✍️ Biography & Memoir · Ireland
Best Biography & Memoir Books from Ireland
Biography and memoir are the literature of real lives. Ireland has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in biography & memoir, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best biography & memoir from Ireland by editorial consensus.
#1
literary-fiction
Dubliners
James Joyce· 1914
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#2
classic-literature
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde· 1891
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#3
classic-literature
Intentions
Oscar Wilde· 1891
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#4
biography-memoir
Claude Monet
Daniel Wildenstein· 1943
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#5
biography-memoir
The plays of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde· 1905
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#6
biography-memoir
Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond
T. S. Grimshawe· 1829
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#7
biography-memoir
The social & political ideas of some great thinkers of the Renaissance and the Reformation
F. J. C. Hearnshaw· 1925
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#8
biography-memoir
The cabala
Thornton Wilder· 1926
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#9
biography-memoir
The Celtic twilight
William Butler Yeats· 1893
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#10
biography-memoir
Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism
Daniel Wildenstein· 1967
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#11
biography-memoir
Three Plays
Thornton Wilder· 1955
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100