Suggestions for books set in Ireland or written by Irish authors?
Suggestions for books set in Ireland or written by Irish authors?
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Suggestions for books set in Ireland or written by Irish authors?
Non-Fiction, but “How the Irish Saved Western Civilization” is great.
Cathy Kelly, Maeve Binchy @Colm, Celia Ahern, James Joyce, Melissa Hill, MariaN Keyes. Off the top of my head there are so many more…
Angela’s Ashes
I enjoyed it and it also won a Pulitzer. Was adapted into a film as well
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift, anything by James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, also Nora Roberts writes a lot of books set in Ireland or with Irish main characters like her Irish Thoroughbred series, her In Death series has an Irish main character and a couple other of her books I can’t remember off the top of my head
Colm Toibin. Anne Enright, Bernard McLaverty, Sally Rooney, Anna Burns
Maeve Binchy’s are my favorite.
John boyne the hearts invisible furies
Trinity, Leon Uris. Superb book.
Anything by Morgan Llewelyn
Anything by Maeve Binchy. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. White Goats and Black Bees by Donald Grant.
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
the Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
A history of the Rain by Niall Williams
The Good People by Hannah Kent
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Dermot Bolger, Edna O Brien
Emma Donoghue, Edna O’Brien, Dark Witch by Nora Roberts
At Swim, Two Boys
Travelling in a strange land David Park
Flann O’Brien’s books are brilliantly comic and terrific — written in the 1930s and 40s..
The Third Policeman is one of my favorites!
Tana French!
Maeve Binchy
Marian Keyes
Maeve Binchy
Himself by Jess Kidd
I have that, let me know if it’s good x
@Melanie I really enjoyed it. It’s her debut book & relies on both Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas & Playboy of the Western World by JM Synge for inspiration. It was an enjoyable read & beautifully written. I would highly recommend. My book club is discussing it in a couple of weeks.
Finding new authors to explore. Thank you all.
The Dalkey Archive by Flann ‘o Brien
Irish Country Doctor Series
The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy. Quentins is also good.
Cindy Branard Exit Unicorn series
The Wonder
Maeve Binchy
I love Maeve!
Nora Roberts has some series, older, set in Ireland. Adrian McKinty and Ken Bruen write from and about ireland.
Marian Keyes
Anne Enright
Edna O’Brien
Maeve Binchy
@Dana I love Maeve!
John Boyne. He is fantastic.
Marian Keyes, Maeve Binchy.
Edward Rutherfurd’s Dublin Saga: Princes of Ireland and Rebels of Ireland.
The Irish country Doctor series is fantastic!
Joseph O Conner. Deirdre Maddon, Jennifer Johnson, John MCGahern, JP Donleavy
Tana French
Edna O’Brien
Patrick McCabe, Brian Moore, David Park, Lisa McINerey, Eimear McBride
@Lynda I listed my favorite, Anne Enright, above.
She is just fab. Have you tried Donal Ryan
Ken Buren books and Tana French’s Murder Squad series.
John Banville as himself and as Benjamin Black writing the Quirke crime series
Cecelia @Ahern
The Salesman by Joseph O’Connor. Disregard the title, it’s actually a thriller, a very well-written thriller.
Graham masterton a whole set of crime books based in cork, a female lead. First book called white bones.
My ‘Madam Tulip.’ 🙂
A lot of Nora Roberts is set in Ireland.
The Irish Country Doctor series.
The o’dwyer cousins series by nora roberts
Ulysses
By James Joyce
Anna McPartlin and Anne Enright
Trinity by Leon Uris. An oldie but very goodie! I’m still in love with the main character, Conor Larkin, 40+ years later…
The Cottingly Secret by Hazel Gaynor ~
History of the rain
My ancestry is Irish, does that count? Lol
The fever series by Karen Marie Moning takes place in Dublin it’s fiction fantasy
This a little vague and I ain’t sure, but probably some classics (the teenager kinds). I remember having read during school.
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt.
The only book that I know of that is set in Ireland is “Asking For It”
The ones I have on my shelf are Days Without End by Sebastian Barry, At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill and The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne.
The break – Marian Keyes! Just finished it and loved it. Anything by Cathy Kelly.