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Another Time, Another Place
Historical Fiction set in Ireland

Classical (to 400 A.D.) | Middle Ages (400-1600 A.D.) | 1600-1800 | 1800-1900 | 1900 - Present

Classical Times (to 400 A.D.)

Finn Mac Cool
 
Llywelyn, Morgan

The legendary Irish warrior Finn MacCool starts the first Irish army, the Fianna, and leads his men to defend the king. (Fiction)

I Am of Irelaunde
 
Osborne-McKnight, Juliene

Paidrig, a former slave (later known as St. Patrick), is inspired to lead the people of Ireland after he is visited by an apparition of the famed poet and warrior Osian. (Fiction)

Master of Earth and Water
 
Paxson, Diana L.

Fionn mac Cumhal, secretly raised by several wise old women, goes into hiding when his father's enemies, the Clan Morna, come looking for him. (Fiction)

Middle Ages (400 - 1600 A.D.)

Pendragon
 
Coulter, Catherine

Heartbroken by her true love, Meggie Sherbrooke swiftly marries Thomas Malcombe, and when he takes her to live in Pendragon, she discovers the reason he brought her there could lead to ruin. (Fiction)

The Temptress
 
Delacroix, Claire

Bayard of Villone is determined to marry quickly, but the sly and beautiful Esmeraude creates a myriad of challenges, leading him and her many other suitors on a wild hunt. (Fiction)

Confessions of a Pagan Nun
 
Horsley, Kate

Gwynneve learned the secrets of herbal medicine from her mother, but she must adapt as Christianity supplants the old druid ways. (Fiction)

The Monk Who Vanished: A Celtic Mystery
 
Tremayne, Peter

When the relics of St. Ailbe are stolen amidst a major political crisis, Sister Fidelma comes to the aid of Brother Mochta to untangle the twisted plot. (Mystery)

1600 - 1800

The Dream Lover
 
Henley, Virginia

Emerald Fitzgerald Montague dreams of escaping her father's estate with her knight, Sean O'Toole, but political pressures intervene to alter their fate. (Fiction)

So Wild a Kiss
 
Richards-Akers, Nancy

Eleanor Archibold forges an agreement with English lord Sir Garret Neville to keep her family estate out of the hands of Oliver Cromwell's Army. (Fiction)

1800 - 1900

How to Murder a Man
 
Gébler, Carlo

In the 1850s, estate manager Thomas French has his life threatened by a vigilante society called the Ribbonmen after he offers to pay his tenant's way to America. (Fiction)

Pay the Devil
 
Higgins, Jack

Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald flees to Ireland seeking a peaceful life, but once there, he is so moved by the plight of the poor that he joins the Irish rebels. (Fiction)

Gracelin O'Malley
 
Moore, Ann

After Grace marries a cruel landlord, tensions rise amongst the starving tenants, and she must defy her husband to find a way to help them. (Fiction)

1900 - Present

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
 
Barry, Sebastian

After serving in the British Merchant Navy in World War II, Eneas becomes a marked man by the IRA and is forced to go into exile. (Fiction)

Nightlines
 
Jordan, Neil

Tension had always existed between Donal Gore and his father, but things worsen when his father is paralyzed by a stroke, and Donal has an affair with his stepmother. (Fiction)

The Red and the Green
 
Murdoch, Iris

Andrew Chase-White plans to marry Frances, but their lives are changed forever in the chaotic days leading up to the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916. (Fiction)

My Dream of You
 
O'Faolain, Nuala

After the death of her best friend, Kathleen de Burca goes to Ireland to investigate an historic divorce case dating back to the famine. (Fiction)

Redemption
 
Uris, Leon

When a young Winston Churchill travels with his father to Ireland, they intend to push for the Protestant cause. (Fiction)

Groundwork
 
Welch, Robert

This is the epic story of the Condon and O'Dwyer clans as they endure four centuries of struggle in the Irish Province of Munster. (Fiction)

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