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Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman (Large Paperback)

 In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of...

Lucia Gannon - All in a Doctor's Day - PB - BRAND NEW

The local doctor occupies a privileged position in society. Pillars of the community and privy to the most intimate details of people's lives, we often imbue them with superhuman qualities and expect them to have all the answers. Rarely do we get to see...

Sinéad Delahunty - Delalicious : A Full Plate For a Full Life - PB - BRAND NEW

Sinéad Delahunty has learned many life lessons on the football field. Most importantly, she has mastered how to fuel her body healthily. Her debut cookbook is bursting with recipes that are full with flavour and nutritional value to keep you...

John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW

In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46...

John G O'Dwyer - The Comeragh, Galtee, Knockmealdown and Slieve Bloom Mountains - A Walking Guide - PB - BRAND NEW

John G. O’Dwyer’s comprehensive guide to the best walks in Tipperary and Waterford has now been updated and expanded to include Laois and Offaly. From the rugged Comeragh coums to the stately peaks of the Galtees, and from myth-laden...

John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB

In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday...

Aideen McBride - Tipperary Folk Tales - PB - BRAND NEW

County Tipperary, the second largest county in Ireland, has a rich and colourful history that has inspired many myths and legends. A selection of the best are retold here, collected and reworked by professional storyteller Aideen McBride. Within...

Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW

 In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of...

Kieran Fagan - The Framing of Harry Gleeson - PB - BRAND NEW

In November 1940 the body of Moll McCarthy, an unmarried mother, was found in a field in the Marlhill/ New Inn area of South Tipperary She had been shot. The man who reported the discovery was neighbor Harry Gleeson. Although Harry had an alibi, he was...

Jason Browne, Marilyn Taylor & Alan Nolan - 17 Martin Street : A Graphic Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Graphic novel adaptation of this classic wartime novel.  When Hetty Golden’s family move to Martin Street near Portobello bridge in Dublin, they’re not sure of their welcome. And next door, Ben Byrne’s family are not sure about...

John Moriarty - A Hut at the Edge of the Village - PB - BRAND NEW (Edited by Martin Shaw)

The new collection from John Moriarty, edited by Martin Shaw. There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear...

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore)

Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold...

Trio Poetry 3 - Johnston Kirkpatrick | Peter McDonald | Trevor McMahon - 1982

IRISH POETRY: NORTHERN IRELAND. Johnston Kirkpatrick, Peter McDonald and Trevor McMahon. Octavo, glossy blue printed wrappers. "Trio Poetry 3" represents the first publication, in book form, of these three Belfast poets. A review slip from the publisher...

DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection - Trinity - HB

DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection TrinityContents: Trinity #1-3 ( ORIGINALLY 2003) and World's Finest #71 ( Originally 1954)  Standalone, but issued as patrt of an Eaglemoss Partwork collection - ISSN-2054-3735 77205487340922, Volume 22 in that...

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little Town on the Prairie (Vintage Paperback)

Previous owners name in red ink on inside front endpapers.  This Puffin edition 1978, originally published 1941. 

Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001

This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering...

Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW

Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented...

Damian Shields - Green and Blue : Irish Americans in the Union Military 1861-65 - HB - BRAND NEW

DUE TO US ON OR AROUND 5TH MAY 2025. TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  Damian Shiels’s Green and Blue explores Irish American service in the United States military by analyzing the written correspondence of...

John Moriarty - Grounded in Story ( Edited by Amanda Carmody & Mary McGillicuddy) - HB

John Moriarty was an original, a thinker, a poet, a mythologian. He was born and reared just outside the little village of Moyvane in north Kerry. Growing up on his parent’s farm he was attuned to the rhythms of weather and soil from his youth...

John Moriarty - In His Words - PB - BRAND NEW ( Edited by Michael W. Higgins & Seán Aherne)

In Introducing John Moriarty Canadian theologian and academic Michael W. Higgins compiles the essential writings of Irish philosopher and mystic, John Moriarty. This distillation of Moriarty’s texts on ecology, mysticism and spirituality is a...

Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW

The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women.  Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published...

Stephen Phillips - Poems - HB -1897

A hardcover slim cloth edition, untrimmed page ends, published by John Lane/ The Bodley Head 1897 ( this being the 5th printing)  Stephen Phillips ( 1864 –  1915) was an English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity...

Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn ( A Pallisers Novel) Vintage Paperback - 1973

A 1973 PB edition, issued as a BBC TV tie in edition. Originally published in 1869. Heavy age tanning to pages, but binding tight, no marks or inscriptions.  The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a...

John Ashbery - April Galleons -Poems - HB - 1988

In this collection, first published in 1987, John Ashbery--"one of his generation's most gifted and eloquent poets" (Michuko Kakutani, "The New York Times")--offers some of his most intimate and direct poems. With breathtaking freshness, he writes of...

( Editor) - Poetry Ireland Review - Issue 94 ( July 2008)

Edited by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Includes poems by John Montague, Aifric Mac Aodha, Colette Byce, David Wheatley and Moya Cannon, alongside translations of Hans-Christian Oeser, and interview with Hans-Christian Oeser, and reviews of...

Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB

Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area)  contains Wainwright's original...

Michael Warren - Places - PB - 1993

Although clearly concerned with formal Modernist qualities such as texture, surface, weight equilibrium and balance, at the core of Michael Warren's art lies something far less tangible - an examination of what it means for human beings to be in the...

