A talking dog, the Mack children and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children.
Mary O'Hara, a twelve-year-old Dublin schoolgirl, is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Gran is dying. But Gran can't let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary's street with a message for her Gran, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure.
The Black Dog of depression has descended over Dublin, but siblings Rayzer and Gloria are determined to stop it, and soon they are joined by thousands of other children and some magical animals on a chase through the streets, parks, and beaches of Dublin.
A group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding form a band and a plan to bring Soul to Dublin.
Paula Spencer marries sexy Charlo in a haze of love and prepares for a happy life, only to have it snatched from her when her husband embarks on a seventeen-year campaign of abuse that ends only when Paula decides she has had enough and takes action.
It is 1968 and a ten-year-old boy growing up in Dublin faces the triumphs, indignities, warmth, and cruelty of his world, and tries to make sense of it all.
Life as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old Irish boy, Patrick Clarke, is a poignant voyage through a bewildering, ever-changing world of family, friends, dreams, and growing up.
