Irish Fiction Books Irish Fiction in all it's diversity Irish Fiction Books by the following authorsClick on the images for more information on authors and books. PS. I Love You by Cecelia AhernHolly and Gerry were blissfully married. Suddenly Gerry died and Holly's life imploded. But Gerry had prepared for this event.Cecelia Ahern BooksTop It's Got to be Perfect by Claire AllanAnnie's life is in turmoil. She has her dreams, but that is all they are… Dreams. What can she do about them?Claire Allan BooksTop The Book of Evidence by John BanvilleFreddie Montgomery was unphased by his murder of a chambermaid who got in his way. He was, however, moved deeply by a painting of a woman that he had to steal it.John Banville BooksTop The Secret Scripture by Sebastian BarryDr Greene and his patient are both looking back on the past. The mental hospital is about to be closed and Roseanne is looking through a journal she has surrepticiously kept. When they both discover the circumstances of her arrival they are shocked to find that all s not what it should be.Sebastian Barry BooksTop Scarlet Feather by Maeve BinchyCathy Scarlet and Tom Feather are setting up 'the best catering business in Ireland'. Or so they hoped. Their plight is not helped by an array of characters destined to become obstacles in the pairs fortunes.Maeve Binchy BooksTop Holy Pictures by Clare BoylanTo fourteen year old Nan the cinema appears as a miraculous rescue from the confines of her Catholic upbringing. Neglected by her mother, bullied by her increasingly eccentric father, buffeted by aristocratic nuns, unwelcome house guests and an uneasy knowledge of the facts of life, the last year of Nam`s childhood moves from the burlesque to the tragic...Clare Boylan BooksTop A Malady by Pierce ButlerMany readers will encounter the malady evoked in this novel with a shock of instant recognition. The central characters are preoccupied with their inability to penetrate the world around them, to make contact with each other, or even to gain a measure of control in their own lives.Pierce Butler BooksTop The Life and Times of Teaboy by Michael CollinsAmbrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others` influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and psychological. As Ambrose descends into lunacy he paints a starkly sane portrait of one family`s life in Ireland unsoftened by the mists of legend.Michael Collins BooksTop Promised Land by Marita Conlon Mc-KennaElla has lost out in an inheritance and has to leave her beloved farm. She has to go to Dublin and muck out with the other country girls. But someday she hopes to return.Marita Conlon Mc-Kenna BooksTop The Run of the Country by Shane ConnaughtonIreland in the 50's.A young boy, a teenager mourns the death of his mother.Shane Connaughton BooksTop A Single Sensation by Emma CookeThis novel is about a girl from a middle-class midlands family in the seventies whose unwanted pregnancy brings her face to face with the awful dilemma which some 10,000 unmarried Irish girls every year solve by making a tragic journey to Britain.Emma Cooke BooksTop Poison Stream by Conor CreganRalph Martin is probably the richest man in Ireland. Frank Costello is the Taoiseach of an uneasy coalition.THE POISON STREAM is the story of how the rich and powerful run Ireland for themselvesConor Cregan BooksTop Identity Papers by Anthony CroninThe Box is the Baron`s refuge from life. It protects him from the villifications of others and it gives him comfort in times of distress. But it has come to pass that his `comfort zone`` is to be interrupted and to become the very thing that will accuse him.Anthony Cronin BooksTop The Sins of the Mothers by Frank DelaneyEllen arrives in the village in 1925. There, she meets two men who will have an unprecedented effect on her life.Frank Delaney BooksTop Lost Testament of Judas Iscariot by Michael DickinsonA fictional account of what Judas Iscariot might have done.Michael Dickinson BooksTop The Ginger Man by J P DonleavyThis book was banned in the United States for its rogueishness and its dislike of authority. It has since been recognised as a masterpiece of writing.J P Donleavy BooksTop Room by Emma DonoghueThis is the story