Irish Literature

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By James Joyce, Karl Ove Knausgaard (Foreword by), Seamus Deane (Notes by), Roman Muradov (Illustrator) Cover Image
By James Joyce, Karl Ove Knausgaard (Foreword by), Seamus Deane (Notes by), Roman Muradov (Illustrator)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143108245
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Published: Penguin Classics - May 24th, 2016

For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce’s greatest works—featuring a foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a 21st-century Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 


Exciting Times: A Novel By Naoise Dolan Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062968753
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Published: Ecco - March 16th, 2021

“This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living—and guaranteed to please.” Vogue 


The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue: (The Country Girl; The Lonely Girl; Girls in Their Married Bliss; Epilogue) (FSG Classics) By Edna O'Brien, Eimear McBride (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Edna O'Brien, Eimear McBride (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780374537357
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - November 14th, 2017

A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride

This omnibus edition includes the novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss.


To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings By John O'Donohue Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9780385522274
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Published: Convergent Books - March 4th, 2008

A beautiful collection of blessings to support you through both the ordinary and extraordinary events of life, from the author of the bestselling Anam Cara
 
“John O’Donohue is a man of the soul.”—Times (London)
 


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The Lock-Up By John Banville Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781335449634
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Published: Hanover Square Press - May 23rd, 2023

Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery


Pilgrim (Revised) (Revised) By David Whyte Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781932887259
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Published: Many Rivers Press - January 1st, 2014

Life Without Children: Stories By Roddy Doyle Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593300589
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Published: Penguin Books - February 21st, 2023

“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” —Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review


A Week in Winter By Maeve Binchy Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307475503
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Published: Anchor - January 7th, 2014

Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy.


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Brooklyn By Colm Toibin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781501106477
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Published: Scribner - September 8th, 2015

Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.

“One of the most unforgettable char


Strange Flowers: A Novel By Donal Ryan Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143136392
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Published: Penguin Books - June 15th, 2021

AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD NOVEL OF THE YEAR

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Awards

“Mr. Ryan writes conspicuously beautiful prose… The fleeting happiness and abiding melancholy of the asymmetry, heightened by the intimately rendered surroundings, brings out Mr. Ryan’s most sensuous and emotive writing.” The Wall Street Journal


Pond By Claire-Louise Bennett Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780399575907
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Published: Riverhead Books - July 11th, 2017

“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”New York Times Book Review

"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine


Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir By Séamas O'Reilly Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316424257
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 7th, 2022

“In this joyous, wildly unconventional memoir, Séamas O'Reilly tells the story of losing his mother as a child and growing up with ten siblings in Northern Ireland during the final years of the Troubles as a raucous comedy, a grand caper that is absolutely bursting with life.”―Patrick Radden Keefe, NYT bestselling author of Say Nothing a


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Normal People: A Novel By Sally Rooney Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781984822185
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Published: Hogarth - February 18th, 2020

NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan).
 


History of the Rain: A Novel By Niall Williams Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781620407707
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - November 3rd, 2015

Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told.