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T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976

Discovering Kerry  self published by T.J Barrington .  'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best...

John McEvoy & John Duffy - The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD - HB - Illustrated Architecture

Hardcover, with artwork by John Duffy , with a full listing of all the church architecture in the diocese - the 56 parishes in total, as well as other buildings of religious orders and educational...

Damien Quinn - The Drawn Game - Volume 1 - An Illustrated look at the GAA - PB BRAND NEW - 2020

Frank O'Connor - An Only Child - Vintage Pan PB - 1970 Edition - Originally 1961

This reprint edition, Pan 1970 , in very good condition, usual age tanning to page block, no other marks, no inscriptions, small closed nick on back cover,  light edgewear to covers.  This is an...

Edward J Bourke - Murder by the Throat : Espionage, Assassination, Collaboration and Execution in the Irish War of Independence- PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Lloyd George boasted that he had “murder by the throat” in a London Guildhall speech on 10 November 1920.  He had flooded Ireland with troops, Black and Tans, Auxiliaries, secret service, touts and...

Jennifer Johnston - The Gates - Vintage PB - 1974

Once, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. But that was back in the days when the Major's family were...

Brendan O'Brien / O'Brien Pocket History of the IRA

 An accessible, clearly-written account of the IRA from its beginnings to today. It covers the origins and history of the organisation, its aims, the political and military thinking which has driven...

Brendan Fullam - Hurling Giants - HB 1994 - GAA

First edition, published by Wolfhound Press, 1994. Lighht creasing to the dustjacket, small ( and sole) school stamp on inside front blank endpage. No other library marks, no damage noted, a previous...

Michael O'Hehir / My Life and Times (Hardback)

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Christy O'Dwyer - Pobal Ailbhe : Archdiocese of Cashel & Emly - HB - 2008

A history of the historic diocese of Cashel and Emly, most of which is located in Tipperary, but with section sin adjoining counties such as Limerick and Offaly. Comprising 46 parishes, it is home to...

Sportsfile - A Season of Sundays - 2005 - HB - GAA - Photography

The 2005 annual A Season of Sundays, with the best in GAA photography from Sportsfile. Bump / crush to the lower corner of the covers, otherwise internally unmarked. the 9th issue of the series...

Mairéad Ní Ghráda - An Triail - PB - BRAND NEW - As Gaeilge

An Triail - The Play Leaving Certificate Irish PlayPublished by An Gum An Triail (The Trial) is a play written by the Irish playwright Mairead Ni Ghrada. The play is written in the Irish...

Áine UÍ Fhoghlú - LabhairAmach.com - PB - BRAND NEW - As Gaeilge

Cailín óg aonarach meánscoile í Ciara Ní Cholmáin a bhfuil an ghráin ag Sandra uirthi; tá Sandra ard agus dathúil le go leor cairde – agus buachaill! – aici. Tá Ciara bhocht ciaptha agus céasta ag...

Eilís Ní Dhuibhne - Hurlamaboc - PB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW

Winner of a merit award in the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award for 2007. Eachtraí triúr deagóirí i mbruachbhaile i mBaile Átha Cliath - Ruan, Emma agus Colm. Comharsana ar comhaois iad ar...

Áine Ní Ghlinn- Daideo - PB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW

Winner of the CBI Children's Book of the Year Honour Award for Fiction for 2015. Buachaill ar a theitheadh óna thuismitheoirí. Seanduine ar a theitheadh óna pháistí. Castar ar a chéile iad ar an...

Ógie Ó Ceilleachair - Katfish & Scéalta Eile - PB - BRAND NEW - As Gaeilge - Gearrscéalta do Dhéagóirí

Aoisghrúpa: 13 - 15 bliain d'aois.  Cnuasach gearrscéalta a phléann téamaí shaol an lae inniu, idir shean agus nua: grá agus gruaim, fás agus dreo, titim agus éirí. Leabhar nua ó údar óg a bhain cáil...

Ógie Ó Ceilleachair - Cúpla - PB - BRAND NEW - As Gaeilge - Úrsceal do Dhéagóirí

Cúpla iad Sharon agus Éile agus iad beirt cúig bliana déag d’aois. Cailín ciúin, stuama, staidéarach í Éile atá go maith ar scoil, ach tá Sharon aerach agus fiáin agus bíonn sí ag pleidhcíocht i...