of Ma and her five year old son, Jack, who are trapped in the room with no way out.Emma Donoghue BooksTop The Snapper by Roddy DoyleThe Barrytown Trilogy continues with his hilariously funny story of urban life.Roddy Doyle BooksTop The Gathering by Anne EnrightThe nine surviving children of the Hegarty family gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam.It wasn`t the drink that killed him, although it did help. It was what happened to him as a boy in his grandfather`s house in the winter of 1968..Anne Enright BooksTop Small Acts of Treachery by Kitty FitzgeraldMike Spencer is given the run around until he finally figures out who he is chasing. But in the end he became the chased.Kitty Fitzgerald BooksTop Alice Little and the Big Girl's Blouse by Maggie GibsonHaving been sacked by her vindictive boss, Alice Little finds herself homeless and jobless.Maggie Gibson BooksTop The Stunt by Shay HealyA novel of the Dublin music underworld.Shay Healy BooksTop The Gambler by Christine Dwyer HickeyThe Gambler is the second part of the trilogy, The Dublin Trilogy. Set between the two big wars, it chroniclises the decline of a family. Drink and gambling wreck havoc on the family.Christine Dwyer Hickey BooksTop The Last to Know by Melissa HillEve and Liam are living in bliss, not married bliss. Eve wants to be married. Her sister wants her to be married, too. But Brooke in Australia knows nothing of this except she is going to find out.Melissa Hill Books BooksTop A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThis is another masterpiece, a precursor to Ulysses in style and temperament.James Joyce BooksTop Durango by John B KeaneSet in the West of Ireland this novel deals with the concerns of the rural people. Heybegs Mullanney is concerned with the price of cattle, and who his daughter is spending time with.John B Keane BooksTop Homecoming by Cathy KellyFour women share the history of their four very different lives.Cathy Kelly BooksTop A Life of Her Own and Other Stories by Maeve KellyMaeve Kely has been one or Ireland's most prolific writers with stories regularly appearing in "New Irish Writing" along with her published poetry.Maeve Kelly BooksTop Feast of Michaelmas by Adrian KennyDr.Smith`s School for Protestant Boys is situated in the West of Ireland. It is a cultural Limbo, a place which has outlived its usefullness, and which is now falling comically asunder. Caught between a future without real possibilities and a past which is a mere idealised memory, staff and pupils busy themselves with strange alliances and subterfuge. In a world of orchards, staff-room meetings, Divinity Exams, Latin Primers, hunts and festivities, an impressive gallery of characters act their many parts. But the play must end.Adrian Kenny BooksTop Watermelon by Marian KeyesJames leaves Claire on the day she is having her first baby. She moves home to her parents to recover. She does it well. Whe James finally comes back things have changed.Marian Keyes BooksTop Mere Mortals by Kevin KielyDeafened by the music of the spheres, Justin Howlin, academic ad absurdum, staggers from crisis to crisis in this comic epic of failure.Kevin Kiely BooksTop Best Laid Plans by Mary A LarkinIn Belfast an upcoming concert by the Rolling Stones disrupts the lives of Tess Maguire and Agnes Quinn more than they could have bargained for.Mary A Larkin BooksTop Tales From Bective Bridge You by Mary LavinThis collection of short stories was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Mary Lavin has since consolidated her reputation with other collections.Mary Lavin BooksTop Poor Lazarus by Maurice LeitchAlbert Yar is in a predicament, he is a Protestant in Ballyboe which is overwhealmingly Catholic. It is literally driving him insane. He has an incident and collapses. Resussitated by a film producer, he is persuaded to help the producer to make a documentary. This only exasperates his condition.Maurice Leitch BooksTop 1916 by Morgan LlywelynNed Halloran has lost both his parents and nearly his own life on the Titanic. Determined to keep what little he has he returns to Ireland and enrolls in St. Enda`s school in Dublin. ST. Enda`S headmaster is Padraig Pearse, the renowned scholar and