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David Greene - The Irish Language - PB- 1972 - Stair na Gaeilge ( Irish Life and Culture Series XIV)

  Solid in three colour paper cover with titles to spine. Some notes , minor underlining and emendations internally.  First  edition was 1966, issued as part of the Irish Life and Culture series, and...

Ó hUallaigh, Peadar - An Ceirtlín Órga - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge

Cnuasach filíochta foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 2021. Is ceoltóir as Cluain Meala ó dhúchas é an t-údar, atá in chonaí i gCiarraí . 

Anthony Glavin / Nighthawk Alley (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...

Nicholas Ryan / Stone Upon Stone : The Use of Stone in Irish Building

Stone has been used for building in Ireland for over 6,000 years. The earliest farmers arrived about 4000 BC and found stone was a valuable building material. Since then, stone has left imprints in...

Carolyn Swift- Robbers in the Town - Vintage Irish PB - Children's 1983

A small format paperback, published by the Children's Press, Dublin, 1984 of Carolyn Swift's Robbers in the Theatre, the fifth ( but standalone) book in her Robbers In The....series. Cover art by...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Braywatch

 South Dublin's favourite son thought he could face any challenge - until he was asked to cross the bridge over the River Dargle.For Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby hero, celebrated bon vivant...

Joe Barry - Ate Mate and Follow the Band - PB - Templemore

Although described on the cover as a collection of short stories' this is perhaps more of a collection of personal memories of his life in and around the military barracks ( now the Garda College)...

Jeremiah Newman- Return to the Sacred : A Socio Religious Analysis ( Signed) PB -1986

An essay in socio-religious analysis. Its special interest is the impact of modern society on religion, and in particular on Irish Christianity.  Signed by the author ( a former Cathiolic bishop of...

Robert Hogan ( Editor) - Feathers From the Green Crow : Sean O'Casey 1905-1925 - HB - 1962

A collection of the early writings of Sean O'Casey  - organised thematically - Education and Culture / Nationalism / The Irish Language / Labour / I Been Workin' on the Railroad / Controversies /...

Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022

The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this...

Leon Ó Broin - Just Like Yesterday - An Autobiography - PB

Leon ó Broin was born in dublin in 1902, a schoolboy at teh time ogf teh 1916 rising, he afterwards became a member of Sinn Féin and the Gaelic league, he joined the Civil Service, acting as...

Oughterard Agricultural Show - Celebrating 50 Years 1962-2012 - HB - Galway

This book celebrating fifty years of the Oughterard show was launched in August 2012 at the Show Grounds Oughterard, County Galway. With history, memories and images, this publication is a wonderful...

Mick McCarthy - Early Days - 1990 - Kerry Autobiography - SIGNED

Light SUNFADE to the covers, internally there is a gift inscription to the title page  'to ( name) with lots of love, Mick McCarthy 24th May 1990) An account of growing up in rural Kerry (...

Benedict Kiely - Proxopera ( Vintage Poolbeg PB 1977)

Light edgewear to jacket, some tanning to page block.  The Binchey family come home from a Donegal holiday to find three masked men in possession of their lakeside home; their aged housekeeper g

Paul Williams / The Monk (Large Paperback)

 On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordinary decent criminal, a quintessential Robin Hood figure who fought the law - and...

Ní Bhraonáin, Eimear & Harvey, Jeff - Is Féidir Linn : A Golden Ticket to Moneygall - HB -2011

Law Society of Ireland - Hibernian Law Journal - 2010 ( Volume 9 ) - PB

PAPERBACK - light edgewear, otherwise unmarked.  1393-8940 Hibernian Law Journal - 2010 - contents Author

Patrick West - Beating Them at Their Own Game : How The Irish Conquered English Soccer - PB - SIGNED 2006

Beating Them at Their Own Game charts how Irish players, managers and business people have come to have a disproportionate influence on soccer in the UK. An entertaining survey of the growing...

