Per the request of many persons, I am providing a list of Irish authors Tom Walsh thinks you should know.
Colm Toibin
Blackwater Lightship (shortlisted for the Booker Prize for fiction, 1999)
The Heather Blazing (Encore Award best second novel, 1992)
The Master portrait of novelist Henry James (shortlisted for the Booker prize for fiction, 2004, won International IMPAC Dublin Award, 2009)
Bad Blood: Walking along the Irish Border
Brooklyn (Winner of the Costa Book award)
Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Booker Prize Winner)
the Barrytown Trilogy
The Woman who Walked Into Doors
The Last Roundup Trilogy
Mad Weekend
Colum McCann
Everythingin This Country Must
I Went Fishing the Sloe-Black River
Let The Great World Spin (National Book Award)
This Side of Brightness
Dancer
Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes (Pulitzer Prize)
Tis
Teacher Man
John McGahern
The Dark
The Leavetaking
Amongst Women
John Banville
The Sea (Booker Prize winner 2005)
The Untouchable
The Book of Evidence
Dr. Copernicus
Brendan O’Carroll
The Agnes Brown Trilogy
The Mammy
The Chiselers
The Granny
Sparrow McCabe
Declan Hughes
The Wrong Kind of Blood
The Color of Blood
Playwright/author
Brian Friel
Philadelphia Here I Come
Dancing at Lugnasa
Translation
Give Me Your Answers Do!
Performances
The Home Place
Poets
Seamus Heaney
Patrick Kavanaugh
William Butler Yeats
Please provide your own recommendations.
You appear to have forgotten there are Irish women writers and poets aplenty!!
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Vona Groake
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Deirdre Madden
Eilís Dillon
Jennifer Johnston
Also you omit a vital contemporary writer from your suggestions
Keith Ridgway
Thank you for your suggestions.