poet,who went on to greater fame as a patriot and rebel. Ned has become embroiled in the events of that Easter weekend and it is his narrative which produces the backdrop for the story here.Morgan Llywelyn BooksTop Shell, Sea Shell by Liam LynchThis is the story of a young Jewish girl distraught by tragedy and forced to move about in search of refuge.Liam Lynch BooksTop Seek the Fair Land by Walter MackenCromwell's men have ravaged the country. Dominic MacMahon has lost his wife in the massacre and he brings his daughter and his son in search of peace and freedom.Walter Macken BooksTop Anatomy School by Bernard MacLavertyMartin Brennan is a troubled boy living in troubled times, a boy who knows all of the questions but none of the answers.This is Belfast in the late sixties. Before he can become an adult, Martin must unravel the sacred and contradictory mysteries of religion, science and sex, he must learn the value of friendship; but most of all he must pass his exams - at any cost.Bernard MacLaverty BooksTop Tallystick and Other Stories by Bryan MacMahonBryan McMahon is a master chronicler of the Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. In these 17 stories he captivates just what rural life in Ireland was all about.Bryan MacMahon BooksTop Men Withering by Francis MacManusMen Withering is the third volume of a trilogycentred around the life of the famous Irish Poet, Donnacha Ruadh Mac Conmara.Francis MacManus BooksTop Lipstick on the Host by Aidan MathewsAll of Aidan Matthews`s stories take their frail and passionately wrong-headed narrators over the edge into the obscene and its sacrilegious. Aidan Mathews BooksTop Closing Time by J Ardle McArdleAn Irish tale of goings on after the pub has closed, locking the public out, or in.J Ardle McArdle BooksTop The Dead School by Patrick McCabeMalachy Dudgeon has escaped his disfunctional upbringings and found himself teaching in the best school in the country. The headmaster of the school, Raphael Bell has also overcome a tragedic situation to find a great career. But when the two meet the combination speels disaster to their fortunes and their wellbeing. Patrick McCabe BooksTop Songdogs by Colum McCannColum McCann's first novel deals with the disappearance of a mother and the legacy left behind for her son.Colum McCann BooksTop Crescendo by Mary McCarthyMichelle Bolger is a woman in control - but a sinister force lurks outside the charmed circle of her life.Mary McCarthy BooksTop The Faloorie Man by Eugene McEldowneyThis story is of a protected child going out to the world and finding out for himself the rigours of life.Eugene McEldowney BooksTop The Barracks by John McGahernElizabeth Reagan is a fighter and her circumstances require her to be one. Her husband is locked in servitude to a demanding job, her children are not her own, and her will is elsewhere, so she faces a battle to hold on to her sanity in claustrophic surroundings.John McGahern BooksTop Pack Up the Moon by Anna McPartlinEmma has suffered a great loss. Although her family and friends surround her and support her, it is by no means clear if she will get through this tragedy and be able to pick up her life.Anna McPartlin BooksTop A Bluebell in a Quarry by John Mary MeagherThis novel is set in Tipperary in the 1950's. It challenges the traditional view of religion and politics the authenticity of the 'just war'.John Mary Meagher BooksTop The Great Victorian Collection by Brian MooreAnthony Maloney has a dream that a Victorian Market has appeared opposite his hotel. When he wakes he is surprised to find that this has just happened.Brian Moore BooksTop On the Back of the Swallow by Danny MorrisonNicky Smith loses his best friend, Robin, when they are both fifteen; from then he sees life through a smeared lens. Until the day he meets Gareth Williams, a bright, rich kid whose vulnerability and brilliance remind him of the dead Robin. A passionate friendship develops between them, a friendship which provokes the crushing forces of wrathful society in all its bitterness.Danny Morrison BooksTop An Idle Woman by Val MulkernsFrom the bitter-sweet nostalgia of reminiscence to the traumas forming the heart`s bane and heart`s ease of the crazy equation