Morgan Llywelyn Books in Order

Set around the upheaval of 1066, this debut novel follows a Welsh noblewoman caught between love, loyalty, and conquest. Private choices and national history collide as Britain is remade.

Brian Boru's rise from younger son to High King drives this sweeping Irish epic. Llywelyn balances battles and statecraft with the personal rivalries and relationships that make power so costly.

As the world of Troy fades and new powers rise, Epona's life turns into legend. Love, wandering, and the roots of Celtic horse lore shape this myth-rich historical novel.

Amergin leads his people toward Ireland in a novel that turns early migration legend into lived experience. Poetry, war, and myth move together as newcomers confront the mysterious Tuatha De Danann.

Grace O'Malley comes alive here as a sea captain, clan leader, and political survivor. Llywelyn gives the famous pirate queen grit, ambition, and a fierce sense of her own authority.

This volume returns to the Ulster legends, following Setanta as he becomes Cú Chulainn and enters the fierce world of the Red Branch warriors. It is heroic, tragic, and full of looming fate.

Llywelyn continues her retelling of the Cú Chulainn legends, where love, feud, and duty all pull in different directions. The heroic world is glorious, but it is already bending toward tragedy.

Written for younger readers, this book follows Brian Boru from his warrior childhood to his rise as High King. Llywelyn makes a huge life feel immediate and easy to follow.

In Roman-era Gaul, Ainvar grows into the druid mysteries just as Caesar's conquest threatens his world. Training, belief, and war all converge in a story about a culture fighting not to vanish.

Told through Richard de Clare and Aoife, this novel turns the Norman invasion of Ireland into an intimate clash of love, war, and culture. The history stays big, but the emotions stay close.

Beginning with the defeat at Kinsale, this novel follows Donal O'Sullivan Beare as English pressure closes around the old Gaelic order. It is a hard, emotional story of resistance and loss.

After the catastrophe at Kinsale, Donal O'Sullivan Beare leads his people on a desperate winter retreat across Ireland. Hunger, pursuit, and loyalty drive this grim march through the end of Gaelic power.

Four linked stories, shaped by earth, air, fire, and water, explore humanity's bond with the natural world. Llywelyn moves from mythic beginnings toward disaster, always asking what people owe the planet.

Llywelyn reimagines Ireland's legendary warrior as an ambitious, gifted man who rises from a low place in society. The result is part hero tale, part coming-of-age story, and part meditation on fame.

This suspenseful novel for younger readers uses an eerie setting and a close sense of danger to explore fear, isolation, and courage. Llywelyn keeps the atmosphere chilly and the emotions very real.

In a far-future world that feels half medieval and half mythic, a boy called Silverhand learns he may be the one fated to resist Chaos. Ancient treasures, old enemies, and a dangerous destiny close in fast.

Ger Kelly sneaks into the Dublin Horse Show and finds himself drawn into a world of discipline, danger, and horses. His growing friendship with Suzanne forces him to imagine a very different life for himself.

After Brian Boru's death, his son Donough must protect both family and kingdom in a newly fractured Ireland. The novel carries Brian's legacy into a harsher struggle for survival and succession.

Silverhand's quest deepens as he hunts the ancient powers needed to keep Chaos from swallowing his world. The stakes grow larger, the magic older, and every alliance becomes more dangerous.

Part history, part cultural overview, this book looks at how Viking raids became settlement, trade, and lasting influence. Llywelyn shows the conflict, but also the ways Norse and Irish lives changed each other.

A Georgian house in Dublin binds together wealthy Sophie in 1776 and tenement boy Mickser in 1907. When each sees the other's ghost, they have to bridge fear and time before Christmas Eve turns deadly.

Llywelyn recommends one hundred books that can deepen an Irish American reader's sense of history, literature, and identity. It works as both a reading list and a guide to building a meaningful home library.

After surviving the Titanic, teenage Ned Halloran returns to Ireland and falls under Patrick Pearse's influence at Saint Enda's. His story leads straight into the Easter Rising and its sacrifices.

An annotated reading guide for people who want to explore Ireland through books. Llywelyn ranges across history, memoir, fiction, poetry, and reference, pointing readers toward a richer shelf.

This compact guide introduces major Irish rebels from different eras and backgrounds in quick, lively portraits. It is designed for readers who want the essentials without losing the human stories.

Set in the shadowy years before Rome's rise is secure, this novel blends Etruscan power, prophecy, and the legend of Horatius. It is ancient-world adventure with myth and politics pressed tightly together.

This short story collection shows Llywelyn working on a smaller scale, but with the same interest in wonder and unease. Fantasy, memory, and quiet strangeness run through the pieces.

Journalist Henry Mooney tries to report the truth as civil war and partition tear Ireland apart. His love for an Englishwoman makes an already brutal political year even more complicated.

Grace O'Malley, pirate, trader, mother, and war leader, fights to hold power on the western seas of sixteenth-century Ireland. Llywelyn gives her a fierce, adventurous life without sanding off the danger.

Ursula Halloran comes of age in a young Irish state shaped by civil war, Church control, and looming world conflict. Her fierce independence makes both public history and private life harder.

Eighteen-year-old Barry Halloran joins the IRA believing he can finish Ireland's unfinished revolution. What follows is a harsher education in violence, divided loyalties, and the human cost of the Troubles.

After the fall of Celtic Gaul, survivors carry druid knowledge toward Hibernia, hoping to save what can still be preserved. It is a migration story shaped by memory, loss, and stubborn belief.

Inspired by Patrick Pearse, John Joe and Roger want to fight in the Easter Rising, only to be told they are too young. Their disobedience pulls them straight into the danger they imagined from afar.

Barry Halloran, now a damaged but determined photojournalist, lives through the long shadow of Bloody Sunday and the Troubles. The novel brings the Irish Century sequence to the threshold of peace.

This graphic history follows Ireland from its earliest peoples through invasion, rebellion, and nationhood. It makes a long, contested story easier to grasp without losing the drama.

Llywelyn retells the life of Saint Brendan of Clonfert as a story of faith, ambition, and voyage. The book follows the man behind the legend as he is drawn toward the edge of the known world.

In seventeenth-century Roaringwater Bay, Tom drifts toward smugglers while his family's fortunes crumble. Boats, hidden loyalties, and whispers of treasure turn his search for belonging into real danger.

Llywelyn sketches eighteen Irish rebels, from Grace O'Malley to Michael Collins, in a compact, readable survey. It is a fast entry point into the people who challenged power across centuries.

When Rome pulls out of Britain, two cousins face the chaos in very different ways. One dreams of kingship, the other tries to build a community that can survive the world's collapse.

This brisk history revisits Brian Boru's life and the Battle of Clontarf with the pace of a novel. It is a clear, accessible way into one of the defining conflicts of medieval Ireland.

After the Gaels slaughter the rulers of the Tuatha De Danann, young Joss must gather what remains of his people. Myth, loss, and the fate of an old world meet in this Irish-inflected fantasy.

When plastic suddenly liquefies, the systems modern life depends on fail almost overnight. In Sycamore River, ordinary people scramble to survive the first shock of a catastrophe that is only beginning.

Sycamore River is still reeling from one global collapse when metal begins to dissolve. As the crisis tips nations toward war, a small band of survivors must hold together one day at a time.

After the Change and the war it helped trigger, Sycamore River's survivors finally emerge to rebuild. Then they discover a new threat, the air itself may be turning against them.

Owain Glyndwr rises against English rule in a sweeping novel of Welsh rebellion, loyalty, and hard-won identity. Llywelyn turns a national struggle into a deeply personal story of leadership under siege.