Category: Ireland
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THERE WILL BE FIRE by RORY CARROLL
MARGARET THATCHER, THE IRA, AND THE TWO MINUTES THAT CHANGED HISTORY Say Nothing meets The Day of the Jackal in this gripping and illuminating story about a history-changing moment of violence. Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, a lethal explosion, and the epic manhunt that followed–a Guardian journalist brings all of this together in the first full-length book about the 1984 Brighton…
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The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher
The timeline in this book begins in 1922 and jumps to 2022. Brigid is a powerful witch and healer in a small town on an island in Ireland. The one thing she wants is a child. She is seduced by Luc Knightly, head of the Knightly Coven. She becomes pregnant and when her precious daughter…
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The ORPHAN’S DAUGHTER by Sandy Taylor
The setting is Ireland in 1924. Nora Doyle is a thirteen-year-old girl, living in a rural area where the struggle for survival is very real. She and her family live in a small cottage that is cold and cramped. She wants to escape being poor, but she doesn’t let it stop her smile. One…
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THE SHIP of DREAMS: The Sinking of THE TITANIC and the end of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell
Gareth Russell has done his research. Uncovering previously unpublished sources and including photographs. Russell tells the story not just of the sinking of the Titanic, but of six well-known and well-heeled passengers and the role they played in history. He is a gifted writer and puts the event in context with what was going on…
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Murder in an Irish Pub by Carlene O’Connor
Irish Village Mystery #4 When competing card sharps stir up Siobhán O’Sullivan’s quiet Irish village, a poker tournament turns into a game of Hangman . . . Kilbane is a small village in County Cork. Hardly a place one would hold an International Poker Tournament, but the people of Kilbane will take the tourists and…
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MURDER AT THE QUEEN’S OLD CASTLE by CORA HARRISON
Reverend Mother Mystery #6 A rare shopping trip for the Reverend Mother ends in brutal murder in this absorbing historical mystery. While the castle is no longer a castle, it is still in use. As a very low-end department store in Cork. The goods are shabby at best and the place itself is in deplorable…
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BEYOND ABSOLUTION: A REVEREND MOTHER MYSTERY BY CORA HARRISON
Reverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery series. Ireland. 1925. Pierced through to the brain, the dead body of the priest was found wedged into the small, dark confessional cubicle. Loved by all, Father Dominic had lent a listening ear to sinners…
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HIMSELF A NOVEL BY JESS KIDD
“A highly unusual tale set in a highly unusual Irish village full of dark secrets…Lushly imagined, delightfully original, and very, very funny, it hurtles along from the very first page” (M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans). Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin…
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Sigil (A Tom Regan Thriller) by Aidan J. Reid
This book had a lot of the ingredients that I like in a suspense thriller. Set in Ireland with Father Tom Regan, a parish priest with a love of mysteries and the television show starring Detective Bourbon. He fancies himself something of a sleuth. But living in the small village of Ballygorm there isn’t a…
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Bury The Living (The Revolutionary Series Book 1) by Jodi McIssac
The Book Blurb for Bury the Living: Rebellion has always been in the O’Reilly family’s blood. So when faced with the tragic death of her brother during Northern Ireland’s infamous Troubles, a teenage Nora joined the IRA to fight for her country’s freedom. Now, more than a decade later, Nora is haunted by both her…
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