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…
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1. The Light In The Window
By: June Goulding
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A moving account of the cruel reality of life inside a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Catholic… read more
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- nonfiction
- irish literature
- ireland
2. The Coroner's Daughter
By: Andrew Hughes
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of th… read more
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3. 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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- feminism
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4. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"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
5. 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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- feminism
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"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
6. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
7. The Island of Longing
By: Anne Griffin
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched, from her bedroom window, her daughter Saoirse come up th… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
8. No One Saw a Thing
By: Andrea Mara
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more
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9. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
10. There's Something I Have to Tell You
By: Michelle McDonagh
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED When two bodies are found on Glenbeg Farm, the local commun… read more
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- irish literature
11. Body of Truth
By: Marie Cassidy
3.91
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
IN THE HUNT FOR A KILLER THE SCARS OF DEATH DON'T LIE FROM IRELAND'S FORMER STATE PATHOLOGIST MA… read more
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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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- ireland
13. Service
By: Sarah Gilmartin
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more
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- feminism
- ireland
- irish literature
14. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
15. Hide and Seek
By: Andrea Mara
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
CLOSE YOUR EYESThe game of hide and seek is over, everyone has gone home, but little Lily Murphy ha… read more
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16. This Is Not About You: A Menmoir
By: Rosemary Mac Cabe
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
For once, these men are the objects; I am the subject. Me, me, me. Rosemary Mac Cabe was always a s… read more
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- irish literature
17. Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries
By: Maureen Sullivan
4.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being phy… read more
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- ireland
18. My Hot Friend
By: Sophie White
4.11
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
Lexi is on top of the world The podcast she co-hosts with her ride-or-die bestie is going stratosp… read more
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- ireland
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19. Duffy and Son
By: Damien Owens
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy … read more
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20. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
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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