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Padraic Coffey - This Day in Irish History - PB

Published by O'Brien Press, 2022, trade paperback, illustrated in black and white.  You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the...

Seán Enright - After the Rising : Soldiers, Lawyers and Trials of the Irish Revolution - PB - 2016

In this sequel to his bestselling Easter Rising 1916: The Trials, Seán Enright puts the great legal cases of the period into context with exacting clarity, including the Mac Curtain Inquest, the trials of MacSwiney, Markievicz, Maher and Foley,...

David Dickson - The First Irish Cities : An Eighteenth Century Transformation - PB

The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities,...

Adrian Kenny - Mint and Other Stories - PB -

These skilled portraits form chapters in a man’s life. He knows the characters ‒ in Dublin, the West of Ireland, London, provincial England ‒ and they know him. The descriptions are intimate, sympathetic; their lives are sharply drawn. A young...

James Plunkett - Strumpet City - Vintage Granada PB Reprint 1977

Originally published in 1969 , and the subject of a classic RTE TV series in 1979-80.   First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novels of all time. Centring on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers...

Sportsfile - A Season Of Sundays 2021 - GAA Photography - Yearbook - 2020 HB - Sport

This  hardback coffee table book (300mm x 300mm) is a collection of images of the 2021 Gaelic Games year by the Sportsfile photographers. With text by Alan Milton, it is a record of the season to be savoured by players, spectators and enthusiasts...

Eunan O'Halpin - Defending Ireland : the Irish State and its Enemies Since 1922- PB - 1999

Analyzes the evolution of internal and external security policy in Ireland from independence to the 21st century. Professor O'Halpin examines the concept of external defence understood by first generation Irish leaders, charting the state's repeated...

Feargal Quinn - Crowning the Customer : How to become Customer- Driven - HB

How to become Customer Driven Customer service is the competitive business battleground of the twenty-first century. This book, by an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur, is a hands-on guide for people who run businesses or work in them, written in...

Edel Bhreathnach - Monasticism in Ireland 900-1250 - HB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction.  Winner of the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2025 Winner of the 2025 ACIS James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences The history of...

Fin Dwyer - A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders - HB -2023

From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy , Fin Dwyer charts 200 years of Irish history, opening up our past as never before, by observing the grand societal...

David Caron - Dublin's Stained Glass - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin's Stained Glass features the thirty-eight sites with the finest twentieth-century stained glass in Dublin city and county. The majority of the windows were made at studios in the capital, and are by internationally lauded artists such as Harry...

Siobhán Fenton - Ourselves Alone : Sinn Féin behind Closed Doors - PB - BRAND NEW

What really goes on behind closed doors in Ireland’s most secretive political party? Long defined by message control and secrecy, Sinn Féin has rarely allowed outsiders a glimpse behind the curtain. Ourselves Alone, by former communications...

Tim McCarthy - Boomshakalaka : A Memoir - BRAND NEW

Biography of the RTE sports commentator 

John Concannon - The Bucket Man : John Concannon and the JFC Group - BRAND NEW

John Concannon is an Irish businessman, philanthropist, and star of RTÉ's The Secret Millionaire. A native of Kilconly, Tuam, Concannon is the founder of the JFC Group. He left St. Jarlath's school, Tuam, to work on the family farm. In 1987, he...

Declan Lynch - Roll Away the Stone : When Journalism was the Best Job in the World - BRAND NEW

DescriptionWorking in the media used to be fun. You were part of a thriving industry in print and broadcasting with a licence to speak your mind and a chance to bring down the government every week. You could be working with interesting or eccentric...

Niall Stokes - Some Like it Hot - PB - BRAND NEW

Niall Stokes’ rock ‘n roll memoir of his life as a Dublin journalist and founder and publisher of the ground-breaking Irish music magazine HOT PRESS. . . During the early years Hot Press gave a platform to some of Ireland's finest young...

Stephen Davison - The Wee Roads - Irish National Road Racing - BRAND NEW

9781785376146 A stunning visual journey through Irish road racing, with over 100 stunning colour photographs from the four corners of Irish road racing. Featuring high-octane race photos of the great and the good from international road racing, including...

Des Geraghty - At the Dawning of the Day : Luke Kelly and the Dubliners - BRAND NEW

The voice of Luke Kelly and the music of the Dubliners provided a very welcome wake-up call for a sleepy and depressed Ireland in the early 1960s. It was the dawning of a new and brighter day when more and more young people in Ireland began to find their...