Ralph Riegel / Three Kings - Cork| Kilkenny| Tipperary (Hardback)

 The old rivalries between these three counties are around as long as the GAA itself, and as hard-fought and intensely felt now as any time over the past hundred and twenty years.This book honours...

Richie Sadlier / Recovering (Hardback)

 When a career-ending injury saw former Ireland and Millwall striker Richie Sadlier retire from football at age 24, his life spiraled out of control. Without structure or a sense of purpose, and...

Bernard Share & William Bolger - Irish Lives : Biographies of 50 Famous Irish Men and Women - HB - 1971

Hardcover 2nd edition with dustjacket, published by Allen Figgis , Dublin 1974, text by Bernard Share, artwork and design by William Bolger. Light edgewear to the jacket.  Organised thematically into...

Kilmainham Jail Restoration Society - Ghosts of Kilmainham - PB - Booklet (Reprint 1981 - Originally 1963)

A reprint, 1969 of the slim 1963 56 page booklet issued by the (then) Kilmainham Jail Restoration Committee. Somewhat unbelievably, given the crucial role it played in Irish history, the then...

Willie John McBride- Autobiography ( with Edmund Van Esbeck) - HB -1976 - Rugby

Antrim born Willie John McBride broke every record in internationl rugby in his time - for appearances, Lions tours, and caps for Ireland. Almost an entrant into the game by accident, he came to...

Frank Mitchell - The Way That I Followed : A Naturalist's Journey Around Ireland - PB 1990

In The Way That I Followed, (1990)  Frank Mitchell, author of the bestselling Shell Guide to Reading the Irish Landscape sets out to provide a companion volume to Lloyd Prager's most successful book...

Basil J Gilroy - The Nature Diary of an Ulster Schoolboy 1956-1963- PB 1991

Pubished 1991, Greystone Books, this is the nature diary of the author as a young boy - organised by season, from January 1956 to Autumn 1963  ( with gaps in some areas) , from the age of six up to...

Benedict Kiely - Land Without Stars - PB 1990 Reprint - Donegal ( Originally 1946 )

"This novel, first published in 1946, was a young writer's first novel and an attempt to deal with the lives, as he saw and thought about them, of some young people in the North of Ireland. Two...

Upperchurch Drombane Historical Journal - Issue 4 - 2013 - PB - Tipperary

The fourth issue of the Upperchurch Drombane, Historical Journal, , a local history publication on the two joined parishes west of Thurles , in Tipperary.  very good condition

Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian - BRAND NEW - PB ( Artemis Fowl Series - Book 8 )

The explosive, emotional, incredible final book in the Artemis Fowl series.IS THIS THE END FOR ARTEMIS FOWL?Opal Koboi is back, and up to no good. A bit of world-domination here, a little light...

Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception - BRAND NEW - PB ( Artemis Fowl Series - Book 4 )

CHILD GENIUS ARTEMIS FOWL IS IN TERRIBLE DANGERHE JUST CAN'T REMEMBER WHY. Opal Koboi is back, and the power-crazed pixie wants revenge. Her to-do list:- Frame Holly Short for murder

Michael Curtin - The Self-Made Men - HB - 1ST EDITION - Debut novel - 1980

'Curtin is one of Ireland's best writers.'Roddy Doyle 'Michael Curtin's first and very funny novel gives a good impression of being a free-wheeling, rumbustious shaggy-dog story while actually being...

Peter Costello & Tony Farmar - The Very Heart of the City : The Story of Denis Guiney & Clerys - PB - 1992

For generations, Clery's on O'Connell Street represented the excitement of shopping in the heart of Ireland's capital, having benn founded as one of the first department stores in teh bustling Dublin...

Raymond Smith - Haughey & O'Malley - The Quest For Power - PB - FF & PD's - 1986

Published by journalist Raymond Smith in November 1986, this is the detailed account of the ( final) spit between Des O'Malley and Charles Haughey, and the eventual formation of the Progressive...

Cecelia Ahern- PS I Love You - BRAND NEW - PB

PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern - The classic Irish novel and global bestseller.  Childhood sweethearts, Holly and Gerry, could finish each other's sentences and no one could ever imagine them...

Eithne Shortall - Grace After Henry - BRAND NEW - PB

Grace After Henry - brand new copy  Grace sees her boyfriend Henry everywhere. In the supermarket, on the street, at the graveyard.Only Henry is dead. He died two months earlier, leaving a huge hole...

