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Gordon Anthony - Judicial Review in Northern Ireland - 2nd Edition - HB 2017

This is the second edition of Hart's leading book on the principle and practice of judicial review in Northern Ireland. Providing a fully updated account of the ever-burgeoning body of case law, it...

John Bowman - De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-1973 - PB

Paperback, published by Oxford University Press, 1982.  Somewhat surprisingly, this 1982 book was the first detailed book on the key role the 'Ulster Question' played in De Valera's career, and De...

Dolmen Press - EASTER PROCLAMATION: The Easter Proclamation of the Irish Republic MCMXVI - HB - 1966

EASTER PROCLAMATION: The Easter Proclamation of the Irish Republic MCMXVI( 1916) Published in Dublin by the Dolmen Press, March 1960.  Stiff papered pictorial boards ( 8 pages in total) . Text...

Oscar Wilde - Play, Prose Writings and Poems - HB

1991 EDITION, HARDCOVER - LACKS THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. sOME SCUFFS TO THE MAROON CLOTH COVERS.  Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the...

J.P Donleavy - A Fairytale of New York - Penguin PB 1978

A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in...

Patricia Looney (Editor) - Cork Words 3 : An Anthology of Contemporary Cork Writing - PB - 2022

The third anthology of Cork Writers and writing, published by Cork City Libraries - a mix of essays, poems, short stories, extracts from novels - all manner of Cork writing, some of it unpublished...

Sherry Turkle - The Second Self : Computers and the Human Spirit - PB - 1984

In The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984), then MIT professor and psychologist Sherry Turkle argues that the computer is not merely a tool for productivity, but an "evocative object"...

Arthur Mee - London : The City and Westminster (The King's England - HB 1975 8th Revised Edition)

Part history book, part architecture guide, part ( period) travel guide, this was a standalone volume from the multivolume 'the King;s England series, a guide to the history of how the towns and...

J.T Edson - The Devil Gun - Vintage 1967 PB

Paperback, 1967 reprint, Sabre Books UK , first publsihed in the USA in 1966.  Slight spine lean, Dublin bookshop sticker on front cover.  The story revolves around a deadly threat to Texas during...

Alastair Campbell - The Irish Diaries ( 1994-2003) - PB

Alastair Campbell's diaries from his involevment in teh Northern Ireland Peace Process, edited and introduced by Kathy Gilfillan.  Forewords by both Tony Blair and Bertier Ahern.  A frank insider...

Iain Banks - The Bridge (HB Reprint - 2001)

The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night...

Eilís Dillon - The Island of Horses - PB 1969

Chosen by the Sunday Times (London) as one of its 99 Best Books for Children.The people of remote Inishrone, a few miles off the Conamara coast, know better than to go to the Island of Horses...

J.P Donleavy - A Singular Man - Vintage Penguin PB 1966

What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money;...

Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 - SIGNED BY DE VALERA

SIGNED BY ALL THREE - by Éamon de Valera, Thomas P. O'Neill, and Frank Pakenham (as Frank Longford)  TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRFELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE All three signatures are on the blank...

A & C Black - Black's Guide to Ireland - 1906

A very solid copy in green cloth with titles in embossed gilt to front and spine ( spine cloth faded slightly)  Maps, both integral and foldout throughout as well as period photographs of tourist...

Colm Ó Lochlainn (Editor) - More Irish Street Ballads - 18th & 19th Century Irish Ballads in English -PB 1978 ( Originally 1939)

  'From The Shamrock Shore to Brennan on the Moor - here are songs for the rebel and the ranter, traveller, tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor , poor man , rich man'.   Illustrated with woodcuts from a...

Eoin Neeson - The Second Book of Irish Myths and Legends - Vintage Mercier PB

Paperback, published by Mercier Paperbacks, fifth impresssion, originally published 1966.  Light edgewear to back cover.  Includes the Children of Lir, Diarmuid and Graine, and the Sickbed of...

