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Featured Article: Standout Contemporary Irish Authors You Should Give a Listen
Ireland may be a small country, but it's brimming with talent. Just listen to some of these popular contemporary Irish authors and see if you're not impressed with what this North Atlantic island has to offer to the literary community. Winning prestigious awards and topping best seller lists, today’s Ireland-born-and-bred authors are making a big impression on the literary world. Here are some contemporary Irish authors you should listen to now.
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This Side of Brightness
- A Novel
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan....
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Disappointing
- By Tom on 06-14-21
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This Side of Brightness
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-25-21
- Language: English
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Apeirogon
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief.
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Savoured every word of this beautifully crafted book
- By Yvonne Johnston on 08-20-22
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Apeirogon
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-25-20
- Language: English
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Thirteen Ways of Looking
- Fiction
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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McCann charts the territory of chance and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments....
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Euphonies, Heartrending and Profound
- By W Perry Hall on 10-30-15
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Thirteen Ways of Looking
- Fiction
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 10-13-15
- Language: English
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Zoli
- A Novel
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Colum McCann
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As 1930s fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists....
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ENGROSSING!
- By Prof. Julie de Sherbinin on 11-03-20
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Zoli
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Colum McCann
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-11-20
- Language: English
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TransAtlantic
- A Novel
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Geraldine Hughes
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined....
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Too breathtaking to read just once...
- By Annie M. on 06-18-13
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TransAtlantic
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Geraldine Hughes
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-04-13
- Language: English
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Dancer
- A Novel
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him....
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Dancer
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-27-21
- Language: English
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Let the Great World Spin
- A Novel
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
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In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground....
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Wish I'd chosen the book, rather than audio.
- By narrowback slacker on 02-23-17
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Let the Great World Spin
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, Johanna Parker, Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-16-15
- Language: English
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American Mother
- By: Colum McCann, Diane Foley
- Narrated by: Jamie Lee Curtis, Colum McCann
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before.
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Such a sad story
- By Joan Henderson on 11-20-24
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American Mother
- Narrated by: Jamie Lee Curtis, Colum McCann
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-22-24
- Language: English
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Apeirogon
- A Novel
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss....
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Too many chapters & interruptions
- By sara robbins on 03-02-20
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Apeirogon
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-25-20
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Writer
- Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer - and so much more than that....
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Enjoyable comments on being a writer
- By eclectic reader on 05-23-17
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Letters to a Young Writer
- Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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American Mother
- By: Colum McCann, Diane Foley
- Narrated by: Colum McCann, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Rock
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss.
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An amazing story but wish Curtis’ wasn’t involved.
- By Annabelle on 03-14-24
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American Mother
- Narrated by: Colum McCann, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Rock
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-22-24
- Language: English
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Twist
- A Novel
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 11 hrs
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A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin.
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Twist
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 03-25-25
- Language: English
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Everything in This Country Must
- A Novella and Two Stories
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Colum McCann, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children....
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Everything in This Country Must
- A Novella and Two Stories
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-23-21
- Language: English
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Fishing the Sloe-Black River
- Stories
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement....
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Another chance to enjoy McCann’s reading his verses.
- By Tom on 11-17-23
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Fishing the Sloe-Black River
- Stories
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-29-21
- Language: English
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Songdogs
- A Novel
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland....
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A voyage into the River of Memory and the Eternal Quest for Truth.
- By Tom on 06-16-23
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Songdogs
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-29-21
- Language: English
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Let the Great World Spin
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
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New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other....
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Let the Great World Spin
- Narrated by: Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, Johanna Parker, Ramón de Ocampo, Chris Sorenson, Patricia R. Floyd, Jim Frangione, Alma Cuervo, Lizan Mitchell, Cherise Boothe
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-16-22
- Language: English
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This Side of Brightness
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan...
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This Side of Brightness
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-16-22
- Language: English
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Zoli
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Colum McCann
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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The life of Zoli Novotna begins on the leafy backroads of Slovakia, when she and her grandfather come upon a quiet lake where their family has been drowned by fascist guards. Zoli and her grandfather flee to join up with another clan of travelling harpists....
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Zoli
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Colum McCann
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-03-20
- Language: English
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TransAtlantic
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Geraldine Hughes
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland....
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TransAtlantic
- Narrated by: Geraldine Hughes
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-23-20
- Language: English
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Dancer
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance....
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Dancer
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-16-22
- Language: English
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