🇮🇪 Mid-Century Dublin

Stories steeped in the pubs, parishes, and restless streets of Dublin during the mid-twentieth century, when Ireland wrestled with modernity and its own mythologies.

The Irish Boarding House

by Sandy Taylor • 2022

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

4.13

15k+

🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance

The Irish Boarding House 89%

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

by Sandy Taylor 2022

4.13

15k+ ratings

🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance

Dubliners

by James Joyce • 1914

Fifteen Dubliners reach for escape and find the limits of their world.

3.83

179k+

📖 Modernist Fiction 🥀 Quiet Desperation 🪨 Emotional Stasis

Dubliners 89%

Fifteen Dubliners reach for escape and find the limits of their world.

by James Joyce 1914

3.83

179k+ ratings

📖 Modernist Fiction 🥀 Quiet Desperation 🪨 Emotional Stasis

The Heart's Invisible Furies

by John Boyne • 2017

Adopted into a family that calls him stranger, a gay man searches a lifetime for belonging.

4.51

217k+

🕰️ Epic Historical Saga ☘️ Mid-Century Ireland ✝️ Catholic Guilt

The Heart's Invisible Furies 89%

Adopted into a family that calls him stranger, a gay man searches a lifetime for belonging.

by John Boyne 2017

4.51

217k+ ratings

🕰️ Epic Historical Saga ☘️ Mid-Century Ireland ✝️ Catholic Guilt

Say Nothing

by Patrick Radden Keefe • 2018

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

4.47

174k+

☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared

Say Nothing 88%

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

by Patrick Radden Keefe 2018

4.47

174k+ ratings

☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared

The Country Girls

by Edna O'Brien • 1960

A dreamy Irish farm girl moves to Dublin after loss, chasing freedom with her reckless friend.

3.70

9k+

🌱 Female Coming Of Age 🇮🇪 Mid Century Ireland 👯 Friendship And Rivalry

The Country Girls 88%

A dreamy Irish farm girl moves to Dublin after loss, chasing freedom with her reckless friend.

by Edna O'Brien 1960

3.70

9k+ ratings

🌱 Female Coming Of Age 🇮🇪 Mid Century Ireland 👯 Friendship And Rivalry

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

by Roddy Doyle • 1993

A ten-year-old rules his Dublin street. But the war at home is one he cannot escape.

3.75

25k+

🧒 Child Narrator 💔 Fractured Family 🇮🇪 1960s Ireland

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 88%

A ten-year-old rules his Dublin street. But the war at home is one he cannot escape.

by Roddy Doyle 1993

3.75

25k+ ratings

🧒 Child Narrator 💔 Fractured Family 🇮🇪 1960s Ireland

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan • 2021

A coal merchant finds a girl locked in a convent shed. His Irish town stays silent.

4.08

468k+

🔒 Magdalene Laundries 🏘️ Irish Small Town ⚖️ Moral Reckoning

Small Things Like These 88%

A coal merchant finds a girl locked in a convent shed. His Irish town stays silent.

by Claire Keegan 2021

4.08

468k+ ratings

🔒 Magdalene Laundries 🏘️ Irish Small Town ⚖️ Moral Reckoning

Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín • 2009

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

3.75

163k+

🗽 Immigrant Experience 📚 Quiet Literary Realism 🌍 Between Two Worlds

Brooklyn 88%

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

by Colm Tóibín 2009

3.75

163k+ ratings

🗽 Immigrant Experience 📚 Quiet Literary Realism 🌍 Between Two Worlds

1916

by Morgan Llywelyn • 1998

Haunted by the Titanic, a young Irishman comes home to join a poet's doomed rebellion.

4.08

4k+

🔥 Easter Rising 🪖 Wartime Coming Of Age 😔 Survivor'S Guilt

1916 88%

Haunted by the Titanic, a young Irishman comes home to join a poet's doomed rebellion.

by Morgan Llywelyn 1998

4.08

4k+ ratings

🔥 Easter Rising 🪖 Wartime Coming Of Age 😔 Survivor'S Guilt

Bruce Lee

by Bruce Lee • 2001

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

4.21

1k+

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir

Bruce Lee 88%

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

by Bruce Lee 2001

4.21

1k+ ratings

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir

The Lost Letters of Aisling

by Cynthia Ellingsen • 2024

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

4.31

25k+

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters

The Lost Letters of Aisling 88%

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

by Cynthia Ellingsen 2024

4.31

25k+ ratings

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters

I Hear the Sirens in the Street

by Adrian McKinty • 2013

A headless body, a rare poison, and a detective out of place in the Troubles.