J.T Edson - The Man From Texas - (Vintage Brown Watson PB) 1966

J.T Edson - You're in Command Now, Mr Fog - (Vintage Corgi PB) 1973

Set during the American Civil War, the story follows a 17-year-old Dusty Fog serving as a freshly promoted first lieutenant in the Confederate Army. When his company's commanding officer is suddenly...

Norbert Wiener - The Human Use of Human Beings : Cybernetics and Society 1970 ( Originally 1954) - PB

The Human Use of Human Beings is a landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipated many contemporary dilemmas surrounding AI technology. In...

Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din-al Hillali ( Translator)- The Qur'an ( Koran) ( Dual Language Edition Arabic & English Text ) -القرآن

Hardback, dual language edition, English translation with the original Arabic on the same page facing , Saudi Arabia.  With introduction and brief index. 

Alec Clifton-Taylor - The Cathedrals of England - PB 1979

A paperback reprint, 1979, perhaps teh standard history of England's great gothic cathedrals - but also covering the full 9 centuries of cathedral construction , from eariest Norman beginnings up to...

John Steer - A Concise History of Venetian Painting - PB - 1979

Paperback, published by Thames and Hudson UK, 1979,first published 1970. Venetian painting grew out of Byzantine art, and its opulence and sensuousness clearly differentiate it from the more...

Germain Bazin - Baroque and Rococo - PB 1979 (Originally 1964)

Baroque and Rococo art and architecture have become popular once more, after a century and a half of neglect, misunderstanding and scorn. This radical shift in taste has led to a rapid growth of...

Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society - Poetry and Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland - HB 1894

Poetry & Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland. By Various Writers, with Biographical Notices, Notes, etc. First Series. Cork: published and bound by Guy and Company, 1894. First Edition. Pp 360...

William Shakespeare - The Sonnets - HB Gift Edition Illustrated - 1995

Published by Barrie & Jenkins UK, as issued in illustrated blue boards with cameo portait of the poet to front covers.  Interiorart ( which is excellent) by Ian Penney. All 154 sonnets included, and...

William R.M O'Doherty Murphy - A Century of Golf on the Island ( Malahide Golf Club) - HB

Hardcover, an illustrated history of the establishment and development of the Island Golf Course and Club in Malahide, North County Dublin.  Issued for the centenary in 1990. 

Eugene O'Neill - Complete Plays ( Volume 3) - 1932-1943 ( Library of America) HB

Hardcover, contains all 8 plays written by O'Neill during the period, including his masterwork The Iceman Cometh, and the classics of hughie, and Long Day's Journey into Night    

Eugene O'Neill - Complete Plays ( Volume 2) - 1921-1931 ( Library of America) HB

Hardcover, contains all 13 plays written by O'Neill during the decade, including All God's Chillun got Wings, as well as desire Under the Elms, and Mouring Becomes Electra.   

William Faulkner - Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! | The Unvanquished | If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem | The Hamlet ( HB Library of America Edition)

Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America’s finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library...

William Faulkner - Novels 1930- 1935 : William Faulkner Novels 1930-1935 - As I Lay Dying | Sanctuary | Light in August | Pylon ( HB Library of America Edition)

Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America’s finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library...

Carson McCullers - Complete Novels : The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Reflections in a Golden Eye | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | The Member of the Wedding | Clock Without Hands ( HB Library of America Edition)

Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was...

Rachel Ferguson - Alas, Poor Lady - PB (Persephone Books 2006) ( Originally 1937)

Paperback, in wraps, Number 65 in the reissues of classics under the Persephone imprint.  Light scuffing to page block.  horror and disbelief at what had happened to the daughters of extravagantly...

Edward Lucie-Smith - A Concise History of French Painting - PB - 1980 (Originally 1971)

Paperback, published by Thames and Hudson UK, this reprint 1980, originally 1971. Illustrated in colour and black and white.  288 pp. with b/w & colour illustrations. French painting from the 14th...

