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#SqueezeInARead #IrelandReads“It’s a gripping yarn for kids—and a reminder, as the years pass by, to keep a sense of wonder alive.’Tara McEvoy, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry“The moral complexity of George’s grisly revenge on his abominable Granny made glimmer some sense in my young boy’s head that the world is not so neatly divided into good and bad acts.”Eoghan Smith, Georges Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl“It set my soul on fire when I was sixteen and three decades on, I still hear its wild call.”Dave Lordan, On the road by Jack Kerouac “As an immigrant child in New York, the Little House On the Prairie books, which I re-read endlessly, provided me with an alternative history of America to the one I was taught in school. “Oona Frawley, Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wildermuseumofchildhood.ie/heritage-week-exhibition/www.irelandreads.ie/Tara McEvoy Eoghan Smith Dave Lordan Creativity Oona Frawley Libraries Ireland Healthy Ireland ...

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The Museum of Childhood Ireland Project

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#SqueezeInARead #IrelandReads The simple, but profound lesson I learnt from these books, set firmly in Ireland, is there is nowhere like home.”Patsy Donlon, Cornelius Rabbit of Tang.“The book teaches us that beauty is not in the appearance but always in heart.”Miki Shibata, The Cat Visitor by Ruth Aimsworth.“It reminded me that we must stay tuned to the mythic imagination, the things which are not to be found in our busy lives, and that there are always important things in danger within our world, which we can and should defend.”Mary O’Donnell, The Horse from Black Loch by Patricia Leitch.“As a child I read and re-read Marita Conlon-McKenna’s Famine Trilogy...The books are beautiful, engrossing, and quite harrowing at times. “Niamh Campbell, Marita Conlon McKennamuseumofchildhood.ie/heritage-week-exhibitionwww.irelandreads.ie/Pat Donlon Miki Shibata Niamh Campbell Mary O’Donnell National Library of Ireland Libraries Ireland Healthy Ireland ...

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