that brought Collette to the very edge of existence, as she contemplated taking her own life to end months of unbearable pain and suffering.
This full-colour kaleidoscope of over 150 photographs by one of North America's leading photographers evokes a pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, recording a world on the cusp of radical change: a time-capsule of personalities and landscapes, professions and activities, caught in the amber of the camera's eye.
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. This book provides a definitive account.