Brand New Unused Books

H.P Lovecraft - The Randolph Carter Tales - HB - BRAND NEW

Hardcover in illustrated orange and brown boards, as issued without dustjacket.  Most of Lovecraft's tales were standalone and of the short fiction variety, but in the Randolph Carter Tales Lovecraft followed one character through a series of...

H.P Lovecraft - At The Mountains of Madness - HB - BRAND NEW

Hardcover in illustrated  mustard and black coloured boards, as issued without dustjacket.  To that flash of semi-vision can be traced a full half of the horror which has ever since haunted us' An expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong as...

Sharon Slater - 366 Days of Limerick - PB - BRAND NEW

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa ( Editor - William Casey) - The Fenian Movement - PB - BRAND NEW

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa is one of the best known leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), better known as the Fenian Movement. This organisation emerged both in Ireland and America in the late 1850s, with the goal of gaining...

Patti Popow & Katharin Lauckner - Princess Laya & the Wild Ghost Party - HB

Hardcover, published 2023, written by Patti Popow, with illustrations throughout by Katharin Lauckner. Originally published in Germany, this is an English language translation.  Princess Laya would love to dance at the grand ball in the royal palace...

Molly Hennigan ( Editor) - An Asylum For My Affections : Sketches of Maeve Brennan- PB - BRAND NEW

On the occasion of her mother's birthday, the Irish writer Maeve Brennan wrote a letter to William Maxwell describing the emotional landscape provided by her mother. She wrote: 'She gave me an "asylum for my affections" and I learned that my affections...

Emmet O'Connor - Rotten Prod : The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird - PB - BRAND NEW

James 'Dongaree' Baird, a boilermaker in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, was one of hundreds of 'rotten Prods', and thousands of Catholics, driven from their place of work by loyalists in 1920. The expulsions marked the end of Belfast's 'two red years',...

Aidan & Fergal Lenehan - Grit and Glory : A Decade at the Club - PB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the price.  This is a powerful story of Dublin’s only rural hurling and camogie club — a gritty, heartfelt journey through community, identity, and the quiet beauty of the game. Amateur...

Makana Yamamoto - Hammajang Luck - Illimicrate HB SIGNED DELUXE EDITION - 2024

Betrayed by their partner-in-crime, a former criminal spends eight years behind bars on a desolate prison planet. When offered early parole, they snatch up the opportunity. But waiting on the outside is the partner who sold them out, and she has a...

David Almond & P.J Lynch - Caoimhín agus na Lonta Dubha - PB

Nuair a théann Caoimhín chun cónaithe sa mhainistir, bíonn cumha air i ndiaidh a mhuintire agus an domhain taobh amuigh. Lá amháin, síneann sé a dhá lámh amach an fhuinneog agus...

Raymond Daly - Ten Faithful Years (1913-1923) in Song and Story - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 - OFFALY

Tracked shipping within Ireland via An Post is included in the cost.  A large format illustrated hardback, 512 pages, illustrated throughout.  This Historical Songbook tells the true story of the Irish heroes and their brave and daring deeds in...

Colm Ó Ceallacháin - Fiche - PB - BRAND NEW

Samhradh na bliana 1969, tugtar triúr ógánach le chéile ar thránna iarthar Chorcaí, triúr a n-athraítear a saol ó bhonn nuair a thagann an ceathrú duine ina measc, garmhac an Ghinearáil. Deich mbliana níos deireanaí a thagann deireadh leis...

Rónán Mac Con Iomaire - An Gluaiseacht : Scéal Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta - PB

An Ghluaiseacht: Scéal Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta - PB - 2025.  Tugann An Ghluaiseacht: Scéal Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta le chéile den chéad uair an scéal iomlán faoin nglúin radacach a...

