ireland

Corban Loosestrife's returns to his home in Ireland only to find his family slain, but his twin sister,  Mav, is not among the dead--she has been taken as a slave. 

Tells the story of the coming of the Celts to Eire and discovering the Danu, or "little people," treated here as fact rather than myth. 

The Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley  journeys to London to meet Queen Elizabeth, who has her
hands full with the naughty and erratic Earl of Essex.

Begins in 430 A.D. with Ireland's pre-christian past and ends in the 1530s.  Also 
available as audio CD with one of the best narrators I have ever heard. NH

An odd little 90-page book about a strange island where pilgrims go missing.  I had to read a few scenes more than once to figure out what the heck was going on.  NH

A boy learns about many colorful episodes from Ireland's ancient past,
like why there are no snakes in Ireland, through a series of encounters
with an old storyteller.