A Shameful Murder by Cora Harrison

May 14, 2018

Sometimes, you come across a book that makes you go back to the beginning of a series. Cora Harrison’s Burren mysteries, set in 16th century Ireland, just never caught on with me. But, when I stumbled across her Reverend Mother mysteries, I was hooked. A...

Beyond the Pale by Clare O’Donohue

May 08, 2018

Clare O’Donohue wrote Beyond the Pale just for me. Well, not really. We’ve never met, and we hadn’t corresponded before I read this book. But, she sent her two reluctant spies all over Ireland, most of the time to places I’ve been. It felt as...

What Are You Reading?

April 19, 2018

I just discovered a new mystery series that fits my interests. Cora Harrison’s Reverend Mother mysteries are set in Cork, Ireland in the 1920s, not long after the Easter Rising of 1916. The series contains politics, social and cultural issues. But, at least in...

The Irish Pub by James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury

March 17, 2018

What better book for St. Patrick’s Day than The Irish Pub by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury? Fennell is the photographer of this gorgeous book with 201 color illustrations. And, Bunbury is the historian and writer who tells the story of a representative...

Vanishing Ireland by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury

January 21, 2018

Vanishing Ireland is a beautiful, but sobering book. Fennell and Bunbury set out across Ireland to capture and preserve the stories of ordinary Irish people, people who worked the land, worked with horses, worked on the water, celebrated the music. Vanishing...