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Michael Traynor - IONA : Ireland's First Commercial Airline - HB - 2004

Hardcover, published 2004. In excellent condition throughout ( despite being 20 years old) it is almost ' as new'  Illustrated in full throughout, with hundreds of vintage black and white and colour photographs.  Huge array of aeroplane...

Úna Woods - A Spooktacular Place to Be - HB - BRAND NEW

In his moon-shaped park filled with silver moonlight,The Dublin Vampire wakes to the same familiar sight. ‘I’ve spent so many years in this creepy old tree,Is there a more spooktacular place to be?’ He agrees with his bat that...

Úna Woods - Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire - HB - BRAND NEW

In an old part of Dublin, right down by the sea, There’s a moon-shaped park with a creepy old tree.The Dublin Vampire lives there. The Vampire wakes up as the sun’s going down. He hops on the ghost bus and rides into town.Have you seen the...

Jim Kennedy / Farewell to the Thatch & Whitewash (Large Paperback)

Farewell to the Thatch & Whitewash   A Social history of the period 1940 - 1955 covering an area at the source of two rivers The Nore and The Suir, the parish of Bournea and adjoining parishes and the North end of the Suir...

Meath County Board - Royal County : Meath GAA Yearbook 2000 - PB

The county Meath GAA Yearbook, 2000, large format paperback ( A4 ) - fulll coverage of local and county level sport, 

Brendan McGowran & Corinne Silva - Róisín Bán : The Irish Diaspora in Leeds - HB

Emigration is a common theme throughout Irish history. As Dermot Bolger recognises in his foreword, it is one that has touched almost every family in Ireland. Until recently thousands found work in Britain’s major industrial centres. For a large...

Andy Bielenberg - The Shasnnon Scheme and the Electrification of the Irish Free State - PB

Ryan Tubridy & P.J Lynch - Patrick and the President ( HB - Picture Book) - DOUBLE SIGNED

From broadcaster Ryan Tubridy, and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner P. J. Lynch, comes a picture book about President John F. Kennedy's return to his ancestral home in Ireland.When the much-loved President visited Ireland in 1963, he described it as the best...

Larry Lynn Southard - Wayfaring : A Guide to Guidance - HB - SIGNED

This book (written by Cork member of the Society of Friends) Larry Lynn Southard and published in 2023 aims to provide a “handbook to help readers place themselves in a position that makes divine guidance a daily reality”. Sources of...

Jo Kerrigan - Stories From the Sea - HB - BRAND NEW

Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands have brought goods, ideas, invaders, influencers. Our legends, and particularly the imramma or magical...

Harold Good & Martin O'Brien / In Good Time: A Memoir (Large Paperback)

Rev. Harold Good, ’Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process, lifts the curtain on his remarkable life in this enthralling memoir. From Ian Paisley’s turbulent...

Cumann Seanchas Bhreifne : Breifne Journal 2003 - PB

The 2003 edition of Breifne, the Cavan based local history journal.  Uneven sunfade to a porton of the front cover, otherwise very good.  Volume X, Number 39. 

Jim Fogarty - The Dan Breen Cup : Tippereary County SH Finals 1931-2011 - PB

Jim Fogarty is a former Kilkenny librarian ( and GAA collector) this was his first book, detailing the history of hurling county finals in his native Tipperary.  Previous owner's name to title page, price sticker residue mark on back cover. ...

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 6

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers.   

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 4

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.   

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 3

Issue 3 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.  Pasted isbn label on back cover. 

Cal McCarthy - In the Shadow of the Big Fellow : The Commemoration, Commercialisation, Study & Politicisation of Michael Collins - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

  Cal McCarthy is a Cork based historian and civil servant. This new book, published by Clonakilty based Michael Collins House Museum with financial aid also from Cork County Council, takes a detailed look at the legacy and impact of  Michael...

John Caulfield / RebelHeart (Large Paperback)

John Caulfield was born in the United States, in the Bronx, before his family relocated to Roscommon - and to a GAA community. And while Caulfield loved Gaelic football, his brilliance on the soccer field and his scoring touch meant that his 'football...

