10 Best nonfiction books like Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place by Martin Doyle

Cover of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place by Martin Doyle

Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

By: Martin Doyle

4.31

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place by Martin Doyle , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Blanket Men by Richard O'Rawe

1. The Blanket Men

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.23

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Used acceptable read more

Similar categories in Richard O'Rawe's The Blanket Men book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • audiobook
Cover of That They May Face The Rising Sun by John McGahern

2. That They May Face The Rising Sun

By: John McGahern

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a … read more

Similar categories in John McGahern's That They May Face The Rising Sun book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
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3. The Spinning Heart

By: Donal Ryan

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
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4. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
  • audiobook
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5. 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

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

6. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
  • audiobook
Cover of The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen

7. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Bowen's The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Cover of My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) by Joseph O'Connor

9. 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

Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
  • audiobook
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

10. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Breakdown book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Fintan O'Toole's We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"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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13. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

Similar categories in Alan Murrin's The Coast Road book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • ireland
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin by Aoife Moore

14. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin

By: Aoife Moore

3.82

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more

Similar categories in Aoife Moore's The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ireland
Cover of Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War by Richard O'Rawe

15. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.02

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Ri… read more

Similar categories in Richard O'Rawe's Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ireland
  • audiobook
Cover of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place by Martin Doyle

16. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

By: Martin Doyle

4.31

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more

Similar categories in Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • audiobook
Cover of Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin by Máiría Cahill

17. Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin

By: Máiría Cahill

4.29

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER IN THE IRISH NON-FICTION CHARTS"Rough Beast is shocking, important and unputdow… read more

Similar categories in Máiría Cahill's Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland by Henry Hemming

18. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland

By: Henry Hemming

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more

Similar categories in Henry Hemming's Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ireland
  • audiobook
Cover of Eyewitness to War & Peace: A Memoir by Eamonn Mallie

19. Eyewitness to War & Peace: A Memoir

By: Eamonn Mallie

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this gripping memoir, Eamonn Mallie takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life as a j… read more

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Cover of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

20. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

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

21. 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

Similar categories in Ian Cobain's Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island book and Martin Doyle's Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ireland

14 Best audiobook books like Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place by Martin Doyle

Transform Your Habits

The Blanket Men

Richard O'Rawe

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Earth

John Boyne

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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20 Best fiction books like The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

Transform Your Habits

That They May Face The Rising Sun

John McGahern

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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