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Marion Rose Horgan / The Year the World Went Wonky! (Large Paperback)

Memoir of the pandemic from Cobh.    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...

James J. Bunyan / Border Bandits & Delicate Flowers (Large Paperback)

This is a compendium of 80 individual accounts of people, places and events which JJ Bunyan can recall over the past sixty-five years. It traces his life, from growing up on a small farm cum rural post office in North Kerry in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s...

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...

Amy Jordan / The Dark Hours (Large Paperback)

1994: When Gardaì Julia Harte and Adrian Clancy are called out to a sleepy housing estate in Cork to investigate a noise complaint, they are entirely unprepared for what they find. What happens next will haunt Julia for the rest of her days,...

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...

Aidan O'sullivan - The Archaeology of Lake Settlement in Ireland - HB ( Discovery Programme Monograph 4 )

The book examines the history of such studies in Ireland. It describes the often overlooked archaeological evidence for the lakeshore habitations of Mesolithic and Neolithic people and outlines the extensive evidence for Bronze Age lake settlements. It...

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 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.

John McGahern - The Dark ( Vintage PB Edition Panther1969)

John McGahern's second novel, The Dark, confirmed and enhanced the reputation he gained with his first, The Barracks. The scene is set in rural Ireland and the central theme is adolescence, impelled forward by ambition and sexuality, guilty and...

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...

Elizabeth Crooke - Politics, Archaeology and the Creation of a National Museum of Ireland - HB - 2000

Hardcover, published by Irish Academic Press, 2001.  This book is the first study of the political and social values underpinning interest in Irish archaeology and the establishment of the first public or national museum in Ireland, the Dublin...

Séamus Leahy / The Tipp Revival : Return to Glory 1987-94 (Large Paperback)

This is a book that should surely be judged by its cover, which features a blue and gold jerseyed Nick English in full flight, an sliotar ar bhas a chamdin aige, the intensity of his gaze unwavering as he leaves the red shadow of Cork's Jim Cashman in...

Michael Ryan - Irish Antiquities : Essays in Memory of Joseph Raftery - HB - 1998

This book is devoted to studies of portable artefacts to reflect Dr Raftery's lifelong commitment to museums' archaeology and the range of his interests. Contents include: Sheela-na-gigs in the National Museum of Ireland, together with a brief...

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...

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 direct and immediate way. What they said to their...

Tom Ryan / The Cuppa Sugar Days - Warmhearted Days of a Newspaperman (Large Paperback)

Tom Ryan's tales of a newspaper man celebrate a cross section of Irish society. This monumental work encapsulates everything from light-hearted tales from another era against the backdrop of County Tipperary to attitudes to life, living, love and the...

Ann Egan / Landing the Sea (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...

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...

Liam Kennedy - Colonialism, Religion and Nationalism in Ireland - PB - 1996

Colonialism, religion and nationalism are three of the life forces of modern Irish history. This collection of essays explores different dimensions of these informative influences from the seventeenth century onwards but with particular reference to 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 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...

D. George Boyce - Nationalism in Ireland - 3rd Edition PB 1995

Based on extensive historical, literary and political research, this text examines the relationship between ideas and political and social reality. It explains why the aspirations of Irish nationalism have failed to modify the facts of Irish political...

Chantal Conneller & Graeme Warren - Mesolithic Br

With notes, underlining and marks from some page corners turned down.  Published by Tempus , 2006   The general perception of the archaeology of the Mesolithic in Britain and Ireland is that the period is somewhat impoverished. Often assumed to...

Brian Gurrin - Pre-Census Sources for Irish Demography - PB - 2002

Published by Four Courts Press, book 4 in the Maynooth Researcvh Guides for Irish Local History series. Larger format trade paperback size, slim, 98 pages with detailed index and bibliography/.  This book focuses on how local historians can source...

John O'Donovan & Eugene Curry - The Antiquities of County Clare : Ordnance Survey Letters 1839 -

Published in this edition by CLASP , Ennis, 2003, originally published in 1997, based on transcribed letetrs and sources collected in 1924-28, and themselves based on the originbal letters, memoirs and notes collecetd by O'Donovan and Curry in Clare in...

Daniel Ford - Michael's War - HB - 2003

Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy - The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937 - HB - 2007

 This meticulously researched book draws on extensive primary sources to put the Irish constitution in a clear historical perspective. Using accessible language, the authors examine the political context of the conception of the constitution in...

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 ...

Jim Wilson & Simon Berrow - A Guide to the Identification of Whales and Dolphins of Ireland - 3rd Edition - PB 2014

Published by the Irish Whale andf Dolphin Group, this is teh 3rd revised edition 2014.  Illustarted tyhroughout with photographs, maps indicating where each species has been recorded in , identification notes etc. 

Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB

A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh.  Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere.    In this critical assessment of...

Martin Elsasser - Germany and Ireland 1000 Years of Shared History - Deutschland und Irland - 1000 Jahre Gemeinsamer Geschichte = PB - SIGNED 1997

Dual language edition - text in English and German.  Martin Elsasser was a former German ambassador to Ireland, esxpores a wide range of German- Irish historical links.   

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...

Seamus Heaney - Door Into the Dark - PB Reprint 2002, Originally 1969

Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuosness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early...

Chris Lawlor - A Revolutionary Village - Dunlavin County Wicklow 1900-1925

This 2021 publication provides an overview of the whole revolutionary period in the Dunlavin region. Playwright Brendan Behan famously acknowledged the republican reputation and revolutionary tradition of the west Wicklow village when he named an old...

Derek Stanley - North Dublin from the Liffey to Balbriggan ( Images of Ireland Series - PB - 2006

North Dublin is vibrant, lively and always changing, a place where people live against the backdrop of some of the city’s most renowned landmarks and beautiful buildings. In this book, the author captures the history of North Dublin before the...

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 - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic & Rory O'Connor - To Defend the Republic - 2 x PB - BRAND NEW

2 books on revolutionary era figures from historian Gerard Shannon. ( both also available singly)  This order will be shipped ( BOTH BOOKS TOGETHER) when the book on Rory O'Connor is published in February 2026.  Book 1- Liam Lynch - To Declare...

Brian Hanley - None of the Literary Type : Liam Mellows - PB - 2016

A stapled booklet, 84 pages, issued as part of the Decade of Centenary celebrations, covers the life of Mellows in the revolutionary era, up to his executrion in a reprisal during the Irish Civil War. 

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 the decade of Centenaries.  In very good...

Seán MacBride ( Editor) - Crime and Punishment - 1982

A 1982 collection of essays  largely based on the Irish Penal System Commission Report, as well as the full text of the Ó Briain Report into the treatment of those in Garda custody  and the so called 'heavy gang' .  Published by...

Muiris Mac Conghail - The Blaskets : A Kerry Island Library - HB - illustrated - Reprint 1988

Hardcover, published by Country House, Dublin 1987.  The Blasket Islands lie off Slea Head, county Kerry. Great Blasket Island, now uninhabited the largest, was inhabited for thousands of years by a small Gaelic-speaking fishing community. In 1953...

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. John Weldon, who used the penname Brinsley...

John B. Keane - Letters of a Civic Guard - Vintage PB - 1st 1976

A first paperback edition originally published 1976 Leo Molair is a longtime Garda, writing letters to his nephew who is also a guard, but of only two years standing..  

Harold O'Sullivan - A History of Local Government in the County of Louth - PB - 2000

A HISTORY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LOUTH,focusing primarily on the century since the Local Government Act of 1898. .