Dave Moore - Dave's Bad Jokes 2 - HB - BRAND NEW

Dave Moore is back with more bad jokes! This family friendly, laugh-a-minute compilation has over 300 fresh jokes from Today FM's No.1 morning show:I played BONOpoly last night. It's like Monopoly but the streets have no name!A friend of mine got a job...

Roxana Manouchehri - This is Not a Cookbook - PB - BRAND NEW

This is not a cookbook uniquely blends memoir with food writing alongside evocative lithographic artwork. The vignettes in the book chronicle Manouchehri’s childhood growing up in Tehran in the 80s following the Iranian Revolution, the profound...

Gerard Shannon - 2 BOOK LOT - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic & Rory O'Connor - To Defend the Republic - 2 x PB - BRAND NEW ( With 1 Signed Bookplate)

2 books on revolutionary era figures from historian Gerard Shannon. ( both also available singly)    Book 1- Liam Lynch - To Declare a Republic - PB - BRAND NEW The first major academic study on a pivotal figure in Ireland's revolutionary era,...

Conor Forrest - Heroes of Light and Shadow - PB - BRAND NEW

Magic is real. But so are monsters.  Oisin dreams of being a hero, like theones he reads about in books. So when he overhears a plot for a midnight raid on a Dublin museum, he knows this is his chance.But Oisin soon realises that heroes must fight...

Gerard Shannon - Rory O'Connor : To Defend the Republic - PB - BRAND NEW - ( With Signed Bookplate)

Best remembered for his tragic fate during the Irish Civil War, Rory O’Connor was in fact one of the most indispensable IRA leaders in the fight for Irish freedom in early twentieth-century Ireland. He had several key roles in the revolutionary...

Patrick K Egan - The Parish of Ballinasloe : its History From the Earliest Times to the Present Century - HB 1984( Originally 1960 ) ( Kenny's Edition)

This is the full 1984 reprint edition , republished by Kennys of Galway from the 1960 original ( Clonmore & Reynolds)    The Parish of Ballinasloe by Rev. Patrick K. Egan in twelve chapters tells the story of a parish from the establishment...

Lisa Coen ( Editor) - An Alternative Irish Christmas - HB - BRAND NEW

Celebrate the darker season with new stories and essays from the best and most exciting Irish writers When shadows grow longer, when expectation weighs heavy, how do people in Ireland mark Christmas? A woman shops for a very particular Christmas dinner:...

Steve Pyke - Scribendi - Portraits of Irish Writers 1985-2025 - HB - BRAND NEW

Featuring over 100 captivating portraits of many of Ireland’s greatest contemporary writers, alongside conversations with each on their writing life, Scribendi is a landmark book of portraits of Irish writers by internationally renowned...

Kevin Smith - Injury Time - PB - BRAND NEW

Businessman Fenton Conville has it all sewn up, coasting through life with his mates and his money in a sleepy Northern Irish village. Until, that is, he wakes on his fiftieth birthday to an unexpected solicitor's letter and a shocking allegation that...

Margaret O'Sullivan - The Lismore Estate under William Robert Hood Rochfort in Counties Cork, Limerick and Tipperary - PB

In this study, using the words of both the land agent, William Rochfort (1847–1940), and the tenants on the Lismore (O’Callaghan) estate in Counties Cork, Limerick and Tipperary, the land agent–tenant relationship between 1891 and 1902...

Cormac Moore & Alan Tate - The Sweetness of Lemon's - BRAND NEW

Lemon's Confectioners used to have a slogan, "You cannot eat a better sweet". This Christmas you cannot get a more beautiful book, full of wonderful images. Lemon's Sweets were a Dublin based confectionery company, and one which will have fond memories...

Turlough O'Riordan & Jane Grimson ( Editors) - Irish Stem Lives - PB - BRAND NEW

Across artificial intelligence, climate change, food safety, transport and communication, the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are integral to modern society. Through a selection of forty-six lives from the Dictionary of...

