Irish Authors

Darren Shan / Demon Apocalypse (Large Paperback) Demonata - Book 6

 Hell is revealed in the sixth nail-biting, hair-rending, creepy cool episode of the Demonata... Fire! It's all around me, fierce, intense, out of control. I feel the hair on my arms singe and know I have only seconds before I burst into flames...

Sarah Crossan / The Weight of Water

From Carnegie Award winning author Sarah Crossan, a poetic and timely immigration story that combines first love, friendship, and persistent courage.Carrying just a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother are...

Wright, Finbar - Private Friends - HB Poetry Limited Edition 2001 - SIGNED & Dedicated

Finbar Wright has been a member of the Irish Tenors from 2000 to present. Private Friends is a collection of some of Wright's poetry published in 2001 and dedicated to his brother, Robert, who, at age 47, had died suddenly the same year...

Frank McDonald - The Construction of Dublin- HB 1st Ed 2000 Architecture Planning & Development

In this book, Frank McDonald . documents the scale of the challenge, drawing extensively on what is happening right now as a guide to the future pattern of Dublin's development. The debate about high-rise buildings is fully ventilated, as well as the...

Taafe, Frank - Athy Golf Club Centenary History 1906-2006 - Hardcover Co. Kildare

A handsome and well produced club history of Athy Golf Club, County Kildare, published on the occasion of the club centenary in 2006. Hardcover, with photographs in both colour and black and white, and with a full history of past members, captains,...

Gibson, W.H.G & McDonald, Joseph - A Century of Golf at Carlow : From Gotham to Deerpark 1899-1999 HB

A history of golf in Carlow, covering the centenary of Carlow Golf club, from the early origins in 1899, illustrated throughout, with coverage of tHe initial course at Gotham, and the move to the modern current location at Deerpark.  illustrated...

Dan Breen - My Fight for Irish Freedom - Anvil Press PB - Tipperary - War of Independence - Vintage 1964 Ed

A vintage paperback copy, published by Anvil Press, Tralee, of the classic account of the War of independence by Dan Breen - My fight for Irish Freedom. Original price €1.50 ', s Edgewear and creasing to the covers, light creasing to corners. Age...

Ó Suilleabháin, Diarmaid - Muintir - Hb As Gaeilge Gearrscéalta 1971

Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1971, cnuasach gearrscéalta leis un údar Diarmuid ó Suilleabháin.  As Gaeilge in iomlán atá na scéalta Ba as Béarra i gcontae Chorcaigh an...

Séamus Mac Grianna - Cith is Dealán - PB Mercier 1976 As Gaeilge

A Mercier press, 1976 (reprint) edition of Cith is Dealán by Donegal author Séamus Mac Grianna ( aka '' Máire''), with an afterword by Peadar Ó Donnell.  Text extirelay in Irish - as gaeilge san iomlán...

Pauline Hall - Grounds - HB - 1st Edition - Brandon 1983 Dublin 1950's 1950's

Pauline Hall was born in Dublin, Ireland. She spent periods of time in France, Italy, Spain and the United States before returning home to live in Ireland permanently. Having originally worked in the Irish public service, she now writes full-time, both...

Shelagh Jones - The Derrynalushca Dragon - PB Children's Press 1991 - Illustrated - Clare

A very tall tale indeed, and a delightful one involving shrinking powder which really works on people, as well as on a flame-throwing dragon afraid of tiny humans. It all begins during a Christmas vacation in the romantic tower-house in County Clare...

Augustine Martin ( Editor) - Soundings : Poems we did for our Leaving Cert PB

Soundings was first published in 1969. It was intended as an ‘interim’ anthology of poetry for the Leaving Certificate until such time as a more permanent volume could be devised. Twenty six years later it was replaced. In the meantime...

Maeve Binchy - The Lilac Bus & Dublin 4 - Omnibus HB Edition - Irish Life Classics Collection - Best of Maeve Binchy

A hardcover copy , an omnibus edition ( including two books previously published separately) - The Lilac Bus and Dublin 4 - here issued by The Irish Life Classic Collection, 1991.  Dublin 4 comprises 4 short stories originally published in the...

Paddy Devlin- The Fall of the N.I Executive 1974 - PB 1st Ed Northern Ireland

Published by Anvil Press /Kerryman, this is Paddy Devlin's collection of essays and commentary on the circumstances that led to the fall of the first Northern Ireland Executive in 1974. Paddy Devlin, formerly a union organiser,  was one of the...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2010 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

Terry Wogan - 2 Book Lot : The Day Job & Chat Show Host Extraordinary - PB Biography

Two books on the late Limerick born TV presenter , Terry Wogan, as follows : A paperback copy of a biography of Terry Wogan by Gus Smith, an associate of his from the early years at RTE and who spoke to a huge number of his colleagues and fellow...

