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The Burren mysteries

Adult fiction:

Cora Harrison's My Lady Judge, the first Burren mystery

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. More ...

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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.

 

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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.

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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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  Drumshee series Cora Harrison, Children's Author Dragonfly books

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Fiction for children:

Drumshee Chronicles and Timeline series:

Drumshee timeline

Drumshee Chronicles

Treachery at Midnight (Book two)

Murder Strikes Again (Book one)

Drumshee Timeline Series

Secret Spy from Drumshee (book 13)

Dark Days at Drumshee (book 12)

Titanic Voyage from Drumshee (book 6 new edition)

Famine Secret at Drumshee (book 5 new edition)

World War II Rescue at Drumshee (book 11)

Murder at Drumshee (book 10)

Viking at Drumshee (book 9)

The Drumshee Rebels (book 8)

millennium@drumshee (book 7)

Secret of 1798 (book 4) 

Secret of Drumshee Castle (book 3) 

Secret of the Seven Crosses (book 2)

Nuala & her Secret Wolf (book 1)


Wolf in the Midnight ForestThe Wolfcub series

For children between seven and nine

Wolf in the Midnight Forest

Wolf and the Frozen Mist

Watch out for future titles: "Wolf and the Palace of Gold" and "Wolf and the School for Warriors"


Dragonfly readersDragonfly Readers

For children between five and seven

The Wizard of the WoodsThe Fed-Up Vacuum Cleaner

General Field Mouse

I Want a Dog!

The Wizard of the Woods


Two Mad DogsChildren's Press

 For children between five and seven

Two Mad Dogs

 

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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