“How to Build a Boat” is the August 2023 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the ...

What it's about: Neurodivergent thirteen-year-old Jamie O'Neill wants to build a perpetual motion machine so that he can reconnect with his mother who died giving birth to him. His mission ends up ...

Poet and novelist Elaine Feeney is one of four Irish writers on the Booker Prize longlist this year, and her story of pain and loss raises some universal questions about parenting in a world falling ...