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James Murphy - The Poetry & Song of Black and Amber Glory - PB - 2002 - Kilkenny GAA

A colection of songs and verses inspired by Kilkenny GAA, from all eras .  Large format paperback, illustrated throughout in black and white. 2002.  SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - 'Best wishes James Murphy' to the title page. 

Carolyn Swift- Robbers in the Town - Vintage Irish PB - Children's 1983

A small format paperback, published by the Children's Press, Dublin, 1984 of Carolyn Swift's Robbers in the Theatre, the fifth ( but standalone) book in her Robbers In The....series. Cover art by Terry Meyler.  Slim PB , light tanning to page block...

Benedict Kiely - Proxopera ( Vintage Poolbeg PB 1977)

Light edgewear to jacket, some tanning to page block.  The Binchey family come home from a Donegal holiday to find three masked men in possession of their lakeside home; their aged housekeeper gagged and tied to a chair in the kitchen. Binchey...

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 to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and...

C.O Carter - Human Heredity - Vintage Pelican PB 1972 ( Originally 1962)

Condition - crease to front cover, tanning to page block and previous owners name written neatly in pen on front endpaper. Pelican blue spine and cover.  Carter provides the reader with a basic lesson in statistics and probability using real life...

C.S Lewis - Prince Caspian ( Chronicles of Narnia - Book 4 ) Vintage Fontana Lions Edition 1985 ( Originally 1951)

Prince Caspian, book four in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Stephen Lavis and black-and-white interior illustrations by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.The Pevensie siblings travel back to...

Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961

Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then...

Cliffs Notes - Frank's Diary of Anne Frank - PB - Study Aid

  Anne Frank's Diary is not a novel or a tale of the imagination. It is the diary kept by a young Jewish girl for the two years she was forced to remain in hiding by the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Europe. Between June 1942 and August...

Cliffs Notes - Sophocles' ( Oedipus Trilogy) Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone ( Theban Plays) - PB - Study Aid

This CliffsNotes study guide on Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and...

R.C Hutchinson - Elephant and Castle - HB - 1949 - Vintage Crime

A novelist's curiosity of a crime committed in a back street not far from the Elephant and Castle in 1938. Dust jacket worn with chipping to the extremities.  Edgeworn dustjacket, heavy foxing ( age spotting) to the endpapers, first UK edition 1949...

T.W.Moody - Davitt and Irish Revolution - 1846-1882 - PB - 1982

This book is a study of Michael Davitt in the context of two revolutionary movements – the Irish republican or fenian movement, and the ‘Land for the people’ movement. Born in Ireland in 1846, Davitt spent his childhood and youth in...

Emile Zola - Germinal - Paperback - Livre de Poche - In French

1885. Disparition de Hugo. Apparition de Germinal. Voici, dans la France moderne et industrielle, les " Misérables " de Zola. Ce roman des mineurs, c'est aussi l'Enfer, dans un monde dantesque, où l'on " voyage au bout de la nuit ". Mais...

Paul Durcan - The Berlin Wall Café - PB - 1985 - Blackstaff Press

This was the collection with which Durcan broke through to the huge and appreciative audience he enjoys today. In the first part are poems of great satirical comedy and also of great passion and indignation, and in the second part, poems about the...

Tim Carey - Croke Park : A History - HB Illustrated 2004

croke Park is alocation central to Ireland's national consciousness. Headquarters of Ireland's largest sporting and cultural organisation, the Gaelic Athletic Association, it has witnessed many dramas. Thousands have played on its stage, millions have...

John O'Donovan - George Bernard Shaw ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1983

George Bernard Shaw ( 1856-1950) , won the Nobel Prize in 1925, and lived in Hertfordshire for the later years of his life, after a youth in Dublin, with his eccentric family, the Shaws. A prolific dramatist, he was also a journalist, peace activist, a...

Denis O'Shaughnessy - A Spot so fair : Tales From St Mary's - Limerick

First published in 1998 of O'Shaughnessy's local history of St Mary'a Parish in the heart of Limerick city - covering the parish itself, Abbey Fishermen, historic events , parish personalities, life and times, humour songs aNd local characters, sport,...

Ronan Fanning - Independent Ireland - ( Helicon History of Ireland Series - PB - 1983 )

Born out of civil war, Independent Ireland saw much continuity from the pre idenpendence period, despite the language of revolution in its birth. issues of sovereignty and control were paramount in the Free State period, while the 1937 Bunreacht and 1948...

Seán Ó Riordáin, - Scathán Vearsaí - PB - Filíocht - As Gaeilge - 1985

I mBaile Bhuirne, 1917 a rugadh Seán Ó Riordáin. D'fhág sé an baile sin in aois a chúig déag agus is in Inis Carra, in aice le CAthair Chorcaí, a bhí cónaí air an chuid eile...

