https://mnanaheireann.com/reco_category/books-family-hobbies/ Irish Women’s Community Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:58:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://mnanaheireann.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/elementor/thumbs/Mna-favicon-qp7xubgyn3g8udho5khzdbdxrgqh20dm539rcqqnas.png https://mnanaheireann.com/reco_category/books-family-hobbies/ 32 32 https://mnanaheireann.com/recommandations/the-secret-lives-of-mr-mills-by-marieann-mc-loughlin-dwyer/ https://mnanaheireann.com/recommandations/the-secret-lives-of-mr-mills-by-marieann-mc-loughlin-dwyer/#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:53:33 +0000 https://mnanaheireann.com/?post_type=recommandations&p=35496 A man driven by an absolute belief in himself and his own desires, his trail of self-importance. Set in New York, discover the multiple man-lives and man-lies as they are revealed.

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]]> https://mnanaheireann.com/recommandations/magpie-by-marieann-mc-loughlin-dwyer/feed/ 0 https://mnanaheireann.com/recommandations/champion-poems-for-my-father-dermot-by-patricia-nolan/ https://mnanaheireann.com/recommandations/champion-poems-for-my-father-dermot-by-patricia-nolan/#respond Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:33:32 +0000 https://mnanaheireann.com/?post_type=recommandations&p=33860 Author and Mná, Patricia Nolan brings us this bilingual collection of poetry, that charts her father Dermot’s life from his days as a prize-winning cyclist, a hole in one golfer, motorbike and car enthusiast, Power Station Mechanical Projects Manager and Irish Nationalist who loved history. He survived a stroke, supported by his family. Flying from Paris, Patricia took him for drives in his Renault 12 TS with stop-offs at Dublin pubs for a pint of Guinness and a cigar. She writes about a father full of energy, an original thinker, a caring, quiet, dependable man always present for his wife and family. 

]]> https://mnanaheireann.com/recommandations/champion-poems-for-my-father-dermot-by-patricia-nolan/feed/ 0 https://mnanaheireann.com/recommandations/thats-the-why-by-margaret-harvey/ https://mnanaheireann.com/recommandations/thats-the-why-by-margaret-harvey/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:17:28 +0000 https://mnanaheireann.com/?post_type=recommandations&p=33855 In her debut novel, author and Mná, Margaret Harvey takes readers on a heartwarming journey through a vanished Ireland. Through the eyes of several lovable characters, She tells a beautifully realised story that will remind readers of today of both the beauty and the hardship of those bygone times. It starts in 1969, when 7 year old Madge’s world changes when her mother becomes matron of a nursing home.

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