Irish Authors presented by Jodi Rethmeier Bethany Branch, February 5, 2016 & Gere Branch, March 7, 2016 The Convictions of John Delahunt Frog Music by Andrew Hughes by Emma Donoghue

A historical thriller set in 1840s Dublin, Donoghue was born and raised in Dublin based on a true story of an informant and attended University College Dublin. working for Dublin Castle authorities She commuted between England, Ireland, and Cana until settling in London, Ontario in 1998. Her book Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010. Frog Music is based on a true unsolved crime.

The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley The Likeness by Tana French by Jeremy Massey

Paddy is an undertaker and grieving Dublin Murder Squad Series widow in Dublin, who accidentally hits In The Woods the brother of a much-feared gangster on The Likeness his way home one night. Faithful Place Broken Harbor The Secret Place

An Irish Country Wedding (Irish Country #7) The Green Road by Patrick Taylor by Anne Enright Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly has Rosaleen’s four adult children come proposed to Kitty O’Hallorhan in home for one last Christmas together in Ballybucklebo, which is a village in their childhood home, when they hear Ulster. Leading up to the wedding, he their mother is going to sell it. Winner of needs to meet the needs of his the Man Booker Prize. eccentric patients.

The Gathering Are You Watching Me? by Anne Enright by Sinéad Crowley This book won the 2007 Can Anybody Help Me? was the first Man Booker Prize, and is mystery with Sergeant Claire Boyle as about eight of nine surviving the protagonist. The first one was an siblings returning to their Irish bestseller and shortlisted for Crime mother’s house in Dublin Book of the Year at the BGE Irish Book after Liam Hegarty, their Award. In the first book, Boyle was brother, committed suicide. about to begin maternity leave, and in the second she’d just returned from it.

Contemporary selections: Classic Irish authors: Abaume, Sara: Beckett, Samuel Ahern, Cecilia: Binchy, Maeve Anderson, Darren: Burke, Edmont Bannan, Sarah: Friel, Brian Banville, John: Joyce, James Barry, Kevin: Goldsmith, Author Baume, Sara: Herriot, James Beaufloy, Kate: Lady Gregory Bennet, Claire-Louise: Lewis, C.S. Berkeley, Sara: McCourt, Frank Bolger, Demot: O’Brien, Flann Boyne, John: O’Casey, Seán Colfer, Eoin: Sayers, Pieg Conlon, Evelyn: Shaw, George Bernard Connelly, John: The Book of Lost Things Stoker, Bram: Dracula Corbett, Gavin: Swift, Jonathan Crossan, Sarah: Synge, J.M. Crowley, Sinéad: Tolkien, J.R.R. Devlin, Martina: Wilde, Oscar Donoghue, Emma: Room Yeats, William Butler Doyle, Roddy Duffy, Joe: The Davy Byrnes short story award (organized by The Stinging Fly Dunphy, Eamon: in association with Dublin Unesco City of Literature: Enright, Anne: 2014: “Solesearchers1” by Sara Baume Fannin, Hilary: Shortlisted: French, Tana: *Trevor Byrne (author of Ghosts & Lightning) Gebler, Carlo: *Julian Gough (author of Juno & Juliet; Jude in Ireland) Gleeson, Sinéad: *Arja Kayerno Hamilton, Hugh: *Coln McDermott Higgins, Maeve: *Danielle McLauhlin Kelly, Cathy: 2009: “Foster” by Claire Keagan Kerrigan, Kate: 2004: “Honey” by Anne Enright Keyes, Marian: MacMonagle, Niall: True Dublin by Cormac McCanney coffee table book McCann, Colum: McCanney, Cormac: These Are Our Lives features 22 short stories by Irish and international McKeon, Belinda: writers McLaughlin, Danielle: McGrath, Paula: Also check the: McInerney, Lisa: 1. Dublin IMPAC Award; and McKeon, Belinda: 2. Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award McVeigh, Paul: (organized in 2000, by the Cork, Ireland Munster Literature Centre) Morris, Thomas: Nugent, Liz: Stinging Fly Press established in 2005, and published: O’Brien, Edna: Watermark by Derry-born author Sean O'Reilly (2005) O’Brien, Flann: O’Connor, Joseph: Important dates in Irish history: O’Connor, Nuala: O’Flanagan, Sheila: 1845-1849: The Great Famine, also called Irish Potato Famine O’Neill, Louise: Purcell, Deirde: April 23, 1916- Easter Sunday: The military council of the Irish Republican Ryan, Donal: Brotherhood decided to begin the planned insurrection at noon the next Tóibín, Colm: day.

Mid-1990s to mid-2000s: The Celtic Tiger; the name for the rapid real economic growth, followed by a property bubble and the following recession.