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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...

Round Ireland in Low Gear

Round Ireland in Low Gear
  • Author(s): Eric Newby
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1980s

‘You’ve had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.’ Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice. To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby had...

Ruth & Pen

Ruth & Pen
  • Author(s): Emilie Pine
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2017

Dublin, 7 October 2019 One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world won’t make space for you,...

Saltwater

Saltwater
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): County Donegal, London, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At...

Saoirse

Saoirse
  • Author(s): Charleen Hurtubise
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an outwardly idyllic life. Her tender husband Daithí and two beloved daughters are regular subjects for her work, and in them she has found the safe home...

Savage Her Reply

Savage Her Reply
  • Author(s): Deirdre Sullivan, Karen Vaughan (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan’s hypnotic prose. A retelling of the favourite Irish fairytale The Children of Lir. Aife marries Lir, a king with four children by his previous wife. Jealous of...

Scenes of a Graphic Nature

Scenes of a Graphic Nature
  • Author(s): Caroline O’Donoghue
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur pornography and watching her father’s health rapidly decline, Charlie and her best friend Laura journey to her ancestral home of Clipim, an island off the...

Seaborne

Seaborne
  • Author(s): Nuala O'Connor
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Kinsale, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1700s

1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; disguised as ‘Anthony’ to protect reputations, the mask suits Anne just fine. But, fixated on boats and the sea, she struggles to...

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