{"id":5387,"count":18,"description":"Our experts have chosen the best books about Ireland and the history of the Irish people. Whatever book you're looking for\u2014whether books about the history of Ireland, or books by Irish writers\u2014we've got you covered.\r\n\r\nWe have recommendations for books by some leading Irish authors such as Samuel Beckett,<\/a>\u00a0James Joyce<\/a>, Bram Stoker<\/a>, Iris Murdoch<\/a>, Marian Keyes<\/a>,\u00a0Sally Rooney<\/a> and Oscar Wilde<\/a>, as well as history from the Celts<\/a>\u00a0and St Patrick<\/a> to modern Irish history<\/a>. We also have interviews exploring key issues such as Irish Unionism<\/a> and the Troubles<\/a>. For a short introduction to the history of Ireland, we recommend The Shortest History of Ireland<\/em> by James Hawes<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/europe\/ireland\/","name":"Ireland","slug":"ireland","taxonomy":"category","parent":5304,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5304"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5387"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5387"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}