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Micheál Ó Conghaile ( Eagarthóír ) - Croch Suas É - Amhráin as Gaeilge - 6ú Cló -1998

An 6ú cló, 1998 - ( ina bhfuil breis amhráin nach raibh sa gcéad chló i 1986 ) - eagraithe agus roghnaithe ag Micheál ó Conghaile, agus foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht , Béal a Daingin,...

Luca Tedde - Stepping Into the Stock Market - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW, PUBLISHED July 2026.  The stock market is one of the most powerful tools for building long-term wealth. If you've ever wanted to invest or wondered if your money could be working harder,...

Anthony Cronin - Dead as Doornails - PB

Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin’s account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would...

Mary Feehan / Book of Irish Children's Jokes (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Why did the Kerry boy push his father in the fridge?What is the best food for athletes?What runs all the way from Cork to Belfast and still never moves?What nationality was Santa?What usually runs in...

Terry Fagan & The North Inner City Folklore Project - Dublin Tenements : Memories of Life in Dublin's Notorious Tenements - PB 2013

Life in Dublin city's notorious historic tenements as told by the people who lived in them. Collected by Terry Fagan of the North Inner City Folklore Project and author of “Monto”. Published 2013...

James H Cotter - Tipperary - HB - 1929

The first ( and sole) edition, published by Devon - Adair New York, 1929. In the original pale blue dustjacket, which is edgeweorn and scuffed, rustmark on front cover ( over the T in...

Richard Murphy - Selected Poems - PB - 1979 - SIGNED

First paperback edition, 1979, Faber UK, photo of author to cover. 64 pages.  In excellent condition, no marks or damage noted.  Poems dealing with nature, the past, farm and rural life (many in or...

Pat Ingoldsby - How Was It For You Doctor? - PB - Poetry - 1994

A collection of poems, Pat's first Willow Publications book ( his own imprint named, naturally, after his cat) ​Willow Publications, 1994, 150 pages. Slight sunfade to cover and spine. 

Padraig O'Malley - The Uncivil Wars : Ireland Today - PB ( US Edition) 1983

The Uncivil Wars, first published in 1983, continues to stand as one of the most thorough and balanced accounts of the troubles in Northern Ireland available. Based on original interviews by the...

Bob Curran - A Bewitched Land : Witches and Warlocks of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW

Witch trials in the European or American sense were not common in Ireland although they did occur. In this book the stories of four remarkable court cases that took place from the fourteenth to the...

Niall Ó Dónaill - Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla PB ( Irish English Dictionary ) An Gúm - BRAND NEW

First published in 1977, this is a paperback reprint. Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla has been the primary orthographical source for the spelling of the language since it was published and provides the most...

Micí Sheáin Néill Ó Baoill - Maith Thú a Mhicí - HB - BRAND NEW

Páraic Kerrigan - Pop Culchie : The Irish Popular Culture that made us - HB - BRAND NEW

Uncover the oddities and eccentricities at the heart of Irish popular culture and society, providing a kaleidoscopic view of both major and obscure moments in recent Irish culture.  Pop Culchie is a...

Declan Murphy - One Man and His Dog : On a Quest for Ireland’s Wild Orchids- BRAND NEW

In this wonderful new work of nature writing, naturalist Declan Murphy undertakes an unforgettable journey across Ireland in search of its rarest and most beguiling orchids, accompanied always by his...

J.W.H Carter - Murder in the Midlands 1862-1915 - PB - SIGNED - 2005

Published independently, 2005, signed by the author. Covers 69 19th century historical crime cases across a number of Irish counties - Offaly, Laois, Tipperary, Kilkenny and West Wicklow among those...

Piccolomini - Secret Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1988

Hardcover, slipcased. Previous owner's name and adrres label on inside front cover, as well as name written on blank endpage. A few inner pages are creased ( from corners having been turned...

Seán Ó Tuama (Eagarthóir) - Caoineadh Art Uí Laoghaire - PB As Gaeilge Filíocht 1999 - USED COPY

Athchló 2021, ar an mbunleagan a rinne Seán ó Tuama ar an gcaoineadh a scríóbh Eibhlín Dubh nuair a bhásaigh a fear céile, Art ó Laoghaire.  94 pp, foilsithe ag An Clóchomhar Teoranta, 1962, scríobhú...

