ABANDONED. Book series with magic sisters

[Mary Ferer]

I’m looking for a book series I read quite a while ago(2005?). I know it was a series and it was either y/a fantasy or y/a sci-fi. The main character was a teenager-pretty sure she had red curly hair-as the book series goes on it appears that her younger sister has powers too. I’m pretty sure they had a single dad-the mom died or something before the start of the series-and I know for a fact that in one book(4 or 5 I think) they go to Ireland-dad too-stay in some castle and meet up with others with magic to preform some spell/ceremony that requires a lot of magic. I think while there she starts to get a crush on some Irish guy with dark hair? Help!

[Kris]

Mary, are the sisters twins? For example, The Solstice Cup by Rachel Dunstan Muller?

(http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch > Keyword: sister magic Ireland | Subject: fantasy | 1970-2014 | Juvenile | Fiction | Book | English)

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Mary Ferer, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Sue]

This bears a vague resemblance to the early 'Young Wizard' books by Diane Duane. The older girl is called Nita, and has a younger sister called Dairine. In 'A Wizard Abroad' Nita goes to spend the summer with her aunt in Ireland, and meets a wizard called Ronan. In a later book, her Mum dies of cancer

[Lsophia]

This might be part of the Chronicles of Faerie books by O.R. Melling. Her titles include: Light Bearers Daughter: The Chronicles Of Faerie Book Three and The Book of Dreams, both of which feature a young woman protagonist who has a single father.

(The other books in the series are really good, too!)

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Mary (OP) was last active on the site in June 2020.