Further: The Coast Road is very funny, set in Donegal, at a time when divorce wasn't available in Ireland. Also heart-rending. Bit here about Alan Murrin.
I'm dithering about whether to buy the graphic novel Élise et les nouveaux partisans as an ebook (anyone know a good comic reader for Mac with which you can up the size of the frames?) or request the libraries to buy a few copies in English - Elise and the New Resistance - so everyone can read it. It's about les événements in Paris in 1968, and how the university students became radicatlised, but starts with a race crime against Algerian residents. It comes highly recommended.