4.07

10k+

🖤 Irish Noir ☘️ Sectarian Divide 🕵️ Outsider Detective

I Hear the Sirens in the Street 88%

A headless body, a rare poison, and a detective out of place in the Troubles.

by Adrian McKinty 2013

4.07

10k+ ratings

🖤 Irish Noir ☘️ Sectarian Divide 🕵️ Outsider Detective

Mr Salary

by Sally Rooney • 2016

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

3.73

43k+

📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction

Mr Salary 88%

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

by Sally Rooney 2016

3.73

43k+ ratings

📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction

Ulysses

by James Joyce • 1922

A cuckold adman and a mother-haunted teacher spend one day in Dublin, their inner worlds colliding.

3.76

139k+

🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 📅 Single Day Narrative 🖋️ Experimental Writing

Ulysses 88%

A cuckold adman and a mother-haunted teacher spend one day in Dublin, their inner worlds colliding.

by James Joyce 1922

3.76

139k+ ratings

🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 📅 Single Day Narrative 🖋️ Experimental Writing

The Cold Cold Ground

by Adrian McKinty • 2012

A taunting postcard draws a Catholic detective into a string of murders in Troubles-era Belfast.

3.91

16k+

☘️ Irish Noir 🔥 The Troubles 👮 Police Procedural

The Cold Cold Ground 88%

A taunting postcard draws a Catholic detective into a string of murders in Troubles-era Belfast.

by Adrian McKinty 2012

3.91

16k+ ratings

☘️ Irish Noir 🔥 The Troubles 👮 Police Procedural

The News from Dublin

by Colm Tóibín • 2026

Nine stories of Irish exile and scandal, where survival means burying the truth.

3.79

2k+

🍀 Irish Diaspora 📖 Irish Short Stories ✈️ Exile And Belonging

The News from Dublin 88%

Nine stories of Irish exile and scandal, where survival means burying the truth.

by Colm Tóibín 2026

3.79

2k+ ratings

🍀 Irish Diaspora 📖 Irish Short Stories ✈️ Exile And Belonging

The Lonely Londoners

by Sam Selvon • 1956

Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.

3.70

14k+

🛳️ Windrush Generation 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🏙️ Postwar London

The Lonely Londoners 88%

Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.

by Sam Selvon 1956

3.70

14k+ ratings

🛳️ Windrush Generation 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🏙️ Postwar London

Faithful Place

by Tana French • 2010

A Dublin detective believed his first love left him. She was murdered on their street.

4.00

134k+

🕵️ Cold Case Mystery 🏚️ Dysfunctional Family 🤫 Family Secrets

Faithful Place 88%

A Dublin detective believed his first love left him. She was murdered on their street.

by Tana French 2010

4.00

134k+ ratings

🕵️ Cold Case Mystery 🏚️ Dysfunctional Family 🤫 Family Secrets

This Is Happiness

by Niall Williams • 2019

Electricity reaches a rain-soaked Irish village alongside a stranger with a fifty-year-old secret.

4.22

32k+

🏘️ Small-Town Ireland 🕰️ Retrospective Narrator 💔 Second-Chance Love

This Is Happiness 88%

Electricity reaches a rain-soaked Irish village alongside a stranger with a fifty-year-old secret.

by Niall Williams 2019

4.22

32k+ ratings

🏘️ Small-Town Ireland 🕰️ Retrospective Narrator 💔 Second-Chance Love

Across the Barricades

by Joan Lingard • 1972

She's Protestant. He's Catholic. In 1970s Belfast, loving each other means risking everything.

3.67

2k+

🍀 The Troubles 💔 Forbidden Romance 💕 First Love

Across the Barricades 87%

She's Protestant. He's Catholic. In 1970s Belfast, loving each other means risking everything.

by Joan Lingard 1972

3.67

2k+ ratings

🍀 The Troubles 💔 Forbidden Romance 💕 First Love

How the Irish Saved Civilization

by Thomas Cahill • 1995

After Rome's fall, Irish monks became the unlikely saviors of classical literature.

3.81

47k+

🇮🇪 Irish History ✝️ Celtic Christianity 📚 Monastic Libraries

How the Irish Saved Civilization Summary

How the Irish Saved Civilization 87%

After Rome's fall, Irish monks became the unlikely saviors of classical literature.

by Thomas Cahill 1995

3.81

47k+ ratings

🇮🇪 Irish History ✝️ Celtic Christianity 📚 Monastic Libraries

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce • 1916

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

3.64

166k+

🇮🇪 Catholic Upbringing 🙏 Catholic Guilt 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 87%

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

by James Joyce 1916

3.64

166k+ ratings

🇮🇪 Catholic Upbringing 🙏 Catholic Guilt 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness

The Padre

by Jennifer O'Leary • 2023

Gaddafi's cash. A parking timer. A priest. These built the IRA's most reliable bombs.

