Irish Literature

For a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionately large contribution to world literature in all its branches. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages.

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Saoirse
Marrying the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match, #4)
Grace
Murder at an Irish Session (An Irish Village Mystery Book 12)
This House Will Feed
Darkrooms
Esther Is Now Following You
Small Things Like These
Intermezzo
The Irish Goodbye
It Should Have Been You
Beautiful World, Where Are You
The Bee Sting
The Elements (The Elements, #1-4)
Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
Nesting
The Rachel Incident
So Late in the Day
Evenings and Weekends
Prophet Song
Water
Someone in the Attic
Last Port of Call by Jean GraingerELIS by Anna RajmonWild Irish Roses by Trina RobbinsThe Book of the Cailleach by Gearóid Ó CrualaoichA Woman to Blame by Nell McCafferty
Women in Ireland
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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah HarknessInTRANSigence by Dianna KennyThe Cyclops by Emerson LittlefieldPersuasion by Jane AustenEmma by Jane Austen
My Favored Reads
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Best Irish Books
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Dubliners
Small Things Like These
Normal People
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ulysses
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Waiting for Godot
Foster
Conversations with Friends
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Dracula
Beautiful World, Where Are You

Flann O'Brien
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred ...more
Flann O'Brien

G.K. Chesterton
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

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