BRAND NEW & UNUSED BOOKS - NEWLY ADDED

Michael Walker - Green Shoots : Irish Football Histories - HB - BRAND NEW

Published by de Coubertin Books, 2017 (The HB cover design is made to look edgeworn in the manner of a period match programme)  More than a century after the Easter Rising, football in Ireland -- like the country itself -- remains divided. At the...

Mehdi Hassan - Win Every Argument - PB - 2023 - BRAND NEW

The New York Times bestseller Win Every Argument is the ultimate guide to debate, persuasion and public speaking, by award-winning British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan. 'A masterclass' – Riz Ahmed'Indispensable' – Naomi Klein'A tour de...

Sinéad Sheehy & Ann Ní Chíobháin - Toasties - HB - BRAND NEW

Book 19 in the Blasta Books series , published by Blasta / Nine Bean Rows, 2026.    Whether it's a lunchtime mainstay, a midnight snack or eaten while hidden in a snug with a pint and a packet of crisps, the toastie has always been a staple of...

Séamas Mac Annaidh ( General Editor ) - Irish History (An Illustrated A-Z ) - HB - 2001

The history of Ireland is one of oppression and emancipation, characterized by foreign rule and the fight for freedom. It is a history in which religious and political conflicts sit side by side with a shared love of the ancient magic that enshrouds the...

Myles Dungan - Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History - PB - BRAND NEW

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside...

Maurice J. Casey - Hotel Lux : An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals - PB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney 'If affection is the...

Adrian Kenny - Mint and Other Stories - PB -

These skilled portraits form chapters in a man’s life. He knows the characters ‒ in Dublin, the West of Ireland, London, provincial England ‒ and they know him. The descriptions are intimate, sympathetic; their lives are sharply drawn. A young...

Edel Bhreathnach - Monasticism in Ireland 900-1250 - HB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction.  Winner of the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2025 Winner of the 2025 ACIS James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences The history of...

David Caron - Dublin's Stained Glass - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin's Stained Glass features the thirty-eight sites with the finest twentieth-century stained glass in Dublin city and county. The majority of the windows were made at studios in the capital, and are by internationally lauded artists such as Harry...

Tony O'Dwyer - Waiting For the Mason- PB - BRAND NEW

Published by Salmon Press, July 2026 Mary O’Donnell: “Everyone should carry a copy of Waiting for the Mason as an antidote to despair… The poet elevates one’s sense that being human may, for once, be quite a good...

Mark Clinton - Carrickmines Castle : Rise and Fall - HB - BRAND NEW

The Walshes were rooted in south County Dublin from the late fourteenth century. By the early 1600s members of the family had become actors in the theatre of war across Europe. These were times of almost endless turmoil. A constant stream of predicaments...

Marck L. Beggs - Catastrophic Chords - PB

Catastrophic Chords is a 2008 poetry collection by American poet and professor Marck L. Beggs. Published by Salmon Poetry, the book explores themes of duality and paradox, split into musical poems about loss and an extended imagined dialogue between...

Judith Barrington - The Conversation - PB - BRAND NEW

“This is a brilliant technical achievement; it reminds us all that great poetry is both fine thinking and achieved style. The narrator describes and teaches, telling us that death – and death in life – is ‘too late now for that...

Paul Allen - Ground Forces - PB - BRAND NEW

Millicent Borges Accardi - Only More So - PB -BRAND NEW

Only More So is a collection of lyric poems. Sometimes a bridge in a sad song, other times an echo that threatens to develop then fades, the images blend, twist, and entangle one another: a marriage is a song, then it’s a body, and finally a boat...

Peter J. Gloviczki - The Weight of Dandelions - PB - BRAND NEW

Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s the weight of dandelions explores each moment to discover its essence. Believing there is beauty (and humor) in the everyday world, he declares in one poem: “queen-size bed / the dog lets me / sleep there too”...

Daniel Lawless - The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With - PB

Like everything else in this wrenching, dazzling volume, memory is mediated by wit and skepticism. These are poems of great beauty and authentic pain, as well as a wincing humor. The world in these poems comes at the reader as a mesmerizing swarm of...

Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh - Know Your Place : An Exploration of the Place Names of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW

Know Your Place is a lovingly illustrated exploration of Irish place names that will bring you to all four corners of the island, learning the hidden stories behind the towns and villages of Ireland, by exploring the history of individual place names and...

