Introducing Maine Irish Reads – the Maine Irish Heritage Center Reading Group. Each month we discuss a book with an Irish theme by a contemporary Irish writer. The focus is on books published in the last 20 years, and we will be reading fiction and non-fiction books.
As a non-profit, the Maine Irish Heritage Center receives donations from all books purchased. Thank you for buying with us!
Books that we’ll read include:
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Holding by Graham Norton
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers
Love by Roddy Doyle
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love by Fergal Keane
The Gathering: A Novel by Anne Enright
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
