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It’s March which means spring is on the way and we get to celebrate all things Irish this month! I love everything Irish almost as much as I love all things Scottish. I’m just a Celtic gal at heart. Of I do need to thank our hosts, Review Wire Media and Chatty Patty’s Place who made all of this possible.

Of course with March and the whole Irish celebration I thought I would share with y’all some of my favorite Irish reads. First up has to be all of the Callaghans (and their cousins) from Abbie Zanders. Kane and Rebecca are my all time favorite Callaghan couple.

Dec 2020 Featured Author Abbie Zanders

Kane is the oldest and the biggest of the brothers. He is super serious and you can totally see him as a Navy SEAL and recluse. He is also an investment banker/accountant for the family which seems out of place but works. He meets Rebecca while on a mission. Then she comes to Pine Ridge and they meet again. The moment that best describes their chemistry is the morning after they get married.

Kane’s brother and wife knocks on their hotel room door. He answers wrapped in a towel with Rebecca wrapped in a sheet and his brother wonders if Kane had somehow gotten bigger overnight. The couple walk away to get dressed and his brother notices that Kane’s back in covered in scratches. His wife says “It’s always the quiet ones.”

The Whole Series

Another favorite author with Irish themed books is Nora Roberts. She actually does several. I have reviewed The Cousins O’Dwyer series before. I also enjoy her Gallaghers of Ardmore series very much.

Jude Murray flies across the world from America to Faerie Hill Cottage to immerse herself in the study of Irish folklore. There she meets Aidan Gallagher who has devoted most of his life to managing the family pub. Although he did spend a few years traveling.

He knows plenty of legends and stories and as he shares them with Jude they begin to discover their own passion and magic begins to take hold. Just maybe they are the first pair to help heal a centuries old fairy’s heart.

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  2. Not the setting, but the main character – Scarlett O’hara, in “Gone With The Wind”. She’s half Irish, but her father was born in Ireland. He keeps telling her, “To anyone with a drop of Irish blood, the land they live on is like their mother”.I’ve always loved that sentiment, the love of the land.

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  3. I would have to say catherine Coulter as an author. I really like all of her books andmany of them are set in Ireland especially the Viking era.

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  11. The Mystic Cove Series by Tricia O’Malley, set in Ireland, I haven’t read all of the stories in this series yet, but they are at the top of my TBR pile

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  24. I adore all of Tana French’s ‘Dublin Murder Squad’ books, but the final one “The Trespasser” is my absolute favorite. I love a good crime book and getting to learn about another location was an added bonus.

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  26. I like Murder in an Irish Bookshop: A Cozy Irish Murder Mystery (An Irish Village Mystery)by Carlene O’Connor.

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  42. I would have to say my favorite Irish read is The Dubliners by James Joyce. a collection of fifteen short stories – gives you a real sense of how it was back in the day.

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  47. I studied a lot of James Joyce in college so I would say Eveline, but definitely not Finnegans wake, i struggled with that one

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  54. Darby O’Gill and the Good People from when I was younger. I found it because of the Darby O’Gill and the Little People movie 🙂

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  56. Have always cherished notions of an Irish pub in a small hamlet and hearing the locals play their instruments. And enjoying some irish whiskey-of course

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  58. Recently read ‘the Irish country doctor’ by Patrick Taylor. While it was not my style of read that I typically enjoy, I did love the characters and setting.

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  60. I honestly can’t think of any off the top of my head. I don’t have any favorite Irish reads.

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  67. Irish Grandma reading the Wonky Donkey has to be my favorite. Perhaps my answer is not in the exact lane but It is too fun.

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    • I loved the Artemis FOWL books when i was YOUNGER.

      The mixture of Irish folklore and science fiction.

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  82. All hail Queen nora! Not only do i love her books but so does my mother in law. She gave us something to discuss and to trade books!

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  93. I would reccommend the book series “Irish Blood” by Mary Pat Kelly. It is an excellent read.

