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Robert Graves - The Greek Myths - 2 Volume Penguin PB 1981 ( Originally 1955)

'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer see Icarus; but scattered feathers floated on the waves...

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,...

John Edward Walsh - Rakes and Ruffians : The Underworld of Georgian Dublin ( 1979 - Originally 1847)

Originally published under the title Ireland Sixty Years ago in 1847 - and under various editions in the interval since . This is a facsimile edition published by Four Courts Press in 1979, - an account of the underside of Georgian Dublin - gallows,...

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...

T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 )

On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent...

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 teh 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,...

Denis McKenna ( Editor) - A Social and Natural History of Sandymount, Irishtown & Ringsend - PB 1993 Dublin Local History

This anthology of essays and images proposes to do exactly what the title says: within its pages are 32 essays on the history and environment of the historic Dublin 4 neighbourhoods named in the title. A collaborative project, published in 1993, A...

Seán Ó Tuama - Caoineadh Art Uí Laoghaire - PB As Gaeilge Filíocht 2002

Athchló 2002, ar an mbunleagan a rinne Seán ó Tuama ar an gcaoineadh a scríóbh Eibhlín Dubh nuair a bhásaigh a fear céile, Art ó Laoghaire.  92 pp, foilsithe ag An Clóchomhar...

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...

Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms - Vintage Granada PB

A vintage 1981 Granada paperback of Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to Arms, his classic novel of the first World War.  In 1918, Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of...

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...

Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence

Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA,  and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their...

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,...

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,...

Smith Delia - One is Fun! (Vintage Hardback ) - 1985

This cookery book provides easy-to-prepare recipes specially devised for the single cook, so that they don't have to divide ordinary recipes for four into a meal for one person. Hardcover, Guild Publishing UK, 1985, originally published by the BBC in...

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...

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...

Terence Brown - Ireland : A Social and Cultural History 1922 to 1985

With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the legacy of De Valera and...

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...

Pádraig O'Toole - The Glory and the Anguish - 1984 PB GAA History 1901-1929 Loughrea TN

A paperback first edition, 1984 of an uncommon book on the early years of the GAA, circa 1910-1925. The author, a native of Loughrea, was the grandson of the Secretary of the GAA from 1901-1929, Luke J O'Toole, and used a number of family sources and...

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...

Robert Charles Wilson - 3 Novels - Bios, Darwinia & The Chronoliths - Science Fiction

3 paperback science fiction novels by Robert Charles Wilson, as follows - Bios - UK paperback edition, 1999. Tanning to page block, light edgewear. Fade to spine. It is the 22nd century. Interstellar travel is possible, but colossally expensive, so...

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...

George B Collins, - Wildcats & Shamrocks - Oil Gas Exploration Cork - Kinsale Field

A hardcover first edition, Mennonite Press, 1976, on the history and background of the oil and gas discovery in the Kinsale Field off Cork, during the 1970's . This is an account by Collins on the mechanics and political machinations of getting a...