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Jane Clare / What Will I Be? - Career Guidance

      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...

Chris McGale / The Million Dollar Irishman : From John Street to Wall Street

      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...

Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022

With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first...

Janet McLean / Lines of Vision : Irish Writers on Art (Hardback)

 Fifty-six Irish writers have contributed new short stories, essays and poems to this anthology inspired by art from the National Gallery of Ireland collection. It includes work by acclaimed figures...

Lochlannn Ó Tuairisg - An Mine : Sléacht agus Ár i gCois Fharraige - PB - BRAND NEW

Céad bliain go ham seo, ar 15 Meitheamh 1917, agus an Cogadh Mór ina thintreach ar tír agus ar muir, phléasc mianach farraige ar an Trá Shalach sa Lochán Beag, baile beag cúig mhíle dhéag siar ó...

Lady Augusta Gregory - Irish Myths and Legends Volume 1 : Gods and Fighting Men - HB - BRAND NEW

Lady Augusta Gregory's Irish Myths and Legends, or Gods and Fighting Men as it was first titled in 1904, is an essential collection of Irish myths, legends and folk tales gathered by Gregory from...

Declan Toohey - Perpetual Comedown - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

As a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, Darren Walton is trying to decode an elaborate conspiracy he stumbled across as an undergraduate. To do so he must locate an alternate Ireland named...

Gearóid Ó Faoleán - A Broad Church : The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland Volume II - 1980-1989 - PB

In this fascinating sequel to the ground-breaking publication of Broad Church in 2019, A Broad Church Volume 2 reveals the true history of the Provisional Republican movement in the south of Ireland...

Gabriel Rosenstock , Tapani Bagge, Miquel Desclot, Menna Elfyn , Iva Prochazkova - Anna agus Niko - PB - As Gaeilge

Thug tuismitheoirí Anna fón póca di ar a lá breithe. Ach níorbh é an cineál fóin a theastaigh uaithi agus chaith Anna ar an urlár é. Bhris an fón ina smidiríní ar fud an tseomara. Nach uirthi agus ar...

E.A D'Alton - History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - 6 VOLUME FULL SET - Gresham Publishing 1910 ( 3rd revised EDITION)

The printing history of this series is somewhat complex - and as follows - Originally published in 1903 ( the first edition , but incomplete).  -  this was a long-running project covering Irish...

Ian S Wood - Ireland During the Second World War - HB - 2002

The claustrophobic years of the Second World War were a crucial watershed for neutral Ireland and the Irish. Neutrality was the key to Irish Prime Minister de Valera's foreign and domestic policy...

Maeve Brennan - The Springs of Affection - BRAND NEW - PB

  Brennan is, for a new generation of Irish women writers, a casualty of old wars not yet won. The prose holds her revived reputation very well, especially the Irish stories. These feel...

Maeve Brennan - The Long Winded Lady - PB - BRAND NEW

Maeve Brennan’s Notes from The New Yorker “Maeve Brennan’s act of rebellion, as the long-winded lady, was to write New York as the city of a woman with ordinary things to do in the morning and...

Philip Ó Ceallaigh - Trouble - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021

Pages: 233 ISBN: 978-1-906539-86-3 Published: May 2021 Trouble is another stunning collection of stories from Philip Ó Ceallaigh, a writer who continues to amaze me with the intelligence...

Colin Barrett - Young Skins - PB - BRAND NEW - Short Stories ( 2022 Edition, Originally 2013)

New B-format edition – April 2022. Originally published by Stinging Fly in September 2013.Cover Art: Amplified (2020) by Mark Francis | Cover Design: Fergal Condon   Winner of the Frank O’Connor...

Michael Houlihan - In Search of Dreamtime in County Clare - PB - BRAND NEW

In Search of the Dreamtime in County Clare There is a Clare awaiting our re-discovery, lying in clear sight but now rarely seen. It comes from a time when the fortunes of the countryside had a...

Marion Coy & Siobhan Piercy - The Infernal Method : Artists and Printmaking at GMIT - PB - 2002

Issued to coincide with an exhibition as part of the Galway Arts Festival, 2002, - colour reproductions of plates by artists , and brief biographies - larger format paperback , 52 pages, the title is...

Owen O'Shea - No Middle Path : The Civil War in Kerry ( PB ) - BRAND NEW

The violence and divisions caused by the Civil War in County Kerry in 1922-23 were more vicious, bitter, and protracted than anywhere else in Ireland. For generations, the fratricide, murder, and...

