• 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...