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Aoife & Barbara O'Donoghue - The Gleneagle : An Illustrated History - PB - 2015

Large format paperback, published by the History Press Ireland.  The Kerry hotel's history and development  - including the growth of tourism in Kerry, the development of the INEC, etc. 

D.M Waterman ( With C.J Lynn) - Excavations at Navan Fort 1961-1971

Large format paperback, published by the Northern Ireland Statrionery Office in association with the Department of the Environment.  Not that this is not NAVAN in County Meath, it;s the Navan fort...

Barry Kennerk - Moore Street : The Story of Dublin's Market District - HB

Hardcover, illustrated throughout with balck and white and period photographs, from teh earliest times tpo the early 2000's - showing the street and the markets area throughout it's long history.   

W.N Osborough - Law and the Emergence of Modern Dublin - HB - 1996

Hardcover, published by Irish Academic Press , 2006, a large format hardcover.  Law and the Emergence of Modern Dublin: A Litigation Topography for a Capital City (1996) by W.N. Osborough is a...

Stewart Peters - The Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup : The Definitive History - HB - 2006

Published by Tempus Books, UK, illustrated hardcover, a detailed history of teh evolution of the Gold Cup, which moved to Newbury in 1960, after being at Cheltenham for it's first three years

Thomas Pakenham - The Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789 - HB - 1997 Illustrated Edition

In May 1798 a hundred thousand peasants rose against the British government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been put down four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in...

Padraic O'Farrell - Down Ratra Road : Fifty Years of Civil Defence in Ireland - PB - 2000

A detailed history of the development and growth of the Irish Civil Defence organisation ( based at Ratra House in the Phoenix Park, hence the title)  Illustrated throughout, published by Government...

Séamus Ó Dúnlaing - Streetwise : Dublin Street Names Unravelled - PB

Paperback, published 2015, paperback, an a-z street guide to notable streets, roads and laneways in Dublin.  Paperback. Signed abnd dated by the author, undedicated. In very good condition. 

Neil Hegarty - Story of Ireland : In Search of a New National Memory - HB - 2011

In this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland's past. Comprehensive and engaging, "The Story of Ireland "is an eye-opening account of a nation that...

R. F. Foster - Luck and the Irish : A Brief History of Change - 1970-2000 - HB

From about 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase. Roy Foster's 2007 book looks at the roots of the changes which came with an almost completely unexpected wave of prosperity. With...

Marian Broderick - Wild Irish Women - Extraordinary Lives From History - HB

Wild Irish Women brings together a fascinating collection of unusual, unorthodox and unforgettable women. In every era of Ireland's history there have been those who have ignored society's...

Máirtín Mac Niocláis - Seán Ó Ruadháin : Saol agus Saothar - HB - 1991 - SÍNITHE

Clúdach crua, foilsithe ag An Clóchomhar, Baile Átha Cliath, 1991. Sínithe ag an údar Máirtín Mac Níoclais, ag iar-úinéara an leabhair.   Bánú ón ngrian ar an gclúdach.  Beathfháisnéis ar shaol an...

Tom Gilmore - Big Tom : The King of Irish Country - HB

A tribute to Big Tom McBride, 'the Johnny Cash of Irish country music'.From labourer to music star, the journey of the singer who brought so much joy to fans at home and to emigrants abroad over five...

Maurice Fitzpatrick - John Hume in America : From Derry to DC - HB - 2017

Publsihed by Irish Acdemic Press, hardcover, 2017, tanning to page block, light edgewear to covers, otherwise unmarked. John Hume, Ireland’s greatest peace-maker, is widely recognised as the...

John Symonds & Kenneth Grant ( Editors) - The Confessions of Aleister Crowley - An Autohagiograpy - HB 1979 ( Corrected Edition)

One of the most famous books on the occult ever written, this is a record of Crowley's journey into strange regions of consciousness: his initiation into magic his world-wide travels and mistresses,...

David Pierce ( Editor) - Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century : A Reader - PB 2001

With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, it could be argued that modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our...

Annie Ryan - Witnesses : Inside the Easter Rising - PB - 2005

Paperback, published by Liberties Pressm 2005.  Annie Ryan's father took part in the 1916 Rising, and his testimonies are among the wide range included here (collected by the Irish Government in the...

