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Dermot Bolger - Hide Away - PB - BRAND NEW

Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, four lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma. Gus, a shrewd attendant, is the keeper of everyone’s secrets, especially his own. Two War...

Ciarán Mac Murchaidh - Cruinnscríobh na Gaeilge - PB

NB - The original CD Rom that was issued with this book ( in a pocket inside the back cover ) is NOT present.  Foilsithe ag Cois Life, seo é an dara cló, 2005. 2002 ar dtús.  A practical course in Irish grammar, aimed...

Brendan Ryan - A Land by the River of God : A History of Ferbane Parish - HB 1994

Hardcover, first edition ( and sole printing), published 1994 by the author and St Mel's Diocesan Trust.   An uncommon title.  Ferbane is a large markey town in Offaly, this book covers th history of the town , it's growth ande development...

Hugh Dorian - The Outer Edge of Ulster : A Memoir of Social lIfe in Nineteenth-Century Donegal - HB - 2000 ( Edited by Breandán Mac Suibhne & David Dickson)

In the 1890s, Hugh Dorian (1834-1914), a native of Fanaid on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal, completed a remarkable memoir which he entitled ‘Donegal Sixty Years Ago’. This fascinating text, although intended by Dorian for publication,...

Cormac ó Cadhlaigh - Gnás na Gaeilge - HB - 1940 ( Gramadach na Gaeilge)

Foilsithe ag An Gúm / Oifig an tSolatháir 1940, ceann go mhór theidil gramadaí na linne .  Ba leachtóir le Gaeilge ag Ollscoil Mhaigh Nuad é an t-údar Sa sean chló ( Cló Ceilteach...

Pat Boran ( Editor) - Flowing Still : Irish Poets on Irish Poetry - PB - 2009

Published by Dedalus Press, Dublin , edited by Pat Boran, there is a loosely laid in signed postcard signed by the editor Pat Boran, no othe rmarks otr damage/ inscriptions Irish poetry is among the most vibrant language cultures in the world. A decade...

William B Yeats - A Vision - PB ( Originally 1937)

Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult. First published as a small press edition in 1925,...

Stella Frost ( Editor) - A Tribute to Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett - HB - 1957

Published by Browne & Nolan, Dublin, 1957.  Lacks the original dustjacket, there is a fair amount of pencil underlining to the text. All images are present ( the frontis and the section of colour and black and white reproductions at the rear) ...

Anthony Bradley ( Editor) - Contemporary Irish Poetry : An Anthology - HB Revised Edition 1988

The poems featured in this anthology are quintessentially human documents informed by humor, compassion, and a joyful and visionary element - an impulse to praise what is really life and to protect it from the naysayers - as well as by a salutary realism...

Charles Sullivan ( Editor) - Ireland in Poetry - HB - Illustrated 1990

A collection of poetry and art which evokes the many facets of Ireland. Ireland's beauty, history, people and hopes for the future are captured in 150 poems and more than 100 works of art - both well-known and unfamiliar and dating from the 9th century...

Brendan Kennelly ( Editor) - Between Innocence and Peace : Favourite Poems of Ireland - PB

A collection of poems, verse and songs chosen by Kennelly, published by Mercier Press.  '' the great bards of the past rub shoulders with lesser-known poets of our time; established poets have their work juxtaposed with familiar lines whose...

Risteard Mac Liam - Fuaimeanna na Feirme : Sounds of the Farm - HB

Una Leavy & Shannon Bergin - Over the Red-Brick Chimney - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Little Goose is excited.  It’s time to go, before the Big Snow.  Winter is coming, and all the geese are flying to their new home in Ireland. But Little Goose gets blown down, down, down by a sudden gust. Can Finn and his mum help her...

Brendan Kennelly - The Book of Judas - HB - 1991- Poems

Brendan Kennelly's Book of Judas, a 400-page sequence of poems in twelve parts, became a number one bestselling book in Ireland on publication in 1991 . As well as receiving rapturous reviews, Brendan Kennelly won the Sunday Independent/Irish Life Award...

