P.I.’s of the Emerald Isle
“There are no private eyes in Ireland. The Irish wouldn’t wear it. The concept brushes perilously close to the hated ‘informer.’ You can get get away weith almost anything except ‘telling.'”
— Jack Taylor on the paucity of P.I.s in Ireland, in The Guards (2001) by Ken Bruen
- John Blaine by Vincent Banville (Dublin)
- Bernard Holland by Mike Shelley (Belfast)
- Karl Kane by Sam Millar (Belfast)
- Ed Loy by Declan Hughes (Dublin)
- Mystery Man by Colin Bateman (Belfast)
- Dan Starkey by Colin Bateman (Belfast)
- Jack Taylor by Ken Bruen (Galway)