A.W Ward, G.W Prothero & Stanley Leathes ( Editors) - The Cambridge Modern History , Volume II - The Reformation - HB 1904

The standalone second volume ( covering the European and English Reformation era ( approximately 1503 to the close of the council of Trent circa 1568) - a period in which all of Europe underwent...

Brendan Power - From the Heart of Ireland - PB - 2003

Originally published to benefit the Laura's Hope chaity for Huntington's Disease Research, this is a collection of short true stories and biographical pieces by a host of broadcasters, authors,...

Robert Gellately - Backing Hitler : Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany - HB - 2001

Hardcover, published by Oxford University Press, 2001.  A solid copy , internally unmarked, but lacking the dustjacket, titles in gilt to spine.  With three sections of period b&w photographs ...

John Millington Synge - Deirdre of the Sorrows (1912) | The Tinker's Wedding, Riders to the Sea & The Shadow of the Glen (1915) - 2 Vintage HB Reprints

2 vintage uniformly sized Maunsel & Co hardcovers of J.M Synge plays, as follows -  Deirdre of the Sorrows - A Play, 1912, Maunsel & Co, Dublin & London 1912 ( originally 1910. Clean and unmarked,...

Eugene Everard - Cathedral of the Assumption Thurles - An Historical Outline - PB 2005

A 36 page booklet issued 2005 on teh history and architecture of Thurles Cathedral - a striking Italianate style building erected from 1865- 71 ( and which was renovated 2001-2005)  Paperback,...

Pádraig Ó Fiannachta ( Eagarthóir) - Léachtaí Cholm Cille Vol III - Litríocht- As Gaeilge - PB 1972

Foilsithe ag An Sagart , Maigh Nuad, 1972  Tá aistí le Patrick Corish, Pádraig ó Héalaí, Nollaig Ó Muraile, Maológ Ó Ruairc,  Cathal Ó hÁinle, Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, Tomás Ó Fiach

Pádraig Ó Fiannachta ( Eagarthóir) - Léachtaí Cholm Cille Vol II - Stair- As Gaeilge - PB 1971

Foilsithe ag An Sagart , Maigh Nuad, 1971   Tá aistí le Patrick Corish, Pádraig ó Héalaí, Michael Olden, Cathal Ó hÁinle, Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, Tomás Ó Fiach Clúdach bog

John O'Beirne Ranelagh - The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924 - HB 2024

Using original interviews with key figures from the era, and extensive  use of documentation from the UCD archives. Ranelagh unravels the true influence of the oath-bound society without which the...

Mark Tierney - Glenstal Abbey : A Historical Guide - PB 2nd Edition 1990

An 88 page guide, 1990 to Glenstal Abbey , Murroe, County Limerick, focusing on the history of the building ( and the various buildings which have occupied the site)   

Verlag Haus am Checkpoint Charlie - Es Geschah an der ,Mauer | It Happened at the Wall ( PB 1990) - Berlin Wall Illustrated History

Published 1990 ( as he Berlin Wall and the DDR was collapsing) this is a 5 language illustrated edition of a history of the Berlin Wall, with photographs ocf escapes, the Wall's construction, Berlin...

P.J Taylor - Who's Sorry Now : 1962-1969 - A Memoir - HB

Hardcover, published by Original Writing, Dublin 2010. This copy signed and inscribed by teh author to a former owner.  The sequel to Between The Three Bridges, the fisrt book of the author's account...

Arthur Quiller-Couch ( Editor) - Oxford Book of English Prose - HB - 1930 ( Originally 1925)

A selection of prose in English, from Chaucer to Rupert Brooke, hardcover published by OUP/ Clarendon Press, originally published in 1925, in this edition 1930.  1092 pages, previous owners name in...

C.W Previté-Orton - The Shoter Cambridge Medieval History - 2 Volume HB Set -Reprints

Originally published in 1952 ( posthumously) - this is a key study of medieval life and culture in Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. In two volumes, both uniform but lacking original...

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...

W.N Osborough - The Irish Stage - A Legal History - HB - 2015

Hardcover, an ' as new' condition copy.  Drama, opera, ballet, circuses, concerts and puppet-shows: down the years, all these species of live entertainment faced innumerable difficulties in Ireland...

