Klondike House is a quite beautiful memoir of rural Ireland, in this case the Eyeries region in Cork written by John Dwyer, a local lad who grew up in the area.

A year after an Irish American grandmother amazingly gave birth to her own grandson, mother Sara Connell has penned a memoir “Bringing in Finn” to share their emotional journey as a family.

New York City Speaker Christine Quinn, 45, has announced this week that she will release a pre-election memoir just months before her widely anticipated run for mayor of the city.

Saoirse Ronan has added to her growing list of new film projects by signing on for the film adaptation of Vera Brittain’s 1933 World War I memoir ‘Testament of Youth.’

Smarty Girl, Honor Molloy’s autobiographical account of her tumultuous Irish childhood in 1960s Dublin, tells the story of her parents’ troubled marriage, her father’s epic destructiveness and her mother’s determination to save her family at any cost. Cahir O'Doherty talks to the Brooklyn based writer about overcoming the reflexive Irish reluctance to embroider the past and tell it straight, and how writing the new book has helped rescue her. 

Federal prosecutors have uncovered a suspected memoir that Whitey Bulger may have penned before he went on the run in 1994.

A new book from a Dublin woman's alleged double life as a prostitute could lure young women to "enter the trade," according to the Irish Independent.

The memoir of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly is due out on November 15.

Meghan O’Rourke’s accomplishments are many. A graduate of Yale, she was a fiction/nonfiction editor at The New Yorker at the age of 24, one of the youngest editors in the history of the magazine. She then became culture editor and literary critic for Slate, a poetry editor of The Paris Review from 2005-2010, and published a collection of poems, Halflife, in 2007, to critical acclaim and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The Long Goodbye, her first book of prose, was published on April 14th.

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The ‘Glee’ actress – who tied the knot with her long-term girlfriend Lara Embry last summer – will release her autobiography ‘Happy Accidents’ in September and Jane revealed she hopes her life experiences will help other people.

Some stories are decades in the making and turn out to be worth the wait. "Orangutan," Colin Broderick’s remarkable new memoir is a case in point. Charting 20 years from his arrival in New York in the late 1980’s through the spectacular misadventures that finally led to his unlikely emergence as an author, Broderick’s new book is a marvel of style and substance.

Elizabeth Edwards was battling cancer when her husband, Irish American 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, admitted that he was having an affair.

Maureen Waters was the first member of her family not born in Ireland, and grew up in the southwest Bronx neighborhood of Highbridge. She would leave the Irish ghetto to become a respected academic, who has lunched with Mary Robinson, and runs the Irish Studies program at Queens College. READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/The-Gatekeeper-3862.html http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/The-Gatekeeper-3862.html Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:10:42 PDT By: TOM DEIGNAN

Author Terry Eagleton has published many books with gripping titles such as "The Illusion of Postmodernism" and "Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader." But in his recent books, the scholar has come down from the Ivory Tower to explore his Irish upbringing in Salford, the "dirty old town" near Manchester in England's industrial northwest. First, there was 2000's occasionally funny, occasionally bizarre "The Truth About the Irish." A sort of tour de farce, Eagleton held court on everything from potatoes and St. Patrick to the fine folks who reside in the Irish capital's posh Dublin 4 section. Eagleton's perspective on all things Irish is, if nothing else, different. That's certainly the case in "The Gatekeeper," his new memoir. Eagleton writes about growing up in what he describes as a "cowed, daunted" Catholic family. Religion, in fact, is a large part of Eagleton's book. He eventually casts aside the faith - though it was the Catholic radicals at Cambridge who seemed to offer him his first intellectual home. As a young boy, Eagleton served as a "gatekeeper" at a local convent, which basically kept its residents cloistered from the outside world. When a young girl was about to enter, young Eagleton led her away, often from weeping parents who might never see their daughters again. Such an experience surely must have soured this budding radical on Catholicism, though Eagleton did later attend a seminary. (Things weren't so rosy there either.) Eagleton's radical politics seem out-of-date, though he is to be credited not only for sticking to his political guns, but for also having a good laugh at those whose liberal views are not all that different from his own. In the end, "The Gatekeeper" is a fine addition to that cottage industry within publishing, the Irish memoir. ($19.95 / 178 pages / St. Martin's Press)

An untraditional Irish memoir is out from Evelyn Doyle. It is the story of a troubled Dad in 1950s Ireland whose children are taken away from him, once his wife leaves the family. If this sounds a bit familiar, that's because it is the story of Pierce Brosnan's recent movie "Evelyn." The film's name comes from Evelyn Doyle herself, who tells the story from her own perspective in "Tea and Green Ribbons." There are interesting gaps between the film and book (Evelyn does not dwell on the abuse she faced in Irish orphanages), but while Doyle's has been an extraordinary life, "Evelyn" the movie seems to tell the story with an economy that "Tea and Green Ribbons" lacks. Nevertheless, the entire Doyle family certainly deserves this moment in the sun for all their trials and tribulations. ($24 / 239 pages / Free Press) READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Memoir-of-a-Survivor-2081.html http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Memoir-of-a-Survivor-2081.html Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:04:11 PDT By: CAHIR O'DOHERTY

In 1959, when she was 13, Carole O'Malley Gaunt's father asked her to stay at home and let the priest in, while he drove away to do errands with her seven brothers in the family car. He neglected to inform her that the priest was coming to administer Last Rites to her dying mother. This was, after all, a comfortable middle class Irish American home in the buttoned down era of the 1950s, when no one openly discussed thorny subjects like a mother's cancer or a father's burgeoning alcoholism. READ MORE ]]>