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Murder at the Races

Murder at the Races
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Irish detectives Maureen Lyons and Mick Hays face one of their hardest cases yet… When a successful bookmaker is robbed and killed during the annual Galway Races, the motive seems clear. But when the money turns up untouched, more...

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
  • Author(s): Helen Cullen
  • Location(s): Galway, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1970s - 2015

On an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family gathers. Maeve is an actor, struggling with her most challenging role yet – as a mother to four children. Murtagh, her devoted husband, is a potter whose...

Connemara: a Little Gaelic Kingdom

Connemara: a Little Gaelic Kingdom
  • Author(s): Tim Robinson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the final work in Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, and completes his breathtakingly intricate journey through the Irish peninsula (the first two are: Listening to the Wind and The Last Pool of Darkness). Connemara is not just a...

Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness
  • Author(s): Tim Robinson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

The first volume of Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson’s home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a...

Juno and Juliet

Juno and Juliet
  • Author(s): Julian Gough
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A perfect slice of page-turning, intelligent escapism – a romantic comedy with a positively Shakespearean comic ending. ‘Juno & Juliet’ has twin blonde sisters, eighteen, arriving at university in Galway from their Tipperary home (and going back home for...

Rain on the Wind

Rain on the Wind
  • Author(s): Walter Macken
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

From boyhood to manhood big, gentle Mico had but two passions in life – the sea, and a young girl so terrible lovely-lookin’ it raised your heart to heaven just to see her smile. But with a hideous birthmark...

Secrets of the Lighthouse

Secrets of the Lighthouse
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Ellen Trawton is running away from it all – quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn’t love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So...

The Home Scar

The Home Scar
  • Author(s): Kathleen MacMahon
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1980s

On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past. When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they’re drawn back there to revisit a glorious...

The Last Days of the Tiger

The Last Days of the Tiger
  • Author(s): Pat Mullan
  • Location(s): Connemara, Dublin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Burnt-out lawyer Ed Burke flees New York, a failed marriage, and a high pressure career as a criminal attorney and returns home to Dublin, Europe’s most happening city. Hand-in-hand with the new prosperity, a culture of ruthless corruption has...

The Ruin

The Ruin
  • Author(s): Dervla McTiernan
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1993 / 2013

February 1993  On his first week on the job, Garda Cormac Reilly responds to a call at a decrepit country house to find two silent, neglected children waiting for him – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lies...

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