أدب أيرلندي

تنسج التقاليد الأدبية الغنية في أيرلندا تعليقات اجتماعية حادة، وتأملات شخصية، وسردًا خالدًا في خلفية أمة حديثة معقدة. بين شوارع دبلن المرصوفة بالحصى والريف المتدحرج، يتناول الكتاب الأيرلنديون المعاصرون كل شيء من البريكست والاضطرابات الاقتصادية إلى اليقظة والهوية، مع الحفاظ على التراث الأسطوري لسرد القصص في بلادهم.

أدب أيرلندي ملخصات الكتب

The Women on Platform Two

بقلم Laura Anthony

Ireland, 1971: an abused wife risks arrest on the train that defied the contraception ban.

4.41

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🕰️ Dual Timeline 👭 Female Friendship 💔 Domestic Violence ✊ Political Awakening 🩺 Reproductive Rights

تجربة غامرة

The Women on Platform Two

Ireland, 1971: an abused wife risks arrest on the train that defied the contraception ban.

بقلم Laura Anthony 2025 336 صفحة

4.41

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🕰️ Dual Timeline 👭 Female Friendship 💔 Domestic Violence ✊ Political Awakening 🩺 Reproductive Rights

Prophet Song

بقلم Paul Lynch • 2023

When secret police knock, a mother must protect her family from a collapsing Ireland.

4.03

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🏛️ Political Dystopia 🛡️ Mother As Protector 💔 Family Separation 🎖️ Forced Conscription 🧳 Refugee Journey

Prophet Song

When secret police knock, a mother must protect her family from a collapsing Ireland.

بقلم Paul Lynch 2023 259 صفحة

4.03

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🏛️ Political Dystopia 🛡️ Mother As Protector 💔 Family Separation 🎖️ Forced Conscription 🧳 Refugee Journey

Long Island

بقلم Colm Tóibín • 2024

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

3.70

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💔 Love Triangle 🏠 Return To Hometown ☁️ Melancholy 🇮🇪 Irish Diaspora 📆 1970s

Long Island

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

بقلم Colm Tóibín 2024 294 صفحة

3.70

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💔 Love Triangle 🏠 Return To Hometown ☁️ Melancholy 🇮🇪 Irish Diaspora 📆 1970s

Mr Salary

بقلم Sally Rooney • 2016

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

3.73

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📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction 💔 Dying Parent 🌧️ Melancholy

Mr Salary

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

بقلم Sally Rooney 2016 33 صفحة

3.73

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📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction 💔 Dying Parent 🌧️ Melancholy

How the Irish Saved Civilization

بقلم Thomas Cahill • 1995

After Rome's fall, Irish monks became the unlikely saviors of classical literature.

3.81

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🇮🇪 Irish History ✝️ Celtic Christianity 📚 Monastic Libraries 📜 Preservation Of Knowledge 🗺️ Early Medieval Europe

How the Irish Saved Civilization

After Rome's fall, Irish monks became the unlikely saviors of classical literature.

بقلم Thomas Cahill 1995 256 صفحة

3.81

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🇮🇪 Irish History ✝️ Celtic Christianity 📚 Monastic Libraries 📜 Preservation Of Knowledge 🗺️ Early Medieval Europe

The Boy from the Sea

بقلم Garrett Carr • 2025

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

3.79

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🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 👶 Foundling Child 🕯️ Elegiac Tone

The Boy from the Sea

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

بقلم Garrett Carr 2025 336 صفحة

3.79

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🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 👶 Foundling Child 🕯️ Elegiac Tone

The Spinning Heart

بقلم Donal Ryan • 2012

A village in post-crash Ireland speaks: one man's ruin, one father's murder, one child gone.

3.95

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🍀 Rural Ireland 📉 Post-Crash Ireland 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 🧬 Generational Trauma 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons

The Spinning Heart

A village in post-crash Ireland speaks: one man's ruin, one father's murder, one child gone.

بقلم Donal Ryan 2012 160 صفحة

3.95

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🍀 Rural Ireland 📉 Post-Crash Ireland 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 🧬 Generational Trauma 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons

لسعة النحلة

بقلم بول موراي • 2023

An Irish family fractures under debt, blackmail, and the weight of a dead brother's ghost.

