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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...