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Brian de Breffny - Castles of Ireland - PB -1985 (Originally 1977)

Originally published in hardcover by Thames and Hudson in 1977, this is a PB reprint, 1985. Primarily black and white photographs internally, some in colour. Organised a-z, with photographs by George...

Seán Duffy - Atlas of Irish History - 2ND Edition -PB

Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many peoples have by turns established themselves on this remote island, creating...

David Hare - The Great Lighthouses of Ireland - HB

A large format hardcover, published by Gill Books, 2022.  Both a history of Irish lighthouses, their construction development and evolution, and a history of those who worked in them.  Illustrated...

Brendan Ó Cathaoir - Famine Diary - HB

Based on a wide selection of sources – contemporary newspapers, official correspondence and diaries – this book provides a graphic picture of conditions in the Irish countryside as the crisis...

Alan le Garsmeur & Ian Hill - Strangford : Portrait of an Irish Lough - HB

Hardcover, published by the Blackstaff Press, 2007. Travelling in a roughly anticlockwise direction around teh Lough, with photographs of landscape, nature, marine activity, and all manner of life...

John Horne (Editor)- Our War : Ireland and the Great War (Hardback) WW1

This is an illustrated collection of essays by leading historians on how the Great War affected Ireland. It finally provides an Irish perspective on the Great War of 1914-18 which, as has often been...

Tim Pat Coogan - 1916 : The Easter Rising - HB - Illustrated Edition 2010 (Originally 2001)

Hardcover, a revised 2010 edition, published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson , originally published in 2001.  An illustrated history of Easter Week 1916, and what transpired afterwards with eth executions...

Denis G. Marnane & Mary Guinan Darmody - County Tipperary 1921-23 - A History in 60 Documents - PB Booklet

An illustrated 36page booklet, published by Tipperary County Council,  part of a series (it followed on from County Tipperary in 1916, and Tipperary 2017-21  by the same authors)  No ISBN, approx...

Sean Gallagher - Who's Who on Limerick County Council 1899 to 2014 - PB

Paperback, published by Limerick County Council, 2015, a full listing of all councillors and mebers of the council, since it's first meeting, and it lasted for 115 years before merging with Limerick...

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...

Niall Ó Dónaill - Gearrfhoclóir Gaeilge-Béarla - HB ( Irish to English Dictionary) 1981

Leagan níos giorra don Fhoclóir Gaeilge Béarla foilsithe sa leagan seo, clúdach crua, 1981.  Foilsithe ag An Gúm, tá ainm iar-úineara ar an mbilleog tosaigh istigh, ach glan agus gan aon mharcanna ná...

E.T Craig - An Irish Commune - The Experiment at Ralahine - County Clare 1831-1833 - PB

Published by Irish Academic Press, 1983. The book is a reprint of the 1920 originalk by E.T Craig, as well as adding the essays by James Connolly ( 1910)  and Cormac ó Gráda ( 1974) Ralahine, just...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog : A Satirical Look at Ireland - 3 (1974) - Irish Times - Humour

Written by Donal Foley, this is one of a series of books from his collections of  hugely popular satirical essys for the Irish Times.  Lightest edgewear only, paperback, internally unmarked. 149...

Valerie O'Sullivan - The MacGillycuddy's Reeks - HB - KERRY

THE MACGILLYCUDDY'S REEKS stretch for 19 magnificent kilometres along the eastern boundary of the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry. Renowned photographer Valerie O'Sullivan captures the rich heritage and...

Mervyn Wall - Leaves for the Burning - PB

Lucian Brewse Burke, a middle-aged public servant, works in a shabby county council sub-office in the bleak Irish midlands, mired in Kafkaesque bureaucracy and petty skirmishes with locals. Upon the...

Pauline Hall - Grounds - PB - 1983

Brandon Books, Originally 1983,  The novel charts the youth and adolescence of a Margaret Hogan , growing up in Dublin from the late 1940's to the 1960's

R. F. Foster - The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland - HB - SIGNED

 Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused...

Sinéad McCoole - No Ordinary Women : Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 - PB

Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics – women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom. This book vividly recreates the characters, personalities and courage of Ireland's...

Edward Lear - Complete Nonsense - HB - Slipcased Folio Society

Hardcover, slipcased, in bright yellow covers and matching illustrated slipcase. This edition pubished by Folio Society UK , 4TH PRINTING 1999 ( This edition originally 1996 )  Illustrated by the...

Jasper Ungoed-Thomas - Jasper Wolfe of Skibbereen - HB - 2008

Born in 1872, a Methodist shopkeeper's son, Jasper Wolfe became a highly successful local solicitor in Skibbereen. A strong supporter of Home Rule, he gave an acclaimed speech at the rally in London...

Enno Stephan - Spies in Ireland - PB - 1965

Enno Stephan (1927–2018) was a German journalist and historian. He was conscripted into the German military at the age of 15 during the Second World War and subsequently became a prisoner of war. He...

Michael Dundon - The Rattler : Mickey Byrne - Tipperary Hurling Legend - PB 2011

Michael Byrne (10 September 1923 – 16 October 2016), better known as "the Rattler" Byrne, was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned fifteen years...

James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury - Vanishing Ireland : Further Chronicles of a Disappearing World (Book 2) - HB - 2009

The second book in the ( hugely popular) Vanishing Ireland series .  Scratches and scuffing to front cover dustjacket.  1st PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION, 2009.  Closed tear to upper edge of front...

