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Books set in Ireland:


Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Dubliners by James Joyce
In the Woods by Tana French (1st book of a series set in Ireland)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
Ulysses by James Joyce
Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning (1st book of a series set in Ireland)
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts (1st book of a trilogy set in Ireland)
P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (1st book of a series set in Ireland)
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor (1st book of a series set in Ireland)
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
The Sea by John Banville
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd (1st book of a series set in Ireland)
Trinity by Leon Uris
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart (1st book of a series set in Ireland)
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (1st book of a series set in Ireland)
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland by Pete McCarthy
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville (aka "The Twelve")(1st book of series)
Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain
The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Watermelon by Marian Keyes
Born in Fire by Nora Roberts (1st book of a trilogy set in Ireland)
Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
Quentins by Maeve Binchy
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
The Lace Makers of Glenmara: A Novel by Heather Barbieri
The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain
Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
Echoes by Maeve Binchy
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle by Rosalind Miles (1st book of a series)
The Van by Roddy Doyle
Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy
1916 by Morgan Llywelyn
Troubles by J.G. Farrell
Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
Rosie Dunne by Cecelia Ahern (aka "Love, Rosie")
Shannon: A Novel by Frank Delaney
The Man Who Made Ireland: The Life and Death of Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan
The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
The Guards by Ken Bruen (1st bok in series)
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats
The Táin by Thomas Kinsella
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Tipperary: A Novel by Frank Delaney
O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare by Niall Williams
The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of Ireland by Seumas MacManus
Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonization, And Irish Culture by Luke Gibbons
Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture by John Brannigan
Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts (1st book of trilogy set in Ireland)
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
Redemption by Leon Uris
Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier (1st book of trilogy set in Ireland)
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (1st book in series)
The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll
The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
That They May Face Rising Sun by John McGahern (aka "By the Lake)
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Amongst Women by John McGahern
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Cashelmara by Susan Howatch
The Irish Princess by Karen Harper

More Book Set in Ireland:


Room by Emma Donoghue
Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie Mcgill (Northern Ireland)
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
Confessions of an Irish Rebel by Brendan Behan
Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom by Terry Golway
A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh
A Christmas Grace: A Novel by Anne Perry
Connemara: Listening to the Wind by Tim Robinson
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
Foster by Claire Keegan
Dance Lessons: A Novel by Áine Greaney
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore (Northern Ireland)
The Magic Summer by Noel Streatfeild (aka "Growing Summer")
A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age by John Doyle
The Mangan Inheritance by Brian Moore
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Patrick: Son of Ireland by Stephen R. Lawhead
St. Patrick of Ireland : A Biography by Philip Freeman
Emerald Germs Of Ireland by Patrick McCabe
Strumpet City by James Plunkett
The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
The Wig My Father Wore by Anne Enright
Two Lives by William Trevor

Darkfeverby Karen Marie Moning-the whole Fever Series
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
Rosewater and Soda BreadbyMarsha Mehran

Klondike House - Memories of an Irish Country Childhood

More Set in Ireland:


The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula by David Yeadon
Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel Of Ireland by Frank Delaney
The Best of Frank O'Connor by Frank O'Connor
J. P. Donleavy's Ireland by J.P. Donleavy
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín
The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland by Pete McCarthy
Freewheeling Through Ireland by Edward Enfield
Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne (1st book of series)
The Guards by Ken Bruen (1st book of series)

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Mystery Man by Colin Bateman(1st book in series set in Northern Ireland)
Divorcing Jack by Colin Bateman(1st book of Dan Starkey series)
Murphy's Law by Colin Bateman (1st book in series)

Somewhere in Ireland a Village Is Missing an Idiot by David Feherty

The Fields by Kevin Maher

My Journey with the Angels by Patricia Buckley

Second Time Around by Erin Kaye

Beyond the Cliffs of Kerry by Amanda Hughes

The Life You Left by Carmel Harrington

Fallen by Lia Mills

When Shadows Fall by Paul Reid

See Me by Wendy Higgins

The Thing About December by Donal Ryan

Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

The Loneliest Boy in the World: The Last Child of the Great Blasket by Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin

Countess of Scandal by Laurel McKee

The Hunter's Moon by O.R. Melling

The Black Snow: A Novel by Paul Lynch

The Green Road by Anne Enright

The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley: A Novel by Jeremy Massey

The Love Object: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien and John Banville

The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin

The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart

The Blind Astronomer's Daughter by John Pipkin

The Stolen Child by Lisa Carey

Eggshells by Caitriona Lally

Smile by Roddy Doyle

The Girl From Ballymor by Kathleen McGurl

More books set in Ireland:


