Irish Literature

For a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionately large contribution to world literature in all its branches. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages.

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Merrily Ever After (Fitzpatrick Christmas #3)
Small Things Like These
Intermezzo
Beautiful World, Where Are You
All Her Fault
The Irish Goodbye
The Bee Sting
The Rachel Incident
Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
So Late in the Day
The Elements (The Elements, #1-4)
Prophet Song
Evenings and Weekends
Frankie
Nesting
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
Dubliners
Small Things Like These
Normal People
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ulysses
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Waiting for Godot
Foster
Conversations with Friends
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Dracula
Beautiful World, Where Are You
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Irish YA
142 books — 46 voters

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2020 UKYA Fantasy
25 books — 43 voters


Jennifer Armstrong
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Flann O'Brien
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred ...more
Flann O'Brien

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