3.88

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☘️ Irish Family Saga 🚪 Closeted Sexuality 👯 Teenage Friendship 🪦 Survivors Guilt 💸 Financial Ruin

لسعة النحلة

An Irish family fractures under debt, blackmail, and the weight of a dead brother's ghost.

بقلم بول موراي 2023 645 صفحة

3.88

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☘️ Irish Family Saga 🚪 Closeted Sexuality 👯 Teenage Friendship 🪦 Survivors Guilt 💸 Financial Ruin

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

بقلم George Berkeley • 1710

Things exist only while perceived. So what keeps the universe intact when no one is watching?

3.71

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🔮 Idealism 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 🌌 Metaphysics 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception And Reality

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Things exist only while perceived. So what keeps the universe intact when no one is watching?

بقلم George Berkeley 1710 80 صفحة

3.71

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🔮 Idealism 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 🌌 Metaphysics 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception And Reality

Lies of Silence

بقلم Brian Moore • 1990

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

3.23

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⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Lies of Silence

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

بقلم Brian Moore 1990 192 صفحة

3.23

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⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

The Country Girls

بقلم Edna O'Brien • 1960

A dreamy Irish farm girl moves to Dublin after loss, chasing freedom with her reckless friend.

3.70

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🌱 Female Coming Of Age 🇮🇪 Mid Century Ireland 👯 Friendship And Rivalry 💋 Sexual Awakening 💔 Older Married Lover

The Country Girls

A dreamy Irish farm girl moves to Dublin after loss, chasing freedom with her reckless friend.

بقلم Edna O'Brien 1960 175 صفحة

3.70

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🌱 Female Coming Of Age 🇮🇪 Mid Century Ireland 👯 Friendship And Rivalry 💋 Sexual Awakening 💔 Older Married Lover

Champagne Football

بقلم Mark Tighe • 2020

He ran Ireland's football body like a personal bank, and the game nearly collapsed.

4.37

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Governance Failure 💰 Corporate Corruption ⚽ Sports Administration 💸 Financial Scandal

Champagne Football

He ran Ireland's football body like a personal bank, and the game nearly collapsed.

بقلم Mark Tighe 2020 336 صفحة

4.37

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Governance Failure 💰 Corporate Corruption ⚽ Sports Administration 💸 Financial Scandal

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

بقلم George Berkeley • 1988

Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.

3.83

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📜 Early Modern Philosophy 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 💡 Idealism 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📚 Epistemology

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.

بقلم George Berkeley 1988 224 صفحة

3.83

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📜 Early Modern Philosophy 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 💡 Idealism 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📚 Epistemology

صورة الفنان في شبابه

بقلم جيمس جويس • 1916

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

3.64

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🇮🇪 Catholic Upbringing 🙏 Catholic Guilt 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎨 Artistic Awakening 💔 Father Son Strain

صورة الفنان في شبابه

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

بقلم جيمس جويس 1916 329 صفحة

3.64

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🇮🇪 Catholic Upbringing 🙏 Catholic Guilt 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎨 Artistic Awakening 💔 Father Son Strain

Acts of Desperation

بقلم Megan Nolan • 2021

A young woman meets a distant man and starts trading herself for his sporadic affection.

3.70

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🖤 Obsessive Love 💔 Toxic Relationship 🕳️ Self-Destruction 🗣️ Confessional ⛓️ Emotional Abuse

Acts of Desperation

A young woman meets a distant man and starts trading herself for his sporadic affection.

بقلم Megan Nolan 2021 288 صفحة

3.70

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🖤 Obsessive Love 💔 Toxic Relationship 🕳️ Self-Destruction 🗣️ Confessional ⛓️ Emotional Abuse

This Is Happiness

بقلم Niall Williams

A failed seminarian watches an old lodger pursue the woman he jilted fifty years earlier.

4.22

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🕊️ Second Chance Love 🛤️ Atonement Quest 🌿 Rural Ireland 🍃 Pastoral Fiction 📖 Quiet Literary

تجربة غامرة

This Is Happiness

A failed seminarian watches an old lodger pursue the woman he jilted fifty years earlier.

