The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025
“Says who?” is often my reaction when presented with any “Best of ...” list in the media. Mindful of this and the knowledge that any verdict is only as trustworthy as the calibre of the jurors, I invited more than 60 experts to submit an unranked list of their 50 favourite IrishMy colleague, data analyst Cathal Stack, collated the results into a list of the 100 most broadly popular titles, ranked in descending order based on the number of nominations each received.
I then asked the panel to fine-tune the list by re-ordering the titles from 1 to 100, to reflect their own personal preferences and thus to establish which books had inspired the deepest love. On Friday, we will publish numbers 50 to 26 and on Saturday we will reveal the top 25 Irish fiction titles of the century so far.‘You need to not go to work tomorrow’: The words that brought a GP’s career to an abrupt haltpage sharing real-life examples of the quintessential country girl working in the big smoke, or “just a small-town girl living in a notions world” as the book’s subtitle says.
An English artist and a French academic descend on a remote Irish island in the late 1970s, each determined to capture something of its authenticity. The narrative is punctuated by news bulletins chronicling lives lost in the Troubles.This sequel to Brooklyn, 20 years on, also turns on secrets, portrays the plight of immigration and pits duty versus desire. Eilis, betrayed by her husband, returns home and rekindles an old flame.
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