An Mac Tíre Deireanach

Description

Ireland in the middle of the 17th Century. The country is being tyrannised by Cromwell’s soldiers, but it isn’t just the people of Ireland who are suffering – Cromwell has declared a war on wolves, and it won’t be long until every last wolf is gone from the country. Úna, a young brave girl, has an opportunity to stand up for that noble animal and to help one wolf evade the clutches of Cromwell’s soldiers. But what chance do one girl and one wolf have when the whole world is against them?

Author
Laureate na nÓg 2023 – 2026. Patricia Forde is a bilingual writer who creates stories for print, television and the stage. An acclaimed author here in Ireland, her picture books, middle grade and young adult novels have been published widely across the world, including the UK, US, China, France, South Africa, Korea and Finland. Forde is also an established children’s television writer; her credits include Saol faoi Shráid, produced by Meangadh Fíbín for Cúla 4 / TG4, and Simon Says which is currently running on RTÉjr. She lives in Galway.

Illustrator
Lauren O’Neill is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Dublin. Originally from Wexford, she moved to Dublin to study in NCAD and stayed. Her work has appeared across a wide variety of areas from advertising campaigns to storybooks and gallery exhibitions. She has illustrated Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, winning the Children’s Books Ireland Merit Award for Illustration, and Blazing a Trail which won the Children’s Book of the Year (senior) Irish Book Award in 2018.