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

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