Irish Interest _______________________

Ciaran Brady - Worsted in the Game - Losers in Irish History - PB

Covers a diverse range of personalities from Irish history who either failed at their political mission, or whose carerrs ended without acheiving their aims - from Diarmait MacMurrough to John Redmond.   

Laurence J. Kettle - Material For Victory - The Memoirs of Andrew J Kettle - PB - 1958

Paperback, published by C.J Fallon , Dublin.  Andrew ( better known as Andy) Kettle was a Dubliner and the right hand man of Parnell on land question and tenant issues. He was one of the founders of the Dublin Tenants’ Defence Association, and...

John Barry & Eamon Horan - Years of Glory : The Story of Kerry's All Ireland Successes - PB - 1977

Years Of Glory by John Barry and Eamon Horan is the story of Kerry’s All-Ireland successes throughout the the years (from the late 19th century)  up until 1976. It was published by The Kerryman in Tralee in April 1977. The book is packed full...

Mark Roper ( Editor) / Poetry Ireland Review - Issue 63 Winter 1999 (Large Paperback)

Winter 1999 Issue 63   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so...

Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy and Alex Bayliss - Gathering Time - Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosureds of Southern Britain and Ireland - HB - 2011 ( Volume 1 & 2 )

Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual...

NRA - Archaeology and the National Roads Authority - Monoghraph Series 3 - Provisions of Two Seminars in 2002 on Provisions for Archaeological Work within the National Roads Programme - PB

Proceedings of Two Seminars in 2002 on the Provisions for Archaeological Work within the National Roads Programme, Dublin, 27 February 2002 and Tullamore, 29 May 2002 . 

NRA - Settlement, Industry and Ritual - Archaeology and the National Roads Authority Monograph Series 3 ( Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes September 2005)

Edited by Jerry O’Sullivan and Michael Stanley, this monograph contains the proceedings of a seminar on recent archaeological discoveries on national road schemes held in The Gresham Hotel in September 2005.  

George Fitzgerald / The Manuscripts (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

J. M. O'Neill / Rellighan, Undertaker (Large Paperback)

In a small rural town in Ireland, nothing is as it appears. Ester Machen brings with her a mystery, and death is stalking the young people of the town. Though 'the town is talking', the only person determined to get to the bottom of the mystery is the...

Kevin Dwyer - Dwyer's Ireland : A view From Above - PB

Striking photograps of Ireland from the air, centering on both urban and rural sites. 

Scott Boldt / Hear My Voice (Large Paperback)

Hear My Voice: A Longitudinal Study of the Post-School Experiences of Early School Leavers. Dublin: Marino Institute of Education, 1997.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Patrick J. O'Connor / To Mete Out A Humanist Geography ( Large Paperback )

This volume of new and selected poems points up the quest to know the world through the perceptual lens of a humanist geography. The world that is informed by a diversity of influences passes as a stage, strange and wonderful, upon which a cast of...

Paul Williams / Crooks (Large Paperback)

For almost forty years, Paul Williams has chronicled the life and crimes of some of Ireland's most notorious godfathers, killers and thieves. In Crooks he brings his readers for a ride-along, taking us behind the scenes of his most notorious scoops,...

Roger Downer - Reflections from the Shannon - HB

Hardcover, published by Wordwell, 2007, with UL.  A collection of speeches and essays , including conferring speeches given over the years, essays on science, engineering, the role of the University, the scrum and much more.   

John Keenahan - St Michael's Church : Church , People and Landscape - Drumlion Roscommon 1856-2006

Hardcover, published 2006. The title is partly deceptive, it is much more than a history of the church in the parish, it's a history of the parish and surrounds in the 150 years covered - sport, industry, people, landscape, history and much more. Closed...

Angelique Day - Glimpses of Ireland's Past : The Ordnance Survey Memoir Drawings - Topography and Technique - PB - 2014 - SIGNED

Signed to the title page in neat black ink, undedicated, no other marks or damage. Slight area of uneven sunfade to the front cover.  The views of the landscape, the ancient sites and monuments, the objects and curiosities illustrated, are shown...

