Irish Interest _______________________

Brendan McGowran & Corinne Silva - Róisín Bán : The Irish Diaspora in Leeds - HB

Emigration is a common theme throughout Irish history. As Dermot Bolger recognises in his foreword, it is one that has touched almost every family in Ireland. Until recently thousands found work in Britain’s major industrial centres. For a large...

Andy Bielenberg - The Shasnnon Scheme and the Electrification of the Irish Free State - PB

Ryan Tubridy & P.J Lynch - Patrick and the President ( HB - Picture Book) - DOUBLE SIGNED

From broadcaster Ryan Tubridy, and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner P. J. Lynch, comes a picture book about President John F. Kennedy's return to his ancestral home in Ireland.When the much-loved President visited Ireland in 1963, he described it as the best...

Larry Lynn Southard - Wayfaring : A Guide to Guidance - HB - SIGNED

This book (written by Cork member of the Society of Friends) Larry Lynn Southard and published in 2023 aims to provide a “handbook to help readers place themselves in a position that makes divine guidance a daily reality”. Sources of...

Jo Kerrigan - Stories From the Sea - HB - BRAND NEW

Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands have brought goods, ideas, invaders, influencers. Our legends, and particularly the imramma or magical...

Harold Good & Martin O'Brien / In Good Time: A Memoir (Large Paperback)

Rev. Harold Good, ’Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process, lifts the curtain on his remarkable life in this enthralling memoir. From Ian Paisley’s turbulent...

Cumann Seanchas Bhreifne : Breifne Journal 2003 - PB

The 2003 edition of Breifne, the Cavan based local history journal.  Uneven sunfade to a porton of the front cover, otherwise very good.  Volume X, Number 39. 

Jim Fogarty - The Dan Breen Cup : Tipperary County SH Finals 1931-2011 - PB

Jim Fogarty is a former Kilkenny librarian ( and GAA collector) this was his first book, detailing the history of hurling county finals in his native Tipperary.  Previous owner's name to title page, price sticker residue mark on back cover. ...

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 6

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers.   

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 4

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.   

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 3

Issue 3 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.  Pasted isbn label on back cover. 

Cal McCarthy - In the Shadow of the Big Fellow : The Commemoration, Commercialisation, Study & Politicisation of Michael Collins - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

  Cal McCarthy is a Cork based historian and civil servant. This new book, published by Clonakilty based Michael Collins House Museum with financial aid also from Cork County Council, takes a detailed look at the legacy and impact of  Michael...

John Caulfield / RebelHeart (Large Paperback)

John Caulfield was born in the United States, in the Bronx, before his family relocated to Roscommon - and to a GAA community. And while Caulfield loved Gaelic football, his brilliance on the soccer field and his scoring touch meant that his 'football...

Labhrás Ó Nualláin / Memoir of an Irish Economist (Large Paperback)

Working Class Manchester to Irish Academia. Labhrás Ó Nualláin 1912 -2000 Labhrás Ó Nualláin was a lecturer and subsequently Professor of Economics at University College Galway. Prior to his academic career he...

Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin - The Dubs : Dublin GAA Since the 1940's - HB

Hardcover, published by Gill & Macmillan , 2006.  Ó Ceallacháin was the long time host of the GAA sports results on RTE radio for many years, as well as being a dual code GAA player for Dublin himself in his youth. Covers both...

Eddie Wymberry - Well Well ! - Memories of Waterford in the 1950's - PB

Paperback, an coount of local life and charcaters in Waterford city in the author's youth - 1950's and 1960's, with photographs, and a ( very good) glossary of local sland words at the back.  124 pages. 

Micheál Ó Conghaile / An Fear a Phléasc (Hardback)

Tá domhan úr cruthaithe ag Micheál Ó Conghaile anseo, domhan nach raibh riamh ann agus nach mbeidh ann go deo ach go bhfuil a fhírinne aisteach shocreidte aige ar a shon sin . . . domhan atá an-chosúil...

Denis G Marnane - Tipperary Historical Journal : Index 1988-2012 - PB

An Index ( booklet format, alphabetical by author) to the first 25 years of the Tipperary Historical Journal  ( NB - no articles, but a full listing of the contents of all past issues up until that date, including reviews, locations mentioned etc...

