And What Would You Be Wanting to Know about the Irish?

Among my personal collection of research books and just-for-reading-pleasure books is a treasury of books about Ireland and the Irish, the Irish  American immigration experience, Irish history, Irish poetry, proverbs, and short stories, Irish ways and Irish wisdom (oh, yes, there's a wealth of it), and just about anything you've ever wanted to know about the Irish or Irish Americans. 

In anticipation of St. Patrick's Day, this seemed like a good time to offer a few suggestions for those of you who might be looking to fill the gaps in your own knowledge of Erin's Children. Following are just a few of my favorites. Keep in mind that the list could go on and on.

BJ

 

The Story of the Irish Race by Seumas MacManus

Ireland and Her People by Terence Sheehy

The Book of the Irish Countryside (Collection) The Black Staff Press

A Seat Behind the Coachman by Diarmaid O Muirithe

The Green Flag (Volumes One, Two, and Three) by Robert Kee

Ireland Past and Present edited by Brendan Kennelly

Irish Traditions edited by Kathleen Jo Ryan and Bernard Share

Heritage of Ireland by Brian de Breffny

Hall's Ireland edited by Michael Scott

The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith

This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52 b y Christine Kinealy

Paddy's Lament by Thomas Gallagher

Famine by Liam O'Flaherty

The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally

Of Irish Ways by Mary Murray Delaney

Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia Brian De Breffny, General Editor

Going to America by Terry Coleman

Emigrants and Exiles: by Kerby A. Miller

A Portrait of the Irish in America by William D. Griffin

Wherever Green Is Worn by Tim Pat Coogan

100 Irish Lives by Martin Wallace

May the Road Rise to Meet You by Michael Padden and Robert Sullivan

Celtic Design by Iain Zaczek

Ireland's Traditional Crafts by David Shaw-Smith

Irish Cooking by Ethel Minogue

Songs of the Irish by Donal O'Sullivan

Popular Irish Songs edited by Florence Leniston

An Irish Country Christmas by Alice Taylor

The Irish Christmas Book edited by John Killen

How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

A Gift of Irish Wisdom by Cyril A. Reilly and Renee Travis Reilly

Emerald Isle (Poems and Quotations) compiled by Anna Nicholas

A Garland of Irish Verse edited by Gwynn Hayes

Ireland in Poetry edited by Charles Sullivan