David Ireland Popular Books
David Ireland Biography & Facts
David Ireland (born 1976) is a Northern Irish-born playwright and actor, known for his award-winning plays Cyprus Avenue and Ulster American. Early life and career Ireland was born in Sandy Row, Belfast, but grew up in Ballybeen, Dundonald, County Down, where he attended Brooklands Primary School. He then attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, before receiving training at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2009, Ireland's What The Animals Say was produced by Òran Mór in Glasgow. In 2010, Everything Between Us, first produced by Solas Nua and Tinderbox Theatre Company, was performed in Belfast, Scotland and Washington, D.C. It won the Stewart Parker Trust BBC Radio Drama Award, and the Meyer-Whitworth Award for Best New Play. In 2016, Ireland's Cyprus Avenue premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. It was awarded the 2017 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play, and the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama. The play then transferred to The Public Theater, New York City, the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and the Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast. It returned to the Royal Court in February 2019 for a four-week run, and had its Australian debut in May 2019 at Sydney's Old Fitzroy Theatre. The Abbey Theatre performance with Stephen Rea was ranked by The Guardian writers as the 27th best theatre show since 2000. In 2018, Ireland's satirical dark comedy Ulster American was performed by Traverse Theatre as part of their Edinburgh Festival Fringe season. It was awarded the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award for that year. In 2019, it was nominated for Best Female Performance, Best New Play, Best Production, and Best Male Performance at the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, winning the first three. It had its London debut at Riverside Studios in 2023 in a production starring Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland. Ireland had played the role of the character Claire’s father in 2018's Derry Girls. He wrote the upcoming 2023 Sky Atlantic series The Lovers. Personal life Ireland met his wife Jennifer while he was acting in Glasgow, where they now live with their children Ada and Elijah. Selected works What The Animals Say (Òran Mór, Glasgow, 2009) Everything Between Us (Tinderbox Theatre Company, 2010) Summertime (Tinderbox Theatre Company, 2013) Can't Forget About You (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 2013) Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court Theatre, 2016) The End of Hope (Soho Theatre, 2017) Ulster American (Traverse Theatre, 2018) Yes So I Said Yes (Finborough Theatre, 2021) Selected awards 2017 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play – Cyprus Avenue 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama – Cyprus Avenue 2018 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award – Ulster American 2019 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland for Best Female Performance, Best New Play, and Best Production – Ulster American Selected filmography Shetland (2 episodes, 2014) Finlay Caulfield - S2 Ep5/6 Still Game (1 episode, 2016) Derry Girls (3 episodes, 2018-2022) References External links David Ireland at IMDb . Discover the David Ireland popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Ireland books.
Best Seller David Ireland Books of 2024
-
My Sporting Heroes
Sir Ian BothamIn My Sporting Heroes, one of the country's great sportsmen, Sir Ian Botham, draws up his template of what he believes makes a true sporting hero.Botham singles out the ten qualiti...
-
The Best Golf Stories Ever Told
Julie Ganz & Tripp BowdenThis book is a comprehensive collection of stories, each of which captures a different facet of the game of golf. Some of the best golfers in the history of the sport as well as th...
-
Testament of Youth
Vera BrittainThis classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE.In 1914 Vera Brittain w...
-
First Confession
Chris PattenChris Patten was a cradle Catholic (hence First Confession), became on the most prominent Tory 'Wets' of the 1980s and 1990s, and went on to hold a series of prominent public offic...
-
How Ireland Really Went Bust
Matt CooperThe definitive account of the tumultuous events that led to Ireland going broke in 2010From the night the Irish government guaranteed the debts of Irish banks in September 2008 Ire...
-
Remembering Peasants
Patrick JoyceA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is va...
-
Can-Cans, Cats and Cities of Ash
Mark TwainOne of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's (18351910) account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of...
-
The Bookseller
Mark PryorWho is killing the celebrated bouquinistes of Paris? Maxan elderly Paris bookstall owneris abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks...
-
Irish
John BurrowesIrish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the midnineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming t...
-
Closed Casket
Sophie Hannah & Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot, the world's most famous detective, returns in this ingenious, stylish, and altogether delicious mystery from the author of the instant bestseller The Monogram Murde...
-
Somewhere in Ireland, A Village is Missing an Idiot
David Feherty & Shawn CoyneSomewhere in Ireland, A Village is Missing an Idiot is a collection of Feherty’s most popular Golf Magazine columns, intermingled with his most outrageous work from Golfonline.com....
-
The Maker of Swans
Paraic O’DonnellA New York Times BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER A CrimeReads & Book and Film Globe BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA Tor.com BEST BOOK OF JUNE “Truly bewitching.” David Mitc...
-
Irish Male At Home And Abroad
Joseph O'ConnorThe Irish Male at Home and Abroad is the hilarious sequel to Joe O'Connor's bestseller The Secret World of the Irish Male. From flirting lessons in downtown Manhattan to being offe...
