Hello all, I’ve recently finished reading Amongst Women by John McGahern and previously, Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and Foster. Does anyone have any suggestions for contemporary Irish literature? I’m pretty open to just about anything. Thanks in advance!
by GrouchyMillennial
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Try The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride – wow, published in 2013! Seems like a life time ago now.
Milkman by Anna Burns
Niall Williams
Emma Donoghue. Novels. She is Irish, but emigrated to Canada where she now lives.
Louise Kennedy, Trespasses. Novel.
Edna O’Brien. Novels and memoir.
John Banville. Novels.
Nobber, by Oisin Fagan is extraordinarily unique, really unusual.
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon still on my TBR but everyone loves this.
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue is really fun – good holiday read.
Trespassers by Louise Kennedy, romance set in the troubles.
Milkman by Anna Burns, this was really fantastic.
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch was really well deserving of the Booker, it’s haunting but takes some adjusting to style at first.
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. I loved the different voices of all the family members, but I found this a little bit too sprawling, almost a bit aimless even though it’s tightly plotted- still enjoyable though.
Definitely *A Ghost in the Throat* by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. It’s like nothing I have ever read and so beautiful.
*The Alternatives* by Caoilinn Hughes. She has written a few books but that is the only one I have read. I want to read the others.
You’ll probably get recommendations for Tana French. My favorites of hers are *The Searcher* and *The Watcher.*
If you like mysteries Dervla McTiernan’s Cormac Reilly novels are good. They are set in Galway. The first one is called *The Ruin.*
Remnants by John Boyne
You’ve gotten a lot of great recs already but I’d add Kevin Barry to the list. That Old Country Music might be a good place to start with him.
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire, The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
Normal People by Sally Rooney
If you like mysteries, Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series is top tier