Pauric Travers - Settlements and Divisions - Ireland 1870-1922 ( Helicon History of Ireland Series - PB - 1988)

The period 1870-1922 was one of settlements - in land acts, labour law  - attempted settlements - various Home Rule acts, and divisions - of the island, of nationalism and Unionism, and of the wider political relationships within these islands...

Stephen O'Byrnes- Hiding Behind a Face - Fine Gael Under Fitzgerald - PB - 1986

Stephen O'Byrnes, at the time of writing was director of publicity for the newly formed Progressive Democrats ( and was a former journalist at the Irish Independent)  This is the story of Fine Gael in the 1980's , and the transformation of the party...

Herr, Michael - Dispatches ( US Army in Vietnam) - Vintage Picador PB UK Ed

A groundbreaking piece of journalism ' We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop@ .Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war...

Peter L Berger - A Rumour of Angels : Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural - PB - Pelican - 1973 ( Originally 1969)

A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural is a 1969 book about sociology by the sociologist Peter Berger. The book is one of Berger's most important works on the topic of the sociology of religion A Rumor of...

Gordon T Ledbetter - John McCormack : The Great Irish Tenor - HB -2003

John McCormack was born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, in 1884. By his late twenties, he was a world-famous opera singer and, at the height of his popularity, was as famous, flamboyant and well-paid as rock stars of today. In this biography, Gordon T...

Padraig O'Malley - The Uncivil Wars : Ireland Today - PB - 1983

The Uncivil Wars, first published in 1983, continues to stand as one of the most thorough and balanced accounts of the troubles in Northern Ireland available. Based on original interviews by the author, conducted in 1981 and 1982, The Uncivil Wars...

Tina Brown - Vanity Fair Diaries : 1983-1992 - PB - Journalism - BRAND NEW

During the 1980s, Tina Brown spent eight years in New York as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Her diaries tell the inside story of rivalries, scoops and groundbreaking covers – from the Reagan kiss to a naked, pregnant Demi Moore – that...

John McEvoy & John Duffy - The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD - HB - Illustrated Architecture

Hardcover, with artwork by John Duffy , with a full listing of all the church architecture in the diocese - the 56 parishes in total, as well as other buildings of religious orders and educational colleges, plus a history of development within the area...

Willie John McBride- Autobiography ( with Edmund Van Esbeck) - HB -1976 - Rugby

Antrim born Willie John McBride broke every record in internationl rugby in his time - for appearances, Lions tours, and caps for Ireland. Almost an entrant into the game by accident, he came to rugby late , at the age of 16, and before his own first...

McSweeney's - The Future Dictionary of America - HB & Audio CD - 2004

This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss, and the staff of McSweeney's as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. An imagining of what a dictionary...

Francis MacManus - Heimkehr nach Watergate - HB -1965 GERMAN Language Edition

A German language edition, in hardcover of Watergate by Francis MacManus, published here by Rex-Verlag, Munich.  Hardcover in an attractive dustjacket.  1965 Verlag Rex, 1965. Buch 166 seiten Leineneinband.  A publishers publicity sheet is...

James Joll - Europe Since 1870 - An International History - PB 2ed 1976

This is the second paperback edition, published by Pelican ( Penguin) UK, 1982, it was first published in 1973, covering the century from 1870 to 1970 - a period in which Europe was convulsed by rapid social change, warfare, and the rise of nationalism,...

Vincent Caprani - A View From the DART - Dublin Local History - Illustrated PB 1986

A View from the DART by Vincent Caprani.Softback. Drawings by Desmond McCarthy. 142 Pages .In good condition, previous owner's name to the front endpaper. Both a history of the Dart line and the areas it travels through, the author took a long journet...

Frank Kelly - The Annals of Ballykilferret - HB 1st Ed 1979 - Satire - Hall's Pictorial Weekly

A fantastic collection of stories about life in a fictional Irish village with the expected traits common to all such tales: love of drink, local half-wits, a deep suspicion of (and antagonism toward) outsiders, and a humorous outlook on everything...

OPW - Building For Government : The Architecture of State Buildings : OPW Ireland 1900-2000 HB 1999 Illustrated

The most comprehensive record yet of the work of the OPW from 1900 to the present ."Building for Government" presents a unique illustrated guide to the important architectural work of the OPW, including the design and refurbishment of Government...

Piaras F Mac Lochlainn - Last Words : Letters and Statements of the Leaders executed after the Rising at Easter 1916 - PB 2006 Reprint Kilmainham Jail Society

First published in 1971 by the the Kilmainham Jail Restoration Society ( despite its historical importance, the jail lay disused for much of its history after it was closed ) and edited and annotated by Piaras Mac Lochlainn. Mac Lochlainn the former...

Robert Service - Songs of a Sourdough : Poetry - Yukon , Vintage PB 1970

Published in this reprint edition by Benn & Ryerson, 1957, this includes all the poems and ballads that made Service famous as the 'Canadian Kipling' - including The Shooting of Dan McGrew and the Cremation of Sam McGee, 33 poems in total...

