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
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric...
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...
In the woods
French, Tana.
Paper Book
When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened.
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 Soon to be an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+ From the author of Empire of Pain - a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. WINNER...
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,...
Let the great world spin : a novel
McCann, Colum
Paper Book
New York, August 1974. A man is walking in the sky and the city stands still, captivated by this sight, awe and disbelief filling the streets. Philipe Petit is making his famous tightrope walk across the World Trade Centre and the lives of seven people will change forever- the Christ-like Corrigan,...
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
WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023 WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024 ONE OF SARAH JESSICA...
Country girl : a memoir
O'Brien, Edna.
Paper Book
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be...
823.914 Ob6 2013
This must be the place
O'Farrell, Maggie
Paper Book
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 set the books world buzzing in 2017 with her debut Conversations With Friends; Normal People is a girl-meets-boy story with a difference, interrogating the difficulties of sincere communication in a complicated, post-ironic world.
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 OfStrange Flowers. 'One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.' RACHEL...
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Paper Book
Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England:...
Gulliver's travels
Swift, Jonathan
Paper Book
Just in time for a new live-action release in theaters, IDW re-presents Gulliver's Travels. This classic from Jonathan Swift features chapter illustrations and cover art by acclaimed comics legend William Messner-Loebs.
Nora Webster : a novel
Tóibín, Colm
Paper Book

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