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  1. 1Wild Houses (2024)Wild Houses (2024) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2024Ballina is getting ready for its biggest weekend of the year when a kidnapped teenager lands on Dev’s doorstep. This County Mayo crime novel lets you sit with the people a faster thriller might rush past, starting with the man whose cousins have made him an unwilling accomplice.0
  2. 2Factory Girls (2022)Factory Girls (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Maeve Murray wants good exam results and enough money to get out of her Northern Irish border town. The summer job she takes at a shirt factory in 1994 puts Catholic and Protestant workers on the same floor. Read it for the jokes, friendships, and small calculations that go into getting through a…0
  3. 3Cré na cille (1949)Cré na cille (1949)Published Jan 1, 1949The Dirty Dust, translated by Alan Titley A new arrival in a Connemara graveyard wants to know whether she’s in the pound grave or the fifteen-shilling grave. The dead go right on feuding and sizing up their neighbors, all through overlapping talk. Choose this English translation of Cré na Cille…0
  4. 4The last September (1929)The last September (1929) 4.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1929Tennis parties and army dances are still on the calendar at a County Cork country house in 1920. Follow Lois as she tries to imagine an adult life amid the routines her relatives keep up while British rule is coming to an end. This is a book for readers who like history to register first in a room…0
  5. 5Colony (2022)Colony (2022) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2022The Colony brings an English painter and a French linguist to an island off Ireland’s west coast in 1979. James sees a chance to do something other than fish, and his family has ideas of its own about what the visitors can take from the island. Pick this for the arguments over who gets to represent…0
  6. 6The glorious heresies (2016)The glorious heresies (2016)Published Jan 1, 2016An accidental killing sends trouble outward through a group of people trying to get by in Cork. McInerney gives the city a fast, foulmouthed energy and follows lives that regularly go unseen by its more comfortable residents. A good choice if you want the invention of a crime novel alongside the…0
  7. 7The good son (2015)The good son (2015)Published Jan 1, 2015Mickey Donnelly’s chances of getting out of Ardoyne can turn on what a grammar school uniform costs. Let his funny, quick voice take you through the Belfast neighborhood during the Troubles, when everyone seems to know what a boy ought to do and Mickey has quite different ideas.0
  8. 8The Poor Mouth (1974)The Poor Mouth (1974)Published Jan 1, 1974Read Patrick C. Power’s translation for an Irish-language satire that takes the stock tale of rural deprivation to absurd lengths. Bonaparte O’Coonassa shares his family’s cabin with the livestock in fictional Corkadoragha. There is a joke in nearly every indignity, and a sharper one in what…0
  9. 9Reading in the dark (1996)Reading in the dark (1996) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1996A boy’s childhood in Derry in the 1940s and 1950s comes to you in brief scenes, including an aunt’s ghost story about two children in Donegal. Keep an ear out for what adults leave unsaid. Half-told stories give the city’s political history a place inside the house.0
  10. 10City of Bohane (2011)City of Bohane (2011) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2011For a trip to a west-coast city that only exists on the page, take this hectic gang novel set a few decades into the future. A threatened crime boss pulls you between bogs, backstreets, and tower blocks. The invented slang makes crossing from one part of Bohane to another half the fun.0