Irish Interest _______________________

Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1975

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press. Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels impelled to...

Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Dúchan - BRAND NEW

Blúirí ó shaothar Mháirtín Uí Chadhain a thugann léargas ar theanga, sochaí agus pearsantachaí Chonamara sna 1930idí. Tá deich dtéama i gceist (sláinte, grá, an talamh, an aimsir, agus an fharraige...

J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB

Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary...

Carsten Krieger & Richard Creagh - Ireland's Islands - PB - BRAND NEW

Take a photographic journey around Ireland's coast and explore the landscape, history, heritage and wildlife of the offshore islands. From rugged cliffs thronged with seabirds to tranquil bays, and...

Frank O'Connor - The Lonely Voice : A Study of the Short Story - PB

Frank O’Connor was one of the twentieth century’s greatest short story writers, and one of Ireland’s greatest authors. Lilliput Press are now delighted to continue our publishing of O’Connor’s...

Fergus Brogan ( Editor) - True To Type : 18 Stories - PB 1991

Co-published by Irish Times Books and Sugarloaf Publications, 1991.  A collection of 18 ( fiction) short stories from journalists and writers for the Irish Times, With cartoons by Martyn Turner...

Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW

Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de réimsí a spéise léinn, déanann an...

Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW

Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the...

Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW

Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of...

Frank McDonald - A Little History of the Future of Dublin - PB - BRAND NEW

A superb analysis by Frank McDonald on the past, present and future of Dublin as imagined by various planners over its history (as well as the various ideas of the ‘future’ of the city they...

Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW

Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the...

Pat McCarthy - A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry : Making Medicines for the World

Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector. How the industry...

Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW

In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the...

Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW

Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke...

Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen - Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling ( Aisling Series : Book 1 ) BRAND NEW

Meet Aisling.She's a small-town girl who dreams of the big city.She has a heart of gold and an iron belief in the power of control tights.She has a steady job and a loyal boyfriend (though he hasn't...

Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen - Once, Twice Three Times an Aisling -Aisling Series : Book 3 ) - BRAND NEW

  The third book in Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen’s phenomenally successful, No. 1 bestselling Complete Aisling book series. Aisling’s turning 30, and she’s still a complete Aisling. Business is...

Tatyana Feeney - Stockingopolis - HB - BRAND NEW

Stockingopolis is a small grey town by the grey, grey sea. There are grey sheep with grey wool that gets knitted into grey stockings. But Ben and Lucy love COLOUR – so they set out to paint just ONE...

Bart Daly - The Business Owner's Guide to Choosing & Using a Solicitor - PB - BRAND NEW

THE BUSINESS OWNER'S GUIDE TO CHOOSING & USING A SOLICITOR is intended to help you as a business owner to make an informed choice in finding the best solicitor for your particular circumstances. It...

Oonagh Monahan / Money for Jam : The Essential Guide to Starting Your Own Small Food Business ( 3rd Edition) - BRAND NEW

  Have you ever thought about trying to earn some

Brian O'Kane - Starting a Business in Ireland - 8th Edition - BRAND NEW

For over 30 years, STARTING A BUSINESS IN IRELAND has been THE book that would-be entrepreneurs are advised to read before setting out on their entrepreneurial journey. Updated for its 8th...

Tom Lyons - Aer Dogs : How a Small Group of Irish Entrepreneurs Brought Low-Fare Air Travel Around the World - BRAND NEW PB

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST This is the story of a small team of Irish trailblazers who made low-cost air travel available to billions of people across Europe, Asia, North America...

Stuart Bailie / The Ballad Of The Thin Man: The Authorised Biography Of Phil Lynott & Thin Lizzy (Hardback)

A biography of the Irish rock band, Thin Lizzy, written with the co-operation of the surviving members of the band and their management, and friends of the band's founder, Phil Lynott, whose drug...

Brian Gallagher - Case of the Secret Signal - PB - BRAND NEW

Ireland, 1911 A secret signal flashes in the night … It’s an SOS. Is someone being held prisoner? Friends Tim, Deirdre and Joe set out to investigate. What starts as a diversion while on holiday in...

Keith Donald - Music and Mayhem - PB - BRAND NEW

Music and Mayhem charts the immersive and explosive life of one of Ireland’s most important musicians, and the golden decade of Irish music he was at the very centre of.  Keith Donald’s story begins...

Joe McHugh - Beidh Tú Alright - PB - BRAND NEW

In July 2014, Joe McHugh TD faced one of the most significant challenges of his political career. Appointed Minister for Natural Resources, the Gaeltacht and the Islands, McHugh was tasked with...

William Wall - Writers Anonymous - PB - BRAND NEW

Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW

‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the...

Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW

In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and...

Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW

Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short...

Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW

Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading...

Anthony Glavin - One for Sorrow - PB

Published by Poolbeg Press, 1980 Donegal is the setting for most of Anthony Glavin's short stories, either in the county itself, or in those set elsewhere, the memory of Donegal is on the minds of...

Joe Curtis - Clontarf : An Illustrated History - PB - BRAND NEW

In 1014, at the famous Battle of Clontarf, the High King of Ireland, Brian Boru, in conjunction with the provincial chiefs, defeated the colonizing Norsemen in a decisive battle which ended their...

Patricia Scanlan - CITY GIRLS TRILOGY - BRAND NEW ( City Girl | City Woman | City Lives)

  Save over €5 on the rrp (€35.25) and free An Post delivery within Ireland is included.  City Girl (BRAND NEW) ( BOOK 1 )  Devlin: Blonde, beautiful, rich and spoilt. The world is hers for the...

Patricia Scanlan - City Lives - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

WITH AN AUTHOR SIGNED ADHESIVE BOOKPLATE, LOOSELY INSERTED A brand new edition of one of the classic Irish novel.  Full of warmth, wit and wisdom, City Lives is the brilliant follow-up to City Woman...

Shane Hegarty & Fintan O'Toole - Irish Times Book of 1916 Rising - PB

This book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times...

Máirtí­n Ó Direáin - Spring Seaweed ( Feamainn Bhealtaine) - PB - BRAND NEW ( Translated by Micheál Ó hAodha)

Through masterful essays and twenty poems, one of Ireland's greatest twentieth-century poets captures the soul of Aran Island life - from keening women's haunting songs to seaweed dancing on the tide...

Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW

Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a...

Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW

Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi.   Delivery within Ireland included in the price.  From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively...

Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967

A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade...

Kevin Curran - Youth - PB - BRAND NEW - 2025

Youth by Kevin Curran dives into the lives of four teenagers in Ireland’s most diverse town, Balbriggan. Angel is about to finish school and discover if Drill music and his YouTube fame can deliver...

Mary Morrissy - Twenty-Twenty Vision - PB - BRAND NEW

Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre...

Muireann Ní Chiobháin & Roisín Hahessy - Eoiní­n ag an Siopa - HB - BRAND NEW

Tá Eoinín ag dul ag siopadóireacht. Caithfidh sé tralaí a fháil agus ansin é a stiúradh timpeall an tsiopa. An féidir leatsa cabhrú le hEoinín gach ní ar a liosta siopadóireachta a fháil? Lán daite...

George Lee & Charlie Bird / Breaking the Bank - How the NIB Scandal was Exposed (Large Paperback)

In 1998, two seasoned RTE reporters broke a story, backed up with irrefutable evidence that the National Irish Bank (NIB) had actively abetted some of it's customers to illegally evade national taxes...

Naas Creative Writers Group / Cuisle Chill Dara : The Heartbeat of Kildare - Volume II (Large Paperback)

A 2023 selection from Naas Creative Writers Group, paperback.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good...

Gerard Donovan / Doctor Salt (Large Paperback)

A family is torn apart because of grief, poverty and dependence on prescription drugs. The first part - 'Sunless' - is actually the second part of the book and is told by Sunless, the son. He is...

Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway - BRAND NEW

Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is...

Leona Forde - Milly McCarthy's Wild Atlantic Antics - PB - BRAND NEW ( May 2025)

It’s nearly the summer holidays and Milly’s class is heading off on a school tour to the Gaeltacht in the West of Ireland. Milly can’t wait to be away from home with her friends – but the teachers...

Bill Cooke / Intrigue in a Quaint Irish Town (Large Paperback)

Intrigue in a Quaint Irish Town is a new book written by Tipperary man, Bill Cooke. Set in 1950's Ireland it's a light-hearted look at life in an Irish town, at a time when most towns were...

Elisabeth Monkhouse & Emmett Arrigan / Daisy Bates (Large Paperback)

Éireannach mná a rinne obair éachtach. Ba i gContae Thiobraid Árann a rugadh agus a tógadh Daisy Bates, ach chaith sí an chuid is mó dá saol san Astráil, áit ar oibir sí ar son an phobaill...

Ingrid and Mary Walsh / I Will Bring the Colour (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Martin Devaney / The RTE Writer's Guide (Large Paperback)

Published by Blackwater Press, a 'how to' guide for anyone interested in writing for broadcasting ( either fiction or documentary) . The emphasis si primarily on writing for radio and audio broadcast...

Laurence Power / Half the Battle (Large Paperback)

A lighthearted memoir of a farming Tipperary boyhood - published 2000.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in...