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Celebrate Irish-American Heritage Month |
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Charming Billy
by Alice McDermott
When the late Billy Lynch's relatives and friends gather together to keep his memory alive, stories are woven and memories relived detailing his life in the close Irish-American community and the intricate feelings that resurface.
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On Canaan's Side
by Sebastian Barry
The Man Booker Prize short-listed author of The Secret Scripture presents the tragic story Lilly Bere, who after fleeing Ireland under threat of death from the IRA survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars.
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Wickett's Remedy: A Novel
by Myla Goldberg
Dreaming of a better life for herself, Lydia, an Irish-American shopgirl from South Boston, gets her chance when she marries medical student Henry Wickett, the scion of a Boston Brahmin family, but her life is turned upside down when Henry quits medical school to promote a patent medicine and the world is swept by the devastating Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918.
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The Silver Boat: A Novel
by Luanne Rice
Returning for a final visit to the Martha's Vineyard beach house where they were most happy in childhood, three far-flung sisters struggle with poignant family memories and discover astonishing truths in a cache of old letters that compels a journey to their ancestral Ireland.
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Ask Again, Yes
by Mary Beth Keane
A family saga about two Irish American families in a New York suburb, the love between two of their children, and the tragedies that threaten to tear them apart and destroy their futures.
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The Hollow Ground: A Novel
by Natalie S. Harnett
Moving in with her estranged grandparents when the underground mine fires of 1960s Pennsylvania ravage her coal-county home, Irish-American Brigid Howley makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft that reveals decades-old secrets.
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The Sight of the Stars
by Belva Plain
The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America, determined to shape his own destiny, and heads west to build what is to become one of the country's great retail companies. This richly textured novel spans three generations and the history of twentieth-century America.
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Transatlantic
by Colum McCann
A tale spanning one hundred fifty years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell, World War I airmen John Alcock, and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women.
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We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel
by Matthew Thomas
Raised by her Irish immigrant parents in a 1940s Queens apartment where alcohol and company combine in mercurial ways, Eileen marries an unambitious scientist with whom she endures an increasingly psychologically dark family life.
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Brooklyn: A Novel
by Colm Tóibín
Forced to leave behind her family in Ireland to accept a job in 1950s America, bookkeeper Eilis Lacey unexpectedly falls in love with an Italian man with a big family, who she fears losing when tragic news arrives from home.
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Murphy's Law: A Molly Murphy Mystery
by Rhys Bowen
Fleeing a false accusation of murder in Ireland, Molly Murphy becomes involved in another murder case when the man who had been harassing her on the boat to America turns up dead on Ellis Island also.
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Never Were Men So Brave: The Irish Brigade During the Civil War
by Susan Provost Beller
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, prints, and maps, the dramatic story of the daring young Irishmen who fought in the battle of Antietam captures their indomitable spirit and pride through the use of moving primary sources.
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
by James R. Barrett
A lively history of turn-of-the-20th-century urban life in major cities as experienced and influenced by Irish Americans makes a case that urban culture was largely shaped by people with a distinctly Hibernian heritage, explaining that the descendants of Irish immigrants imposed their own values, beliefs and prejudices on subsequent newcomers.
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster
by T. J. English
A history of Irish-American organized crime from the nineteenth century to the present traces the influence of such gangs as the Whyos and Gophers over early elections, the modern-day activities of New York's Westies and Whitey Bulger's South Boston mob, and more.
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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, the author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
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Ireland in Mind: An Anthology
by Alice Leccese Powers
In a literary travel anthology, poetry, essays, fiction, and travelogues offer a kaleidoscopic portrait of the land, people, and culture of Ireland, in works by Frank McCourt, Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edna O'Brien, Paul Theroux, T. H. White, George Bernard Shaw, John Betjeman, Anthony Trollope, and other notable authors.
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Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America
by Peter Quinn
An evocative portrait of the Irish in America draws on the author's investigation into his own past and those of thousands of immigrants whose culture and values have played an important role in American society, redefining the Irish-American image that has transformed American politics, street culture, religion, and creativity.
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