Irish Book Week

Maeve in America

Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

By: Maeve Higgins
Narrated by: Maeve Higgins
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

“If Tina Fey and David Sedaris had a daughter, she would be Maeve Higgins.” —Glamour

A startlingly hilarious essay collection about one woman’s messy path to finding her footing in New York City, from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins

Maeve Higgins was a bestselling author and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old... Read more

What White People Can Do Next

From Allyship to Coalition

By: Emma Dabiri
Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the meaning of whiteness and creating an antiracist world from the acclaimed historian and author of Twisted.

Vital and empowering What White People Can Do Next teaches each of us how to be agents of change... Read more

Dubliners

Penguin Classics

By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Andrew Scott
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Andrew Scott, star of Sherlock, Fleabag and Black Mirror, also known for his on-stage roles in Present Laughter and Hamlet. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Terence Brown.

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the... Read more

Again, Rachel

Walsh Family: Book #6

By: Marian Keyes
Narrated by: Marian Keyes
Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"It will break your heart and nourish your soul. . . . Her finest novel yet." —Nigella Lawson

From internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes comes the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Prepare to laugh and cry by turns with Rachel and the Walsh family.

Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess.

But a... Read more

The Gathering

By: Anne Enright
Narrated by: Terry Donnelly
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Regarded as one of her country's foremost voices, Irish author Anne Enright makes a fresh mark on a rich literary tradition. "The Gathering" is a deeply insightful family saga, steeped in secrets and intrigue, unfolding over three generations. "Enright's hypnotic prose turns . desperation into something fierce and beautiful."-Booklist, starred... Read more

The Mystery of Mercy Close

By: Marian Keyes
Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

As the youngest of the five Walsh girls, Helen has had a tough time finding her way in the world-- at thirty-three, she has her job as a private investigator that has proven less than fruitful and after losing her flat, she' s moved back in with Mammy Walsh. Her hunky new boyfriend, Artie, and his three adorable children are a great distraction,... Read more

The Great Hunger

Ireland 1845–1849

By: Cecil Woodham-Smith
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

The Great Hungeris the definitive account of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. Emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada in small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that... Read more

The Green Road

By: Anne Enright
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Lloyd James & Gerard Doyle
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize–winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the... Read more

The Woman Who Stole My Life

By: Marian Keyes
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 15 hours 1 minute

From bestselling author Marian Keyes, a hilarious new novel about an Irish beautician and her unorthodox path to love and fame In her own words, Stella Sweeney is just "an ordinary woman living an ordinary life with her husband and two teenage kids," working for her sister in their neighborhood beauty salon. Until one day she is struck by a... Read more

Days without End

By: Sebastian Barry
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

From Sebastian Barry, a two-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a powerful and unforgettable novel chronicling a young Irish immigrant’s army years in the Indian wars and the American Civil War.Thomas McNulty, having fled the Great Famine in Ireland and now barely seventeen years old, signs up for the US Army in the 1850s and with his... Read more

We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It

A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood

A Must-Read Memoir

By: Tom Phelan
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” —Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming

In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan’s We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It is a... Read more

The Strangers' House

Writing Northern Ireland

By: Alexander Poots
Narrated by: Matthew Wolfe & Alexander Poots
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

A penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature—telling the region’s story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict.

Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about a place like... Read more

Landing

By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Laura Hicks
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships—the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet.Síle is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who’s traveled the... Read more

The House of Special Purpose

By: John Boyne
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

From the author of The Absolutist comes a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs.Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past—a past of death, suffering, and scandal that... Read more

A Galway Epiphany

Jack Taylor Novels: Book #16

By: Ken Bruen
Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Ex-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine Memorial and left... Read more

Shadowplay

By: Joseph O'Connor
Narrated by: Anna Chancellor & Barry McGovern
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

When Henry Irving decides to open the Lyceum, his own London theater, with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Abraham Stoker as his assistant. Together, Irving and Stoker fall under the spell of Ellen Terry, a dazzlingly talented Shakespearean actress,... Read more

The Dazzling Truth

A Novel

By: Helen Cullen
Narrated by: Patrick Moy
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

In the courtyards of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1978, aspiring actress Maeve meets pottery student Murtagh Moone. As their relationship progresses, marriage and motherhood come in quick succession, but for Maeve, with the joy of children also comes the struggle to hold on to the truest parts of herself. Decades later, on a small Irish island,... Read more

The Coroner's Daughter

A Novel

By: Andrew Hughes
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of the Neshams, a prominent family in a radical Christian sect known as the Brethren. Rumors swirl about the identity of the child’s father, but before an inquest can be held, the maid is found dead after an apparent suicide. When Abigail Lawless, the... Read more

The Colony

By: Audrey Magee
Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by curragh, though boats with engines are available and he doesn't much like the sea. He wants the authentic experience, to be changed by this place, to let its quiet and light fill him, give him room to create. He... Read more

The Fog Catcher's Daughter

By: Marianne McShane
Narrated by: Aoibhéann McCann
Length: 15 minutes

Eily and her father live in Ireland, three fields from the sea, within sight of the enchanted isle of Lisnashee. The fairy folk who live there cause mischief and harm to any who trespass, but once a year at Midsummer, Eily’s father, the Fog Catcher, rows out to collect magic from the fog around the island. His sole protection is a charm tucked... Read more