Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.

What's the most famous book set in each County of Ireland?

2»

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭mylittlepony


    The Twelve (The Ghosts of Belfast) by Stuart Neville


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭Teamhrach


    Donegal: 'Caisle?in ?ir'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭cml387


    "The Blackwater Lightship" by Colm Tobin (excellent book by the way) is most definitely Wexford.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭PressRun


    John Banville has said that the setting of his novel The Sea is based on Rosslare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    Limerick ; Angela's Ashes , what else ......of course i should qualify this as Limerick city maybe before I Get a bashing from eFFIN or somewhere in the county.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭idnkph


    KJ wrote:
    Any suggestions for Louth?


    Wild goose lodge. Set in reaghstown.
    The book as always is much better than the movie. But the movie has lots of locals in it so worth a watch.
    It's a true story too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,332 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    Galway
    The Playboy of the Western World?
    Across the Bitter Sea- Eilish Dillon?
    Famine trilogy of Walter Macken?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    The Dork of Cork. A little-known gem from Chet Raymo.


Advertisement