Tony Ward / Twelve Feet Tall

 Tony Ward's story is a tragedy of a sporting career unfulfilled. Hailed by the Irish media as the new George Best of rugby following his pivotal performance in Munster's stunning 12-0 win over the...

Raymond Smith - Charles J Haughey : The Survivor - PB 1983 - Irish Politics 1980's

Published by Aherlow Publishing 1983, this is journalist Raymond Smith's account of the period from 1982 to 1983 in which Irish politics was convulsed by internal divisions in Fianna Fáil, leadership...

John Cooney - The Crozier & the Dáil : Church and State in Ireland 1922-1986 - PB - 1986

John Cooney was religious affairs correspondent with the Irish Times from the 1970's - this is his concise study of the complex role the Church played in first actively influencing the new Irish...

Heinrich Boll - Irisches Tagebuch - PB - 1967 - DTV PB Edition ( Originally 1961)

Originally published in 1957, this is a 1967 reprint ( entirely in German) of Heinrich Boll's Irisches Tagebuch ( Irish Diary) - small format paperback, published by DTV.  Previous owner's bookplate...

Judi Curtin - Lily Steps UP - BRAND NEW PB

A BRAND NEW UNREAD COPY . Published in paperback, 2021, first published 2020. Published by O'Brien Press.  Lily and Nellie work hard as housemaids in Lissadell. And yet their days are full of...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog - Book 8 ( 1979) PB - Satire & Humour

Bases on the satirical colums from the Irish Times newspaper, this is the 1979 issue of the hugely popular Man Bites Dog Series ( the title refers to the old journalistic maxim that' dog bites man'...

Michael M Mc Namara - The Dancing Floor - HB US 1st Ed - 1978 - IRA Limerick

Michael Mc Namara  was born in Limerick in 1940, and was the author of two novels, - The Vision of Thady Quinlan ( 1974) and The Dancing Floor, in this edition, 2nd printing 1978,  published by Crown...

Dominic Daly - The Young Douglas Hyde - HB - 1974

This pioneering work comprises a literary history of the early revival, and provides an extensive bibliographical account of Hyde’s sources as a critic and bibliographer, and well as much information...

Charlie Mulqueen - The Murphy's Story of Munster Rugby - PB 1993

On a memorable afternoon in 1978, Munster Rugby made global sporting headlines with a sensational 12-0 defeat of the New Zealand All Blacks at Thomond Park.  Fourteen years later, world Champions...

J.G Simms & Dublin Historical Association - Booklet - The Jacobite Parliament of 1689

A 28 page booklet in the numbered Irish History series, published by the Dublin Historical Association, a reprint from 1974, the price is blocked out in marker on the front cover.    The Jacobite...

Con Costello - Guide to Kildare & West Wicklow - PB - 1991

Published 1991, paperback, illustrated throughout, with line drawings by Maeve Costello, map by Seán Byrne.  An alphabetical gazetteer guide to all aspects of County Kildare ( and adjacent areas in...

Andrew Boyd - The Rise of Irish Trade Unions - PB - Anvil Press 1985 Reprint

Published by Anvil Press, 1972 , and reprinted in 1985 in this ( larger format) edition, this is a standard work on Irish Union history, by journalist and lecturer Brian Boyd, of Queens University...

John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973

A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork...

Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983

Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life...

Chris Mullin / Error of Judgement : Birmingham Bombings

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Bryan MacMahon / Lion-Tamer and Other StoriesT

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Paul Jones - The Irish Brigade - Vintage NEL PB - 1971 - Irish in the US Civil War

First published in 1969, this is the first NEL PB edition , 1971.  Condition - tanning to page block, , creases to spine, internally unmarked , no inscriptions or marks noted. Light sun fade to...

Eleanor Knott - Irish Syllabic Poetry 1200-1600 - PB -2ed Reprint 1994

An introduction to Irish Syllabic Poetry of the period 1200-1600, with selections, notes and glossary, by Eleanor Knott, 2nd edition reprint, 1994, published by the school of Celtic Studies, DIAS,...

Anthony Glavin / Colours Other Than Blue (Large Paperback)

  Maeve Maguire, single mother of a teenage daughter, works as the Senior Nurse in a Dublin Home for the Elderly. Grieving over her father's recent death, she begins to keep a notebook at the...