“The Spinning Heart” by Donal Ryan – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishFiction #TheSpinningHeart @PushkinPress @SteerforthPress #BookReview I have read several of Donal Ryan’s novels in the past, so I was delighted when offered the chance to read and review his very first work of fiction, “The Spinning Heart”. This de…

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“The Spinning Heart” by Donal Ryan – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishFiction #TheSpinningHeart @PushkinPress @SteerforthPress #BookReview I have read several of Donal Ryan’s novels in the past, so I was delighted when offered the chance to read and review his very first work of fiction, “The Spinning Heart”. This de…

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“The Spinning Heart” by Donal Ryan – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishFiction #TheSpinningHeart @PushkinPress @SteerforthPress #BookReview I have read several of Donal Ryan’s novels in the past, so I was delighted when offered the chance to read and review his very first work of fiction, “The Spinning Heart”. This de…

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“The Spinning Heart” by Donal Ryan – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishFiction #TheSpinningHeart @PushkinPress @SteerforthPress #BookReview I have read several of Donal Ryan's novels in the past, so I was delighted when offered the chance to read and review his very first work of fiction, "The Spinning Heart". This debut novel  won numerous awards - and deservedly so. It won the 2012 Irish Book Award for the Newcomer of the Year and Book of the Year. 

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Hegarty, McNamee & Lennon: Some mini-reviews for #readingirelandmonth26 As well as my planned reading for the month, I read a few new or newish books by Irish authors which didn’t make it into stand-alone posts. Fair Play by Louise Hegarty Louise Hegarty’s Fair P…

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“The Hunter” by Tana French – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheHunter @PenguinBooks @TanaFrench #BookReview Back in 2021 I read “The Searcher”, the first book in the Cal Hooper series. I loved it! So, it was a ‘no-brainer’ that I would read the subsequent titles. “The Hunter…

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“The Hunter” by Tana French – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheHunter @PenguinBooks @TanaFrench #BookReview Back in 2021 I read “The Searcher”, the first book in the Cal Hooper series. I loved it! So, it was a ‘no-brainer’ that I would read the subsequent titles. “The Hunter…

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“The Hunter” by Tana French – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheHunter @PenguinBooks @TanaFrench #BookReview Back in 2021 I read “The Searcher”, the first book in the Cal Hooper series. I loved it! So, it was a ‘no-brainer’ that I would read the subsequent titles. “The Hunter…

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“The Hunter” by Tana French – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheHunter @PenguinBooks @TanaFrench #BookReview Back in 2021 I read “The Searcher”, the first book in the Cal Hooper series. I loved it! So, it was a ‘no-brainer’ that I would read the subsequent titles. “The Hunter…

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“The Hunter” by Tana French – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheHunter @PenguinBooks @TanaFrench #BookReview Back in 2021 I read “The Searcher”, the first book in the Cal Hooper series. I loved it! So, it was a ‘no-brainer’ that I would read the subsequent titles. “The Hunter…

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“The Hunter” by Tana French – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheHunter @PenguinBooks @TanaFrench #BookReview Back in 2021 I read “The Searcher”, the first book in the Cal Hooper series. I loved it! So, it was a ‘no-brainer’ that I would read the subsequent titles. “The Hunter…

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“The Hunter” by Tana French – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheHunter @PenguinBooks @TanaFrench #BookReview Back in 2021 I read "The Searcher", the first book in the Cal Hooper series. I loved it! So, it was a 'no-brainer' that I would read the subsequent titles. "The Hunter" is number two in this series, and I already have the third title "The Keeper", loaded on my Kindle. Cal Hooper, the protagonist, is a great character.

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Back in 2021 I read "The Searcher", the first book in the Cal Hooper series. I loved it! So, it was a 'no-brainer' that I would read the subsequent titles. "The Hunter" is number two…

Book Review – Sweep the Cobwebs Off the Sky by Mary O’Donnell @epoque_press #readingirelandmonth26 About the Book As spring evenings lengthen over Kilnavarn House, two sisters, looking after their infirm mother, navigate the fragile territory between past and present. Memories of a troubled upbr…

“Intimate, insightful, moving”

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“How can we know the dancer from the dance?” #thetower #yeats #readingirelandmonth26 Amongst the pile of possible choices for Reading Ireland Month lurked a slim volume of poetry: “The Tower” by W.B. Yeats. He’s a poet I’m not aware of having ever read befor…

My final review of the month is for #ReadingIrelandMonth26 and in it I explore the poetry of #Yeats @renardpress.com - kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/h...

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The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan #readingirelandmonth26 : The Queen of Dirt Island  follows four generations of the Aylward women as they negotiate grief and conflict. On the surface it’s a family saga set in one small corner of Ireland but underneath is a t...

