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Black '47: A Story of Ireland's Great Famine
The story of The Great Hunger told as a graphic novel from the perspectives of Irish men, women and children from June 1847 onward. .....
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Ireland’s War of Independence 1919-21
An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British rule in Ireland. .....
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From our Blog
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My Little Blog Post of Dublin
Fri, 23 Aug 2019This week Juliette Saumande, Tarsila Krüse and Helen Carr tell us all about the making of My Little Album of Dublin and their favourite places in the Fair City! Juliette Saumande Juliette Saumande is a French writer based in Dublin. She has published over 40 books in French and English. When she’s not writing, she can …
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An Amazing New Children’s Sports Series Begins….
Thu, 1 Aug 2019We at the O’Brien Press are delighted to be publishing the first two books in the all new Great Irish Sports Stars series: Cora Staunton and Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper. Ivan O’Brien, Eimear Ryan and Donny Mahoney chatted with me about this new series. Ivan O’Brien Sport is becoming an ever-increasing part of the lives …
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The Children of Lir
Fri, 28 Jun 2019So much work, thought and creativity go in to making a book. This autumn we are publishing an illustrated edition of the Children of Lir written in verse. Laura Ruth Maher submitted her wonderful rhyming version of everyone’s favourite Irish myth. Once accepted, Emma, our designer, set out to commission an illustrator. Three weeks ago, …
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