4.02

455

⚔️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🔫 Arms Trafficking

The Padre 87%

Gaddafi's cash. A parking timer. A priest. These built the IRA's most reliable bombs.

by Jennifer O'Leary 2023

4.02

455 ratings

⚔️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🔫 Arms Trafficking

Long Island

by Colm Tóibín • 2024

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

3.70

89k+

💔 Love Triangle 🏠 Return To Hometown ☁️ Melancholy

Long Island 87%

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

by Colm Tóibín 2024

3.70

89k+ ratings

💔 Love Triangle 🏠 Return To Hometown ☁️ Melancholy

The Last Love Song

by Lucinda Riley • 1997

An Irish love affair in London's 1960s music scene brings fame, a bullet, and a wrongful conviction.

4.10

6k+

🎸 1960s Music Scene ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🏡 Irish Village Life

The Last Love Song 87%

An Irish love affair in London's 1960s music scene brings fame, a bullet, and a wrongful conviction.

by Lucinda Riley 1997

4.10

6k+ ratings

🎸 1960s Music Scene ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🏡 Irish Village Life

Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce • 1939

Dublin, one night's dream: a publican's guilt becomes all history in words that reinvent language.

3.68

14k+

📖 Dream Logic 🧪 Experimental Modernism 🔄 Cyclical Narrative

Finnegans Wake 87%

Dublin, one night's dream: a publican's guilt becomes all history in words that reinvent language.

by James Joyce 1939

3.68

14k+ ratings

📖 Dream Logic 🧪 Experimental Modernism 🔄 Cyclical Narrative

Big Fellow, Long Fellow

by T. Ryle Dwyer • 1998

Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.

4.23

129

🍀 Irish History 👥 Dual Biography ✊ Revolutionary Politics

Big Fellow, Long Fellow 87%

Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.

by T. Ryle Dwyer 1998

4.23

129 ratings

🍀 Irish History 👥 Dual Biography ✊ Revolutionary Politics

The Forgotten Midwife

by Laura Anthony • 2026

A hidden birth certificate pulls a bride-to-be toward Ireland and a family she never knew existed.

4.43

2k+

🏚️ Magdalene Laundries ⏳ Dual Timeline Saga ⛪ Forced Convent Life

The Forgotten Midwife 87%

A hidden birth certificate pulls a bride-to-be toward Ireland and a family she never knew existed.

by Laura Anthony 2026

4.43

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Magdalene Laundries ⏳ Dual Timeline Saga ⛪ Forced Convent Life

Nora Webster

by Colm Tóibín • 2014

A widow in 1960s Ireland finds that silence, properly tended, begins to sound like music.

3.63

24k+

🧠 Psychological Realism 🖤 Widowhood 🏘️ Small Town Ireland

Nora Webster 87%

A widow in 1960s Ireland finds that silence, properly tended, begins to sound like music.

by Colm Tóibín 2014

3.63

24k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Realism 🖤 Widowhood 🏘️ Small Town Ireland

Walk the Blue Fields

by Claire Keegan • 2007

A priest marries off his love, then finds release in the hands of a stranger.

3.99

14k+

🌾 Rural Ireland 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Repressed Desire

Walk the Blue Fields 87%

A priest marries off his love, then finds release in the hands of a stranger.

by Claire Keegan 2007

3.99

14k+ ratings

🌾 Rural Ireland 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Repressed Desire

The Trick to Time

by Kit de Waal • 2018

An Irish dollmaker crafts weighted babies for grieving mothers. Her own daughter was stillborn.

3.93

2k+

🔀 Dual Timeline 👶 Infant Loss 💕 Late-Life Romance

The Trick to Time 87%

An Irish dollmaker crafts weighted babies for grieving mothers. Her own daughter was stillborn.

by Kit de Waal 2018

3.93

2k+ ratings

🔀 Dual Timeline 👶 Infant Loss 💕 Late-Life Romance

Gun Street Girl

by Adrian McKinty • 2015

A quiet town murder plunges a cynical detective into an Oxford scandal and a missile-smuggling plot.