Joe Broderick - Fall From Grace : the Life of Bishop Eamonn Casey - PB 1st ed 1992

Examines the story of Eamonn Casey from his childhood in rural north Kerry to his sudden resignation as bishop of Galway in May 1992. The author traces the evolution of Casey's life , describing his work for the homeless in Britain in the 1960's, his...

Pat Lynch - Clane's Golden Era : Gaelic Games 1985 - 2000 HB Kildare GAA

A hardback 1st edition history of Clane GAA, 1985-2000, by Pat Lynch - covering the County Kildare club. No ISBN, unpriced, hardcover with pictorial covers with titles in white to spine and front. Published by Clane GAA in 2007, illustrated in colour...

Muiris Ó Suilleabháin - Fiche Blian ag Fás - PB Kerry As Gaeilge - 1995 Edition Blaskets

As gaeilge in iomlán atá an leabhar ( the book is in the Irish language only) Published in English as Twenty Years a Growing.  Previous owner's name on front endpages, no underlining. The back cover is creased.  This is the 1995...

Damian Corless / Party Nation : The Strokes, Jokes, Spinners and Winners

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Joseph Lee & Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh - The Age of deValera - PB 1982 History TV Tie

A TV tie in edition with RTE, 1982 , of the book version of The Age of de Valera, published by Ward River Press, illustrated throughout with a number of unique and not previously printed photographs, some taken from vintage newsreel film.  Lee and...

Lee Dunne - Goodbye to the Hill - SIGNED PB - Dublin , 1986 Edition.

A signed paperback 1984 edition ( 21 years after initial publication in 1965) of Lee Dunne's Dublin classic Goodbye to the Hill, SIGNED and dedicated  For Mairéad, all the very best' This is a rich novel, narrated by young Paddy Maguire, of...

Eamon Dunphy / Strange Kind of Glory : Life of Sir Matt Busby and Manchester United (Hardback)

 This biography of Sir Matt Busby is, in many ways, also the story of Manchester United and the parallel rise and fall of English football over the last 50 years. The book contains revelations about the Munich Air Crash and the strained relationship...

Dermot Bolger / The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (Hardback)

 This volume features fiction published since 1970. Arranged in chronological order, the volume moves from the traditional to the futuristic. Authors featured include Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin, Patrick McCabe, Edna O'Brien, John...

Carolyn Swift - Robbers in the Theatre - Vintage Irish HB - Children's 1984

A small format HARDCOVER published by the Children;s Press, Dublin, 1984 of Carolyn Swift's Robbers in the Theatre, the fourth ( but standalone) book in her Robbers In ..series. Cover art  by Terry Meyler.  Stoicker residue on back cover. 

Patrick McCabe / Breakfast on Pluto (Hardback)

Set in Ireland in the 1970s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick "Pussy" Braden, an endearing but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown and aware from a very early age that he is different,...

Paul Durcan / The Laughter of Mothers (Hardback) Poetry

 "Thank you, O golden mother, / For giving me a life," says Paul Durcan in this brilliant new collection, a poignant tribute to "the first woman I ever knew". Sheila MacBride came from a political family - her uncle John MacBride was executed in...

Julian Gough - Jude, Level 1 - SIGNED Hardcover 1st Edition 2007

A signed hardcover first edition, of Jude, by Julian Gough, and published by Old Street Publishing 2007.  This is the tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan, who on his 18th birthday, sets off to discover the wide world and his true parentage. If...

John Scally / Funny Sports Stories (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Raymond McClean - The Road to Bloody Sunday - PB 1st Ed 1983 - Northern Ireland Derry 1972

A paperback copy, Ward River Press, 1983, fade to spine but internally unmarked. Doctor McClean witnessed the events on Bloody Sunday in January 1972, and the book is,  in his own words - 'not a political tract, rather it offers a heartfelt...

Seamus McRory - The Voice From the Sideline : Famous GAA Managers - 1997

Paperback,  some minor creases to corners on back covers.  Follows the Gaelic football careers of some of the managers who have contributed to the development of the game in the 30 years up to publication ( 1997) - Seán Boylan, Kevin...

Mount Sackville Annual 2015-16 - School Yearbook Chapelizod Dublin

The school annual/yearbook for the academic tear 2015-16, issued by Mount Sackville School, Chapelizod, dublin.  PB, with every class pictured, school tours, sports, events, staff and school buildings. Small section of paper curl to back corner of...

Goldstone, Herbert - in Search of Community : The Achievement of Seán O'Casey PB Mercier

Published by Mercier, cork 1972, a critical study and commentray of the dramas of Seán O'Casey, including detailed analaysis of his three great early worsk, The Plough and teh Stars, Juno and the Paycock, and Shadow of a Gunman. 

