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Stuff Irish People Love (PB)

Colin Murphy and Donal O'Dea
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Do you love the taste of Red Lemonade, change into your swimming togs under a towel on the beach or find yourself admiring ‘the grand stretch in the evenings’? Then this is the book to help you explore you inner Irish(wo)man!
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Extract: Using the 'cúpla focal' to stress our Irishness

Extract: Tayto crisps or Tayto crisp sandwiches
I Was a Boy in Belsen (PB)

Tomi Reichental
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Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust, gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp.

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Lansdowne Road (PB)

Gerard Siggins & Malachy Clerkin
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The Lansdowne Road stadium was at the heart of so much of Irish sport for over a century: athletics, rugby and soccer to lacrosse and American Football! This highly-illustrated, affectionate history covers it all, right up to the new Aviva stadium.
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Extract: Contents

Extract: Chapter 4: 1878 - The First Rugby International

Extract: Chapter 25: 1986 - 'Go Home Union Jack'

Extract: Chapter 33: 2004 - Elation Once Again
Vet Among the Pigeons (PB)

Gillian Hick
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More bizarre episodes in the life of vet Gillian Hick. From dairy cattle to turkey cocks, from lofty equines to the not so lofty, from six foot snakes to snuffling hedgehogs, Gillian encounters it all!
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Extract: Contents

Extract: Chapter 10 Beauty - or the Beast?
Joey Dunlop (HB)

Stephen Davison
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10th Anniversary Edition, updated throughout with sixteen new pages. Captures Joey in action, his triumphant racing moments, with his family, on his relief missions to Romania. A fitting record of one of the greatest motorcyclists the sport has ever seen.
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Extract: Contents page

Extract: Chapter 4: On the Grid

Most Recent Children's Extracts

Taking Sides (PB)

Brian Gallagher
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Dublin 1922. Civil War is coming when working class Annie Reilly enters Eccles Street Convent School. Peter Scanlon, the friend of a friend, gets dragged into the war. Their friendship and loyalties are tested as Irishmen fights Irishmen on the streets.
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Extract: Prologue: May 1921
Beyond the Cherry Tree (PB)

Joe O'Brien
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Josh Bloom’s school field trip to Cherry Tree Manor is unusual - to Josh, it seems like there's something spooky about the manor, but none of the other kids feel it.
A novel of fantasy, adventure and magic!

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Extract: Chapter 1: The Blooms
Eva's Holiday (PB)

Judi Curtin
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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.
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Extract: Chapter 1
Alfie Green and the Conker King (PB)

Joe O'Brien
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It’s time for the Budsville Primary School Conker Championship, and Alfie needs to find a special conker.
New paperback edition of Alfie Green Book 6

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Extract: Chapter One: New Rules
Where the Stones Sing (PB)

Eithne Massey
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A vivid story of a fight for survival in darkest medieval Dublin

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Extract: Prologue: Dublin, August 1348 - Gull's Eye View

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