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 […]
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 Iirsh Heritage Center […]
MIHC Reads - Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel […]
Normal People by Sally Rooney Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation--awkward but electrifying--something life-changing begins. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. […]
Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers Part unofficial history, part personal memoir, Watching the Door is raw, provocative, and darkly funny, offering an unbridled account of sex, death, and violence in Northern Ireland by one of its most dynamic witnesses. A first-hand account of life on […]
