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June Caldwell / Room Little Darker

   From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of wanton sex,...

Riyadh Khalaf / Yay! You're Gay! Now What?

   Yay! You're gay! Or maybe you're bi. Or maybe you just feel different... in time, that difference will become the greatest gift you could ask for. It will bring you love, a sense of identity, a...

Edmund Van Esbeck - Irish Rugby 1874-1999 : A History - HB (

  An official history published to mark the 125th anniversary of the IRFU, building on Van Esbeck's earlier 1974 centenary history.  Appendices include: Laws of Rugby adopted at Dublin in 1868, A...

OPW - Building For Government : The Architecture of State Buildings : OPW Ireland 1900-2000 HB 1999 Illustrated

The most comprehensive record yet of the work of the OPW from 1900 to the present ."Building for Government" presents a unique illustrated guide to the important architectural work of the OPW,...

Bord na Gaeilge - Anois is Arís - PB RTE 1981 Cúrsa i labhairt na Gaeilge

An chéad chló, RTE agus Bord na Gaeilge, 1981, clúdach bog, tá ainm scríóbtha ar an leabhar taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh, thairis sin, níl aon mharcanna eile. Glan , tá beagán marcáil ar an...

E. R. Murray / The Book of Learning : Nine Lives Trilogy Part 1

   The exciting adventures of Ebony Smart, a twelve-year-old girl who discovers she is part of a special tribe of reincarnated people - and a terrible curse. Ebony has just one week to break the...

Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : Limerick Soviet 1919 - HB 1st Edition - 1990

The original first edition printing in hardcover, O'Brien Press 1990, of then RTE journalist Liam Cahill's account of the short lived Limerick Soviet 1919, and how the events in the city in that year...

Gus Smith - Tommy O'Brien : Good Evenin' Listeners HB 1987 - RTE Radio 'Your Choice and mine'

Published by Madison, Dublin 1987. 1st edition. ISBN:1870862007 12mo, hardback in dustjacket, 233 pages including index. Illustrated. Good condition overall, no marks or damage noted, but HEAVY...

Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974

A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career,...

Éamon de Buitléar - Irish Rivers - HB - Wild Ireland Library 1985 - Wildlife Nature

Published 1985, this is a hardcover first edition , edited by Éamon de Buitléir, the noted naturalist and film-maker.  With contributions by James Dooge, Roger Goodwillie, Hester Heuff and Ken...

Mary-Rose Carty - History of Killeen Castle - PB 1991- Meath Local History - Plunkett Family

Carty, Mary-Rose. History of Killeen Castle. County Meath, Ireland. The ancestral home of the Plunketts, Lord Dunsany and earlier, the De Tuit ( or Tuite ) family This is the revised 2nd...

Padraic O'Farrell - Fore : The fact and the Fantasy - PB Booklet 1991 - Westmeath

First published in 1984, this is the fifth printing from 1991, of a 32 page booklet ( aimed at the tourist and visitor) as well as giving the wider history of the Monastery of Fore, in Westmeath,...

Éamon de Buitlear ( Editor) - Wild Ireland - HB 1984 - Nature & Irish Natural History

Arranged, edited and published by the late Éamon de Buitléar, this is a natural history of the Irish landscape.  Published 1984, hardcover,  as issued without dustjacket, illustrated boards, binding...

Ó Gadhra, Nollaig - Guth an Phobail HB - Polataíocht - As Gaeilge 1984 - SÍNITHE AG AN ÚDAR

An chéad chló,  Baile Átha Cliath, Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Teoranta., 1984. An chéad chló. 19 cm. 288 pages. With 8 pages of plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket., light edgewear. 

Gerard Siggins / Rugby Runner ( Spirit Series - Book 5 )

 Schools rugby star Eoin Madden has never been busier - he's captain of the Junior Cup team, he's training with Leinster and hoping to be chosen for the Ireland team for the first-ever Under 16 World...

Seán Cronin - The Story of Kevin Barry - PB 2001 - War of Independence (Originally 1965)

A 2001 REPRINT - originally 1965 of the paperback pamphlet of Sean Cronin's biography of Kevin Barry, ( 1902-1920) whose execution marked the first death of a revolutionary since the executions of...

