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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

Willie 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...

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...

Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Third Revised and expanded edition, published May 2024. Cork University Press.  This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand...

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...

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...

Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009

The 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...

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. De

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...

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.

Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, -...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB

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 curta roimhe seo.   

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...

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...

Ian Hannigan - Timeless Colours - Waterford - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Timeless Colours: Waterford celebrates the rich history of the Déise and its people through the meticulous colourisation of over 100 stunning images. From architectural gems like the Dromana Gate to...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW

PAPERBACK - BRAND NEW,  2024. In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she...

Patrick Casey, Joe Duignan & Kevin Cullen - Irish Doctors in the Second World War - HB- BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST This highly anticipated sequel charts the contributions of Irish doctors in the Second World War, a conflict that demonstrated to the world that the

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman - Irish Food History: A Companion - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Enlightening, entertaining and often surprising, Irish Food History: A Companion takes you on an unforgettable and expert journey through Ireland’s...

Helena King et al ( Editors) - Knowth - PB - BRAND NEW

Knowth, Co. Meath, has been a place of ritual and settlement from the beginning of the Neolithic to the modern era. It is a national monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Property: the ancient...

Cecil Allen / The Actor (Large Paperback)

A story of love and passion set in a time of war and violence. A story of one man’s struggle to find his place in the world. A story of theatre. A story of life. In 1914 a young Jim Brevin runs away...

Éamonn MacThomáis - Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin - O'Brien Press - Illustrated 50th Anniversary Edition - BRAND NEW

50th Anniversary Edition  A beautifully presented and attractively laid out commemorative edition, with new introductions by Ivan O’Brien, MD of The O’Brien Press and best-selling author Dónal Fallon...

Patsy Peril & Deirdre Nuttall - Swimming Upstream : One Man's Fight to Save Wild Atlantic Salmon

Patsy Peril was born in 1943 in Coonagh, a small fishing community on the Shannon, not far from Limerick. His family fished from a traditional gandelow boat, using hemp nets. Further upriver was...

Eric Haughan - Unbeatable - Dublin's Incredible Six in a Row - BRAND NEW - PB

In late August 2014, Donegal's footballers smashed and grabbed an All-Ireland semi-final victory from Jim Gavin's seemingly unstoppable Dublin team. It would be the last Championship game the Boys in...

Gabriel Rosenstock - Púcaí Schmúcaí agus Dánta Eile - HB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW ( Le Cód QR)

GEARRLIOSTA GHRADAM RÉICS CARLÓ 2023 Tá idir sheandánta agus véarsaí úrnua sa bhailiúchán álainn seo d’fhilíocht Gabriel Rosenstock do pháistí. Cuireann ealaín aoibhinn Tarsila Krüse agus Úna Woods...

Alice Taylor - The Gift of a Garden - PB - BRAND NEW

‘This is a book about the comfort and sustenance that can be got from gardening and from the earth, about the wonderful pleasures and fulfilment that I get from my garden.’ Alice Taylor Alice’s...

John B Keane - Man of the Triple Name - PB ( Brandon PB )

"There is a wild animal after descending from the mountains and it is the man of the triple name, Dan Paddy Andy". With these words and many more Archdeacon Browne denounced the last of the great...

Peter Heaney - Ulster Fairy Tales and Legends - PB - BRAND NEW

Where did the Red Hand, the famous symbol of Ulster, originate? It's the hand of Heremon, a chief so keen to be first to lay claim to the land that he cut his own hand off the threw it from a...

Acts of the Oireachtas 1957 - HB - Dáil Éireann - Bound

Bound in red cloth, titles to spine, the full legislation of the Houses of the Oireachtas for 1957 ' Consisting of The Public general Acts and A rivate Act, with Tables and index - DUAL LANGUAGE (...

Donal Neary - The Calm Beneath the Storm - Reflections & Prayers for Young People - PB

Published by Veritas Ireland, 1983, a collection of ( original) reflections and prayers by Jesuit Donal Neary.   

Niall Harbison / Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker (Large Paperback)

Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days feeding, caring for and rescuing the many street dogs he comes across...

Edward Burke - Ghosts of a Family : Ireland’s Most Infamous Unsolved Murder and the Origins of the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW

The gripping historical true crime story of Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder, the sectarian massacre of six Catholic civilians in their north Belfast home in 1922.     

Thomas Keneally / Fanatic Heart (Large Paperback)

John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charged with treason in Ireland and tried by an English judge he was snuck off mainland Ireland on the day...

Elizabeth Chadwick / The Irish Princess (Large Paperback)

Ireland, 1160 Aoife MacMurchada is just 14 years old when her father Diarmit, King of Leinster, is brutally deposed, and her family is forced to flee Southern Ireland into English exile. Diarmit...