I haven't read any Doyle yet so this would be my first and thanks for the rec on his other title HIMS. Some of the other Irish authors I've been interested in are Jamie O'Neill, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and Tomás Ó Crohan.
I'm really enjoying catching up with Irish authors in the last couple of years. Joyce's Ulysses has been one of my two Irish favourites so far despite its difficulty and the other is the short story Guests of a Nation by Frank O'Connor, highly recommended. Also thought Joyce's Dubliners was great as was O'Connor's short story collection My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels (it has some hilarious parts, doubly impressive for its age). And then two very different O'Briens - Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls was good but not great, a little memoir-esque slice of mid-20th-century sensitive rural Irish schoolgirl life, and I feel the same about Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds which I just finished a little over a week ago - technically creative and impressive and also funny but no Joyce (who partially influenced him - it seemed to me like a large part of the style was a response to/a skewering of/a partial imitation of Joyce).
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