Simon Armitage - Book of Matches - PB - 1993

Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three sections - the "Book of Matches" which are sonnets, "Becoming of Age" and "Reading the Bans", a series of...

Joe Sheerin - A Crack in the Ice - PB Dolmen Press - 1985

Dolmen Press paperback, a review slip is laid in loosely.  Light edgewear to covers, otherwise unmarked. 

Wakter Hoyt French & Charles Brockway Hale ( Editors) - Middle English Metrical Romances ( Volume 2) - hb 1964

Volume 2 of a set ( but standalone in it's own accord Contents - Sir Perceval of Galles. The avowing of Arthur -- Composites: Ipomadon (selections). Eger and Grime. The squire of low degree -- The matter of the Orient: The seven sages of Rome...

Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961

A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated.  Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books...

Bleisce - Doon Parish Journal ( Issue 20) - December 2011

The annual Doon Journal , 2011. Doon is a town and associated surrounds not far from the Limerick Tipperary border in East Limerick.  With parish news, sport, history, photographs etc.  272 pages

Frederick Rolfe - Hadrian the Seventh - PB 1982 ( Originally 1904)

Hadrian VII by Frederick William Rolfe  (Baron Corvo) This text is a novel of thwarted ambition and ecclesiastical wish-fulfillment. When a set of curious circumstances propels George Arthur Rose from despised obscurity to the throne of St Peter, in...

Daphne du Maurier - Vanishing Cornwall - HB 1967

Daphne du Maurier made Cornwall her home for most of her life and has shown her love and knowledge of all things Cornish in some of her greatest successes, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, Jamaica Inn and many of her other much-loved books.In this 1967 book...

Aoife Durcan - Your Highly Sensitive Child - PB - BRAND NEW

This thoughtful and practical guide offers parents expert advice on how to support their sensitive child through meltdowns, anxiety, and other overwhelming emotionsAs a parent of a highly sensitive child, it’s often difficult to know how to respond...

Bob Quinn - The Atlantean Irish : Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage - PB - BRAND NEW

The main argument of Quinn's book dismissed as myth the popular belief in the origins of the ancient inhabitats of Ireland  and propose instead that they are part of a common 'Atlantean' culture that includes the western seaboard of Europe and North...

Paul Clements - Shannon Country : A River Journey Through Time - BRAND NEW -PB

Paul Clements travels the length of the Shannon in this book. It will be of interest to nature lovers and to tourists, containing a wealth of local knowledge of the area around Shannon, especially useful for ‘staycations’. In August 1939 the...

Robert Graves - The Crowning Privilege - Vintage PB 1959

Originally published 1955, this reprint 1959.  Subtitled ' A selection of lectures and essays concerned with professional standards in poetry'

Nelson Publishing - Thrilling Stories For Girls - HB 1920'S

THRILLING STORIES FOR GIRLS" published by Thomas Nelson UK , undated but 1925 ( the cover illustration is dated 1924) Stories by Yelva Burnett, Harold Avery, May Wynne, Ethel Talbot, Alice Sophia Jackson, Phillippa Francklyn & Violet M...

Frank Jacobs - Strange Maps : An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities

Spanning many centuries, all continents and the realms of outer space and the imagination, this collection of 138 unique graphics combines beautiful full-colour illustrations with quirky statistics and smart social commentary. The result is a distinctive...

Jacob Smallwood - The Face of Newfoundland - HB - 1977

A photographic guide to the Canadian province of Newfoundland, published 1977, covering townas, people, industry, landscape and much more.  Large format hardcover, illustrations and photography in colour. 

Rio Ferdinand - My Decade as a Red - HB 1ST Edition Manchester United 2013

  Publisher by Bonnier UK, 2013 - it covers Ferdinand's ten years at Utd from 2002-2012, ( some of the most successful years for the club) as well as his time at West Ham,  Leeds, and as an England international. Illustrated throughout in full...

Michael Smith & David Butler - Tom Crean : Irish AntarctIc Hero ( Graphic Novel)

The unforgettable story of Ireland’s greatest unsung hero, Tom Crean, in graphic novel form. Tom Crean, the teenage son of a poor Kerry farmer, ran away from home in 1893 to seek adventure, and became a major figure in three pioneering expeditions...

Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW

Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built...

Chris Judge - Evil Duck and the Nest of Destiny - PB - BRAND NEW

The second book!      Long ago, the ancient inhabitants of Planet Duck created three magical objects to protect their world – the Egg of Time, the Feather of Fortune and the Nest of Destiny. Individually, they each bring great...

Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning...

Theo Dorgan - Camarade - PB - BRAND NEW

‘All things considered, I wonder if shooting that policeman made me the man that I am?’ In this masterful new work, award-winning author Theo Dorgan has written a philosophical thriller of extraordinary depth. An Irishman in Paris...

Mary O'Donnell - Walking Ghosts - PB - BRAND NEW

In these masterful stories, Mary O’Donnell captures characters caught between certainties and change — from urban encounters to sun-drenched beaches, lockdown anxieties to nightclub tensions. Her walking ghosts navigate the liminal...

Susan Stebbing - Thinking to Some Purpose - PB - 1959 ( Originally 1939)

Hannah Green ( Joanne Greenberg) - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It served as the basis for a film in 1977 The character of Dr. Fried is based closely on Greenberg's real doctor...

Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990

A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. 

Sebastian Faulks - A Week in December

A thoughtful page-turner' THE TIMES'Vast, well-plotted and gripping throughout' SPECTATOR'Richly entertaining and highly rewarding' EVENING STANDARDSeven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a...