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Streaming Films Set in Ireland
- Breakfast on Pluto
Patrick "Kitten" Braden is abandoned as a baby and left on the doorstep of Father Bernard. From a very young age, Patrick realizes he is different from the other boys but steadfastly refuses to change. When he grows up, Patrick decides to go in search of his real mother, who now lives in London. Thus begins a touching and funny journey that will lead him to the most unexpected place of all. - Dancing at Lughnasa
It's a pivotal time for the five unmarried Mundy sisters. Despite their hardships, the sister are able to embrace life and all its complexities and dance with joy in their hearts. - Jimmy's Hall
In 1921, Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. Young people could come to the hall to learn, to argue, to dream ... but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity, its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians, who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close. A decade later, as Jimmy reintegrates into the community and sees the poverty and growing cultural oppression, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He makes the decision to reopen the hall in the face of whatever trouble it may bring. - This Is My Father
This Is My Father chronicles the journey of a disillusioned Chicago schoolteacher who returns to Ireland with his nephew in search of the man who was his father.
Fiction Books Set in Ireland
Brooklyn by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2009-05-05Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
Circle of Friends by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 1991-10-01Loyal friends Benny and Eve, young women who grew up together in an Irish village, find their relationship tested by the new friendships, romances and opportunities that develop at a Dublin university.
Dubliners by Call Number: Print, eBook, eAudiobookPublication Date: 1991-01-01Published in 1914 after 10 years of argument with publishers over charges of "obscenity," these stories were once described by Joyce as "a chapter in the moral history of my country."
The Forgotten Waltz by Call Number: eAudiobook, Book on CDPublication Date: 2011-11-01Enright crafts a stunning tale about a Dublin woman's affair and its heartrending consequences. Gina Moynihan is already married when she meets Seán Vallely. But longing and desire soon overtake them- -and their lives begin to crumble shortly after.
The Gathering by Call Number: Print, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2008-02-06Veronica--once an attention-deprived middle child among 12 siblings, and now an unfulfilled wife and mother--has come to London to claim the body of her beloved yet estranged brother Liam who drowned himself at sea. As the nine surviving members of the Hegarty clan converge in Dublin for Liam's wake, Veronica wants to protect the past--and the secret of what transpired in her grandmother's house during the winter of 1968.
The Heather Blazing by Call Number: Print, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2014-08-01Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of the law, he is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings.
In the Woods by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2007-05-17Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.
The New Policeman by Call Number: Print, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2007-04-23Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.
Normal People by Call Number: Print, eBookPublication Date: 2019-04-16Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can't.
The Story of Lucy Gault by Call Number: Print, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2002-09-30The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of arson leads nine-year-old Lucy's parents to leave Ireland for England, her mother's home. On the day before they are due to leave, Lucy runs away, hoping to convince her parents to stay, but instead she sets off a series of tragic misunderstandings that affect all of the inhabitants of Lahardane and the perpetrators of the failed arson attack for the rest of their lives.
