Books set in County Mayo, Ireland

The wild Atlantic west: Böll’s rainy summers on Achill Island in the 1950s, and a Parisian widow hiding from her grief in a coast village.

1 place, 2 books,

County Mayo

2013
Happy People Read and Drink CoffeeLes gens heureux lisent et boivent du café
Agnès Martin-Lugand · novel · 2013
A Parisian widow flees her grief to a windswept village on the Mayo coast.
1957
Irish JournalJournal irlandais
Heinrich Böll · travel · 1957
Rain, pubs, priests and emigrants: Böll’s summers on Achill Island, off the Mayo coast.

Updated October 2026