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Terror From America
This thrilling historical fiction/espionage novel marks Golway’s debut as a novelist, blending his signature expertise…
Winter 2025 Review of Books
Reviews by Darina Molloy She Died Young: A Life in Fragments / By Brenda Fricker…
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The In-Laws By Sinéad Moriarty Amanda, Katie and Melanie are the daughters-in-law of the domineering…
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Frank & Al
A new book by Terry Golway on the developing Democratic party through the lens of F.D.R. and Al Smith Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance […]
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The setting, Transylvania. The writing style, High Victorian. The story’s appeal, universal. But the author of one of fiction’s most famous and imitated works is Irish. Carstens Smith brings us […]
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A Sampling of the Latest Irish Books. RECOMMENDED Acclaimed historian Edward T. O’Donnell goes from the Ice Age to Michael Phelan (“The Father of American Billiards”) in his breezy history […]
For the Love of Ireland
Author Susan Cahill tells what prompted her to write For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers. I grew up in New York City in an […]
Memoir of an Irish Childhood
Author and raconteur Frank McCourt, in his autobiography, has “examined his ferocious childhood, walked around it, relived it, and with skill and care and generosity of heart, transformed it into […]
MacLaverty Returns
Colin Lacey interviews Bernard MacLaverty (photo right) the Belfast writer who penned Cal and Lamb and who has just published a book of short stories. “Some journalists in the North […]