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MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... 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Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3860 Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986 Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover. 'Second City' refers to the period of rapid physical and population expansion in Dublin in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press. This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,... 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Quick view Details sku: wW34163H Cecil Allen / The Actor (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW13374H Íde Ní Laoghaire & Mary Webb / Fond Memory : Consoling Words from the Irish Tradition (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details O'Brien Press | sku: MED8049,MED8050,MED8051,MED8052,MED8635 Éamonn MacThomáis - Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin - O'Brien Press - Illustrated 50th Anniversary Edition - BRAND NEW MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED1756,MED1757,MED1758,MED1994,MED1995,MED1996,MED1997,MED3260,MED4056,MED8240 Patsy Peril & Deirdre Nuttall - Swimming Upstream : One Man's Fight to Save Wild Atlantic Salmon MSRP: €19.99 Was: €19.99 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details O'Brien Press | sku: MED1266 Eric Haughan - Unbeatable - Dublin's Incredible Six in a Row - BRAND NEW - PB MSRP: €20.00 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details Futa Fata Gabriel Rosenstock - Púcaí Schmúcaí agus Dánta Eile - HB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW ( Le Cód QR) MSRP: €16.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details GAA BOOKS | sku: rR45403H Aidan O Mahony / Unbroken MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details O'Brien Press | sku: MED1396,MED2563 Alice Taylor - The Gift of a Garden - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG308 Brian Ó Dálaigh - Corporation Book of Ennis - HB - 1990 A record of the transactions of Ennis Corporation in the period 1660-1810, hardcover, published by the Irish Academic Press ( in cooperation with Ennis Town Council. A valuable genealogival resource as well as an insight into the minutes of local... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6476 Cecily Joyce - Claddagh Ring Story - PB 1990 An account of the origins and history of Ireland's most famous and enduring love token - Galway's Claddagh Ring. Paperback 1990, Illustrated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - WITH BEST WISHES - CECILY JOYCE MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Joan McBreen - A Walled Garden in Moylough - PB - SIGNED -1995 A US first edition paperback, published by Story Line Press, 1995 Signed by the author, undedicated to the title page. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4019 Liam Mac Philibín - Mise Pádraig - PB - 1960 Foilsithe ag FÁS ( Foilsiúcháin Ábhair Spioradálta) 1960, leagan Gaeilge do Confessio Naomh Pádraig. 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MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... 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Quick view Details O'Brien Press | sku: MED1396,MED2563 Alice Taylor - The Gift of a Garden - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG308 Brian Ó Dálaigh - Corporation Book of Ennis - HB - 1990 A record of the transactions of Ennis Corporation in the period 1660-1810, hardcover, published by the Irish Academic Press ( in cooperation with Ennis Town Council. A valuable genealogival resource as well as an insight into the minutes of local... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6476 Cecily Joyce - Claddagh Ring Story - PB 1990 An account of the origins and history of Ireland's most famous and enduring love token - Galway's Claddagh Ring. Paperback 1990, Illustrated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - WITH BEST WISHES - CECILY JOYCE MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Joan McBreen - A Walled Garden in Moylough - PB - SIGNED -1995 A US first edition paperback, published by Story Line Press, 1995 Signed by the author, undedicated to the title page. 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Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... 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MSRP: €14.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED588 D.D Rocca - Memories of the Way We Were - SIGNED - 2022 Signed with a dediaction from the author to the title page. The author, Donal Rocca, also known as Don Rocca was born on 5th August 1941 in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish mother and Italian father. After a formal education by nuns, lay teachers and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2735 Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vintage PB - 1981 Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the remarkrable success story of the son of a native... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x67257K John Scally / An Easter People: Essays in honour of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Large Paperback) Sr Stanislaus Kennedy is a name that needs no introduction in Ireland. 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Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon , asking for reviews . 0856161616 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7823,MED7843 Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not ex library, no school stamps etc. With the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1812,MED7839 Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997) Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... 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MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... 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Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... 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MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... 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Quick view IRISH POETRY Joan McBreen - A Walled Garden in Moylough - PB - SIGNED -1995 A US first edition paperback, published by Story Line Press, 1995 Signed by the author, undedicated to the title page. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4019 Liam Mac Philibín - Mise Pádraig - PB - 1960 Foilsithe ag FÁS ( Foilsiúcháin Ábhair Spioradálta) 1960, leagan Gaeilge do Confessio Naomh Pádraig. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED8504 Benedict Kiely - A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories - PB -1977 A 1977 Poolbeg Press reprint of the debut 1963 short story collection from Tyrone native Benedict Kiely. Condition - internally very good, sunfade to spine, from orange to pale yellow. 144 pages small format paperback. 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MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... 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Quick view sku: MED4019 Liam Mac Philibín - Mise Pádraig - PB - 1960 Foilsithe ag FÁS ( Foilsiúcháin Ábhair Spioradálta) 1960, leagan Gaeilge do Confessio Naomh Pádraig. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED8504 Benedict Kiely - A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories - PB -1977 A 1977 Poolbeg Press reprint of the debut 1963 short story collection from Tyrone native Benedict Kiely. Condition - internally very good, sunfade to spine, from orange to pale yellow. 144 pages small format paperback. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED8006 John Broderick - The Waking of Willie Ryan - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 The Waking of Willie Ryan by John Broderick Republished in conjunction with the John Broderick Bequest, and the Arts Council of Ireland, to mark 100 years of John Broderick. Willie Ryan returns to his home town in ‘the great central plain of... MSRP: €14.