| Angela Bourke | Maeve Brennan-Homesick at the New Yorker [Jonathan Cape, 2004] |
| Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang [Faber and Faber, 2001] |
| William Cather | My Antonia [Virago, 1994] |
| Anne Enright | The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch [Jonathan Cape, 2002] |
| Alex Haley | Roots [Vintage, 1994] |
| Aleksander Hemon | The Lazarus Project [Picador, 2008] |
| Ronit Lentin | Songs on the Death of Children [Poolbeg, 1996] |
| Israel & The Daughters of the Shoah [Berghahn Books, 2000] | |
| After Optimism [currently not available] | |
| Thomas Lynch | Booking passage: we Irish and Americans [Jonathan Cape, 2005] |
| Domhnall Mac Amhlaigh | Dialann Deoraí [An Clochomhar, c 1960] |
| Frank McCourt | Teacher Man [Fourth Estate, 2005] |
| Micí Mac Gabhann | Rotha Mór an tSaoil [Collins, 2003] |
| Patrick Mac Gill | Children of the Dead End: the Autobiography of a Navvy [Caliban, 1980] |
| Cole Morton | Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets: a Journey from the edge of Ireland [Viking, 2000] |
| Barack Obama | Dreams from my father [Canongate Books, 2008] |
| Joseph O’Connor | The Irish Male at Home & Abroad [New Island books, 1996] |
| Star of the Sea [Secker & Warburg, 2002] | |
| Sweet Liberty: Travels in America [Picador, 1996] | |
| Joseph O’Neill | Netherland [Fourth Estate, 2008] |
| George Orwell | Down and Out in Paris & London [Warburg & Secker, 1933] |
| W.G. Sebald | The Emigrants [Vintage, 2002] |