Biographies for St. Patrick's Day:
 

St. Patrick of Ireland: a biography by Philip Freeman

Damned to fame: the life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson

Michael Collins: a life by James Mackay

Yeats's ghosts: the secret life of W.B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox

Loitering with intent: The child by Peter O'Toole

Bono: in conversation with Michka Assayas by Bono, 1960-

Iris Murdoch: a life by Peter J. Conradi

Tip O'Neill and the Democratic century by John Aloysius Farrell

All will be well: a memoir by John McGahern

'Tis herself: a memoir by Maureen O'Hara with John Nicoletti

Citizen lord: the life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish revolutionary by Stella Tillyard

Rose Kennedy: the life and times of a political matriarch by Barbara A. Perry

Jonathan Swift: a portrait by Victoria Glendinning

James Joyce by Edna O'Brien

Angela's ashes: a memoir by Frank McCourt

Oscar Wilde: a certain genius by Barbara Belford