Máire Uí Dhufaigh - An Garda Cósta - PB - As Gaeilge - 2012

Foilsithe ag Leabhar Breac, Conamara, 2012. Glan istigh is amuigh, clúdach bog.  ( CÓIP DARA LÁIMHE - SECONDHAND COPY)  An Garda Cósta: Tá sé ina shamhradh arís in Oileán na Leice, agus gan ag...

Eugene McCague - Arthur Cox 1891-1965 - HB - 1994

In the first 40 years of the independent Irish state, few people outside government wielded more influence than Arthur Cox. This biography recounts how he became in turn, an accomplished public...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog : A Satirical Look at Ireland - 4 ( 1975) - Irish Times - Humour

Written by Donal Foley, this is one of a series of books from his collections of  hugely popular satirical essys for the Irish Times.  Lightest edgewear only, paperback, internally unmarked. 149...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog : A Satirical Look at Ireland - Book 2 (1973) - Irish Times - Humour

Written by Donal Foley, this is one of a series of books from his collections of  hugely popular satirical essays for the Irish Times.  Period gift inscription on inside front endpage, otherwise...

Jackie Cahill- Passion and Pride : The Official Biography of Davy Fitzgerald - PB - 2005

Since making his debut for Clare in 1990, the Sixmilebridge man won every honour during the course of a colourful career, and was instrumental in Clare hurling's emergence from the wilderness years...

Margery Brady - The Last Rose of Summer : The Love Story of Tom Moore & Bessy Dyke - PB

The biography of Thomas Moore and his wife the unfortunately named Bessy Dyke. Moore was a hugely inflential figure in 19th century Ireland, and his 'Moore's Melodies' were a key part of Irish...

Desmond Macnamara - De Valera ( World Leaders Past & Present Series) - HB - 1988

Traces the life of the Irish leader and poli

Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

 An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of...

Anne Chambers - Granuaile : The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley 1530-1603 - PB

Grace O’Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land and at sea in the 16th century. In...

Ernie O'Malley - Raids and Rallies - PB - Vintage Anvil Press 1982

During the War of Independence, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some notes of his were smuggled out. `Most of all,' he wrote, `I would have liked to talk...

Prionsias Mac Aonghusa ( Editor) - Quotations from P.H Pearse - Vintage PB -1979

Introduction by Seán Mac Bride, compiled edited and also intyroduced by Prionsias Mac Aonghusa ( who was a longtime resident and national school teacher in Rosmuc in the 1960's, where Pearse had his...

Seán Ó Tuama - Filí Faoi Sceimhle : Seán Ó Riordáin & Aogán Ó Rathaille -HB

As gaeilge san iomlán. Foilsithe ag An Gúm , gan dáta, clúdach CRUA, tá roinnt fólíniu agus aibhsiú ar an téacs i gcuid do na cabidil. 

Sinead Moriarty / About Us (Large Paperback)

 'A charming, laugh-out-loud read' - SUNDAY INDEPENDENTSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021Three couples. One therapist's couch ...Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents,...

Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 7th Revised Edition - 1981

First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is a revised 7th impression, September 1981 edition in paperback of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably...

Cecelia Ahern - The Gift (Hardback 1st Edition - 2008) ) - BRAND NEW & SEALED

Step into the magical world of Cecelia Ahern. If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at the same...

Sean Mclaughlin - Celtic Names : The Meaning, History and Mythology - PB

Beautifully presented, this book is a glossary of Celtic names, which are rapidly growing in popularity. It provides the meaning behind each name as well as its cultural origins. Includes a brief...

Josephine Marnell & Nora Breathnach - All in the Cooking - Book One - 2nd Revised Edition HB - Educational Company - Vintage - Colaiste Mhuire Book of Household Cookery ( incl dustjacket)

All In The Cooking. Book 1 - Colaiste Mhuire Book of Household Cookery. Dublin: Educational Company of Ireland, (1947). Second Edition, 250 pages with index Publisher’s dark brown cloth boards...