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED588 D.D Rocca - Memories of the Way We Were - SIGNED - 2022 Signed with a dediaction from the author to the title page. The author, Donal Rocca, also known as Don Rocca was born on 5th August 1941 in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish mother and Italian father. After a formal education by nuns, lay teachers and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2735 Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vintage PB - 1981 Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the remarkrable success story of the son of a native... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x67257K John Scally / An Easter People: Essays in honour of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Large Paperback) Sr Stanislaus Kennedy is a name that needs no introduction in Ireland. Whether known for here role as Life President of Focus Ireland, for her outspoken views on Ireland's forgotten or for her writings on spiritual and social issue, Sr Stan is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3273 C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983 Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon , asking for reviews . 0856161616 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7823,MED7843 Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not ex library, no school stamps etc. With the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1812,MED7839 Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997) Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3860 Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986 Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover. 'Second City' refers to the period of rapid physical and population expansion in Dublin in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... 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Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED8504 Benedict Kiely - A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories - PB -1977 A 1977 Poolbeg Press reprint of the debut 1963 short story collection from Tyrone native Benedict Kiely. Condition - internally very good, sunfade to spine, from orange to pale yellow. 144 pages small format paperback. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED8006 John Broderick - The Waking of Willie Ryan - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 The Waking of Willie Ryan by John Broderick Republished in conjunction with the John Broderick Bequest, and the Arts Council of Ireland, to mark 100 years of John Broderick. Willie Ryan returns to his home town in ‘the great central plain of... MSRP: €14.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED588 D.D Rocca - Memories of the Way We Were - SIGNED - 2022 Signed with a dediaction from the author to the title page. The author, Donal Rocca, also known as Don Rocca was born on 5th August 1941 in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish mother and Italian father. After a formal education by nuns, lay teachers and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2735 Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vintage PB - 1981 Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the remarkrable success story of the son of a native... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x67257K John Scally / An Easter People: Essays in honour of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Large Paperback) Sr Stanislaus Kennedy is a name that needs no introduction in Ireland. Whether known for here role as Life President of Focus Ireland, for her outspoken views on Ireland's forgotten or for her writings on spiritual and social issue, Sr Stan is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3273 C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983 Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon , asking for reviews . 0856161616 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7823,MED7843 Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not ex library, no school stamps etc. With the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1812,MED7839 Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997) Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3860 Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986 Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover. 'Second City' refers to the period of rapid physical and population expansion in Dublin in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press. This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,... MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... 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MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED8006 John Broderick - The Waking of Willie Ryan - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 The Waking of Willie Ryan by John Broderick Republished in conjunction with the John Broderick Bequest, and the Arts Council of Ireland, to mark 100 years of John Broderick. Willie Ryan returns to his home town in ‘the great central plain of... MSRP: €14.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED588 D.D Rocca - Memories of the Way We Were - SIGNED - 2022 Signed with a dediaction from the author to the title page. The author, Donal Rocca, also known as Don Rocca was born on 5th August 1941 in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish mother and Italian father. After a formal education by nuns, lay teachers and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2735 Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vintage PB - 1981 Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the remarkrable success story of the son of a native... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x67257K John Scally / An Easter People: Essays in honour of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Large Paperback) Sr Stanislaus Kennedy is a name that needs no introduction in Ireland. Whether known for here role as Life President of Focus Ireland, for her outspoken views on Ireland's forgotten or for her writings on spiritual and social issue, Sr Stan is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3273 C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983 Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon , asking for reviews . 0856161616 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7823,MED7843 Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not ex library, no school stamps etc. With the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1812,MED7839 Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997) Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3860 Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986 Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover. 'Second City' refers to the period of rapid physical and population expansion in Dublin in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press. This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,... MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... 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Quick view sku: MED2735 Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vintage PB - 1981 Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the remarkrable success story of the son of a native... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x67257K John Scally / An Easter People: Essays in honour of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Large Paperback) Sr Stanislaus Kennedy is a name that needs no introduction in Ireland. Whether known for here role as Life President of Focus Ireland, for her outspoken views on Ireland's forgotten or for her writings on spiritual and social issue, Sr Stan is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3273 C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983 Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon , asking for reviews . 0856161616 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7823,MED7843 Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not ex library, no school stamps etc. With the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1812,MED7839 Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997) Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3860 Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986 Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover. 