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Divorcing Jack Colin Bateman
Borstal Boy Brendan Behan
December Bride Sam Hanna Bell
Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy
Tara Road Maeve Binchy
The Last September Elizabeth Bowen
My Left Foot Christy Brown
Finn MacCoul and His Fearless Wife:
A Giant of a Tale from Ireland
Robert Byrd
The Playboy & the Yellow Lady [Film: Love & Rage] James Carney
Patriot Games Tom Clancy
Road to Perdition Max Allan Collins
In the Name of the Father Gerry Conlon
Shake Hands with the Devil Reardon Connor
The Run of the Country Shane Connaughton
The Roar of the Crowd  [Film: Gentleman Jim] James J. Corbett
Titanic Town (VHS release pending) Mary Costello
The Barrytown Trilogy [Films: The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van] Roddy Doyle
Ned Kelly (aka Our Sunshine) [Film: Ned Kelly 2004] Robert Drewe
Studs Lonigan James T. Farrell
The Year of the French (film out of print)Thomas Flanagan
Dancing at Lughnasa (play) Brian Friel
The Secret of Roan InishRosalie Fry
The Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry
[Film: The Secret of Roan Inish]
Rosalie Fry
Song for a Raggy Boy (film not in print) Patrick Galvin
Odd Man Out F.L. Green
Snow in August Pete Hamill
Mountains of the Moon William Harrison
The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel George V. Higgins
A Prayer For the Dying Jack Higgins
The Old Jest [Film: The Dawning] Jennifer Johnston
The Railway Station Man Jennifer Johnston
Ned Kelly: A Short Life [Film: Ned Kelly 1970] Ian Jones
Waking Ned Devine (screenplay) Kirk Jones
Dubliners [Film: The Dead]James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
Ulysses James Joyce
Darby O'Gill and the Good People Herminie Kavanagh
Durango John B. Keane
The Field (play) John B. Keane
Mystic River Dennis Lehane
Home Before Night [Film: Da] Hugh Leonard
Lament for the Molly Maguires [Film: The Molly Maguires] Arthur H. Lewis
Cal Bernard MacLaverty
LambBernard MacLaverty
Bring Up the Brass [Film: The Long Gray Line]Martin Maher
Breakfast on Pluto Patrick McCabe
The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt
Resurrection Man Eoin McNamee
The Good Mother Sue Miller
Catholics [Film: (also titled) The Conflict] Brian Moore
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Brian Moore
All Our Fault [Film: Nothing Personal] Daniel Mornin
The Devil's Own Christopher Newman
The Lonely Girl [Film: Girl with Green Eyes] Edna O'Brien
The Mammy [Film: Agnes Brown] Brendan O'Carroll
The Last Hurrah Edward O'Connor
The Informer Liam O'Flaherty
Long Day's Journey into Night (play) Eugene O'Neill
The Dork from Cork [Film: Frankie Starlight] Chet Raymo
Cinderella Man Jeremy Schaap
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner F. X. Toole
Fools of Fortune William Trevor
Disco Pigs and Sucking Dublin (play) Enda Walsh
The Quiet Man and Other Stories Maurice Walsh
The General: Irish Mob Boss Paul Williams
                 

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