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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...

Brendan Fullam - Giants of the Ash - HB 1st Edition 1991 - Hurling GAA - Wolfhound Press

Outstanding Irish hurlers of the 20th century are profiled here with interviews, photographs, team choices, & players' own writings, all capturing the memories, nostalgia, fulfilment, great games, &...

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...

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First published in 1969, this is a 1971 reprint, of a collection of short stories by Walter Macken, many of which were unpublished at the time of his death in 1968, and were collected and arranged...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

James H Murphy ( Editor) - Nos Autem : Castleknock College & its Contribution

A hardcover first edition, of Nos Autem, a history of Castleknock College edited by James H Murphy, published by Gill & Macmillan. 1996. Established in 1835, Castleknock college grew rapidly to...

Darren Shan / ZOM-B Gladiator ( ZOM-B Series - Book 6 )

Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were...

Vincent Power - Send 'Em Home Sweatin' : The Showbands Story - PB

Vincent Power examines the unique Irish phenomenon of the showbands - The Royal, the tragic Miami, Melody Aces, The Freshmen, Clipper Carlton, the Cadets - who , surprisingly to modern eyes and ears,...

Leon Ó Broin - Michael Collins : A Biography - ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB 1980

A concise and deservedly popular biography of Michael Collins, 1890-1922, who fought in the Easter Rising in Dublin and quickly rose to prominence among Ireland's new revolutionary leaders. As...

Patrick O'Donnell - The Irish Faction Fighters of the 19th Century - PB Anvil Press 1975

Published by Anvil Press, 1975, this is an important (and somewhat hard to find) copy of Patrick O'Donnell's history of Irish Faction fights in the early and mid 19th century - examining the effects...

Ken Bruen - A Galway Epiphany - PB BRAND NEW

A Galway Epiphany Jack Taylor has finally traded in his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country.But on a day trip back into the city, Jack is hit by a truck and left in a...

Brian Moore / Black Robe

    To Father Paul, the Algonkian Indians are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father Paul on his mission to relieve a priest in...

Mike McCormack / Solar Bones (Large Paperback)

Barry Henriques - (Editor) Kilkenny GAA Yearbook, 2017 - PB Annual

208 pages, large format paperback , fully illustrated in colour throughout . the 27th edition of the yearbook edited by Barrie Henriques.  A standard county GAA yearbook, with full detauiled coverage...

William H. Gibson - Early Irish Golf : The First Courses, Clubs and Pioneers - PB 2004

This is the only history of the development of the game in Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on it's links to military units in Ireland First edition was 1988, this reprint 1989...

John O'Donohue / Eternal Echoes : Exploring Our Hunger to Belong (Hardback)

Gus Smith - Festival Glory in Athlone - All Ireland Drama Finals PB 1977

Since 1953, the annual competition for the amateur Drama Festival was held in Athlone, this is a history of it up to 1977, the year of publication - including the first performance of Sive in 1959,...

John B Keane - Love Bites and Other Stories - PB Mercier Press, 1991

There are more shades to John B. Keane's humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection. Here, in a...

Shaw, George Bernard - Saint Joan - Vintage Penguin PB Ed, 1953 - Drama

Saint Joan - In Very Good condition, wth only light wear, no sunning, 1955 ediion, Penguin Number 565. First Published 1924 , the first Penguin edition was 1946.  Condition - internally unmarked ,...

Brian D'Arcy - Another Little Bit of Religion ( PB 1988) -

PUblished by Brophy Books, 988, this takes a number of the articles and essays that Brian D'arcy wrote for the Irish Sunday World from 1978 to 1988 , - very popular in their time, the articles were...

Michael O'Connell- Shadows : An Album of the Irish People 1841-1914 - Photography - Social Life & Customs

Published by O'Brien Press in association with RTE in 1985, this is a themed collection of vintage and early Irish photography, from earliest days to the advent of WW1, and based on the TV series...

John A. Murphy - Ireland in the Twentieth Century - PB - ( Gill History of Ireland - Volume 11 ) - 1981

A masterful study of the turbulent 20th century ( to c 1972) by John A Murphy, 1975 Gill Books Light edgewear to the covers, some sun fade to spine. Rubbing to edgewear to primary page.  Some...

Jacqueline Wilson / The Jacqueline Wilson Christmas Cracker

      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...

Eric Cross - The Tailor and Ansty - HB 1964 - 2nd Edition , Introduction by Frank O'Connor Illustrated by Robert Gibbings

First published in 1942, this book was bizarrely banned until the 1960s in Ireland. The life of the Irish tailor and storyteller, Timothy Buckley ( The Tailor) , and his wife Anastasia ("Ansty")...

The Capuchin Annual 1972 - Articles on the Treaty 50th Anniversary 1922-72 PB - History & Commentary

This is the 1972 edition of the Capuchin annual, with the usual wide range of articles, history, poetry and commentary.  A particular feature of this issue is a number of articles commemorating the...

