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...
The heart's invisible furies
Boyne, John
Paper Book
'A bold, funny epic' Observer 'Compelling and satisfying . . . At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life ___ Cyril Avery is not a real Avery. At least, that's what his parents make sure to remind...
Milkman : a novel
Burns, Anna
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 'Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time.' - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies ...
Exciting times : a novel
Dolan, Naoise
Paper Book
'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES 'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY 'More than lives...
Haven : a novel
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
Actress : a novel
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths *LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021...
Big girl, small town : a novel
Gallen, Michelle
Paper Book
District and circle
Heaney, Seamus
Paper Book
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the...
821.914 H35d
Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY Soon to be an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+ 'Unquestionably one of the greatest literary achievements of the 21st century' Nick Hornby
364.1523 Keefe 2019
Grown ups
Keyes, Marian
Paper Book
ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING A GROWN UP? ESCAPE IT ALL WITH MARIAN KEYES' BRAND NEW NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE PERFECT ANTIDOTE TO ADULT LIFE 'Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!' GRAHAM NORTON 'It...
The night ship : a novel
Kidd, Jess
Paper Book
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK 1628. Embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called Mayken boards the Batavia, the most impressive sea vessel of the age. During the long voyage, this curious and resourceful...
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
Paper Book
A full-colour 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-colour cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. Four adventurous siblings--Peter,...
Angela's ashes : a memoir
McCourt, Frank.
Paper Book
Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too...
929.2 McCourt 1996
Singing my him song
McCourt, Malachy
Paper Book
974.71 M137s
The bee sting
Murray, Paul
Paper Book
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof bunker in the woods. Meanwhile their teenage daughter is veering off the rails, in thrall to a toxic...
This must be the place
O'Farrell, Maggie
Paper Book
A top-ten bestseller 2016, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. 'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times...
The way we die now : the view from medicine's front line
O'Mahony, Seamus
Paper Book
We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope....
306.9 O'Mahony 2017
We don't know ourselves : a personal history of modern Ireland
O'Toole, Fintan
Paper Book
The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and...
941.7082 O'Toole 2022
Normal people : a novel
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
** Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo is available now ** 'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' Guardian 'The book that defined a generation.' Stylist Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of...
The queen of Dirt Island
Ryan, Donal
Paper Book
Discover the emotional, bestselling novel about four generations of women and the stories that bind them, from the Booker longlisted author Of Strange Flowers. 'One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.' RACHEL...
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Paper Book
'The very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years' Arthur Conan Doyle A masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. It begins when Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to...
Nora Webster : a novel
Tóibín, Colm
Paper Book

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