Vintage, USED & Collectible - NEWLY ADDED

Heinrich Boll- Irisches Tagebuch - PB - 1997 Reprint - ( Originally 1957) GERMAN

Condition - A FORMER STUDENT COPY -  chapters have moderate underlining in pencil throughout.  Entirely in German. Irish Journal has helped to shap the German perception of Ireland for decades and continues to be influential. Boll spent time in...

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...

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...

Sean O'Faolain - The Heat of the Sun - Vintage Pan PB 1971( Seán Ó Faoileáin ) Short Stories

 Includes  a short introduction by the author. In the Bosom of the Country, Dividends, The Heat of the Sun, The Human Thing, One Man, One Boat, One Girl, Charlie's Greek, Billy Billee, Before the Daystar, £1000 for Rosebud, A Sweet...

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...

Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : Limerick Soviet 1919 - HB 1st Edition - 1990

The original first edition printing in hardcover, O'Brien Press 1990, of then RTE journalist Liam Cahill's account of the short lived Limerick Soviet 1919, and how the events in the city in that year interacted with the wider nascent War of Independence...

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...

Liam O'Flaherty - The Informer - Vintage NEL PB 1971 reprint

Set in 1920's Ireland The Informer is an enthralling revolutionary drama of the Dublin underworld and inspired the classic John Ford film. In the ominous figure of Gypo, an ex-policeman, who takes blood money for betraying his friend and comrade,...

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,...

James Joyce - Dubliners : Panther PB Ed 1979 - with Illustrations and notes by Robert Scholes

Dubliners" was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" began...

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...

Marcus Bourke- Murder at Marlhill : Was Harry Gleeson Innocent ? - PB -Tipperary Murder

A detailed account of the circumstances surrounding the murder in wartime Tipperary of Mary murphy, near new Inn in South Tipperary, and the subsuquent arrest, trial  and execution in 1941 of her neighbour Harry Gleeson. The author, along with...

M.P Hederman & P. Kearney - The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies 1977-1981 - HB 1st Edition 1982

This volume brings together the first ten issues of the Irish literary and arts magazine, The Crane Bag (1977-1981). The issues covered Art and Politics, A Sense of Nation, Mythology (with several articles on James Joyce), The Idea of Tradition,...

Séamus Mac Grianna - Cith is Dealán - PB Mercier 1976 As Gaeilge

A Mercier press, 1985 (reprint) edition of Cith is Dealán by Donegal author Séamus Mac Grianna ( aka '' Máire''), with an afterword by Peadar Ó Donnell.  Text entirely in Irish - as gaeilge san iomlán...

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...

Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America

Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and...

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,...

Maurice Walsh - Blackcock's Feather - Vintage PB Schools Edition

Blackcock's Feather, published by Longmans Browne & Nolan Ltd, Dublin a school edition, originally published 1933. An historical swashbuckling romance/ adventure novelINTERNALLY VERY GOOD, UNUSUALLY FOR A SCHOOL TEXT, NO MARKS OR DAMAGEThis book...

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

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 socialism and the need to aim hefty kicks at our sacred...

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...