Frank Hopkins - Ireland's Hidden Histories - PB - BRAND NEW

From the depths of our island’s past, to more recent booms and busts, Irish history is replete with mesmerising stories and intriguing tales. In this fascinating and often hilarious romp through the lesser-known facts of Irish history, Frank...

Izzeddeen Alkarajeh & Eman Aburabi - Jibrin - HB - BRAND NEW

Palestinian couple Izz and Eman Alkarajeh came to Ireland with their four children in 2016. They eventually settled in Cork and started trading at Mahon Point Farmers' Market, where their entire stock sold out in just two hours on their first day. One...

John Connors - Seán Hogan - His lIfe : A Troubled Journey - PB - BRAND NEW- 2019

Famously rescued by his more illustrious comrades at Knocklong railway station in May of 1919, Sean Hogan, the man central to the event did in time, become relegated to relative anonymity. This book re-rescues Sean Hogan and reveals a man that was...

John Connors - Dan Breen : The Man Behind the Myth - PB - BRAND NEW

Delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Dan Breen: The Man Behind the Myth - Tipperary's Famous Revolutionary.  Anyone with an interest in Irish history is aware of the legend of Dan Breen. Breen the fearless - and fearsome - warrior...

Amy Clarkin - What Walks These Halls & Who Watches This Plave ( 2 x PB ) PB ( BOTH WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATES)

A prickling sensation grew on the back of her neck, spreading up her scalp. It was the feeling of being watched. She whirled to face the doorway but it was empty. Raven O’Sullivan doesn’t remember what happened in Hyacinth House five years...

Úna Woods - A Spooktacular Place to Be - HB - BRAND NEW

In his moon-shaped park filled with silver moonlight,The Dublin Vampire wakes to the same familiar sight. ‘I’ve spent so many years in this creepy old tree,Is there a more spooktacular place to be?’ He agrees with his bat that...

Úna Woods - Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire - HB - BRAND NEW

In an old part of Dublin, right down by the sea, There’s a moon-shaped park with a creepy old tree.The Dublin Vampire lives there. The Vampire wakes up as the sun’s going down. He hops on the ghost bus and rides into town.Have you seen the...

William Shakespeare - Henry V - The New Penguin Shakespeare - PB

Henry V" is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War...

Larry Lynn Southard - Wayfaring : A Guide to Guidance - HB - SIGNED

This book (written by Cork member of the Society of Friends) Larry Lynn Southard and published in 2023 aims to provide a “handbook to help readers place themselves in a position that makes divine guidance a daily reality”. Sources of...

Jo Kerrigan - Stories From the Sea - HB - BRAND NEW

Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands have brought goods, ideas, invaders, influencers. Our legends, and particularly the imramma or magical...

Cal McCarthy - In the Shadow of the Big Fellow : The Commemoration, Commercialisation, Study & Politicisation of Michael Collins - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Cal McCarthy is a Cork based historian and civil servant. This new book, published by Clonakilty based Michael Collins House Museum with financial aid also from Cork County Council, takes a detailed look at the legacy and impact of  Michael Collins...

Sarah Robb O'Hagan - Extreme You - Step Up, Stand Out, Kick Ass, Repeat. HB - BRAND NEW

Hardcover, still sealed in publisher shrinkwrap. 2017, Harper Business Publishing.  As a child, Sarah Robb O'Hagan dreamed she could be a champion. Her early efforts failed to reveal a natural superstar, but she refused to settle for average...

Margaret Ward - Fearless Woman : Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW - 2019

This full-length biographical study - substantially rewritten and updated from the 1997 edition - of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century.  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, part of a pioneering generation, played a...

Bryan MacMahon - Calamity and Controversy - The Famine Years in Dingle & West Kerry - PB - BRAND NEW

'Absorbing first-person accounts of the hardship and also the heroism that occurred in Co. Kerry during Ireland's Great Famine of the1840s bring the period to life. Bryan MacMahon focuses on human stories rather than statistics as he depicts the...