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe - The English Language in Ireland - PB Mercier 1977 - Thomas Davis lectures - Linguistics

Essays include; Emergence of modern English dialects in Ireland, Anglo-Irish and its Irish background, The Anglo-Normans and their English dialect of South-East Wexford,  The dialects of Ulster, The dominance of the English language in the 19th...

Walter Macken - Rain on the Wind - PB Vintage Pan - 1970 - Galway ( Originally 1950)

From boyhood to manhood big, gentle Mico had but two passions in life - the sea, and a young girl so terrible lovely lookin' it raised your heart to heaven just to see her smile. But with a hideous birthmark on his cheek, a Jonah to those he loved,...

Poetry Ireland Review - Issue 39 : Contemporary Poetry In Irish , Autumn 1993

edited by Seán ó Cearnaigh Contents - Translations by Maire Mhac an tSaoi Gabriel Rosenstock, Sean Mac Mathghamhna and Breandan O Doibhlin Reviews : Michael Longley on Cathal O Searcaigh, Gabriel Rosenstock on Nuala Ni Domhnaill,...

Marcellino Iasenzaniro - Padre Pio of Pietrelcina : Charismatic Priest : Testimonies PB - Saint

Edited by Father Mercellino Iasenzaniro, based on the work and life of Padre Pio - Charismatic Priest - TESTIMONIES Originally published in Italian , 2006, this does not form a biography of Padre Pio, but rather recount instances and incidents from his...

Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952

Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation...

Tom McCaughren - Run With the Wind - HB Children's Nature Classic - 1990 Reprint Ed ( Book 1 of the Series)

The multi-award-winning `Run With the Wind' series established the name of Tom McCaughren as a bestselling author. There are now 7 books in the series, this is the first book in the series , in hardcover, originally  published by Wolfhound , Dublin...

Eamon Kelly - Rub of a Relic - PB 1st Ed Mercier 1978 - Kerry Seanchaí

An uncommon first edition paperback, Mercier Press, 1978. Kerry native Eamon Kelly was a noted actor, performer, storyteller and seanchaí.  Cover art and illustrations by Kevin Scally Internally unmarked, small format paperback. - 96...

Robert Lloyd Praeger - The Way That I Went - Ireland Geography & Topography Classic - PB - 1980

Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist and first published in 1937, this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5,000 miles across hills and bogs, swimming through flooded caverns,...

Robert Kee - Ourselves Alone - ( The Green Flag , Volume 3 ) PB

Ourselves Alone - Volume Three of the Green Flag  covers the period from the executions of the 1916 rebels to the 1920-21 War of Independence and the eventual Treaty.  The smallest of the three volumes , only light tanning to pages...

Rory Mc Conville & Deirdre De Barra - Brian Boru & the Battle of Clontarf - PB - Graphic Novel - 2014 BRAND NEW

In 1014, Ireland was a disunited kingdom in turmoil. Viking warlords, and kings and cheiftains battke for control.  To save his kingdom, High King Brian Boru led his army to Clontarf to confront the rebel king Maol Morda. What followed was the...

Jean-Yves Domalain - Panjamon - I was a Headhunter - HB 1973 Borneo Travel

A US first edition, second printing, published by Morrow USA, 1973.  The true account, originally published in French, of the authors travel to Borneo, where, deep in the jungles, and lost, he was unwittingly taken in by two Iban headhunters, and...

Lorcán Ó Treasaigh - An Doras Grianlasta HB 1st ED 1983 Gaeilge

A hardcover first edition, 1983 by FNT , of Lorcán Ó Treasaigh 's novel 'An Doras Grianlasta' ( The Sunlit Door) .    Section internally of publishers ads.    Ó Treasaigh was  Dublin based author, musician,...

Paul Bew - C.S Parnell : A Biography - Gill's Irish Lives Series -1980 History

A paperback first edition, 1980, Gill and Macmillan, of historian Paul Bew's biography of Charles Stewart Parnell, issued in the uniform Gill's Irish Lives. This series was issued as a series of succinct biographies of famous Irish historical...

Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland

A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was...

Dave Eggers- Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's - HB First Edition 2004

Terence de Vere White - Kevin O'Higgins - Anvil Press - 1st PB Ed 1966 - Irish Free State

On 10 July 1927, Kevin O'Higgins was shot dead in Booterstown, County Dublin. He fell under a rain of bullets and died forgiving his enemies. He was thirty-five years of age. Born in Stradbally, he came to Dublin to study law, and, caught up in the...

Denys Thompson - Discrimination and Popular Culture ( Vintage Pelican 1966 )

A vintage Pengin Pelican edition, 1966, of the collection of articles and essays on the impact of mass media and popular culture on society. It asks, 'is  a squalid mediocrity the highest common factor of popular culture the best we can...