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Eilís Dillon - Blood Relations - PB 1979 ( Originally 1977)

The sequel to Across the Bitter Sea, Blood Relations chronicles the painful birth of twentieth-century Ireland. Eils Dillon has recaptured all the essence of the time when a nation [was] struggling...

Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973

Published by Anvil Press, 1973.  'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the...

Charles Hultman - Ireland in World Commerce - Vintage Mercier PB - 1969

A guide to Irish economy in the 1960's , with a look to the ( then future) econoimic growth, written in 1969 just a few years before membership of the EEC was to begin trsnforming Ireland...

John M Feehan - The Magic of the Kerry Coast - PB - 1980

The Magic of the Kerry Coast , John M Feehan, Mercier Press , 1980 REPRINT, ORIGINALLY 1979.  John Feehan was an accomplished sailor. He began his odyssey in Crookhaven and continues the journey to...

Standish O'Grady - The Flight of the Eagle ( Mercier Irish Classics PB - 1980)

ISBN-085342618X Published by Mercier Cork, 1980, this edition is ( slightly) abridged by Úna Morrissy.  No imaginative writer could devise a more romantic and thrilling tale than the true story of...

Meabh Collins / Freya Harte is Not a Puzzle

Things I will be in Irish college : * Friendly to everyone (agree with everything they say) * Easy-going * Nice (compliment everyone’s clothes/ make-up)Things I will NOT * Annoying (don’t ask too...

Tomás Finn & Tony Varley ( Editors ) - Inside Rural Ireland Power and Change since Independence - BRAND NEW

In the early decades of native rule rural Ireland – and in particular the new farmer-owners who had emerged as the major winners in the recent agrarian revolution – exerted a considerable influence...

Miriam Nyhan Gray (Editor) - A Tract for Our Times - A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985 - PB - BRAND NEW

In 1989 renowned historian J. J. Lee published his magnus opus, Ireland 1912–1985: Politics and Society (Cambridge University Press). Not only had Lee written a classic, but he also managed to...

Kevin Lavin / Desiroscope

For hundreds of years, there has been a legend in Tobar Dubh that somewhere nearby is the desiroscope -- a wishing well at the end of a long, dangerous tunnel. But this isn't an ordinary wishing...

Johanna O'Mahony Walters / Close the Wicket Gate : Tales from the Kilmichael Bar

Fascinating reading a trip down memory lane and a very enjoyable journey.""-Alice Taylor. Set around the Kilmichael Bar, and told with a loving mixture of laughter and tears, O'Mahony Walters...

Clare GAA Yearbook 2014 - Bliainiris an Chláir PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The CLARE GAA Yearbook, 2014 published by Clare County Board, Ennis.  180 pages, large format paperback, very good , apart from bumped crease to lower corners . Full colour photography throughout,...

Amy Clarkin / What Walks These Halls

A prickling sensation grew on the back of her neck, spreading up her scalp. It was the feeling of being watched. She whirled to face the doorway but it was empty.Raven O'Sullivan doesn't remember...

Catherine Ryan Howard / Run Time..... (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Normal Sheeple..... (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Ciara Geraghty / Rules of the Road (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Roisin Meaney / A Winter to Remember.. (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Ann Devine / Ready for Her Close-Up (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Cathy Kelly / The Family Gift... (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Sheila O'Flanagan / The Hideaway (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Susan Loughnane / The Art of Scandal. (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Ally Bunbury / All Wrapped Up (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Edel Coffey / Breaking Point. (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Sheila O'Flanagan / Her Husband's Mistake. (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Sheila O'Flanagan / Three Weddings and a Proposal. (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Cathy Kelly / It Started with Paris.... (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Cathy Kelly / Secrets of a Happy Marriage... (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Brian O'Connell / The Personals (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Cathy Kelly / It Started With Paris. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Cathy Kelly / Secrets of a Happy Marriage.. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Dermot Bolger - Hide Away - PB - BRAND NEW

Betty Miller - Robert Browning : A Portrait - Vintage Penguin PB -1958 ( Originally 1952)

Originally published in 1952, this is the first Penguin paperback edition, 1958 ( Penguin 1264) - vertical ornage triband design, caricature drwing of Browning to centre cover.  Spine lean, usual age...

Risteard Mac Liam - Fuaimeanna na Feirme : Sounds of the Farm - HB

Tá leabhar eile sa tsraith ag My Irish Books dírithe ar leanaí le cabhrú leo roinnt Gaeilge a fhoghlaim. This time its farm-based learning with Fuaimeanna na Feirme.The new sound book showcases the...

