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Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Cahirsiveen, County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When bright, beautiful Penny O’Dwyer disappears from Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, the local police scour the narrow streets and muddy hills, but find no leads. Jessie Boyle swore she’d never return to Ireland. But...

Killarney Blues

Killarney Blues
  • Author(s): Colin O'Sullivan
  • Location(s): Killarney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Picturesque Killarney might seem the perfect place to enjoy the rare gift of sun but the town has got the blues. Bernard Dunphy, eccentric jarvey and guitarist, is pining for his unrequited love and has to contend with an...

Hot Property

Hot Property
  • Author(s): Susanne O'Leary
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance

When Megan O’Farrell inherits her uncle’s house in a remote part of the windswept Atlantic coast of Ireland, she imagines it will be a romantic hideaway where she can recover from her recent divorce. But the house is a...

Haven

Haven
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): County Kerry, Skellig Michael (Great Skellig)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 7th Century

Three men vow to leave the world behind them and start anew . . . In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks –...

The Beach at Doonshean

The Beach at Doonshean
  • Author(s): Penny Feeny
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

In Ireland, the past never dies… Long ago, on a windswept Irish beach, a young father died saving the life of another man’s child. Thirty years later, his widow, Julia, decides to return to this wild corner of Ireland...

The Colony

The Colony
  • Author(s): Audrey Magee
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine – the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this...

The Good People

The Good People
  • Author(s): Hannah Kent
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak and cannot walk and Nóra is desperate to know what is wrong...

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife
  • Author(s): June O'Sullivan
  • Location(s): Skellig Michael (Great Skellig)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860s

Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. Eliza is proud of her husband and his promotion to Principal Keeper...

The Loneliest Boy in the World

The Loneliest Boy in the World
  • Author(s): Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain
  • Location(s): Great Blasket Island
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

‘The Loneliest Boy in the World he has only seagulls as playmates.’ 1949 newspaper article. Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands off Ireland’s southwest coast. The...

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