Anthony Murphy - Ireland : Land of Legend - BRAND NEW

Martina Devlin - Glorious Monsters - PB - BRAND NEW

Owen O'Shea - Unchanged and Unchangeable : Austin Stack and the Irish Revolution - HB - BRAND NEW

Biography of the Kerry revolutionary.  Austin Stack was one of the central figures in the Irish revolutionary period. From his role in the lead-up to the 1916 Rising, through his senior positions in Sinn Féin and participation in the Irish...

Jilly Beattie - Revelations : Jeffrey Donaldson - Politician, Preacher, Predator BRAND NEW

Journalist Jilly Beattie followed the ins and outs and dramatic revelations of the Jeffrey Donaldson case over the two years up until conviction. This is her detailed account of the case which shocked Northern Ireland.   In March 2024, one of the...

Mark Carruthers & Colin Davidson - Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings: Conversations with Mark Carruthers- PB - BRAND NEW

Twelve Paintings is an intimate and compelling exploration of the life and work of renowned artist Colin Davidson. Structured around a series of deeply personal conversations with broadcaster Mark Carruthers, the book uses twelve key works - from early...

Joseph Coohill - Ireland : A Short History ( 5th Edition) ) PB

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the product of a rich, multivalent history. Combining factual...

Fred Johnston - True North - HB - 1997

Hardcover, published by Salmon Poetry 1997. 

Gabriel Fitzmaurice - Twenty One Sonnets - HB

Published by Salmon Press, Clare, 2007. Hardcover , illustrated by Brenda Fitzmaurice.    Condition, these are 2007 editions, and while they were acquired by us in bulk from another bookshop , and have thus not been sold or have signs of use,...

Standish O'Grady - The Flight of the Eagle - Vintage Talbot HB - 1944

A 1944 reprint edition in a well preserved original dustjacket, Talbot Press. Dublin. 

Kevin Barry - The Heart in Winter (Hardback - SIGNED NUMBERED KENNYS EDITION)

October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers.Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and...

Desmond O'Grady - Tipperary - PB ( Poetry) 1991

Paperback, published by Salmon , 2011. Desmond O'Grady was a Limerick born poet, novelist and translator. The title of this collection - Tipperary, is a reference by the poet to the county's name in Irish Tiobraid Arann meaning the 'fountain of...

Tony O'Dwyer - Waiting For the Mason- PB - BRAND NEW

Published by Salmon Press, July 2026 Mary O’Donnell: “Everyone should carry a copy of Waiting for the Mason as an antidote to despair… The poet elevates one’s sense that being human may, for once, be quite a good...

Mary O'Brien - Simplex 75 : Crosswords from the Irish Times - PB - BRAND NEW

For three-quarters of a century, The Irish Times Simplex Crossword has been a daily companion at kitchen tables, in cafés, on buses, trains and planes. This special anniversary compilation is dedicated to the generations of puzzlers who have made...

Eoin Neeson - The Civil War in Ireland 1921-23 - PB - 1969 ( Revised Edition)

A revised Mercier Press first edition, 1969, of Eoin Neeson's study of the Irish Civil War.  Edgewear and rubbing to the head/ top of the spine, some uneven sun fade to the red parts of the jacket.  One of the earliest general histories of the...

Constantine Fitzgibbon - Out of the Lion's Paw : Ireland Wins Her Freedom - HB - Illustrated

A hardcover illustrated guide to the revolutionary decade in Ireland, illustrated throughout.  Issued as part og the Macdonald Library of the 20th century. Cover in a clear plastic removable jacket protector. 

Sinéad McCoole - No Ordinary Women : Irish Female Acvtivists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 - PB 2004

Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, activists and politicians – women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom. This book vividly recreates the characters, personalities and courage of Ireland's revolutionary women...

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence 1969

A paperback 3RD edition, 1969( still in predecimal pricing, the first decimal edition was 1971)  Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days in Ireland. Originally published in 1949 as a...

Carlo Gébler - Aesop's Fables - The Cruelty of the Gods - HB

Aesop probably never intended his work to be anything but bawdy, savage, witty, scatological and fickle.  These tales also have at their heart two realities of life, the exercise of power and the lot of the powerless. In this stunning new edition,...

