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Aidan Doyle - A History of the Irish Language - PB - 2015

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main...

Steven Moore - Behind the Garden Wall : A History of Capital Punishment in Belfast - PB

Very interesting and informative book in relation to the history of historic executions at  Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast - tells of capital punishment, the crimes, and info on the prisoners. The remains of those who were hung here are buried in...

Andrew Hughes - Lives Less Ordinary : Dublin's Fitzwilliam Square 1798-1922 - PB

A former RTE Reference library copy , but with only minor stanmps to the blank front endpages, with handwritten accession number. Published by the Liffey Press, 2011.  “So that’s our setting. Sixty-nine houses, four corners of Georgian...

Emma Fogarty - Being Emma : Living My Best Life with Butterfly Skin - PB

Born with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a rare and excruciatingly painful condition that makes her skin as fragile as butterfly wings, Emma Fogarty was not expected to survive infancy. Today, at 41 years of age, she is the oldest living Irish person with...

Chris Lawlor - The Little Book of Kildare - PB - 2024

Did You Know? Kildare's highest point is Cupidstown Hill near Kilteel. St Brigid, the patroness of Ireland, was buried in Kildare. When built, the magnificent Castletown House near Celbridge was the largest private residence in Ireland. The origins...

Valerie O'Sullivan - Glencairn Abbey : A Year in the Life - HB

Founded in 1932, St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, is the only Cistercian monastery for women in Ireland. In this book we get a rare insight into the daily life of the sisters of St Mary’s Abbey, who live out their lives together through work and...

Michael Walker - Green Shoots : Irish Football Histories - HB - BRAND NEW

Published by de Coubertin Books, 2017 (The HB cover design is made to look edgeworn in the manner of a period match programme)  More than a century after the Easter Rising, football in Ireland -- like the country itself -- remains divided. At the...

Hugh Oram - The Little Book of Blackrock - HB - 2019 ( Dublin Local History)

Blackrock is a noted residential area on Dublin's south side, close to Dublin Bay. Once a small fishing village, its modern streets are lined with centuries of historical interest, from old houses and churches to one of the oldest roads in the country...

Susan McKay - Northern Protestants : An Unsettled People (Updated )

Presenting and analysing over 60 in-depth interviews with northern Protestants, this work aims to impart an understanding of the range and complexity of Protestant attitudes in Northern Ireland. Within the overall Protestant community there is much...

Eoin O'Malley - Charlie vs Garrett : The Rivalry That Shaped Modern Ireland - HB - 2025

Hardcover, published by Eriu, 2025. As new condition.  The two opposing political figures that shaped Irish life in the 1980s and beyond. In the 1980s, Irish politics was dominated by a fierce rivalry between Charles J. Haughey and Dr Garret...

Séamas Mac Annaidh ( General Editor ) - Irish History (An Illustrated A-Z ) - HB - 2001

The history of Ireland is one of oppression and emancipation, characterized by foreign rule and the fight for freedom. It is a history in which religious and political conflicts sit side by side with a shared love of the ancient magic that enshrouds the...

Rory Sweetnam & Lisa Marr - New Zealand’s Irish Revolution

Offering original New Zealand perspectives on the Irish Revolution from the third Home Rule crisis to the establishment of the Irish Free State, this collection explores the political, social, and cultural evolution of Ireland from 1912 to 1923...

Myles Dungan - Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History - PB - BRAND NEW

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside...

Maurice J. Casey - Hotel Lux : An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals - PB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney 'If affection is the...

Gabriel Rosenstock / An Phéist Mhór (Children's Coffee Table book)

As Gaeilge - A tale adapted from folklore by Gabriel Rosenstock which children from 6-9 in particular will relish. Maisithe ag Piet Sluis.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

John Crowley, Mike Cronin, Cormac Moore & Charlie Roche ( Editors) - Atlas of Irish Sport History, Politics, Identity - BRAND NEW

TRACKED AN POST DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Atlas of Irish Sport - History, Politics, Identity Foreword by Mary McAleese Sport in all its forms is central to many people's lives and is an expression of culture that is very much...

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 : Winning Against the Odds - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST This book could very easily be seen as a general sports book, and it would be a very good sports book. But it is much more than that. … There is a complete honesty of approach. Throughout his...

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

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE 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...

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,...

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...

Jessie Lendennie / Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Salmon Poetry's 2016 celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style, voice, and geography. "Salmon's unique profile grows from...

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...