The O Brien Press imprint: 270 books

Strongbow

The Norman Invasion of Ireland

by Conor Kostick
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013

The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns, Strongbow’s story is a fascinating one. Combining...

Thomas Clarke

16Lives

by Helen Litton
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014

A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Clarke spent fifteen years in penal labour for his role in a bombing campaign in London between 1883 and 1898. He was a member of the Supreme Council...
by Kevin Kiely
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

In the commune at the edge of a forest in Colombia, life is blissful. Until the guerrillas come. Then Pepe must flee with his mother to the city, leaving behind his favourite horse, El Dorado. His future looks grim until his Irish grandparents offer him another chance. But can thirteen-year-old...

The Aran Islands

At the Edge of the World

by Curriculum Development Unit
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

Inishmore, Inishmaan, Inisheer: wild, isolated, starkly beautiful and of great historical importance. Lying in the Atlantic Ocean off Galway Bay, the Aran Islands are a place apart. Here island life has preserved many aspects of Irish culture - its language, customs and traditions. These islands...
by Grace Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012

Everyone needs dreams ... Twins Nina and Alex Popadopolus live on the beautiful island of Naxos. Their lives are simply happy, until their blind grandfather senses something terrible is coming. The islanders need a plan to save their village and themselves, they need a dream. Could Alex’s...
by Anna Carey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

My name is Rebecca Rafferty, and my mother has ruined my life. Again. I didn't mind her writing boring books for grown-ups. But now she's written one about an awful girl my age and everyone thinks it's me! Including the boy who delivers our newspapers, aka Paperboy, aka the most gorgeous...
by Judi Curtin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012

Eva Gordon likes fashion, fun and hanging out with friends, so she can't believe she has to spend the entire summer in a cottage in the countryside with her parents and eight-year-old Joey. Worse, it looks like she's going to be stuck with Kate, the girl next door who doesn't care about being cool...
by Marian Broderick
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012

What if you were adopted by witches? There’s something very odd going on in Anna Kelly’s new home – her guardians, Grizz and Wormella Mint, are witches, and they want Anna to help them with their nasty spells! Poor Anna gets stuck in their horrible house, chopping up toadstools...
by Judi Curtin, Nicola Colton
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

Winning is a good thing, isn’t it? Everyone in first year is really excited about the big prize in the English essay competition – four months in France – and Alice has a good chance of winning. Megan loves writing essays, but she doesn’t want to win – go away for four months...
by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013

Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own. Fostered out several times, Blue finds it difficult to fit in. Is there no one out there who really wants her?...

The Táin

Ireland's Epic Adventure

by Liam Mac Uistin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

The most famous Irish legend of all in an exciting and easily understood version. Read about the feats of the famous warrior Cuchulainn who singlehandedly defends Ulster against the army of Queen Maeve. War, peace, love, greed, fate are the stuff of an epic, and in The Táin they are present in full. Illustrated throughout by Donald Teskey.

Edward Daly

16Lives

by Helen Litton, Lorcan Collins (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013

Born in Limerick in 1891, John Edward or 'Ned' Daly was the only son in a family of nine. Ned's father, Edward, an ardent Fenian, died before his son was born, but Ned's Uncle John, also a radical Fenian, was a formative influence. John Daly was prepared to use physical force to win Ireland's freedom...

Michael Mallin

16Lives

by Brian Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, Michael Mallin had commanded a garrison of rebels in St Stephen’s Green and the College of Surgeons during Easter Week. He was Chief-of-Staff and second-in-command to James Connolly in the Irish Citizen Army. Born in a tenement in Dublin in 1874,...

Nobody Will Believe You

A Story of Unbreakable Courage

by Mary Manning
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

‘Over and over again he warned me he would kill me if I told anyone. I was completely isolated. He made sure of that.’ Mary was ten years old when she first met her stepfather, Sean McDarby. From the very beginning he seemed to pay her special attention; his praise and compliments quickly...
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