Hello, lovely readers,

In March, Cathy and Niall are hosting Reading Ireland Month (#Begorrathon18, #readireland18), to celebrate  all things Irish!

Here are some of my possible reads:

• The Gadfly, by Ethel Lilian Voynich (1897)
• The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (1958)
• The Rose Garden: Short Stories, by Maeve Brennan (1999)
• That Lady, by Kate O’Brien (1946)
• A Line Made by Walking, by Sara Baume (2017)
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, by Brian Moore (1955)
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, by Maggie O’Farrell (2006)
• The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)
• Walk the Blue Fields, by Claire Keegan (2007)
• Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
• Mary O’Grady, by Mary Josephine Lavin (1950)
• Tender by Belinda McKeon (2015)
• The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1897)
• Esther Waters, by George Moore (1894)
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (2017)
• The Country Girls, by Edna O’Brien (1960)
• A struggle for fame, by Charlotte Riddell (1883)

If you need any recommendations, check out Cathy’s list of  100 Novels by Irish Women Writers. And here is a list of Irish books I enjoyed (my reviews are linked below).

• The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
• A girl is a half-formed thing ,by Eimear McBride (2013)
• Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane (1981)
• In Night’s City, by Dorothy Nelson (1982).
• Tea at Four O’Clock, by Janet McNeill (1956)
• There Were No Windows, by Norah Hoult  (1944)
• The Visitor, by Maeve Brennan (2000, originally written in the 1940’s)
• Miss Emily, by Nuala O’Connor (Nuala Ní Chonchúir, 2015)

I guess that’s all. Which Irish books do you recommend? And what are your reading plans for March? I hope we have a great reading month. 🙂

Yours truly,

J.