Need some help…… need book set in Ireland, Irish authors and books with island/land in title. Any ideas???
Need some help…… need book set in Ireland, Irish authors and books with island/land in title. Any ideas???
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Cecilia Ahern – her best one IMO was PS I love you
Set in Ireland too
Colm Toibin – great Irish modern author
These are set in Ireland (thank you Natalie if your here)
-Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
– In the woods by Tana French
– Dubliners by James Joyce
– Daughter of the forest by Julliet Marillier
– Tara road by Maeve Binchy
Angela’s ashes Frank McCourt
@Karen is this a good read?
@Karen YES!!!
@Amber it’s my favourite book, it’s tragic but funny at the same time – if you’ve seen the movie don’t compare it – the movie was not great ?
I have it on my list
I was thinking Angela’s ashes
John Boyne – the heart’s invisibe furies is amazing
@Gayle I agree!! Absolutely loved it!!
? Loved this one
One of the best books ever!!
@Gayle one of my favourites too!
Tana French mysteries.
All of Maeve Binchy, Patrick Taylor, Brendan O’Carroll, Roddy Doyle, Peter Sheridan,
Agreed, love Roddy Doyle’s books & Peter Sheridan’s biographies & novels are great.
Nora Roberts has a trilogy set in ireland
@Stacy the Gallagher trilogy. Great books.
Book called Ireland by frank delaney.
John Grisham-Camino Island
C.S. Lewis was an Irishman!
@Brandi I thought he was British.?♀️
@Brandi no, he was Irish
@Georgina My mistake. Tx
The Irish Cottage by Juliet Gauvin
Small Island, sorry can’t remember the authors name.
@Maria I don’t think it’s set in Ireland x
It’s not , l misread what was wanted. I thought they wanted anything with the word Island in the title. Senior moment there.
@Maria sorry I read it wrong, she did say books with island/land in the title. Doh.
Same author as The Help I think?
Small island still meets the requirements. It’s for a book club I’m in
@Anne it’s really good, it’s by Andrea levy I think
Anything by Emma Hannigan Monica McInerney has books set in Ireland Maeve Binchy Sinead Moriarty
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32561468
Any Marian Keyes books are brilliant, really funny but a good bit of depth to them, and they are all set in Ireland ?
The Library at the Edge of the World: A Novel Paperback – Nov 14 2017
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy (Author)
It’s a nice story of likeable people.
Tana French books
Always a favorite of mine Maeve Binchey
Small island by Andrea Levy
Jane Hoddes I don’t think it set in Ireland…
@Tova . No it isn’t but she was also asking for books with island in the title
@Jane didn’t realuse that…sorry, thought only set in Ireland. Small Island is certainly a great book
Patrick Taylor books Irish Country Dr series. Canèt get more Irish than that!.
@Bonnie wonderful series
Nora Roberts has a lot of books sent in Ireland. Maeve binchy
Cathy Kelly books
I second Cathy Kelly – I love her work!
Graham Norton books, Holding and The Keeper
The Dublin Murder Squad books beginning with In the Woods by Tana French.
Angela’s ashes
Brendan O’Carroll series
Jean Grainger, Maeve Binchy, Graham Norton. Not sure about any books set in Ireland with land or Ireland in the title though.
Tana French Dublin Murder Squad!
Angela’s Ashes
This series is wonderful.
Recommend books by Donal Ryan and Caimh McDonnell (the Dublin Trilogy)
How about Scotland? http://a.co/4aCeMyx
Read both of these. Loved.
Marian Keyes – Irish author. Most of her Walsh family books (starts with Watermelon) are set in Ireland. Very fun reads!
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent, wasn’t my cup of tea but I was expecting a thriller. More of a study of isolation and abuse.
Jo Spain books – The Confession, Dirty Little Secrets and the Inspector Tom Reynolds mystery series, 4 books and another one on the way.
@Sheila I didn’t realise these were set in Ireland? Will take a look ?
The Inspector Tom Reynolds mystery series is based in Ireland.. not sure about the other 2 yet..next on my TBR pile (which has grown today) ?
The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton – might not hit the tiltle request, but hopefully the rest. Loved it!
The Wonder:
In the latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child’s life.
I’m dying to read this. Waiting list at library.
@Liz yes! It was fascinating.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21460555
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41522423
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26150975
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35842338
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31364727
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41086837
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18161265
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/813008
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22571882
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10277268
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32920125
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36588482
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3419808
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437974
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18218630
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38885462
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19381636
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24515225
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/430368
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33295248
Also:
Marian Keyes
Donal Ryan
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
Frank McCourt
Malachy McCourt
Geraldine Quigly
Liz Nugent
Edna O’Brien
Anne Enright
Joseph O’Connor
I’ll keep thinking
Thanks everyone for the suggestions
John Boyne
@Sandy totally a most brilliant writer
Graham Masterton has series of books set in Cork – Katie McGuire series.
Author Maeve Binchy
Pomegranate Soup!
@Stella I’d forgotten about this lovely series!
Georgina Ingham I love it because it gives insight into Iranian culture AND Irish, plus I like to cook, so the descriptions of the recipes was really fun!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31850729
McCarthy’s Bar, Pete McCarthy. Frigging hilarious!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31915813
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2777246
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25279684
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36036244
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29773751
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/782171
@Georgina so many good ideas THANKS
Maeve Binchy is an Irish author of several books set in Ireland
@Michelle I read Tara Road. Any other favorites?
@Daryl off the top of my head I can think of The Copper Beech, and The Quentin’s….
Irish Girls About Town is good too
Fields of Home and Wildflower Girl by Marita Conlon McKenna – teen book
Ireland with a fridge
@Orla sounds good
I am focusing on the part that says it needs land or Ireland in the title…hope that is right?
Ireland Awakening
Some Experiences of an Irish RM, Somerville and Ross.
Ooooo Karen Marie Moning has a series of fairy realm books that I adore and I hope you would like as well. She actually has a vocabulary page and how to pronounce some names and words to help you along. I’ll try to find a link…
I can’t find a link but i think it’s the shadow fever series…. my mind sometimes…
Ireland by Frank Delaney and Trinity by Leon Uris
yes, trinity is great
One of the best.
How Green was My Valley
Letters to my daughter’s by Emma hannigan and McCarthy’s Bar are both good reads
‘‘Tis or Angela’s Ashes
“The Good People” takes place in historic Ireland but is a very intense true story based on old Irish superstitions.
@Catherine I might going to visit you reading a book ❤️
The songs of love and war, Daughters of Castle Devril and The last Secret of the Devrils, by Santa Montefiore, English author this trilogy is set in Ireland London and America, I’m on the 3rd one and have loved them, worth looking into
@Daryl this thread might help ?