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St. Patrick's Day

Brush up on your Irish history and celebrate St. Patrick's Day with these best-selling Irish authors.

Once again, Brenden O'Carroll takes us into the heart of working-class Dublin, where the women shout private gossip across the lane and where everyone knows everyone else's business. This is the story of a young Irish girl, or Young Wan, growing up in the Jarro in Dublin. Click here?to read more about The Young Wan.

In this delightful volume, Malachy McCourt explores the mysteries and meanings of "Danny Boy," a song with roots in distant centuries, recorded by everyone from Tony Bennett to Joan Baez to Black 47, and sung in both mourning and celebration by millions, Irish and non-Irish alike. Click here to read more.
In Almost There, O'Faolain begins her story from the moment her life began to change in all manner of ways — subtle, radical, predictable, and unforeseen. It is a provocative meditation on the "crucible of middle age," a time of life that forges the shape of the years to come, that clarifies and solidifies one's relationships to friends and lovers (past and present), family and self. Intelligent, thoughtful, hilarious and, most of all, full of surprises. Click here to read more.