that is man and woman, places her firmly in the forefront of contemporary Irish short story writers.Val Mulkerns BooksTop The Half Brother by Ailish O'BreenTwo children develop an intimate relationship against the backdrop of hatred and hypocrocy surrounding them. But one day they will cometo find that their intimacy is frowned upon by society.Ailish O'Breen BooksTop Time and Tide by Edna O'BrienNell was once one of those country girls with green eyes…now she is trapped in London, in mortal enmity with her husband, sustained only by her two smaoo sons…Edna O`Brien records the crises of Nell`s motherhood, her vital reserves of love and her innocence within.Edna O'Brien BooksTop At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienFirst published in 1939 it was against the run of play, as you might say. Introducing characters which did not seem to meet the seriousness of the day but it was and would be a classic.Flann O'Brien BooksTop The Teenage Dirtbag Years by Ross O'Carroll Kelly Ross was put on this earth to make women happy, very happy. He makes goys happy too.He's like the friend you always wished for but couldn't afford.Ross O'Carroll Kelly BooksTop Falls the Shadow by Gemma O'ConnorNobody mourned Buller Reynolds. No one; save his small son, Arthur would never refer to him again except in disgust or in fear or with a stifled, shamefaced guffaw of relief that he had been taken from their midst with so little fuss. If you could call a bullet in the back of the brain little fuss.Gemma O'Connor BooksTop Cowboys and Indians by Joseph O'ConnorAll alone, with only his electric guitar and his overacrive ego for company, Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find fame in the wild world of the London rock scene. A bewildering array of acid-house ravers,saloon-bar revolutionaires,music biz wideboys andmedia primadonnas all seem ph-so-anxious to help Eddie on his way.Joseph O'Connor BooksTop Poacher's Apprentice by Tommy Frank'O'ConnorCormac MacRua was born after his father had been murdered. So he lived without a father but on his wits.Tommy-Frank O'Connor BooksTop Big Windows by Peadar O'DonnellTom Manus has wed a woman from one of the islands and brought her to his farm on the mainland. He has incurred the wrath of the local people who do not like this practice.Peadar O'Donnell BooksTop The Judas Cloth by Julia O'FaolainThis is a novel about a Pope in crisis which draws parallels to more recent events.JuliaO'Faolain BooksTop Wave and Other Stories by Liam O'FlahertyShort stories by one of Ireland's best writers.Liam O'Flaherty BooksTop Anyone But Him by Sheila O'FlanaganAndie and Jin have to start getting on well with each other as their mother has a new boyfriend.Sheila O'Flanagan BooksTop Motherland by Timothy O'GradyA man returns to his mother`s rooms to find a scene of dishevelled abandonment. Swirling steam and uprooted plants, Chaos everywhere. His mother had disappeared. And now begins the hunt to find her.Timothy O'Grady BooksTop Klondyke Memorialu by T P O'MahonyThis epic romp revolves around a ladies lavatory on the banks of the lovely River Lee, and the uproar, outrage, intrigue and shenanigans which erupt when the City Fathers decide to demolish this hallowed ediface.T P O'Mahony BooksTop Courtship Gift by Julie ParsonsCrippled by the sudden, unbearable discovery of huge undisclosed debts, fraud and infidelities stretching back through the entire course of their marriage, Anna is forced to seek refuge- to begin penniless, vulnerable, alone. Which is after all where Matthew wanted her to be, and he would bring her his courtship gift, death and betrayal woven together in a shroud of silk...Julie Parsons BooksTop Netherland by Joseph O'NeillHans van den Broek is alone in New York after his wife and son returned to London without him.Joseph O'Neill BooksTop The International by Glenn PattersonDanny has just got a job as a barman in the International. It was bad luck for his predecesser, getting shot like he did. Things may not quieten down, though. Belfast is a tough place to be in, no doubt about that.Glenn Patterson BooksTop Farewell Companions by James PlunkettAnd when he walked to school it was a journey through the multiple