The O Brien Press imprint: 270 books

by Aubrey Flegg
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

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 Collins, but many disagree with...
by Siobhán Parkinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012

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, there are problems too, with...

Friend or Foe

1916: Which side are you on?

by Brian Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015

It’s time to choose: friendship, family or loyalty to the cause. When Emer Davey saves her neighbour Jack Madigan from drowning, it seems that they will be friends forever. But eight months later, they find themselves on opposite sides in a life-or-death struggle, as Dublin is torn apart...

War Children

Stories from Ireland's War of Independence

by Gerard Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

Six stories -- one set in Dublin, the others in the countryside -- about children who get caught up in the War of Independence and suffer dire consequences. Mattie Foley dreams of escaping the harshness of life in the Dublin slums, but her dreams and reality become dangerously entwined with...
by Gerard Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013

It is 1916 and Europe is at war. From the poverty of the Dublin slums twelve-year-old Jimmy Conway sees it all as glorious, and loves the British Army for which his father is fighting. But when war comes to his own streets Jimmy's loyalties are divided. The rebels occupy the General Post Office...

Stormclouds

New Friends. Old Differences.

by Brian Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

Big changes are coming to late-Sixties Belfast. At first life seems normal for Sammy and Maeve, two children from the opposing republican and loyalist communities. Sammy tries to avoid trouble with his unemployed father, while Maeve has lived with her aunt and uncle since her mother’s death. When...

Secrets and Shadows

Two friends in a world at war

by Brian Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012

When her home is destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing of the North Strand, Dublin in 1941, Grace Ryan is forced to move in with relatives in a different part of the city. There she meets Barry Malone, an English boy sent to neutral Ireland to escape the terrible air raids on his native city of Liverpool. Wary...
by Anna Carey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

Mollie Carberry is a suffragette! Well, sort of. Mollie and her best friend Nora have been bravely fighting for women’s rights – even though no one else really knows about it. But when they hear a big protest is being planned, they know they have to take part. If only they didn’t have...
by Eithne Massey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

A vivid story of a fight for survival in darkest medieval Dublin As the spectre of the Black Death hovers over Dublin in the fourteenth century, Kai is plucked from the filthy streets to sing in the great Christ Church choir. But Kai has a secret that must be kept hidden - even from new friends...

Bernard Dunne

Champion of the World

by Bernard Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

How a little kid from Dublin became a world champion boxer. Bernard Dunne tells his own story in his own words: for children! Growing up in Neilstown, west Dublin, Bernard Dunne was always going to be a boxer. His Dad Brendan was an Olympic boxer in his day, and coached in the CIE club in Inchicore,...

Atlantis United

Sports Academy Book 1

by Gerard Siggins
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018

Five kids with one dream: to become the greatest sports stars in the world! Joe knows he has no chance of catching the mysterious scout’s eye – he loves football, but he’s by far the worst player in his club. Despite this, he’s whisked away to a remote island and teamed up with four...
by Dave Hannigan
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012

‘With three seconds remaining in the Super Bowl, it falls to the New York Giants’ place-kicker Shaun Reedy. … He’s kicked it … but no, it’s gone left and wide…...’ Peter, Davey, and the rest of the Dromtarry Under-11 Gaelic football team are busy training for the start of a...

Rugby Runner

Ancient Roots, Modern Boots

by Gerard Siggins
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017

Schools rugby star Eoin Madden has never been busier – he’s captain of the Junior Cup team, he’s training with Leinster and hoping to be chosen for the Ireland team for the first-ever Under 16 World Cup. But it’s not all fun and games, as Eoin also has to deal with grumpy friends, teachers...

The Moon Spun Round

W. B. Yeats for Children

by W. B. Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016

Bringing the spirit and beauty of Yeats’s writing to a whole new young audience! This sumptuously illustrated book complements the carefully selected works of W.B. Yeats, which include poems, stories, a letter from childhood, and an account of his daughter Anne’s memories of childhood. Including...
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