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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...

Gráinne Yeats - The Harp of Ireland : The Belfast Harpers' Festival 1792 , and the saving of Ireland's Harp Music by Edward Bunting - PB 1992

At the celebrated Belfast Festival of 1792 ( the first organised meeting of Irish harpers) where 10 of the most prominent remaining Irish harpers came together to demonstrate their art which had seen...

Paul M O'Reilly & Mike Fitzpatrick - EV+A - OPEN 2005 - Limerick Art

Running until 2010, e v+ a was Ireland's pre-eminent annual exhibition of contemporary art, featuring artists from home and abroad selected by a leading international curator. Each e v+ a exhibition...

John Feehan & Edward Delaney - The Comic History Of Ireland - Vintage Mercier PB

Slight curl to front cover , published by Mercier Press. 1964, this reprint 1969. Creasing to spine. Previous owner's name on inside front cover.  A 'history' of Ireland, written in the manner of a...

Peig Sayers - An Old Woman's Reflections - Vintage PB 1978 OUP - Blaskets , Kerry

Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son who recorded the tale in this book. She recalls the events of...

Kieran Allen / The Celtic Tiger : The Myth of Social Partnership in Ireland (Large Paperback)

  The Celtic tiger has been hailed a triumph as a success story for the free market. This book looks under the surface to discover a discontented majority who are losing out. The booming economy...

Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback)

 In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the...

Bernard S Wilson - Miss Mary - BRAND NEW - ( illustrated by Julia Castano )

PHYLLIS WHITSELL / A Song for Bridget

 The unforgettable true story behind the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Finding Tipperary Mary.Bridget 'Tipperary Mary' Larkin faced poverty, bereavement, cruelty and abandonment many times over,...

AAI Awards 2007 - New Irish Architecture 22 - PB

Published annually, this isfully illustrated in colour , detailed accounts Awards  MEETING PLACE, North Campus Development, Cork Institute of Technology de Blacam and Meagher, Boyd Barrett...

Jason Byrne / Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy : The Short-Arse Years: Jason Byrne's Memoir (Hardback)

 '"Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus...

Tom McCaughren / Run With the Wind (Large Paperback) ( Fox Series - Book 1 )

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Marita Conlon-McKenna / A Girl Called Blue (Large Paperback)

 Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own. Fostered out...

John Cowell - The Begrudgers - O'Brien Press - HB 1978

Despite his valuable work as a medical doctor, John Cowell ( 1904-1998)  had always wished to be an author. On retirement in 1977 he made it his priority. In 1978 his first novel, The Begrudgers, was...

Francis Brennan / Francis Brennan's Book of Household Management : How to Create a Happy Home (Hardback)

  Francis Brennan is known for his impeccable taste and high standards in homemaking, so there's no better man to tell you how to wash your sheets, clean your oven and arrange your cushions. In...

M.E Collins - An Outline of Modern Irish History 1850-1951 - PB - EDCO - 1974

Published by Edco (The Educational Company of Ireland) , 1974, this was aimed at pre Junior Cert classes ( Intermediate Cert as it was at the time) - a concise history of Ireand in the century since...

Maeve Binchy / Nights of Rain and Stars (Hardback)

  Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left...

Dorothy Nelson - In Night's City - PB 1st Ed Wolfhound -1982 - Rooney Prize Winner

On the night of a father's death, two women remember. Esther, the wife denied, and Sara, her corrupted daughter, look back at the father's overwhelming cruelty and ahead to their freedom from him...

Alan Gailey - Irish Folk Drama - Vintage Mercier PB -1969

A Mercier Press original, first published 1969.  in Irish Folk Drama, Dr. Alan Gailey has assembled the text of five plays from the counties of Antrim, Derry, Dublin, Fermanagh, and Wexford. As well...

Hollywood.com - The Guide to Film Directors ( 20th Century) - PB - Cinema Reference

Published 2004, USA.  From the blurb - A smart authoritative who's who of the film directors who have made motion picture history - profiles of more than 300 notable moviemaker, movie moguls and...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay (Large Paperback)

 Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel.**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three...

Sophie White / Filter This (Large Paperback)

   'I loved this so much ... a modern, witty, razor-sharp page-turner' Emer McLysaght, co-author Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling'So sweet, so funny -- I loved it' Marian Keyes'Ali is one of the...

Emer McLysaght / The Importance of Being Aisling : Country Roads, Take Her Home ( Aisling Series - Book 2 )

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Ó Coigligh, Ciarán - Doineann & Uair Bhreá - Filíocht - As Gaeilge PB - 1985

Foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 1985, cnuasach filíochta. 58 leathnach, clúdach bog Beagáinín salach ar na clúdaigh , glan istigh gan aon mharc ná aon scríobh. 

Alvy Carragher / The Cantankerous Molly Darling

Molly Darling wants life to be as simple as wellies and porridge - this isrural Ireland after all. Instead, Mum's hiding in the attic; Dad's run away, leaving only a PowerPoint to explain; her sister...

John O'Regan ( Editor) - John Noel Smith - Gandon Editions -Profile Series, Number 26 - HB - Irish Art

Smith. It features and in-depth essay and extensive interview with the artist. EXTRACTS "John Noel Smith is a brilliant painter. There are few people of whom one can say that with any level of...

Miller, Nick - Truckscapes : Drawings From a Mobile Studio : 1998-2007- HB - Sligo

Sligo resident artist Nick Miller  created som eremarakable landscape artworks from the back of his obile studio - a converted lorry he could move around as he chose, using the back door as a 'frame'...

H.C Casserley - Irish Railways in the Heyday of Steam - HB - Illustrated

Hardcover first edition, with b&w photographs illustrated throughout. The photographs and the transport infrastructure photographed is primarily from the 1920's and 1930's ( the era between the wars)...

Declan Murphy / Centaur : Shortlisted For The William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017

 **WINNER OF THE GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**Coping with your own death, when you are not yet dead, is a...

Bernobich, Beth - Ars Memoriae ( Éireann Sequence - Book 1 ) - HB 1st Edition - 2009

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