Read a book from each country discussion

Swift's Gulliver's Travels: satire that still stings...and poo jokes.
The Táin: Dark Ages carnage as folk fight over a bull...and folk wonder over the complex Hx of Ulster, it kind of starts here.
I suppose you should read some Joyce or Yates as well...

Ulisses by James Joyce

Agreed, Barbarossa. I'll put it a plug for Yeats's Collected Poems.

The Book of Evidence, by John Banville

Trinity by Leon Uris

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn

Elizabeth Bowen

The Death of the Heart

The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea is an excellent book that takes Irish Myth and places it in a modern setting. For any one who has read Good Omens, The Hounds of the Morrigan does with Irish Myth that Good Omens does with Christianity. It is an interesting story filled with rich humur and the absurd.

the Artemis Fowl series: nice and light.
Anything by Roddy Doyle for a true flavour of Ireland.

One real good book: The Secret Scripture

ilona wrote: "One real good book: The Secret Scripture "

Super book and runner-up to the Booker when 'White Tiger' won it.

From the south Roddy Doyle and from the north Colin Bateman, good easy reads there with heaps of excellent characters.

Dubliners by James Joyce

Normal People by Irish author Sally Rooney is a contemporary romance novel which deals with the on and off romance between students Connell and Marianne. The book was longlisted for the Man Booker award. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review