tiers of a society where tuppence ha`penny looked down on tuppence, while tuppence in turn was a cut above three ha`pence. What your father did for a livelihood was of importance.James Plunkett BooksTop Blood Brothers, Soul Sister by Terry ProneThese vivid and moving stories combine Terry Prone`s ruthless observation with a gentle wit that entangles the reader in the lives of her characters.Terry Prone BooksTop A Place of Stones by Deirdre PurcellMolly O'Brien, beautiful Irish actress, rose to command the attention of the world from the stages of Dublin, London and New York. Butbehind her glittering success lay a heartache she could not resolve and a longing to return to uncover a family`s tragic secret, buried forever in the island place of stones..Deirdre Purcell BooksTop Generations of the Moon by John QuinnIt is 1926. Following the tragic death of their mother, infant twins Brian and Hannah Johnston are separated. Brian is feared by his Catholic mother`s family in Cullyboe, Hannah remains with her Protestant father. Generations of the Moon traces the lives of Brian and Hannah separated by divisions of suspiciun, mistrust,and ultimately hatred.John Quinn BooksTop Voyovic Brigitte and Other Stories by Niall QuinnModern stories of drug taking, revolution, migrant workers, prostitution, youmg men, young women, kindred spirits.Niall Quinn BooksTop A Walk in Alien Corn by Lar RedmondThis is a story of an Irishman abroad. And not just anywhere abroad, It is in England the home of the feared oppressors. Working as a skilled tradesman he finds what he expects, injustice and what he does not expect, generosity and love.Lar Redmond BooksTop City Woman by Patricia ScanlanContinuing the story of the friendship of three women and their events and happenings.Patricia Scanlan BooksTop Big House of Inver by Edith Somerville and Martin RossThis is "the history of one of those minor dynasties that, in Ireland, have risen, and ruled, and rioted, and crashed in ruins"Edith Somerville and Martin Ross BooksTop House of Memories by Alice TaylorThis is the sequel to Woman of the House and Across the River. Following the unlamented death of his brutish father, Danny tries to rescue the family farm from ruin.Alice Taylor BooksTop Brooklyn by Colm ToibinEilis Lacey has left Ireland behind in search of a new life. She lives in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn. It is the fifties, and she is homesick. She receives news which brings her back to Ireland to face a dilemma she would rather not face.Colm Toibin BooksTop Scenes From a Country Wedding by Maura TreacyThe varied characters in Maura Treacy`s first novel are a testament of her ability as a writer. Pauline, youngest sister of bridegroom, Desi Heaslip,wanted by her boyfriend Kevin in a way completely alien to her mother`s understanding,Kal, the divorced sister,courted again by elusive Pat MacDenamin: cousin Father Gerry Costello, who finds his vocation crumbling: And the older age group, enjoying the air of freedom and ease against a background of neighbourly, gleeful, scandal-mongering.Maura Treacy BooksTop Love and Summer by William TrevorMIss Connulty notices the stranger come in to town, if nobody else did. She notices everything and when the stranger called Florian develops a relationship with a young girl named Ellie, Miss Connulty is about to take action.William Trevor BooksTop Ferret Fancier by Anthony C WestSet in a border county just after the Civil War this is the story of a boy who is growing up in a country with many faces and the boy is trying hard to decipher them.Anthony C West BooksTop My Name is Norval by Terence de vere WhiteMiss Kelly was very rich. She entertained, she travelled, she would have liked to be married.She encountered Mr Robinson in a guest house in County Donegal and there was something about him which appealed to Miss Kelly. He told her she reminded him of his mother and the sinister tale of Mr Robinson`s past started to unfold.Terence de vere White BooksTop Fairy And Folk Tales of Ireland by W B YeatsThis volume contains two books of folklore collected and edited by W B Yeats (Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry) and (Irish Fairy Tales)W B Yeats BooksTop