1949: A Novel of the Irish Free State by Morgan Llywelyn
44: Dublin Made Me by Peter Sheridan
5 Peppermint Grove by Michelle Jackson
The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
Academy Street by Mary Costello
The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
An Act of Worship by Kate Thompson
After Rain by William Trevor
After The Rising: A Novel by Orna Ross (1st book of An Irish Trilogy)
Ain't Myth-Behaving by Katie MacAlister
Albigenses by Charles Robert Maturin
Alexandra, Gone by Anna McPartlin
All For You by Sheila O'Flanagan
The All of It by Jeannette Haien
All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
All Will Be Well: A Memoir by John McGahern
Almost Love by Louise O'Neill
Almost There by Nuala O'Faolain
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O'Donohue
Ancient Light by John Banville
Angels In My Hair by Lorna Byrne
Another Kind of Life by Catherine Dunne
Anyone but Him by Sheila O'Flanagan
The Aran Islands by J.M. Synge
The Art of Life by Paul Durcan
As Death Draws Near by Anna Lee Huber (5th Lady Darby Mystery)
As It Is in Heaven by Niall Williams
Asking For It by Louise O'Neill
At a Time Like This by Catherine Dunne
August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien (also France)
Autumn Glimmer by Pat McDermott
Bad Behaviour by Sheila O'Flanagan
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Colm Tóibín
Banished and Forgotten: Irish Slaves in the West Indies by Louise Gherasim
Banished Misfortune by Dermot Healy
The Banyan Tree: A Novel by Christopher Nolan
Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn
Beauty in a Broken Place byColm Tóibín
Beneath an Irish Sky by Isabella Connor (1st in An Emerald Isle Romance series)
Beneath Cannock's Clock: The Last Man Hanged in Ireland by Dermot Walsh
Beneath Ierne's Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration
The Best of Myles by Myles na gCopaleen
Better Together by Sheila O'Flanagan
Beyond Belief by Colm O'Gorman
The Big Drum by Seosamh Mac Grianna
Big Maggie by John Brendan Keane
The Big Tree Of Bunlahy: Stories Of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
Birchwood by John Banville
The Bird Cage: A Mystery Novela by Eimar O'Duffy
Birds & Other Tails by Jack Harte
A Bit on the Side by William Trevor
The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon
The Black Baronet: Or, the Chronicles of Ballytrain by William Carleton
The Black Prophet: A Tale of the Irish Famine 1847 by William Carleton
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch
The Blood upon the Rose by Tim Vicary
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee
The Bodhran Makers: A Novel of Ireland by John Brendan Keane
The Bold Fenian Men by Robert Kee
The Book of Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland by W.B. Yeats
The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans by Thomas Lynch
Borderlands by Brian McGilloway (1st book in Inspector Devlin series)
Bowen's Court by Elizabeth Bowen
The Boy at the Gate: A Memoir by Danny Ellis
The Boy That Never Was by Karen Perry
The Boys of Summer by Ciarán West
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
Brendan by Morgan Llywelyn
The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
Bricriu's Feast: A Comedy in Three Acts, with an Epilogue by Eimar O'Duffy
Brida by Paulo Coelho
Brigid of Ireland by Cindy Thomson (1st book in Daughters of Ireland series)
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
Brotherly Love: A 19th Century Irish Romance by Lorna Peel
A Brush with Death by Sheila Pim
Buile Shuibhne by Anonymous
Buried in a Bog by Sheila Connolly (1st book in County Cork series)
By the Lake by John McGahern

The Good People by Hannah Kent

The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien

Seek the Fair Land by Walter Macken

Rain On The Wind by Walter Macken

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood by Hugo Hamilton

Northern Spy by Flynn Berry

Carlene O'Connor’s various mystery series

Patrick Taylor’s extensive Irish Dr series

The Privileged by Emily Hourican.
Retreat by Mary Stanley.
Missing by Mary Stanley.
Cloud Girls, also known as Harvesting by Lisa Harding.
Blue Spark Sisters by Chrissie Glazebrook
The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir by Lesley Allen.
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth.

Darling Jim by Christian Mørk.

Kala by Colin Walsh.
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips.

(all fiction)

The Vanishing Triangle by Claire McGowan (non fiction)
Missing: Missing Without Trace in Ireland by Barry Cummins (non-fiction)
Passport to Murder: True Stories of Foreigners Killed in Ireland by Ali Bracken.

The Heart's Invisible Furies