21 must-read irish literature books like Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets by Donal Fallon

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Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets

By: Donal Fallon

4.20

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

"She is no small town, and this is no small story" BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCAST …

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Cover of The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride

1. The Lesser Bohemians

By: Eimear McBride

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

The captivating new novel from Eimear McBride, critically acclaimed and Baileys Women's Prize-winni… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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2. Midnight in Sicily

By: Peter Robb

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Off the southern coast of Italy lies Sicily, home to an ancient culture that with its stark landsca… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history

3. Beatlebone

By: Kevin Barry

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A searing, surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality--and Beatles fandom--from one of literatur… read more

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4. Into the War

By: Italo Calvino , None

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino's memories of his own ado… read more

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5. The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)

By: Edna O'Brien

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they … read more

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6. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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7. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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8. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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9. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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10. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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11. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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12. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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13. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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14. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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15. Topographia Hibernica

By: Blindboy Boatclub

4.33

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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16. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
"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

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17. Night Boat to Tangier

By: Kevin Barry

3.62

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

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18. 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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  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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19. Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us

By: Manchán Magan

4.17

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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20. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography by Liam Brady

21. Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography

By: Liam Brady

4.19

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
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22. The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game

By: Roddy Collins

4.28

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
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23. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

24. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

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  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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25. Homesickness

By: Colin Barrett

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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26. Reality Check

By: Vicki Notaro

3.64

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Portia Daniels' life is sorted. She has a perfect man (Jason, a hot TV producer from Ireland), a pe… read more

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27. Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets

By: Donal Fallon

4.20

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

"She is no small town, and this is no small story" BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCAST … read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean Driscoll

28. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By: Sean Driscoll

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Bucking… read more

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  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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29. The Amusements

By: Aingeala Flannery

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain

30. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
Cover of Dublin: A Writer's City (Imagining Cities) by Christopher Morash

31. Dublin: A Writer's City (Imagining Cities)

By: Christopher Morash

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature

8 Top history books like Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets by Donal Fallon

Transform Your Habits

Midnight in Sicily

Peter Robb

3.17

Transform Your Habits

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us

Manchán Magan

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

Simon Kuper

3.98

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16 Top audiobook books like Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean Driscoll

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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