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Books set in Dublin

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42 books · 27 authors · 1914–2025

42 books here
Most-set authors
James Joyce (4) · Roddy Doyle (4) · Anne Enright (4) · Sally Rooney (4) · Sebastian Barry (2) · Tana French (2)
Genres
literary fiction (21) · historical fiction (5) · mystery & crime (3) · romance (2)

Books set here

Set in Dublin (39)

56 Days
Catherine Ryan Howard
Dublin suburb during the first COVID lockdown of 2020; where a couple's whirlwind isolation romance ends in murder
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Stephen Dedalus's home city, Belvedere school
A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle
Dublin slums early 20th century
Actress
Anne Enright
Katherine O'Dell and narrator Norah's home; Dublin theatre stage
All Her Fault
Andrea Mara
Quiet Dublin suburb; a child goes missing after a playdate and the surrounding community erupts in blame and suspicion
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Student and nested fictional Dublin
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
Eileen's urban life
Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchy
1950s Dublin university life
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
Dublin literary social scene
Dubliners
James Joyce
Irish middle-class city life
Faithful Place
Tana French
Working-class Dublin neighborhood, undercover detective
Farewell Companions
James Plunkett
interwar working-class Dublin
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
primary dreamworld setting
Ghost Light
Joseph O'Connor
Abbey Theatre affair 1907
Here Are the Young Men
Rob Doyle
Celtic Tiger Dublin summer 2003 — where four teenage boys roam the city aimlessly after school, spiraling into self-dest
In the Woods
Tana French
Dublin Murder Squad setting
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Peter's city life
Montpelier Parade
Karl Geary
1980s working-class Dublin
Nesting
Roisin O'Donnell
housing crisis Dublin
Old Gods Time
Sebastian Barry
Retired detective, 1990s Dublin
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
dystopian Irish capital
Skippy Dies
Paul Murray
Catholic boarding school Dublin
Strumpet City
James Plunkett
1913 Dublin Lockout era
The Forgotten Waltz
Anne Enright
suburban Dublin affair
The Gathering
Anne Enright
Hegarty family wake
The Ginger Man
J.P. Donleavy
Postwar Dublin student life
The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne
protagonist raised here
The Informer
Liam O'Flaherty
1920s revolutionary underworld
The Journey Home
Dermot Bolger
1980s suburban Dublin noir
The Pretender
Jo Harkin
crowned King Edward
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue
1918 flu epidemic maternity ward
The Snapper
Roddy Doyle
north Dublin working-class suburb
The Speckled People
Hugo Hamilton
1950s childhood setting
The Van
Roddy Doyle
working-class north Dublin
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Roddy Doyle
Working-class Dublin suburb
The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright
contemporary Dublin generations
TransAtlantic
Colum McCann
Frederick Douglass's 1845 Ireland visit and family narrative
Ulysses
James Joyce
Normal People
Sally Rooney
University where characters study

Notable locations in Dublin

Cabra1Clongowes Wood College1Davy Byrne's pub1Glasnevin Cemetery1Grafton Street1National Library of Ireland1National Maternity Hospital, Dublin1Nelson's Pillar1O'Connell Bridge1Sandymount Strand1Trinity College Dublin1

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