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Don’t Worry Little Crab

Chris Haughton

2019 • Children's Literature, English Language

Why the Moon Travels

Oein DeBhairduin

2020 • Short Stories, English Language

The Historians

Eavan Boland

2020 • Poetry, English Language

Grown Ups

Marian Keyes

2020 • Novel, English Language

Leonard and Hungry Paul

Rónán Hessian

2019 • Novel, English Language

Big Girl Small Town

Michelle Gallen

2020 • Novel, English Language

When All is Said

Anne Griffin

2019 • Novel, English Language

Constellations

Sinéad Gleeson

2019 • Non-Fiction, Essays, Memoir, English Language

Ok, Let’s do Your Stupid Idea

Patrick Freyne

2020 • Non-Fiction, Memoir, English Language

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

2017 • Novel, English Language

Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty

2020 • Non-Fiction, Young Adult Literature, English Language

Ancient Light

John Banville

2012 • Novel, English Language

Beyond Belief

Colm O'Gorman

2010 • Memoir, Non-Fiction, English Language

Broken Harbour

Tara French

2012 • Novel, English Language

The China Factory

Mary Costello

2012 • Short Stories, English Language

Christ Deliver Us!

Thomas Kilroy

2010 • Drama, English Language

City of Bohane

Kevin Barry

2011 • Novel, English Language

Come Here To Me! Dublin’s Other History

Donal Fallon, Sam McGrath, and Ciarán Murray

2012 • Non-Fiction, Essays, English Language

Country Girl: A Memoir

Edna O'Brien

2012 • Non-Fiction, Memoir, English Language

The Devil I Know

Claire Kilroy

2012 • Novel, English Language

The Empty Family

Colm Tóibín

2010 • Short Stories, English Language

The Forgotten Waltz

Anne Enright

2011 • Novel, English Language

Foster

Claire Keegan

2010 • Novel, English Language

Ghost Light

Joseph O’Connor

2010 • Novel, English Language

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

Eimear McBride

2013 • Novel, English Language

The Hanging Gardens

Frank McGuinness

2013 • Drama, English Language

Hawthorn and Child

Keith Ridgway

2012 • Novel, English Language

Human Chain

Seamus Heaney

2010 • Poetry, English Language

I ♥ Alice ♥ I

Amy Conroy

2010 • Drama, English Language

Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann

2009 • Novel, English Language

Love and Summer

William Trevor

2010 • Novel, English Language

Maeve’s Times: Selected Irish Times Writings

Maeve Binchy (ed. Róisín Ingle)

2013 • Non-Fiction, Memoir, English Language

Marble

Marina Carr

2009 • Drama, English Language

The Mill for Grinding Old People Young

Glenn Patterson

2012 • Novel, English Language

Mother America and Other Stories

Nuala Ní Chonchúir

2012 • Short Stories, English Language

The Night Alive

Conor McPherson

2013 • Drama, English Language

On Canaan’s Side

Sebastian Barry

2011 • Novel, English Language

Painting Rain

Paula Meehan

2009 • Poetry, English Language

Parallax

Sinéad Morrissey

2013 • Poetry, English Language

Penelope

Enda Walsh

2010 • Drama, English Language

The Rising of Bella Casey

Mary Morrissy

2013 • Novel, English Language

Room

Emma Donohue

2010 • Novel, English Language

The Shelter of Neighbours

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

2012 • Short Stories, English Language

Silent

Pat Kinevane

2011 • Drama, English Language

Until Before After

Ciaran Carson

2010 • Poetry, English Language

When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Irish History: Unfinished History

Marianne Elliott

2009 • Non-Fiction, English Language

Skippy Dies

Paul Murray

2010 • Novel, English Language

Solace

Belinda McKeon

2011 • Novel, English Language

Spindrift

Vona Groarke

2009 • Poetry, English Language

The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

2012 • Novel, English Language

The Stray Sod Country

Patrick McCabe

2010 • Novel, English Language

Time Present and Time Past

Deirdre Madden

2013 • Novel, English Language

Trespassers

Julia O’Faolain

2013 • Non-Fiction, Memoir, English Language

Truth or Fiction

Jennifer Johnston

2011 • Novel, English Language

Two Pints

Roddy Doyle

2011 • Novel, English Language

Young Skins

Colin Barrett

2013 • Short Stories, English Language

Eggshells

Caitriona Lally

2015 • Novel, English Language

Fallen

Lia Mills

2014 • Novel, English Language

Geis

Caitríona O'Reilly

2015 • Poetry, English Language

Asking For It

Louise O'Neill

2015 • Young Adult Literature, English Language

The Glorious Heresies

Lisa McInerney

2015 • Novel, English Language

The Boys of Bluehill

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

2015 • Poetry, English Language

The Call

Peadar Ó Guilín

2016 • Young Adult Literature, English Language

Midwinter Break

Bernard MacLaverty

2017 • Novel, English Language

Notes to Self

Emilie Pine

2018 • Non-Fiction, Essays, Memoir, English Language

Milkman

Anna Burns

2018 • Novel, English Language

Mind on Fire

Arnold Fanning

2018 • Non-Fiction, Memoir, English Language

Moonrise

Sarah Crossan

2017 • Young Adult Literature, English Language

Needlework

Deirdre Sullivan

2016 • Young Adult Literature, English Language

Cyprus Avenue

David Ireland

2016 • Drama, English Language

Pond

Claire-Louise Bennett

2015 • Short Stories, English Language

The Radio

Leontia Flynn

2017 • Poetry, English Language

Dinosaurs on Other Planets

Danielle McLaughlin

2015 • Short Stories, English Language

Solar Bones

Mike McCormack

2016 • Novel, English Language

Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Sara Baume

2015 • Novel, English Language

The Dog Who Lost His Bark

Eoin Colfer, Illustrated by P.J. Lynch

2018 • Children's Literature, English Language

To Be a Machine

Mark O'Connell

2017 • Non-Fiction, English Language

The Whole and Rain-domed Universe

Colette Bryce

2014 • Poetry, English Language

Against the Clock

Derek Mahon

2018 • Poetry, English Language

This Hostel Life

Melatu Uche Okorie

2018 • Short Stories, English Language

Don’t Touch My Hair

Emma Dabiri

2019 • Non-Fiction, Memoir, English Language

Hopscotch in the Sky

Lucinda Jacob

2017 • Children's Literature, English Language

Dublin Oldschool

Emmet Kirwan

2016 • Drama, English Language

If All the World and Love Were Young

Stephen Sexton

2019 • Poetry, English Language

Spare and Found Parts

Sarah Maria Griffin

2016 • Young Adult Literature, English Language