Young Storykeeper Volume III
To celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg, Great Lighthouses of Ireland and Fighting Words invited 7-12 year-olds to become Young Storykeepers. Your lighthouse-inspired stories are incredible! Fighting Words and Great Lighthouses of Ireland have devoured every single one of the 1,256 stories, poems, illustrations, song lyrics and even stop-motion animations submitted for the Young Storykeepers initiative. With so many entries, these wonderful works will be showcased in a multi-volume Young Storykeepers digital magazine over the coming months.
To celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg, Great Lighthouses of Ireland and Fighting Words invited 7-12 year-olds to become Young Storykeepers. Your lighthouse-inspired stories are incredible!
Fighting Words and Great Lighthouses of Ireland have devoured every single one of the 1,256 stories, poems, illustrations, song lyrics and even stop-motion animations submitted for the Young Storykeepers initiative.
With so many entries, these wonderful works will be showcased in a multi-volume Young Storykeepers digital magazine over the coming months.
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112 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME <strong>III</strong> AGE NINE | 113<br />
THE SECRET LIGHTHOUSE<br />
There were two lighthouse keepers in a fairly standard<br />
lighthouse on a regular island off a normal country.<br />
But one day, when the two keepers were coming<br />
out the front door of the lighthouse, one of them<br />
accidentally leaned on a brick, which opened a secret<br />
passageway. They went down the stairs and saw a<br />
wooden treasure chest. They opened the chest with a<br />
paperclip and there was a treasure map in it.<br />
It first said they had to go to an island called<br />
Pirate Island. They jumped in their boat and headed<br />
straight for it.<br />
When they arrived, the map read: You should see<br />
a house. The map also said that they should go in the<br />
house and down to the basement. They did all of that<br />
and then they nearly collapsed because they saw two<br />
pirate ghosts in front of them. Luckily, the keepers<br />
had swords on them so they fought them off. And<br />
what did they spy? Another map!<br />
The second map said to go to a second island<br />
called Ghost Island.<br />
So off they set in their boat to the second island.<br />
When they got there, the map read: You should see<br />
a treehouse. The map said that they should go in to it<br />
and there will be a door in to the tree and they should<br />
climb down the centre of the tree.<br />
They did all of that and saw five ghosts protecting<br />
a wardrobe. The keepers fought off the ghosts and<br />
opened the wardrobe. However, there was no map,<br />
just a message saying, Go back to your island with the<br />
lighthouse... a ship should be coming.<br />
So they did that and headed home to their<br />
lighthouse.<br />
They waited thirty minutes and their big light<br />
spotted an old ship with ten ghosts on it in the fog<br />
very close to the rocks.<br />
The old ship landed safely on the shore. They<br />
went out of the lighthouse with one sword and a shield<br />
each and ran down to the old ship. But when they got<br />
there, ten very angry ghosts met them.<br />
The two keepers fought the pirates off for the<br />
last time and went on their ship. They went in to the<br />
cabin and saw a gigantic chest (another one!). They<br />
brought the chest back to their lighthouse and opened<br />
it with a chainsaw.<br />
To their amazement, it was full of jewels and gold.<br />
They became rich, bought their own houses and paid<br />
for a robot to work in their lighthouse. They were able<br />
to retire aged thirty and live happily ever after.<br />
Jack McNamara<br />
Co Limerick<br />
OÍCHE AN ANFA<br />
Fiachna McAleenan<br />
Co Down
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