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John McCourt: The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 (The Lilliput Press, 25 £) Scholars apart, when most people think of James Joyce's 47 years in self-imposed exile, [...]

Carlo Gebler: Father and I: A Memoir. (Little, Brown, 16.99 £) Anyone who's read The Cure (1994) or How To Murder a Man (1998) recognizes that Carlo Gebler is one [...]

Liam O'Flaherty: The Collected Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty (Wolfhound Press, 50 £) Just as William Trevor and John McGahern are the great Irish short story writers of our time, [...]

Maeve Brennan: The Rose Garden (Counterpoint, $23 dollars) When The Springs of Affection was published three years ago, it was widely acclaimed. 'I had forgotten how pure and strong so [...]

Cole Moreton: Hungry for Home -- Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland (Viking. $23.95/14.99 £) Review by John Boland 'This is the end of the world,' [...]

Edited with an Introduction by Colm Toibin: The Penguin Book Of Irish Fiction (Viking; Hardcover: 25 £ UK/$40). By their nature, literary anthologies are both highly selective and very bitty [...]

David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, and Chris Thornton: Lost Lives--The Stories of the Men, Women, and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Mainstream Publishing, [...]

Roddy Doyle: A Star Called Henry (Viking Press, Hardcover; 16.99 £ stg./ $24.95) More than any other Irish writer of his generation, Roddy Doyle has created a highly distinctive and [...]

Colm Toibin: The Blackwater Lightship (Picador, Hardcover; 15 £ stg.) Gay love in the age of AIDS was at the heart of Colm Toibin's last novel, The Story of the [...]

Some books are so distinctive and create such an impact that they are hard acts to follow. One thinks of To Kill a Mockingbird, The Ginger Man, At Swim-Two-Birds, The [...]

The Springs of Affection By Maeve Brennan (Flamingo, 10.99 £ stg.) Set in suburban Dublin between the two world wars, these remarkable stories introduce the general public to a writer [...]

Here's the scenario: although the IRA orders its men to decommission arms, there is no negotiated peace settlement, and thus the hostilities never actually come to an end. No, that's […]

Declan Kiberd: Irish Classics (Granta Books, 25 £) declan Kiberd's last book, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, commanded a lot of critical attention, and with good reason, [...]

Richard Murphy: Collected Poems (Gallery Books, 25 £) richard Murphy is the most ignored major Irish poet of the last forty years. This is not to say that he's critically [...]

A Dictionary Of Hiberno-English By Terence J. Dolan (Gill & Macmillan, 25 £) 'My father was `a culchie, and I'm a jackeen, but a lot of blarney and blather, not [...]

Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera By T. Ryle Dwyer (Gill & Macmillan, 19.99 £) T. Ryle Dwyer has come up with a clever [...]