Query: 2017 or LGBT Irish novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
A Son Called Gabriel
Operation Trumpsformation
The Story of the Night
Skulduggery Pleasant: Resurrection
Carmilla
The Blackwater Lightship
Conversations with Friends
Hood (novel)
Days Without End (novel)
The Green Road (Enright novel)
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Master (novel)
Smile (Doyle novel)
Evidence from documents: A Son Called Gabriel: LGBT: As he grows up, Gabriel starts to suspect that he is not like other boys, and engages in a series of sexually oriented games with Noel, a young male friend.
Irish novels: Set in Northern Ireland in the sixties and seventies, this novel describes the coming-of-age and sexual awakening of Gabriel Harkin
Operation Trumpsformation: 2017 or LGBT Irish novels: Gay marriage is legalised in Ireland. Fionnuala, Ross's mother, is imprisoned, accused of the murder of her second husband. Ross's triplets develop an interest in soccer. Ross's father, Charles, aims to emulate Donald Trump and build a wall around Cork. Honor adopts a transgender identity, becoming "Eddie
2017: '''''Operation Trumpsformation''''' is a 2017 book by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and is the seventeenth novel in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.
The Story of the Night: '''''The Story of the Night''''' is a Bildungsroman by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín. The novel interweaves the personal story of Richard Garay, a gay Argentinian man with an English mother, and the political history of Argentina through the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Resurrection: is a 2017 young adult fantasy novel
Carmilla: '''''Carmilla''''' is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'' (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in ''The Dark Blue'' (1871–72), the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist.
The Blackwater Lightship: Irish novels: ''''The Blackwater Lightship''''' is a 1999 novel written by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
LGBT: She learns one day, that her brother Declan, who is homosexual, has been ill with AIDS for years, and refused to tell her until then.
Conversations with Friends: '''''Conversations with Friends''''' is the 2017 debut novel by the Irish author Sally Rooney, about two young women who become involved with an older couple in Dublin's literary scene. The novel was published by Faber and Faber and received critical acclaim. A television adaptation, also called ''Conversations with Friends'', was released in 2022.
The book was completed whilst Rooney was still studying to write and complete her master's degree in American literature.
The book was subject to a seven-party auction for the publishing rights. Rights were eventually sold in 12 countries.
Hood (novel): Irish novels: '''''Hood''''' is the second novel written by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, published in 1995.
LGBT: The story combines flashbacks giving the history of Pen and Cara's complex and tumultuous relationship with details of the various ways Pen feels and responds to grief, the reactions of people who do or don't know the nature of the relationship, Pen's feelings about lesbians in Ireland, and several decisions to come out to those close to her.
Days Without End (novel): Irish novels: The novel is narrated by Thomas McNulty, an Irish émigré who flees to Canada and then America to escape the Great Famine.
LGBT: In America he befriends John Cole and the two fall in love, working first, as young boys, as cross-dressing entertainers and then enlisting in the army and taking part in both the Indian Wars and the American Civil War.
The Green Road (Enright novel): LGBT: his fiancé as his repressed homosexuality comes to the fore during the AIDS epidemic.
Irish novels: by Irish author Anne Enright
The Heart's Invisible Furies: '''''The Heart's Invisible Furies''''' is a social novel by Irish novelist John Boyne and published by Doubleday in 2017. The story revolves around the life of Cyril, who struggles with his sexuality, but it takes on board a range of prejudice and intolerance in the Ireland of the past seventy years.
The Master (novel): Irish novels: is a novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.
LGBT: how he felt to turn cold with a writer friend he had been very close to previously and becomes a bachelor with an unresolved sexuality, certainly close to homosexuality,
Smile (Doyle novel): '''''Smile''''' is a 2017 novel by Irish author Roddy Doyle.




''The New Statesman'' said "Smile is a Trojan Horse. The tale of how a man got on with his life after an abusive childhood, in part by laughing at it, is a disguise: Doyle’s tactic is to puncture the comedy of Irish storytelling and show that it can camouflage horrific histories.