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Undertow (Inspector Celcius Daly)

Undertow (Inspector Celcius Daly)
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A policeman’s suicide leads Inspector Celcius Daly across the Irish border and into a labyrinth of lies and corruption. Daly is in Dreesh, a desolate village where law and order have ground to a halt, and whose residents, ruined...

What happens in Ireland

What happens in Ireland
  • Author(s): Whitney K-E
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Have you ever wondered what happens in Ireland? When Australian, Kate Barrow, meets a handsome Irishman in a Dublin bar, she has no idea that he is about to turn her world upside-down and inside-out. In Ireland to take...

Where I End

Where I End
  • Author(s): Sophie White
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Contemporary

My Mother. At night my mother creaks, the house creaks along with her …’ Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent bed-bound mother is the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about. Aoileann desperately wants...

Brooklyn

Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Enniscorthy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman’s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities...

His Father’s Son

His Father’s Son
  • Author(s): Tony Black
  • Location(s): Australia, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Australia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. It’s a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife can make a new life and forget the troubles of...

Summer at Castle Stone

Summer at Castle Stone
  • Author(s): Lynn Marie Hulsman
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This summer, lose your heart in Ireland… Shayla Sheridan’s a New York native born into big city luxury, but she’s never really fitted in with the “it” crowd. Desperate to make it as a writer and to finally step...

A Parachute in the Lime Tree

A Parachute in the Lime Tree
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Berlin, Brittany, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1938-41

April 1941. German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. War-weary, he longs for escape. In remote Dunkerin, Kitty...

Ellis Island

Ellis Island
  • Author(s): Kate Kerrigan
  • Location(s): County Mayo, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady’s maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland, and caught...

A Good Confession

A Good Confession
  • Author(s): Bridget Whelan
  • Location(s): Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This is a captivating debut novel about forbidden love…Cathleen Brogan is a young widow, struggling to bring up her family in 1960s orth London. Times are tough for the Irish immigrants who live there, their hardships comforted by the...

At Swim-two-birds

At Swim-two-birds
  • Author(s): Flann O'Brien
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Flann O’Brien’s innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics. Flann O’Brien’s first...

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