Brian Cleeve / Dictionary of Irish Writers. (Vintage Paperback)

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Francis MacManus / Men Withering (Vintage Paperback)

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John Jordan / The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature (Vintage Paperback)

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Oliver St-John Gogarty / As I was Going Down Sackville Street (Vintage Paperback)

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Patrick Murray / The Tragic Comedian: A Study of Samuel Beckett (Vintage Paperback)

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Brian Cleeve / Dictionary of Irish Writers (Vintage Paperback)

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Sean O'Faolain / The Irish (Vintage Paperback)

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Oona Frawley - Flight - BRAND NEW PB

Paperback ( larger format with flaps) 2014, Tramp Press, Dublin Nominated for Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year in the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. The man of the house was mad when Sandrine came. Elizabeth’s mother...

Maeve Kelly - Orange Horses - PB - BRAND NEW

 The 20 stories that make up Orange Horses, first published as a collection in 1990, richly illustrate the plight of marginalised women in contemporary Irish society. Kelly draws from a variety of personalities and circumstances: an islander fights...

Brendan Behan / The Hostage (Vintage Paperback)

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Fiachra Ó Dubhthaigh & Heather Amery- Buntús Foclóra - pB - Leagan Gaeilge do 1000 First Words - Visual Dictionary - PB

1,000 word picture-dictionary which aims to help children to develop a basic vocabulary in Irish. Buntús Foclora is full of valuable learning opportunities for children of various ages and backgrounds. Young Irish speakers will enjoy looking at...

Neil Kevin ( Don Boyne) - I Remember Karrigeen - HB - 1944

The name of the town of 'Karrigeen' is used by the author in this broadly autobiographical novel ( really a series of linked chapters with charcters from the unnamed Leinster town) in the first 30 years of the 20th century.  Hardcover, Burns Oates...

Hugh Bodkin - Hugh Lane and His Pictures - HB 2nd Edition 1934

A hardcover 2nd edition, 1934, published by Browne and Nolan.  Condition - externally lacks dustjacket and the covers are badly scuffed, wear to head and tail of spine, the green cloth is bumped at tHE corners. Fair only Condition - Internally , a...

Tom Donovan( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - ( Number 47 - Winter 2013 )

The 2013 edition of the Old Limerick Journal, edited by Tom Donovan, cover image is that of the previous editor Larry Walsh 52 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors.  Stapled,  large format journal...

RIA - Dublin Notebook - PB - BRAND NEW SEALED

Blank notebook, still sealed in original shrinkwrap, published by RIA Dublin.  Covers show an extract from a woodcut image ( bird's eye) of Dublin from 1846.  224 pages Brand new and SEALED. 

Ciaran Cosgrave - Lassoed Suns - PB

Paperback, published by Montezuma Publications, Dublin, 1988.  The first poetry collection from the Belfast born poet and lecturer . 

Leona Forde - Milly McCarthy and the Christmas Catastrophe - PB - BRAND NEW

It’s coming up to Christmas and Milly’s class is prepping for their end-of-term performance. This year they’ve decided on a festive concert, so they can each showcase their favourite talent. Milly can’t wait to take part –...

Michael B. Barry - 1588 - The Spanish Armada and the 24 Ships Lost on Ireland’s Shores - BRAND NEW

By 1588, relations between the superpower of the time, Catholic Spain and the relatively small Protestant England had deteriorated to a new low. Philip II had decided that the best way to deal with English piracy and its support for the Dutch rebels was...

J.P McMahon - An Irish Food Story : 100 Foods That Made Us - HB - BRAND NEW

‘This book is about the story of Irish food and food in Ireland. They may seem like the same thing, but they’re not.’  An Irish Food Story looks at history, culture and identity in Ireland through 100 foods. From farmhouse...

Ray Lane - Only a Soldier Knows - HB - BRAND NEW

On a gloomy Sunday afternoon at the height of the Troubles, rookie bomb disposal officer Ray Lane was called to the Border to defuse a 1,000kg bomb planted by the IRA. This was the beginning of an extraordinary career. From 10 beer kegs filled to the...

Ian Miller - A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts - HB - BRAND NEW

FREE TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST Skulls, heads, hands, height, legs, sex organs, blood, brains, stomachs, ears and corpses – discover Irish history through the prism of the body. From the brutal beheading of the...

Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Pruse - HB 1967

Hardcover, published by MacGibbon & Kee UK, 1967. The first edition of the collected prose ( the misspelling of Pruse in the title is deliberate)  Lacks the original dustjacket, there is edgewear to the top and base of the spine externally,...

Carlo Gébler - A Cold Eye : Notes From a Shared Island 1989-2024 - PB - BRAND NEW

If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year? Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday agreement, to the glory days of the...

Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy, intrigue, innovation and international radical political...

Donal Magner - Why Forests? - The Case for Multipurpose Forestry in Uncertain Times - PB - BRAND NEW

Donal Magner knows the importance of forests better than most as illustrated in his critically acclaimed Stopping by Woods, the definitive guide to over 340 of Ireland’s forests and woodlands. In Why Forests? Why Wood? he seeks...

Patrick Chapman - The New Pornography : Poems - PB - 1996

The New Pornography, Patrick Chapman's second collection, takes the reader on a perverse and darkly humorous trip.America, viruses, a fear of falling satellites, the uterus as birthday present... a baby born backwards into the womb - this new collection...

David Marcus ( Editor) - New Irish Writing 1 - PB - 1970

Paperback,  published by Dolmen  Press, 1970.  Based on the weekly series then running in the Irish Press Newspaper as 'New Irish Writing' . Contains poetry and short fiction.  A slim paperback, heavy tanning to covers.   

John Quinn - My Education: Interviews - PB -1997

Published by Town House Dublin, in association with RTE, 1997.  Edited versions of the much acclaimed radio interviews broadcast between 1991 and 1996, from a wide range of contributors , from Noam Chomsky to Maureen Potter.     

Eoin Neeson - Poems From the Irish - PB - Vintage Mercier PB - 1967

Condition - fair - there are angled creases to the front covers, , especially at the upper r/h corner. internally while the book is unmarked with no notes or underlining, there is heavy tanning and uneven age spotting to some pages.  ''A selection...

Lucy Sweeney Byrne - Paris Syndrome - PB - BRAND NEW

 Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2020 Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer category 2020 Longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the...

Bebe Ashley - Gold Light Shining - PB - BRAND NEW

Within five minutes, I knew I loved the stranger in my head. In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is illuminated in poems that explore celebrity, obsession,...

Zainab Boladale - Braids Take a Day - PB - BRAND NEW

Uncovering secrets is like undoing braids, one at a time...Abidemi can't wait for summer, her last one at home in Ennistymon before she heads off to college. She's ready to say goodbye to school, spend some time learning new braids and hairstyles - and...

Eithne Massey - The Salmon of Knowledge - HB - BRAND NEW

Long ago in Ireland, there lived a boy called Fionn, who wanted to know everything. Fionn goes to live with the wisest man in Ireland, hoping to find answers to his many questions. But Finnegas has a secret. He knows how to get all the knowledge in the...

Julianne McKeigue - Twas the Match Before Christmas - HB

’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Croke ParkIt was quiet and peaceful; the great pitch was dark ... But not for long! As the clock strikes midnight, there's a magical surprise: Santa, his elves and reindeer arrive for a...

Alice Taylor - A Place Called Home- HB - BRAND NEW

In fact, two places called home … For over sixty years, Alice Taylor has lived in the village of Innishannon, the gateway to West Cork. But her childhood was spent on a farm in North Cork, near the Kerry border, and her memories of that homeplace...

Eugene Reavey - The Killing of the Reavey Brothers - PB - BRAND NEW

In this gripping true crime account, Eugene Reavey takes readers on a harrowing journey through the darkest chapter of his life during the Northern Ireland Troubles. Reavey relives the tragic night in 1976 when his three brothers—John...

Rachel McKenna - Step Into Nature - A Seasonal Irish Nature Diary - HB - BRAND NEW

Rachel McKenna’s engaging writing and captivating visuals create a personal nature diary that invites readers to connect with the natural world. Step into Nature is a captivating seasonal Irish nature diary. Rachel McKenna's writing...

Kate Slevin - Donegal : From Waves to Wilderness- HB - BRAND NEW

From Malin Head to Killybegs, from Ardara to Arranmore, join photographer Kate Slevin on a journey around Ireland’s most spectacular county. Steeped in history and heritage, with a wealth of flora and fauna, Donegal is home to some of...