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Irish Arts Review Yearbook -1991-1992- Paperback

Paperback, light edgewear, front cover corners are curling slightly. Contents are in excellent condition.  Plus all the usual reviews, gallery information, art year calendar, and a review of art sales . Illustrated throughout. 

Irish Arts Review Yearbook Volume 16 - 2000 - Paperback

Paperback, light edgewear, front cover corners are curling slightly. Contents are in excellent condition.  Plus all the usual reviews, gallery information, art year calendar, and a review of art sales . Illustrated throughout. 

rish Arts Review Yearbook Volume 14 - 1998 - Paperback

Paperback, light edgewear, front cover corners are curling slightly. Contents are in excellent condition.  Plus all the usual reviews, gallery information, art year calendar, and a review of art sales . Illustrated throughout. 

Peter Kennedy - Folksongs of Britain & ireland - HB - 1975

A hardcover edition, published by Cassell UK, 1975.  The standard work or collection of folksongs ( in the widest meaning of the term) of the UK and Ireland,  Peter Kennedy was a folksong collector and broadcaster . This large volume includes...

John FitzMaurice Mills - The Noble Dwellings of Ireland - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Thames & Hudson UK 1987 Signed and with a brief dedication to a previous owner by teh author on the title page.  There is heavy age spotting and foxing to the (mostly white) dustjacket and to the (blank) preliminary pages...

Patrick Flanagan - The Shannon-Erne Waterway - 1994

Published 1994, just after the initial ( hugely successful) restoration of the Shannon - Erne canal link saw the first phase ) to Belturbet completeed.  this is both a history of the canal's original construction in the 19th century, and a history...

Siobhan Mungovan with Carol Byrne / Me and My Backbone (Large Paperback)

My Journey With Spina Bifida Me and My Backbone is written by Connolly native, Siobhan Mungovan and journalist with the Clare Champion, Carol Byrne, tells Siobhan’s story living with Spina Bifida. It was formally launched in Clare County Council...

Juanita Browne - Ireland's Mammals - HB - 2005

Hardcover, published by teh author, 2005.  Small gift inscription on the title page ( not by author)  The inside back flap has been glued to the book, rather oddly.  Excellent full colour photographs throughout. 

E.E O'Donnell - Father Browne's Titanic Album - HB - 1998

Father Browne's lifelong hobby was photography.  This volume concentrates on photographs relating to R.M.S 'Titanic'. Browne joined the ship at Southampton 10th April, 1912, and disembarked at Queenstown (now Cobh). During the only safe journey the...

Edward McParland - Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760 - HB

Large format hardcover, published by Yale UP , 2001. Newspaper review loosely laid in.    This innovative book examines the public architecture of Ireland from 1680 to 1760, a crucial period during which the country undertook the combined tasks...

David Ross - Ireland - History of a Nation - PB 2008 Edition

This original and updated, readable history tells the story of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day. The history is written from the point of view of the Irish people. Updated in 2008 the text explains the Irish question aimed at someone who...

Tom Morrison - For the Record : A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals - PB - 2002

Published by the Collins Press, 2002.  A detailed guide to all 76 years of League Finals  from 1926 to 2000. 

George Cunningham - From Landlords to Genetics : The Historical and Modern Story of the Trant Estate, dovea, Thurles Co Tipperary - HB - 2019

'From Landlords to Genetics' tells the story of the historical and modern Trant estate at Dovea, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.It covers the physical and historic landscape of the area, the fortunes of the Trant generations from before and during their tenure at...

Martin Bourke & Seamus King - The History of Camogie in Tipperary - HB - 2003

The History of Camogie in Tipperary 1904-2003This book is about the story of camogie in the county of Tipperary from the earliest beginnings to 2003. It traces the earliest efforts to form teams in the years following the start ofAn Cumann...

Amy Clarkin - What Walks These Halls & Who Watches This Plave ( 2 x PB ) PB ( BOTH WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATES)

A prickling sensation grew on the back of her neck, spreading up her scalp. It was the feeling of being watched. She whirled to face the doorway but it was empty. Raven O’Sullivan doesn’t remember what happened in Hyacinth House five years...

George Hook - This is Rugby - HB -

'Even in those early days, I resolved not to be a fan but to be an analyst' George Hook Who is the greatest Irish rugby player of all time? What was the best Irish Grand Slam team? Who are the game's greatest rivals?In This is Rugby, well-known...

