Irish-themed Reads

Updated February 24, 2026
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Irish-themed Reads

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The strangers' house : writing Northern Ireland
Poots, Alexander
Paper Book
A penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature--telling the region's story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict. Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these...
The burial tide
Sharpson, Neil
"A real page turner. Every time I thought I had it figured out, the plot twisted into a different shape. Thoroughly enjoyable, delightfully grotesque, and an absolutely satisfying read." --T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of What Feasts at Night Drawing...
Time of the child
Williams, Niall
Trust her
Berry, Flynn
Paper Book
Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life in Dublin with their young children. Though Tessa is haunted by the abrupt and violent end to her old life, she does her best to immerse herself in the...
The elements
Boyne, John
The alternatives
Hughes, Caoilinn
Paper Book
"A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can't wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force." --New York Times Book Review "A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The...
Plentiful country : the great potato famine and the making of Irish New York
Anbinder, Tyler
Paper Book
From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, "a superb revisionist history" of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their "riveting and deeply personal stories" in and...
Bright I burn
Aitken, Molly
BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * IRISH BESTSELLER * A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared. Alice, the daughter...
The women on platform two
Anthony, Laura.
Paper Book
In 1970s Dublin, all forms of contraception are strictly forbidden, but an intrepid group of women will risk everything to change that in this "heartbreaking, powerful, and ultimately uplifting" (Amanda Geard, author of The Midnight House) novel inspired by a little-known true story....
The Irish matchmaker : a novel
Deibel, Jennifer
Ebook
Making the perfect match is both art and science--but love doesn't always follow the rules.As daughter of a well-known matchmaker, Catríona Daly is no stranger to the business of love--and sees it as her ticket away from the sleepy village that only comes alive during the annual matchmaking...
The Irish matchmaker : a novel
Deibel, Jennifer
Ebook
Making the perfect match is both art and science--but love doesn't always follow the rules.As daughter of a well-known matchmaker, Catríona Daly is no stranger to the business of love--and sees it as her ticket away from the sleepy village that only comes alive during the annual matchmaking...
Confessions
Airey, Catherine.
The Paris Express
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling and "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily) author of Room, a sweeping historical "nail-biter" (People) of a novel about the infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895...
The Paris Express
Donoghue, Emma
Emma Donoghue, the "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history...
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