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Tom Deignan Interviews Stephan Talty

By Tom Deignan

IA Newsletter, Month Day 2026

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Tom Deignan (left) talks to Stephan Talty (right) about The American School of Spies: His recent release detailing the extraordinary efforts of archaeologists who fought the Nazis to preserve ancient Greek artifacts, his other books and growing up in Buffalo, NY with immigrant Irish parents. Stephan Talty is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist recognized for his … [Read more...] about Tom Deignan Interviews Stephan Talty

Terror From America

By Tom Deignan

June 8 2026

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This thrilling historical fiction/espionage novel marks Golway's debut as a novelist, blending his signature expertise in Irish-American history with classic detective fiction. The Premise: It’s 1885 and London is under siege. Irish American Fenians are dynamiting bridges, trains, and even Scotland Yard itself. Dispatched by Her Majesty's government to New York, Sherlock … [Read more...] about Terror From America

10 Books by Irish Writers

By Darina Molloy

Winter 2025

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Reviews by Darina Molloy She Died Young: A Life in Fragments  / By Brenda Fricker Brenda Fricker had a tough life, there’s no doubt about it. Maybe that’s why she chose the approach she did for her memoir – it’s more a selection of linked anecdotes and musing about her eight decades, rather than a chronological blow-by-blow account of what happened in exactly what order. It … [Read more...] about 10 Books by Irish Writers

Book Reviews

By Darina Molloy

Fall 2025

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The In-Laws By Sinéad Moriarty Amanda, Katie and Melanie are the daughters-in-law of the domineering and difficult Nancy. Melanie is in business with her, along with her husband and her two brothers-in-law. Katie knows she never stood a chance with snobby Nancy, having left school early to work as a hairdresser. Amanda and her husband have just moved back to Dublin and she … [Read more...] about Book Reviews

Time and Tide

By Patsy Murphy

September 1992

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A novel by Edna O'Brien One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a first edition of The Country Girl from the bookshelf in a house where I was staying and I did not leave my place by the window until I had read it from start to finish. To read the story of Kate and Baba after 30 years was like drinking clear spring water from the wells that abound in Miss O'Brien's … [Read more...] about Time and Tide