April 2025

T.S Lindsay - The Church's Song - A Companion to the Irish Church Hymnal - HB 1908

A guide to chuch hymns, their history and origins, published 1908.   

Brian J. Ford - Allied Secret Weapons : The War of Science - PB

Explores the scientific and technical advances made by Allied scientists during WW2, from advances in photography and spycraft to bouncing bombs , rocketry and much more.  Paperback, 2nd printing 1977, originally 1971. 

P.G Wodehouse - Company for Henry - PB 1983 ( Originally 1967)

The titular Henry is Henry Paradenen whom after a career treading the boards has unexpectedly inherited Ashby Hall and the families associated financial obligations. American multi-millionaire relative J. Wendell Stickney and has arrived and Henry is...

John B. Keane - Letters of an Irish Minister of State - Vintage Mercier PB

First published in 1978 by Mercier Press, the original publisher. Light tanning to page block, there is a clipped out part of the front title page ( possibly where it was signed by someone)  A sequel to Letters of a Successful T.D, detailing the...

Lois Gould - Such Good Friends - PB

We were at least as happily married as anybody else, which maybe was't very, but it was all anybody could reasonably expect. All I ever could, anyway . . . But now Julie Messinger, age thirty-one, mother of two, is going through the kind of hell that may...

Peter Frankopan - The New Silk Roads - PB -2019

 A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardRevised and updated editionThe New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being...

Mary O'Rourke - Letters of My Life (Hardback- SIGNED ) 2016

Hardcover, first edition, 2015, published by Gill Books.  Signed by Mary O'Rourke to the title page in blue biro, not dedicated.Original RRP was €19.99.  As she turns 80, Mary O’Rourke writes a letter to 20 people, past and present,...

Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW

Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change...

Lucy Graham-Toler ( Countess of Norbury) - Summers of yesterday : or, memoirs and Wanderings in Northern Lands - 1934 - HB Scandinavia Travel

Published byCassell UK 1934. 160pp. 10 plates (4 in colour). 8vo. First edition. Light blue cloth binding, the front cover with dark blue title and author, the spine with the same plus publisher. Dust jacket is foxed, protected by a clear transparent...

W Carter Platts - The Young Angler ( Young Sportsman's Library) - HB 1966 ( Originally 1940)

A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience...

Nevil Shute - Ruined City | An Old Captivity ( 2 Book Lot - Vintage Pan )

Ruined City - When Henry Warren, director of an English bank, lands by chance in a hospital in a bleak Northern town that has been ruined by the closure of its shipyard, he discovers nothing less than a new purpose for his life. Moved by the fate of the...

André Maurois - The Art of Writing - PB 1962 ( Originally 1957)

A collection of essays, examining the techniques and literary output of a number of notable European writers - Voltaire, Rousseau, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, Goethe, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.  Dutton USA 1962. Originally published in...

P.G Wodehouse - Summer Moonshine - PB 1983

Sir Buckstone Abbot owns what is possibly the ugliest stately home in England, and he is naturally eager to dispose of it to an American heiress, Princess Dwornitzchek. But the sale is complicated by the Princess's engagement to Adrian Peake, who is...

Mary Cole - Dirtroads : Footloose in Africa - HB 1977

This is the remarkable chronicle of a young Irish teacher who decided to abandon the conventional opportunities open to her at home and take the less predictable ones offered by East Africa, Kenya in particular.  Originally 1975 by Gill Publishing,...

Slavenka Drakulić / Café Europa : Life After Communism

Drakulic (How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed) notes that Eastern and central Europeans were so anxious to become like their Western counterparts in the immediate years after the fall of communism that every city & town had a Cafe Europa...

George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Don Juan - Vintage HB Modern Library Edition1949

Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where...

Paul Keres & Alexander Kolov - The Art of the Middle Game - PB 1975

Originally published in Swedish in 1962, translation by H Golombek, this Penguin PB edition reprint 1975.  Two chess grandmasters analyse middle game in chess playing, with copious examples from historic game play.  Very good condition, white...