Helen Livingston - Ireland Photographic Memories - PB ( Francis Frith Photographic Collection)

Paperback, publsihed by Frith Book Company, 2018.  Photographs ( mostly landscape, scenic attractions and tourist themed) taken throughout Ireland from the late 19th to the mid 20th century, north and south

Paul Kelly - Return to Sender : Revisiting John Hinde's Ireland - HB

An ingeniously clever idea for a book - taking the classic (and brighly colourised in some instances) postcards from the John Hinde company that were the staple of every Irish tourist resort in the 20th century, and take modern photographs from the exact...

Templemore Tidy Towns Committee - Templemore Through the Lens of Time - PB - 2010

A large format paperback, published 2010.  A wealth of historic photographs of the town of Templemore in North Tipperary, with a particular focus on past residents , hundreds of black and white photographs , most from the early to late 20th century...

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill & Yseult Thornley / RTÉ 100 Years : Ireland in the 20th Century HB

RTE 100 Ireland in the 20th Century is a unique and stimulating record of Ireland's progression through the 20th century, and one that, in Brian Farrell's words in the introduction, connects as to history with an instant immediacy.  Illustrated...

Bryony Fuller - Vincent O'Brien - The National Hunt Years -

Hardcover, published by Punchestown Books - 1992. Foreword by Brough Scott - concentrates on Vincent O'Brien's youth and career as jockey sportsman and trainer - leading to his three in a row Grand National Winners - Quare Times, Royal Tan, Early Mist...

Philip Brennan - Clare : Unique Images of the Artist's native County Clare - PB

Published by Ashfield Press, 2002. In very good condition throughout.  Philip Brennan is a native of County Clare. He has been exhibiting his work since the late ‘seventies. He works mainly in watercolour, but also in other media. His work...

Michael Traynor - IONA : Ireland's First Commercial Airline - HB - 2004

Hardcover, published 2004. In excellent condition throughout ( despite being 20 years old) it is almost ' as new'  Illustrated in full throughout, with hundreds of vintage black and white and colour photographs.  Huge array of aeroplane...

Úna Woods - A Spooktacular Place to Be - HB - BRAND NEW

In his moon-shaped park filled with silver moonlight,The Dublin Vampire wakes to the same familiar sight. ‘I’ve spent so many years in this creepy old tree,Is there a more spooktacular place to be?’ He agrees with his bat that...

Úna Woods - Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire - HB - BRAND NEW

In an old part of Dublin, right down by the sea, There’s a moon-shaped park with a creepy old tree.The Dublin Vampire lives there. The Vampire wakes up as the sun’s going down. He hops on the ghost bus and rides into town.Have you seen the...

Brendan McGowran & Corinne Silva - Róisín Bán : The Irish Diaspora in Leeds - HB

Emigration is a common theme throughout Irish history. As Dermot Bolger recognises in his foreword, it is one that has touched almost every family in Ireland. Until recently thousands found work in Britain’s major industrial centres. For a large...

Andy Bielenberg - The Shannon Scheme and the Electrification of the Irish Free State - PB

Ryan Tubridy & P.J Lynch - Patrick and the President ( HB - Picture Book) - DOUBLE SIGNED

From broadcaster Ryan Tubridy, and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner P. J. Lynch, comes a picture book about President John F. Kennedy's return to his ancestral home in Ireland.When the much-loved President visited Ireland in 1963, he described it as the best...

Larry Lynn Southard - Wayfaring : A Guide to Guidance - HB - SIGNED

This book (written by Cork member of the Society of Friends) Larry Lynn Southard and published in 2023 aims to provide a “handbook to help readers place themselves in a position that makes divine guidance a daily reality”. Sources of...

Jo Kerrigan - Stories From the Sea - HB - BRAND NEW

Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands have brought goods, ideas, invaders, influencers. Our legends, and particularly the imramma or magical...

Harold Good & Martin O'Brien / In Good Time: A Memoir (Large Paperback)

Rev. Harold Good, ’Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process, lifts the curtain on his remarkable life in this enthralling memoir. From Ian Paisley’s turbulent...

Cumann Seanchas Bhreifne : Breifne Journal 2003 - PB

The 2003 edition of Breifne, the Cavan based local history journal.  Uneven sunfade to a porton of the front cover, otherwise very good.  Volume X, Number 39. 

