Limerick & Limerick Interest Books

An Caislean - Annual 2022 ( Castleconnell) (Exact Copy)

The annual chronicle of Castleconnell reviewing events, achievements and everyday life in our beautiful village and in the surrounding areas ... The picture shown is the actual book you will receive...

An Caisleán - The Castleconnell Ahane & Montpelier Journal 2014 - Parish Annual Limerick

The 2014 local parish annual for Castleconnell/ Ahane, with information on local clubs, schools, history  societies, aas well as essays on local history and photographs, 128 pages...

An Caisleán - The Castleconnell Ahane & Montpelier Journal 2017 - Parish Annual Limerick

The 2017 local parish annual for Castleconnell/ Ahane, with information on local clubs, schools, history  societies, aas well as essays on local history and photographs, 128 pages...

An Caisleán : The Castleconnell, Ahane & Montpelier Annual (3 Book Collection)

An Caísleán: The Castleconnell, Ahane & Montpelier Annual (3 Book Collection) 2012 Edition 2017 Edition 2014 Edition     All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Andy Bielenberg - The Shannon Scheme and the Electrification of the Irish Free State - PB

B.M Spaight - God on the Wall - PB - 1997

God on the Wall tells the story of Elizabeth Wallace. Having grown up in a dysfunctional family, she has no wish to be part of a family again. The novel explores her journey as a working-class woman...

Begley, Donal - A Wayside Farm by the River : Clouncagh Remembered - County Limerick 1940's

Privately published, 2015, Dublin, this is a history of the author's locality and boyhood in the 1940's in tHE parish of Clouncagh in West Limerick .  He gives accounts of agriculture, his own...

Blindboy Boatclub - The Gospel According to Blindboy - HB - Short Stories - 2017

 The Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories and visual art exploring the myths, complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland...

Blindboy Boatclub / The Gospel According to Blindboy

 Sunday Business Post Book of the YearBlindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, Ireland's foremost satirist and now the talented author of a collection of brilliant short stories and...

Brian Callanan / Jim Kemmy : Stonemason, Trade Unionist, Politician, Historian (Large Paperback)

 This book explores the life of Limerick native son Jim Kemmy, who was an icon of the labour movement in Ireland. Kemmy's life spans a period of immense transformation in Irish society with...

Catherine Swift, Brian Hodkinson & Tom Donovan, ( Editors) - Limestone and River : Essays on Limerick History in Honour of Liam Irwin - BRAND NEW

From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of limestone and river. The...

Christy Kerins - Ballingarry, Granagh and Clouncagh, County Limerick - PB - 2000

Published 2000 ( as part of a Millennium Project on local genealogy and history) this is a full guide to unpublished or uncollated non census data for the area - Landed Estates/ Encumbered Estates...

Cormac Liddy ( Editor) & Limerick County Board - Limerick GAA Yearbook 2011

Including a wide range of articles on Limerick GAA history as well as a full annual review of clubs and competitions in all GAA codes , from primary school to senior level.  220 pages,...

David Lee - Remembering Limerick - Historical Essays Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Limerick's 1197 Charter) - PB - SIGNED

This copy signed and dedicated by the editor David Lee, and also signed ( in a separate signature) by journalist and Limerick native, David Hanly.  Paperback, published by Limerick Civic Trust ...

Denis O'Shaughnessy - A Spot so fair : Tales From St Mary's - Limerick

First published in 1998 of O'Shaughnessy's local history of St Mary'a Parish in the heart of Limerick city - covering the parish itself, Abbey Fishermen, historic events , parish personalities, life...

Denis O'Shaughnessy - Limerick - 100 Stories of the Century - PB

Paperback, published October 2000, for the end of the century - a collection of 100 short essays on various aspects of Limerick history in the 20th century - the focus is mainly on the city, but...

Denis O'Shaughnessy - The Pig Buyer and the Pope : Tales From St Mary's - Limerick

First published in 1999, Limerick historian Denis O'Shaughnessy's local history of St Mary' Parish in the heart of Limerick city - covering the parish itself, Fishermen, historic events , parish...

Dermot Whelan / Noni and the Great Chaaawklit Mystery (Hardback)

 Meet Noni. She’s a crazy old, law-breaking, chocolate-selling, pram-wielding, wickedly funny woman who likes nothing more than a dangerous caper! Someone has tampered with the...

Des Fogerty - Sean South of Garryowen - PB - 2006

'Sean South achieved apotheosis on his death in 1957 in an attack on a police station in county Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Little was known of him during his life, yet Ireland came to a standstill...

Duncan Crosbie - Life in an Irish Castle : The Journal of a 17th Century Castle - HB 2007 ( Limerick)

The Journal of a 17th Century Castle in Times of Peace and War - Based on ( real) events in Limerick city in the 1640's, seen through the ( imagined) journal of a young boy - Will Fletcher. He...

Ethna Le Masney - The International Style House, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003

An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John...

EVA Limerick / Better Words : A Field Guide to Contemporary Art and Culture (Hardback)

Better Words: A Field Guide to Contemporary Artand Culture proposes an experimental vocabularyfor contemporary art and culture. It contains aselection of new words and word-forms developedby 8-12...

Fedamore News Magazine 2014 ( 41st Edition) - PB - Limerick

The 41st issue of the Fedamore Annual / Fedamore News, published 2014, cover shows the opening ceremony of the refurbished Community Hall. A large format bound paperback, retailed at €10. Aerial...