Stephen Callaghan & Caimin O'Brien - A History of Saint Brendan's Graveyard in Birr - HB - 2016

Large format hardcover, with a full detailing of all the graves and memorials in the historic graveyard, with photographs and transcriptions of all known gravestones and memorials, a history of the church and much more.  Gift inscription on the...

William Hayes & Joseph Kennedy - The Parish Churches of North Tipperary - Commemorating a Two-Hundred Year Heritage - PB - 2007 ( SIGNED by both Authors)

A large format illustrated paperback, with photographs thrpoughout, detailing the history of all churches in North Tipperary.  Paperback, 2007, signed by both authors , and dated 26-06-2007

T. Brady / The Brune Figure (Large Paperback)

An anthology of Poetry for Junior Certificate English.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers...

Tom Heneghan / Faith, Hope and Paris : English Speaking Catholics in Turbulent France(Large Paperback)

When in 1869 Fr. Bernard O'Loughlin, C.P. founded St. Joseph's Church, he wrote it would be a Catholic parish "for all those at Paris who speak the English language." Over the next century and a half, this was one of the few descriptions that never...

Grace Cowley / Unexpected (Large Paperback)

A humorous, heartfelt, and honest account of growing up in Drogheda in the 90s. Grace's account of navigating childhood, friendships, and young motherhood with an unstoppable spirit will have you laughing and at times tearful. She handles serious...

Jaqueline Connolly / Deadly Silence (Large Paperback)

The heart-breaking account of a search for the truth behind the brutal killings that shocked a nation. On 29 August 2016, devastating news hit the headlines that an entire family was found dead in a rural community. For Jacqueline Connolly, this was a...

Patricia Scanlan / City Girls Forever (Large Paperback)

As City Girl, Devlin Delaney's iconic gym and spa prepares to mark a big anniversary, her best friends, Caroline and Maggie are looking forward to a fabulous party where they can all put their problems behind them and celebrate. Devlin's past has...

Bill Tormey / A Cure for the Crisis (Large Paperback)

Irish Healthcare in Context.  Published by Blackwater Press, 2003.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing...

Tim Ryan / Tell Roy Rogers I'm Not In - The Paddy Cole Story (Large Paperback)

Published by Blackwater Press, 1995.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand...

Joe P. Plant - The Adventures of a Soldier's Wife - Ireland | India | England - 1915-1974 - PB

IRELAND  INDIA  ENGLAND 1915 - 1974 A story based on the memoirs of Pte. Sarah Kathleen Cunningham A memoir entrusted to and written by Joe P. Plant 1915. The true story of a young Irish Colleen. Sarah, eldest daughter of the Cunningham family...

J.P Mallory, Eiméar Nelis & Barrie Hartwell - Excavations on Donegore Hill Co. Antrim - PB

Report and discussions on the findings of archaeological excavations at the Co. Antrim site.  Published by Wordwell, 2011.  Large format paperback, illustrated throughout. 

Birr Year Review 2016 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2014 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2012 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2011 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2007 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2006 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2008 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Michael Viney - Ireland : Smithsonian Natural History - HB - 2003

Published by Blackstaff , 2003.  Hardcover, illustrated throughout, colour section of photographs to centre pages. Ireland conjures up images of nature's majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A...

Fighting Words / What's the stories? (Large Paperback)

Stories from Collinstown College Transition Year students.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers...

Proinséas Ní Chatháin & Siobhán Fitzpatrick & Howard Clarke - Pathfinders to the Past - The Antiquarian Road to Irish Historical Wrtiting - HB- 2012

Compiled in celebration of the 150th anniversary of one of Ireland’s most distinguished and long-lived cultural institutions – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland – this collection of essays by distinguished scholars in a...

Fearghal McGarry - The Abbey Rebels of 1916 - A Lost Revolution - HB - 2015

The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution: those whose radical politics...