Alannah Hopkin - Patrick : From Perpetual Saint to Modern Influencer - PB - BRAND NEW

St Patrick is one of the most famous saints of all time. Thousands of people with no direct Irish connection celebrate St Patrick’s Day, parading along the streets of New York, Boston, Chicago,...

Lady Augusta Gregory - Irish Myths and Legends Volume 2 - Cuchulain and the Red Branch of Ulster - HB - BRAND NEW

Lady Augusta Gregory's collection and translation of Irish folk legends brings, as Yeats observed, 'Ireland's gift of imagination to the world'.Following on from the bestselling Irish Myths and...

Colin J Flynn - Foghlaim an Dara Teanga - PB - BRAND NEW

Leabhar i nGaeilge faoi fhoghlaim agus faoi mhúineadh teangacha. Cuirtear i láthair ann taighde lárnach ó réimsí cuí léinn, idir thaighde ginearálta agus taighde a bhaineann go sonrach le foghlaim na...

Dáithí de Mórdha - Raidió na Gaeltachta : Cultúr & Pobal - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022

Tugtar féachaint sa leabhar seo ar an dtionchar atá imeartha ag Raidió na Gaeltachta (RnaG) ar shaol agus ar chultúr mhuintir nа Gaeltachta ó bunaíodh an tseirbhís lán-Ghaeilge i 1972. Déantar scéal...

Philip Fogarty, Tiber Falzett & Lillis Ó Laoire - Dhá Leagan Déag : Léargais Nua ar an Sean-Nós - P

Pléann an cnuasacht aistí seo stair agus forbairt na hamhránaíochta ar an sean-nós ó díríódh aird mar chleachtas speisialte cultúrtha agus tús na hArhbheochana go dtí an lá inniú. Tá idir eolas agus...

Tomas Ó Máille- An tIomaire Rua : Cogadh na Saoirse i dTuaisceart Chonamara - PB 2007 ( 1939 ar dtús)

Réamhrá le Gearóid ó Tuathaigh. Eagrán Nua, foilsithe ag An Gúm , 152 leathnach.  Tá breis eolais san eagrán seo, mapa don cheantar taobh istigh don chlúdach ,  grianghrafanna curtha leis, agus...

Stephen Gwynn - Highways and Byways : Part Two : Derry & County Antrim - PB 2013 - ( Originally 1899) BRAND NEW

Stephen Glynn travelled through Donegal and Co. Antrim on a bicycle. This is an account of that part of his trip from Derry to the Giant's Causeway and through the Glens of Antrim. The account is...

Johann Georg Kohl - Travels in Ireland - PB 2016 ( Originally 1844) - BRAND NEW

A German traveller's perception of Pre-famine Ireland, with explanatory notes and index added to the original text. This is a snapshot of an Ireland that was about to vanish. Two years after the...

Stephen Gwynn - Highways & Byways in Donegal and Antrim - 2013 PB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1903 )

If you take this book with you as you travel around Donegal and the Glens of Antrim you will find that you journey not only over land, but also over time. More than just about anywhere else, the...

Tommy Cecil - The Harsh Winds of Rathlin : Stories of Shipwrecks ( Extended Edition - PB ) BRAND NEW

This is an updated and extended edition of Thomas Cecil's original The Harsh Winds of Rathlin: Stories of Rathlin Shipwrecks, first published in 1989. This earlier edition contained the result of all...

Paul Clements - Irish Shores : a Journey Round the Rim of Ireland ( 25th Anniversary Edition )- PB - BRAND NEW

'Irish Shores: A Journey Round the Rim of Ireland' tells the story of a hitchhike around the West of Ireland's coastline. It conjures up a picture of a pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, reminding us that...

Jacqui Hurley / Girls Play Too : Inspiring Stories of Irish Sportswomen (Children's Coffee Table book)

   Irish sportswomen have been breaking the mould for a long time. From Maeve Kyle becoming Ireland's first female Olympian in 1956, to motorsport pioneer Rosemary Smith breaking the land-speed...

Tom Hennessy - Seán Hogan's Flying Column - PB - BRAND NEW ( Tipperary- War of Independence) BOOKLET

An illustrated 64 page book ( with photographs in colour and black and white) , independently published, Tipperary,  2022. Paperback ( this publication was supported with publications funding by...

