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

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#32 20-05-2017 11:46PM

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The Twelve (The Ghosts of Belfast) by Stuart Neville

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#33 20-05-2017 11:54PM

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Donegal: 'Caisle?in ?ir'

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#34 21-05-2017 07:29PM

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

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#35 26-06-2017 12:37AM

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

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#36 02-07-2017 01:28PM

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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.

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#37 02-07-2017 01:33PM

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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.

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#38 02-07-2017 06:34PM

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

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#39 03-07-2017 06:46PM

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

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