Studying Irish literature is such a pleasure. I only did in briefly as part of a performing arts course, but it was so impactful to trace the long history of storytelling that is uniquely Irish. When your history is made up of being disallowed from speaking your own language, and having to pass stories on through letter writing and other means because of mass immigration, you really learn appreciate the small stories from seemingly insignificant people that make up human history. I think that's really reflected in contemporary Irish literature. Lovely to see your appreciation for our lovely little island full of strange and soft stories
Irish girl here, I love Leonard and Hungry Paul! It was chosen for "one dublin one book" which meant everyone in Dublin was encouraged to read this during a particular month and there was lots of great book clubs and events surrounding it
I like how you try to diversify your reading. Along with Irish books from Ireland, it would be cool to also read Irish Literature from Northern Ireland like Milkman by Anna Burns or Cal by Bernard MacLaverty.
Deirdre Purcell is an Irish author who passed away suddenly last week. Her books were especially well known among the older generation and one of Collin Farrells first ever films was based on one of her works. Writers like her and Maeve Binchy (and obviously Roddy Doyle) were really iconic in terms of 80s and 90s Irish fiction (if you were interested)
Here's another Irish book rec: "'Out of Love" by Hazel Hayes is a love story told in reverse. It touches on some heavy themes and is quite sad at times, but I also found it beautiful and complex.
@@peakae44 That's true! I still enjoy her content on Instagram! Oh, and for those who didn't know- she's currently writing another book, and organising a writing retreat in Spain (for anyone interested, not just professional authors)! :)
I also recently noticed I love Irish authors too! I loved Foster - Claire Keegan is so good at just conveying powerful messages without bashing you over the head with them. The Colony by Audrey Magee is also a great read, and is not only by an Irish author but very much set in the context of Ireland and Irish history, with a strong theme of Irish national identity and language too.
Catholic Facts: “Ordinary Time” in the Catholic Church is all the non-holiday time in the calendar, when there’s no special observances like Lent, Advent, Easter etc. During this time the vestments that priests wear and banners in the church are green all over the world. Thus why the In Ordinary Time cover is green!
Love you giving recognition to some amazing Irish literary voices! Irish literature speaks to me so strongly, but I always assumed that was because I’m from Ireland, but it’s lovely to see you feeling the same way! Leonard and Hungry Paul is fantastic, I hope you love it. PS another Irish lit rec: The Colony by Audrey Magee. A fantastic portrayal of the colonisation of Ireland - also nominated for the Booker last year!
Hey Jack! Just wondering if we're ever gonna get the content we've been paying for for nearly 4 months? Or if you're ever going to interact with us on discord like you promised? We tried nicely, you apologised and thanked us for holding you accountable, said you would be with us after you got home from Dublin, and then you've ignored the subscription since then (nearly a month). We feel so incredibly frustrated and like we've been scammed.
@@user-qu8zs7vs1x most of us have been paying for the membership since it started 3/4 months ago. We have not gotten a single piece of content, no Q and As, no reading livestreams, we've also had no daily questions for over a month. I cancelled my subscription but the fact that he's still offering it knowing that he hasn't uploaded a single members only video is disappointing to say the least. He said he was gonna upload a super long QandA to make up for it when he got home from dublin... still nothing.
Hi Jack! We're running The Irish Readathon in March which is a month dedicated to reading more Irish literature. So it's really exciting to see this haul drop just before the readathon starts! Mr Salary is SUCH a good little book. I think you're right about how Irish fiction often focuses on a character study! Hope you enjoy all of these amazing Irish books.
Love that you enjoyed Dublin! You should come to northern ireland for a literary tourism trip too! I think literature and its perception is interesting up here, when considered in connection to, & when it looks at, our contested history. Seamus Heaney, CS Lewis, the Brontës, Anna Burns, Wendy Erskine, Sinéad Morrissey; lots of greats :)
I need reviews of all of these! Foster has been made into a movie that’s been nominated for an Oscar! It’s called An Cailín Ciúin or The Quiet Girl in Irish :)
I love Irish writers. I have 2 shelves in by bookcase for Irish and Northern Irish writers. However...I am not a Sally Rooney fan 🙈 Nice to find authors that are new to me.
Your summing up of the Irish short story reminds me of one of my favorites, "The Short Stories of John B. Keane." It's not a new book but each story is a quiet gem. As an American whose maternal grandmother was born in Kerry, I can't resist.
