The Sound of Freedom

Ann Murtagh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2020
O'Brien Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78849-125-9 (ISBN)

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It’s spring 1919. Ireland’s War of Independence has just begun. In a cottage in County Westmeath, thirteen-year-old Colm Conneely longs to join the local Volunteers, the ‘Rainbow Chasers’ who dream of an independent Ireland. Caught up in republican fever, he smuggles guns, stands up to the RIC during a house raid and raises the tricolour on a lake island.

But Colm is also chasing another rainbow — he dreams of a life in America working as a fiddle player and involved in the republican movement there. The arrival in the area of spirited Belfast girl Alice McCluskey is a new development in Colm’s life. She speaks Irish, shares his love of Irish music and is also committed to the ‘cause’.

Will Colm stay in Ireland and join the Volunteers or will he fulfil his dream of working as a musician in America? A long-held family secret comes to light, rocks Colm’s world and shows him the way to go.

Ann Murtagh spent her first seven years in the Bronx, New York. After a short time in Dublin, her family moved to Kells, Co. Meath. She qualified as a primary teacher and later received an MA in Local History from NUI Maynooth. A member of both Meath Archaeological and Historical Society and Kilkenny Archaeological Society, she has given lectures to both groups. Ann has designed and facilitated history courses for teachers both locally and nationally. She has three sons, Daniel, Bill and Matt, and lives with her husband, Richard, and two dogs in Kilkenny City.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.04.2020
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 196 mm
Gewicht	193 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Geschichte / Politik
ISBN-10	1-78849-125-4 / 1788491254
ISBN-13	978-1-78849-125-9 / 9781788491259
Zustand	Neuware