Books from Ireland
196 popular irish books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Ireland.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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“My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary novel—a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and compelling history involving a turbulent era that would shape modern Ireland. Born into a respected Irish-Anglo family in 1860, Charles loves his native land and its long-suffering but irrepressible people. As a healer, he travels the countryside dispensing traditional cures while soaking up stories and legends of bygone ... continue
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Tormento by John Boyne PT
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Apesar de sentir falta do irmão mais velho, que estava fazendo faculdade em outro país, Danny aproveitava o tempo livre das férias para andar de bicicleta e jogar bola com seu melhor amigo, Luke Kennedy. Até que um dia volta para casa e, estranhamente, não vê sinal de sua mãe. Quando a sra. Delaney finalmente chega, vem acompanhada de dois policiais. Ela havia se envolvido em um acidente - atropelara um garotinho que agora estava em coma, com poucas chances de sobreviver. A sra. Delaney se afoga em culpa e se isola de todo mundo, inclusive do marido e de Danny. O garoto, por sua vez, não enten... continue
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TransAtlantic by Colum McCann EN
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called “an emotional tour de force.” Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined. Newfoundland, 1919. Two a... continue
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TRES LUCES by Claire Keegan ES
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"En la Irlanda rural de principios de los ochenta, una niña es llevada a casa de unos parientes a pasar una temporada, hasta que su madre haya dado a luz al último de sus hermanitos. En casa de los Kinsella todo contrasta con su hogar: hay baño y no letrina, una máquina blanca a la que llaman freezer, e insisten en que allí no hay secretos. Pero ella no solo descubrirá uno, sino también que el dolor puede convertirse en ternura. Un libro sublime y sugerente sobre la cambiante línea entre el secreto y la vergüenza, sobre ese intersticio entre lo que debe ser dicho y lo que debe callarse." --Con... continue
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Twist : A Novel by Colum McCann EN
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A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin “The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean.”—Salman Rushdie “Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken.” Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels throug... continue
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Ulysses by James Joyce EN
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The Gabler edition of Ulysses, the greatest 20th-century novel written in English, contains corrections to more than 5,000 errors in earlier editions. Almost as soon as Ulysses first appeared, in Paris in 1922, James Joyce began to compile a list of errata, and publishers have continued the process ever since, often inadvertently adding to the list. In 1974, an international team of scholars headed by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence, typescripts, and proofs in order to produce as accurate and complete a new edition as possible. First published in 1984, the Gable... continue
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Under the Net by Iris Murdoch EN
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The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in order to `abjure magic and become a hermit', it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least to escape from `the woman' - but unexpectedly meets one whom he loved long ago. His Buddhist cousin, James, also arrives. He is menaced by a monster from the deep. Charles finds his `solitude' peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions.
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett EN
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From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, "Waiting for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, "Time catches up with genius. . . . "Waiting for Godot" is one of the masterpieces of the century." The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own conscio... continue