The musical is based on the Irish novel of the same name but it is in the English language.

Hefting the Irish novel, he found it too heavy and put it aside.

My ignorance notwithstanding, I did arrive with a great yearning, derived from romantic Irish novels, to smell a turf fire.

By the 1880s, the main outline of the Irish novel had been drawn up.

(As in that other famous Irish novel, a wake climaxes "By the Lake.")

Ripley Bogle is probably one of the best Irish novels to have appeared in the last decade.

In 1934 Lennon won recognition as author of "The Laughing Journey," a bitter and brilliant Irish novel.

A brilliant Irish comic novel.

Among his books of the early 1970's, for example, is "Birchwood," which he calls an "Irish" novel.

To some, the Irish novel has become an international novel, Mr. McCann said.