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The O'Brien Press
The O'Brien Press is an Irish publisher of mainly children's fiction and adult non-fiction. History The O'Brien Press was founded in 1973, evolving out of a family-run printing and type-house. Its first publication came in November 1974 and numerous other titles soon followed. O'Brien published books are regularly shortlisted for the Bisto Book of the Year Awards. As of 2007, no less than 24 books published by the O'Brien Press have won a Bisto Book of the Year Awards. Successes The O'Brien Press is notable for launching the career of international, bestselling author, Eoin Colfer, publishing the " Benny Books" and '' The Wish List'', and have also published '' The General'' by Paul Williams, which was made into a major film by John Boorman in 1998. It is the only Irish publishing house to have received the prestigious International Reading Association Award. Authors published by O'Brien Press *Marita Conlon-McKenna (born 1956) – a children's novels author, including ''Child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gill (publisher)
Gill is an independent publisher and distributor based in Dublin, Ireland. History In 1856, Michael Henry Gill, printer for Dublin University, purchased the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, and the company was renamed McGlashan & Gill. In 1875, it was renamed M.H. Gill & Son. In 1968, the company became associated with the London based Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publi ... (founded 1843) and Gill & Macmillan was established. In 2013, the Gill family bought out Macmillan. Products Gill operates three distinct divisions - Gill Education, Gill Books and Gill Distribution. Gill Education is a schools publisher. Gill Distribution provides warehousing and distribution facilities to a range of domestic and international publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marita Conlon-McKenna
Marita Conlon-McKenna (born 5 November 1956) is an Irish author of children's books and adult fiction. She is best known for her Famine-era historical children's book '' Under the Hawthorn Tree'', the first book of the ''Children of the Famine'' trilogy, which was published in 1990 and achieved immediate success. Praised for its child-accessible yet honest depiction of the Great Famine, ''Under the Hawthorn Tree'' has been translated into over a dozen languages and is taught in classrooms worldwide. Conlon-McKenna went on to be a prolific writer and has published over 20 books for both young readers and adults. Her debut adult novel ''Magdalen'' was published in 1999. Biography Conlon-McKenna was born in Dublin and raised in Goatstown. She attended school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Mount Anville. She excelled at school but deferred a place at university to care for her father. She married James McKenna at age 20 and had jobs in the family business, in a bank, and wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Taylor (writer)
Alice Taylor (born 28 February 1938) is an Irish writer and novelist particularly known for her nostalgia works looking back at life in a small village. Life and career Born 28 February 1938 on a farm in Lisdangan, Newmarket in North Cork. She was educated at Drishane Convent. Taylor worked in Bandon before marrying Gabriel Murphy. Her husband died in 2005. They have four sons and one daughter. When she married she moved to Innishannon in 1961. There she ran a guesthouse, the local post office and a shop. In 1984 she edited and published a local magazine, ''Candlelight'', and in 1986 she published an illustrated collection of her poetry. However it was her book ''To School Through the Fields'', published in May 1988, which brought her fame. She had numerous interviews on national shows including RTÉ Radio RTÉ Radio is a division of the Irish national broadcasting organisation Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Radio broadcasts four analogue channels and five digital chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Adams
Gerard Adams ( ga, Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011 to 2020. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he followed the policy of abstentionism as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament for the Belfast West constituency. Adams first became involved in Irish republicanism in the late 1960s, and had been an established figure in Irish activism for more than a decade before his 1983 election to Parliament. In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by several gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), including John Gregg. From the late 1980s onwards, he was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, entering into talks initially with Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and then subsequently with the Irish and Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Kerry
County Kerry ( gle, Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the county was 155,258 at the 2022 census, A popular tourist destination, Kerry's geography is defined by the MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountains, the Dingle, Iveragh and Beara peninsulas, and the Blasket and Skellig islands. It is bordered by County Limerick to the north-east and Cork County to the south and south-east. Geography and subdivisions Kerry is the fifth-largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties by area and the 16th-largest by population. It is the second-largest of Munster's six counties by area, and the fourth-largest by population. Uniquely, it is bordered by only two other counties: County Limerick to the east and County Cork to the south-east. The county town is Tralee although the Catholic diocesan seat is Killarney, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingle
Dingle (Irish language, Irish: ''An Daingean'' or ''Daingean Uí Chúis'', meaning "fort of Ó Cúis") is a town in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The only town on the Dingle Peninsula, it sits on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast, about southwest of Tralee and northwest of Killarney. Principal industries in the town are tourism, fishing and agriculture: Dingle Mart (livestock market) serves the surrounding countryside. In 2016 Dingle had a population of 2,050 with 13.7% of the population speaking Irish on a daily basis outside the education system. Dingle is situated in a ''Gaeltacht'' region. An adult Bottlenose dolphin named Fungie had been courting human contact in Dingle Bay since 1983 but disappeared in 2020. History A large number of Ogham stones were set up in an enclosure in the 4th and 5th centuries AD at Ballintaggart Ogham Stones, Ballintaggart. The town developed as a port following the Norman invasion of Ireland. By the thirteenth century, more g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Whelan
