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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...

Tommy Cecil - The Harsh Winds of Rathlin : Stories of Shipwrecks ( Extended Edition - PB ) BRAND NEW

This is an updated and extended edition of Thomas Cecil's original The Harsh Winds of Rathlin: Stories of Rathlin Shipwrecks, first published in 1989. This earlier edition contained the result of all...

Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem

Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 ,  and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved...

OPW - Áras an Uachtaráin : A History of the President's House - PB - 2013

Published in English and as Gaeilge ( back to back in the one book) -content is identical in both versions - this is a  full colour illustrated of Áras an Uachtaráin, the full history of the house ,...

Sean McMahon - A Book of Irish Quotations - HB -1984

A comprehensive collection of memorable phrases, in prose, verse and song - by Irish people through the ages , from earliest times to the present day. Arranged alphabetically - politicians,...

Delia Smith - Delia Smith's Cookery Course - Part Two (Vintage Paperback ) - 1979

This cookery book provides easy-to-prepare recipes specially devised for the single cook, so that they don't have to divide ordinary recipes for four into a meal for one person. Paperback, BBC...

Delia Smith - Delia Smith's Cookery Course - Part One- PB - 1979

This cookery book provides easy-to-prepare recipes specially devised for the single cook, so that they don't have to divide ordinary recipes for four into a meal for one person. Paperback, BBC...

Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990

Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback.  A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. 

Barry O'Halloran - Lost Innocence : The Inside Story of the Kerry Babies Mystery - PB

Paperback, 2007, first published 1985 ( shortly after the events it describes) Barry O'Halloran was an RTE reporter with Today Tonight.  Heavy age spotting to page block edges.  The Kerry Babies case...

Eamonn Sweeney - Munster Hurling Legends : Seven Decades of the Greatest Teams , Players and Games - GAA - HB

This work looks at the stars of Munster Hurling, the games that have brought the crowds to tears and the colourful stories and legends that have become part of hurling lore. From around the province,...

Ira Levin - The Boys From Brazil - Vintage Pan PB 1976

  The Boys From Brazil - 2nd printing 1977 - ( originally 1977)  Light tanning to page block.  In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third...

Bernard MacLaverty- Lamb - PB

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the...

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin ( Eagarthóir) - Mise Raiftearaí : An Fíodóir Focal - HB - 2015

Leabhar na Bliana 2015 - Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin - beathaisnéis ar shaol Raiftearaí Seo scéal Antaine Uí Reachtabhra, mac fíodóra a chaill radharc na súl agus é inapháiste, fidléir a chaith a shaol...

T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976

Discovering Kerry  self published by T.J Barrington .  'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best...

Jennifer Johnston - The Gates - Vintage PB - 1974

Once, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. But that was back in the days when the Major's family were...

Christy O'Dwyer - Pobal Ailbhe : Archdiocese of Cashel & Emly - HB - 2008

A history of the historic diocese of Cashel and Emly, most of which is located in Tipperary, but with section sin adjoining counties such as Limerick and Offaly. Comprising 46 parishes, it is home to...

Basil J Gilroy - The Nature Diary of an Ulster Schoolboy 1956-1963- PB 1991

Pubished 1991, Greystone Books, this is the nature diary of the author as a young boy - organised by season, from January 1956 to Autumn 1963  ( with gaps in some areas) , from the age of six up to...

Dominic Daly - The Young Douglas Hyde - HB - 1974

This pioneering work comprises a literary history of the early revival, and provides an extensive bibliographical account of Hyde’s sources as a critic and bibliographer, and well as much information...

Christopher Hibbert - Benito Mussolini : A Biography - The Rise and Fall of Il Duce - HB 1st Edition 1962

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born on a Sunday...

Maura Richards - Two to Tango - Vintage PB - 1981 - Single Motherhood in Ireland

Published by Ward River Press, Dublin, 1981.  The author, Maura Richards ( born 1939) was the founder of Cherish, an association for single mothers in the Ireland of the 1960's and 1970's .  A human...

Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were...

Walter Macken - Seek the Fair Land ( Irish Trilogy - Book 1) Vintage Pan Paperback

The first novel in Walter Macken's loose epic trilogy examining 300 years of Irish history.  Set amidst the Cromwellian Invasions, Seek the Fair Wind begins in 1641. Dominick McMahon, a merchant by...

Donall MacAmhlaigh - An Irish Navvy : The Diary of an Exile - PB

Donall MacAmhlaigh kept a diary as he worked the sites, danced in Irish halls, drank in Irish pubs and lived the life of the roving Irish navvy. This vivid picture of an Irish navvy's life in England...

Alan Bullock - Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives - HB Book Club Edition 1991 - Dual Biography

Alan Bullock's 1991 classic Hitler and Stalin was his crowning achievement, the magnum opus of one of the century's most admired historians--the distinguished Oxford scholar and author of the now...

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...

T. Ryle Dwyer - Eamon De Valera ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB - 1980

A biography of Eamon de Valera who dominated Irish life and politics for much of the 20th century. De Valera took part in the 1916 Rising and emerged as the country's leading revolutionary. His most...

John Kelly - Belling the Cats : Selected Speeches & Articles - Politics Dáil 1992

This collection presents a selection of John Kelly's Dáil speeches and public statements on subjects as diverse as the day-to-day life of a TD, the humbug of Irish neutrality, the scourge of...