Ireland

Nonfiction

The Long Journey & Ultimate Triumph of the Famine Irish

Throughout modern history, immigrants have journeyed to the United States (even if some of our citizens believe it is a recent phenomenon). Typically, immigrants arrive in waves. During the 17th century, the first wave came from the British Isles. During the 19th and 20th centuries, waves of Northern Europeans, Asians,…

Claudia KeenanJune 6, 2024

Thrillers

Tana French’s “The Witch Elm” Delivers Spooky Suspense

I confess, starting to read Tana French’s new novel, The Witch Elm (Viking), I missed the Dublin Murder Squad, a revolving cast of investigating detectives featured in her previous books. It was a fine ensemble to fall into: Rob Ryan, the tormented policeman who flared and crashed in In the Woods;…

Joanna PoncavageOctober 30, 2018

Nonfiction

Colm Tóibín Examines the Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

"A father...is a necessary evil," according to Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses. But Colm Tóibín would hazard a guess that James Joyce genuinely felt this way about his father. This is just one nugget of truth from Tóibín's latest non-fiction Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce (Scribner).…

Meagan FoyOctober 26, 2018

Nonfiction

‘Never Out of Season’ Touches on a Science We Never Knew Existed, That of the Banana

The opening chapter of “Never Out of Season,” exposes the book premise flat out. It deals with the short history of the banana. This rather prosaic fruit, available in abundance, at least in New York, from every street vendors on most street corners, is not the result of simple happenstance…

Frederic ColierDecember 21, 2017

Book Club Network Fiction

Famine and Forging Ahead in “The Irishman’s Daughter”

We’ve all heard about “the luck of the Irish.” But what about their suffering? Even in Ireland, history lessons barely discuss the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. Textbooks include the blight but don't detail the suffering and anguish caused by the scourged potato crops. Omitted is the trauma…

K.L. RomoMarch 4, 2019

Fiction

War Looms in Ancient Ireland in “To the Waters and the Wild”

You don’t need to be familiar with the mystical history of Ireland to enjoy S.C. McGrath’s fairytale novel To the Waters and the Wild (Seanachie Press). You don’t need a glossary for the Gaelic place-names or curiously spelled nouns, although there is one on McGrath’s website. You only need the…

Sherri DaleyAugust 19, 2019

Fiction

Sally Rooney Depicts the Highs and Pitfalls of Two Teens in Love

sSally Rooney’newest novel, Normal People (Hogarth) is an engaging page-turner focusing on the shifting relationship between two teenagers from Ireland. This propulsive novel from the author of Conversations with Friends was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, with little wonder. Connell is a smart, popular athlete with a working class single mother,…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 22, 2019

Fiction

Review: Fall in Love with Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Wonder’

“Lib wrote down, 1:13 p.m., 1 tsp. water. Not that quantity mattered, she supposed, except that she wanted to be able to give a full account of anything the child ingested on her watch.” For fans of historic classics such as The Kite Runner and Angela’s Ashes, The Wonder (Little, Brown & Company,…

Mercedes ReinerOctober 4, 2016

Fiction Fiction - Featured Thrillers

Silas House’s Resonant Fiction Set in Climate Destroyed Future

Lark Ascending (Algonquin) is the long-awaited seventh novel by master storyteller Silas House. His prose is finely crafted, carefully honed, thought and emotion provoking and as lyrical as a haunting Celtic elegy. He is, in short, one of the most important writers in the English language today. Mississippi has its…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 26, 2022

Author Discovery Zone

Ursula Masdal

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ursula-Masdal-author-pic-300x300.jpg Ursula Masdal Children's Fun book about a family of six children finding adventure through the year, draws from her Irish heritage and her own animal-oriented family. URSULA MASDAL was born in Ireland and moved to London, England at an early age. She was educated in a convent. Surrounded by her…

BookTribSeptember 16, 2019

Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured

It’s Your Lucky Day! Discover 7 Fantasy Novels Inspired by Irish Legend

Observed over the past 1,000 years, St. Patrick’s Day has surpassed its origins as the feast day of Ireland’s patron saint to become a celebration of the Emerald Isle itself. And the festivities aren’t isolated to Ireland — far from it! St. Patrick’s Day hoopla can be found throughout the…

Cameron KimballMarch 17, 2022

Listicles Listicles - Featured

10 Books by Contemporary Irish Authors to Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day

On Saint Patrick's Day, we tend to focus on the fun. Colorful rainbows ending in pots of gold, mischievous leprechauns dressed in jaunty Kelly green, and supposedly rare lucky shamrocks pop up in our typical lives for one cheerful day in mid-March. Goodness knows I have no problem with this…

Judy MorenoMarch 17, 2021

Tana French’s “The Witch Elm” Delivers Spooky Suspense

Colm Tóibín Examines the Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

‘Never Out of Season’ Touches on a Science We Never Knew Existed, That of the Banana

Famine and Forging Ahead in “The Irishman’s Daughter”

War Looms in Ancient Ireland in “To the Waters and the Wild”

Sally Rooney Depicts the Highs and Pitfalls of Two Teens in Love

Review: Fall in Love with Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Wonder’

Silas House’s Resonant Fiction Set in Climate Destroyed Future

Ursula Masdal

It’s Your Lucky Day! Discover 7 Fantasy Novels Inspired by Irish Legend

10 Books by Contemporary Irish Authors to Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day

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