Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
Drama unfolds during a year in the lives of a group of characters who have come home to Ireland in search of a different life from that in London.
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
The country is Ireland. The girls are Cait and Baba and this is the story of their escape from countryside and convent to the alluring 'crowds and lights and noise' of Dublin.
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Three Women, Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her
grand-daughter Helen, have arrived, after years of strife, at an uneasy peace with each other. They know than in the years ahead it will be necessary for them to keep their distance. Now, however, Declan, Helen's adored brother, is dying and the three of them come together in the grandmother's crumbling old house with two of Declan's friends. All six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, are forced to listen to each other and come to terms with each other.
grand-daughter Helen, have arrived, after years of strife, at an uneasy peace with each other. They know than in the years ahead it will be necessary for them to keep their distance. Now, however, Declan, Helen's adored brother, is dying and the three of them come together in the grandmother's crumbling old house with two of Declan's friends. All six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, are forced to listen to each other and come to terms with each other.