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  96. The Triple Goddess
    Badb – war goddess who caused fear and confusion among soldiers, often taking the form of a crow
    Macha – goddess associated with war, battle, horses and sovereignty
    The Morrígan – goddess of battle, strife and fertility

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  98. I love reading early historical romance and The Petals on the river by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and Golden Surrender by Heather Graham are two of my favorite reads with Irish heroines.

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  102. My favorite read is my grandmothers short stories. As I am now way way olderI can see her words guide me. She was not a fame author, Just my grandma

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  105. I CAN’T THINK OF ANYTHING OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD BUT i’M OPEN TO RECOMMENDATIONS…ACCORDING TO MY DNA RESULTS I’M 100% IRISH. LOL

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  108. Hands down it’s Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. Heart wrenching tale of poverty told in a beautiful voice. The followup couldn’t keep up but it was still gripping. RIP Frank McCourt.

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  109. Bram Stoker is Irish, so… Dracula. I bet the folks who read it back when it was released wish they had electricity so they could sleep with the lights on.

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  110. when I was in high school, I wrote an epic poem based on Finn MCCool.
    I love all things Irish. Would love to visit Ireland some Day!

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  111. My favorite irish reads are Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt and Silence by Louise O’Neill.

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  118. I had to use my google-fu powers to find the name of this book I read SOME time in the mid 80s. Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas by Morgan Llywelyn, about real-life Irish chieftain Grace O’Malley. I’ve had it in the back of my mind for years and just recommended it on my library’s Overdrive since they don’t have it. (Listening to One of These Nights by The Eagles)

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  119. My favorite books by Irish authors are The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

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  121. Some of my favorite mafia/mob reads is about the Irish mob. Its called Bloody Union by Brooke Summers & theres a whole series of stand alones.

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  122. My favorite is: Wild Irish Heart by Tricia O’Malley! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!

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  130. There are a few I like but I will go with my most recent read The Lost Letters of Ireland by Susanne O’Leary

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  131. I don’t know how I pick what I read and I rarely check out the author’s country. The book I finished this week – I borrowed from the neighbor. I was cat sitting for them and they have a ton of bookshelves (like I used to have before I downsized). would not have been a book I’d have bought or necessarily drawn to other than it’s non-fiction. it was jaw dropping – that you’d think it was a novel: The teapot dome scandal

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  142. my favorite Irish authors are maeve binchy, frank mccourt, Carlene O’Connor, and Patrick Taylor. Actually, I’ll read anything about Ireland. How the Irish saved civilization by Thomas Cahill is good.

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  145. I am 14% Irish so love to read books based in Ireland. My absolute favorite and I would dearly love to see it made into a movie or mini series is the Ivy rose series by gemma jackson. I have read it probably twice a year since i discovered it.

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  172. I really enjoyed the pub across the pond by Mary Carter about a woman who wins a pub in Ireland. I read it a few years ago. I won it in a blog giveaway. i probably wouldn’t have pick it out otherwise but i ended up really liking it.

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  174. I REad Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan recently and this book is an irish setting that was very good.

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  177. I IMMENSELY ENJOYED SCARLETT, THE SEQUEL TO GONE WITH THE WIND. mY FAVORITE PART OF THE BOOK WAS WHEN SHE WENT TO IRELAND TO VISIT HER KIN- I LOVE HOW SHE DESCRIBES THE EXPERIENCES, CLOTHING, AND FOOD OF IRELAND.

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  178. My favorite Irish read is, “The Dead”, the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce.

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  180. Ummmm,,,,,all i can think of the movies, Darby o’gill and the little people and michael Collins.

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  182. James Joyce is a phenomenal author. You can’t read his books like portrait of the artist as a young man in chronology. You must skip around! Thank you

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  183. I picked up ARTEMIS fOWL FOR A FRIEND’S DAUGHTER AND READ IT BEFORE GIVING IT TO HER. Eoin Colfer IS THE iRISH AUTHOR WHO WROTE IT…AND IT WAS A FUN READ.

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