Maurice Harmon / Sean O'Faolain (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Jonathan Swift / Ladybird Classics (Hardback)

This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively...

Ireland Tourist Board / Bord Failte Ireland Guide (Large Paperback)

The new edition of this essential guide is now organised by the seven principal tourist regions: the east, the south, the Shannon, the west, the north-west, Northern Ireland and the midlands. For...

Michael Mullen / The House of Mirrors (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Gregory Martyn returns to his estate in County Mayo to find his wife has died giving birth to Elinor, their fourth child. His hatred towards Elinor is undiminished by the passing years and is shared...

Rose Doyle / Perfectly Natural (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Worldly and intelligent, Sive Daniels is ill-equipped for rural Ireland until she meets Abbie Mansfield, a retired GP who knows the dark secrets and unsavoury truths kept hidden in the small...

James Stephens - The Crock of Gold : Vintage 1973 Pan PB ed - Irish Fantasy Classic

Part fable, part fairy tale, partly a telling take on Irish and Celtic myth, this is the 1973 Pan PB edition of The Crock of Gold, by James Stephens (1882-1950) . Introduction by Walter de La...

John Jordan - Yarns (PB - Poolbeg 1977)

Paperback, a collection of short stories  published 1977 ( most had previously been published elsewhere but this was the first collected edition)  Jordan was also a prominent academic and literary...

Patrick MacGill - The Red Horizon - PB 1984 (Originally 1916)

MacGill was a soldier of the London Irish Rifles. Injured in the battle of Loos in 1915, he married in the same year and on recovery returned to his regiment. Along with The Great Push, the Red...

Gay Byrne - The Meaning Of Life 2 : More Lives, More Meaning - HB - 2014

Following 2013'S bestselling collection of interviews from the RTE TV series The Meaning of Life, Gay Byrne is back with more big questions - and more interesting answers.With Peter McVerry, he...

Evgeny Shtorn - The Refugee Chronicles ( Translated by Alexandra Novitskay) - PB - BRAND NEW

When Evgeny Shtorn flees the rising tide of homophobia and authoritarianism in Putin’s Russia, he leaves behind his home and the life he has spent years building. Arriving at a reception centre on...

Brian Fleming - The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty - PB - BRAND NEW

  During the German occupation of Rome from 1942 to 1944, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organization for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. Safe within the Vatican state, he...

Patrick M. Geoghegan - Robert Emmet : A Life ( 2nd Edition) - PB - BRAND NEW

Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one of the most romantic of all Irish revolutionaries. He was the youngest son of Ireland's state physician and was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin. Like...

Patrick M. Geoghegan - Liberator : The Life and Death of Daniel O'Connell, 1830-1847 - PB - BRAND NEW

'Here is the Great Dan - big voiced, energetic, self-confident, persuasive, courageous, humorous, warm-hearted and humane in the eyes of his numerous admirers; but vain, scurrilous, vituperative,...

Patrick M. Geoghegan - King Dan : The Rise of Daniel O'Connell 1775 - 1829 - PB - BRAND NEW

Daniel O'Connell (1775 1847) was one of the most remarkable people in the nineteenth century. Famous in his day as the most feared lawyer in Ireland, O'Connell tormented judges, terrorised opposing...

Rob Goodbody - Dublin's Industrial Heritage : From Sandymount Strand to Crumlin Road - PB - BRAND NEW

Unpacking the history of Dublin’s industrial heritage down through the ages, this book covers a specific geographical area - Dublin South-East The series builds on the Dublin City Industrial Heritage...

Anthony Barrett - West Cork at War : The Forgotten Guerilla Campaign , 1922 - PB - BRAND NEW

In January 1922 Dáil Éireann ratified a treaty with the British government, finally giving Southern Ireland the independence it had fought for years to achieve. But the peace did not last, and within...

Emmet O'Connor - War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923 - PB- BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  In War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923, leading labour historian Emmet O’Connor delves into an intense local...

Pat Ingoldsby - Can I Get in the Bath? - PB

2007, REPRINT Patrick D. Ingoldsby was an Irish poet and television presenter. He hosted children's television shows, wrote plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and was...

Beairtle Ó Conaire - Thar na Tonnta - PB - BRAND NEW

s é a dheireadh tús an scéil seo. Tá Sonaí Ó Giolla básaithe ach go bhfuil leithscéal ar a spiorad scaradh lena chorp. Téann sé siar ar bhóithrí na smaointe. A óige i mbaile an Leacain agus ar a...