Gearíod Denvir , Aisling Ní Dhonnchadh / Gearrscéalta an Chéid (Large Paperback)

Fiche gearrscéal den scoth atá anseo bailithe le chéile faoi aon chlúdach amháin ag ceiliúradh fhorbairt ealaín na gearrscéalaíochta ó 1900 go dtí 2000.Is é atá sa...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1996

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part I - Denis G. Marnane Memories of the Famine from the Irish Folklore CommissionIntroductiona. The Famine in Ballylooby - Tadhg...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1997

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part II - Denis G. MarnaneThe Great Famine & Fethard Temporary Fever Hospital -...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1992

Editor: Marcus Bourke244 pages; 28 Articles The IRA in West Tipperary in 1931 – The Assassination of Superintendent CurtinDenis G. MarnaneThe End of the Civil War: The Third Tipperary Brigade (1921-1923); Part IIIAn tAthair Colmcille, O. Cist.The...

Marcus Bourke( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1999

Paperback.  Condition - front and rear covers curled/ dogeared, book does not lie flat when on level surface as a result. rear cover corners creased. Signed by pervious owner on title page. Some foxing and age spotting to inside rear cover, and...

Marcus Bourke( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2001

Paperback, larger format, signed on front endpage by a previous owner. Front cover corners slightly bumped.    Tipperary town one hundred years ago: the evidence of the 1901 CensusDenis G Marnane Tipperarymen in Spain (1936 – 1937) - Pat...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2002

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  Marcus Bourke: An Appreciation Marcus Bourke: BibliographyMarcus Bourke: A Biographical Sketch -William NolanMarcus Bourke and his Writings -Denis G. MarnaneMarcus Bourke: His GAA Writings -Seamus J...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2003

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name to title page.  210 Pages; 14 Articles The Benedictine Priory of Kilcommon - Richard O’Brien The Munster Hotel, Cathedral Street, Thurles: Archaeological Excavations 1998-1999...

Carmel Quinlan( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2004

Paperback , in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address written on inside front cover. 276 Pages; 15 Articles Excavations at Friar Street Cashel: A Story of Urban SettlementO’Donovan et al The Fennells of Cahir - Michael...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2014

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address to title page CONTENTS -  Editor: Dan Finnan230 Pages; 16 Articles The Use of Masons Templates on some Early Christian Sculpture from Lorrha, Co. Tipperary and Tisaran Co...

Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Volume XXV Summer 2006 - Number 99

The Irish Sword is the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, In very good condition overall, as new.  Depiction (by Seán Ó Brógáin) of soldiers of Sir Phelim O’Neill’s Regiment of Foot...

Matt Murphy - An Islander Looks Back ( Cork / Sherkin ) - PB - 1990

PB, 1990.  Cb40000 20250114 0006An Islander Looks Backby Matt Murphy €10.00 Buy NowGenre:Cork / Irish Biography / Irish History and Culture / Irish Interest / RARE & OUT OF PRINT Format:Paperback   Tanning to page block.  No...

P.L Henry - Saoithiúlacht na Sean-Ghaeilge - HB - 1976

Academic text on Old Irish , published by Oifig an tSolatháir, 1976.  Tá iarracht á dhéanamh sa leabhar seo ar a cheart a thabhairt don fhile i dtionscnamh na litríochta; tá rian an fhile le feiceáil...

Peter Tormey & Kevin Byrne - Irish Air Corps : A View from the Tower - PB

Signed with a dedication by a number of Air Corps pilots , ( not by the authors of the book .  1991, an illustrated history of the Irish Air Corps, with photographs throughout, personnel listings, historic aircraft, development of Baldonnell, etc...

Jean McMann - Loughcrew : The Cairns - A Guide - PB - 1984

This guide is intended as an introduction to a little known yet uniquely important landmark, the Neolithic cairns at Loughcrew in County Meath, Ireland. The site is a key monument not only in the history of Ireland, but in the world's history of...

Donalll P Ó Baoill - Amach as Ucht na Sliabh - PB - 1992 (Donegal - Tír Chonaill)

Cnuasach bealoidis a chruinnigh daltai sna Scoileanna Naisiunta i bParoiste Ghaoth Dobhair, Dún na nGall faoi Sceim na Scol 1937-'38.  Foilsithe ag Comharchumann Ghaoth Dobhair, 1992, le mapaí, grainghraf, agus...

Brendan Barrington ( Editor) / The Dublin Review, Number 36: Autumn 2009 (Large Paperback)

Brendan Barrington (Editor), Robert Cremins (Contributor), Adrian Frazier (Contributor), Carlo Gébler (Contributor), Selina Guinness (Contributor), Aiden...