'Second City' refers to the period of rapid physical and population expansion in Dublin in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press. This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,... MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... 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Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x67257K John Scally / An Easter People: Essays in honour of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Large Paperback) Sr Stanislaus Kennedy is a name that needs no introduction in Ireland. Whether known for here role as Life President of Focus Ireland, for her outspoken views on Ireland's forgotten or for her writings on spiritual and social issue, Sr Stan is... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3273 C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983 Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon , asking for reviews . 0856161616 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7823,MED7843 Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not ex library, no school stamps etc. With the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1812,MED7839 Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997) Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... 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MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... 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Quick view sku: MED7823,MED7843 Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not ex library, no school stamps etc. With the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1812,MED7839 Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997) Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3860 Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986 Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover. 'Second City' refers to the period of rapid physical and population expansion in Dublin in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press. This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,... MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... 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Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... 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MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... 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Quick view sku: MED1812,MED7839 Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997) Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page. Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3860 Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986 Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover. 'Second City' refers to the period of rapid physical and population expansion in Dublin in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press. This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,... MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED3860 Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986 Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover. 'Second City' refers to the period of rapid physical and population expansion in Dublin in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press. This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,... MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... 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Quick view Cork University Press | sku: MED Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024 Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press. This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,... MSRP: €69.00 Now: €65.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... 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Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB “In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG245 ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ. An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... 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MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Faber Publishing Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009 he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2803,MED2804,MED2805,MED2806,MED2807,MED2808,MED2809,MED2810,MED2811,MED2812,MED2813,MED5887 Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger tells the horrifying story how... MSRP: €12.95 Was: €12.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7928,MED7929q1 Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994... MSRP: €24.00 Was: €24.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED2272,MED2273.MED2274 George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath…’ Written with his... MSRP: €16.95 Was: €16.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart
Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1614 Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995 Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane. Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW38881H John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback) A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane. Mercier Press 1996 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED5837 Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost. Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €23.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... 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MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x66214K AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x66212K Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback) Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger. There she meets and is looked after by Lily, a younger... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997) Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey. This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... 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MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... 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Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6116,MED6117 Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints of stout in the morning. Suddenly that sunlight... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED3362,MED3363,MED3364,MED3365,MED3366 Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024) Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holidays poems... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED1431 Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition) The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED7552 Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a... MSRP: Now: €39.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: MED2748,MED2749,MED2750,MED2751,MED2752,MED2761,MED2763,MED2764,MED2765,MED6528,MED6529 Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995 US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy. In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully... MSRP: €18.00 Was: €18.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: wW2741H Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback) A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED8144,MED8145 Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED926 Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED5932 Richie Hogan - Whatever it Takes - HB -( Kilkenny GAA) Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by... MSRP: €23.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6416 Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dun Sion... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH POETRY | sku: MED6722 Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983 Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló. Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Royal Irish Academy | sku: MED3092 Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED3189,MED4757 Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024) The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised by the GAA, as it was branded... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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