Pamela Lyon ( Editor) - Penguin Parallel Text : French Short Stories / Nouvelles Francaises - PB

 Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life.Arranged in approximate order of...

Sean O'Brien - The Indoor Park - PB - 1983

Published by Bloodaxe Books, UK, 1983, a review slip is loosely laid in.  Aggressive, witty and dramatic, Sean O'Brien's poems convey the texture of imaginative life, not just its recorded highlights. Sean O'Brien's territory is urban pastoral. Its...

Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025

Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland   Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today...

Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish Farmhouse Cookery - HB - BRAND NEW

Discover the timeless flavours of Ireland in Essential Irish Farmhouse Recipes, a collection of classic recipes that celebrate the rich culinary heritage of Ireland’s countryside. This beautifully crafted cookbook brings together wholesome,...

Fiona Biggs - Pocket Book of Ireland's Favourite Saints - HB - BRAND NEW

The Pocket Book of Ireland’s Favourite Saints takes you on a fascinating journey through Ireland’s rich spiritual history. This book illuminates the lives of a diverse array of saints from every county, from Saint Patrick, known and...

Judith Hermann - We'd Have Told Each Other Everything - PB - BRAND NEW ( Translated by Katy Derbyshire)

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2023   On a dark night in Berlin’s Kastanienallee, acclaimed writer Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst — a chance encounter that begins an exploration of the fluid...

John Clare - Selected Poems and Prose of John Clare ( Edited by Eric Robinson & Geoffrey Summerfield) - HB 1967

A selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to making available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the...

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls - PB - Classic Spanish Civil War Novel -

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history.High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge.Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer on the...

Allen Figgis Publishing - 3 Book Poetry Lot - Douglas Hyde | Joseph Campbell | Samuel Ferguson ( An Chomhairle Ealaion Series of Irish Authors) 1963

Three uniformly sized small format hardcovers, published 1963 as part of a multi volume series in asociation with the arts council. Allen Figgis, Dublin.  Poems of Samuel Ferguson, with an introduction by Padraic Colum Poems of Joseph Campbell, with...

Michael Walshe - It's a Long Road That Has No Turning - PB - SIGNED

Michael Walshe, a native of the glen of Aherlow, Tipperary spent 13 years in Moorepark and during this time was President of the Irish Grassland Association from 1966-1967. In 1961 he travelled to New Zealand and spent one year as a visiting Scientist at...

Ethna McKiernan - Caravan - PB SIGNED - 1989

A collection of skillfully crafted, imaginative, and moving poetry by an award-winning and widely published poet. "The poems here have an exact and hard-earned lyricism...a difficult music that comes from experience rather than from any rhythmic holiday...

William Wall - Writers Anonymous - PB - BRAND NEW

Fighting off the boredom of lockdown, acclaimed author Jim Winter decides to share his skills by setting up an anonymous online writing workshop – but his generosity will cost him more than he knows. Right away, the work of a talented student...

Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW

‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in...

Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry: Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW

When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s...

Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW

Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain...

Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW

Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as...

Dermot Whelan - Busy and Wrecked - PB - BRAND NEW PB

Go on, admit it. How many times have you told someone how busy or wrecked you are this week, or even today? How many times has someone told you?Dermot Whelan is here to tell you that you are okay, and it’s not your fault! Everything in our world is...

E. Nesbit - Five Children and It - Vintage PB

'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?' I dare say you have often thought about what you would do if you were granted three wishes. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother - had often talked about it but when they...

Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW

Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern...

Dave Rudden - Conn of the Dead - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2025) ( Tales of Darkisle - Book 1 )

After one misadventure too many, 11-year-old serial miscreant Conn is sent home from school. Picked up by his professor aunt Doireann, she takes him to her office in UCD’s National Folklore Collection on the way home. Surrounded by old books and...

