Does St. Patrick's Day have you wishing you were in Ireland? These memoirs and travel stories about living in or visiting Ireland might just hit the spot. (You might also like this list of novels set in Ireland.) May the road rise to meet you, and may the pages of your books rise to meet your fingers!
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Castles, follies & four-leaf clovers : adventures along Ireland's St. Declan's way
by Rosamund Burton The author describes her journey along Ireland's St. Declan's Way with just an old photocopy of a map as a guide. |
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A daughter's search for home in Ireland
by Alice Carey The author describes growing up in Queens with an abusive father and loving mother, her love affair with Ireland, her and her husband's purchase of a rundown nineteenth-century Irish farmhouse that they lovingly and hilariously restored, and her eventual coming to terms with her past. |
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? : A Memoir
by Séamas O'reilly This memoir from one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles follows the family as they struggle to keep the household running. |
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The farmer's son : calving season on a family farm
by John Connell A U.S. release of an award-winning memoir from Ireland traces a calving season on the author's family farm, where after a decade's absence he found hope and healing in his family, routines, faith and community. |
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Finding Ireland : a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture
by Richard Tillinghast Richard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the early 1990s and then returned each year until he became a resident in 2005. From an insider/outsider perspective, he writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history. Tillinghast orients the reader to Ireland as it is today. |
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In Kiltumper : a year in an Irish garden
by Niall Williams An award-winning author documents a year living in the garden of his wife’s ancestral home in Kiltumper in rural Ireland, following the natural rhythms of the earth as they observe its wonders. |
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Maeve's times : in her own words
by Maeve Binchy Collects the best of the author's essays from five decades of the "Irish Times" to reflect a changing culture as well as her observations on such topics as the royal wedding, waitressing, and boring airline companions. |
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Mccarthy's Bar : A Journey of Discovery in Ireland
by Pete McCarthy An American chronicles his funny, nostalgic encounter with Ireland as he searches for his roots in the countryside and pubs of this beautiful and deceptively simple country. |
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Time pieces : a Dublin memoir
by John Banville Presents a memoir of the author's life near Dublin, a city that inspired his imagination and literary life and served as a backdrop for the dissatisfactions of adult years shaped by Dublin's cultural, political, architectural, and social history. |
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Walking with ghosts : a memoir
by Gabriel Byrne The award-winning stage and screen actor documents his working-class Dublin childhood, his failed ambition to become a priest, the role of street life in shaping his characters and his experiences in Hollywood and on Broadway. |
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We were rich and we didn't know it : a memoir of my Irish boyhood
by Tom Phelan Shares the author's formative years growing up in the Irish midlands in the 1940s, working on his family farm without electricity, telephones, or indoor plumbing. |