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I have fallen in love with the writings of Irish women.

Love their prose. Such texture.

I should move. Perhaps in the next (past?) life.

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Hey! Same here, I found myself mostly reading contemporary novels by Irish women. It's hard to explain why they are so good. Do you have any recommendations I might have missed?

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I hope you don't mind my jumping in here, Ansuya, because you asked Elizabeth & not me, but I'm a devotee of things Irish and would suggest, for the immediate, Mary O'Donoghue's "The Hour After Happy Hour" and "The End of the World is a Cul de Sac", by Louise Kennedy, plus anything by Mary Lavin or Maeve Brennan. Plus a subscription to the lit mag "Stinging Fly" (the name taken from a line from Plato). There's also a wonderful anthology that a friend of mine brought back from Ireland called "The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories", ed, Sinead Gleeson, the "art of the glimpse" taken from William Trevor's definition of the short story.

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Adding Aingeala Flannery's The Amusements and Anne Enright's The Wren The Wren as recent favs by Irish women. :) So good!

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I just ordered Louise Kennedy s book of short stories! Thanks for jumping in!

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Saltwater by Jessica Andrews is one I would recommend as well, and Naoise Dolan.

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Thanks for these, Ansuya!

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Thanks for the recs! IтАЩm also in love with Irish writers for some reason.. a love affair that began with Joyce in college but has since moved on to Edna OтАЩBrien, Sally Rooney and many others.

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Wow thank you! Yes, I love Louise Kennedy and Maeve Brennan too! I thought Caroline OтАЩDonoghueтАЩs тАШthe Rachel affairтАЩ was charming and funny as well.

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thank you--can't wait

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Audrey Magee

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The Colony Audrey Magee

Fantastic

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They will run you to the ground...So says The Dark Horse!^^

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