Gerard Whelan (born 1957), is an Irish writer. Career overview Whelan was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, and has lived and worked in several European countries. After some time living in Dublin, he has returned to live in his native Wexford. He is the author of many books for children and is a multiple award-winner. He has also written the non-fiction book ''Spiked: Church, State Intrigue and the Rose Tattoo'' and edited the anthology, ''Big Pictures''. He is married and has 1 son called Davy. ''The Guns of Easter'', ''A Winter of Spies'' and ''War Children'' are historical novels based on the Irish struggle for independence in the early 20th century, while ''Dream Invader'' and ''Out of Nowhere'' are fantasy novels. Bibliography *''The Guns of Easter'' (O'Brien Press, 1996) *''Dream Invader'' (O'Brien, 1997) *''A Winter of Spies'' (O'Brien, 1998) *''Big Pictures'' (editor) (LETS, 1998) *''Out of Nowhere'' (O'Brien, 1999) *''War Children'' (O'Brien, 2002) *''Spiked: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Shaw (artist)
Elizabeth Shaw (4 May 1920 – 27 June 1992) was an Irish artist, illustrator and children's book author, active in Germany. Life and work Elizabeth Shaw was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1920. In 1933, she moved to England with her family. From 1938 to 1940, she studied under Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Sarah HaffnerElizabeth Shaw obituary''The Independent'' (3 July 1992). Retrieved 24 January 2012 In 1940, she contributed to the war effort by working as a mechanic until 1944, when she married Swiss-born sculptor and painter René Graetz. In 1946, they moved to Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany. In Berlin, she first worked for the satirical journal, ''Ulenspiegel''. After it folded, she worked for the satirical magazine '' Eulenspiegel''. In 1950, she began to also draw caricatures for ''Neues Deutschland''. In 1959, she created lithographic portraits of 43 members of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. She illustrated storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shay Healy
Shay Healy (29 March 1943 – 9 April 2021) was an Irish songwriter, broadcaster and journalist. He is best known for his role as host of ''Nighthawks'', a RTÉ Television chat show of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and for composing "What's Another Year", Ireland's winning entry in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest. Early life Shay Healy was raised along with his five siblings in Sandymount in Dublin. His father, Seamus, was a civil servant and part-time stage actor who performed at the Abbey and Olympia theatres. His mother, Máirín Ní Shúilleabháin, was a singer of Irish traditional songs.''The Irish Times'', "Shay Healy", 26 July 1980 She also wrote plays and stories and encouraged young Shay's early talent for writing. This led to his first appearance at the age of 15 on the Irish national radio station, Radió Éireann, reading a self-penned article. Career Healy had a varied career, never focusing too intently on any one of his various professional interests. Of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oisín McGann
Oisín McGann (born 1973) is an Irish writer and illustrator, who writes in a range of genres for children and teenagers, mainly science fiction and fantasy, and has illustrated many of his own short story books for younger readers. As of 5/10/22, his most recent book is about climate change Biography Oisín McGann was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1973 and spent most of his childhood living there and in Drogheda, County Louth. He had an interest in writing and illustrating from an early age, doing a foundation art course in Ballyfermot Senior College in 1990–1991, Dublin before joining a diploma course in animation at Dún Laoghaire School of Art and Design in 1991. He dropped out of college in 1992 to set up as a freelance illustrator/artist later becoming Background Layout Designer for Fred Wolf films in 1997. In February 1998, he left Dublin for London where he spent most of his time as an art director and copywriter in an advertising company. After four and a half years he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conor Kostick
Conor Kostick (born 26 June 1964) is an Irish historian and writer living in Dublin. He is the author of many works of history and fiction. Works ''Epic'' was his first novel and was awarded a place on the International Board on Books for Young People Honours list for 2006 and on the Booklist Best Fantasy Books for Youth list for 2007. The sequel to ''Epic'' is ''Saga'', first published in Ireland late in 2006; ''Edda'', published in 2011, completes the 'Avatar Chronicles' trilogy. At their 2009 awards, the Reading Association of Ireland gave him the Special Merit Award 'in recognition of his significant contribution to writing for children in Ireland.' Career Conor Kostick was the editor of ''Socialist Worker'' in Ireland and a reviewer for the ''Journal of Music in Ireland''. He was twice chairperson of the ''Irish Writers' Union''. He was awarded the Farmleigh writer's residency for the summer of 2010 and a place on the nominees list for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Hunt
Gerry Hunt (born 1936) was an Irish cartoonist. He worked as an architect for 25 years, including 18 years at IDA Ireland. In 1986 he turned to cartooning, first drawing political cartoons, then creating a Spanish-language comic which he gave away to friends. In 2003 he created a short series of inner-city Dublin fables told in rhyme, ''In Dublin City'', published by Atomic Diner. He then founded Dublin Comics,''New Writing from Ireland'' Ireland Literature Exchange, 2009/2010, p. 35 which published his crime graphic novel, ''Streets of Dublin'', coloured by BrenB, c. 2005, and a collected edition of ''In Dublin City'', also coloured by BrenB, c. 2007. In 2009 he created '' |
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