First Third Thursday PHS Irish Book Night

Written By Bill Gallagher

Portland Hibernian Society’s Inaugural Book Talk 

Presenters, Titles, & Authors 

November 20, 2025 


Ed Curtin – Forever by Pete Hamill 

Bill Gallagher – My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor 

Erin Walsh – In the Woods and The Hunter by Tana French 

Frank Holt – City of Bohane by Kevin Barry 

Jim Galluzzo – Last of the Donkey Pilgrims: A Man’s Journey Through Ireland by Kevin O’Hara &  Ireland’s Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlook and Disremembered by Turtle Bunbury 





Pat Casey – We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole 

Colleen Schultz – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Tim Birr – Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson 

Manus O’Donnell – Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

Ed Curtin – Northern Spy by Flynn Berry 

David O’Longaigh – Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 by Peter de Rosa  

 

 












 












 












 












 












 












 












 

 












 












 












 

 

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