Books set in Dublin, Ireland

Ireland — Dublin

2023
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch · novel · 2023
A Dublin mother fights to hold her family together as Ireland slides into tyranny.
2017
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney · novel · 2017
Two Trinity students fall in with an older married couple in today’s Dublin.
2007
The Gathering
Anne Enright · novel · 2007
A woman gathers her large Dublin family for a brother’s wake, and the past returns.
2007
In the Woods
Tana French · crime · 2007
A Dublin detective investigates a child’s murder in the woods where he once went missing.
1987
The Commitments
Roddy Doyle · novel · 1987
Working-class Northside Dubliners form a soul band.
1939
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O’Brien · novel · 1939
A lazy Dublin student writes a novel whose characters rebel against their author.
1922
Ulysses
James Joyce · novel · 1922
16 June 1904: one day in Dublin, following Leopold Bloom across the city.