Hello, lovely readers,

As in the previous years, for our delight, Cathy and Niall are hosting Reading Ireland Month, in March, to celebrate  all things Irish!

Here are some of my possible reads for the Month:

• 5^th February – 3^rd March – Contemporary Irish Novels
  • A Line Made by Walking, by Sara Baume (2017)
  • The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, by Maggie O’Farrell (2006)
  • Tender by Belinda McKeon (2015)
  • Walk the Blue Fields, by Claire Keegan (2007)
• 4^th – 10^th March – Classic Irish Novels
  • That Lady, by Kate O’Brien (1946)
  • A struggle for fame, by Charlotte Riddell (1883)
  • Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
  • Mary O’Grady, by Mary Josephine Lavin (1950)
  • The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1897)
  • The Gadfly, by Ethel Lilian Voynich (1897)
  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, by Brian Moore (1955)
• 11^th – 17^th March – Irish Short Story Collections
  • The Rose Garden: Short Stories, by Maeve Brennan (1999)
• 18^th – 24^th March – Irish Non-Fiction
  • Notes to self, by Emilie Pine (2018)
• 25^th – 31^st March – Irish Miscellany (Poetry, Plays, Film Reviews)
  • Selected poems, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (2008)
  • Selected poems, by Medbh McGuckian (1997)

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’ve 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)

• The Unicorn, by Iris Murdoch (1963)
• The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (1958)

That’s all, folks! 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.