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All the Dead Voices


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All the Dead Voices
By Hughes, Declan
2009-07 - William Morrow & Company
9780061689888 Check our catalog

Dublin P.I. Ed Loy can't escape the past in this fourth novel in the acclaimed series from the Shamus Award-winning author, hailed as the best Irish crime novelist of his generation. (John Connolly). …More

Borderlands


Borderlands
By McGilloway, Brian
2008-09 - Minotaur Books
9780312384067 Check our catalog

A dazzling and highly lyrical debut crime novel, "Borderlands" marks the beginning of a compelling new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin. …More

Christine Falls


Christine Falls
By Black, Benjamin
2007-03 - Henry Holt & Company
9780805081527 Check our catalog

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In a Booker Prize-winning author's debut crime novel, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society. …More

Darling Jim


Darling Jim
By Moerk, Christian
2009-03 - Henry Holt & Company
9780805089479 Check our catalog

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When two sisters and their aunt are found dead in their suburban Dublin home, it seems that the secret behind their untimely demise will never be known. But then Niall, a young mailman, finds a mysterious diary in the post office's dead-letter bin. From beyond the grave, Fiona Walsh shares the most tragic love story he's ever heard--and her tale has only just begun. …More

Hidden River


Hidden River
By McKinty, Adrian
2005-01 - Scribner Book Company
9780743247009 Check our catalog

In this electrifying noir thriller from a major new talent, a young Irish ex-cop travels half a world away to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl he once loved. …More

Brooklyn


Brooklyn
By Toibin, Colm
2009-07 - Center Point Large Print
9781602855304 Check our catalog

In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn. …More

Paula Spencer


Paula Spencer
By Doyle, Roddy
2007-01 - Viking Books
9780670038169 Check our catalog

One of Ireland's most popular novelists and the author of the Booker Prize-winning "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" movingly depicts a woman, both strong and fragile, who is fighting back and finally equipped to be a mother to her children. But now that they're mostly grown up, is it too late? …More

Yesterday's Weather


Yesterday's Weather
By Enright, Anne
2009-06 - Grove Press
9780802144324 Check our catalog

Man Booker winner Anne Enright's story collection "Yesterday's Weather" is a series of moving glimpses into the lives of ordinary men and women struggling with the bonds of love, family, and community in an increasingly disconnected world. It exhibits the arresting images and subversive wit that mark Enright as one of the most thrillingly gifted writers of our time.
"Yesterday's Weather" shows us a rapidly changing Ireland, a land of family and tradition, but also, increasingly, of organic radicchio, cruise-ship vacations, and casual betrayals. An artisan farmer seethes at the patronage of a former Catholic-school classmate, now a successful restaurateur; a bride cuckolds her rich husband with an old college friend a madman who refuses his pills, disappears for weeks on end, and plays the piano like a dream. Still more startling than loss or deception are the ways in which people respond: a wife raging at her husband's infidelity must weigh the real stakes after his affair takes a tragic turn; confronted with a similar situation, a woman decides to cheat with, rather than against, her man. Sharp, tender, never predictable, their sum is a vibrant tapestry of people struggling to find contentment with one another and with themselves. …More

The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue


The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue
By O'Brien, Edna
1986-05 - Farrar Straus Giroux
9780374130275 Check our catalog

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Brigid of Kildare



Brigid of Kildare
By Terrell, Heather
2010-02 - Ballantine Books
9780345505125 Check our catalog

"Girl With a Pearl Earring" meets "How the Irish Saved Civilization" in this dazzling historical novel that reimagines Saint Brigid and the early Church in Ireland. …More

The Bird Woman


The Bird Woman
By Hardie, Kerry
2006-08 - Little Brown and Company
9780316076234 Check our catalog

Ellen McKinnon's clairvoyant experiences damage her mental and physical health. She must face and assimilate an unwanted but unavoidable family secret, experiencing a revelation that turns her life around in this insightful look at the rift between mysticism and rationalism. …More

The Fall of Light


The Fall of Light
By Williams, Niall
2003-03 - Grand Central Publishing
9780446679879 Check our catalog

The author of the acclaimed novel "Four Letters of Love, " Williams again features a father undone by grandiose dreams. His adventures--which tell the story of Ireland itself--unfold in passionate and vivid scenes with gypsies, horse races, sea voyages, and beautiful women. …More

Forever


Forever
By Hamill, Pete
2003-11 - Back Bay Books
9780316735698 Check our catalog

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Cormac O'Connor, who arrives in New York City from Ireland in 1741, has been given the gift of immortality--but only on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan. Through his eyes, this magical epic follows the city's transformation from a burgeoning settlement to the thriving metropolis of the present day. …More

Heart and Soul



Heart and Soul
By Binchy, Maeve
2009-02 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780307265791 Check our catalog

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With the warmth, humor, and compassion readers have come to expect from her, Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland. …More

Ireland


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Ireland
By DeLaney, Frank
2005-02 - HarperCollins
9780060563486 Check our catalog

This unforgettable "tour de force" marries the intimate, passionate texture of the Irish spirit with a sweeping, epic historical scope, to tell the story of how the character of the land and its people were shaped by history, neighboring England, and the Irish themselves. …More

An Irish Country Doctor


An Irish Country Doctor
By Taylor, Patrick
2007-02 - Forge
9780765316233 Check our catalog

In this charming and engrossing tale, a recent medical school graduate arrives in a rural Irish village to be an assistant to an older physician. The young doctor soon finds out more about life--and love--than he ever imagined back in medical school. …More

My Dream of You


My Dream of You
By O'Faolain, Nuala
2001-02 - Riverhead Books
9781573221771 Check our catalog

When a travel writer realizes the painful cost of her refugee existence, she returns to Ireland to investigate the true story of a scandalous affair between the wife of an English landlord and an Irish servant during the latter years of the famine. The greatly anticipated first novel by the author of the bestselling "Are You Somebody?" is a love story within a love story and a historical novel within a contemporary one. This grand debut tells of parallel lives, 150 years apart, driven by a hunger for passionate love. …More

P.S. I Love You


P.S. I Love You
By Ahern, Cecelia
2007-11 - Hyperion Books
9781401309169 Check our catalog

With the help of letters her husband left her before he died, and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, a young widow learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover the world. …More

Star of the Sea


Star of the Sea
By O'Connor, Joseph
2004-03 - Harvest Books
9780156029667 Check our catalog

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In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the "Star of the Sea" sets sail for New York. In this spellbinding tale of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the farther the ship sails toward the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past that will never let them go. …More

The Story of Lucy Gault


The Story of Lucy Gault
By Trevor, William
2003-08 - Penguin Books
9780142003312 Check our catalog

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this stunning novel from the author of "Felicia's Journey" is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness set in early 1920s Ireland. A "New York Times" Notable Book. …More

Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show



Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show
By DeLaney, Frank
2010-02 - Random House
9781400067831 Check our catalog

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She sprang from the womb and waved to the crowd. Then smiled and took a bow. And so readers first meet Venetia Kelly, the beguiling actress at the center of this new, spellbinding, and epic work by the bestselling author of "Ireland." …More

The Lace Makers of Glenmara


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The Lace Makers of Glenmara
By Barbieri, Heather
2009-07 - Harper
9780061721557 Check our catalog

In this enchanting, romantic tale of friendship and love set in Ireland, a young American woman helps a group of local lace makers change their lives, and, ultimately, her own. …More

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