I picked up small things like these at a books shop in a train station in Munich last winter by surprise and I was astonished how beautiful it's written. So I will definitely read Foster soon ✌🏼
Foster was one of the books my class was assigned to study for our leaving cert in 2015. So strange that you're picking it up, makes me think of it differently now
Jack you need to read something by Donal Ryan!! A great Irish author who explores questions of mental health in rural Ireland. The Spinning Heart (a story told through multiple POVs, very character driven) or The Thing About December may be a good place to start with his work. Deep dives into the self conscious rural Irish minds and the age-old beliefs that govern them...
“The Hearts Invisible Furies” by John Boyne is also Irish and one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s set Ireland for a lot of it and talks about things such as the Catholic influence on Ireland and the affect it has on the attitudes of society and it’s just a really good heartbreaking book
Hi Jack! So happy you enjoyed your trip to Dublin. I recently read an Irish book called Milkman by Anna Burns. It's about northern Ireland during The Troubles and the prose is so unique. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!
oh my gosh i had a mock english exam yesterday for junior cert (gcses basically) and the thumbnail of one of your booktok videos came up as part of a question😭😭 wish i was in dublin when you visited tho lol🥲🥲🥲
Read The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh! Quite different from this bunch. It’s a play about an author being interrogated about why his horrible stories are so similar to actual murders in his town. Very dark and very meta!
Another amazing Irish author is Louise O’ Neill! I would definitely look up trigger warnings before reading though, she deals with some incredibly heavy topics❤
@@aisling8092 Asking For It is an amazing piece of literature! Only Ever Yours was also great and so different! Almost Love was heart wrenching! After The Silence was gripping!!❤️
please PLEASE read some of Colm Tóibín's books-- absolute legend in Irish literature, and he's the master of intimate character studies. Brooklyn is probably his best-known book, but The Blackwater Lightship and The Master are sublime
Was waiting for you to pull a book by Niall Williams out of that bag. I've read 2 of his and have 3 more on my tbr shelf, on of which is Four Letters of Love which is being made into a movie. His writing is beautiful. Check him out :)
Jack I highly recommend May the Road Rise Up to Meet you by Peter Troy if you like Irish fiction. Here's the book description: Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War, May the Road Rise Up to Meet You is a story of four unforgettable characters who, together, illuminate the quintessential American experience. Ethan McOwen survived the worst of the Irish Famine and made the treacherous crossing to America, but his endurance is tested by the rough neighborhoods of New York until he discovers a passion for photography; Marcella Arroyo arrives from Spain a high-spirited society girl but defies her father to become a devoted abolitionist; and slaves Mary and Micah plot a clandestine escape on a cold Christmas Eve in the hopes of finding a better future. When war brings them all together, it will dramatically change the course of their individual lives.
Foster was on my leaving cert syllabus in 2017, so weird to see someone read it outside of that context 😅😅 you should watch the quiet girl if you like it, it was nominated for an oscar!!!
I'm curious what you'd think of Graham Norton's novels! All of his books are set in Ireland (half of the events of Home Stretch happen in New York, iirc), and he narrates all of his books himself. I think he's a great storyteller, Holding and A Keeper are my favourite books of his! They're more on the mystery side, not literary fiction, but I still highly recommend them!
My most favorite writers are Irish. Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. These two are actually extraordinary writers. Their books are very interesting to read.
The name jack in the books is apt. You must constantly have your head in a book. Even in terms of the classic novels, a significant minority were written by either Irish authors (Joyce, Wilde, Swift, Beckett) or english speaking authors of Irish descent (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Conan Doyle etc).
this is so sweet to watch as a long time irish viewer of jack
Should I sleep? Yes.
Am I gonna watch a British man talk about books by Irish authors at 1 in the morning?
Absolutely.
Irish writers (like Irish comedians) are very observational & amazing storytellers
Yes, foster is now an Oscar nominated film called The Quiet Girl! It's so good
You forgot to mention that the king of literature Oscar Wilde Himself was, indeed, also Irish 🙌
jack is in his normal people era
Again.
Studying Irish literature is such a pleasure. I only did in briefly as part of a performing arts course, but it was so impactful to trace the long history of storytelling that is uniquely Irish. When your history is made up of being disallowed from speaking your own language, and having to pass stories on through letter writing and other means because of mass immigration, you really learn appreciate the small stories from seemingly insignificant people that make up human history. I think that's really reflected in contemporary Irish literature. Lovely to see your appreciation for our lovely little island full of strange and soft stories
Irish girl here, I love Leonard and Hungry Paul! It was chosen for "one dublin one book" which meant everyone in Dublin was encouraged to read this during a particular month and there was lots of great book clubs and events surrounding it
I like how you try to diversify your reading. Along with Irish books from Ireland, it would be cool to also read Irish Literature from Northern Ireland like Milkman by Anna Burns or Cal by Bernard MacLaverty.
