Author: Joe Butler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788490634
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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You're never too young to learn the essentials of GAA! This board book is perfect for the little all-star in your life, no matter which county you live in. Sliotar, boots, point, goal, helmet, bainisteoir and the rest: it's all in My First Book of GAA! With simple text and pictures, this bright and colourful book is perfect for the youngest GAA fan - no matter who you cheer for!
Author: Marcus De Búrca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Publisher: O'Brien Press
ISBN: 9781788491655
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Discover creatures big and small with this fun and engaging baby board book. My First Book of Irish Animals is filled with different kinds of wildlife from the hedgerows and woodlands to skies and seas. Babies will learn to recognise native Irish animals with this compact book.
Author: Jacqui Hurley
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785373390
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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Irish sportswomen have been breaking the mould for a very, very long time. In 1956, Maeve Kyle became our first female Olympian, and in 1978 rally driver Rosemary Smith broke the country’s land-speed record! Through the 1990s and 2000s we had world champions in Sonia O’Sullivan, Derval O’Rourke and Olive Loughnane, and more recently, the fantastic Katie Taylor, Kellie Harrington and Annalise Murphy have been among those who have put Irish sportswomen on the map. This book breaks the mould once more, as a first ever compendium of stories for children about our best contemporary sportswomen. With a fairytale touch, RTɒs Jacqui Hurley tells the stories of women who have proved that being a girl is not a barrier to sporting success. Each story is one of overcoming big challenges, and the role models celebrated here are sure to inspire the next generation of Irish sportswomen. Featuring twenty-five dazzling athletes, and with delightful drawings by five wonderful female Irish illustrators, Girls Play Too is a celebration of some of our brightest and best sporting stars, and of all that you can achieve if you try your best and never give up on your dreams.
Author: Keith Duggan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780574061
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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No Gaelic Athletic Association football county has endured more anguish and disappointment in the quest for the Sam Maguire Cup than Mayo. More than half a century has passed since Mayo were the All-Ireland football champions in 1951. That year has become a bright and poignant touchstone, and while the county has produced glittering football players and achieved many days of glory since, the grand prize has eluded them. From the bleak 1970s, when Mayo failed to win even a provincial championship, to the soul-wrenching defeat against Meath in 1996, not to mention the numbing September losses to Kerry in recent years, Mayo supporters might be forgiven for thinking that the gods enjoy toying with them. Five All-Ireland-final losses sum up a modern period of near-glory and ultimate despair. But for all that, there is an abiding magnificence to Mayo football. They keep pressing and have never compromised the open, often flamboyant, style of play for which the county has been celebrated, while the passionate Mayo public has stayed loyal and loud through the setbacks. In the wake of a season when cult hero John O'Mahony finally returned to manage his native county, award-winning sportswriter Keith Duggan presents an unforgettable account of Mayo's grand obsession. House of Pain is an entertaining, moving book about the people who have put their souls into the fight for All-Ireland glory. Packed with memorable anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories about the quest for success, it is a tribute to those who refuse to be daunted by the fact that fifty years of trying have brought no redemption.
Author: Paddy Stapleton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912328796
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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A graphic novel in story and illustrated diary format for Irish teenagers with an interest in hurling.
Author: Christy O'Connor
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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In 1999, the hurlers of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield won the All-Ireland club championship. That winter, they became only the second club in history to win successive Munster club titles, and the following March they became the only Munster club to reach successive All-Ireland club finals. Ten years on, St Joseph's is in a totally different place, well down the pecking order not just nationally, but in County Clare. the senior team is still spearheaded by many members of the 1999 All-Ireland winning team, who are raging at the dying of the light. At the beginning of the 2009 season, the team, club and parish were deeply wounded by two family tragedies. One of those tragedies - the sudden death of one member of the 1999 team - cut deep into the soul of the senior team. And that was not the last tragedy to strike the club ... As part of the healing process, the senior team made a pact to honour the memory of those lost by defying the odds and becoming county champions once again. A campaign fuelled by emotion and pain began promisingly, but slowly began to unravel into one of the stormiest and controversial in the club's history. The story of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield is unique; but it is also a story that anyone connected with one of the 1,700 other GAA clubs will relate to. From player infighting to player-management stand-offs, team-bonding and on-pitch battles, The Club is a chronicle of the 2009 season told with unflinching honesty by Christy O'Connor, who covers GAA for the Sunday Times and who has been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years. This is a story like no other, a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grass-roots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly told.
Author: Adriana Zermeno
Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books
ISBN: 0463312759
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Ana Goes to Work with Mom - Early Reader - Children's Picture Books Early Saturday morning, Ana wakes up to the smell of eggs and beans. “Good morning, mami!” she says as she greets her mother.
Author: Tamara Hart Heiner
Publisher: Tamark Books
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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Evil exists. I know—I was created from it. The angels call us Renegades. We call ourselves the Forsaken. Because we were abandoned by heaven and all celestial beings, subjected to live in misery in hell. But I managed to enter the Guardian Angel Academy. And it's time for revenge. Welcome to Guardian Angel Academy. Year 1: Renegade is the first book in an exciting new teen/YA paranormal angel academy series with a slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance. Perfect for fans of Supernatural Academy, Dark Angel Academy, Shadowspell Academy, and Evermore Academy. One click today to dive in! First place winner of the Fall 2022 Bookfest YA Fantasy Awards. Gold prize winner of the 2022 Wishing Shelves Book Awards. First place winner of the 2023 Christian: Fantasy/Sci-Fi PenCraft Awards Silver medal winner of the 2022 Reader's Favorite Book Awards. Finalist for the 2022 CIBA YA awards 2022 Maxy Awards Finalist 2022 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist 2022 Kindle Book Awards Semi-finalist
Author: Michael Foley
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 1788492293
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of police and military rumbled through the city streets as hundreds of people clamoured at the metal gates of Dublin Castle seeking refuge. Some of them were headed for Croke Park. Award-winning journalist and author Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park and the 90 seconds of shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate portrait he tells for the first time the stories of those killed, the police and military personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left shattered in its aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster. Updated with new information and photographs.
