Donal Ryan Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/donal-ryan/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:27:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Donal Ryan Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/donal-ryan/ 32 32 38398750 Heart, Be at Peace https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/heart-be-at-peace/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/heart-be-at-peace/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:15:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19294 Two five-stars in one week?! What’s going on over here at The Gilmore Guide? Well, the reviews have been pretty few and far between this summer so I felt like giving everyone another outstanding reading option was the least I could do.   I’ve been enthralled by Irish authors for years now and one of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/heart-be-at-peace/feed/ 6 19294 Wrapping Up 2023 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/wrapping-up-2023/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/wrapping-up-2023/#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2024 08:10:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18139   I couldn’t let 2023 go without wrapping up the year in post about 5 additional novels I loved each from a different, previously unmentioned category. And if I could get myself pulled together (wink) I’d also be able to post all kinds of specifics on how my reading actually went in 2023, but let’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/wrapping-up-2023/feed/ 2 18139 The Queen of Dirt Island https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-queen-of-dirt-island/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/the-queen-of-dirt-island/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:21:02 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17341 The week Saoirse Aylward is born her father is killed in an accident, leaving her mother, Eileen alone to raise her. Their lives in a small village in western Ireland are at the heart of Donal Ryan’s boisterous, tender novel The Queen of Dirt Island. Although the novel stays within the village’s borders it’s an […]

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