Product Description: In June 1919 Eamon de Valera stowed away on a liner bound for New York and walked into the Waldorf-Astoria using the title `President of Ireland'. He spent eighteen months billeted in the most expensive hotel in the world. From this luxurious base, de Valera criss-crossed America by plane, boat and train throughout 1919 and 1920, publicising his nation's plight and raising more than $5 million for the cause of Irish independence...read more

Product Description: Sam Healy has been watching his three older brothers starring for the Rocky Road Stallions since he was knee-high to a soccer ball. Now, he's finally old enough to try out for the U-10 travel team, Sam makes an unfortunate and startling discovery...read more

Product Description: Following his court-martial in 1920, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, greeted his sentence of two years in jail by declaring: 'I have decided the term of my imprisonment: I shall be free, alive or dead, within a month.' Four days earlier, British troops had stormed the City Hall in Cork and arrested MacSwiney on charges of possessing an RIC cipher and documents likely to cause disaffection to his Majesty...read more

Product Description: 'With three seconds remaining in the Super Bowl, it falls to the New York Giants' place-kicker Shaun Reedy...He's kicked it...but no! it's gone left and wide...' Peter, Davey, and the rest of the Dromtarry Under-11 Gaelic football team are busy training for the start of a new season when a mysterious visitor arrives in town; Shaun Reedy, ex-American footballer, gets involved with the boys' team - far away from the glamour, the money and the pressure that turned him off his own sport and falls in love with the GAA...read more