LEGENDS is a non-fiction book with stories from some of Ireland’s greatest sports stars. The stories are written in plain English for new and emerging adult readers.

The inspiring stories are drawn from bestselling autobiographies and other first-hand accounts from well-known sporting legends across a range of sports. These include Ireland’s first female rally car driver to Olympic winners to GAA, rugby, horseracing and athletics stars across the country. It was jointly funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development, and the Department for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

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LEGENDS is accompanied by a free workbook – Legends Matter. The workbook will have reading and writing exercises, puzzles, quizzes and other learning activities around the sporting stories. NALA is using QR codes throughout the workbook to direct people to additional content, information and resources online.

Order the Legends Matter workbook for your centre here

Legends Extra is a collection of online worksheets. These have exercises and activities that you can do in each of the sport areas. Pick a sport you are interested in and start learning today!

We are delighted to share some new LEGENDS video resources to accompany our book of sporting stories. We have recorded chapters from LEGENDS, kindly read by actors Gene Rooney, Nigel Mercier and Wesley O’Duinn, with the text appearing on screen for learners to practise their reading skills. Thank you to the actors, authors, publishers and our funders SOLAS for supporting these videos.