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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...

Kathleen Clifford / Back of the Hack : Growing Up in the Liberties (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...

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...

Michael Harding / What is Beautiful in the Sky

 'In these strange days Michael Harding's route taking and wise words gently nudge us towards the future, steadying us as we navigate the great unknowns ahead' Joe DuffyThe bestselling new book from...

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...

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...

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. 

Meadhbh Ní Eadhra - Rua - PB - As Gaeilge

"Is mise Rua, agus is puisín óg álainn mé! Tá cónaí orm le mo chlann ar fad agus le mo mháistreás shéimh. Ní theastaíonn uaim mo bhaile a ágáil go deo…" Seo a céad scéal do pháistí le Meadhbh Ní...

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc - The Battle For Limerick City 1922 ( Military History of the Irish Civil War ) - PB - BRAND NEW

Battle For Limerick City descibes the full story of the vicious battle between Republican and Provisional Government forces for control of Limerick city in the early parts of the Civil War. The...

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,...

Áine Ní Ghlinn- Úbalonga - PB ( Séidean Sí) As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW

Cad a dhéanfá dá bhfaighfeá amach nach ‘beagáinín difriúil ó mháithreacha eile’ atá do mháthair féin, ach ‘an difriúil ar fad’? Tugtar léiriú tuisceanach dúinn in Úbalonga ar an ngaol idir buachaill...

John B. Keane - Letters of a Successful T.D - Vintage Mercier PB 1968 ( Blue Variant)

First published in 1967, this is a 1968 reprint by Mercier Press, the original publisher. Light tanning to page block,  It is the 1960s and Tull MacAloo is a Kerry TD who stands for “the party” – an...

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...

Government Publications - OIDHREACHT 1916-1966 - 50th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising -

The official state commemorative publication, issued by Government Publications 1966, for the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Dual language text , as Gaeilge and in English. Illustrated...

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...

Sara Baume / A Line Made By Walking

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017'When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and...

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  

Bord na Gaeilge - An Tobar - Téarmaí Gaeilge don Earnáil Phoiblí ( Useful irish Terms for the Public Sector & Business ) - PB -1996

Paperback, 92 pages, published by Bord na Gaeilge 1996  A HYBRID DICTIONARY/ PHRASEBOOK/ Business dictionary - aimed primarily at public service and semi states, but of use to all and any...

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...

Ré Ó Leighléis - Macháil : Scéal Díoltais - PB - As Gaeilge - 2020 - BRAND NEW

Is fear óg é Cormac Mac Guidhir atá tiomanta go hiomlán do bhaint amach an díoltais as a bhfuil déanta ag na baincéirí ar a athair. Scrios, cliseadh meabhrach, dúnadh gnólachta agus an-chuid dochair...

Louise Nealon / Snowflake (Large Paperback)

 WINNER OF SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2021, AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Wonderful' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times'Sharp, clever...

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...