New Irish Fiction

A hitman DI Gavin Sexton is looking into a spate of teenage suicides when he encounters a young girl, paralyzed with locked-in syndrome. Unable to communicate in any other way, she blinks the words: 'I hired a hitman'. Was it suicide?

Love is the central force in Birdie, a collection of 16 flash fictions that sing with the voices of women loving, losing, learning. The characters here find strength, despite the sorrows of death & deceit: a ghost-child returns to Massachusetts to comfort her grieving mother; a Spanish orange tycoon's daughter regrets her mother's terrible choices.

*One Dublin One Book choice for 2022* *Shortlisted for an Irish Book Award 2021* In sensuous, resonant prose, Nuala O'Connor has conjured the definitive portrait of this strong, passionate and loyal Irishwoman. Nora is a tour de force, an earthy and authentic love letter to Irish literature's greatest muse.

Amazing new novel from Nuala O'Connor, life and adventures of non-conformist, neuro-diverse, legendary pirate and adventurer Anne Bonny, originally from Kinsale. Launching at Cuirt, and huge campaign expected

Pat O'Connor is from Castleconnell Co. Limerick, Ireland. He has won the Sean O Faoláin International Short Story Prize, the Glimmertrain Best Start short story prize (joint), and been shortlisted for the Francis McManus, Fish, Hennessy and other prizes. His stories and articles have been published in journals, newspapers and anthologies in Ireland and abroad. Southword, Revival, Crannog, The Penny Dreadful, Irish Independent, Irish Times, China Writers Association, Pure Slush (Australia), and broadcast on RTE. He has been anthologized by Munster Literature Centre, Limerick Writers Centre, and in Hennessy New Irish Writing 2005-2015 amongst others. His radio play This Time It's Different was broadcast on 95FM in December 2014.

When Patricia O'Connor's novel, The Mill in the North, was first published in 1938, by Dublin's prestigious Talbot Press, the Irish Times heralded it as 'a very human drama' presenting a realistic picture of life in a northern mill village'.

In February 1959, Switzerland held a referendum on women's suffrage. The men voted 'no'. In this powerful novella, Clare O'Dea explores that moment in history through the eyes of four very different Swiss women, whose paths intersect on a day that will leave its mark on all their lives.

When Michael Connelly was a child in the 1970’s, his mother Elaine told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. FALLEN is a stark and beautifully written account of the impact on one family of a shameful chapter in modern Irish history. Roddy Doyle – FALLEN is a powerful, engrossing, deeply moving novel. I loved it.’

FALLEN is a tragic tale of a fictional Cork family, set against a nation's crime and its unearthing history.

In 1980s Boston, Ro McCarthy was in her twenties, Irish, undocumented, queer and falling in love for the first time. Then, one by one, her new, fun, beautiful friends began to die...

In 18th century London, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A lot of knowledge is deadly.