March is a busy reading month and this week I’m featuring #ReadIrelandMonth25. Do you love books with Irish settings written by Irish authors?
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March:
March is overflowing with reading opportunities: Reading Ireland, Reading Wales, Women’s History Month, and Middle-Grade March. Whew! In March, I will devote four blog posts to these reading initiatives….one per week. This week, my focus is #ReadingIrelandMonth25 hosted by Cathy @ 746Books
I’m also linking up today with Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl for Top Ten Tuesday. This week’s prompt is “things characters have said,” but I haven’t tracked this in my reading. Instead, I’m going rogue and listing 10 books set in Ireland for #ReadingIrelandMonth25. I’m sure these characters have said some words worth noting!
Ten Books I’ve read with Irish settings include:
(In no particular order)
Heart of the Glen by Jennifer Deibel
The Maid of Ballymacool by Jennifer Deibel
The Irish Key by Daisey O’Shea
The Irish Family Secret by Daisey O’Shea
The Irish Child by Daisey O’Shea
The Bookshop Ladies by Faith Hogan
This Must be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale by Virginia Kantra
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (my fav Keegan!)
Currently Reading: The Keeper of the Irish Secret by Suzanne O’Leary
QOTD:
Do you love books set in Ireland or do you have a favorite Irish author? Are you participating in #ReadIrelandMonth25 ?
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March is turning out to be a busy month for books but I’m going to try fit in an Irish author. I was pleased to spot that Ferdia Lennon, author of Glorious Exploits, is Irish as I was planning to read that anyway as it’s on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize. I’d have loved to make time for a couple of the books by Sebastian Barry or Donal Ryan in my TBR pile but I don’t think it’s going to happen.
The fun is in the trying! Happy March reading!
Marian Keyes is my favourite Irish writer although I also like John Boyne and Joseph O’Connor.
Thanks for sharing your favs!
I should read more books with Irish settings!
I hadn’t realized I had read so many until I started to compile this list!
I think the only one I’ve read is…. Utterly blanking one from the SPSFC and there was a Z in the author’s name… When I randomly remember it in two days I’m going to come back and comment it 😅
😂 it’s funny how a lost bit of information will pop back in at a later time! 😂
What a fun thing to do for this month.
Thanks! 🙌
I’m trying to diversify my reading. The only book I’ve read recently set in Ireland was The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/the-js-have-it-ten-titles-starting-with-j/
I need to check it out! Thanks!
Oooooh! Lots of new-to-me books! I’ve only heard of the Claire Keegan book. Enjoy your reading!
I’ve never read any of those, but I can tell you that I hope to someday visit the region in real life at least once in my life! 😀
Bucket list worthy! ☘️
Enjoy your Irish reads, Carol. I have just finished my first – Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan. Absolutely and delightfully brilliant!
Happy Reading Ireland Month!
Hi, Carol – I was sure that I commented but I don’t see my comment here. WP continues to play tricks on me. Thanks you for the recommendations.
Hummm…..I’ll look in spam! Thanks for persisting!
Thank you, Carol. I love Irish fiction, particularly Claire Keegan. 💖📚
Love Maggie O’Farrell!
A magnificent writer!
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Everytime I read someone’s post about Reading Ireland I find a book or more that I have on my TBR that is set in Ireland. I have a couple of Faith Hogan’s books on my TBR. I wanted to read or listen to 8 this month, but with all the ones I have found on that backlist shelf, I could read many more. I also have a couple of Amy Harmon’s books.
I wish I could find as many for Read Wales. Many of them sound too depressing for me.
Yes, that is what I have found as well. Nicki posted a Michael Morpurgo book called Cobweb, which is set in Wales, but I haven’t been able to find it.
I tried a novella that Karen suggested..,The Long Dry….and it was so bleak I could barely make myself finish.
I read an anthology last year and it was not enjoyable. I found a police procedural series set in Wales, and have read a couple, but I know that is not a genre you enjoy.
Why am I so picky?! 😂
I found an Agatha Christie book that is set in Wales. It’s called Why Didn’t They Ask Evans, published in 1934. 🤷♀️
That might be good! I’ll check it out!
I did read The Cobbler’s Apprentice that was ok and I can recommend it.
I put that on my list after reading your review, Carol. My library has it, so I’m hoping I can fit it in.
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