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Out of Ireland: A Novel

Out of Ireland: A Novel
  • Author(s): Marian O'Shea Wernicke
  • Location(s): Ireland, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860's

In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O’Donovan is forced by her family to marry an older widower whom she barely knows and does not love. Her brother Michael, at age nineteen, becomes involved with the outlawed...

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
  • Author(s): Roddy Doyle
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Roddy Doyle’s Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha...

Passion for Murder

Passion for Murder
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Emotions run high when a Dublin language school becomes the focus of a murder inquiry A young woman’s lifeless body is found in an old shed on the banks of Dublin’s Royal Canal. When detectives find out that the...

Plane Dead

Plane Dead
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A flight from London to Dublin arrives carrying an unusual cargo – a passenger stone-cold dead in his seat. Sergeant Fiona Moore immediately suspects foul play and forensics confirm a lethal cocktail of drugs was in the man’s system....

Postcards from San Michele

Postcards from San Michele
  • Author(s): Alan Gorevan
  • Location(s): Dublin, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jennie Walsh has done her best to ignore her husband’s criminal activities. But when he murders two men, she can no longer turn a blind eye. She’s on holiday in Venice when a gangland war erupts back home –...

Prophet Song

Prophet Song
  • Author(s): Paul Lynch
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Future, Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find...

Pure Poison

Pure Poison
  • Author(s): Anne Crosse
  • Location(s): County Tipperary
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A humorous whodunnit set in a small town in Ireland When a resident of Magnerstown is found dead, cynical Inspector Robert Carroll poo-poos his younger sidekick James Sayder’s suspicions of murder. He struggles to believe it even when the...

Quentins

Quentins
  • Author(s): Maeve Binchy
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from...

Ripeness

Ripeness
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): Ireland, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s-2020s

It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her...

Rocking the System: Fearless and Amazing Irish Women Who Made History

Rocking the System: Fearless and Amazing Irish Women Who Made History
  • Author(s): Siobhán Parkinson, Bren Luke (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The stories of twenty Irish feminists who rocked the system and changed history, told by one of Ireland’s leading writers for young people. Twenty illustrated essays on Irish women, historical and contemporary, who have defied cultural norms around femininity...

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