بقلم Niall Williams 2019 385 صفحة

4.22

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🕊️ Second Chance Love 🛤️ Atonement Quest 🌿 Rural Ireland 🍃 Pastoral Fiction 📖 Quiet Literary

A Keeper

بقلم Graham Norton • 2018

Burying her mother in Ireland, a professor finds love letters from a courtship that imprisoned her.

3.99

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🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 👵 Controlling Matriarch ✉️ Letters From The Past 👶 Hidden Parentage 💔 Generational Trauma

A Keeper

Burying her mother in Ireland, a professor finds love letters from a courtship that imprisoned her.

بقلم Graham Norton 2018 326 صفحة

3.99

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🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 👵 Controlling Matriarch ✉️ Letters From The Past 👶 Hidden Parentage 💔 Generational Trauma

Dead I Well May Be

بقلم Adrian McKinty • 2003

Betrayed by his crime boss, an Irish immigrant must survive a Mexican prison and plan his revenge.

3.95

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🍀 Irish Crime 🎯 Revenge Quest 🔓 Prison Break 🕶️ Hard-Boiled 🏙️ New York Mob

Dead I Well May Be

Betrayed by his crime boss, an Irish immigrant must survive a Mexican prison and plan his revenge.

بقلم Adrian McKinty 2003 384 صفحة

3.95

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🍀 Irish Crime 🎯 Revenge Quest 🔓 Prison Break 🕶️ Hard-Boiled 🏙️ New York Mob

The Ghosts of Belfast

بقلم Stuart Neville • 2009

A Belfast hitman's twelve victims haunt him until he hunts the men who gave the orders.

3.93

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🖤 Irish Noir 👻 Supernatural Noir 💀 Ghostly Vengeance 🏙️ Post-Conflict Belfast 🕊️ Redemption Arc

The Ghosts of Belfast

A Belfast hitman's twelve victims haunt him until he hunts the men who gave the orders.

بقلم Stuart Neville 2009 336 صفحة

3.93

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🖤 Irish Noir 👻 Supernatural Noir 💀 Ghostly Vengeance 🏙️ Post-Conflict Belfast 🕊️ Redemption Arc

Finnegans Wake

بقلم James Joyce • 1939

Dublin, one night's dream: a publican's guilt becomes all history in words that reinvent language.

3.68

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📖 Dream Logic 🧪 Experimental Modernism 🔄 Cyclical Narrative 💬 Linguistic Invention 🏙️ Dublin Ireland

Finnegans Wake

Dublin, one night's dream: a publican's guilt becomes all history in words that reinvent language.

بقلم James Joyce 1939 628 صفحة

3.68

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📖 Dream Logic 🧪 Experimental Modernism 🔄 Cyclical Narrative 💬 Linguistic Invention 🏙️ Dublin Ireland

Notes to Self

بقلم Emilie Pine • 2018

She was good at going hungry. It was the one thing she could control.

4.10

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📖 Confessional Memoir ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🍽️ Eating Disorders 🩹 Sexual Assault Recovery 🫥 Body Shame

Notes to Self

She was good at going hungry. It was the one thing she could control.

بقلم Emilie Pine 2018 192 صفحة

4.10

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📖 Confessional Memoir ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🍽️ Eating Disorders 🩹 Sexual Assault Recovery 🫥 Body Shame

Ship of Fools

بقلم Fintan O'Toole • 2009

Ireland's miracle was a property scam. The politicians and bankers who built it kept the profits.

4.03

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🐅 Celtic Tiger Era 🇮🇪 Irish Politics 🤝 Crony Capitalism 📋 Regulatory Capture 📉 Financial Crises

Ship of Fools

Ireland's miracle was a property scam. The politicians and bankers who built it kept the profits.

بقلم Fintan O'Toole 2009 256 صفحة

4.03

٤٨٥ تقييم

🐅 Celtic Tiger Era 🇮🇪 Irish Politics 🤝 Crony Capitalism 📋 Regulatory Capture 📉 Financial Crises

Mind Full

بقلم Dermot Whelan • 2021

A comedian's guide to stress: meditation, breathwork, and the lost art of switching your brain off.