Una Leavy & Shannon Bergin - Over the Red-Brick Chimney - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Little Goose is excited.  It’s time to go, before the Big Snow.  Winter is coming, and all the geese are flying to their new home in Ireland. But Little Goose gets blown down, down, down by a sudden...

Oona Frawley - Flight - BRAND NEW PB

Paperback ( larger format with flaps) 2014, Tramp Press, Dublin Nominated for Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year in the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. The man of the house was mad...

Maeve Kelly - Orange Horses - PB - BRAND NEW

 The 20 stories that make up Orange Horses, first published as a collection in 1990, richly illustrate the plight of marginalised women in contemporary Irish society. Kelly draws from a variety of...

Hugh Bodkin - Hugh Lane and His Pictures - HB 2nd Edition 1934

A hardcover 2nd edition, 1934, published by Browne and Nolan.  Condition - externally lacks dustjacket and the covers are badly scuffed, wear to head and tail of spine, the green cloth is bumped at...

Ciaran Cosgrave - Lassoed Suns - PB

Paperback, published by Montezuma Publications, Dublin, 1988.  The first poetry collection from the Belfast born poet and lecturer . 

Leona Forde - Milly McCarthy and the Christmas Calamity - PB - BRAND NEW

It’s coming up to Christmas and Milly’s class is prepping for their end-of-term performance. This year they’ve decided on a festive concert, so they can each showcase their favourite talent. Milly...

Ian Miller - A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts - HB - BRAND NEW

FREE TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST Skulls, heads, hands, height, legs, sex organs, blood, brains, stomachs, ears and corpses – discover Irish history through the prism of...

Carlo Gébler - A Cold Eye : Notes From a Shared Island 1989-2024 - PB - BRAND NEW

If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year? Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday...

Sean Farrell ( Editor) - Tidings : An Anthology of New Irish Christmas Stories - HB - BRAND NEW

Tidings is an anthology of freshly commissioned Irish Christmas writing - short stories and essays by some of Ireland's best writers, written on the theme of 'Christmas parties'. This astounding...

Adrian Frazier - John Montague : A Poet's Life - HB - BRAND NEW

In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry achieved an historic quality, a golden era to compare with the verse of the Elizabethan and the Romantic periods. A Poet's Life is the definitive biography...

Dorothy Cross - Kinship - HB - BRAND NEW

Kinship is a unique undertaking in the artistic career of one of Ireland's leading artists. This book, and the artistic project it is part of, charts the act of returning a mummified body of a man to...

Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy,...

Donal Magner - Why Forests? - The Case for Multipurpose Forestry in Uncertain Times - PB - BRAND NEW

Donal Magner knows the importance of forests better than most as illustrated in his critically acclaimed Stopping by Woods, the definitive guide to over 340 of Ireland’s forests and woodlands. In Why...

David Marcus ( Editor) - New Irish Writing 1 - PB - 1970

Paperback,  published by Dolmen  Press, 1970.  Based on the weekly series then running in the Irish Press Newspaper as 'New Irish Writing' . Contains poetry and short fiction.  A slim paperback,...

Gustav Parker Hibbett - High Jump as Icarus Story - PB - BRAND NEW

Just inside the track’s concentriccircus rings, at the football field’shead, is where I learned to wearthe gaze of other people like a queenwears feathers. In High Jump as Icarus Story, Gustav Parker...

Dylan Brennan - Let the Dead - PB - BRAND NEW

Deeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan Brennan’s Let the Dead concerns itself with life’s alchemical processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet; a photographer...

Lucy Sweeney Byrne - Paris Syndrome - PB - BRAND NEW

 Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2020 Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer category 2020 Longlisted for the Edge...

Bebe Ashley - Gold Light Shining - PB - BRAND NEW

Within five minutes, I knew I loved the stranger in my head. In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is...

Deirdre Sullivan - I Want to Know I Will Be Okay - PB - BRAND NEW

It had felt a bit like being haunted, being pregnant. Unexpected thumps, and moments when she would be reminded that there was a little person living inside of her. For a while afterwards, sometimes...

Erika McGann - What is a Peachick - HB - BRAND NEW

I've heard of a chickpea.I've had those for lunch.Is a peachick the same?Is it something you munch?Come on a hilarious adventure with these weird and zany creatures, from the author and illustrator...