Christine Dwyer Hickey / Lives of Women

Following a long absence spent in New York, Elaine Nichols returns to her childhood home to live with her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog. The house backing on to theirs is sold and as...

Michael McLaverty - Collected Short Stories - PB - Poolbeg 1978

First Poolbeg printing, 1978, one of a series of short story collections published by Poolbeg Press . With a short introduction by Seamus Heaney.  Condition - Very good, binding tight, even tanning...

Sean P. Farragher - Dev and his Alma Mater : Eamon de Valera's Lifelong Association with Blackrock College 1898-1975 - PB 1985

Dev and his Alma Mater - Eamonn De Valera's lifelong association with Blackrock College 1898-1975. A  relatively uncommon, being issued only as a single printing in 1984 by Paraclete Press. The tan...

Lauri Murray - Newbridge : My Town I Love So Well - SIGNED PB 2004 - Kildare Local History

Signed by the author - Best wishes Lauri, privately published in 2004, there is scuffing and a stain mark to the back cover, internally unmarked.  Born in 1932, Lauri Murray was intimatley involved...

Anna Carey / The Making of Mollie

   It's spring 1912, and 14-year-old Mollie Carberry lives in Drumcondra with her loving but distracted parents, her older sister Phyllis, her spoiled older brother Harry and her saintly little...

Michael O'Siadhail - The Chosen Garden : Poems - Dedalus Press 1st Ed PB 1990

A first edition paperback, issued simultaneously with the hardcover, of Michael O'Siadhail's collection, The Chosen Garden , published by Dedalus Press, Dublin 1990.  Condition, some very light...

Mary Morris / A Very Private Diary : A Nurse in Wartime

   The newly discovered diary of a wartime nurse - a fascinating, dramatic and unique insight into the experiences of a young nurse in the Second World War.'I always seem to be saying good-bye to...

AAI Irish Architecture Awards 2005 - PB - New Irish Architecture Volume 20

The best-selling and highly acclaimed NEW IRISH ARCHITECTURE  compre­hensively docu­mentis the best of contemporary Irish architecture through the buildings and projects featured in the annual AAI...

Rose Servitova- The Watsons - SIGNED PB - Brand New - Jane Austen

Emma Watson returns to her family home after fourteen years with her wealthy and indulgent aunt. Now more refined than her siblings, Emma is shocked by her sisters’ flagrant and desperate attempts to...

W. B. Yeats / W B Yeats - Collected Poems

    W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the nineteeth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions and revolutions of that period. From...

Re O Laighleis / Terror on the Burren

 Also published as Sceoin sa mBoireann     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...

Jeff Kinney / Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway ( Wimpy Kid, Book 12) (Hardback)

 The new hilarious story from Jeff Kinney is the best yet in the brilliant, bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series!Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town.With the cold weather setting...

Jeff Kinney / Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel ( Wimpy Kid Book 7) (Hardback)

 Love is in the air...Share in the hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite wimpy kid, Greg Heffley, in the highly anticipated seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.     All of our...

An Act for the Better Administration of Justice in New South Wales & Van Diemen's Land 1823 - Original Westminster Pariamentary Act George IV

A rebound original copy of the 1823 act relating to the administration of Australian colonies in New South Wales and Van Dienen's Land ( Tasmania) , establishing supreme courts in both territories,...

Mary Minihan / Dail Spats

      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...

Sally Rooney / Normal People

 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND TOP FIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC ONE DRAMA ADAPTATION CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTIONWINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL...

Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish - A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - 2001-HB

Do Penance or Perish is a history of four of Ireland's Convent Magdalen Asylums, established in the mid-nineteenth century for the ' detention of prostitutes undergoing reform'. It traces the...

Gemma Tipton ( Editor) - des/IRE - Designing Houses for Contemporary Ireland - PB -2008 - Architecture & Design

Should the standard of housing in Ireland reassure us or be a cause for grave concern? Against the 'luxury lifestyle' backdrop of Celtic Tiger Ireland, did we really build the right sort of homes and...

Raymond Smith - The Greatest Hurlers of our Time - PB 1990 GAA

Paperback, 1990, published by the author, one of the most prolific writers on GAA history , this sets ' the advance of the national game into the 1990's and to place in perspective the all time...

