Kate and John Ryan have four children, of which the eldest are Michael and Dara. Their small town is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long hot summers,...

Evacuated from Blitz–battered London, genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous Irish O’Connors. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling...

Ria Lynch and Marilyn Vine have never met. Ria lives in a big ramshackle house in Tara Road, Dublin, which is filled with family and friends, while Marilyn lives in New England, absorbed in her...

Big, soft-featured Benny, an adored only child, and Eve, the poor, bird-like orphan brought up by nuns, are best friends in the small Irish town of Knockglen. On their first day at University...

Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn’t have much time. Noel doesn’t seem to be the most promising of...

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble...

Two very different children dream of escape from the Irish seaside town of Castlebay. Their paths are destined to cross in this drama of love, ambition and betrayal.

A unique family occasion is looming for the O’Hagans. Desmond and Deirdre will have been married for twenty-five years in October. Naturally there must be a celebration. But who is going to...

Eight children once carved their names on the trunk of the great copper beech which shaded the schoolhouse in Shancarrig. Now those children are grown. For each one, Shancarrig holds special...