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Kevin Dwyer - Ireland : The Inner Island : A Journey Through Ireland's In;land Waterways - HB

Here is Ireland's waterway network as never seen before. This book reveals the beauty and tranquillity of these waterways as well as the surrounding countryside, villages and towns of Ireland,  Aerial photography of Ireland's canals, canal basins...

Sarah Durcan & Lian Bell ( Editors) - WTF Happened - #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre - PB - BRAND NEW

Sarah Durcan was a lead organiser of the #WakingTheFeminists campaign. She is the Executive Director of Science Gallery International, and has served on several non-profit boards. She co-authored Five Years On – Gender in Irish Theatre, An Interim...

Izzeddeen Alkarajeh & Eman Aburabi - Jibrin - HB - BRAND NEW

Palestinian couple Izz and Eman Alkarajeh came to Ireland with their four children in 2016. They eventually settled in Cork and started trading at Mahon Point Farmers' Market, where their entire stock sold out in just two hours on their first day. One...

Sarah Webb / Something to Talk About (Large Paperback)

Can men and women ever really be friends? Lucy and Max have been best friends forever. Lucy, a bored beautician with a sad Jamie Oliver obsession, is determined to find kite-maker, Max a girlfriend. Someone who will meet up to her own high standards...

Erin Kaye / Second Time Around (Large Paperback)

The path of true love never did run smooth…A heart-warming tale of love in the face of family and friendship, perfect for fans of Cathy Kelly and Maeve Binchy. Divorcee Jennifer Irwin has it all – a successful interior design business...

D.G. Craig / Along the Coast Road (Large Paperback)

Sometimes we must take the coast road to find out who we really are.Following his father's death, Gerry - at just twenty-one years of age - finds himself alone and in charge of the family farm in mid 1970's Ireland.Knowing about nothing other than...

Paddy Dillon / Exploring the North of Ireland (Coffee Table Book)

A guide to exploring Northern Ireland on foot, the book contains 32 walks of varying lengths to suit serious walkers and novices alike. Ranging from coastal rambles to hill walks over the entire region. It includes details of distance, difficulty of...

Alison Maxwell / Ronnie : The Authorised Biography of Veronica Dunne (Coffee Table Book)

DR VERONICA DUNNE, affectionately known as Ronnie, has lived a life high on drama and excitement, and an invincible dedication to her art. From a small music studio on Dublin’s Nassau Street to the vast arenas of Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert...

Aubrey Malone / A Writing Life (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...

Hazel P. Smyth - The B&I Line - HB - 1984

Hardcover, published by Gill & Macmillan , Dublin 1984, first edition hardcover in dustjacket.  Hazel Smyth was a former employee of  B&I, the shipping and ferry company that formed a crucial part of co,mmerce , trade and transport on...

A Church Centenary : O'Loughlin Memorial Church of St John the Evangelist , Kilkenny 1908-2008 - HB

Hardcover, both a history of teh church building itself, and teh widser parish and community.   

Janet Todd - Daughters of Ireland : The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation - HB - 2004

They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century--and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle...

John Connors - Seán Hogan - His lIfe : A Troubled Journey - PB - BRAND NEW- 2019

Famously rescued by his more illustrious comrades at Knocklong railway station in May of 1919, Sean Hogan, the man central to the event did in time, become relegated to relative anonymity. This book re-rescues Sean Hogan and reveals a man that was...

John Connors - Dan Breen : The Man Behind the Myth - PB - BRAND NEW

Delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Dan Breen: The Man Behind the Myth - Tipperary's Famous Revolutionary.  Anyone with an interest in Irish history is aware of the legend of Dan Breen. Breen the fearless - and fearsome - warrior...

John F. Deane / Song of the Goldfinch (Large Paperback)

Once every blue moon a book is written on parchment and in dried blood. Here Huckleberry Finn meets Dylan Thomas on Achill Island, a lost world of corncrakes and ragamuffins. A Memoir.  This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

J.C Beckett - A Short History of Ireland - Vintage PB - 3rd Edition 1966

A revised edition. Light edgewear , some slight curling to corners . First published in 1952. The main areas of focus are the 19th and early 20th centuries.  One of the standard authorities and historians of Ireland. Primarily a political history,...

Jacqueline Creaven d'Towey - The Quaker Community in Ballymurray, Roscommon 1718-1848 - PB - BRAND NEW

  This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the Croftons of Mote Park, and the challenges they encountered until the final discontinuance of Ballymurray...

Johnny Fallon / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback)

This book is based on a study of Cowen's performance and statements in the Dail since 1984. From his early work as a constituency politician, through parliamentary debates, it looks at how leading figures in the 1980s often tried to dismiss him as a...

Derek Lundy / Men That God Made Mad (Hardback)

In this remarkable book, Belfast-born Derek Lundy uses the lives of three of his ancestors as a prism through which to examine what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland. In Ulster, the name 'Lundy'...

Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE

Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII - No 108 - SUMMER 2010

PAPERBACK, DARK GREEN COVERS.  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews,shorter notes on military history, shorter articles, 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI - No 64 - SUMMER 1986

Metallic rust offset stain to front cover ( external only)  Colonel Henry, Eight Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen by Harman Murtagh 133Aspects of the military history of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland 1169 – 1225 by Randall Rogers...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI - No 62 - 1984

Uneven tanning to page block edges.  An Officer of the 8th The King’s Royal Irish Hussars by F. Glenn Thompson 1Some Documents Relating to the Involvement of the Irish Brigade in the Rebellion of 1745 by Hector McDonnell 3Irish Soldiers in...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XIII- No.50 - Summer 1977

Uneven tanning to page block edges.      As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews,shorter notes on military history, shorter articles, 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI- No.63 - 1985

Contents The Belfast Blitz by Robson S. Davison 65Imperial Yeomanry Notes by F. Glenn Thompson 84Irishmen in the Stuart Navy, 1660 – 90 by Hector McDonnell 87Terence Bellew McManus: Fenian by Precursor Brendan O’Cathaoir 105Guns and Castle in...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXII- No.87 Summer 2000

Contents Vol. XXII Summer 2000 No 87 The Military History Society of Ireland, 1949-99: a message to mark the golden jubilee (Illustrated)Donal O'Carroll Page 1The battle of Manning Ford, 4 June 1643 Niall Brunicardi Page 3Niall Brunicardi (1913-1997)...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIII- No. 94 Winter 2003

Photograph of a collar and two armlets worn by a negro in the band of the Kilkenny Militia, c. 1793 facing page 361Preserving Donegal - the battle of Glenmaquin, 16 June 1642 by Patrick McCarthy 361Jacobite Artillery, 1689-91 by Harman Murtagh 383General...

Denis Devlin - The Heavenly Foreigner - HB ( Dolmen Press )

Hardcover, published by the Dolmen Editions, 1967. Edited and with notes by Brian Coffey. Frontis and cover art by Anne Yeats.  The dustjacket is edgeworn, and is now in a clear plastic removable Herma jacket protector, This edition was limited to...

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...

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. 

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...

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...

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