Simon Read - The Many Murders Of Michael Malloy: The unbelievable true story of the Irishman who refused to die - PB - BRAND NEW

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and based on police reports, court records, and the colourful tabloid reporting of the day, The Many Murders of Michael Malloy details a crime so convoluted, so staggering in its audacity,...

Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Limited Edition ) - Mercier Clothbound Classic - HB ( BRAND NEW)

9781917453301, April 2025, delivery within Ireland is included in the price.  50th Anniversary Limited Edition. Mercier Clothbound Classic Exclusive limited edition (1 of 300) Linen, creamy paper, photo inset with foil on the title. ‘In the...

Fintan Vallely - Beating Time - The Story of the Irish Bodhrán ( HB) - BRAND NEW

The bodhrán is a phenomenally popular instrument in Irish Traditional music, within which it and its playing techniques developed hugely in the latter half of the twentieth century. Now with many virtuosic players, and a fundamental role in bands,...

Ralph Sheppard - The Birds of County Donegal Residents, Regulars and Rarities ( APRIL 2025) BRAND NEW

The Birds of County Donegal is the first complete record of the history and status of all 376 birds known to have occurred in County Donegal. In this comprehensive account every species and race is given its current vernacular name as used in...

Francis MacManus - Candle For the Proud - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1936 )

The second book in the loose historical trilogy centered on the life of the 18th century Irish poet Donncha Ruadh Mac Conmara. 

Marita Conlon-McKenna - Fairy Hill - BRAND NEW - PB - 2023

Thirteen-year-old Anna is upset when she is sent to stay with her dad and his new family at Fairy Hill in the west of Ireland. Hearing whispers in the wind, Anna senses she is being watched, but nobody believes her except the mysterious boy down by the...

Brendan Fullam - Giants of the Ash - HB 1992 - Hurling GAA - Wolfhound Press

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

John B. Keane - Letters of a Successful T.D - Vintage Mercier PB 1968 ( Blue Variant)

First published in 1967, this is a 1968 reprint by Mercier Press, the original publisher. Light tanning to page block,  It is the 1960s and Tull MacAloo is a Kerry TD who stands for “the party” – an organization that could be...

Francis MacManus - Watergate - Poolbeg PB 1980 ( Originally 1942)

A reprint Poolbeg edition, 1980, first published in 1942.  A story about an American woman coming back to the family house/farm in Ireland and upsetting the status quo. Alice Lennon had left Ireland for a bad marriage and lived an unsatisfactory...

Alan Sillitoe - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner - Vintage Pan PB - 1969 ( Originally 1959)

 From the author of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal...

John B Keane - The Man From Clare - Vintage 2nd Printing 1965 - Mercier

Deals with the personal tragedy of an aging athlete who finds he no longer has the physical strength to maintain his position as the captain of the team or his reputation as the 'best footballer in Clare'.    The cover art ( a photograph) is by...

Tadhg Evans - A Storied Kingdom : Sports , Culture and Stories from Kerry - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

From the author's own description -  The book is a collection of approximately 50 feature stories I’ve written during my five years (and happily counting) with The Kerryman, and they include interviews with well-known figures,...

William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying - Vintage Penguin Modern Classics PB Ed - 1972

A 1970 Penguin edition, of As I lay Dying by William Faulkner, first published in the UK in 1935.  One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The...

Peter Rigney - The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920 : How Railwaymen & Dockers defied an Empire - PB - SIGNED - 2021

The Irish munitions strike is one of the most important, yet historically neglected episodes of the War of Independence. Peter Rigney's book has redressed that balance - he shows how ordinary railway workers and the wider trade union movement used civil...

Mary Brigid Pearse - The Home Life of Pádraig Pearse - Vintage Mercier PB

Originally published in 1934, and here in a Mercier Press reprint from 1979 ( issued for the centenary of Pearse's birth in 1879) this is The Home Life of Pádraig Pearse , by Brigid Pearse, his sister.  This book was originally serialised in...