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The Valley of the Squinting Windows

The Valley of the Squinting Windows
  • Author(s): Brinsley MacNamara
  • Location(s): County Westmeath
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914-16

‘Valley of the Squinting Windows’ is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland c. 1914-16. Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else’s business and wishes them to fail. Twenty years before the events...

The Walking People

The Walking People
  • Author(s): Mary Beth Keane
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a “softheaded...

The Way To Impossible Island

The Way To Impossible Island
  • Author(s): Sophie Kirtley
  • Location(s): Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

‘Dazzling storytelling’ – Hilary McKay Born with a serious heart condition, Dara has been waiting for his Big Operation forever, and this summer it’s finally going to happen. The moment his heart is fixed he’ll row out to the...

The Whiskey Bar Mystery

The Whiskey Bar Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A body behind the bar. A family torn apart. A pub where the spirits are as dark as the family’s secrets. Everyone in Westport knows the Lynch family. They own its most successful pub, the shoe shop next door,...

The Wild Laughter

The Wild Laughter
  • Author(s): Caoilinn Hughes
  • Location(s): County Roscommon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Named a most anticipated title for 2020 by the Financial Times, The Irish Times and Rté. Hilarious, poignant and utterly fresh, The Wild Laughter cements Caoilinn Hughes’ position as one of Ireland’s most audacious, nuanced and insightful young writers....

The Woman at 72 Derry Lane

The Woman at 72 Derry Lane
  • Author(s): Carmel Harrington
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a leafy suburban street in Dublin, beautiful, poised Stella Greene lives with her successful husband, Matt. The perfect couple in every way, Stella appears to have it all. Next door, at number 72 however, lives Rea Brady. Gruff,...

The Woman On The Bridge

The Woman On The Bridge
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A stunning historical novel from multi-million-copy bestselling author Sheila O’Flanagan Dublin. The 1920s. As war tears Ireland apart, two young people are caught up in events that will bring love, tragedy – and the hardest of choices. In a...

The Wren, The Wren

The Wren, The Wren
  • Author(s): Anne Enright
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother’s loneliness had been. A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood,...

There Came A-Tapping

There Came A-Tapping
  • Author(s): Andrea Carter
  • Location(s): Dublin, Slieve Bloom Mountains
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Since losing her parents in a car crash as a teen, Allie has struggled to cope. Meeting Rory finally made things easier. She’s come to rely on him for almost everything, so when he disappears while filming a documentary...

There Was an Ancient House

There Was an Ancient House
  • Author(s): Benedict Kiely
  • Location(s): County Laois
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Within the walls of the ancient house, thirty novices try hard to conform to the religious life. Frawley, boisterous and unconventional; Barragry, the cynical journalist who has left behind a full life and a good woman; MacKenna, sensitive and...

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