Frank Delaney Books In Order

Publication Order of Ireland Books

Publication Order of Storytellers Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Chapbooks

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Frank Delaney was a historical fiction author, a journalist, radio and TV broadcaster, lecture screenwriter, Playwright, and a judge of numerous prizes. He was born and raised in County Tipperary, Ireland. He stayed in England for over twenty-five years before relocating to the US in 2002.

He had gotten himself a name as the most eloquent man in the world after interviewing over 3500 most prominent writers. Frank Delaney married Diana Meier, who was a writer and a marketer. Delaney died on February 22, 2017

Ireland
In the novel, stories make up the center of Ireland’s history and mythology. It features the story of Ronan O’Mara, who travels through the countryside looking for an itinerant storyteller, A Seanchai, due to his obsession with him since he was a young boy.

The story opens with the arrival of a man who’s said to be Ireland’s itinerant storyteller, where he starts describing the evolution of the prehistoric new Grange. His audience is so thrilled just as The nameless wanderer shapes Ronan, who finds some interest and his life from that day.

The last such storyteller visits the home of a nine-year-old boy, Ronan, and casts a spell over the boy within the three nights he spends there. One of his stories gets Ronan’s mother upset and demands him to leave due to his blasphemy, but nothing changes because the damage is already done.

Once Ronan is old enough, he sets on a mission in the footsteps of the storyteller to look for him and learn more about his stories. He goes all over the country as he’s always late to catch the storyteller. The three nights the storyteller spent at their home changed his life forever, setting him on a track he will follow years later.

Ronan is a protected child who has no awareness of some things. His parents and aunt chose not to tell him about the family’s secret. The author shows his intimacy and distance from his family by showing how adults around him decided to keep a secret from him and his personality.

In his search, he’s looking for facts and fiction about the country, as the mysterious storyteller said. Some of the stories Ronan has heard about include the battle of the Boyne, the creation of the Handel’s Messiah in Dublin, St. Patrick, New grange Strong bow, and Easter Uprising, among others.

Ronan’s feelings of helplessness and anger gave him the purpose of pursuing the famous storyteller. However, choosing to chase the elusive storyteller, he might be chasing a death vocation.

The author allows the reader to learn about the land laws, penal laws, and depredations enforced on the Irish people by the British. The novel focuses on the beauty and ancient profundity of the Island. Some things will keep the reader hooked, like the linguistic history and the city that aches with great memories of those who made it long during those days forced and never to be traced in the new world.

The author beautifully expresses the pain of loss, love, forgiveness, the beauty of the landscape, the epic of a nation’s building, and the trouble of an ordinary 20th-century family and poets.

The novel is enriched with historical character and lyrical language. It’s a chronicle of a nation and the coming of age of a young boy. It’s a pastoral depiction of the simple life lived by a storyteller while wandering the land while telling stories in exchange for a room. Fans of historical fiction will love the book more.

Delaney explores the darkest moments of history to make this fantastic story. This remarkable novel is a blend of myth, history, and imagination. The tales of Ireland, both modern and ancient, form the book’s heart. He has skillfully crafted a backstory that links the whole story together in an amazing way.
The narration is excellent, making the storytelling of the history of Ireland amazing and unique. It forms a layer in the beginning of the world and the sparkle in it as the reader can trace the elements of most of the tribes on earth.

Half of the book contains the stories themselves told by different people like Ronan, the storyteller, a history professor, and other people Ronan meets while looking for the storyteller. The stories are brief and are in a sequence as history moves.

The stories are epic as they span centuries without missing anything and are later weaved together to form a unit that touches all sides of history. It explores the days when families used to speak to each other sharing their histories while passing them on to generations.

The storyteller’s stories will keep you anxious, always craving to know more about the history of Ireland.
Shannon
During the summer of 1922, Robert Shannon, a young American hero of the Great War and a Marine chaplain, visits Ireland. Robert Shannon is a catholic priest and victim of PTSD that began after the battlefields of France and then within the hidden corners of the church after the war.

He’s still in shock, and his mentor wishes that a mission Robert had always wanted to look for his family is rooted along the river banks of River Shannon, his namesake river.

He hopes the journey will help restore his life and vocation. However, there seems to be more to the story when he notices unexpected corruption in the archdiocese of Boston upon return from the war.

As he travels as an innocent victim, trying to heal, he learns that powerful men in the church planned the journey, and the cause of his shell shock might be more dangerous than he expected.

He was sent to Ireland in exchange for his silence forever. While Robert endures the danger of the civil war in Ireland, the country’s people and myths, and traditions unfold. The river Shannon offers comfort to the man who feels much inspired by the advice of his mentor.

As he wanders through the country, he is hunted, tracked, and protected by people who look forward to benefiting from his mental recovery.
Delaney has crafted a realistic and complex character and uses him to explore Ireland’s history, politics, and beauty.