Unsettled
By: Rosaleen McDonagh
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rosaleen McDonagh writes fearlessly about a diverse experience of being Irish. Unsettled explores r…
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1. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
2. 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
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- ireland
- irish literature
3. The Machine Stops
By: E.M. Forster
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more
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4. Kindred
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindredhas become a cornerstone of black Americ… read more
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5. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
By: Brian Moore
3.76
Format: 234 pages,
'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' launched Brian Moore's distinguished literary career and also… read more
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6. Sive
By: John Brendan Keane , None
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A story of greed, sex and bitterness, of a scheming matchmaker and a resentful woman forcing a beau… read more
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7. The Red Parts
By: Maggie Nelson
4.31
Format: 66 pages,
One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents sh… read more
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8. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
9. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- essays
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
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
11. 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
12. 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
13. Idol
By: Louise O'Neill
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's eve… read more
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- irish literature
"But she'd clawed her way out of addiction because she believed that she was destined for greater things than an undignified death slumped over a toilet cistern"-Louise O'Neill, Idol
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
15. 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
16. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
17. None of This Is Serious
By: Catherine Prasifka
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
18. 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
19. Why The Moon Travels
By: Oein DeBharduin
4.34
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Why the moon travels is a haunting collection of twenty tales rooted in the oral tradition of the I… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
20. Boys Don't Cry
By: Fíona Scarlett
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
21. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
- irish literature
- ireland
22. This Hostel Life
By: Melatu Uche Okorie
3.99
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Melatu Uche Okorie tells stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of wo… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
23. Ruth & Pen
By: Emilie Pine
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
24. Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
By: Nuala O'Connor
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse,… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
25. Constellations
By: Sinéad Gleeson
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- ireland
- irish literature
"Blood donation is that rare and uncomplicated incidence of a selfless good deed."-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"Leaving the home on that last night, I kiss her hands. You were so important, I tell her. You were so loved"-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"The pregnant body is not solely its owner's domain. In gestating another person you become public property."-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"Hair has been used to define women racially, sexually, religiously. It makes them into temptresses: represents a troika of femininity, fertility, fuckability"-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
26. Notes To Self
By: Emilie Pine
4.10
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- ireland
- irish literature
"He triat ser feliç. Aquesta felicitat no és perfecta ni exempta de dolor. A dins hi porta un dol. Però justament per això és més intensa."-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self
"I like that I have ten things on the go, all at once. I like that I'm always planning for the next thing. I like that I bring a high energy to my life, that I see it as a challenge. I like that my fa…"-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self
"I am fearful and hopeful and shameful. I worry that I am empty, or that I am full of the wrong things. I worry that I am disappearing, eroding, failing. I do not know what to do with all these feelin…"-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self
"For three decades I have lived within a silence that declares periods too embarrassing, too unwanted, too female to talk about out loud. I have done this for so long that I almost no longer notice it…"-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self
27. 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
28. Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
By: Helen Morales
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what the… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"The women of Juarez, and women across the world, do not want to have to take revenge, any more than Procne and Philomela did. What they want is to be able to rely on the modern gods -- the police, th…"-Helen Morales, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
29. Camgirl
By: Isa Mazzei
3.80
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
From the “former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm” (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilari… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
30. Love Novel
By: Ivana Sajko
3.52
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unempl… read more
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31. Unsettled
By: Rosaleen McDonagh
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rosaleen McDonagh writes fearlessly about a diverse experience of being Irish. Unsettled explores r… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- ireland
- irish literature
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