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Limerick Civic Trust - The Limerick We Don't See - PB - 2002

Paperback, published by Limerick Civic trust 2002, - a collection of 100 notable and quirky architectural features from Limerick city at the time, most are historical architectural features, many...

Kevin H. Murphy - Echoes of Caher - PB (Cahersiveen - Kerry)

A history of the town and environs of Cahersiveen, in west Kerry. illustrated , 84 pages, undated and no ISBN. 

Paddy MacFlynn & Alan Rogers - Leading Through the Troubles : A Life in the GAA - pb

An autobiography of the 27th President of the GAA, Paddy MacFlynn. He guided the association through the H-Block and Hunger Strikes and served in the position from 1979 - 1982. Those years called for...

Philomena McCarthy - Kenmare and Its Storied Glen - PB 2000 ( Originally 1993) Kerry

Internally very good, unmarked, but externally there are creases to the back covers, and back cover corners.  3rd printing, 2000, revised, originally published in 1993. Illustrated. 

Kevin V. Mulligan - Buildings of Meath : A Selection of Protected Structures - PB - 2001

Published by Fieldgate Press, 2001, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.

Chrissy Osborne - Michael Collins- Himself - PB

Michael Collins, Himself’ delves into Collins’ complex character and life, rather than his solely on his political contributions. Published by Mercier Press, Cork , 2003. Light age spotting and...

Dudley Levistone Cooney - Asses' Colts & Loving People : The Story of the People Called Methodists on the Carlow Circuit - HB - 1998

A 1998 historical monograph on th ehistory of Methodism in south Leinster written by Dudley A. Levistone Cooney.It documents the history, circuit life, chapels, and communities of Methodism in County...

William Henry - Upper Lough Erne in 1739 - HB

This reprint of Sir Charles Simeon King s edition of the Reverend William Henry s Upper Lough Erne in 1739. Not only is the Rev. Mr. Henry s description of the area in the early 18th century...

Maurice Leyden - Boys and Girls Come Out to Play : A Collection of Irish Singing Games - 1993 - PB - PB

Published by Appletree Press, a collection ofg historic children's songs , games songs (such as skipping rhymes) , withintroduction, words, and musical notation. 

J.F O'Keeffe - Down the Derpark Road Outside Lismore - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover, privately published, no isbn or date. Signed by the author to the blank endpage, illustrated with period b&w photographs.  J.F O'Keefe left Lismore, Waterford in his teens, travelled the...

Aubrey Twomey - Ballincollig G.A.A : A Century in Action 1886-1986 - PB

Paperback, published 1986, the mid 1980's saw a host of club histories in the era of the GAA Centenary . 262 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs throughout and a host of period ads for local...

Jill & Leon Uris - Ireland A Terrible Beauty - PB - 1981 (Originally 1976)

Jill and Leon Uris came to Ireland in the mid 1970's looking for answers. Why was Ireland bled by one internal war after another? How could one country contain such greatness and grief?  What they...

Peter Marshall - 25 Best Chefs Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW

25 Best Chefs Ireland brings together established names, rising talents and culinary pioneers whose work reflects the diversity of Irish food today. Through personal profiles, striking photography...

Pat Ingoldsby - Pawmarks on my Poems - PB

Paperback, published by Willow Publications, 2013, in excellen t condition, as new apart from some price sticker residue on the back cover from a previous shop label. 

Martin O'Grady, Myles Kelly & Shane O'Reilly - Brown Trout in Ireland - PB - 2008

his beautifully illustrated book deals with all aspects of the trout’s ecology and biology. It is written in a very readable style and would appeal, particularly, to the inquisitive angler who wishes...

James Morrissey - A History of the Fastnet Lighthouse - HB 3rd Edition 2022

A large format hardcover, revised 3rd edition, 2022. Illustrated history of the famous lighthouse located SSW of Clear Island in Cork, notable for it's construction on a barren exposed rock

Uinseann Mac Eoin - Survivors -1st Edition HB- Republican Memoirs - Revolutionary Ireland - 1980

Survivors - subtitled ''The story of Ireland's struggle as told through some of the outstanding living people recalling events from the days of Davitt , through James Connolly, Brugha, Collins, De...

Desmond Egan - Elegies - PB - 1996

  Paperback, in excellent condition internally, 1986  Published by Goldsmith Press, Newbridge. Signed with a dedication to the previous named owner, 1986. 