James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury - Vanishing Ireland (Book 1) - HB - 2006

Vanishing Ireland is a unique collection of portrait interviews looking at the dying ways and traditions of Irish life and taking us back to an Ireland virtually unrecognisable to today's post-boom...

Templemore Tidy Towns Committee - Templemore Through the Lens of Time - PB - 2010

A large format paperback, published 2010.  A wealth of historic photographs of the town of Templemore in North Tipperary, with a particular focus on past residents , hundreds of black and white...

Frank O'Connor - The Mad Lomasneys - Vintage PB

A Pan Books UK paperback edition, 1970's . The prices on the back cover have been covered with a black marker, there is spine lean, tanning to pages, and previous owner's name to title page...

Frank O'Connor - Masculine Protest and Other Stories - Vintage PB

A collection of short fiction by O'connor, with period wraparound image of Cork city on front cover. Fade to spine, usual age tanning to pages.  1972 reprint edition, Pan Books UK. 

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1997

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part II - Denis G. MarnaneThe Great Famine...

Marcus Bourke (Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2001

Paperback, larger format, signed on front endpage by a previous owner. Front cover corners slightly bumped.    Tipperary town one hundred years ago: the evidence of the 1901 CensusDenis G...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2002

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  Marcus Bourke: An Appreciation Marcus Bourke: BibliographyMarcus Bourke: A Biographical Sketch -William NolanMarcus Bourke and his Writings -Denis G...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2003

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name to title page.  210 Pages; 14 Articles The Benedictine Priory of Kilcommon - Richard O’Brien The Munster Hotel, Cathedral Street,...

Carmel Quinlan( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2004

Paperback , in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address written on inside front cover. 276 Pages; 15 Articles Excavations at Friar Street Cashel: A Story of Urban...

Mary & Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editors) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2006

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  Editors: Mary Ó Drisceoil agus Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 256 Pages; 23 Articles Excavation of Human Remains...

Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2008

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  CONTENTS -  224 Pages; 16 Articles Properties in Carrick-on-Suir Granted to the Duke of Ormond in...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2011

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and adddress to title page.  CONTENTS -  Editor: Dan Finnan164 Pages; 11 Articles Bagpuss of Cashel – The Tale of a Musical...

John M Haffert - Meet the Witnesses of the Miracle of the Sun - PB - 2009 ( Originally 1961) - Fatima

A paperback 2009 reprint of the 1961 original, discussing the experience sof the visionaries at Fatima in 1917.  Illustrated with black and white photographs

John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - HB

Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the...

Paul P. Walsh - A History of Templemore and its Environs - PB

Originally published 1991, reprinted ( revised) 2006.  Most towns in Tipperary have compiled and recorded their very interesting histories, but up until the publication of this book,  no effort had...

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. 

John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975

Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period...

Paddy Berry - More Wexford Ballads - 1987

  The author's second collection ( and he was the recocognised expert on historic balladry and folk songs) from Wexford, following on from the 1982 ''Wexford Ballads''. Over 120 ballads and poems ,...

Arnold Haskell - Ballet : A Complete Guide to Appreciation : History, Aesthetics, Ballets , Dancers- Vintage Penguin 1951 HB

First published 1938, this is a reprinted revised edition 1951.  Hardcover, Penguin. Uneven sun coloration to spine. Internally unmarked.  Penguin ( Bound PELICAN ) A122

John M Feehan - The Magic of the Kerry Coast - PB - 1980

The Magic of the Kerry Coast , John M Feehan, Mercier Press , 1980 REPRINT, ORIGINALLY 1979.  John Feehan was an accomplished sailor. He began his odyssey in Crookhaven and continues the journey to...

Nicole Cooley - Milk Dress ( Poems) - PB 2010 - Signed & Dedicated

Published by Alice James Books, Farmington, Maine, 2010.  Signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided a blurb on the back cover)  In this cool, manifold chronicle...

Bruce Snider - Paradise, Indiana ( Poems) - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated - 2012

  Signed , dated and dedicated by the poet Bruce Snider to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided a blurb for the back cover) ( 2012)   A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy...

Joe Geraghty - Out of Sight : Stories of Ireland's Blind and Vision Impaired Sportspeople - PB -2024

Dorine Rohan - Marriage Irish Style - Vintage Mercier PB - 1969

Paperback, 1969. Mercier Press Cork. Small format paperback, cover design by Inge Nieuwstraten.  Tanning to pages, but a solid clean unmarked copy. 

Charles Dickens - Dickens in Europe & Dickens' London - 2 x HB Slipcased Folio Society

Essays and travel writing by Charles Dickens, selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance, Originally published by Folio circa 1975.  Uniform with Dicken's London, essays by him on his life in and...

Gillian Clarke - Selected Poems - ( Carcanet Signature Series) PB 1985

Selected Poems, originally in Carcanet's Signatures series, has proven to be one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through six printings in ten years after publication. ...

John B Keane - Man of the Triple Name - PB ( Brandon PB )

"There is a wild animal after descending from the mountains and it is the man of the triple name, Dan Paddy Andy". With these words and many more Archdeacon Browne denounced the last of the great...

Jonathan Bardon & Stephen Conlin - Dublin : One Thousand Years of Wood Quay - HB - 1984

This book was inspired by the bitter controversy that dogged the plans by Dublin Corporation to build an enormous office block on the site of early Viking Dublin. 'The book tells the story of one...

Michael O'Beirne - And the Moon at Night : A Dubliner's Story - PB 1981

And the Moon at Night: A Dubliner's Story by Michael O'Beirne. The second volume of Michael O'Beirne's autobopgraphy - following on from Mister talks about his young manhood in Dublin in the newly...