Cal McCarthy - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution - Revised Edition - BRAND NEW

McCarthy, Cal - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution - Revised Second Edition -  BRAND NEW 2023 Cumann na mBan, a women’s support group to the Irish Volunteers, was founded in 1914. Its aims...

Dominic Moseley - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023

As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately...

Russell Alford & Patrick Hanlon - Hot Fat ( Blasta Books 2 ) - HB - 2022 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Blasta Books #2: Hot Fat by Russell Alford and Patrick Hanlon Russell Alford and Patrick Hanlon are fried food aficionados – they are absolutely obsessed with anything that can be put in a deep...

Fergus O'Farrell - Cathal Brugha ( Life & Times Series ) - PB - 2018

Cathal Brugha was a figure of central importance to the Irish Revolution. Active in the Gaelic League, GAA, IRB, and Irish Volunteers, he first rose to public prominence when he led an advanced...

Catherine Ryan Howard - 56 Days - PB BRAND NEW

 Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 Crime Fiction Book of the YearA Book of the Year for 2021 in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Irish Times, nominated for the IMPAC Prize...

Sam Blake - Something Terrible Happened Last Night - PB YA - BRAND NEW

It's Katie's 17th birthday - the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Rave-fess, the Raven's Hill School confession site, is alight with gossip. Then a huge fight breaks out, sending guests...

Conor Gallagher - Is Ireland Neutral ? - The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

Neutrality has, supposedly, long been a pillar of the Irish national identity. But examining the concept reveals it to be a vague, flimsy and elastic notion that, throughout history, various...

Gerard Shannon - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic - PB - BRAND NEW

The first major academic study on a pivotal figure in Ireland's revolutionary era, Liam Lynch.  General Liam Lynch was a key figure in the Irish Revolution and remains one of the most celebrated IRA...

Gwen Wilkinson - The Waters and the Wild - PB - BRAND NEW

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and...

Jonathan Trigg - Death in the Fields : The IRA in East Tyrone - PB - BRAND NEW

  ‘In Belfast the Provos were trying to make the 6 o’clock news, in East Tyrone they were trying to kill you.’ With the adven

Amy Clarkin - What Walks These Halls - PB - BRAND NEW 2023 ( WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATE)

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

Phil Quinlan & Steve O'Rourke - And a Bang on the Ear -BRAND NEW

  Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live...

Mike McCormack - Solar Bones (Large Paperback) - 2021 ( Originally 2016)

John F. McCarthy - Planning Ireland's Future : The Legacy of T.K Whitaker - HB - 1990 ( Essays by : John F McCarthy, Ronan Fanning, J,J Lee, John Bradley & Bernard Share)

Published by Glendale Press, Dublin 1990.  The Irish economy in the mid 1950's was blighted by mass emigration and declining youth population, little investment, poverty and low living standards...

Donal S. Blake- Mary Aikenhead ( 1787-1858 ) - Servant of the Poor - PB - Sisters of Charity

Mary Aikenhead was the founder of the Sisters of Charity, a religious organisation of nuns who were among the first in Ireland to expand from the normal convent based role seen until that time...

Alice Taylor / Books from the Attic : Treasures from an Irish Childhood (Hardback)

 Alice Taylor takes a look back at the well-used schoolbooks she used in her youth in the 1940s and 1950s. Flicking through the pages of the books and recalling poetry and prose she learned at...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of South Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 ( Murder Most Local - Book 4 )

This book, the fourth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of a large number of true life historical murders from the south Cork area .  This is true cri

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Mid Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 ( Murder Most Local - Book 5 )

This book, the fifth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of 36 true life historical murders in mid Cork ( broadly covering the area bound by millstreet , Macroom,...

Tom Doorley - Muck and Merlot : A Book about Food, Wine and Muddy Boots (Hardback)

Tom Doorley introduces us to his life and loves. Passionate about food, wine and gardening, Tom interweaves stories of his childhood, adolescence and distinguished career as food and wine writer. A...

W.J Mc Cormack - The Dublin Paper War 1786-1788 : A Bibliographical and Critical Enquiry - HB -1993

A Bibliography and Critical Inquiry, Including an Account of the Origins of Protestant Ascendancy and Its Baptism in 1792 - Hardback, published by Irish Academic Press.  The long and acrimonious...

Eamonn MacThomais / Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin (Large Paperback)

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