Diane Cannon - Mín na Craoibhe - PB - As Gaeilge & CD

Mín na Craoibhe Tugann Diane Cannon léargas pearsanta anseo ar an inspioráid agus ar an chomhthéacs cultúrtha a spreag na hamhráin atá le cluinstin ar an albam atá leis an leabhar. Fríd chomhrá agus...

Beairtle Ó Conaire - Iad Seo Nach Bhfaca - PB

An Ghaeltacht sa lá atá inniu ann, más ea, agus tá Aibhistín ag obair go sona sásta, má tá, don Roinn Fíoruisce agus Drochthailte. Lena hais sin tá a chomrádaí scoile Cuimín, nár fhág an baile ná an...

Brian Ó Conchubhair - An Saol Bocht : Myles na gCopaleen agus Flann O'Brien

An Saol Bocht examines and explores what has been written about renowned writer Brian Ó Nualláin anew, and adds to that new information that has come to light since the biographies and other research...

Karen Fitzgibbon - Never Look Back - PB - BRAND NEW

From the bestselling Lana Bowen Mysteries series A mother’s worst nightmare begins on a crowded train platform. Jenny loses sight of her nineteen-year-old daughter Clara at Colbert Station in...

Colum Kenny - Myths and Lies of the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW

Myths and lies have distorted the truth behind the founding of an Irish state. The struggle for independence was dramatic and dangerous, but there was no outright ‘Irish revolution’ from 1913 to 1927...

Salvador Ryan (Editor) - Childhood and the Irish : A Miscellany - PB - BRAND NEW

In eighty short essays, historians, folklorists, archaeologists, theologians, anthropologists, poets, novelists, artists, literary scholars, and educationalists explore diverse facets of the...

Christine Kinealy - This Great Calamity - PB - BRAND NEW

The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a...

Máire & Conor Cruise O'Brien - A Concise History of Ireland - PB - 1985 ( 3rd Revised Edition)

There is a tragic inevitability about Irish history: "hatred answering hatred", as Lady Gregory wrote. Four events in particular, Yeats' "four deep, tragic notes", ring through Irish history: the...

Máirín Nic Eoin agus Liam Mac Mathúna - Ar Thóir an Fhocail Chruinn - PB

Clúdach bog - foilsithe ag Coiscéim, 1997, cnuasach aistí faoi na deacrachtaí a bhaineann le aistriúcháin.   

Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - Journal - Volume 102 - 1997 -

Paperback, solid copy in light card covers, internally unmarked. Illustrated.  Main Contributed Papers The Irish Brigade at Lafelt 1747: Pyrrhic victory and aftermath (pp. 1–22) — Eoghan Ó...

The Christian Brothers - First Steps in Irish - PB 1999 Reprint

Great short language course /booklet for beginners - aimed at those with little or no basic ability in Irish. Allows the learner to get started in a simple  structured way ,and build your vocabulary...

Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair - Caithréim agus Tóir - PB

Foilsithe ag Arlen House, 2024, dánta agus filícht as gaeilge Some underlining - light in almost all instances and pencil notes internally , and the name of another poet in pencil ( presumably the...

Brian O'Leary - Get It! : The Irish Driving Test ( BRAND NEW) - Revised & Updated 2026

How often do you get to see the exam paper BEFORE the exam? Anyone can pass the driving test in a car - All it takes is good practice and knowing exactly what the tester requires and expects of you. ...

A. O'Connor - By Royal Appointment - PB

In 1861 nineteen-year-old Bertie, Prince of Wales, began an affair with the Irish actress Nellie Cliffden. By Royal Appointment is a fictionalised account of their story, based on true events. In the...

A. O'Connor - A Great Beauty - PB - BRAND NEW

An epic story of war, love, suspense, betrayal and murder – the Michael Collins story.   It is 1920 and, as the War of Independence rages throughout Ireland, Michael Collins is the most wanted man in...

Meda Ryan - The Day Michael Collins Was Shot - PB (Revised & Updated Edition) ( Originally 1989) - BRAND NEW

Brand new, updated and revised edition, PB, Illustrated.  Michael Collins was killed in an ambush in Béal na mBláth , Cork in August 1922. The manner of his death and the identity of his killer have...