Labhrás Ó Nualláin / Memoir of an Irish Economist (Large Paperback)

Working Class Manchester to Irish Academia. Labhrás Ó Nualláin 1912 -2000 Labhrás Ó Nualláin was a lecturer and subsequently Professor of Economics at University College Galway. Prior to his academic career he...

Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin - The Dubs : Dublin GAA Since the 1940's - HB

Hardcover, published by Gill & Macmillan , 2006.  Ó Ceallacháin was the long time host of the GAA sports results on RTE radio for many years, as well as being a dual code GAA player for Dublin himself in his youth. Covers both...

Eddie Wymberry - Well Well ! - Memories of Waterford in the 1950's - PB

Paperback, an coount of local life and charcaters in Waterford city in the author's youth - 1950's and 1960's, with photographs, and a ( very good) glossary of local sland words at the back.  124 pages. 

Micheál Ó Conghaile / An Fear a Phléasc (Hardback)

Tá domhan úr cruthaithe ag Micheál Ó Conghaile anseo, domhan nach raibh riamh ann agus nach mbeidh ann go deo ach go bhfuil a fhírinne aisteach shocreidte aige ar a shon sin . . . domhan atá an-chosúil...

Denis G Marnane - Tipperary Historical Journal : Index 1988-2012 - PB

An Index ( booklet format, alphabetical by author) to the first 25 years of the Tipperary Historical Journal  ( NB - no articles, but a full listing of the contents of all past issues up until that date, including reviews, locations mentioned etc...

Gearóid Denvir ( Eagarthóir) / Duanaire an Chéid (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...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1996

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part I - Denis G. Marnane Memories of the Famine from the Irish Folklore CommissionIntroductiona. The Famine in Ballylooby - Tadhg...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1997

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part II - Denis G. MarnaneThe Great Famine & Fethard Temporary Fever Hospital -...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1992

Editor: Marcus Bourke244 pages; 28 Articles The IRA in West Tipperary in 1931 – The Assassination of Superintendent CurtinDenis G. MarnaneThe End of the Civil War: The Third Tipperary Brigade (1921-1923); Part IIIAn tAthair Colmcille, O. Cist.The...

Marcus Bourke( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1999

Paperback.  Condition - front and rear covers curled/ dogeared, book does not lie flat when on level surface as a result. rear cover corners creased. Signed by pervious owner on title page. Some foxing and age spotting to inside rear cover, and...

Marcus Bourke( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2001

Paperback, larger format, signed on front endpage by a previous owner. Front cover corners slightly bumped.    Tipperary town one hundred years ago: the evidence of the 1901 CensusDenis G Marnane Tipperarymen in Spain (1936 – 1937) - Pat...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2002

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  Marcus Bourke: An Appreciation Marcus Bourke: BibliographyMarcus Bourke: A Biographical Sketch -William NolanMarcus Bourke and his Writings -Denis G. MarnaneMarcus Bourke: His GAA Writings -Seamus J...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2003

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name to title page.  210 Pages; 14 Articles The Benedictine Priory of Kilcommon - Richard O’Brien The Munster Hotel, Cathedral Street, Thurles: Archaeological Excavations 1998-1999...

Carmel Quinlan( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2004

Paperback , in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address written on inside front cover. 276 Pages; 15 Articles Excavations at Friar Street Cashel: A Story of Urban SettlementO’Donovan et al The Fennells of Cahir - Michael...

Mary & Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editors) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2005

Paperback , in excellent ''as new'' condition.  Editors: Mary Ó Drisceoil agus Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 226 Pages; 17 Articles The Rian Bó Phádraig – Fact or Fiction: the Problems Facing Medieval Roads in the Twentieth...

Mary & Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editors) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2006

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  Editors: Mary Ó Drisceoil agus Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 256 Pages; 23 Articles Excavation of Human Remains at Nenagh North, St. Conlan’s...

Mary & Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editors) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2007

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  Editors: Mary Ó Drisceoil agus Proinsias Ó Drisceoil190 Pages; 15 Articles Caolmhóin: Láthair Chatha I gContae Thiobraid...

Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2008

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  CONTENTS -  224 Pages; 16 Articles Properties in Carrick-on-Suir Granted to the Duke of Ormond in 1668Conleth ManningStatus and Structure: Social...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2009

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owners name and address to title page .  CONTENTS -  168 Pages; 9 Articles Late Medieval to Early Modern Building at No. 1 Canopy Street & No. 9 Bank Place, Cashel Joanne Hughes &...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2010

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  CONTENTS -  44 Pages; 9 Articles Thomas Walsh: Cashel’s Forgotten ArchbishopSeán Ua CearnaighTres Bian: Charles Bianconi: Portrait of...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2011

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and adddress to title page.  CONTENTS -  Editor: Dan Finnan164 Pages; 11 Articles Bagpuss of Cashel – The Tale of a Musical CatJoanne HughesThe Late Medieval Surburban...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2012

Paperback , in VERY GOOD CONDITION, previous owners name and address on inside front cover,  erratum slip for an article laid in loosely CONTENTS -  223 Pages; 15 Articles Two medieval coin hoards from recent archaeological excavations on road...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2014

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address to title page CONTENTS -  Editor: Dan Finnan230 Pages; 16 Articles The Use of Masons Templates on some Early Christian Sculpture from Lorrha, Co. Tipperary and Tisaran Co...

Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Volume XXV Summer 2006 - Number 99

The Irish Sword is the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, In very good condition overall, as new.  Depiction (by Seán Ó Brógáin) of soldiers of Sir Phelim O’Neill’s Regiment of Foot...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Counties of South Ulster (1834-1838) - Vol 40

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Keelin Shanley / A Light that Never Goes Out: A Memoir (Hardback)

When journalist Keelin Shanley passed away in February aged 51, it was hard to grasp that someone so filled with life was gone. But a light so bright never really goes out, especially since, in her last few months, Keelin wrote a fantastic record of her...

Matt Murphy - An Islander Looks Back ( Cork / Sherkin ) - PB - 1990

PB, 1990.  Cb40000 20250114 0006An Islander Looks Backby Matt Murphy €10.00 Buy NowGenre:Cork / Irish Biography / Irish History and Culture / Irish Interest / RARE & OUT OF PRINT Format:Paperback   Tanning to page block.  No...

Kilian J Mitchell - The Missionary Priests and Bishops of the Diocese of Kilmore - HB - 200

Published by Breifne Historical Society, 2000.  A detailed listing of church ( mostly) missionary activity from the diocese of Kilmore ( straddling the border and comprising Cavan / Leitrim and parts of Fermanagh) 

P.L Henry - Saoithiúlacht na Sean-Ghaeilge - HB - 1976

Academic text on Old Irish , published by Oifig an tSolatháir, 1976.  Tá iarracht á dhéanamh sa leabhar seo ar a cheart a thabhairt don fhile i dtionscnamh na litríochta; tá rian an fhile le feiceáil...

Peter Tormey & Kevin Byrne - Irish Air Corps : A View from the Tower - PB

Signed with a dedication by a number of Air Corps pilots , ( not by the authors of the book .  1991, an illustrated history of the Irish Air Corps, with photographs throughout, personnel listings, historic aircraft, development of Baldonnell, etc...

Jean McMann - Loughcrew : The Cairns - A Guide - PB - 1984

This guide is intended as an introduction to a little known yet uniquely important landmark, the Neolithic cairns at Loughcrew in County Meath, Ireland. The site is a key monument not only in the history of Ireland, but in the world's history of...

Donalll P Ó Baoill - Amach as Ucht na Sliabh - PB - 1992 (Donegal - Tír Chonaill)

Cnuasach bealoidis a chruinnigh daltai sna Scoileanna Naisiunta i bParoiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Dún na nGall faoi Sceim na Scol 1937-'38.  Foilsithe ag Comharchumann Ghaoth Dobhair, 1992, le mapaí, grainghraf, agus...

Proinsias Mac Aonghusa - Éamon de Valera : Na Blianta Réabhlóideacha - HB - 1982

Cur síos at shaol Éamon de Valera óna óige suas go 1932. I Ros Muc, Conamara a bhí conaí ar an údar, Prionsias Mac Aonghusa.  Tá an cóip seo sínithe ag Seán  P Mac...

Brendan Barrington ( Editor) / The Dublin Review, Number 36: Autumn 2009 (Large Paperback)

Brendan Barrington (Editor), Robert Cremins (Contributor), Adrian Frazier (Contributor), Carlo Gébler (Contributor), Selina Guinness (Contributor), Aiden...