Liam Ó Tuama - Jack Lynch : Where He Sported and Played - A sporting Biography HB Illustrated GAA 2000

Published by Blackwater Press, 2000, this is a hardcover larger format book covering the entire GAA career of Jack Lynch, former Taoiseach and Cork stalwart, and winner of 6 All Ireland medals in a...

Maurice Manning - The Blueshirts - HB 1st Edition, 1970 - Fascism , Ireland 1930's

In the original dustjacket, solid in blue (naturally) cloth with titles in gold to spine. Apart from the letter M written on the spine externally, there are no other marks, damage or inscriptions...

Anna Heussaff - Sárú - PB 2017 - BRAND NEW

SÁRÚ Cluiche crua é slánú an domhain …   Mistéir, bulaíocht agus fadhbanna móra an domhain – tá siad go léir le sárú san

Séamus Ó Loingsigh - The 1798 Rebellion in Meath - PB 1997

Published 1987, the first and only edition issued, this is an account by Séamus ó Loingsigh of the events surrounding the 1798 Rebellion in Meath.  In excellent condition, as new, no isbn, larger...

Angela O'Connell - The Servants Church - A History of the Church of the Three Patrons in the Parish of Rathgar - PB Dublin Local History

An illustrated history of the historic church, published 2000, and detailing the development of the Rathgar parish, and at the building itself - decoration, architecture,  and wider parish history...

Selina Guinness / The Crocodile by the Door : The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family

   The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness - shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award - is a remarkable, compelling and moving memoir of a farm, a family and a home.When Selina Guinness and...

Eoghan Corry / The Nation Holds Its Breath

    JACK CHARLTON; NIALL QUINN; JOHNNY GILES; GEORGE BEST; EAMON DUNPHY; LIAM BRADY; GEORGE HAMILTON; ROY KEANE; RAY HOUGHTON; PAUL MCGRATH; NORMAN WHITESIDE Ireland's soccer players may never...

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe - The English Language in Ireland - PB Mercier 1977 - Thomas Davis lectures - Linguistics

Essays include; Emergence of modern English dialects in Ireland, Anglo-Irish and its Irish background, The Anglo-Normans and their English dialect of South-East Wexford,  The dialects of Ulster, The...

Nick Larter - Irish Tales - Hardcover 1st Edition 2019 -SIGNED - Fantasy Collection

You’ve seen fairies before. Of course, you have. But not this. You’ve never seen anything like this.  Peadar Ó Guilín (from his foreword)   

Lorraine Tuck - The Whistle Blowing - Nature Photography -Limited Edition - Galway Clifden Rail Line - Conamara

Thie photography for this book began in the late 90's when Lorraine Tuck started to photograph areas along the former Connemara railway line which ran from Galay city westwards via

Capuchin Annual 1959 - 26th Year of publication - Features on Irish Missions - History, Religion & Irish Society

Closed tear to lower edge of spine, Light edgewear only, solid in slightly oversize covers, as issued. There is a previous owner's name to the blank front endpaper.   The Capuchin Annual was...

Ronnie Drew / Ronnie (Hardback)

Desmond Forristal - Oliver Plunkett in His Own Words ( Vintage Paperback)

Published by Veritas , Dublin 1975, tanning to pages, no other marks or damage noted. A biography of the life of the martyred Oliver Plunkett.  Light tanning to pages, and fade to spine ( from red to...

Walter Macken - The Coll Doll and Other Stories - Pan PB 1971

First published in 1969, this is a 1971 reprint, of a collection of short stories by Walter Macken, many of which were unpublished at the time of his death in 1968, and were collected and arranged...

Tim Pat Coogan - Ireland in the 20th Century - HB 1st US Edition 2004

A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known Irish history writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ireland in the Twentieth Century will be a must-read for...

Robert Gibbings - Sweet Cork of Thee - Hardcover Illustrated 1952

A HB 1964 reprint edition of Kinsale born Robert Gibbings Sweet Cork of Thee, first published by Dent in1951.  Gibbings was a master illustrator, the artwork in this is evocative, and captures the...

St Mel's Cathedral : A Glorious Undertaking - The History and Restoration of Saint Mel's Cathedral, Longford 1840-2015 - PB

Paperback - illustrated throughout in full colour. Published by the St. Mel's Cathedral Project Committee, 2015Used, but in Very Good condition, no isbn , oblong paperback.  Both a history of the...