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

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    #32
    mylittlepony
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    The Twelve (The Ghosts of Belfast) by Stuart Neville


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    #33
    Teamhrach
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    Donegal: 'Caisle?in ?ir'


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    cml387
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    "The Blackwater Lightship" by Colm Tobin (excellent book by the way) is most definitely Wexford.


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


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    Oops69
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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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    idnkph
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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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    bobbyss
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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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    Harry Angstrom
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    The Dork of Cork. A little-known gem from Chet Raymo.


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