Talking about death and putting words to what one feels is a difficult task for any adult. It is not easy to communicate the concept of death to a child and also to comfort them, especially when one is also experiencing grief. One day when they see him feeling sad, Sammy’s aunties reveal a secret to him: his mum wrote her name in Sammy’s heart. From that day onwards, Sammy discovers that a person’s love does not disappear when they die, but stays imprinted in us forever.
Debut novel from Laois writer Eleanor Merriman and Illustrated by Mya Foley (14). This beautiful story has been printed in a dyslexia friendy font and a percentage of profits are being sent to support Feileacain, the Irish Still Birth and Neonatal Death support group.
“Ma éiríonn liom a chur in iúl nach bhfuil aon rud ró-mhíloighciúil sa scéal traidisiúnta, agus má cruthaím gur fior-dhuine de bhunún Chorcaí a bhí sa tá úd, Fionnbarra Naofa, bead sásta”
Liam Ó Briain (1888-1974)was a native of Dublin’s East Wall area and a neighbour of Sean O’Casey. In Irish articles in Comhar and Feasta – now translated - he wrote of his own experiences during the War of Independence at the hands of the Tans and Auxiliaries at this time of terror in Galway in 1920-21 when destructive military raids and cold-blooded murders were part of daily life.
The story of Donegal abbey is the story of Ireland from the 15th to the 17th century. It is also the story of the O’Donnell chieftains of Tír Chonaill, who founded the abbey in 1474, and their epic struggle as one of the last strongholds against English rule in Ireland. From the Act of Suppression of 1535 by Henry VIII to long after the destruction of their abbey in 1600 the friars continued to administer to and receive support from the people of Donegal. The completion of the Annals of the Four Masters by four of their members in 1636 is further testament to this extraordinary friary.
An extensive series of poems which locate surviving local myths in Sliabh Luachra and beyond it in a long legendary history, starting with an imaginative extension of the familiar lore of the fate of the wren.
2020 Publication. Tells the amazing story of an ambitious undertaking to raise millions and build a life-sized replica of a 485-tonne 19th century Famine ship whose masts, spurs and rigging tower above the quayside. The ship is called the Dunbrody, named after an original ship of similar features, that took thousands of people from New Ross to the ‘New World’ in the United States during the dreadful Famine years.
Of Human Being is a unique guide to how we can all use our power better in the art of living. The book encompasses many ideas and practical ways to maintain good mental health, emotional well-being and how to find meaning and purpose in life.