Jim Fogarty - The Dan Breen Cup : Tipperary County SH Finals 1931-2011 - PB

Jim Fogarty is a former Kilkenny librarian ( and GAA collector) this was his first book, detailing the history of hurling county finals in his native Tipperary.  Previous owner's name to title page, price sticker residue mark on back cover. ...

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 6

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers.   

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 4

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.   

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 3

Issue 3 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.  Pasted isbn label on back cover. 

Cal McCarthy - In the Shadow of the Big Fellow : The Commemoration, Commercialisation, Study & Politicisation of Michael Collins - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Cal McCarthy is a Cork based historian and civil servant. This new book, published by Clonakilty based Michael Collins House Museum with financial aid also from Cork County Council, takes a detailed look at the legacy and impact of  Michael Collins...

Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin - The Dubs : Dublin GAA Since the 1940's - HB

Hardcover, published by Gill & Macmillan , 2006.  Ó Ceallacháin was the long time host of the GAA sports results on RTE radio for many years, as well as being a dual code GAA player for Dublin himself in his youth. Covers both...

Eddie Wymberry - Well Well ! - Memories of Waterford in the 1950's - PB

Paperback, an coount of local life and charcaters in Waterford city in the author's youth - 1950's and 1960's, with photographs, and a ( very good) glossary of local sland words at the back.  124 pages. 

Gerry Adams / Selected Writings (Large Paperback)

"Adams writes fluently and observantly . . . He displays a hard-edged compassion for the silent poor, the old and the down-and-out." Financial Times   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1997

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part II - Denis G. MarnaneThe Great Famine & Fethard Temporary Fever Hospital -...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1992

Editor: Marcus Bourke244 pages; 28 Articles The IRA in West Tipperary in 1931 – The Assassination of Superintendent CurtinDenis G. MarnaneThe End of the Civil War: The Third Tipperary Brigade (1921-1923); Part IIIAn tAthair Colmcille, O. Cist.The...

Marcus Bourke( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2001

Paperback, larger format, signed on front endpage by a previous owner. Front cover corners slightly bumped.    Tipperary town one hundred years ago: the evidence of the 1901 CensusDenis G Marnane Tipperarymen in Spain (1936 – 1937) - Pat...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2002

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  Marcus Bourke: An Appreciation Marcus Bourke: BibliographyMarcus Bourke: A Biographical Sketch -William NolanMarcus Bourke and his Writings -Denis G. MarnaneMarcus Bourke: His GAA Writings -Seamus J...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2003

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name to title page.  210 Pages; 14 Articles The Benedictine Priory of Kilcommon - Richard O’Brien The Munster Hotel, Cathedral Street, Thurles: Archaeological Excavations 1998-1999...

Carmel Quinlan( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2004

Paperback , in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address written on inside front cover. 276 Pages; 15 Articles Excavations at Friar Street Cashel: A Story of Urban SettlementO’Donovan et al The Fennells of Cahir - Michael...

Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2008

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  CONTENTS -  224 Pages; 16 Articles Properties in Carrick-on-Suir Granted to the Duke of Ormond in 1668Conleth ManningStatus and Structure: Social...

Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Volume XXV Summer 2006 - Number 99

The Irish Sword is the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, In very good condition overall, as new.  Depiction (by Seán Ó Brógáin) of soldiers of Sir Phelim O’Neill’s Regiment of Foot...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Counties of South Ulster (1834-1838) - Vol 40

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

P.L Henry - Saoithiúlacht na Sean-Ghaeilge - HB - 1976

Academic text on Old Irish , published by Oifig an tSolatháir, 1976.  Tá iarracht á dhéanamh sa leabhar seo ar a cheart a thabhairt don fhile i dtionscnamh na litríochta; tá rian an fhile le feiceáil...

Margaret Ward - Fearless Woman : Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW - 2019

This full-length biographical study - substantially rewritten and updated from the 1997 edition - of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century.  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, part of a pioneering generation, played a...

Donagh O'Shea / I Remember Your Name in the Night: Thinking about Death (Large Paperback)

To cope fully with death, we need to open the mind and heart through meditation to a deeper way of living. Donagh O'Shea offers stories and reflections that invite readers to prepare for death one day at a time.   This book is second hand, and while...