Sean Diffley - The Men in Green - HB - Irish Rugby - 1973 - Sport History Centenary ( SIGNED by Willie John McBride

A hardcover first edition, 1973, of Sean Diffley's The Men in Green, a centenary history of Irish rugby.  SIGNED by the noted Irish rugby player Willie John McBride to the title page, in pen at an...

Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha - Mainistir na Feola - HB - BRAND NEW

Poems about the body and the spirit, poems about language and human rights, poems about poetry itself - they are all here in this second collection from Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha. With maturity and...

Kevin McCarthy - The Tailteann Games 1922-32 - BRAND NEW

The Tailteann Games were the biggest public events organised in Ireland inthe decade after independence. They were at once sporting and cultural events,celebrations of Ireland and its diaspora, and a...

Mary E. Daly - 1930s Ennis: Hidden Lives - PB - BRAND NEW

Mary E. Daly offers a glimpse into daily life in Ennis, Co. Clare during the 1930s. 1930s Ennis: Hidden Lives reveals the extraordinary complexity of a small town in the west of Ireland, drawing on a...

John Doyle - Before the Vote : Planning for a United Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW

The UK’s departure from the European Union threatened a hard border on the island of Ireland, aggravated social and political tensions and undermined key aspects of the 1998 peace agreement...

Micheál Ó Conghaile ( Eagarthóír ) - Croch Suas É - Amhráin as Gaeilge - 6ú Cló -1998

An 6ú cló, 1998 - ( ina bhfuil breis amhráin nach raibh sa gcéad chló i 1986 ) - eagraithe agus roghnaithe ag Micheál ó Conghaile, agus foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht , Béal a Daingin,...

Luca Tedde - Stepping Into the Stock Market - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW, PUBLISHED July 2026.  The stock market is one of the most powerful tools for building long-term wealth. If you've ever wanted to invest or wondered if your money could be working harder,...

Mary Feehan / Book of Irish Children's Jokes (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Why did the Kerry boy push his father in the fridge?What is the best food for athletes?What runs all the way from Cork to Belfast and still never moves?What nationality was Santa?What usually runs in...

James H Cotter - Tipperary - HB - 1929

The first ( and sole) edition, published by Devon - Adair New York, 1929. In the original pale blue dustjacket, which is edgeweorn and scuffed, rustmark on front cover ( over the T in...

Pat Ingoldsby - How Was It For You Doctor? - PB - Poetry - 1994

A collection of poems, Pat's first Willow Publications book ( his own imprint named, naturally, after his cat) ​Willow Publications, 1994, 150 pages. Slight sunfade to cover and spine. 

Padraig O'Malley - The Uncivil Wars : Ireland Today - PB ( US Edition) 1983

The Uncivil Wars, first published in 1983, continues to stand as one of the most thorough and balanced accounts of the troubles in Northern Ireland available. Based on original interviews by the...

Bob Curran - A Bewitched Land : Witches and Warlocks of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW

Witch trials in the European or American sense were not common in Ireland although they did occur. In this book the stories of four remarkable court cases that took place from the fourteenth to the...

Niall Ó Dónaill - Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla PB ( Irish English Dictionary ) An Gúm - BRAND NEW

First published in 1977, this is a paperback reprint. Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla has been the primary orthographical source for the spelling of the language since it was published and provides the most...

Micí Sheáin Néill Ó Baoill - Maith Thú a Mhicí - HB - BRAND NEW

Páraic Kerrigan - Pop Culchie : The Irish Popular Culture that made us - HB - BRAND NEW

Uncover the oddities and eccentricities at the heart of Irish popular culture and society, providing a kaleidoscopic view of both major and obscure moments in recent Irish culture.  Pop Culchie is a...

Declan Murphy - One Man and His Dog : On a Quest for Ireland’s Wild Orchids- BRAND NEW

In this wonderful new work of nature writing, naturalist Declan Murphy undertakes an unforgettable journey across Ireland in search of its rarest and most beguiling orchids, accompanied always by his...

J.W.H Carter - Murder in the Midlands 1862-1915 - PB - SIGNED - 2005

Published independently, 2005, signed by the author. Covers 69 19th century historical crime cases across a number of Irish counties - Offaly, Laois, Tipperary, Kilkenny and West Wicklow among those...

