Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small Irish town and drift in and out of each other’s lives from school through Trinity College Dublin. A quiet, intimate novel about class, love and misunderstanding. Rated 4 on Audible.

In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant Bill Furlong makes a discovery at the local convent that forces him to decide what kind of man he wants to be. Quiet and powerful, and under two hours. Rated 4 on Audible.

A young girl is sent to stay with relatives on a farm in rural Ireland for the summer and finds a kind of care she has not known at home. Spare and moving, and finished in under an hour and a half. Rated 5 on Audible.

The winner of the 2018 Booker Prize follows a young woman in a divided city during the Troubles, harassed by a powerful older man known as the milkman. The voice is distinctive and darkly funny, and Bríd Brennan’s narration suits it. Rated 4 on Audible.

In 1975 Northern Ireland, a young Catholic teacher who works in her family’s pub begins an affair with an older married Protestant barrister as violence closes in around them.

A small Irish town after the financial crash is told in many voices, each telling their own side of the same events. A short, sharp novel that was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and the cast of narrators suits it.

In Cork, a botched cover-up draws in a group of damaged people on the margins. Dark, funny and fast, it won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Cyril Avery is born to an unmarried mother in rural Ireland in 1945 and adopted by a Dublin couple, and the story follows him across seven decades. Funny, angry and moving, with Stephen Hogan reading.

Thomas McNulty flees famine in Ireland and joins the US Army with his lover John Cole, fighting in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. It won the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and is told in a lyrical voice. Rated 4 on Audible.

In 1951 an itinerant storyteller arrives at a house in the Irish countryside and tells tales of Ireland’s history, and a nine-year-old boy sets out to find him again. A sweeping novel read by the author. Rated 4 on Audible.

A retired Chicago cop settles in a remote Irish village hoping for peace, and is drawn into the search for a missing local boy. Slow-burning and atmospheric, with a strong sense of place. Rated 4 on Audible.

In the village of Kilbane, a poker tournament at the local pub ends with a death, and Siobhán O’Sullivan suspects foul play. A cozy mystery from the Irish Village Mystery series. Rated 5 on Audible.

Dr. O’Reilly and young Dr. Barry Laverty tend to the quirky patients of Ballybucklebo in a warm, ribald portrait of a vanished Irish village. A comforting listen from the first book of a long series. Rated 4 on Audible.

McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of a childhood of poverty in Limerick is told with humor and forgiveness. Hearing him read it himself adds something the page cannot. Rated 5 on Audible.

Keefe tells the story of the Troubles through the 1972 disappearance of Belfast mother of ten Jean McConville and the people tied to it. Heavy but gripping nonfiction. Rated 5 on Audible.