Children’s / Teenage general interest: Lives of children in the past

»Das Besondere ist, dass Niusia Horowitz alles mit den Augen eines Kindes gesehen

»Dieses Buch zeigt [Monica Hesses] Gabe, sich einer schon oft erzählten Geschichte aus einer neuen

„Conrad erzählt vom Moment, wo der dünne Firnis der Zivilisation aufplatzt.“ Denis Scheck,

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Christa Holtei studierte Anglistik und Romanistik, Philosophie und Pädagogik. Seit 1994 arbeitet

Since its first publication in 1990, Marita Conlon-McKenna's Under the Hawthorn Tree has

Lissadell House, 1915 In the Big House, life is changing for young housemaid, Lily, and her group

Tallaght-born Nicola Pierce is a writer, living in

A web of secrets can risk lives … When Hetty's family move to Martin Street near Portobello bridge

When her home is destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing of the North Strand, Dublin in 1941, Grace Ryan

Dublin 1920 'Above the noise of the crowd, I could hear men shouting. I looked back and saw them –

The extraordinary true story of Red Hugh O'Donnell -- kidnap, gaol, dungeons,

Book 2: The LouisetrilogyOver a century has elapsed since Louise sat for her portrait. The painting

The year is 1914 and Amelia Pim will soon be thirteen. There are rumours of war and rebellion, and

Book 3: The Louisetrilogy The year is 1913. The portrait of Louise is now hanging in the home of a

Two kings, Three young soldiers. One battle to end all battles. Eager to prove his courage and

What Happens When Your Best Friend ought to be Your Enemy? Liam and Nora form an unlikely

I want to be part of it, thought Michael. I want to be part of the song, part of the

It's time to choose: friendship, family or loyalty to the cause. When Emer Davey saves her

It is 1916 and Europe is at war. From the poverty of the Dublin slums twelve-year-old Jimmy Conway

The first book in the famine trilogy Under the Hawthorn Tree is Ireland's top selling

Richard De Clare, Lord of Bunratty, wants the head of the Silver Stag on his castle walls. Four

It's spring 1919. Ireland's War of Independence has just begun. In a cottage in County Westmeath,

A sequel to The Guns of Easter which won the Eilís Dillon Memorial Award and a Bisto Merit

Pirates and crooked rulers make seventeenth-century Ireland a dangerous place. When Tom feels

Anna Carey is a freelance journalist from Drumcondra in Dublin who has written for the Irish Times,

St Enda's is no ordinary school, and Padraic Pearse is no ordinary headmaster. His pupils

Dublin 1911 When Eliza Kane and her brother Jonty move from the leafy suburbs of Rathmines to a

The second book in the famine trilogyAt seven, Peggy made a terrifying journey through

Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue

Big changes are coming to late-Sixties Belfast. At first life seems normal for Sammy and Maeve, two

Winds of Change explores the challenges faced by a range of characters against the backdrop of Land

In the spring of 1945 a mother dies, leaving four children to fend for themselves in a Dublin

In the spring of 1919, after the end of the First World War, teams of pilots and navigators begin

Imagine your home is bombed one Sunday afternoon by a horde of enemy planes. Imagine your family

The further adventures of Lily: life as a maid in Lissadell House is always interesting, but with

Brian Gallagher is the author of Stormclouds (winner of Fingal Libraries' Battle of the Book),

In the Dublin of 1922 with Civil War about to break out, working class Annie Reilly is thrilled to

It's 1916 but Amelia Pim's thoughts are on Frederick Goodbody and not on the war

When Katie's father returns from the Great War, he is shell-shocked, his personality

In a time of war, how much would you risk to help a friend? Young Johnny Dunne works hard at

Karl and Rosa's family watch in horror as Hitler's troops parade down the streets

The final book in the famine trilogy For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still

A vivid story of a fight for survival in darkest medieval Dublin As the spectre of the Black Death

Six stories -- one set in Dublin, the others in the countryside -- about children who get caught up

Mollie Carberry is a suffragette! Well, sort of. Mollie and her best friend Nora have been bravely

Orphan Johnny Dunne has fled Balbriggan, where he spied for the rebels in Ireland's War of