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James Joyce - Dubliners - Short Stories - PB - BRAND NEW - Includes 'The Dead'

'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.' From a child...

James Plunkett -Strumpet City - BRAND NEW - PB

Brand new - this edition published by Gill 2013, with an introduction by Fintan O'Toole, originally published in 1979 , and the subject of a classic RTE TV series in 1979-80.  This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the...

Marita Conlon-McKenna - A Girl Called Blue - BRAND NEW

Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own. Fostered out several times, Blue finds it difficult to fit in. Is...

Fintan O'Toole - A Mass for Jesse James : A Journey Through 1980's Ireland - Journalism PB 1990

A paperback first edition, Raven Arts Press 1990, collecting some of the most notable essays, journalism and srticles of Fintan O'Toole, , longtime columnist for thre Irish Times, but also thetre critic for In Dublin, editor of Magill and writer for the...

Derval O'Carroll ( Editor ) - Hoggers, Lords and Railwaymen : Custom House Docks Heritage Project 1996 - Dublin Docks Local History PB

Published by Dublin Custom House Docks Company, during the redevelopment of the area in the 1990's this is Hoggers , Lords and Railwaymen ( A hogger was one of a group of men who would drink the dregs from empty Guinness barrels left on the quays at...

Peter Sirr - Marginal Zones - Gallery Press debut PB 1984 Poetry

The debut collection from Gallery Books, 1984, of Peter Sirr's Marginal Zones. Paperback. The poems which Peter Sirr published in magazines and newspapers — and which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Listowel poetry prize — generated...

Máirtín Ó Cadhain - The Road to Brightcity - Translation by Eoghan ó Tuairisc - PB - Poolbeg 1982

The Road to Brightcity and Other Stories is a translation to English from the original Gaeilge, Poolbeg, 1981, by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc of a selection of short stories by Máirtín Ó Cadhain 1906-1970, taken from two of his...

John O'Regan - James Scanlon : Sneem - Gandon Editions - Works 1 - Irish Artist

This book documents a single project by the stained-glass artist and sculptor, James Scanlon. Sited in Sneem, Co Kerry, the project was created on a piece of derelict ground along the river. The artist employed local men to build the dry-stone-wall huts,...

Michael O'Sullivan & Bernardine O'Neill - The Shelbourne Hotel and It's People - HB - Dublin 1999

  Published by Blackwater Press, 1999, this is a history of Dublin's most notable hotel - The Shelbourne on Stephen's Green - this was issued on it's 175th anniversary , its now nearly at 200 years ( in 2024, the anniversary of its opening by Martin...

O'Brien, Flann - Treciasis Policininkas ( Third Policeman) - Lithuanian Edition

Lithuanian Translation of The Third Policeman, 2002, hardcover. Age tanning to the page block.  Tereciasis Policininkas - is anglu kalbos verte Antanas Danielius

Marcus De Búrca - Michael Cusack and the GAA - PB 1st Ed 1989 - GAA Founder - Clare

A first edition, Anvil Press 1989 of Marcus de Búrca's groundbreaking study of Michael Cusack, the Clare born founder of the GAA, and one of the key members of what became known as the Gaelic Revivalmovement ( although not known by this at the...

Osborn Bergin- Sgéalaigheacht Chéitinn : Stories from Keating's History of Ireland - PB 3rd Ed -2010 - RIA - Meán - Ghaeilge

Geoffrey Keating was a 17th century Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian from County Tipperary. Here, selections from his major work, the `History of Ireland' or `Foras Feasa ar Eirinn', are presented by the early 20th century Irish language scholar...

Nic Pháidín , Caoilfhinn ( Eagarthóir) - Nua-Aois Uimhir 8 - Cumann Literatha UCD 1981

Iris Literatha, Nua-Aois , Uimhir a h-Ocht,  foilsithe 1981, eagraithe ag Caoilfhinn Nic Pháidín  agus Máirín Nic Eoin, UCD.  Cnuasach do ghearrscéata, dánta, ailt agus aistí , ailt le...

Celine Kiernan / The Crowded Shadows (Large Paperback)

 New Friends. Old Enemies. Who can you trust? Wynter Moorehawke travels alone and unprotected in bandit-infested forests, searching for the rebel Prince Alberon. But many enemies are lurking in the shadows. It seems that every tyrant and zealot who...

Ó Floinn, Criostóir ( Criostoir O'Flynn ) Banana - SIGNED HB Poetry 1st ed 1979 Signed to Damien ó Muirí

A signed copy, FNT 1979, of Limerick born author Criostóir ó Floinn *( Criostor o'Flynn's Banana - signed and dedicated by the author to the author and critic Damien Ó Muirí, and dated 1990, ( The book itself is the first...