Graham Davis ( Editor) - In Seach of a Better Life : British and Irish Migration - HB - 2011

In Search of a Better Life challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. By no means were all migrants forced to leave their country by...

Blindboy Boatclub - The Gospel According to Blindboy - HB - Short Stories - 2017

 The Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories and visual art exploring the myths, complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland. Covering themes ranging from love and death to sex and...

Daniel Ford - Michael's War - HB - 2003

Molly Keane & Sally Phipps - Molly Keane's Ireland : An Anthology - PB 1993

A Ted Smart ( Bookclub) edition 1993, of an anthology of Irish writing - fiction, poetry, historical accounts, essays, non fiction, from earliiest times, edited and selected by Molly Keane. 

Kevin C. Kearns - Dublin Street Life and Lore - An Oral History - PB 1997 ( Originally 1991)

A paperback reprint , 1997, originally 1991 in hardcover. Gill & Macmillan.  Kevin Kears publsihed a number of valuable social records of life in a rapidly changing Dublin, coincentrating on collecting the biographies of ordinray Dubliners ...

Brian P. Murphy - The Catholic Bulletin and Republican Ireland - PB - 2005

Paperback, published by Athol Books Belfast 2005.  The Catholic Bulletin and Republican Ireland with Special Reference to J.J.O'Kelly (Sceilg'') - O'Kelly was editor of the newspaper in the crucial post 1916 period. 

Eddie Keher - Hurling Heroes : Fourteen Hurling Greats Profiled - PB

Published by Blackwater Press, 2000.  An account by Kilkenny Hurler Eddie Keher of 14 other notable hurlers from the 20th century -  Tom Chesty, Joe Cooney, Ray Cummins, Tony Doran, Jimmy Doyle, Pat Fox, Len Gaynor, Pat Hartigan, Fan Larkin,...

Liam Ó Briain - Self Portrait - PB 2021 ( Originally 1950)

A 2021 reprint edition ( originally 1950 ) of Liam Ó Briain's autobiography Self Portrait.  Liam Ó Briain was a member of the Irish Volunteers, and fought in the 1916 Rising, and was subsequently a language professor in UCG from 1917...

Dan O'Neill with Liam Horan - Divided Loyalties - PB - SIGNED

The Life and Times of a Mayo Man Who Won an All-Ireland Title with Louth in 1957 Signed by the author to the title page, undedicated.  Light edgewear to the covers,, bumps to corners of back covers. 

Mitchelstown Writers Group - Another Mitchelstown Miscellany - PB 2016

Published 2016, a collection of local history, stort stories, poetry and essays by local writers and residents of the north Cork town. 

John Bowman - De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-73 - PB- 1989

Published by Oxford University Press, 1989 in paperback, originally 1982.  This is an interpretation of the lifelong preoccupation of Eamon de Valera, a revolutionary nationalist who defined his goal in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin and spent the...

Gerard Shannon - 2 BOOK LOT - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic & Rory O'Connor - To Defend the Republic - 2 x PB - BRAND NEW ( With 1 Signed Bookplate)

2 books on revolutionary era figures from historian Gerard Shannon. ( both also available singly)    Book 1- Liam Lynch - To Declare a Republic - PB - BRAND NEW The first major academic study on a pivotal figure in Ireland's revolutionary era,...

Finbarr Bradley / The Irish Edge - How Enterprises Compete on Authenticity and Place (Large Paperback)

The Irish Edge:    Finbarr Bradley, James Kennelly     An argument for Irish businesses to focus more on Ireland's inimitable advantages of culture, authenticity, and place while competing in the global...

Conor Forrest - Heroes of Light and Shadow - PB - BRAND NEW

Magic is real. But so are monsters.  Oisin dreams of being a hero, like theones he reads about in books. So when he overhears a plot for a midnight raid on a Dublin museum, he knows this is his chance.But Oisin soon realises that heroes must fight...