Milkman is a good book
Also Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane!! It's so good. The same with Deirdre Madden's novels like Hidden Symptoms and One by One in the Darkness
Deirdre Purcell is an Irish author who passed away suddenly last week. Her books were especially well known among the older generation and one of Collin Farrells first ever films was based on one of her works. Writers like her and Maeve Binchy (and obviously Roddy Doyle) were really iconic in terms of 80s and 90s Irish fiction (if you were interested)
Here's another Irish book rec: "'Out of Love" by Hazel Hayes is a love story told in reverse. It touches on some heavy themes and is quite sad at times, but I also found it beautiful and complex.
Just came to the comments to recommend this beautiful book! I adore this story
Hazel Hayes was quite active on You Tube a few years ago. I miss her wit!
@@peakae44 That's true! I still enjoy her content on Instagram!
Oh, and for those who didn't know- she's currently writing another book, and organising a writing retreat in Spain (for anyone interested, not just professional authors)! :)
YESSS this book is amazing!!
Panenka is STUNNING. My fave book of the year so far BY far!
I also recently noticed I love Irish authors too! I loved Foster - Claire Keegan is so good at just conveying powerful messages without bashing you over the head with them. The Colony by Audrey Magee is also a great read, and is not only by an Irish author but very much set in the context of Ireland and Irish history, with a strong theme of Irish national identity and language too.
Catholic Facts: “Ordinary Time” in the Catholic Church is all the non-holiday time in the calendar, when there’s no special observances like Lent, Advent, Easter etc. During this time the vestments that priests wear and banners in the church are green all over the world. Thus why the In Ordinary Time cover is green!
Love you giving recognition to some amazing Irish literary voices! Irish literature speaks to me so strongly, but I always assumed that was because I’m from Ireland, but it’s lovely to see you feeling the same way! Leonard and Hungry Paul is fantastic, I hope you love it.
PS another Irish lit rec: The Colony by Audrey Magee. A fantastic portrayal of the colonisation of Ireland - also nominated for the Booker last year!
Hey Jack! Just wondering if we're ever gonna get the content we've been paying for for nearly 4 months? Or if you're ever going to interact with us on discord like you promised? We tried nicely, you apologised and thanked us for holding you accountable, said you would be with us after you got home from Dublin, and then you've ignored the subscription since then (nearly a month).
We feel so incredibly frustrated and like we've been scammed.
I love his content but this is honestly a bit concerning, I hope he clarifies this soon
@@user-qu8zs7vs1x most of us have been paying for the membership since it started 3/4 months ago. We have not gotten a single piece of content, no Q and As, no reading livestreams, we've also had no daily questions for over a month. I cancelled my subscription but the fact that he's still offering it knowing that he hasn't uploaded a single members only video is disappointing to say the least. He said he was gonna upload a super long QandA to make up for it when he got home from dublin... still nothing.
Wow this isn’t what I expected from Jack at all 😟
Boosting, I have nothing to add this covers everything.
This is crazy 😢
I’m so happy to see you having a great time in Dublin and now we have a Book Haul. Yay 👏🏽
Hi Jack! We're running The Irish Readathon in March which is a month dedicated to reading more Irish literature. So it's really exciting to see this haul drop just before the readathon starts! Mr Salary is SUCH a good little book. I think you're right about how Irish fiction often focuses on a character study! Hope you enjoy all of these amazing Irish books.
Yes Jack we love a haul.. especially an Irish author haul 💌💘🇮🇪
Watching your video at the library just feels right 🫡
Love that you enjoyed Dublin! You should come to northern ireland for a literary tourism trip too! I think literature and its perception is interesting up here, when considered in connection to, & when it looks at, our contested history. Seamus Heaney, CS Lewis, the Brontës, Anna Burns, Wendy Erskine, Sinéad Morrissey; lots of greats :)
i've also fallen into the rabbit hole of irish literature and oh my, it's so comforting and cosy i love it :)
LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAULL!! I’ve been waiting for Jack to buy this, it’s amazing , one of my favourite books of last year
Can't wait for one of your bookstore tour and to actually see your on books on the shelves!!! 🥰🥰🥰
I need reviews of all of these! Foster has been made into a movie that’s been nominated for an Oscar! It’s called An Cailín Ciúin or The Quiet Girl in Irish :)
Just what I needed...... a new video from Jack ❤️👑
I love Irish writers. I have 2 shelves in by bookcase for Irish and Northern Irish writers. However...I am not a Sally Rooney fan 🙈 Nice to find authors that are new to me.
Omg I need your recs! I love Ireland, so I would like to read more books by Irish authors or set in Ireland but I also don't like Sally Rooney.
Your summing up of the Irish short story reminds me of one of my favorites, "The Short Stories of John B. Keane." It's not a new book but each story is a quiet gem. As an American whose maternal grandmother was born in Kerry, I can't resist.
I love all your videos but I’m definitely loving the Ireland vlogs 😅 a bit biased since I’m part Irish 😂❤️
Absolutely love Small Things Like These. Foster is on my TBR and I'm so excited about it.
Jack, please make the vid of all the books you've read in 2022. We've been waiting for so loooong
I'm also a lover of Irish books! Just the simplicity of mundane things they seem to be about is so soothing.
As a child of an Irish author, good.
I picked up small things like these at a books shop in a train station in Munich last winter by surprise and I was astonished how beautiful it's written. So I will definitely read Foster soon ✌🏼
i was so tired after work that when i saw this video’s thumbnail i said to myself „oh italy”
for the foster film,it's called an cailin ciuin (the quiet girl) and it's completely through Irish so subtitles probably needed.
Have you read "Brooklin" by Colm Toibin? Covers irish and New York, a beautiful book...
I read Foster and cried in public, such a moving little gem.
We talked about Leonard and Hungry Paul in my publishing course! My classmate absolutely loved it.
Adding my TBR🙌🏻
Irish gal here 🇮🇪 Love that you are reading Foster. A lot of people study it in school. Btw, the surname Kinsella is pronounced Kin-sell-a 💚
And Celtic is pronounced “Keltic”
And McMahon -muk maan
Foster was one of the books my class was assigned to study for our leaving cert in 2015. So strange that you're picking it up, makes me think of it differently now
Jack you need to read something by Donal Ryan!! A great Irish author who explores questions of mental health in rural Ireland. The Spinning Heart (a story told through multiple POVs, very character driven) or The Thing About December may be a good place to start with his work. Deep dives into the self conscious rural Irish minds and the age-old beliefs that govern them...
yayy love to see the irish author rep ☘
The only thing that I don’t like about recent Jack videos is how short they are. I always want more haha
should i go study? yes.
am i going to watch jack talk about books instead? absolutely.
Jack where is your every book you read in 2022 video💔💔💔
Omg Leonard and Hungry Paul! I loved that book!
I think you would enjoy “this spinning heart”
i just bought leonard and hungry paul one day ago and im so hyped to read it
Marian Keyes is class, I recommend her classic ‘Rachel’s Holiday’ about addiction and recovery :)!
“The Hearts Invisible Furies” by John Boyne is also Irish and one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s set Ireland for a lot of it and talks about things such as the Catholic influence on Ireland and the affect it has on the attitudes of society and it’s just a really good heartbreaking book
Hi Jack! So happy you enjoyed your trip to Dublin. I recently read an Irish book called Milkman by Anna Burns. It's about northern Ireland during The Troubles and the prose is so unique. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!
My introduction to Irish literature, 30 years ago, was Flann O'Brien's "The Poor Mouth". O'Brien's world is gorgeous, surreal, and highly addictive!
Sound awesome Jack! ❤❤❤
I just listened to Beautiful World where are you. So good
As an Irish person the recent content has been👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Cant wait to read these I love Irish authors too!!
there must be something magical in their water because i’ve never read a bad book by an irish author 😌
Can't agree more, Irish movies, books, Irish coffee, Irish actors.... ❤❤also those french flaps ❣
Have a wonderful weekend Jack ❤
oh my gosh i had a mock english exam yesterday for junior cert (gcses basically) and the thumbnail of one of your booktok videos came up as part of a question😭😭 wish i was in dublin when you visited tho lol🥲🥲🥲
In the ordinary time sounds amazing and can’t wait to read it ❤
editors should really inspire themselves from you conserning advertising books because now I really wanna read every books mentioned in this video 😭
Read The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh! Quite different from this bunch. It’s a play about an author being interrogated about why his horrible stories are so similar to actual murders in his town. Very dark and very meta!