Jack Fennell - A Brilliant Void : A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction - PB Anthology - Tramp Press

These fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the winds of change came rushing in Ireland’s direction. Science and technology would transform everything:...

Dublin in the Coming Times : An anthology of Imagined Futures - PB - Short Fiction

The book features a selection of short stories, poetry and prose from members of Dublin City Libraries Creative Writing Groups alongside writings from well known established authors. In his 1893 collection, ‘The Rose’, WB Yeats included the...

O'Breen, Ailish - The Half Brother - Vintage PB - 1972 - riverrun Series

Issued as part of the Allen Figgis Publishers  riverrun series ( the small print was a  nod to Joyce) this is Limerick born author Ailish O'Breen's The Half Brother, 1st PB ed 1972 Light edgewear to the spine, slim paperback, (86pp)  In...

Clinch, Phyllis & Mollan, R Charles ( Editors) A Profit and Loss Account of Science in Ireland - HB RDS 1983

A collection of essays on industrial and resource development in Ireland, published by the RDS , 1983, with cover design by Brian ó Nualláin , heavy sun fade to spine, some closed tears to dustjacket edges.  Large format hardcover,...

Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011

Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the...

Shaw, George Bernard - Plays Pleasant : Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell - Vintage Penguin PB - 1946 ( Originally 1898)

A vintage Penguin paperbacks ( Horizontal band editions) of plays by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw - as follows - Plays Pleasant - comprising Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny & You Never Can Tell - Heavy age spotting and...

Michael Forde - Company Law in Ireland - 1st Ed revised 1987

The first edition of the now standard work on Irish company law, this is currently up to the fifth edition ( 2017) - this is the first edition, 1985, here revised and reprinted from 1987.  Commercial law had long been based on the 1963 Companies...

Ó Floinn, Críostóir - Lá Dá Bhfaca Thú - HB 1st ed 1955 As Gaeilge - ÚRSCÉAL

Clo Morainn, Dublin, 1955. Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition in a faded lightly chipped dustjacket, 272 pages. The story of a young man Ruairí Ó Daill who has given up his teaching position in Dublin to...

Edmund Van Esbeck - Irish Rugby Scrapbook - Illustrated 1982

Cork born Van Esbeck was the rugby correspondent for the Irish Times since the 1960's, and also wrote the official centenary history of the IRFU .  This is a pictorial history of the highlights in Irish rugby history, centered in particular on the...

A.T.Q Stewart - Edward Carson : A Biography - ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) PB 1981 - Unionism

A 1981 first edition , Gill & Macmillan, Ireland, of the historical biography forming part of the (updated) Gill's Irish Lives series - a biography of Edward Carson, 1854-1935 , the Dublin born barrister and politician, whose name became synonymous...

Sarah Crossan / The Weight of Water

From Carnegie Award winning author Sarah Crossan, a poetic and timely immigration story that combines first love, friendship, and persistent courage.Carrying just a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother are...

Nadine Dorries / The Ballymara Road

   The final gripping instalment of the bestselling Four Streets trilogy which began with THE FOUR STREETS and continued in HIDE HER NAME. Christmas morning, 1963. Fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a cold, unfriendly Irish convent...

Wright, Finbar - Private Friends - HB Poetry Limited Edition 2001 - SIGNED & Dedicated

Finbar Wright has been a member of the Irish Tenors from 2000 to present. Private Friends is a collection of some of Wright's poetry published in 2001 and dedicated to his brother, Robert, who, at age 47, had died suddenly the same year...

John Boyne / Noah Barleywater Runs Away (Large Paperback)

 In "Noah Barleywater Runs Away", bestselling author John Boyne explores the world of childhood and the adventures that we can all have there. Noah is running away from his problems, or at least that's what he thinks, the day he takes the untrodden...

Yvonne MacGrory / The Secret of the Ruby Ring (Large Paperback)

 Lucy, a rather spoiled almost-eleven-year-old, gets a very special birthday present from her grandmother. This gift, a star ruby ring, has been passed down for generations through Lucy's family. The evening before her birthday, Lucy accidently...

Taafe, Frank - Athy Golf Club Centenary History 1906-2006 - Hardcover Co. Kildare

A handsome and well produced club history of Athy Golf Club, County Kildare, published on the occasion of the club centenary in 2006. Hardcover, with photographs in both colour and black and white, and with a full history of past members, captains,...

