Limerick & Limerick Interest Books

Michael MacEwan - The Ryan Family and the Scarteen Hounds - SIGNED - HB

Hardcover, piblished by Michael Russell , Salisbury UK , 1989, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to the title page, undedicated. Price clipped on inside front flap. Illustrated throughout.  The Ryan family has...

Mary Carbery - The Farm by Lough Gur : The Story of Mary Fogarty - PB - BRAND NEW - Limerick

"The Farm by Lough Gur" was first published in London in 1937 and quickly reprinted. It was well received in England and a best-seller in Dublin. Some questioned its quiet recall of an elysian rural...

Sean Spellissy - Limerick : The Rich Land - PB - 1989

Paperback, illustrated in black and white throughout ( with a section of colour photographs also) - a gazetteer of County Limerick, with photo and history sections featured on all towns villages...

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 2013 - Parish Annual Limerick

The 2013 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.  Bound booklet...

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.  Stapled booklet...

An Caisleán - The Castleconnell Ahane & Montpelier Journal 2022 - Parish Annual Limerick

The 2022 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.  Bound booklet...

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 may not get the exact copy...

Anthony Galvin / Family Feud: Gangland Limerick Exposed

THIS IS THE STORY of how it all began. 1978 and a double-murder that Gardai could not solve - the murder no one saw. It was a busy evening in Kiely's Bar when two members of the McNamara clan...

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...

Blindboy Boatclub - Boulevard Wren and other Stories - PB - BRAND NEW

 Boulevard Wren and Other Stories is the stunning follow-up to the bestselling Gospel According to Blindboy, and a warped mirror held up to the Irish psyche.Provocative and unsettling, the stories...

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 visual...

Cappamore Historical Society - As Time Goes By - A Photographic Record - HB - 2010

Hardcover, large format, illustrated throughout with a host of photographs of the Cappamore area ( and surrounding areas - rural and town) from most of the 20th century . Includes a host of personal...

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 stone circles...

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...

Christy Kerins / Ballingarry, Granagh and Clouncagh (Large Paperback)

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...

Conor Niland / The Racket (Large Paperback)

On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% 'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidenti

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, illustrated...

Criostoir O'Flynn / Consplawkus - A Writer's Life

 Biographical Sequel to There Is an Isle, in which the young Limerick writer tries to earn a living at this trade.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

David A Fleming - Edmund Sexten Pery : The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteeenth Century Ireland

Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later as Speaker of the Irish House...

David Lee & Debbie Jacobs - Made in Limerick : History of Industries, Trade and Commerce - PB - 2003

Published by Limerick Civic Trust, 2002. The book, in a series of essays by a wide range of contributors, deals with the economic and industrial , commercial and trade history of the city, covering a...

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 . A...

David Ross( Editor) - Through Irish Eyes : A Visual Com

Foreword by Malachy McCourt (brother of Frank McCourt) , large format hardcover, illustrated throughout with photographs of Ireland ( Limerick mostly) from the 1920's to the 1940's . Gift inscription...

Declan Shalvey / Savage Town (Graphic Novel)

In Limerick City, Jimmy 'Hardy' Savage is a gangster on the rise, facing trouble from all sides. With the local cops, rival gangs, his best mate and his mammy all out to stick a knife in him, will...

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

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

Denis O'Shaughnessy -More Tales of Limerick PB 2008 - SIGNED

A signed dedicated first edition, 2008, of Denis O'Shaughnessy's More Tales of Limerick , his 7th book on Limerick city local history , illustrated with a selection of photographs, some unique to the...

Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy - Limerick Boycott 1904 - Anti-Semitism In Ireland

Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2005, a detailed study of what became known as the Limerick Boycott , that started when incendiary speeches by a Redemptorist priest, Fr John Creagh, stirred up a...

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!

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...

Eoin Hand / First Hand : My Life and Irish Football (Large Paperback)

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)

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 we...

Frank McCourt / 'Tis: A Memoir

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact c

Frank McCourt / Angela and the Baby Jesus (Hardback)

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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 damage it, so...

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 sad,...

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 long years...

Frank McCourt / Teacher Man (Large Paperback)

Frank McCourt #3 McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.

Gerard Hannan - From Bards to Blackguards - PB - 2001

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

Gerard Hannan / From Bards to Blackguards

      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 we...

Gerard Hannan / Tis in Me Ass

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Gerard Hartmann / Born to Perform (Large Paperback)

  Since 1991 Ger Hartmann has worked as a physical therapist with many of the world's greatest athletes, as well as with a number of Irish rugby, athletic and GAA stars. Before a serious injury...

Gerard Healy- The Hidden Excitement of Monaleen & Milford - Limerick - Local History 1981

First and sole edition, privately published, Pallaskenry, 1981,  An account of the Limerick suburbs, laid out in a series of walks covering the areas as far as Singland, what is now UL, out to...

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.  

Helena Close / The Gone Book

 I know you'll hate me. I just know you will. But I can't help it. I'm going to find you.Matt's mam left home when he was 10. He writes letters to her but doesn't send them. He keeps them in his Gone...

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 bishop of...

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 State...

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...