What would be a good book about an Irish family? nonfiction +or fiction, althought perferrably fiction. For ages 17+.
2007-03-19 10:09:31 · 8 answers · asked by Loved By Someone Above 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Sevenwaters trilogy by Juliet Marillier is based on old Irish folklore and very very good.
2007-03-27 07:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by Sa-Ba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nora Roberts wrote a lot of romance novels with Irish characters.Check out the Macgregor book series.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer is set in Ireland and the main characters are all Irish.
Kinley Macgregor wrote some romance novels about a Highland family called MacAllisters.The best of the lot is 'Born in sin' about the eldest brother who is also a bastard.
Hannah Howell is another romance author who writes about Irish characters.
2007-03-20 12:46:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nora Roberts Trilogy: Born In Fire, Born In Ice, Born In Shame. Romantic fictional series set in Ireland. The Concannon sisters. She also has another trilogy set in Ireland: Jewels Of The Sun, Tears Of The Moon, and Heart Of The Sea.
2007-03-25 22:21:19 · answer #3 · answered by LisaP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angela's Ashes was awesome and the other books by Frank McCourt. Morgan Llewelyn also wrote awesome books. And...Edward Rutherford wrote some good series on Irish families. Oh, and this book called "No Bones". Amazing.
2007-03-24 00:44:14 · answer #4 · answered by Willow_Elf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Story of Lucy Gault - fiction
(by William Trevor)
The Story of Lucy Gault is set in provincial Ireland in the early 1920s at the height of civil turmoil and anti-English violence. Everard Gault, a retired Anglo-Irish army captain married to an Englishwoman, shoots and wounds one of the boys who has come in the night to set their house afire. This act sets in motion a chain of events that are to have grievous effects on the Gault family. Convinced their attackers will return, Everard and Heloise decide they must leave Ireland. But their daughter Lucy, heartbroken at such a prospect, runs away. When some of her clothes are found by the ocean shore, her parents assume she has committed suicide. In their grief they decide to travel, aimlessly at first, before settling in Italy and then Switzerland, losing touch entirely with Ireland. They remain unaware that Lucy did not die but has lived out the years waiting for their return, unable to forgive herself for her youthful recklessness. And, indeed, the problem of forgiveness lies at the heart of The Story of Lucy Gault—forgiveness for the act of terror that drove the family away, for Everard and Heloise's mistaken conclusion that their daughter had drowned, and for all the words left unspoken that might have changed their fates.
****From the beginning to the end, this book captured all my senses and make it impossible to put down until I'd reached the last page! ******
2007-03-27 10:13:56 · answer #5 · answered by Swami Ibme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by James Joyce. Ulysses or is short stories (His Dubliner stories are incredible) or Finnegans Wake Portrait of an artist as a Young Man. Pax - C.
2007-03-27 15:46:40 · answer #6 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oldie but goodie, Trinity by Leon Uris...truly made me appreciate the Irish situation and their fight for freedom.
2007-03-19 17:19:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-19 17:22:46 · answer #8 · answered by Chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