Belonging: One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies
By: Catherine Corless
4.66
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
When 51-year-old Catherine Corless decided to enrol in an evening course in local history, she had …
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1. All of Us Are Broken
By: Fiona Cummins
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s been a long time since the Hardwicke family has been on holiday. But thirteen-year-old Galen h… read more
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2. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
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3. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
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"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
4. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
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"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
5. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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6. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
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7. Breakdown
By: Cathy Sweeney
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more
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8. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
9. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
10. Murder at an Irish Chipper (Irish Village Mystery, #10)
By: Carlene O'Connor
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A belated honeymoon turns into a busman’s holiday when gardas Siobhán and Macdara Flannery find the… read more
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11. Someone in the Attic
By: Andrea Mara
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family wh… read more
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"People trust people with dogs. They do. There’s an inherent belief that dog people are good people."-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic
"They’re keen to help and intrigued too, she can see, in that way people are when there’s drama but no personal risk."-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic
12. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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13. Aisling Ever After
By: Emer McLysaght
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more
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14. Aisling and the City
By: Emer McLysaght
4.08
Format: 402 pages, None
Aisling is 31, and she’s still a complete Aisling. With BallyGoBrunch flying and the door firmly cl… read more
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15. Strange Flowers
By: Donal Ryan
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more
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16. Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
By: Mia Döring
4.14
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
"It became untenable for me to remain silent about a part of my life I had long kept secret. I had … read more
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17. Belonging: One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies
By: Catherine Corless
4.66
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
When 51-year-old Catherine Corless decided to enrol in an evening course in local history, she had … read more
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18. My Name Is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
By: Alison O'Reilly
4.07
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby … read more
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19. Bessborough
By: Deirdre Finnerty
4.48
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For over seventy years, Bessborough House, a grand country mansion on the outskirts of Cork city, o… read more
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20. A Guarded Life: My story of the dark side of An Garda Síochána
By: Majella Moynihan
4.37
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
A GARDA, A FORCED ADOPTION, A FIGHT FOR JUSTICEIn 1984, Majella Moynihan was a fresh-faced young ga… read more
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21. Where I End
By: Sophie White
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more
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