4.21

8k+

🖤 Irish Noir 👮 Police Procedural 💣 The Troubles

Gun Street Girl 87%

A quiet town murder plunges a cynical detective into an Oxford scandal and a missile-smuggling plot.

by Adrian McKinty 2015

4.21

8k+ ratings

🖤 Irish Noir 👮 Police Procedural 💣 The Troubles

The Lowlife

by Alexander Baron • 1963

A Hackney gambler drifts from bet to bet until a boy raises stakes luck cannot cover.

4.25

794

🏙️ Social Realism 🎰 Compulsive Gambling 👨‍👦 Surrogate Fatherhood

The Lowlife 87%

A Hackney gambler drifts from bet to bet until a boy raises stakes luck cannot cover.

by Alexander Baron 1963

4.25

794 ratings

🏙️ Social Realism 🎰 Compulsive Gambling 👨‍👦 Surrogate Fatherhood

The Women on Platform Two

by Laura Anthony • 2025

A Dublin nurse, fleeing a fight about motherhood, meets a stranger with a photograph from 1971.

4.41

32k+

📖 Dual Timeline Narrative 🖤 Domestic Abuse Survival 💪 Female Solidarity

The Women on Platform Two 87%

A Dublin nurse, fleeing a fight about motherhood, meets a stranger with a photograph from 1971.

by Laura Anthony 2025

4.41

32k+ ratings

📖 Dual Timeline Narrative 🖤 Domestic Abuse Survival 💪 Female Solidarity

The Missing Sister

by Lucinda Riley • 2021

An emerald ring ties six sisters to a woman fleeing a past she buried in Ireland.

4.20

92k+

⏳ Dual Timeline Saga 🫂 Found Family 🧺 Foundling Origin

The Missing Sister 87%

An emerald ring ties six sisters to a woman fleeing a past she buried in Ireland.

by Lucinda Riley 2021

4.20

92k+ ratings

⏳ Dual Timeline Saga 🫂 Found Family 🧺 Foundling Origin

Excellent Women

by Barbara Pym • 1952

A clergyman’s daughter hides her feelings, until new neighbors pull her into their marital chaos.

3.91

22k+

😏 Comedy Of Manners ⛪ Church Community Life 🫣 Self-Deprecating Narrator

Excellent Women 87%

A clergyman’s daughter hides her feelings, until new neighbors pull her into their marital chaos.

by Barbara Pym 1952

3.91

22k+ ratings

😏 Comedy Of Manners ⛪ Church Community Life 🫣 Self-Deprecating Narrator

Rebel Hearts

by Kevin Toolis • 1995

Colonial wounds, British dirty war, family bonds: inside the IRA, violence was an inheritance.

4.10

936

☘️ Irish Republicanism 💣 The Troubles ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare

Rebel Hearts 87%

Colonial wounds, British dirty war, family bonds: inside the IRA, violence was an inheritance.

by Kevin Toolis 1995

4.10

936 ratings

☘️ Irish Republicanism 💣 The Troubles ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare

The Spinning Heart

by Donal Ryan • 2012

A village in post-crash Ireland speaks: one man's ruin, one father's murder, one child gone.

3.95

12k+

🍀 Rural Ireland 📉 Post-Crash Ireland 🗣️ Multiple Narrators

The Spinning Heart 87%

A village in post-crash Ireland speaks: one man's ruin, one father's murder, one child gone.

by Donal Ryan 2012

3.95

12k+ ratings

🍀 Rural Ireland 📉 Post-Crash Ireland 🗣️ Multiple Narrators

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien • 1967

Murder for money strands a man in a land policed by bicycles, the dead serving tea.

3.96

23k+

🌀 Absurdist Fiction ☘️ Irish Modernism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Third Policeman 87%

Murder for money strands a man in a land policed by bicycles, the dead serving tea.

by Flann O'Brien 1967

3.96

23k+ ratings

🌀 Absurdist Fiction ☘️ Irish Modernism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

Once Upon a Wardrobe

by Patti Callahan Henry • 2021

A dying boy's question about Narnia sends his logical sister to C. S. Lewis's door.

4.33

33k+

🖋️ Biographical Fiction 📚 Stories Within Stories 👦 Terminal Illness

Once Upon a Wardrobe 87%

A dying boy's question about Narnia sends his logical sister to C. S. Lewis's door.

by Patti Callahan Henry 2021

4.33

33k+ ratings

🖋️ Biographical Fiction 📚 Stories Within Stories 👦 Terminal Illness

Bloomsbury Girls

by Natalie Jenner • 2022

Three bookshop women in postwar London hunt a lost novel to claim ownership of the shop.

