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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...