Looking for a touch of the Irish?
In a fun nod to Irish-American Heritage Month here’s a selection of reads from Irish authors, with Irish settings, or following the Irish experience in the US.
Children
The King with Horse's
Ears and Other Irish Folktales retold by Batt Burns and
illustrated by Igor Oleynikov
Look What Came From
Ireland by Miles Harvey
The Great
Wheel by Robert Lawson
The Luck of the
Irish written by Margaret McNamara ; illustrated by Mike
Gordon
Fiona's
Luck written by Teresa Bateman and illustrated by
Kelly Murphy.
Teen Picks
Artemis Fowl by
Eoin Colfer (
Series)
Girl to the Core by
Stacey Goldblatt
The Hunter’s Moon by
O. R. Melling
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
My last skirt : the
story of Jennie Hodgers, Union soldier by Lynda Durrant.
Fiction
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The New Dubliners
edited by Oona Fraley
Pomegranate Soup or
Rosewater & Soda
Bread by Mersha Mehran
Darling Jim by Christian Moerk
My dream of you by
Nuala O'Faolain
Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
The Princes of Ireland:
the Dublin saga by Edward Rutherfurd.
Dislocation: Stories
from a new Ireland edited by Caroline Walsh
Mysteries
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
The Guards by Ken
Bruen
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
The Wrong Kind of
Blood by Declan Hughes
Borderlands: An Inspector Devlin mystery by Brian
McGilloway
Romance
Hot Nights in
Ballymuir by Dorien Kelly
Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts
Now &
Then by Jacqueline Sheehan
Non-Fiction
Little Chapel on the
River: A pub, a town and the search for what matters
most by Gwendolyn Bounds.
A Course Called
Ireland: A long walk in search of a country, a pint, and the next
tee by Tom Coyne
The Spirit Level by
Seamus Heaney
The Irish spirit:
recipes inspired by the legendary drinks of Ireland by Margaret M.
Johnson
Booking Passage: We
Irish & Americans by Thomas Lynch
Teacher Man: A memoir by Frank McCourt
Movies & TV Shows
Ballykissangel (starring
Stephen Tompkinson, Dervia Kirwan, Tony Doyle, Niall Toibin)
Black
Irish (starring Michael Angarano, Brendan Gleeson, Tom
Guiry)
Kings (starring
Colm Meaney, Brendan Conroy, Donal O'Kelly)
Outing Riley
(starring Nathan Fillion, Pete Jones, Michael McDonald,)
Secret of the
Cave (starring Kevin Novotny, Patrick Bergin)
Tara Road (starring
Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea)
Music
Celtic Tides: A
musical odyssey A "Putumayo presents" collection
The Corrs Live in
Dublin by The Corrs
The Very Best of Elvis
Costello by Elvis Costello
The Cost by The
Frames
Sea Sew by Lisa
Hannigan
9 by Damian
Rice
Rough Guide to Irish
Music