4.18

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😰 Stress Management 🧘 Meditation For Beginners 🌬️ Breathwork Techniques ❤️ Self-Compassion 🍷 Mindful Drinking

Mind Full

A comedian's guide to stress: meditation, breathwork, and the lost art of switching your brain off.

بقلم Dermot Whelan 2021 212 صفحة

4.18

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😰 Stress Management 🧘 Meditation For Beginners 🌬️ Breathwork Techniques ❤️ Self-Compassion 🍷 Mindful Drinking

The Yank

بقلم John Crawley • 2022

From US Marine to IRA gunrunner: Whitey Bulger opened doors. An informant slammed them shut.

4.07

٢٠٠

🇮🇪 The Troubles ☘️ Irish Republicanism 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Foreign Fighters 🔫 Arms Smuggling

The Yank

From US Marine to IRA gunrunner: Whitey Bulger opened doors. An informant slammed them shut.

بقلم John Crawley 2022 279 صفحة

4.07

٢٠٠ تقييم

🇮🇪 The Troubles ☘️ Irish Republicanism 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Foreign Fighters 🔫 Arms Smuggling

Walking with Ghosts

بقلم Gabriel Byrne • 2021

He left Dublin for Hollywood. But the ghosts, the priest, and the bottle came with him.

4.10

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🎭 Actor Memoirs 🇮🇪 Irish Memoir 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🍺 Addiction Recovery ⛪ Catholic Upbringing

Walking with Ghosts

He left Dublin for Hollywood. But the ghosts, the priest, and the bottle came with him.

بقلم Gabriel Byrne 2021 250 صفحة

4.10

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🎭 Actor Memoirs 🇮🇪 Irish Memoir 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🍺 Addiction Recovery ⛪ Catholic Upbringing

Black Mass

بقلم Dick Lehr • 2001

Master the mental and physical practices that turn chronic self-doubt into steady confidence.

3.81

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🏗️ Confidence Building 🧬 Identity Work 🧠 Cognitive Reframing 🧘 Somatic Techniques 🚧 Boundary Setting

Black Mass

Master the mental and physical practices that turn chronic self-doubt into steady confidence.

بقلم Dick Lehr 2001 424 صفحة

3.81

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🏗️ Confidence Building 🧬 Identity Work 🧠 Cognitive Reframing 🧘 Somatic Techniques 🚧 Boundary Setting

Land

بقلم Maggie O'Farrell

An Irish map-maker drinks from an unmapped well; his children scatter across continents.

4.26

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 💔 Scattered Siblings ✊ Colonial Resistance ⛪ Priest Loses Faith 🎻 Music As Survival

تجربة غامرة

Land

An Irish map-maker drinks from an unmapped well; his children scatter across continents.

بقلم Maggie O'Farrell 2026 400 صفحة

4.26

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 💔 Scattered Siblings ✊ Colonial Resistance ⛪ Priest Loses Faith 🎻 Music As Survival

Trespasses

بقلم Louise Kennedy • 2022

A Catholic teacher risks everything for an affair with a Protestant barrister during the Troubles.

3.96

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🕊️ The Troubles 🔥 Forbidden Affair ⏳ Age Gap Relationship ⚔️ Sectarian Divide 📚 Teacher Protagonist

Trespasses

A Catholic teacher risks everything for an affair with a Protestant barrister during the Troubles.

بقلم Louise Kennedy 2022 292 صفحة

3.96

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🕊️ The Troubles 🔥 Forbidden Affair ⏳ Age Gap Relationship ⚔️ Sectarian Divide 📚 Teacher Protagonist

أهل دبلن

بقلم جيمس جويس • 1914

Fifteen Dubliners reach for escape and find the limits of their world.

3.83

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📖 Modernist Fiction 🥀 Quiet Desperation 🪨 Emotional Stasis 🚪 Failed Escape 🇮🇪 Dublin Life

أهل دبلن

Fifteen Dubliners reach for escape and find the limits of their world.

بقلم جيمس جويس 1914 352 صفحة

3.83

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📖 Modernist Fiction 🥀 Quiet Desperation 🪨 Emotional Stasis 🚪 Failed Escape 🇮🇪 Dublin Life

The Sea

بقلم John Banville • 2005

A widowed art historian returns to the seaside boarding house where his childhood ended in drowning.