Fedamore News Magazine 2016 ( 43rd Edition) - PB - Limerick

The 43RD issue of the Fedamore Annual / Fedamore News, published 2016, cover shows Rita Gleeson , back cover shows hunting in Rural Limerick. A large format bound paperback, retailed at €10...

Frank McCourt / 'Tis (Hardback)

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Frank McCourt / 'Tis: A Memoir

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Frank McCourt / Angela and the Baby Jesus (Hardback)

The six year old Angela looks at the naked baby Jesus in her local church in Limerick, Ireland, circa 1912, and thinks he looks cold. She wonders why his mother, or one of the shephards, doesn't...

Frank McCourt / Angela's Ashes

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Frank McCourt / Angela's Ashes & 'Tis ( 2 Book Box Set ) (Hardback)

Frank McCourt / Angela's Ashes and the sequel - 'Tis (2 Book Box Set) (Large Hardback)

Frank McCourt / Angela's Ashes (Hardback)

      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...

Frank McCourt / Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood (Hardback)

  McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winning look back at his childhood. "It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while..." Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's...

Frank McCourt / Angela's Ashes | 'Tis | Teacher Man (3 Hardback Book Box Set)

Frank McCourt (3 Book Box Set) Three volume biography/ memoir set 'Tis Angela's Ashes Teacher Man

Frank McCourt / Teacher Man

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Frank McCourt / Teacher Man (Hardback)

   A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy...

Frank McCourt / Teacher Man: A Memoir (Hardback)

Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in...

Geoff Hunt - Limerick Nature Walks - PB

Paperback, edited by Julian Reynolds, this is teh second edition, 2007.  Covering Limerick city and county, a wide range of mapped walks, suitable in most cases for all abilities, with full...

Gerald Griffin - The Collegians - Talbot Press Classic - HB Reprint 1953

Young Hardress Cregan is a collegian and a rogue, with a wicked, roving eye. Although he is courting his wealthy cousin Anne, he has also embarked on a passionate love affair with the lowly - but...

Gerard Hannan - Bards and Blackguards : Limerick and the Art of Storytelling - PB

Perhaps best known to the world as the yellow suited man who confronted Frank McCourt in a memorable Late Late Show, this is the account by Hannan of a number of Limerick City notables, storytellers...

Gerard Hannan - From Bards to Blackguards - PB - 2001

Limerick and the art of storytelling - paperback, published 2001. 

Gerard Hannan / From Bards to Blackguards

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Gus Smith / Wogan (Exact Copy)

  The picture shown is the actual book you will receive.   Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.  

Hugh Oram - Bygone Limerick - The City & County in days gone by - PB Illustrated Mercier 2010

A paperback first edition, Mercier Press 2010, of Hugh Oram's illustrated guide to historic Limerick county and city - with a host of black and white photographs. In excellent condition, as...

J Baker & J Dennison - 10 Years on : The Limerick Garden Plants Group - PB - 2008

A fully illustrated paperbaack, 116 pages, illustrated in colour throughout. Essays on particular gardens ( throughout Ireland) cultivating particular plants, and stories of how individual gardens...

J.J Hogan - From Small Beginnings - The Story of the Limerick School of Art and Design 1852-2002 - PB

Published 2004, a detailed history of the LSAD ( as it is now known) . Illustrated. 

Jeremiah Newman- Return to the Sacred : A Socio Religious Analysis ( Signed) PB -1986

An essay in socio-religious analysis. Its special interest is the impact of modern society on religion, and in particular on Irish Christianity.  Signed by the author ( a former Cathiolic...

Jim Corbett - Not While I Have Ammo : A History of Captain Connie Mackey - BRAND NEW ( 2nd Edition 2025)

During the Irish Civil War, between the 15 and 20 July 1922, the Republican-held Strand Barracks in Limerick, on what is now Clancy’s Strand, came under constant ferocious attacks from Free...

Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - ( Number 8 - Autumn 1981 )

Autumn 1981 edition 40 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors General Editor Jim Kemmy A forgotten benefactor [Robert Frith]The men of Park [poem] by Richard...

Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - FAMINE EDITION ( Number 32 - Winter 1995 )

Probably one of the most sought after back issues of the Old Limerick Journal ( and also one of the largest ) - this 1995 edition covered all aspects of the famine in Limerick city and  the...

John O'Callaghan - Limerick : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

Limerick was a key social, political and military battleground during the Irish revolution of 1912-23. By examining a wide range of contemporary sources, O'Callaghan reveals what life was like for...

John Shinnors - Adult Reading at Artists Bedtime - HB - Illustrated

“Adult Reading at Artist’s Bedtime” features illustrated stories from the sketchbooks of John Shinnors, one of Ireland’s foremost artists. His paintings often combine the...

LIMERICKS - 3 Book Vintage Lot - ( The Book of Irish Limericks, Armada Book of Limericks , The Pan Book of Limericks) - PB

Three vintage paperbacks -  The Pan Book of Limericks - ( 0330021125) 1972, Originally 1961. Previous owners anme on inside front endpage, as well as same name on the front cover ( overkill...

Louie Byrne - Tears on My Pillow ( Dare You Ripple My Pond - Book 2 ) - SIGNED

Signed , undedicated, published 1998. Signed ''with best wishes, Louie Byrne'' Brilliant is the only word to describe Louie Byrne's trilogy realting to his life of poverty growing up in Limerick...