O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare
10 best books like O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare (Niall Williams): The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood, The Chisellers, To School Through The Fields, Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World, The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland, An Italian Education, A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory, Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, 1530-1603, The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary, All Will Be Well: A Memoir
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
| Author | Hugo Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0007156634 |
"We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English. We are trapped in a language war. We are the Speckled People." In one of the most original memoirs to emerge in years, Hugo Hamilton tells the haunting story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950s Dublin. His Gaelic-speaking,...
| Author | Brendan O'Carroll |
| ISBN | 0452281229 |
The Mrs. Browne trilogy became an instant bestselling success in author Brendan O'Carroll's native Ireland. Similarly, when Plume introduced The Mammy (the first book in the series, May 1999) in the United States, it was greeted with overwhelming enthusiasm from American readers. Fans of Agnes...
To School Through The Fields
| Author | Alice Taylor |
| ISBN | 0312105606 |
If ever a voice has caputured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hard back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The colorful characters and joyous moments she offers...
| Author | Geoffrey Moorhouse |
| ISBN | 0156006022 |
Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a particularly intense form of monastic life, one that...
The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland
| Author | Pete McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0007162138 |
Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in his bestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar with your name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up,his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventure take him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in...
| Author | Tim Parks |
| ISBN | 0380727609 |
Tim Parks' first bestseller, "Italian Neighbors," chronicled his initiation into Italian society and cultural life. Reviewers everywhere hailed it as a bravissimo performance. Now he turns to his children -- born and bred in Italy -- and their milieu in a small village near Verona. With the splendid...
| Author | Dennis Smith |
| ISBN | 0446524476 |
Glad I didn't pay full price for this. It could have been so much more than it was. It could have been like the classic "In America", "West Side Story" or "Angela's Ashes"; well actually any of the McCourt brothers books, or "Angels with Dirty Faces", yep, Mickey Rooney I can see as Dennis. I kept waiting...
| Author | Anne Chambers |
| ISBN | 1567318584 |
Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) was a legendary Irish pirate chieftain and Gaelic chieftain who was known as such ephitet's as 'The Pirate Queen', A Most Famous Feminine Sea Captain, 'Nurse to All Rebellions' and 'A Notable Traitoress'
This book traces her life. perhaps in too little detail,...
| Author | Joan Hoff |
| ISBN | 0465030882 |
In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary and remained missing for several days. At last her body was discovered, bent, broken, and badly burned in a shallow grave. Within a few days, her unimaginable story came to light: for almost a week before...
All Will Be Well: A Memoir
| Author | John McGahern |
| ISBN | 1400044960 |
From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the early...
| Author | J.M. Synge |
| ISBN | 0140184325 |
In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas.
Yet...
Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans
| Author | Thomas Lynch |
| ISBN | 0393328570 |
I really enjoyed Thomas Lynch's Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans. It was an entertaining and quite an interesting part memoir, part cultural study with the most amazing book cover I have seen in awhile.
I came across this little book while holidaying in County Cork this week and was totally...
The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit
| Author | Patricia Monaghan |
| ISBN | 1577314581 |
This exciting project brings together decades of study about mythology with one seeker’s circuambulation through the landscape of Ireland, all described with a poet’s voice. Pat Monaghan has studied and taught many integrated studies in poetry, science, mythology, feminist spirituality,...
I read this a number of years ago before visiting Ireland, then reread many parts of it while in Ireland. And just this morning I felt like a brief visit to Ireland, so I read through numerous articles again. I love the slick magazine-like pages, the maps, all the great information. I can't vouch that every...
Pint-Sized Ireland: In Search of the Perfect Guinness
| Author | Evan McHugh |
| ISBN | 0312363664 |
One man's tour of Ireland on tap; a rollicking travelogue in the tradition of Round Ireland with a Fridge and McCarthy's Bar.
"Regret" is the word that best describes Evan McHugh's first taste of Guinness. For an Australian raised on Vegemite, Ireland's black brew is very much an acquired...
Jaywalking with the Irish
| Author | David Monagan |
| ISBN | 1740595971 |
David Monagan is a restless, middle-aged father of three who for years has dreamed of relocating from the USA to Ireland, the land of his forebears.
In his elegantly written, often hilarious narrative, Monagan describes his family's evolving struggle to come to terms with life in a strange land....
Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland
| Author | Malachy McCourt |
| ISBN | 0762431814 |
New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted storyteller.
The pages are populated with figures from myth, history, and the present-from...
A Pint of Plain: How the Irish Pub Lost Its Magic but Conquered the World
| Author | Bill Barich |
| ISBN | 0802717012 |
Seamlessly blending history and reportage, Bill Barich offers a heartfelt homage to the traditional Irish pub, and to the central piece of Irish culture disappearing along with it. After meeting an I rishwoman in London and moving to Dublin, Bill Barich—a “blow-in,” or stranger, in Irish...
A saga of the struggle between hard-living farmers and the Church, The Bodhran Makers is set in rural Ireland in the 1950s. The Bodhran (pronounced bough-rawn), makers of the title are "poverty stricken people who never lost their dignity." Every January, they celebrate their Celtic ancestry with...
The Irish Pub Cookbook: (Irish Cookbook, Book on Food from Ireland, Pub Food from Ireland)
| Author | Margaret M. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0811844854 |
Talk about the luck of the Irish! One of the most beloved of Irish institutions (there are more than one thousand in Dublin alone), the traditional pub has served generations as the venue for local gossip, sporting news, a ceilidh or two, literary soirees, real estate deals, political debates, revolutionary...