Gibson, W.H.G & McDonald, Joseph - A Century of Golf at Carlow : From Gotham to Deerpark 1899-1999 HB

A history of golf in Carlow, covering the centenary of Carlow Golf club, from the early origins in 1899, illustrated throughout, with coverage of tHe initial course at Gotham, and the move to the modern current location at Deerpark.  illustrated...

Ó Suilleabháin, Diarmaid - Muintir - Hb As Gaeilge Gearrscéalta 1971

Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1971, cnuasach gearrscéalta leis un údar Diarmuid ó Suilleabháin.  As Gaeilge in iomlán atá na scéalta Ba as Béarra i gcontae Chorcaigh an...

Pauline Hall - Grounds - HB - 1st Edition - Brandon 1983 Dublin 1950's 1950's

Pauline Hall was born in Dublin, Ireland. She spent periods of time in France, Italy, Spain and the United States before returning home to live in Ireland permanently. Having originally worked in the Irish public service, she now writes full-time, both...

Gerry Adams / Before the Dawn : An Autobiography (Hardback)

 From the pogroms of 1969, to the hunger strikes of 1981, and from the streets of Belfast to the cages of Long Kesh, Adams brings his own perspective to the years of conflict and struggle in modern Ireland.      All of our books...

Christy O'Connor / From Rough to Fair Ways : The Christy O'Connor Jnr Autobiography (Hardback) Golf Ireland

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S. J. Connolly / The Oxford Companion to Irish History (Hardback)

 This text offers a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the history of Ireland. Written by a team of more than 80 distinguished historians, its 1800 entries explore every aspect of Irish society from the earliest times to the late...

Conor Brady / Up with the Times (Hardback)

 Conor Brady edited "The Irish Times" for sixteen years between 1986 and 2002. It was a period of extraordinary change both in Ireland and in the wider world. This book reveals with intriguing detail how the paper both managed and made the news...

Maeve Binchy - The Lilac Bus & Dublin 4 - Omnibus HB Edition - Irish Life Classics Collection - Best of Maeve Binchy

A hardcover copy , an omnibus edition ( including two books previously published separately) - The Lilac Bus and Dublin 4 - here issued by The Irish Life Classic Collection, 1991.  Dublin 4 comprises 4 short stories originally published in the...

Paddy Devlin- The Fall of the N.I Executive 1974 - PB 1st Ed Northern Ireland

Published by Anvil Press /Kerryman, this is Paddy Devlin's collection of essays and commentary on the circumstances that led to the fall of the first Northern Ireland Executive in 1974. Paddy Devlin, formerly a union organiser,  was one of the...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2010 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

Ken Whelan / Bertie Ahern : Taoiseach and Peacemaker (Large Paperback)

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Tony Connelly / Brexit and Ireland : The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response (Large Paperback)

 Brexit represents the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area of Irish life that won't be affected.More than any other journalist, RTE's long-time Brussels...

Terry Wogan - 2 Book Lot : The Day Job & Chat Show Host Extraordinary - PB Biography

A lot of two books on the late Limerick born TV presenter , Terry Wogan, as follows : A paperback  copy of a biography of Terry Wogan by Gus Smith, an associate of his from the early years at RTE and  who spoke to a huge number of his...

Claire Hennessy / Nothing Tastes As Good

   Utterly magnificent' - Marian KeyesWhat happens when you give in to the voices in your head?Annabel is dead. And she's not happy about it. Despite having strived to be 'lighter than air' back when she was alive, the consequences of that...

Joe Broderick - Fall From Grace : the Life of Bishop Eamonn Casey - PB 1st ed 1992

Examines the story of Eamonn Casey from his childhood in rural north Kerry to his sudden resignation as bishop of Galway in May 1992. The author traces the evolution of Casey's life , describing his work for the homeless in Britain in the 1960's, his...

Paul Carson / Beat Your Allergies!

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Debbie Deegan / To Russia With Love : Changing the Lives of Abandoned Children

 This is the incredible story of how one woman's determination led her to overcome obstacles ranging from the scepticism of 'Celtic Tiger'-era Ireland to the intricacies of soviet-style bureaucracy, and the threat of violence from international...

Julie Parsons / The Courtship Gift

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Eoin McNamee / Resurrection Man

 A first novel which tells the story of the notorious Shankhill Butchers and sheds light on the political map of Belfast, where terrible deeds are committed in the name of history and religion. From the author of THE LAST OF DEEDS and LOVE IN...

Des Ekin / Stone Heart

  The secrets of the past have deadly consequences... As far as the police are concerned the brutal murder of Ann Kennedy is an open and shut case. The knife-wielding attacker is the dead woman's son, Fergal Kennedy. But Tara Ross is not convinced...

Damian Corless / Party Nation : The Strokes, Jokes, Spinners and Winners

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