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Seán O'Faoláin - De Valera : A New Biography - Penguin PB 1939

Biography of Eamon De Valera, a principal leader of the Easter Rising in 1916 and later opponent of the Free State Government established in Dublin under the terms of the 1922 Anglo-Irish Treaty. A founder of Fianna Fáil, in 1932 he was elected...

Han Kang - The White Book - HB 1st Edition 2017 - Translation by Deborah Smith

WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE  'A brilliant psychogeography of grief, moving as it does between place, history and memory... The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a...

Han Kang - Human Acts - PB ( Translation by Deborah Smith)

A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. 'Exquisite, painful and deeply courageous' Philippe Sands, Best Books of the Year, Guardian Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. Amid a violent...

Madeleine Stuart - Manna in the Morning : A Memoir 1940-1958 - HB - SIGNED

Signed and dedicated by the author on the blank endpage, dated July 1986.  Scuffing and dustmarks to front cover.  Co-published by Raven Arts Press and Colin Smythe UK , 1984, introduction by Dermot Bolger.  Madeleine Stuart was born in...

Gearóid Mac an Bhainisteora - English-Irish Slang Dictionary - PB 2001

English-Irish Slang Dictionary , published by For-Sai .  Paperback, 2001 87 pages, a collection of phrases and colloquial expressions and sentences. 

John Wilson Foster - The Achievement of Seamus Heaney - PB

The Nobel Prize for Literature drew global attention to the poetry and prose of Seamus Heaney, who now takes his place alongside Dante and Yeats. Yet in spite of his international reputation, some still see Heaney as an earthbound, pastoral poet inspired...

Louise O'Brien - Crafts of Ireland - PB -1979

The St Brigid's Cross and the Crios from Aran have long been associated with the crafts of Ireland and, while everyone will acknowledge their position in the traditions of the country, relatively few could set about making them. Louise O'Brien here...

Elizabeth Cullingford - Yeats, Ireland and Fascism - HB -1981

Published by Macmillan Uk, 1980, hardcover. Internally very good, bumping and creasing to edges of dustjacket, esp at top, and upper rear corners.  The fisrt full length study of Yeats's politics , examining his political views, how proto...

Mary Helen Thuente - W.B Yeats and Irish Folklore - 1980

Co-published by Gill & Macmillan Dublin & Barnes & Noble (USA), 1980.  Hardcover in attractive dustjacket  Detailed discussion of Yeats and Irish folklore. 

George Macdonald Fraser - Flashman ( Vintage HB 1970 ) UK Book Club Edition

A hardcover small format book club edition, published by the Book Club London, 1970, first published 1969.  Purporting to be an actual biography of Harry Flashman, a character from Tom Brown's Schooldays, based on ' papers' found hidden after his...

Dermot Bolger - Invisible Dublin - A Journey Through Dublin's Suburbs - PB -1991

Published by Raven Arts Press, 1991, edited by Dermot Bolger.  Uneven sunfade , to spine and back cover.  Essays on a range of Dublin locatiions and suburbs from  the following - Nell McCafferty, Aidan Murphy, Conleth O'Connor, Michael...

David Lynch, John Donohoe & Michael Smith - Dunsany 1894-1994 : One Hundred Years of History, Memories & Photographs - PB -

A history of Dunsany parish in central Meath, with content on the prominent Plunkett family of Dunsany Castle, articles on Killeen castle, the Co-Op Movement, local religion, culture , as well as pupil lists from primary schools in the area in 1894, as...

Arthur Ransome - Swallows & Amazons - HB - 1938 Illustrated ( First Published 1930)

Hardcover, a 1938 reprint from the original publisher ( jonathan Cape Uk) Lacks dustjacket, but internally solid, with all illustrations ( from the author) and colour maps to front and rear pastedown/ endpages.  In green cloth, shows some scuffs and...

Stirling Ross - All But My Life - Face to Face ( with Ken Purdy) - HB 1973 ( 2nd Edition - Originally 1963)

Hardcover in dustjacket, published by William Kimber UK, 1973, the first edition having been published a decade earlier in 1963.  An autobiography of Stirling Moss' life, in which he is noted to have said that he had taken a great deal out of motor...

Paddy Berry - More Wexford Ballads - 1987 ( Signed PB)

Signed and dedicated by the author ( dated 2005) to a previous owner.  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...

Chris Jones - Days of Our Lives : Clanbrassil Street Remembered - PB 2003 - SIGNED

The memoirs and autobiography of Chris Jones, born 1932, who spent much of his working life as a teacher of art in Arbour Hill Prison. Reminiscences of his youth and life in Clangrassil Street ( in south central Dublin City) , with aparticular focus on...

Hugh L Nelson - Dead Giveaway - Vintage HB Crime - 1951

First UK EDITION, 1951, the first edition was published in the US in 1949. Classic noir era crime fiction A Captain Steve Johnson mystery set in San Francisco. Steve, now a Captain, has the half promise of becoming head of homicide if he stays clear of...

Hugh Malet - In the Wake of the Gods : On the Waterways of Ireland - HB -1970

Malet embarked on a second cruise through Ireland's waterways, following on from Voyage in a Bowler Hat, his initial trip in Ireland on his converted canal barge.  The Mary Ann was revived from her berth near Waterford, and Malet set out on a second...

Sam Hanna Bell - December Bride ( Paperback) ( Film - t

Sam Hanna Bell's classic novel of County Down, originally published 1951, this reprint 1991, Blackstaff Press.  At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers...

Thomas Donaldson & G.B Kenna - The Belfast Pogroms 1920-22 ( Facts and Figures) ( Originally 1922)

G.B. Kenna was the pseudonym of Fr John Hassan and Facts and Figures of the Belfast Pogrom 1920-1922 was his compilation of reports to the then Provisional Irish government in Dublin on sectarian violence in Belfast during the Irish War of Independence,...

Séamas Ó Catháin & Ríonach Uí Ógain - Béaloideas : Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland 72 ( 2004) - HB

Iris an Chumainn le Bealoideas Éireann The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society issue 72/ 2004 Contents Alt Iubhaile/Jubilee Article Máire MacNeill (1904-1987) Máire MacNeill (1904-1987) (pp. 1-30) Maureen...

Sara Baume - Spill Simmer Falter Wither ( PB - 2015 )

 You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. You're sellotaped to the inside pane of the jumble shop window. A photograph of your mangled face and underneath an appeal for a COMPASSIONATE AND TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS...

Roger Bush- Hey Presto - The Abracadadra Recorder Book - Ringbound , 1985

The combined edition of Abracadabra Recorder Books 1-4, containing 100 carefully graded solo pieces and duets for all recorder players. An essential resource for anyone teaching recorder to primary-aged pupils. Suitable for group or individual teaching...