{"id":194165,"date":"2025-12-16T05:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194165\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:38:13","slug":"the-best-books-of-2025-chosen-by-irish-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194165\/","title":{"rendered":"The best books of 2025 chosen by Irish authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nTop writers pick their favourite titles across the genres\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who's reading who? From top, Tommy Conlon, Marie Cassidy and Leon Diop; Miriam O'Callaghan, centre; and right, from top, Eoin O'Malley, Jessica Traynor and Eoin Devereux\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a4b2f4b6-f501-435c-b1d4-885318de36ba.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Who&#8217;s reading who? From top, Tommy Conlon, Marie Cassidy and Leon Diop; Miriam O&#8217;Callaghan, centre; and right, from top, Eoin O&#8217;Malley, Jessica Traynor and Eoin Devereux<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I find it so hard to choose just a few books as I love reading and have enjoyed many this year, but here are my top four. From Crown to Harp by my work colleague David McCullagh (Gill Books) is a fascinating account of the unravelling of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and how we broke away from the Crown to become a Republic. David is not just a brilliant broadcaster, he\u2019s also a fine historian, he carries his talents lightly and in this riveting book he makes history incredibly accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top writers pick their favourite titles across the genres Who&#8217;s reading who? From top, Tommy Conlon, Marie Cassidy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6992],"class_list":["post-194165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}