Sarah Webb is an award-winning children’s writer. She won Irish Book awards for Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (illustrated by Steve McCarthy).Sarah runs creative writing clubs for young writers, reviews children’s books for the Irish Independent, programmes many children’s and family events and works part-time in a children’s bookshop. Passionate about bringing children and books together, Sarah was awarded the Children’s Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books in Ireland.www.sarahwebb.ie

a companion publication to the fantastic Blazing A Trail … vivid portraits by Graham Corcoran … Sarah Webb’s accessible prose delivers key and fun facts. This title is a great addition to school bookshelves with lots of scope for further reading and project-based work … discover … be inspired

• WILLIAM PARSONS Engineer and Astronomer 4–5GEORGE BOOLE Mathematician 6–7AGNES MARY CLERKE Science Writer 8–9ALBERT DJ CASHIER American Civil War Soldier 10–11LADY GREGORY Writer and Co-Founder of the Abbey Theatre 12–13DOUGLAS HYDE Ireland’s First President 14–15ROGER CASEMENT Human Rights Activist and Irish Nationalist 16–17LENA RICE Wimbledon Winner 18–19MAUDE DELAP: ‘THE JELLYFISH LADY’ Marine Biologist 20–21LILY AND LOLLY YEATS Artists, Craftswomen and Publishers 22–23INVENTORS AND DISCOVERERS 24–25TOM CREAN Antarctic Explorer 26–27GRETTA COUSINS Suffragette, Teacher and Civil Rights Campaigner 28–29PATRICK PEARSE Teacher and Revolutionary 30–31JAMES JOYCE Writer 32–33ELIZABETH O’FARRELL Nationalist, Midwife and Loyal Friend 34–35REX INGRAM Movie Director, Producer and Writer 36–37ROSANNA ‘ROSIE’ HACKETT Trade Unionist and Nationalist 38–39CYNTHIA EVELYN LONGFIELD: ‘MADAM DRAGONFLY’ Dragonfly Expert and Adventurer 40–41ERNEST WALTON Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist 42–43MARY ELMES Aid Worker and Humanitarian 44–45JACK KYLE Surgeon and Rugby Legend 46–47RONNIE DELANY Olympic Champion 48–49JOHN HUME Politician and Civil Rights Campaigner 50–51PROFESSOR SUSAN McKENNA-LAWLOR Astrophysicist 52–53BOB GELDOF Musician and Humanitarian 54–55U2 Musicians 56–57PHILIP TREACY Hat Designer 58–59CORA STAUNTON Sportswoman 60–61DREAMERS OF TOMORROW 62–63