John Cronin- Somerville & Ross - Irish Writers Series PB 1972

A critical and biographical survey on the work and life of Edith Somerville & Violet Martin, the creators of some of the most popular and enduring Irish fiction of the late 19th and early 20th century, including the Irish RM series.  This is...

Paddy Doyle - The God Squad - HB 1st Edition 1988 - Irish Industrial Schools

Paddy Doyle's mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old...Paddy Doyle's...

Seamus Heaney / Electric Light

 Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a...

Joe Joyce & Peter Murtagh - The Boss - Charles J. Haughey in Government PB Irish Politics 1st Ed 1983

A paperback first edition , 1983 of the classic study of Charlie Haughey as Taoiseach in the early 1980's - The Boss, published by Poolbeg Press. Controversial and groundbreaking in it's time, it centers on the dramatic events of 1982 , a year that...

Pádraig Puirséal - The GAA in it's Time - A History - PB 1984 Ward River Press

First publised in 1982, this is a 1984 edition ( issued for the GAA centenary) of sports journalist Pádraig Puirséal's The GAA in it's Time.  Puirséal traces the issues and events that went into the making of the movement - its...

Ó Grádaigh, Eoghan - An Siondacáit - PB Crime Gaeilge Vintage 1969

A short crime novel as gaeilge, published by Sáirséal & Dill, 1969. An Chéad chló.  Light edgewear , and two inner book stamps - from a school library  -i nside both covers.   

Mainchín Seoighe - Portrait of Limerick - 1982 Local County History HB 1st Ed

A hardcover 1985 reprint of Mainchín Seoighe's Portrait of Limerick , originally published by Robert Hale Publishing in 1982.  Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, there's a small nick at the top edge of the spine, no...

Shane Ross / Wasters

 During the years when all seemed well with the Irish economy, a scandal bloomed in front of our faces but went mostly unnoticed: the scandal of public waste. Vast overspending on infrastructure (including a number of white elephants), extravagant...

Seán Ó Mulláin - Fir Chlaimh - PB 1976 Gaeilge YA in a Karl Uhlemann DJ

A paperback copy, first edition, 1976 of Seán Ó Mulláin's Fir Chlaímh ( translates as Sword Men), published by FNT.  No inscriptions, no other marks, binding is solid , light tanning to pages throughout...

Patrick C Power - A Literary History of Ireland - Vintage Mercier Press PB 1969

 A paperback first edition, Mercier Press, Cork,  1969, of Patrick Power's study of Irish literature and writing ( mostly concentrating ON Irish writing as Gaeilge, from circa 900 to the 1950'S . Also includes an outline study of Irish writing...

Liam Hayes / The Boylan Years (Hardback)

 Sean Boylan is the longest serving football manager in the history of the GAA. For 20 Stimmers he has walked the Meath sideline, and he has done so, always, in a warm, engaging manner - in direct contrast to the football teams he has sent into...

Patrick MacGill - The Rat-Pit - - Brandon PB

Published by Brandon Books UK, 1983, originally published ( as a sequel to Children of the Dead End) in 1915. MacGill was born near Glenties , County Donegal, in 1890, and had been a spalpeen and tatie hooker ( potato picker) in Scotland from the age of...

Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms - PB Short Story Debut Collection - BRAND NEW

A paperback copy, Stinging Fly Press, Dublin,  of the 2007 debut collection of short stories by Kevin Barry - There are little Kingdoms. Small format paperback, this is a 2019 reprint from the same publisher .    Kevin Barry received...

Mike McCormack - Solar Bones - PB - Tramp Press - BRAND NEW

Paperback edition of the award winning novel from Mike McCormack, Solar Bones. Later printing,  Winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize, and the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2016. Winner of the Dublin Literary award...

Diarmaid Ferriter - Judging Dev - The Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera - HB 2007

Eamon de Valera is the most controversial figure in modern Irish history and as this book argues, the most misunderstood. 'Dev' has been characterised as a stern, un-bending, devious and divisive politician, in scholarship and in popular culture. Here,...

Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016

On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of...

Roddy Doyle / Brilliant (Hardback)

When Uncle Ben's Dublin business fails, it's clear to Gloria and Raymond that something is wrong. He just isn't his usual cheerful self. So when the children overhear their granny saying that the Black Dog has settled on Ben's back and he won't be OK...

Roy Keane / Keane : The Autobiography (Hardback)

Roy Keane, captain of Manchester United and the Irish national team, was born in Cork in 1971. He signed for Manchester United from Nottingham Forest in 1993. In 2000 he was awarded the PFA Player of the Year 2000. His footballing intelligence and fierce...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2006 - Bliainiris Thobraid Árann PB

A paperback large format ( a4) sized, of the annual GAA Tipperary Yearbook, illustrated throughout. The 2006 edition, as is the norm with annuals, covers the events and matches of 2005. Creasing to the back cover, internally unmarked...