Blasts From The Past

Grace O’Malley was a marauding pirate and swashbuckling Irish Queen who took on the might of Queen Elizabeth I. With the possibility of peace breaking out, Grace travels to Buckingham Palace seeking a pardon but a missing crown means her life is in danger.

The Book of Kells is considered one of our most important and valuable historical artefacts but when the monkns who are illustrating the Book lose their special quills, it is Emily that TESSA turns to.

Rosie Hackett is the person charged with printing the Proclamation of Independence for Padraig Pearse to read out on Easter Monday 1916 in front of the GPO. But an essential composing stick has gone missing which means TESSA has to send Emily Blast to find it.

St Patrick was the man who rid Ireland of snakes but that was not as straightforward as it sounds. When his Crozier goes missing, TESSA calls on Emily Blast to find it, retrieve it and help St Patrick complete his abolition of the remaining snakes.

A young Irish woman by the name of Annie Moore was the very first of 12 million immigrants to be processed at Ellis Island in New York. Annie was due to sail from Cork but when her steamship ticket goes missing, Emily is the time traveller that TESSA puts on the job.

Tom Crean is one of our great modern explorers but on one of his Antarctic treks, he finds himself in trouble on the Ross Ice Shelf, desperate to help save his injured friend but lost because he doesn’t have his compass.