A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.

In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, it's snowing. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life" Séan Vallely. Gina remembers their affair: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now, as the falling snow makes the day luminous and full of possibility, Gina awaits the arrival of Séan's fragile twelve-year-old daughter - the complication, and gravity, of...

Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become. In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine....

"At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her...

"On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell - known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick - is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite, for help. As a record heat wave envelops the city, and the secret deals underpinning Diamond Dick's empire begin to be revealed, Quirke and Hackett find...

Reluctantly taking the job to write his billionaire father-in-law's biography, Irish journalist John Glass is stunned when his research assistant stumbles upon some sensitive information that may have gotten the young man killed.

Ulysses draws upon a complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature (including a framework and episodes that echo the Odyssey) to document an ordinary day in the lives of three Dubliners. Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses entered the world in a firestorm of controversy. Denounced as obscure, unintelligible, nonsensical, and obscene, it was first published in Paris in 1922...

A teenager in 1980s Dublin becomes involved with a gorgeous older girl but also suffers abuse by a local priest and becomes increasingly troubled.