If you travel to Ireland, you will undoubtedly be aware of the country's rich literary traditions. Almost everywhere you go, references to writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. And even today, it seems that the writing is more telling the story than anyone else – either in writing or just through a chat in the pub. The Emerald Isle is on the agenda, and it's almost compulsory to write some books in Ireland to read your travels. But what should you read if Joyce's "Ulysses" is not the cup of tea? Here are a number of novels that will bring you the length and breadth of Ireland, and give you a real taste of life in this country, filled with passion and history. Brendan O Carroll
To learn more about Dublin in the 1960s, this story of Agnes Browne's widow and seven children will do it. This is all the clutter, laughter and alcohol content of working class Ireland, and the best thing is that the book is the first of the trilogy. The next time a cheerful boy in Dublin (and many others) approaches him, he can find himself thinking back to Agnes and his nest. Gene Kerrigan "Little Criminals"
And now in Dublin in contemporary times. The country was an economic miracle and everybody was an entrepreneur, even criminals. Frankie Crowe has a system to make money and plans to kidnap a wealthy banker and get up. Though it's just a cop of cops and robbers, Kerrigan shows a lot of the Dublin life from the bottom and the social changes that have occurred in recent years. Julian Julian "Juno and Juliet" Gough
If you decide to go to Galway (and I strongly encourage this), this novel is one of the few that are there. This same twin story in their first year at the university sees them adapt to life in the city, drink in the bars, and occasionally attend classes. This is an age-old story in which Galway himself is one of the protagonists. "The Holocaust of Eneas McNulty" Sebastian Barry
The Irish Fight for Independence is at the heart of the novel in Sligo, North-Western Ireland. They have not found a job, Eneas joins the British-led police at the Royal Irish office and, in this process, classifies itself as a traitor. As a nominee, he starts, and as long as the novel follows Eneas from country to country, I return to Sligo whenever he can. An interesting look at Ireland in the twentieth century, through a player who became the victim of his country's struggle.
"Mehran Marsha" pomegranate soup
Here we see a new kind of immigration – the story of three Iranian sisters who moved to the Irish village in the 1980's. It does not often get a food-lit story in Ireland, but pomegranate soup is just this, with the celebration of Persian cuisine. It is not surprising that rural residents will take some time to adapt to this influx of foreigners in one of their local cafes, and despite the fact that the novel focuses on another culture, details of Irish life and the landscape are presented in detail to those who are learning more About the country.
I write a lot of stereotypes, but as a traveler, I have the opportunity to go beyond the Irish culture and see what lies beneath it. Reading Irish books helps you discover the details of Ireland's streets and cities, hopes and history – and if you visit those places, you will feel as if it's a little better than if you were a stranger.
Source by Suzi Butcher