3.55

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🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🏖️ Tragic Summer 🩺 Terminal Illness 🌀 Nonlinear Memory 🍂 Elegiac Mood

The Sea

A widowed art historian returns to the seaside boarding house where his childhood ended in drowning.

بقلم John Banville 2005 270 صفحة

3.55

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🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🏖️ Tragic Summer 🩺 Terminal Illness 🌀 Nonlinear Memory 🍂 Elegiac Mood

Gaffs

بقلم Rory Hearne • 2022

Why Ireland's housing crisis is not a market failure but a government strategy to enrich investors.

3.52

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🏚️ Housing Crisis 🇮🇪 Irish Housing 📜 Housing Policy 💸 Rental Crisis 🏦 Financialized Housing

Gaffs

Why Ireland's housing crisis is not a market failure but a government strategy to enrich investors.

بقلم Rory Hearne 2022 352 صفحة

3.52

١٧١ تقييم

🏚️ Housing Crisis 🇮🇪 Irish Housing 📜 Housing Policy 💸 Rental Crisis 🏦 Financialized Housing

Big Fellow, Long Fellow

بقلم T. Ryle Dwyer • 1998

Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.

4.23

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🍀 Irish History 👥 Dual Biography ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🔥 Guerrilla Warfare 🕵️ Intelligence Operations

Big Fellow, Long Fellow

Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.

بقلم T. Ryle Dwyer 1998 371 صفحة

4.23

١٢٩ تقييم

🍀 Irish History 👥 Dual Biography ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🔥 Guerrilla Warfare 🕵️ Intelligence Operations

The Princes of Ireland

بقلم Edward Rutherfurd • 2004

A Celtic prince risks sacred prohibitions to love a chieftain's daughter, defying kings and fate.

3.88

١٨٬٠٠٠+

📜 Multigenerational Saga ☘️ Ancient Ireland 🧙 Irish Mythology 💔 Forbidden Love 🌅 Old Gods Fading

The Princes of Ireland

A Celtic prince risks sacred prohibitions to love a chieftain's daughter, defying kings and fate.

بقلم Edward Rutherfurd 2004 778 صفحة

3.88

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📜 Multigenerational Saga ☘️ Ancient Ireland 🧙 Irish Mythology 💔 Forbidden Love 🌅 Old Gods Fading

1916

بقلم Morgan Llywelyn • 1998

Haunted by the Titanic, a young Irishman comes home to join a poet's doomed rebellion.

4.08

٤٬٠٠٠+

🔥 Easter Rising 🪖 Wartime Coming Of Age 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🧑‍🏫 Mentor And ProtéGé ⚔️ Tragic Heroism

1916

Haunted by the Titanic, a young Irishman comes home to join a poet's doomed rebellion.

بقلم Morgan Llywelyn 1998 576 صفحة

4.08

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🔥 Easter Rising 🪖 Wartime Coming Of Age 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🧑‍🏫 Mentor And ProtéGé ⚔️ Tragic Heroism

There Will Be Fire

بقلم Rory Carroll • 2023

Two minutes kept Thatcher alive. The Brighton bomber vanished, a ghost named Roy Walsh.

4.26

٤٬٠٠٠+

💣 The Troubles 🔍 Forensic Investigation 🛡️ Counterterrorism 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Anglo-Irish Relations 💥 Political Violence

There Will Be Fire

Two minutes kept Thatcher alive. The Brighton bomber vanished, a ghost named Roy Walsh.

بقلم Rory Carroll 2023 397 صفحة

4.26

٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

💣 The Troubles 🔍 Forensic Investigation 🛡️ Counterterrorism 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Anglo-Irish Relations 💥 Political Violence

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

بقلم Emer McLysaght • 2017

Aisling has waited years for a proposal. Her boyfriend hasn't noticed.

3.92

١٢٬٠٠٠+

🏠 Found Family 🔒 Family Secrets 💕 Love Triangle 😂 Irish Humor 🌿 Rural Ireland

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

Aisling has waited years for a proposal. Her boyfriend hasn't noticed.