Darren Shan / Bec ( Demonata, Book 4 )

 Darren Shan's Demonata series continues with more shocks, demons and thrilling twists in the chilling Bec.As a baby, Bec fought for her life. As a trainee priestess, she fights to fit in to a tribe...

Sally Rooney / Conversations with Friends

 'This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.'- Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH...

Christy O'Connor / The Club

 This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish...

Brendan Anderson / Joe Cahill : A Life in the IRA

 I was born in a united Ireland, I want to die in a united Ireland". Born in Belfast in 1920, Joe Cahill has been an IRA man motivated by this ambition all his life. IRA activists rarely speak about...

Julian Gough / Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habits

   Gorgeously illustrated and with a classic feel, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear who discover that things are always better when they're shared with a friend. Ideal for...

Derek Landy / Demon Road ( Demon Road - Book 1 )

 THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS.The creator of the number one bestselling SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves... and the monsters that...

Fintan O'Toole - A Mass for Jesse James : A Journey Through 1980's Ireland - Journalism PB 1990

A paperback first edition, Raven Arts Press 1990, collecting some of the most notable essays, journalism and srticles of Fintan O'Toole, , longtime columnist for thre Irish Times, but also thetre...

John Kelly - The Polling of the Dead - PB 1st Ed 1993 - Politics Ireland

John Maurice Kelly ( 1931 – 1991) was an Irish  politician who served as a cabinet minister from 1981 to 1982, &  Attorney General from May 1977 to July 1977 and Chief Whip from 1973 to 1977. He...

Ulick O'Connor - Oliver St John Gogarty : A Biography - PB

First published in 1963, with the title ' The Times I've Seen' Light creasing to covers, heavy tanning to page block, this is a 1981 paperback edition.  Oliver St john Gogarty was one of the most...

Gerard Siggins / Rugby Flyer ( Spirit Series - Book 4 )

 Eoin has been chosen for the Junior development squad so over the summer he gets to go to Dublin for a rugby summer school. Arising out of that, he and his new friends are taken on a trip to...

Mairead Ni Ghrada / An Triail - As Gaeilge

 As gaeilge - The full version of the school text.  Used - some light notes and underlining in sections       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Sean McCann- The Story of the Abbey Theatre - PB 1967 1st ed

Subtitled as 'the back biting  and intrigues , successes aand fame of the theatre that refused to die' this is The Story of the Abbey Theatre by Sean McCann, published by Four Square UK, 1967, the...

Robin Flower - The Irish Tradition - PB ( 1978 Reprint)

First published in 1947, these celebrated lectures and introductions to the medieval and modern Gaelic-speaking culture, which was drawing to a close when Flower first came to Ireland in 1910, form a...

Gearóid Denvir ( Eagarthóir) - Duanaire an Chéid - Filíocht Gaeilge ón 20ú Céad - PB 2000

Rogha an eagarthóra, Gearóid Denvir, de na dánta is fearr leis ón bhfichiú haois atá sa leabhar seo. Dánta mar ráitis shuntasacha chruthaitheacha iontu féin seachas saothar le filí faoi leith a...

Máirtín Ó Cadhain - The Road to Brightcity - Translation by Eoghan ó Tuairisc - PB - Poolbeg 1982

The Road to Brightcity and Other Stories is a translation to English from the original Gaeilge, Poolbeg, 1981, by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc of a selection of short stories by Máirtín Ó Cadhain 1906-1970,...

George Morrison - An Irish Camera PB - 19th Century Photography - Pan, PB 1979

Including a number of images of Dublin and Cork from the earliest days of photography - daguerreotypes and calotype images from the 1840's , as well as a 65 other images of 19th century and early...

Mary E Daly - The Famine in Ireland - Dublin Historical Association - PB 1st Edition 1986

Published by Dundalgan Press, this is the first printing, 1986 of Mary Daly's The Famine in Ireland , published by the historical Association of Ireland under the editorship of Art Cosgrove.  Rather...

Capuchin Annual 1968 - 35th Year - Features on Irish Election 1918 - & Religion, Politics , Culture & History

The 1968 issue of the Capuchin Annual - with a selection of features on the anniversary of the 1918 election, the last election held nationally under British rule, and the impact of events of that...

Michael O'Sullivan & Bernardine O'Neill - The Shelbourne Hotel and It's People - HB - Dublin 1999

  Published by Blackwater Press, 1999, this is a history of Dublin's most notable hotel - The Shelbourne on Stephen's Green - this was issued on it's 175th anniversary , its now nearly at 200 years (...

Flann O'Brien - Treciasis Policininkas ( Third Policeman) - Lithuanian Edition

Lithuanian Translation of The Third Policeman, 2002, hardcover. Age tanning to the page block.  Tereciasis Policininkas - is anglu kalbos verte Antanas Danielius

Frank Duff - Miracles on Tap - Vintage Montfort PB 1961 ( Edited by Denis McAuliffe) - Legion of Mary

Dubliner Frank Duff was the founder of in the religious Catholic organisation The Legion of Mary, a hugely influential organisation in early and mid 20th century Irish religious life.  Light...