Different in that he's not Irish
Another amazing Irish author is Louise O’ Neill! I would definitely look up trigger warnings before reading though, she deals with some incredibly heavy topics❤
Yep definitely, “Asking for it” is such a great book but definitely deals with heavy topics
@@aisling8092 Asking For It is an amazing piece of literature! Only Ever Yours was also great and so different! Almost Love was heart wrenching! After The Silence was gripping!!❤️
I loved Only Ever Yours by her so much
@@triptinath5675 it’s so so good!!
Jack pleeease read Milkman by Anna Burns! It's set during the troubles in Northern Ireland, I think you'll love
please PLEASE read some of Colm Tóibín's books-- absolute legend in Irish literature, and he's the master of intimate character studies. Brooklyn is probably his best-known book, but The Blackwater Lightship and The Master are sublime
Foster is a classic for me it’s absolutely brilliant can’t wait to see what you think of it
Ireland is pretty cool. Would recommend visiting
Honestly thank you for broadening my horizon. Gonna start diving into Irish literature
Irish literature (together with Indian) is the best English language literature out there.
I think you would love Emilie Pine: Ruth & Pen. Set in one day in Dublin 💚
loving this Irish love
Should be editing a video but I'm watching Jack instead 🤣
You can participate in the Irish Readathon by reading some of these books ☘️🇮🇪!
On a similar vein to what he’s talking about at the end I think The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan is worth checking out
A big portion of my favorite fictions were written by Irish authors too! There's just something about them i guess
Ireland, one of the literary roots of the world 🌍
Dublin is a UNESCO City of Literature 👏
heyyy are you still going to rank your 2022 reads??
no he uses other goodread reveiews for his content to pretend he has read a book when we all know he hasn't. Owning books doesn't equal reading.
7:53 we love an unabashed literal double take
Was waiting for you to pull a book by Niall Williams out of that bag. I've read 2 of his and have 3 more on my tbr shelf, on of which is Four Letters of Love which is being made into a movie. His writing is beautiful. Check him out :)
He’s moving to Ireland folks 😂❤ he’s gonna end up sounding like he’s from Cork next
I loved Claire keegan new book it is amazing ❤
Jack I highly recommend May the Road Rise Up to Meet you by Peter Troy if you like Irish fiction. Here's the book description:
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War, May the Road Rise Up to Meet You is a story of four unforgettable characters who, together, illuminate the quintessential American experience.
Ethan McOwen survived the worst of the Irish Famine and made the treacherous crossing to America, but his endurance is tested by the rough neighborhoods of New York until he discovers a passion for photography; Marcella Arroyo arrives from Spain a high-spirited society girl but defies her father to become a devoted abolitionist; and slaves Mary and Micah plot a clandestine escape on a cold Christmas Eve in the hopes of finding a better future. When war brings them all together, it will dramatically change the course of their individual lives.
I love authors from all over the world 😊
Foster was on my leaving cert syllabus in 2017, so weird to see someone read it outside of that context 😅😅 you should watch the quiet girl if you like it, it was nominated for an oscar!!!
I'm curious what you'd think of Graham Norton's novels! All of his books are set in Ireland (half of the events of Home Stretch happen in New York, iirc), and he narrates all of his books himself. I think he's a great storyteller, Holding and A Keeper are my favourite books of his! They're more on the mystery side, not literary fiction, but I still highly recommend them!
An Irish writer I really like is Lisa Carey. I've met her too! I'm sad I didn't really enjoy Sally Rooney...wish I did. Just not my cup of tea though.
My most favorite writers are Irish. Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. These two are actually extraordinary writers. Their books are very interesting to read.
celebrity book reads: hozier!🇮🇪☘️
Jack you should also read The Colony by Audrey Magee!!!
Btw Foster was adpted into a movie the quite girl, its definitely worth a watch.
Irish Literature ❤️
You should read The Book of Evidence (The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy #1) by John Banville The writing is sublime.
Colum McCann and Emma Donahue have written some of my favorite books - both are Irish!
The name jack in the books is apt. You must constantly have your head in a book. Even in terms of the classic novels, a significant minority were written by either Irish authors (Joyce, Wilde, Swift, Beckett) or english speaking authors of Irish descent (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Conan Doyle etc).
Jack, you may be excited to know that Sally Rooney has ANOTHER short story called Concord 34 if you haven’t read it already😏
You should try turkish authors next!
the new popular booktok romance series, Binding 13, are also by an Irish author 👀😂
I finished The Colony by Audrey Magee recently and it was fantastic, would love to hear what you think of it.
Day something of asking Jack if he’s releasing last year’s recap video 👀