• Maine Irish Reads “The Searcher” by Tana French

    Maine Irish Reads 2026-2027
    Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

    A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times and NPR Best Book of the Year “This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet…its own kind of masterpiece.” –Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post A “taut, chiseled and propulsive” (Vogue) novel from the author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter and the bestselling mystery writer who...

  • Maine Irish Reads “Land” by Maggie O’Farrell

    Maine Irish Reads 2026-2027
    Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. “A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters,...

  • Maine Irish Reads “Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women” by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick

    Maine Irish Reads 2026-2027
    Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

    The untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American dream become a nightmare - and the trouble they got into as a result Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many,...

  • Maine Irish Reads “Poguemahone” by Patrick McCabe

    Maine Irish Reads 2026-2027
    Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

    A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call...

  • Maine Irish Reads “Heart, Be at Peace” by Donal Ryan

    Maine Irish Reads 2026-2027
    Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

    Winner of the Irish Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year From one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people together and divide them “I said...

  • Maine Irish Reads “Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney

    Maine Irish Reads 2026-2027
    Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A National Indie Bestseller Short-listed for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year | Long-listed for the DUBLIN Literary Award Named a Best Book of the Year and a Critics’ Pick by The New York Times | Named an Essential Read by The New Yorker | Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, Financial Times, Vogue, The...