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Gabriel Fitzmaurice is Ireland's best-selling children's poet. He was born in the village of Moyvane in Co. Kerry and was the principal of the local national school for many years, but is now retired. His previous books for children include the best-selling Really Rotten Rhymes, I'm Proud to Be Me and GF Woz 'Ere.
More about Gabriel FitzmauriceBorn in Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Goatstown, Marita went to school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, later working in the family business, the bank, and a travel agency. She has four children with her husband James, and they live in the Stillorgan area of Dublin.
Marita was always fascinated by the Famine period in Irish history and