-
The Catholics
Roy HattersleyThe story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history – 'A firstclass storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred yea...
-
Dear NHS
Various AuthorsTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCurated and edited by Adam Kay (author of multimillion bestseller This is Going to Hurt), Dear NHS features 100 household names telling their ...
-
A Scottish Football Hall of Fame
John CairneyThose who have been football supporters all their lives can never forget the first match they ever saw, although they might not recall the result. This is because it is the players...
-
Feral Youth
Shaun David Hutchinson, Suzanne Young, Marieke Nijkamp, Robin Talley, Stephanie Kuehn, E. C. Myers, Tim Floreen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Justina Ireland & Brandy ColbertTen teens are left alone in the wilderness during a threeday survival test in this multiauthored novel led by awardwinning author Shaun David Hutchinson.At Zeppelin Bend, an outdoo...
-
The Harp and the Shield of David
Shulamit EliashEliash examines the relationship between Ireland and the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from the context of Palestine’s partition and the delay in Ireland’s recogni...
-
David Ireland Plays 1
David Ireland'Playwright David Ireland challenges people to draw lines between what they find funny and what they find outrageous' (Sydney Morning Herald) This first collection of play...
-
Brexit and Ireland
Tony Connelly'Excellent' Sunday TimesBrexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreignpolicy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any ar...
-
Anglo Republic
Simon CarswellAs late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world. By 2008, it was bust. ...
-
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Colm TóibínFrom Colm Tóibín, the formidable awardwinning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives an...
-
Plot Twist
Breea Keenan'A heartwarming bookish romcom . . . perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Catherine Walsh' Sunday MailWhat's a love story without a good plot twist . . . ? 'This book honestly had m...
-
A Brief History of Ireland
Richard KilleenFrom the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries.Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, wa...
-
I Never Knew That About Wales
Christopher WinnThe inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is a spellbinding journey around Wales by bestselling author Christopher Winn. Packed full of legends, firsts, b...
-
Showtime
Pat LeahyIn boom and in bust, Ireland has been led by Fianna Fáil. Showtime gets behind the party's remarkable dominance of the political landscape and leading political writer Pat Leahy, t...
-
The Death of a Century
Daniel RobinsonGreenwich, Connecticut, 1922. Newspaper man Joe Henry finds himself the primary suspect when his friend, fellow reporter Wynton Gresham, is murdered. Both were veterans of French b...
-
The Power of Positive Idiocy
David FehertyDavid Feherty, expro golfer and current commentator at NBC Sports and the Golf Channel, delivers a laughoutloud funny and totally uncensored collection of rants sure to surprise an...
-
One in Christ
David D. Ireland & R.T. Kendall“David Ireland’s new book distills over thirty years of experience … into a practical guide for others to use. If you feel God is calling you to unite rather than divide … One in C...
-
The House That Made Us
Alice CavanaghOne Day meets Up: The House That Made Us is a love story – and a life story – told through a series of photographs and based on a true story When Mac and Marie marry and fin...
-
From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain
Micheal O'MuircheartaighMicheál Ó Muircheartaigh is best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms – sporting and nonsporting – go far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In his new ...
-
When She Was Gone
S.A. DunphyCriminologist David Dunnigan's niece has been missing for eighteen years without a trace until now.A HEARTSTOPPING CLUESomeone has sent Dunnigan a shoe one Beth was wearing the d...
-
In Secret Service
Mitch SilverIn this debut of a uniquely talented novelist, Ian Fleming's real world of spies, love, passion, and danger is brought to life when a young woman inherits Fleming's longhidden acco...
-
In the Shadow of the Eighth
Peter BoylanIn over forty years in medicine seven of these as Master of the National Maternity Hospital obstetrician Peter Boylan was at the births of more than 6,000 babies. He saw women an...
-
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt
Rosalie DavidThe ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile their life source was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into th...
-
After She Vanished
S.A. Dunphy'A cracking debut thriller packed with great characters that leaves the reader wanting more' Irish IndependentFive people living on Dublin's streets have gone missing and criminolo...
-
The Governor
John LonerganIn his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness. It is an unexpected theme...
-
Target Basra
Mike RossiterIn the dead of night on 20 March 2003, Royal Navy Marines from 40 and 42 Commando board a fleet of twenty helicopters. With faces blackened and mouths dry at the thought of what li...
-
Walking in Ireland
Christopher SomervilleWalking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland. In this beautifully written and superbly researched guide, Christop...
-
NYPD Green
Luke WatersIn this “inspiring inside tour of the human toll, and the satisfactions of becoming a cop” (The New York Times), Irish immigrant and retired NYPD homicide detective Luke Waters tak...
-
The Secret
Deric HendersonThe killer dentist, his mistress, how they murdered their spouses and how they almost got away with it. Now a major fourpart ITV drama starring James Nesbitt: 'Unswitchoffable' Gu...