Piccolomini - Secret Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1988

Hardcover, slipcased. Previous owner's name and adrres label on inside front cover, as well as name written on blank endpage. A few inner pages are creased ( from corners having been turned...

Seán Ó Tuama (Eagarthóir) - Caoineadh Art Uí Laoghaire - PB As Gaeilge Filíocht 1999 - USED COPY

Athchló 2021, ar an mbunleagan a rinne Seán ó Tuama ar an gcaoineadh a scríóbh Eibhlín Dubh nuair a bhásaigh a fear céile, Art ó Laoghaire.  94 pp, foilsithe ag An Clóchomhar Teoranta, 1962, scríobhú...

Adrian Hendroff / Donegal Sligo Leitrim Mountain Coastal Hillwalks A Walking Guide

    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...

Ireland Tourist Board / Bord Failte Ireland Guide (Large Paperback)

The new edition of this essential guide is now organised by the seven principal tourist regions: the east, the south, the Shannon, the west, the north-west, Northern Ireland and the midlands. For...

Michael Mullen / The House of Mirrors (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Gregory Martyn returns to his estate in County Mayo to find his wife has died giving birth to Elinor, their fourth child. His hatred towards Elinor is undiminished by the passing years and is shared...

Rose Doyle / Perfectly Natural (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Worldly and intelligent, Sive Daniels is ill-equipped for rural Ireland until she meets Abbie Mansfield, a retired GP who knows the dark secrets and unsavoury truths kept hidden in the small...

James Stephens - The Crock of Gold : Vintage 1973 Pan PB ed - Irish Fantasy Classic

Part fable, part fairy tale, partly a telling take on Irish and Celtic myth, this is the 1973 Pan PB edition of The Crock of Gold, by James Stephens (1882-1950) . Introduction by Walter de La...

John Jordan - Yarns (PB - Poolbeg 1977)

Paperback, a collection of short stories  published 1977 ( most had previously been published elsewhere but this was the first collected edition)  Jordan was also a prominent academic and literary...

Patrick MacGill - The Red Horizon - PB 1984 (Originally 1916)

MacGill was a soldier of the London Irish Rifles. Injured in the battle of Loos in 1915, he married in the same year and on recovery returned to his regiment. Along with The Great Push, the Red...

Gay Byrne - The Meaning Of Life 2 : More Lives, More Meaning - HB - 2014

Following 2013'S bestselling collection of interviews from the RTE TV series The Meaning of Life, Gay Byrne is back with more big questions - and more interesting answers.With Peter McVerry, he...

Evgeny Shtorn - The Refugee Chronicles ( Translated by Alexandra Novitskay) - PB - BRAND NEW

When Evgeny Shtorn flees the rising tide of homophobia and authoritarianism in Putin’s Russia, he leaves behind his home and the life he has spent years building. Arriving at a reception centre on...

Brian Fleming - The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty - PB - BRAND NEW

  During the German occupation of Rome from 1942 to 1944, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organization for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. Safe within the Vatican state, he...

Patrick M. Geoghegan - Robert Emmet : A Life ( 2nd Edition) - PB - BRAND NEW

Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one of the most romantic of all Irish revolutionaries. He was the youngest son of Ireland's state physician and was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin. Like...

Patrick M. Geoghegan - Liberator : The Life and Death of Daniel O'Connell, 1830-1847 - PB - BRAND NEW

'Here is the Great Dan - big voiced, energetic, self-confident, persuasive, courageous, humorous, warm-hearted and humane in the eyes of his numerous admirers; but vain, scurrilous, vituperative,...

Patrick M. Geoghegan - King Dan : The Rise of Daniel O'Connell 1775 - 1829 - PB - BRAND NEW

Daniel O'Connell (1775 1847) was one of the most remarkable people in the nineteenth century. Famous in his day as the most feared lawyer in Ireland, O'Connell tormented judges, terrorised opposing...

Emmet O'Connor - War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923 - PB- BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  In War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923, leading labour historian Emmet O’Connor delves into an intense local...

Pat Ingoldsby - Can I Get in the Bath? - PB

2007, REPRINT Patrick D. Ingoldsby was an Irish poet and television presenter. He hosted children's television shows, wrote plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and was...