Top twelve postwar Irish novels

For The Daily Beast, Allen Barra tagged twelve of the best postwar Irish novels, including:
The Guards by Ken Bruen (2001)

Down the mean, green streets of Galway a man goes who is somewhat tarnished but definitely not afraid. Ken Bruen’s alcoholic, coke-snorting highly literate private detective Jack Taylor is the best dick in Irish lit, and no author in the country is more fearless when it