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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...

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...

Christiaan Corlett - Robert L Chapman's Ireland : Photographs From the Chapman Collection 1907-1957 - HB

Hardcover, published by Collins Press, Cork.  The Chapman Collection  is a unique collection of photography spanning the half century from 1907-1957. Chapman was a keen cyclist, and much of his work was taken on his numerous trips throughout...

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

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. 

Noel Dundon - Captains of the Premier Ship : Tipperary's All-Ireland winning Senior Hurling Captains - PB

The book, a 320 page account of the life and times of the twenty one captains who led Tipperary to All-Ireland glory since 1887, was penned by Tipperary Star journalist Noel Dundon. Published by the Tipp Star 2014.  There are insightful interview...

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...

Fintan O'Toole / We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 (Hardback)

Fintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government—in despair, because all the young people were leaving—opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long,...

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...

Patrick Lonergan - Druid Theatre - 50 Years- BRAND NEW

This fully-illustrated and authorised history marks 50 years of Ireland's most ground-breaking and successful theatre company. Founded in 1975, Druid is a touring theatre company, anchored in the West of Ireland and looking to the world.   Druid...

Sarah Binchy - Sunday Miscellany : A Selection 2023-2025 - BRAND NEW

A beloved Irish institution, RTÉ Radio 1's Sunday Miscellany has been woven into the lives of listeners for over half a century. Following on from the bestselling 2023 anthology, this collection brings together some of the best broadcasts of the...

Jonathan Bardon - A Short History of Ulster - HB - BRAND NEW

A new version of Jonathan Bardon's definitive tome, A History of Ulster, this book provides a comprehensive account of the province from the earliest settlements nine thousand years ago to the turmoil of the Troubles, and the fragile peace period that...

Méabh McDonnell - Any Way You Slice It - BRAND NEW

Sieve. Measure. Mix … Win For Carrie Quinn, baking isn't just a hobby: it's her future. Winning the Castlecreagh baking competition and becoming best young pastry chef in the country is the first step towards her dream. But when she and Dara...

Erika McGann & Gerry Daly - Puffling & The Stormy Sea - PB - BRAND NEW

A brave little puffling lives on Skellig Michael. It's a windy, stormy day - a perfect day for a wild adventure. But she ends up far from home! Can her new animal friends help her find her way back?

W.B Yeats - The Stolen Child ( Illustrated by Erin Brown) - HB - BRAND NEW

Written when W.B. Yeats was just twenty-one, 'The Stolen Child' remains one of his most popular poems. At this time, the young poet was inspired by the landscape of County Sligo and the legends and superstitions he heard from the locals there. 'The...

Erika McGann & Conor Busuttil - Tír na nÓg : A Favourite Irish Legend - HB - BRAND NEW

Niamh lives in the magical land of Tìr na nÓg, where no one ever grows old or feels sad. She invites Oisìn to join her and they are happy until he misses his home in the human world. When sadness strikes, Niamh learns the strength...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 113 - Summer 2012

Contents -  Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War’ (1862), by Louis Lang  Camp California, Virginia: where Meagher’s men steeled themselves for war (illustrated) by Niall R. Brannigan  Captain...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 114 - Winter 2012

Contents -  Soldiers Three – A visit to the Royal Hospital’: a painting of 1899 by The Mac Egan [Darius Joseph MacEgan] (1856-1939)  A description of the painting by F. Glenn Thompson  A note on the artist by James...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 112 - Winter 2011

Contents -  James Kirkland and other Potsdam Grenadiers of Irish birth (Illustrated) by Kenneth Ferguson  Beheaded at Cork and buried with a piper: the traditional fate (and strange afterlife) of Captain Súgán ––...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 111 - Summer 2011

Contents -  Heinrich Trajektin von Solms–Braunfels (1638-93): Williamite General in Ireland (Illustrated) by Daniel Herbert  The artillery train of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1640 by Malcolm Mercer  The Ulster Army of the...

Matthew Hart / The Irish Game : A True Story of Crime and Art (Large Paperback)

Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough,...

Darach MacDonald / The Chosen Fews : Exploding Myths in South Armagh (Large Paperback)

In the early 1970s, Britain's then Northern Secretary Merlyn Rees disdainfully dubbed South Armagh Bandit Country. The name stuck. Crossmaglen, a town with a peaceful past, was transformed into the most infamous killing field for British soldiers...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII- No. 110 Winter 2010 ( Essays on the Irish War of Independence)

Contents -  DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEWAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-1921No. 110 (Winter 2010) Aerial Mail, 1919-22: records of the Post Office and AirMinistry touching the carriage of mail by aeroplane duringthe conflict in Ireland - Douglas N. Muir...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII- No. 109 Autumn 2010 ( Essays on the Irish War of Independence)

Contents -  ESSAYS ON THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-1921PART II - No. 109 (Autumn 2010) Leo Whelan’s painting of the I.R.A. G.H.Q. staff, 1921 -Risteárd Mulcahy  Enlistment of ex-soldiers in the Royal Irish Constabulary ..............

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII - No. 107 - SPRING 2010

A special issue on 'the Irish Rebellion ( Irish War of Independence) in the 6th Divisional Area ( ie Munster - 6th Divisional Area was teh Britiah Army designation for Munster in this period.  An account compiled in 1922 by Sir Peter Strickland, and...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXX - No. 120 - Winter 2015

Irish Faces on the Plains of Abraham: West’s painting; the letters home of Lieutenant Henry Browne; and the ancestry of Major-General James Wolfe by Kenneth Ferguson 121AppendicesThe Genealogy of James Wolfe by Anthony R. Wagner (1908-1995) 141Some...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXX - No. 119 - Summer 2015 ( Battle of Waterloo)

WaterlooSergeant James Graham (1791-1845) of Clones, Hougoumont, and the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham by Kenneth Ferguson 1Ireland and the Waterloo Campaign by Peter Molloy 13A fabricated speech put into the mouth of the Duke of Wellington by Kenneth...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 118 - Winter 2014

Irish Command Headquarters, Parkgate, Dublin’ by Anthony Kinsella 361The Duke of Parma's Company of Irish Guards, 1702-1733 by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 363John Ryan of Ballynakill (1768-1811): an elusive Wild Goose by N. H. H. Adams...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 117 - Summer 2014

  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 116 - Winter 2013

  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC.