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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...

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...

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...

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 . 

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

Annette Black & Michael B. Barry - Bridges of Dublin : The Remarkable Story of Dublin's Liffey Bridges - PB - 2015

A vivid history of Dublin unfolds in this exploration of more than 1,000 years of bridges over the river Liffey. From the time of the Vikings and their simple wooden bridge, through Dublin's late...

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...

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...

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...

Edmond Grace / Democracy and Public Happiness (Large Paperback)

Democracy and Public HappinessPoliticians claim to govern in the name of ‘the people’ but do we need them? Not if their only interest is in seeking attention for themselves and to enjoy the perks of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fintan O'Toole - A History of Ireland in 100 Objects (Coffee Table Book)

Objects don't just have stories, they tell stories. There is a certain paradox that surrounds them. They seem precise and fixed, literally tangible, yet they can put us in touch with the past in a...

Debbie Deegan & Emily Hourican / To Russia With Love: The Children's Stories (Large Paperback)

This is the story of how Irish housewife Debbie Deegan who fought tooth-and-nail to re-unite two young Russian orphan pals. Mother of two Debbie admitted that she and her husband Mick had cried in...

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...

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...

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. 

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Donnchadh Ó Cinnéide - In Song and Story - A Commemoration of the Centenary of Éirí Amach na CásC

A paperback collection of songs and verse relating to the revolutionary events of 1916  (and some written by those who participated) - published in association with Comhaltas , and issued as part of...

Brinsley MacNamara - The Clanking of Chains ( A story of Sinn Féin) - Anvil Press Vintage PB

A paperback REPRINT edition, Anvil Press, of Brinsley Macnamara's The Clanking of Chains, first published in 1919- 20 by Maunsel. Originally titled as The Clanking of Chains - A Story of Sinn Féin...

Peadar O'Donnell - Proud Island - PB - 1985 ( Originally 1975)

A 1985 O'Brien Press reprint of the 1975 original. Light spotting to pages, binding tight, otherwise unmarked. 

Philip Judge / In Sight of Yellow Mountain - A Year in the Irish Countryside

I think I bought a house', I said, still slightly stunned. I've spent longer choosing a tie. First, a dream of escaping the city ... and then a century-old cottage to match the dream. Moving to a...

Brendan O'Neill - Irish Cathedrals, Churches and Abbeys - HB - 2002

Hardcover, published by Caxton Books, 2002.  An illustrrated guidebook to Ireland's notable churches  and cathedrals ( ancient and modern )   

Dermot Kavanagh - Ollie - The Hurling Life & Times of Ollie Walsh - PB -2006 - Kilkenny GAA

A larger formast paperback, 2006, published by Blackwater Press.  Oliver ( Ollie) Walsh ( 1837-1996) was a notable hurler , originally from Thomastown.  There is a sliced line ( as if from a blade)...

John Duffy - Barrow Bridges and Related Subjects - PB - 2007

Large format paperback, illustrated throughout, with modern photography, period images, and line drawings.  Introduction by Dick Warner.  "No one person can be a historian and an archaeologist, an...

Gina Daly / The Daly Dish Rides Again: 100 Fast and Easy Slimming Recipes (Coffee Table Book)

Instagram sensations and debut cookbook authors Gina and Karol Daly had a massive hit in 2020 with their first cookbook, The Daly Dish . Now they are back with more food that looks so decadent, you...

Emer Ryan ( Editor) / The Phoenix - Uncovered (Coffee Table Book)

    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...