3.85

18k+

🏪 Bookshop Fiction 🇬🇧 Postwar London 👯 Female Friendship

Bloomsbury Girls 87%

Three bookshop women in postwar London hunt a lost novel to claim ownership of the shop.

by Natalie Jenner 2022

3.85

18k+ ratings

🏪 Bookshop Fiction 🇬🇧 Postwar London 👯 Female Friendship

Murphy

by Samuel Beckett • 1938

Strapped into his rocking chair, Murphy seeks a silence where bodies and lovers cannot follow.

3.80

7k+

🖋️ Modernist Fiction 🎭 Absurdist Comedy 🧠 Mind Body Split

Murphy 87%

Strapped into his rocking chair, Murphy seeks a silence where bodies and lovers cannot follow.

by Samuel Beckett 1938

3.80

7k+ ratings

🖋️ Modernist Fiction 🎭 Absurdist Comedy 🧠 Mind Body Split

The Boy from the Sea

by Garrett Carr • 2025

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

3.79

8k+

🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry

The Boy from the Sea 87%

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

by Garrett Carr 2025

3.79

8k+ ratings

🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry

The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles • 2021

Two brothers aim for California. Two stowaways from a work farm demand New York instead.

4.22

316k+

🚗 Midcentury Road Trip 🇺🇸 1950s Americana 🧭 Coming-Of-Age Journey

The Lincoln Highway 87%

Two brothers aim for California. Two stowaways from a work farm demand New York instead.

by Amor Towles 2021

4.22

316k+ ratings

🚗 Midcentury Road Trip 🇺🇸 1950s Americana 🧭 Coming-Of-Age Journey

Conversations with Friends

by Sally Rooney • 2017

A young poet's secret affair with a married actor unravels the friendship she once called love.

3.73

622k+

💔 Extramarital Affair 🏛️ Class Tensions 💜 Bisexual Protagonist

Conversations with Friends 87%

A young poet's secret affair with a married actor unravels the friendship she once called love.

by Sally Rooney 2017

3.73

622k+ ratings

💔 Extramarital Affair 🏛️ Class Tensions 💜 Bisexual Protagonist

The Edge of Lost

by Kristina McMorris • 2015

A stolen name, a stranger's letter: an Irish orphan crosses an ocean to find his father.

4.06

19k+

📚 Immigrant Family Saga 🏠 Found Family ⚔️ Brotherly Rivalry

The Edge of Lost 87%

A stolen name, a stranger's letter: an Irish orphan crosses an ocean to find his father.

by Kristina McMorris 2015

4.06

19k+ ratings

📚 Immigrant Family Saga 🏠 Found Family ⚔️ Brotherly Rivalry

The Irish Midwife

by Stacey Reynolds • 2019

Amid The Troubles, a Belfast midwife and a Dublin Garda discover a love fated by legend.

4.68

733

💖 Fated Mates 🤰 Midwife Heroine 🇮🇪 1970s Ireland

The Irish Midwife 87%

Amid The Troubles, a Belfast midwife and a Dublin Garda discover a love fated by legend.

by Stacey Reynolds 2019

4.68

733 ratings

💖 Fated Mates 🤰 Midwife Heroine 🇮🇪 1970s Ireland

Ask Again, Yes

by Mary Beth Keane • 2019

One cop shoots his neighbor. The children they leave behind spend decades orbiting the ruins.

3.93

206k+

🏠 Family Saga 💞 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🧠 Mental Illness

Ask Again, Yes 87%

One cop shoots his neighbor. The children they leave behind spend decades orbiting the ruins.

by Mary Beth Keane 2019

3.93

206k+ ratings

🏠 Family Saga 💞 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🧠 Mental Illness

Trespasses

by Louise Kennedy • 2022

A Catholic teacher risks everything for an affair with a Protestant barrister during the Troubles.

3.96

53k+

🕊️ The Troubles 🔥 Forbidden Affair ⏳ Age Gap Relationship

Trespasses 87%

A Catholic teacher risks everything for an affair with a Protestant barrister during the Troubles.

by Louise Kennedy 2022

3.96

53k+ ratings

🕊️ The Troubles 🔥 Forbidden Affair ⏳ Age Gap Relationship

Killing Thatcher

by Rory Carroll • 2023

A Brighton hotel bomb, a five-ton chimney stack, and the single clue that unmasked a ghost.

4.46

8k+

🍀 Irish History ☘️ The Troubles 🎯 Assassination Plots

Killing Thatcher 87%

A Brighton hotel bomb, a five-ton chimney stack, and the single clue that unmasked a ghost.

by Rory Carroll 2023

4.46

8k+ ratings

🍀 Irish History ☘️ The Troubles 🎯 Assassination Plots

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