The Burren mysteries
Adult fiction:
Cora
Harrison's My Lady Judge, the first Burren mystery
Published by Pan Macmillan
in 2007
The Burren on the western
seaboard of Ireland was then, in the year of 1509, as it is now, a
land of stony fields and swirling mountain terraces.
The people of the kingdom lived
peacefully by the ancient Brehon laws of their forebears.
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Cora Harrison's writes...
 Cora
Harrison's Michaelmas Tribute, the second Burren mystery
Published by Pan Macmillan in 2008
The kingdom of
the Burren, a land of grey
stone, almost black in the winter rains and fogs, but sparkling
silver in the sunlight, and, in summer, the vivid green of the
valley meadows was stitched with yellow, pink and purple flowers.
Read the opening
chapters
Cora Harrison's writes...
Cora
Harrison's The Sting of Justice, the third Burren mystery
Published by Pan Macmillan in May 2009
The autumn
has come to the Burren, it's a time of harvest: of gathering for
the winter to come.
The end of summer for most and the end of life
for others. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest of the Burren, the last things she expects is another corpse to be found
on the church steps - a man stung to death by bees.
Writ
in Stone, the fourth Burren mystery
"Christmas, 1510; the Burren, West coast of Ireland. Mara, Brehon (investigating judge) of the Burren, has accepted the offer
of marriage made by King Turlough Donn O'Brien, ruler of that tiny
kingdom of stony land and terraced mountains on the shores of the
Atlantic Ocean.
The marriage is planned to take place at the Cistercian Abbey on
Christmas Day. But, on the eve of the marriage festivities, a man
kneeling in prayer beside the tomb of an ancestor in the abbey
church is violently battered to death...
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 Eye
of the Law, the fifth Burren mystery
The Burren on the Atlantic
coast in the south-west Ireland is an ancient kingdom, mentioned
in the earliest annals of the Gaels as the stony place.
Ten miles out to sea, the
three islands of Aran have been part of that kingdom from time
immemorial. Inisheer, Inismaan and Inishmore, flat lands of rugged
stone pavements, of crumbling fissured rocks and cliffs towering
over the stormy ocean, all three have been formed by the same seas
and the same glaciers as the Burren; their people spoke the same
language, worshipped the same gods, and paid tribute to the same
king, first the O’Lochlainns and later the O’Briens.
At Bealtaine in the year
1410 Turlough Donn O’Brien, then tánaiste (heir) to the king of
Thomond, Corcomroe and Burren, travelled to the Aran Islands...
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Fiction for children:
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Children's books in Irish
Obair
Mharfach
 Scéal
bleachtaireachta eile do dhéagóirí leis an údar aitheanta seo.
Scéal leantach é seo ar an teideal
eile sa tsraith Dhá Chorp a foilsíodh cúpla bliain ó shin.
An babhta seo tá Tom a’ Bhláca agus a
chairde i mbun fiosraithe faoi bhás mistéireach seandálaí a raibh
siad ag obair leis i rith an tsamhraidh.
Another detective story for teenagers by this well known author.
This is a follow up story to the previous title in the series,
Dhá Chorp.
This time, Tom a' Bhláca and his friends investigate the
mysterious death of an archaeologist with whom they were working
during the summer.
Dhá Chorp
 Úna
Ní Chonchúir a d’aistrigh
Tógálaithe is
iad ag obair ar shiopa Uí Raghallaigh, tagann siad ar dhá chorp
faoi chláir urláir an tseansiopa.
 Léigh
an leabhair ...
Workmen renovating O’Reilly’s shop find two
bodies under the floorboards. Who put them there? How long have
they been there?
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an extract from this book in Irish
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