E.F Jacob - The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485 ( Oxford History of England - Volume 6 ) 1978 ( Originally 1961)

Hardcover, a standalone volume in the multi volume Oxford History of England, this edition ( Volume 6 ) was first published in 1961, this is a 1978 repRINT.  Previous owner's name to title page...

Peter O'Reilly - The Full Bag of Chips : Ireland and the Triple Crown - HB - 2004

  Hardcover, published by the O'Brien Press, 2004, Peter o'Reilly was then rugby correspondent with the Irish Times.  Primarily centered on the 2004 victory, but also looks at the earlier Triple...

Maurice Semple - Where the River Corrib Flows - PB - 1988

Larger format paperback, with the three fold out maps intact. Creasing to covers. The story of the history and development of the Corrib navigation, and the history of the canal and millraces etc...

Tipperary Star Newspaper - Yesteryears : A Photographic Trip Down Memory Lane in Tipperary - PB - 2016

Published by the Tipperary Star Newspaper in 2016, larger format paperback, a collection of some of the many photographs from the archive of the newspaper, dating back to the early 20th century -...

Geraldine T. Stout - Archaeological Survey of the Barony of Ikerrin - HB 1984

Hardcover, published by Roscrea Heritage Society, 1984, a detailed inventory of all the notable archaeological and prehistoric monuments in the barony ( which is located in North Tipperary, and...

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven and Other Poems - HB (Illustrated by Gustave Doré )

A beautifully presented version of Poe's works, the illustrations accentuate the drama of his classic work The Raven. Published by Arcturus , 2010, the poem was first published in 1845, the Doré...

George Morrison & Tim Pat Coogan - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - HB- 2005

The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the...

Brigitte Lardinois & Val Williams - Magnum Ireland Photography - HB - 2020

This book offers a stunning photographic survey of Ireland over the last seven decades, from the 1950s to the 2010's. Organized decade by decade, the images show the lingering influence of rural life...

Charles Smith - The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork (Volume II) - HB - 1750

An uncommon book, this is the first edition, first printing of the ( standalone) Volume II in Charles Smith's history of Cork, 1750.  Printed Dublin , 1750 by A.Reilly sold by J Exshaw Bookseller,...

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...

Michael J. Conry - Corn Stacks on Stilts : Corn Stands for the Spring Threshing in Ireland - HB -2004

Hardcover, signed by the author ( with a dedication) and dated 2005.  In very good condition, no marks or damage noted, illustrated throughout. 

Eithne Massey - Legendary Ireland - A Journey Through Celtic Places and Myths - HB 2003

This beautiful book visits twenty-eight richly atmospheric sites and tells the mythological stories associated with them. Woven into these landscapes are tales of love and betrayal, greed and...

Harry Harrison - Winter in Eden (Eden Trilogy - Book 2 ) 1987

This is the third printing Granada PB paperback edition, originally published in 1986. In excellent condition The book in the picture is the copy of the book you will recieve.  Harry Harrison broke...

George & Weedon Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody - PB

The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine...

Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination - HB Arcturus Edition, Illustrations by Harry Clarke

First published in 1919, Tales of Mystery and Imagination matched Edgar Allan Poe's best tales of horror and suspense with the expressive artwork of Harry Clarke. This beautifully designed volume...

Sean O'Casey - Drums Under the Windows (Autobiography Volume 3) - HB 1st Edition 1945

A first edition hardcover, published by Macmillan UK in 1945.  The third volume of the author's autobiography. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to red backing on spine. With the dust-jacket...

J.T. Edson - Hell in the Palo Duro - Vintage Corgi PB 1971

Corgi UK pb, 1971, in very good condition, Number 66 in the JT Edson westerns series.

Bradford Scott - Walt Slade Gun Justice - Vintage Pyramid 1st US PB - 1963

A first PB edition, Pyramid Books Usa, 1963, Cover art by Mel Croir. Creasing to covers.