بقلم Emer McLysaght 2017 293 صفحة

3.92

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🏠 Found Family 🔒 Family Secrets 💕 Love Triangle 😂 Irish Humor 🌿 Rural Ireland

Saoirse

بقلم Charleen Hurtubise • 2026

An American mother in Donegal has a stolen name. Her past is painted into every canvas.

3.94

٦٬٠٠٠+

📖 Trauma Narrative 🎭 Stolen Identity 🫂 Found Family 💔 Abusive Relationship 🎨 Artist Protagonist

Saoirse

An American mother in Donegal has a stolen name. Her past is painted into every canvas.

بقلم Charleen Hurtubise 2026 256 صفحة

3.94

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📖 Trauma Narrative 🎭 Stolen Identity 🫂 Found Family 💔 Abusive Relationship 🎨 Artist Protagonist

Grace

بقلم A.M. Shine • 2026

Grace inherits a house on an Irish island whose children vanished decades ago. Now she hears them.

3.73

١٬٠٠٠+

🏚️ Folk Horror 🍀 Irish Gothic 🏝️ Haunted Island 🕯️ Trapped Spirits 🩸 Generational Guilt

Grace

Grace inherits a house on an Irish island whose children vanished decades ago. Now she hears them.

بقلم A.M. Shine 2026 304 صفحة

3.73

١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏚️ Folk Horror 🍀 Irish Gothic 🏝️ Haunted Island 🕯️ Trapped Spirits 🩸 Generational Guilt

Killing Thatcher

بقلم Rory Carroll • 2023

A Brighton hotel bomb, a five-ton chimney stack, and the single clue that unmasked a ghost.

4.46

٧٬٠٠٠+

🍀 Irish History ☘️ The Troubles 🎯 Assassination Plots 🔍 Forensic Manhunt 💥 Political Violence

Killing Thatcher

A Brighton hotel bomb, a five-ton chimney stack, and the single clue that unmasked a ghost.

بقلم Rory Carroll 2023 416 صفحة

4.46

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🍀 Irish History ☘️ The Troubles 🎯 Assassination Plots 🔍 Forensic Manhunt 💥 Political Violence

Anam Cara

بقلم John O'Donohue • 1996

Friendship as soul-recognition, body as sanctuary, death as lifelong companion: Celtic wisdom.

4.32

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🍀 Celtic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Mysticism 💞 Soul Friendship 🧘 Contemplative Life 📜 Poetic Philosophy

Anam Cara

Friendship as soul-recognition, body as sanctuary, death as lifelong companion: Celtic wisdom.

بقلم John O'Donohue 1996 283 صفحة

4.32

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🍀 Celtic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Mysticism 💞 Soul Friendship 🧘 Contemplative Life 📜 Poetic Philosophy

يوليسيس

بقلم جيمس جويس • 1922

A cuckold adman and a mother-haunted teacher spend one day in Dublin, their inner worlds colliding.

3.76

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🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 📅 Single Day Narrative 🖋️ Experimental Writing 🇮🇪 Dublin Setting 🏛️ Mythological Framework

يوليسيس

A cuckold adman and a mother-haunted teacher spend one day in Dublin, their inner worlds colliding.

بقلم جيمس جويس 1922 783 صفحة

3.76

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🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 📅 Single Day Narrative 🖋️ Experimental Writing 🇮🇪 Dublin Setting 🏛️ Mythological Framework

Time of the Child

بقلم Niall Williams

When an Irish doctor revives a dead newborn, his daughter claims her as her own.

4.21

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🍀 Rural Irish Fiction 🏠 Found Family 👶 Secret Child 💕 Father-Daughter Bond 🤫 Small-Town Secrets

تجربة غامرة

Time of the Child

When an Irish doctor revives a dead newborn, his daughter claims her as her own.

بقلم Niall Williams 2024 304 صفحة

4.21

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🍀 Rural Irish Fiction 🏠 Found Family 👶 Secret Child 💕 Father-Daughter Bond 🤫 Small-Town Secrets

The Third Policeman

بقلم Flann O'Brien • 1967

Murder for money strands a man in a land policed by bicycles, the dead serving tea.