Brais Lamela - What Remains - PB - BRAND NEW

Brais Lamela (b. 1994) lives between Galicia and New York. He is a PhD student at Yale University, where he works on comparative literature, cultural history, and critical thought. His debut novel, What Remains was the Galician literary hit of the year,...

Patrick Lonergan - Druid Theatre - 50 Years- BRAND NEW

This fully-illustrated and authorised history marks 50 years of Ireland's most ground-breaking and successful theatre company. Founded in 1975, Druid is a touring theatre company, anchored in the West of Ireland and looking to the world.   Druid...

Sarah Binchy - Sunday Miscellany : A Selection 2023-2025 - BRAND NEW

A beloved Irish institution, RTÉ Radio 1's Sunday Miscellany has been woven into the lives of listeners for over half a century. Following on from the bestselling 2023 anthology, this collection brings together some of the best broadcasts of the...

Natasha Mac a'Bháird - The Vanished Girl : A Sycamore Hill Mystery - PB - BRAND NEW

Sycamore Hill Boarding School, Donegal, 1963 Clare Rose and Molly are happy to be back at Sycamore Hill, getting ready for the school musical and training hard at hockey. When new girl Amy joins their class in the middle of term, she's a bit of a puzzle...

Méabh McDonnell - Any Way You Slice It - BRAND NEW

Sieve. Measure. Mix … Win For Carrie Quinn, baking isn't just a hobby: it's her future. Winning the Castlecreagh baking competition and becoming best young pastry chef in the country is the first step towards her dream. But when she and Dara...

Erika McGann & Gerry Daly - Puffling & The Stormy Sea - PB - BRAND NEW

A brave little puffling lives on Skellig Michael. It's a windy, stormy day - a perfect day for a wild adventure. But she ends up far from home! Can her new animal friends help her find her way back?

W.B Yeats - The Stolen Child ( Illustrated by Erin Brown) - HB - BRAND NEW

Written when W.B. Yeats was just twenty-one, 'The Stolen Child' remains one of his most popular poems. At this time, the young poet was inspired by the landscape of County Sligo and the legends and superstitions he heard from the locals there. 'The...

Rosamund Taylor - Filly - PB - BRAND NEW

From acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor comes a compelling, genre-bending coming of age story. Orla is discovering her sexuality in the hostile and misogynistic world of Ireland's school system; when her friend Muireann rejects her advances, she turns to her...

Rachel Finnegan ( Editor) - Memories of Gentry Houses in Skibbereen and Douglas, County Cork - PB - BRAND NEW

This book documents life in two gentry houses in County Cork from the 1860s to the early 1900s. It is told through the memoirs, written later in life, of three of the four Fleming sisters of New Court House, Skibbereen. These recollections were initiated...

Alan Fishbone - Animal : Notes From a Labyrinthg - PB - BRAND NEW

Animal is a radically uninhibited book that delves deeply into the muck and glory of life, confronting the enduring perplexities of love, art, and the human bondage to pleasure. At times exuberant and at other times dark and haunting, Fishbone’s...

Owen O'Shea - From Bullets To Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post Civil War Kerry- BRAND NEW

Civil War politics has defined the Irish political landscape for generations.The parties which emerged from the divisions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of1921 dominated elections for decades. The war cast a long shadow over partypolitics and elections in...

Amy Clarkin - Where the Shadows Hide - PB - BRAND NEW

The chill intensified, and Archer opened his eyes to see the candles extinguish one by one ...   PSI - Paranormal Surveyance Ireland - are in deep water. When the operators of a luxury cruise ship ask for their help with a series of unexplainable...

Gerard Siggins - Blowing the Whistle : A Rugby Adventure - PB - BRAND NEW

Rugby? Here in Ballyknockshinny? Sure no one would take us seriously,’ said Fiona. A rugby club is her friend Kevin’s idea to bring fun to their little town that summer. All the kids pitch in and it’s not long before the Bally K Foxes...