• 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...

  • Maine Irish Reads “The Glorious Heresies” by Lisa McInerney

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

    Winner of the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize The Irish Times March Book of the Month From Lisa McInerney, hailed by The Irish Times as “arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today,”...

  • Maine Irish Reads “Diary of a Young Naturalist” by Dara McAnulty

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

    A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Month From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of a year in Dara’s Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring—when “the sparrows dig the...

  • Maine Irish Reads “Service” by Sarah Gilmartin

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

    A “powerful and compelling” novel about power, consent, and complicity in our #MeToo era — for fans of Sweetbitter and I Have Some Questions for You (Joseph O’Connor, author of My Father’s House) Tensions are at an all-time high in an upscale Dublin restaurant as its employees grapple with the fallout from a shocking scandal involving its head chef...