Diarmuid O'Flynn - The Boy Wonder of Hurling : The Story of Jimmy Doyle Told in His Own Words - HB

Tipperary's Jimmy Doyle was "The Boy Wonder" of hurling in the 1950s and 1960s. It was famed broadcaster Michael O'Hehir who first dubbed Jimmy "The Boy Wonder", and the title caught on with the...

Martyn Turner - Pack Up Your Troubles - 25 Years of Northern Ireland Cartoons - PB - 1995

Paperback, co-published by Lilliput Press and Irish Times Books , Martyn Turtmer was the longterm cartoonist for the Irish Times Newspaper. 

Anthony J Jordan - Seán MacBride - HB - 1993

A 1993 biography of the noted Irish human rights advocate , winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, founder of Amnesty International, son of Maud Gonne and Major John MacBride, assistant secretary to De...

Declan Meade (Editor) - Dublin, Written In Our Hearts - PB

An Anthology Celebrating 20 Years of One Dublin One Book One Dublin One Book is a Dublin City Council initiative co-ordinated by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and Dublin City Libraries. For the...

Thurles Drama Group - Them Was Days : 50 Years of Thurles Drama Group - HB - 2017

Hardcover, an illustrated history of 50 years of local drama in Thurles, Tipperary, hardcover, illustrated throughout with a host of photographs of performaces from those years.   

David Brett - A Book Around the Irish Sea - PB - 2009

The subject of this book is that stretch of water generally called the Irish Sea, and its shores, considered as a place of exchange and meeting, as a zone of interaction, as a fact of geography and...

Ronnie Bellew & Dermot Crowe - Hell For Leather : A Journey Through Hurling in 100 Games - HB - 2014

A hardcover , 2024 by Two Irish Independent sports writers, Ronnie Bellew and Dermot Crowe - Hell for Leather chronicles hurling's evolution from the fragile beginnings of the 1880's through to the...

Hugo Riemann - Dictionary of Music ( Maynooth College Binding) - HB

A handsomely bound edition of Hugo Riemann's Dictionary of Music ( Augener's Edition, 9200) - translated by  J.S Shedlock. No date of publication, but the translation was originally in the 1890's . ...

Martyn Turner - A Fistful of Dáilers - Political Cartoons 1983-1987 - PB

A Fistful of Dáilers' Political Cartoons 1983-1987 by Martyn Turner, noted Irish Times cartoonist.  1987. tanning to pages, some corners dogeared. Larger format paperback, all cartoons in B&W

Michael Farrell - Northern Ireland : The Orange State - PB 2nd Edition 1980 ( Originally 1976)

Despite being a very inflential title, this book remains hard to come by, in either the first edition or in subsequent reprints This is a 2nd edition 1980 ( the first edition was 1976, and the second...

Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press

A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the...

Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB

 

Benedict Kiely - A Cow in the House and Other Stories - HB 1978 - First Edition

A hardcover first edition, published by Victor Gollancz UK, 1978, attractive small format hardcover with tan and green colour cover design.  Externally, creasing to dustjacket. Internally excellent,...

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 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...

Michael McKeown - The Greening of a Nationalist - PB 1986

Michael McKeown provides a vivid account of the Irish experience that shaped his political attitudes over a 20-year span from the Border Campaign of the 1950s, through the Civil Rights agitation of...

J.C Beckett - Belfast : The Making of the City : 1800-1914 - HB - 1988

Published by Appletree Press, 1988, larger format illustrated hardcover.  Creasing to front cover, especially at upper corner.  Covering the physical development of Belfast in the period 1800-1914 ,...

Francis MacManus - Men Withering ( Vintage PB 1966) ( Originally 1936)

There is little need to introduce the writing of Francis MacManus. For many years his books have charmed all who have gently relaxed into his world of Irish rural life. For over three decades, he...

Joseph Dunn - No Lions in the Hierarchy : An Anthology - PB 1994

Over almost 40 years, Fr Joe Dunn was involved in the production of 350 films in 75 countries, as director of the Radharc series and while working had had to face up to and think carefully about most...

Tom Hennessy - Sean Hogan's Flying Column ( 2nd Commemorative Edition 2023)

The second issue - published March 2023, with articles from the following contributors-  Dr.Ruan O Donnell ( UL History )  Niamh Hassett ( an essay on Esther Boyle, Roxborough and the Fight for...