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Summer reading: Irish beach books


Published Saturday, July 11, 2009, 8:47 AM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:12 PM

 

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IrishCentral has your guide to great Irish beach books for the summer
IrishCentral has your guide to great Irish beach books for the summer

Any avid reader or casual book fan who plans a getaway to the beach during the summer is sure to pack one essential item: the perfect beach read. You know, the book, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, that allows you to “escape,” to dive into your favorite kind of stories, characters or pastimes.

IrishCentral has compiled recent Irish and Irish-American releases (and re-releases) that would make the perfect beach books.

We’ve categorized each read by the type of reader it will appeal to. So which kind of Irish reader are you?

 

FOR THE IRISH COUNTRYSIDE ADMIRER:

An Irish Country Village
By Patrick Taylor

In the sequel to the New York Times bestseller "An Irish Country Doctor," Taylor takes us back to the aggressively cheerful sounding village of Ballybucklebo. Try to be unhappy in a town land with such a melodious faux Celtic name and you’ll be soundly defeated, which is the point of this blatantly escapist fare.

Faster than you can say “Begod, that’s a powerful lump of a summer’s day,” the young doctor at the center of this beguiling tale is meeting all the colorful locals and hearing all about their colorful folk cures. Meanwhile, Patricia, the young love of his life is on the brink of winning an engineering scholarship to Cambridge University, which means he may soon have to choose to follow her or lose what may be the love of his life. What’s a boy to do? Surrender to the joyously quirky Irish countryside and its loveably eccentric denizens, of course. You’ll be charmed by this lovely tale.

Forge, $14.95

 

FOR THE IRISH GOLF FANATIC:

Ancestral Links

By John Garrity

On the heels of “A Course Called Ireland” comes another book about Ireland, Irish-Americans and golf: “Ancestral Links: A Golf Obsession Spanning Generations” by John Garrity.

Garrity, who writes for Sports Illustrated, travels to Ireland to see where his great-grandfather came from.  The ancestral home site is now, it turns out, home to a new golf course.

Garrity also goes to Scotland, where some of his mother’s ancestors came from.

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