3.58 avg rating — 348 ratings

"I had another copy of this wonderful memoir...it's a grand story of the plight of the modern Irish women."

4.05 avg rating — 193 ratings

"Friel is the greatest living dramatist writing in English today."

3.93 avg rating — 8,573 ratings

"A future fictional classic of the Irish Troubles."

3.57 avg rating — 14,756 ratings

"This is Black's first Quirke mystery...set in 1950's Dublin. Black is aka John Banville."

4.09 avg rating — 429 ratings

"I saw this Friel play in Dublin at the Abbey Theatre in 1999. It's powerful."

3.83 avg rating — 175,804 ratings

"The best and most enigmatic short stories every written."

3.76 avg rating — 137,693 ratings

"Because one day I'll finish reading it. I've gotten to the Hades episode about 5 times."

4.23 avg rating — 51,876 ratings

"Admire Wilde's wit...he was born in Dublin..."

4.23 avg rating — 40,044 ratings

"For I keep it by my bedside and am constantly amazed at his Tower poems and later poetry..."

4.18 avg rating — 3,057 ratings

"I heard Heaney read his poetry at Univ of Florida years before he won the Nobel prize. "

3.76 avg rating — 1,715 ratings

"One of these days I'm going to understand why that fellow killed his da with a spade."

3.78 avg rating — 438,917 ratings

"French is quite possibly the best Modern Irish crime writer writing today. "

3.50 avg rating — 346,003 ratings

"Because Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney wrote this translation..."

4.28 avg rating — 629 ratings

"O'Connor is a favorite Irish short story writer and a Corkian...I visited some O'Connor sites and saw a play based on his stories in 1986 in Cork with my friend Owene Weber."

4.45 avg rating — 1,755 ratings

"Trevor is my favorite Irish short story writer. This collection was voted one of ten Best Book of 1992 by NYT...and I want a copy. (I have many of his shorter collected story editions.) "

3.77 avg rating — 282 ratings

"Lady Gregory is unparallel for Irish mythology. I have this in a Modern Library edition."

3.63 avg rating — 1,258 ratings

"I prefer O'Brien's short stories but this is one of her trilogy of novels that I hope to finish one day."

3.89 avg rating — 4,577 ratings

"O'Brien's first novel was The Country Girls (1960). I had a second edition but I sold it!"

3.59 avg rating — 1,076 ratings

"A favorite play by the Nobel Prize winner. This was probably Irish actress Maude Gonne's first play...she was his great love and he wrote it for her. "

3.45 avg rating — 3,698 ratings

"Her only Irish novel...but I prefer her short stories.."

4.10 avg rating — 936 ratings

"I plan to read this history. A favorite Irishwoman and future leader of the Irish Republic de Valera were the only two Republicans not executed by the British after this short GPO skirmish in Dublin."

3.95 avg rating — 4,681 ratings

"I have this book to read. Although I think I'll like McKinty's THE BLOOMSDAY DEAD better...It's Michael Forsyth #3."

3.82 avg rating — 7,038 ratings

"Bruen's first Jack Taylor crime novel. Hiburnian...and too noir for me...but everyone should read Bruen's first two or three Galway novels."

3.75 avg rating — 3,033 ratings

"An English teacher's first police procedural set in Western Ireland"

3.81 avg rating — 305 ratings

" A favorite Modern Irish crime novel."

3.54 avg rating — 615 ratings

"Glynn is an interesting writer...this book takes place mostly in Ireland."

3.70 avg rating — 3,869 ratings

"My favorite Quirke mystery...set in 1950's Dublin. (Black is aka John Banville.)"

3.68 avg rating — 316 ratings

"My favorite Ed Loy, P. I. novel set in contemporary Dublin. Hughes is the Irish Ross MacDonald."

4.06 avg rating — 180,187 ratings

"My favorite, possibly of all times, mystery written by a favorite Dubliner."