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Irish Voices in Fiction
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- Irish Writers Online
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http://www.irishwriters-online.com/A concise bio-bibliographical dictionary of Irish writers.
All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SF=science fiction, SS=short story collection, Y=young adult, W=western.
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(2003)SS
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(2006, c2005)SS
- Barry, Sebastian
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(2002)A summer of adventure, pain, delight and ultimately epiphany unfolds for two children and their elderly caretakers in this poignant story of innocence, loss and reconciliation.
- Bennett, Ronan
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(2004)This penetrating historical novel is a deeply unnerving narrative of 17th century England that speaks directly to the fanaticism and fear of today.
- Binchy, Maeve
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(2007)A new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, but young Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Anns Well, a spiritual mecca in the path of the planned construction.
- Black, Benjamin
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(2006)MIn the debut crime novel from a Booker Prize-winning author (John Banville), a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society.
- Boylan, Roger
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(2003)It's a month before the Pint-Pulling Olympiad and the town of Killoyle, Ireland is all abuzz.
- Carson, Paul
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(2007)MDr Frank Ryan is Chief Medical Officer to Harmon Penitentiary. Holding terrorists and drug barons, the Dublin institution is drug-ridden, with high rates of HIV and Hepatitis, perfect for a doctor's research into prisoner health issues... But Harmon's inmates are constantly plotting scams, and Ryan becomes embroiled in criminality.
- Collins, Dan
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(2004)During a restless summer moving between Europe, Los Angeles and Tokyo in a way that mirrors her itinerant childhood, Lee is unable to shake off the bizarre, sometimes macabre grip of the past.
- Conlon-McKenna, Marita
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(1999, published in U. S. A. 2002)When a young woman is left pregnant by her lover she is sent by her shamed family to a convent in Dublin where she works in the Magdalen laundry while she waits for the birth of her child.
- Delaney, Frank
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(2007)The New York Times best-selling author of Ireland returns to the saga of his strife-torn nation with an authentic story of love and legacy as sweeping and dramatic as the land itself.
- Donoghue, Emma
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(2004)The best-selling author of Slammerkin turns her attention to the Beau Monde of late 18th-century England, transforming the private drama of three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full-bodied portrait of a world, and lives, on the brink of revolution.
- Doyle, Mogue
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(2006)Set during the Irish struggle for independence, this is a passionate, elegiac novel that explores the way war affects the members of a tightly knit community.
- French, Tana
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(2007)MThe unsolved murders of children in a wood 20 years ago resurface when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same place.
- Hardie, Kerry
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(2006)Ellen McKinnon's clairvoyant experiences damage her mental and physical health. She must face and assimilate an unwanted but unavoidable family secret, experiencing a revelation that turns her life around in this insightful look at the rift between mysticism and rationalism.
- Kelly, Cathy
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(2007)A charming story about a trio of friends in Ireland who struggle to cope with life's ups and downs and discover something truly magical.
- Kerr, Simon
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(2002)Wil Carson, a former Protestant thug from Northern Ireland is behind bars with plenty of time to review his past deeds, the choices he's made, and a life of mixed blessings and curses.
- Llywelyn, Morgan
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(2003)Llywelyn continues her epic saga with 1949, the sequel to 1916 and 1921.
- McCabe, Eugene
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(2004)In these stories, McCabe plumbs the soul of the Irish border counties, where confusion and emotional betrayal are part of everyday life.
- McCabe, Pat
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(2007)In this spellbinding new novel by the acclaimed author of The Butcher Boy, nothing — and no one — is ever quite what they seem. Once, Redmond Hatch was in heaven, married to the lovely Catherine and father to enchanting daughter Immy. But then he took them both to Winterwood — and it would never be the same again.
- McKinty, Adrian
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(2003)This is a brutal tale of revenge starring a young illegal immigrant from Ireland who chooses a criminal career in New York over unemployment in Belfast.
- Murphy, Gerard
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(2005)MIt is a dark December evening and Michael A. Madigan, brewery foreman and part-time private investigator, is raging at the world. Recently separated, he desperately needs to brighten up the midwinter days. So when the sexy wife of a professor of neurobiology asks him to tail her husband, Madigan agrees. Before long he is out of his depth in the dirty underworld of serious crime. Murder is a matter of course and Madigan is on a hit list. But how far will Madigan go to expose the truth?
- Murray, Paul
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(2004)With the family fortunes in trouble and his allowance cut off, twenty-something Charles Hythloday is forced to find a job in Dublin instead of living the life of a country gentleman. Shortlisted for the Whitbread.
- O'Brien, Edna
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(2006)With its loving evocation of the Irish landscape, its cinematic portrait of New York in the 1920s as seen through the eyes of an immigrant, and its central mother-daughter relationship, The Light of Evening is certain to bring this daring writer her widest audience yet.
- O'Carroll, Brendan
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(2003)Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of nuns and Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, first encounters with the opposite sex, days spent in the factories and nights in the dance hall as rock 'n roll invades Dublin. But on the eve of her wedding the Jarro is filled with gossip. Will Agnes be left standing at the altar?
- O'Faolain, Nuala
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(2001)This compelling bestseller by the author of Are You Somebody intertwines the stories of two women, an Irish travel writer living in present-day London, and a British landowner's wife during the 19th-century potato famine who was convicted of committing adultery with an Irish groom.
- O'Reilly, Sean
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(2003)After years of wandering around Europe, Niall returns to his hometown in Northern Ireland where, as peace disintegrates, he enters into a dangerous relationship with an ardent socialist, Lorna, who will haunt him long after the tragic end of their affair.
- Power, Suzanne
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(2003)Spanning decades, and set on the austere coastline of Ireland and in the overindulgent London of the sixties, The Lost Souls' Reunion is the poignant history of the women in Sive Moriarty's family; women who are powerful in their love and in their hatred and who overcome incredible obstacles without losing their passion for life.
- Prunty, Morag
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(2006)In this tender, funny, heartfelt novel, an uncertain bride learns about the unexpected ingredients of marital happiness through the journals and recipes of her Irish grandmother.
- Ridgway, Keith
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(2004)Set in present-day Dublin, The Parts interweaves six lives and six narratives in a literary novel by one of Ireland's young writers. Voted one of the top 50 Irish novels of all time by the Irish Times and the James Joyce Center.
- Ryan, Mary
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(2003)A captivating story of the American dream, this haunting, extraordinary saga begins as Tom Walk leaves Ireland for America in 1869 vowing to make his fortune, and follows him to Colorado where he strikes gold. Thirty years later, Tom is one of the world's richest men but fortune has its price.
- Sansom, Ian
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(2004)A newspaper, along with the small town Irish life it records, is the focus of this novel.
- Scanlan, Patricia
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(2004)Three young women search for love that lasts.
- Williams, Niall
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(2002)In Ireland in the early years of the 19th century, the four Foley brothers flee across the country with their father and the large telescope he has stolen.