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The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan #readingirelandmonth26 The Queen of Dirt Island  follows four generations of the Aylward women as they negotiate grief and conflict. On the surface it's a family saga set in one small corner of Ireland but underneath is a tale that speaks to the universal themes of love and friendship. Donal Ryan's seventh novel begins with tragedy and loss. On the day Eileen Aylward gives birth to her first child Saoirse , her husband is killed in a road accident.

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The Queen of Dirt Island  follows four generations of the Aylward women as they negotiate grief and conflict. On the surface it's a family saga set in one small corner of Ireland but underneath is a tale that speaks to the universal…

Review 2707: #ReadingIrelandMonth26! Oscar Wilde This book isn’t written by an Irishman, but since it is about an Irish writer, I think it qualifies for Reading Ireland Month. Thanks to Dean Street Press for providing this interesting biogr…

Review 2707: #ReadingIrelandMonth26! Oscar Wilde by Sheridan Morley #bookreview
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Book Review – Sweep the Cobwebs Off the Sky by Mary O’Donnell @epoque_press #readingirelandmonth26 About the Book As spring evenings lengthen over Kilnavarn House, two sisters, looking after their infirm mother, navigate the fragile territory between past and present. Memories of a troubled upbringing resurface and the house holds onto the women, as it always has, refusing to let them go until long suppressed truths are spoken. Format: ebook (267 pages) Publisher: époque press…

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The Northern Bank Job by Glenn Patterson #readingirelandmonth26 Glenn Patterson’s The Northern Bank Job is, at first glance, a forensic reconstruction of one of the most audacious robberies in British and Irish history. Yet, as with much of Patterson’s work, th…

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A sustained metaphor: #ReadingIrelandMonth Leucothea: Etruscan sculpture from Pyrgi, ca 350 BC, in the Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome. The name translates as ‘white goddess’. The White Goddess: a historical gramma…

My review of 'The White Goddess: a historical grammar of poetic myth', by Robert Graves.
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“The Tour” by Jean Grainger – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheTour #AudiobookReview #begorrathon26 narrated by Siobhan Waring In June 2024 I went on a coach tour of Ireland. It was quite possibly the best trip I’ve ever had. Loved every minute. With this audiobook by Jean Grainger, it tran…

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“The Tour” by Jean Grainger – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheTour #AudiobookReview #begorrathon26 narrated by Siobhan Waring In June 2024 I went on a coach tour of Ireland. It was quite possibly the best trip I’ve ever had. Loved every minute. With this audiobook by Jean Grainger, it tran…

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“The Tour” by Jean Grainger – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheTour #AudiobookReview #begorrathon26 narrated by Siobhan Waring In June 2024 I went on a coach tour of Ireland. It was quite possibly the best trip I’ve ever had. Loved every minute. With this audiobook by Jean Grainger, it tran…

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“The Tour” by Jean Grainger – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheTour #AudiobookReview #begorrathon26 narrated by Siobhan Waring In June 2024 I went on a coach tour of Ireland. It was quite possibly the best trip I’ve ever had. Loved every minute. With this audiobook by Jean Grainger, it tran…

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“The Tour” by Jean Grainger – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheTour #AudiobookReview #begorrathon26 narrated by Siobhan Waring In June 2024 I went on a coach tour of Ireland. It was quite possibly the best trip I’ve ever had. Loved every minute. With this audiobook by Jean Grainger, it tran…

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“The Tour” by Jean Grainger – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #TheTour #AudiobookReview #begorrathon26 narrated by Siobhan Waring In June 2024 I went on a coach tour of Ireland. It was quite possibly the best trip I've ever had. Loved every minute. With this audiobook by Jean Grainger, it transported me back to Ireland, where I met some engaging characters, and Conor O’Shea, a bus driver that reminded me a lot of the great driver we had on our trip."

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narrated by Siobhan Waring In June 2024 I went on a coach tour of Ireland. It was quite possibly the best trip I've ever had. Loved every minute. With this audiobook by Jean Grainger, it…

A GOAT'S SONG by Dermot Healy. Published by Faber.

Starting A GOAT'S SONG by Dermot Healy soon for #readingirelandmonth26.

Life and death: #ReadingIrelandMonth26 © C A Lovegrove. Love and Summer by William Trevor. Penguin Books, 2010 (2009). William Trevor’s Rathmoye is a rural town in 1950s Ireland, somewhat like Skibbereen, Tipperary, Youghal or Enn…

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“Listening Still” by Anne Griffin – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth26 @StMartinsPress #ListeningStill #BookReview #BacklistReview When Jeanie Masterson learns that her parents intend to retire and leave her and her husband in charge of the family undertaking business, she is thrown for a loop. This precipitates her having an …

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