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Top 50 Irish Novels (Irish Times)

(found at: http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/000399.html)
1. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
2. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
by James Joyce
  
3. Amongst Women
by John McGahern
  
4. At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
5.
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 Picture of Dorian Grey Pack (Oxford Bookworms Library)  
6. Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
by Jonathan Swift
  
7. The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
8. Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
by Bram Stoker
  
9. The Book of Evidence
by John Banville
  
10. The Butcher Boy
by Patrick McCabe
  
11. Strumpet City
by James Plunkett
  
12. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
13. The Country Girls
by Edna O'Brien
  
14.
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 Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
  
15. Tarry Flynn (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Patrick Kavanagh
  
16. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Dell # D205)
by Brian Moore
  
17. The Last September
by Elizabeth Bowen
  
18. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Laurence Sterne
  
19.
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 How Many Miles to Babylon?
by Jennifer Johnston
  
20. The Land of Spices (Virago Modern Classics)
by Kate O'Brien
  
21. Murphy (Beckett, Samuel)
by Samuel Beckett
  
22. The Barracks
by John McGahern
  
23. Castle Rackrent
by Maria Edgeworth
  
24. The Woman Who Walked into Doors
by Roddy Doyle
  
25. Reading in the Dark: A Novel
by Seamus Deane
  
26. Felicia's Journey: (movie tie-in edition)
by William Trevor
  
27. The Captains and the Kings
by Jennifer Johnston
  
28. Fools of Fortune (Penguin Classics)
by William Trevor
  
29. Good Behaviour
by Molly Keane
  
30. The South
by Colm Toibin
  
31. December Bride
by Sam Hanna Bell
  
32. The Real Charlotte
by Edith OE Somerville
  
33.
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 The Emperor of Ice Cream
by Brian Moore
  
34. Death and Nightingales
by Eugene McCabe
  
35.
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 The Charwoman's Daughter (Twelve-Point Series)
by James Stephens
  
36. The Parts
by Keith Ridgway
  
37. The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics)
by J.G. Farrell
  
38. Langrishe, Go Down (Irish Literature)
by Aidan Higgins
  
39. Black List, Section H (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Francis Stuart
  
40. Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Robert Maturin
  
41. The Banyan Tree: A Novel
by Christopher Nolan
  
42. Birchwood
by John Banville
  
43. Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  
44. A Drama in Muslin
by George Moore
  
45. Esther Waters
by George Moore
  
46.
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 The Big Chapel
by Thomas Kilroy
  
47.
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 The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine
by William Carleton
  
48. Birds of the Innocent Wood
by Deirdre Madden
  
49.
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 Surrogate City
by Hugo Hamilton
  
50. Love and Sleep: A Romance
by Sean O'Reilly
  
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Created by ira_pacifist on Aug 28, 2006.