Una Mannion / A Crooked Tree

 My mother made a snap decision.How could we know it would change us forever?'Brimming with curiosity and wonder.' Irish Times'Lushly atmospheric.' Daily Mail'Thoroughly gripping.' Lucy...

Cristín Leach - Negative Space - PB - BRAND NEW

In a series of loosely linked essays, Cristín Leach writes about the gaps between reality and perception, about writing and anxiety, body and brain, breaking and making, succeeding and failing,...

Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous...

Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey - HB - Heritage Press USA - 1944 - Illustrated

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of...

Eleanor Geoghegan - Poppermonster's Magical Rainbow Lunch Adventure - PB - BRAND NEW 2022

  Published 2022, brand new , illustration by Helena Creval Popper Monster About the Book  

Monkstown Park Annual 2005 - Christian Brothers College School Yearbook - PB

The annual school yearbook for Monkstown Park School ( CBS) 2005, fullcoverage of sport, academic events, staff, schiool societies and events etc 150 pages, illustrated throughout. 

Daniel O'Leary / The Healing Habit (Hardback)

  A self-help guide to mindfulness. It aims to guide you towards a bigger, deeper understanding of who you truly are, and the awesome power of your thinking, it is offering you the gift of...

Frances Molloy ( Ann McGill ) - No Mate For the Magpie - Vintage PB - 1985

A paperback first edition, published by Virago UK, 1985. Debut novel. Written in frank Ulster dialect , this tells the story of Ann McGlone, a Catholic growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1950's...

Lyons, John ( Editor) - An Choinneal - Number 24 - 2008 - PB - Louisburgh Parish Journal

An Coinneal is Louisburgh Parish magazine, the oldest parish magazine in Ireland since 1959. It has published both Irish & English language articles over the years. It was the brainchild of Fr. Leo...

Bruce Arnold - What Kind of Country - Modern Irish Politics 1968-1983 - PB

It would be comforting to claim that Ireland came of age during this period' writes Bruce Arnold... ' the evidence does not support that claim' ...   Arnold examines the relationship between the...

Francis MacManus - Watergate - Poolbeg PB 1980 ( Originally 1942)

A reprint Poolbeg edition, 1980, first published in 1942.  A story about an American woman coming back to the family house/farm in Ireland and upsetting the status quo. Alice Lennon had left Ireland...

Honor Tracy - The Straight and Narrow Path - Vintage Modern Library PB 1956

Honor Tracy wryly and satirically captures the different cultures of the Irish and English in the same way P G Wodehouse explores the diverse but intertwined perspectives of the British working class...

Robert Tracy - The Unappeasable Host - Studies in Irish Identities - PB ( Celtic Revival & Anglo-Irish Fiction ) - PB UCD Press - 1998

This collection looks at some of the tensions created when Anglo-Irish writers reflected upon their preferred subject matter, Ireland and their unhyphenated Catholic contemporaries. Tracey shows how...

C.S. Lewis - The Last Battle ( Chronicles of Narnia - Book 7 ) Fontana Lions Edition

The Last Battle, book seven in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Stephen Lavis and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia,...

OPW - Áras an Uachtaráin : A History of the President's House - PB - 2013

Published in English and as Gaeilge ( back to back in the one book) -content is identical in both versions - this is a  full colour illustrated of Áras an Uachtaráin, the full history of the house ,...

Mac Sheáin Mac Eochaidh, Seán - Cé Mise? - PB - As Gaeilge - 2019

Foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 2019, as Gaeilge san iomlán. Clúdach bog Úrscéal stairiúil a ríomhann saol Trevor Acton, Sáirsint sna Sherwood Foresters , agus an bhaint a bhí aige le Éirí...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / RO'CK of Ages (Large Paperback)

 Back in the day, if you'd mentioned the Grey Lady of D'Olier Street to me, I would have thought you were referring to one of the middle-aged divorcees I occasionally pulled on Disco Throwback Nights...