Irish Authors

Ireland has more to offer than St. Patrick's Day - although that is also very important and fun. Check out these fiction and non-fiction titles by Irish authors!

Updated February 6, 2024
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Ahern, Cecelia
Paper Book
The long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller PS, I Love You! It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died - six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life.   She's proud of all the ways in...
Chestnut Street
Binchy, Maeve.
Paper Book
A delightful collection of linked stories from No. 1 bestselling author - simply the best. Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in MINDING FRANKIE) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling...
Milkman
Burns, Anna
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018: A tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences. 'Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious,...
Haven : a novel
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD In a time of plague and terror, three men abandon their familiar world and set out in a small boat for an island they don't know exists, with only faith and devotion to guide them In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar priest named Artt has a...
Actress : a novel
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest--a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre...
Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * From the author of Empire of Pain--a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.
364.1523 Keefe 2019
Grown ups : a novel
Keyes, Marian
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER! From the #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life. They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of...
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
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Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read. A full-color paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with full-color cover and...
Let the great world spin
McCann, Colum
Paper Book
One August morning in 1974, a tightrope walker makes his way between the World Trade Center towers, stunning thousands of watchers below. Using the true story of Philippe Petit as a pull-through metaphor, McCann crafts a portrait of a city and a people. Corrigan, a radical, young Irish monk,...
Angela's ashes : a memoir
McCourt, Frank.
Paper Book
Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the...
929.2 McCourt 1996
Singing my him song
McCourt, Malachy
Paper Book
"All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death, squalor, poverty, and abuse in the lanes of Limerick,...
974.71 M137s
Country girl : a memoir
O'Brien, Edna.
Paper Book
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its...
823.914 Ob6 2013
Normal people : a novel
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE: A wondrously wise, genuinely unputdownable new novel from Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (at 26, tied with Zadie Smith for the youngest-ever recipient)--the quintessential coming-of-age love...
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Paper Book
Nora Webster a novel
Tóibín, Colm
Paper Book
A New York Times BestsellerWidowed at forty with four children and not enough money, Nora Webster has lost the love of her life. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny Irish community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in sorrow and blind to the suffering of her...

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