Fugitives!
By: Aubrey Flegg
Publisher: O'Brien Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847173812; 9781847172020
Subjects: Flight of the Earls, Ireland, 1607; Juvenile fiction; History; JUVENILE FICTION; Historical; General
Description: A story of tension, danger and conquest. When young Con disappears, the others must find him? and quickly. His father Hugh O'Neill, the great Ulster chieftain, is about to depart, forever. The Irish have lost at the Battle of Kinsale, and now there is nothing left for them in their own land. Hugh's son is in great danger? and he doesn't even know it! What would the English do to him if they caught him? Especially now as his father may be gathering another foreign army to threaten their own conquest of Ireland? Can his cousin and friends, Fion, Sinead and James, find him? Will their hunt.
Notes: Cover subtitle: Time is running out ... a story of the flight of the Earls.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; CHAPTER 1: One Foot in the Pale; CHAPTER 2: A Classical Plot; CHAPTER 3: Through the Eye of a Hawk; CHAPTER 4: Sir Arthur Chichester; CHAPTER 5: Bearding the Lion; CHAPTER 6: Things Falling Apart; CHAPTER 7: Red-handed; CHAPTER 8: Preparing for the Enemy; CHAPTER 9: Greensleeves; CHAPTER 10: Penalties and a Proposal; CHAPTER 11: The Duel; CHAPTER 12: Fight or Flight?; CHAPTER 13: The Great Horn of the de Cashels; CHAPTER 14: Tunnels and Old Bones; CHAPTER 15: Changed Utterly; CHAPTER 16: Flight and Freedom.; title: CHAPTER 17: Crab Apples and the Search for ConCHAPTER 18: The Flight of the Earls; CHAPTER 19: Kiss the Hag; CHAPTER 20: The Final Pursuit; HISTORICAL NOTES; title: Fact and Fiction; About the Author; Copyright.