3.96

٢٣٬٠٠٠+

🌀 Absurdist Fiction ☘️ Irish Modernism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 👤 Nameless Protagonist 🩸 Murder Guilt

The Third Policeman

Murder for money strands a man in a land policed by bicycles, the dead serving tea.

بقلم Flann O'Brien 1967 200 صفحة

3.96

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🌀 Absurdist Fiction ☘️ Irish Modernism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 👤 Nameless Protagonist 🩸 Murder Guilt

The Alternatives

بقلم Caoilinn Hughes • 2024

When their eldest sister disappears, three women search rural Ireland and their own fractured past.

3.35

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👩‍👩‍👩‍👩 Sisterhood Saga 🪨 Sibling Caretaker 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 🌍 Climate Grief 🖤 Darkly Comic

The Alternatives

When their eldest sister disappears, three women search rural Ireland and their own fractured past.

بقلم Caoilinn Hughes 2024 352 صفحة

3.35

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👩‍👩‍👩‍👩 Sisterhood Saga 🪨 Sibling Caretaker 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 🌍 Climate Grief 🖤 Darkly Comic

A Ghost in the Throat

بقلم Doireann Ní Ghríofa • 2020

A poet-mother's obsession with an Irish widow's lament rewrites her life in echoes.

4.00

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🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🔥 Female Obsession 📚 Archival Research 🍼 Motherhood And Milk 🌊 Lyrical Meditation

A Ghost in the Throat

A poet-mother's obsession with an Irish widow's lament rewrites her life in echoes.

بقلم Doireann Ní Ghríofa 2020 326 صفحة

4.00

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🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🔥 Female Obsession 📚 Archival Research 🍼 Motherhood And Milk 🌊 Lyrical Meditation

The Padre

بقلم Jennifer O'Leary • 2023

Gaddafi's cash. A parking timer. A priest. These built the IRA's most reliable bombs.

4.02

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⚔️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🔫 Arms Trafficking 🕵️ Clandestine Operations 🎭 Double Lives

The Padre

Gaddafi's cash. A parking timer. A priest. These built the IRA's most reliable bombs.

بقلم Jennifer O'Leary 2023 272 صفحة

4.02

٤٥٥ تقييم

⚔️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🔫 Arms Trafficking 🕵️ Clandestine Operations 🎭 Double Lives

The Irish Boarding House

بقلم Sandy Taylor • 2022

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

4.13

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🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance 💔 Childhood Abandonment 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation

The Irish Boarding House

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

بقلم Sandy Taylor 2022 330 صفحة

4.13

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🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance 💔 Childhood Abandonment 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation

The Irishman's Daughter

بقلم V.S. Alexander • 2019

Famine forces an Irish woman to choose between her land and a man across the sea.

3.84

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🥀 Irish Famine ⛵ Emigrant Journey 👭 Sisters Divided 🏚️ Lost Homeland 🚢 Atlantic Crossing

The Irishman's Daughter

Famine forces an Irish woman to choose between her land and a man across the sea.

بقلم V.S. Alexander 2019 402 صفحة

3.84

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🥀 Irish Famine ⛵ Emigrant Journey 👭 Sisters Divided 🏚️ Lost Homeland 🚢 Atlantic Crossing

Nora Webster

بقلم Colm Tóibín • 2014

A widow in 1960s Ireland finds that silence, properly tended, begins to sound like music.

3.63

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🧠 Psychological Realism 🖤 Widowhood 🏘️ Small Town Ireland 🕯️ Elegiac 🤫 Private Grief

Nora Webster

A widow in 1960s Ireland finds that silence, properly tended, begins to sound like music.

بقلم Colm Tóibín 2014 373 صفحة

3.63

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🧠 Psychological Realism 🖤 Widowhood 🏘️ Small Town Ireland 🕯️ Elegiac 🤫 Private Grief

Zoli

بقلم Colum McCann • 2006

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

3.70

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🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe 🚶 Life In Exile 📜 Cultural Erasure

Zoli

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

بقلم Colum McCann 2006 333 صفحة

3.70

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🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe 🚶 Life In Exile 📜 Cultural Erasure

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