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Solace

Solace
  • Author(s): Belinda McKeon
  • Location(s): County Longford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love. But from the minute he saw Joanne Lynch across the garden of a Dublin pub, it seemed that nothing else was possible. But Mark is also drawn back – guiltily...

Solar Bones

Solar Bones
  • Author(s): Mike McCormack
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer’s mind how things are constructed – bridges, banking systems, marriages –...

Star Sullivan

Star Sullivan
  • Author(s): Maeve Binchy
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Era

‘She is the Queen of Fiction and one of the funniest and best-loved storytellers in the world . . . once you read Maeve you are hooked for life’ IRISH TIMES ‘Maeve Binchy’s work continues to inspire … thought-provoking,...

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
  • Author(s): Tim Robinson
  • Location(s): Aran Islands
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, ‘one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out’. That place is one of the most mysterious and...

Strange Flowers

Strange Flowers
  • Author(s): Donal Ryan
  • Location(s): County Tipperary
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family...

Such a Nice Girl

Such a Nice Girl
  • Author(s): Andrea Mara
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The thing is, we always believe the best of our own kids. What mother thinks her own daughter will do something terrible? But every bad deed is carried out by a person who was once someone’s child.’ The morning...

Sunburn

Sunburn
  • Author(s): Chloe Michelle Howarth
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp. It’s the early 1990s, and in the Irish village...

That Old Country Music

That Old Country Music
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world’s most accomplished and gifted short story writers. Barry’s lyric intensity,...

That Summer at the Seahorse Hotel

That Summer at the Seahorse Hotel
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mia Flanagan has never been told who her father is and aged ten, stopped asking. Haunted by this, she remains a dutiful daughter who would never do anything to bring scandal or shame on her beautiful and famously single...

The Ballad of Mary Kearney

The  Ballad of Mary Kearney
  • Author(s): Katherine Mezzacappa
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Eighteenth century

In County Down, Ireland, in 1767, a nobleman secretly marries his servant, in defiance of law, class, and religion. Can their love survive tumultuous times?An impoverished tenant farmer sends his seventeen-year-old daughter Mary into service at the home of...

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