Denis G. Marnane - The 3rd Brigade : A History of the Volunteers/IRA in South Tipperary 1913-21 - PB - 2018

Along with the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, the actions and personalities of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade loom large in the public awareness of the War of Independence. The actions of Dan Breen, Sean Tracy, Seamus Robinson and Sean Hogan from...

The Kerryman - With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom 1917 to the Truce : The Red Path of Glory - PB 1955 1st Edition

With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce. The Red Path of Glory. no author or editor listed , published by The Kerryman, 1950,  238 pages. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. A very good copy of this fragile publication, which is...

Paddy Doyle - The God Squad - PB 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...

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

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...

Mark Clinton - Carrickmines Castle : Rise and Fall - HB - BRAND NEW

The Walshes were rooted in south County Dublin from the late fourteenth century. By the early 1600s members of the family had become actors in the theatre of war across Europe. These were times of almost endless turmoil. A constant stream of predicaments...

Tomás ó Fiach - Gaelscrínte san Eoraip - PB - As Gaeilge

Eagrán nua don leabhar Gaelscrínte i gcéin (1960 ar dtús ) faoin teideal Gaelscrínte san Eoraip - 1986) Clúdach bog, as Gaeilge san iomlán- foilsithe ag Foilseacháin Ábhair...

Colm O'Regan - Tipping Away - BRAND NEW

Tipping Away is Colm O’Regan’s sharp, funny return to the rich world of Hiberno-English, following the bestselling success of Gallivanting with Words. From placenames and fishing boats to kitchens, pubs, building sites and WhatsApp groups,...

Kate Ryan - Blood, Guts and Black Pudding - BRAND NEW

Blood. It has sustained warriors in epic battles, staved off hunger, offered protection from bad luck and provided sustenance during winter. It’s been drawn from living animals and caught from dead ones, stuffed into guts and boiled until cooked or...

Michael Cronin - Ireland: Why it matters to be an island - BRAND NEW

It is a simple fact that Ireland is an island nation. But how often do we consider what it means to be an islander?Michael Cronin argues that we tend to ignore the fundamental fact of our island existence. For centuries, the question of this...

John Creedon - This Boy's Voice - HB - BRAND NEW

This Boy's Voice is a memoir that picks up where This Boy’s Heart left off, recalling formative scenes from John’s adolescence and early adulthood. A rapidly changing Ireland of the 1970s and 1980s forms the backdrop to these stories as John...

Carsten Krieger - Clare : Wild Shores, Rugged Landscapes- BRAND NEW

When he first came to Clare as a visitor almost thirty years ago, acclaimed photographer Carsten Krieger knew he had found his home. Through his photographs, he brings us on a tour of its famous landmarks, such as the Cliffs of Moher, the Burren and...

Kevin Moran - The Doomsday Club : Bog Bodies - PB - BRAND NEW

A school trip to the remote island of Inis Fola is supposed to be exciting. But before long, kids start to disappear and haunting blue lights are seen across the bog. Are the stories of a demon buried beneath the bog true? And if they are, was bringing...

Jennifer Farley - A Children's Atlas of Ireland - BRAND NEW

From hedgerows to haunted houses, bog bodies to big battles, discover Ireland as you've never seen it before. This atlas gives a flavour of all things Irish, from the natural world to man-made feats. Encompassing history, geography and cultural subjects,...

Ann Ingle - Still Here : Everything I Know About Being Older - BRAND NEW

‘How did you get so old?’The morning when Ann Ingle’s grandson asked her that question led to musings on ageing and a life well lived. Told with warmth and humour, Ann grapples with how ageing has thrown all sorts her way, from losing...

Paula Elmore - Place Names of Ireland : From Inishbiggle to New Twopothouse - BRAND NEW

Corragunnagalliaghdoo – Brickeens – Muggort’s Bay – Leggs – Knockalunkard – Wheelam Across Ireland, you’ll find a host of curious and quirky place names. Dig a little and you’ll discover anglicisations of...

Rosemary Day -On The Air : 100 Years of Irish Radio - BRAND NEW

On The Air : 100 Years of Irish Radioby Rosemary Day (Author) For 100 years, radio has been the voice of the nation, bringing us together and reflecting our changing society. From the first broadcast of Radio Éireann on 1 January 1926, Irish...