Margaret Ward - Fearless Woman : Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW - 2019

This full-length biographical study - substantially rewritten and updated from the 1997 edition - of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century.  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, part of a pioneering generation, played a...

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne - The Dancers Dancing - PB - 2010

 It is 1972: a group of teenagers are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and the local community. Liberated for the first time from the restricting reins of parental control, they respond...

Lonergan - Druid Theatre - 50 Years- BRAND NEW

This fully-illustrated and authorised history marks 50 years of Ireland's most ground-breaking and successful theatre company. Founded in 1975, Druid is a touring theatre company, anchored in the West of Ireland and looking to the world.   Druid...

Sarah Binchy - Sunday Miscellany : A Selection 2023-2025 - BRAND NEW

A beloved Irish institution, RTÉ Radio 1's Sunday Miscellany has been woven into the lives of listeners for over half a century. Following on from the bestselling 2023 anthology, this collection brings together some of the best broadcasts of the...

Jonathan Bardon - A Short History of Ulster - HB - BRAND NEW

A new version of Jonathan Bardon's definitive tome, A History of Ulster, this book provides a comprehensive account of the province from the earliest settlements nine thousand years ago to the turmoil of the Troubles, and the fragile peace period that...

Natasha Mac a'Bháird - The Vanished Girl : A Sycamore Hill Mystery - PB - BRAND NEW

Sycamore Hill Boarding School, Donegal, 1963 Clare Rose and Molly are happy to be back at Sycamore Hill, getting ready for the school musical and training hard at hockey. When new girl Amy joins their class in the middle of term, she's a bit of a puzzle...

Méabh McDonnell - Any Way You Slice It - BRAND NEW

Sieve. Measure. Mix … Win For Carrie Quinn, baking isn't just a hobby: it's her future. Winning the Castlecreagh baking competition and becoming best young pastry chef in the country is the first step towards her dream. But when she and Dara...

Erika McGann & Gerry Daly - Puffling & The Stormy Sea - PB - BRAND NEW

A brave little puffling lives on Skellig Michael. It's a windy, stormy day - a perfect day for a wild adventure. But she ends up far from home! Can her new animal friends help her find her way back?

Jamie Carroll - Milo and the Mountain - HB - BRAND NEW

Milo wants to climb The Mountain. He really does. But The Mountain is HUGE and Milo is scared. Can he ever reach the top? Yes, he can. With just a little help from his friends!

W.B Yeats - The Stolen Child ( Illustrated by Erin Brown) - HB - BRAND NEW

Written when W.B. Yeats was just twenty-one, 'The Stolen Child' remains one of his most popular poems. At this time, the young poet was inspired by the landscape of County Sligo and the legends and superstitions he heard from the locals there. 'The...

Erika McGann - Tír na nÓg : A Favourite Irish Legend - HB - BRAND NEW

Niamh lives in the magical land of Tìr na nÓg, where no one ever grows old or feels sad. She invites Oisìn to join her and they are happy until he misses his home in the human world. When sadness strikes, Niamh learns the strength...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 113 - Summer 2012

Contents -  Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War’ (1862), by Louis Lang  Camp California, Virginia: where Meagher’s men steeled themselves for war (illustrated) by Niall R. Brannigan  Captain...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 114 - Winter 2012

Contents -  Soldiers Three – A visit to the Royal Hospital’: a painting of 1899 by The Mac Egan [Darius Joseph MacEgan] (1856-1939)  A description of the painting by F. Glenn Thompson  A note on the artist by James...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 112 - Winter 2011

Contents -  James Kirkland and other Potsdam Grenadiers of Irish birth (Illustrated) by Kenneth Ferguson  Beheaded at Cork and buried with a piper: the traditional fate (and strange afterlife) of Captain Súgán ––...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 111 - Summer 2011

Contents -  Heinrich Trajektin von Solms–Braunfels (1638-93): Williamite General in Ireland (Illustrated) by Daniel Herbert  The artillery train of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1640 by Malcolm Mercer  The Ulster Army of the...

Matthew Hart / The Irish Game : A True Story of Crime and Art (Large Paperback)

Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough,...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII- No. 110 Winter 2010 ( Essays on the Irish War of Independence)

Contents -  DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEWAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-1921No. 110 (Winter 2010) Aerial Mail, 1919-22: records of the Post Office and AirMinistry touching the carriage of mail by aeroplane duringthe conflict in Ireland - Douglas N. Muir...