Irish Politics and Political Biography.

Acts of the Oireachtas 1957 - HB - Dáil Éireann - Bound

Bound in red cloth, titles to spine, the full legislation of the Houses of the Oireachtas for 1957 ' Consisting of The Public general Acts and A rivate Act, with Tables and index - DUAL LANGUAGE (...

Brian Lenihan - For the Record - Blackwater Press - Politics Ireland - 1991 - Fianna Fáil - Presidency Elections

A first edition copy of Brian Lenihan ( Snr) 's 1991 autobiography, For The Record, published by Blackwater Press 1991. Primarily a response by Lenihan to his failed Presidential bid in 1990, where...

Conor Lenihan / Haughey : Prince of Power (Large Paperback)

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Cornelius O'Leary - Irish Elections 1918-1977 - Parties, Voters and Proportional Representation - PB

Paperback, published by Gill and Macmillan, 1979.  Gives a complet account of every general election in what became the Republic of Ireland, from the 1918 Sinn Féin landslide, up to...

Deirdre McCarthy ( Editor) / The Week in Politics Election 2011 and 31st Dail (Coffee Table Book)

A pre-election guide to the 2011 Irish General Election, co-published by RTE , with content from election analysts.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Dick Walsh - The Party : Inside Fianna Fáil - PB - 1986

Paperback, published by Gill & Macmillan 1986, Dick Walsh was an Irish Times journalist at the time of publication.  Described as 'the first book to get behind the scenes in Fianna...

Frank Dunlop / Yes, Taoiseach: Irish Politics from Behind Closed Doors (Hardback)

For nearly two decades Dunlop had a bird's eye view of the good that politicians do, and the bad. Sitting at the shoulder of the legendary Jack Lynch during his fall from power; working with the...

J. J. Lee - Ireland 1912-1985 : Politics and Society (Large Paperback)

Ireland, 1912-1985 was the first study on this scale of Irish performance, North and South, in the twentieth century. Although stressing the primacy of politics in Irish public affairs, it argues...

Joe Joyce & Peter Murtagh - The Boss - Charles J. Haughey in Government PB Irish Politics 1st Ed 1983

A paperback first edition , 1983 of the classic study of Charlie Haughey as Taoiseach in the early 1980's - The Boss, published by Poolbeg Press. Controversial and groundbreaking in it's time,...

John Downing / Enda Kenny : The Unlikely Taoiseach (Hardback)

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Justine McCarthy / Mary McAleese - The Outsider (Large Paperback)

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Ken Whelan / Bertie Ahern : Taoiseach and Peacemaker (Large Paperback)

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Mary McAleese / President Mary McAleese : Building Bridges (Hardback)

 From 1997 to 2011, Mary McAleese has served as President of Ireland, and become one of the most popular Presidents Ireland has ever has known.Representing Ireland on the world stage through the...

Michael D. Higgins - Power to the People : Essays : The Hot Press Years - HB SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Hot Press, signed by Michael D Higgins, 2024.  This edition was sold only via Hot Press directly, the standard trade-sold edition was unsigned.  An essential read...

Michael Heney - The Arms Crisis of 1970 : The Plot that Never Was - Paperback

The number one Irish Times bestseller. In 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. The criminal...

Michael O'Sullivan - Seán Lemass : A Biography - HB 1st Edition - 1994 - Politics

This book follows the development of the career of the man who has been called "the maker of modern Ireland" and who was lauded as "the Manager of Ireland Inc.", Lemass has remained something of an...

Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography 1986 - Politics Ireland

Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a...

Pat Leahy / Showtime : The Inside Story of Fianna Fáil in Power (Large Paperback)

 In boom and in bust, Ireland has been led by Fianna Fail. "Showtime" gets behind the party's remarkable dominance of the political landscape and leading political writer Pat Leahy, tells the...

Patsy McGarry / First Citizen: Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency (Coffee Table Book)

A powerful and intimate accountThe remarkable story of a woman who journeyed from working class Catholic West Belfast to the highest office in the Republic of Ireland, and who, shedding most of her...

Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback)

 The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside...

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,...

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 detauled account of the ( final) spit between Des O'Malley and Charles Haughey, and the eventual formation of the Progressive...

Shane Kenny - Go Dance on Somebody Else's Grave : The Haughey Coalition 1989 - PB

For four weeks after the June 1989 General Election , Ireland faced a political crisis. secret meetings were held to break the deadlock. Heated scenes took place in the corridors of power. Haughey,...

Stephen Collins / The Cosgrave Legacy (Hardback)

 The lives of W.T. Cosgrave and his son Liam are inextricably intertwined with the history of the Irish State.W.T. Cosgrave was one of the principal architects of Irish freedom in the 1916-21...

T. Ryle Dwyer - Eamon De Valera ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB - 1980

A biography of Eamon de Valera who dominated Irish life and politics for much of the 20th century. De Valera took part in the 1916 Rising and emerged as the country's leading revolutionary. His most...

Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon de Valera : A Biography - PB 1974 ( Originally 1971)

Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin in 1970 ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is an UK Arrow paperback edition, 1974. This edition includes an epilogue detailing events after th...

Tim Ryan / Albert Reynolds: The Longford Leader (Large Paperback)

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