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Winter 2025 Review of Books
Reviews by Darina Molloy She Died Young: A Life in Fragments / By Brenda Fricker…
Book Reviews
The In-Laws By Sinéad Moriarty Amanda, Katie and Melanie are the daughters-in-law of the domineering…
Time and Tide
A novel by Edna O’Brien One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a…
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“Kathy White House” Book Launch
Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 6:00 pm American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Ave, New York, NY Come and celebrate Irish Heritage and Women’s History Month by discovering the highly entertaining […]
Release of Ionbhá: The Empathy Book for Ireland
Actor Cillian Murphy and N.U.I. Professor Pat Dolan released Ionbhá: The Empathy Book for Ireland, on October 6. The book features essays from 89 contributors including Ireland’s President Michael D. Higgins, […]
He Died an Irishman
John le Carré was born David Cornwell in Poole, England in 1931. His father, known as Ronnie, was a violent con man who landed in prisons across the globe. Olive, […]
Review of Books Fall 2023
Darina Molloy provides a review of 14 books from Irish authors for our readers to enjoy. Soldier Sailor By Claire Kilroy When you consider the gap between Claire Kilroy’s last […]
Napoleon’s Doctor
The last few years of the great Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s life were spent with an Irishman. That Irishman was Barry O’Meara, a Dublin-born surgeon who caught the Emperor’s attention during […]
A Taste of Joyce
The Ineluctable Modality of the Visible Sometimes it seems to me that libraries are the most democratic institutions in the world. From Dublin to New York, you will eventually find […]