Gordon D'Arcy - Birds of Ireland (Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new A handy pocket sized guide listing over 120 bird species commonly found across Ireland - in all habitats. Illustrated in colour, with information on characteristics, distinctive habits, , names in English Latin and Gaeilge. 

Kim Lenaghan - Irish Superstitions (Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

Brand new, published by Appletree Press, 2019. 

Ruth Isabel Rose - Irish Wild Flowers (Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW, paperback, published by Appletree Press, originally 1987, this revised edition first published 2008.  Irish Wild Flowers is an attractive guide to around 80 species of plant found throughout the country. Each flower is beautifully...

P.W Joyce - Irish Place Names ( Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

Brand new, this edition Appletree Press, 2019.  Based on the 1870 original - Local Names Explained, which was one of a number of titles Joyce publsihed on Irish placenames and the local loreassociated with them.  Irish Place Names is a handy...

Martin Wallace - Great Irish Lives ( Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

Great Irish Live provides a parade of some of Ireland's greatest men and women. Some are little known outside of Ireland such as Father Mathew, Lord Carson, or Hugh O'Neill but others are famous worldwide such as St Patrick, Arthur Guinness or George...

Christine Kinealy - Tracing Your Irish Roots ( Appletree Pocket Guides ) - PB - BRAND NEW (Revised & Updated Edition) - 2019

2ND REVISED EDITION, 2019. Originally 1999, updated edition.  Whether building a family tree or simply researching the history of their ancestors, people of Irish heritage will find the means to track down elusive family records and relatives in...

Neal Doherty -Complete Guide to the Streets of Dublin City - PB - BRAND NEW

Written by the best-selling author of The Complete Guide to the Statues and Sculptures of Dublin City, this new book provides full-colour photos, detailed maps and an informative guide to the more than 600 streets, alleys and lanes of our capital city,...

Sadhbh Devlin & Róisín Hahessy - Beag Bídeach - PB - BRAND NEW

  Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Futa Fata, 2018.    As Gaeilge san iomlán.  Tá grá ag Nína dá dheartháir, Jimí. Ach, uaireannta cuireann sé isteach uirthi. Ba bhreá le...

Erika McGann & Gerry Daly - It's Too Dark Puffling - HB ( Board Book) - BRAND NEW

A baby puffling is afraid of his burrow. ‘The dark is too dark for me,’ he says. Can the other island animals help him to see the magic of nighttime?

Erika McGann & Gerry Daly - It's Too Dark Puffling - PB - BRAND NEW

A kind little puffling lives on Skellig Michael.She loves her cosy underground bed.But her smaller puffling friend is afraid of the dark.Can the animals of Skellig help her show him the wonder of nighttime?Puffling lives on Skellig Michael, and she loves...

Catherine Bruzzone - Hide and Speak Irish - BRAND NEW

Hide and Speak goes further than most picture word books. It offers an effective and simple way to learn over 130 key Irish words following the tried-and-tested method of 'look, cover and speak'.Using the two wipe-clean flaps at the back of the book to...

TP O'Mahony - Forbidden Ireland : Church and State 1951 to the Present Day - PB - BRAND NEW

A definitive social history of modern Ireland. How did Catholic bishops lose their control over Irish women and Irish life? TP O’Mahony traces seven decades of Church–State conflict in Ireland, from the Mother and Baby crisis to the Magdalene...

Desmond MacHale - Langers and Lashes - PB - BRAND NEW

Langers and Lashes is the most comprehensive collection of Cork slang ever assembled – the words, phrases, and expressions that make Cork speech like nowhere else on earth. Crude and clever, affectionate and savage, ancient and freshly minted: this...

CJ DeBarra - Neuroqueer - PB - BRAND NEW

In this warm and gloriously candid memoir about ADHD, queerness, love, and everything nobody thought to explain, CJ DeBarra – Irish journalist, non-binary West Cork exile, and lifelong owner of a brain that refused to behave – asks whether...

Alice Taylor - Come Sit Awhile - PB - BRAND NEW

Alice celebrates the special moments and the everyday blessings of life. Come sit awhile with Alice Taylor. Take a little time out – to rest, to think, or just to be. Life can race along at a fast pace, sometimes almost stampeding us along with it...

Robert O'Byrne - The Irish Aesthete : Buildings of Ireland, Known and Unknown - HB - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE.  Brand new, published by Lilliput Press, July 2026.  Since 2012, Robert O’Byrne’s Irish Aesthete has shed fresh light on Ireland’s architectural inheritance. In this new...

Thaddeus Ó Buachalla - EL - PB - BRAND NEW

A Cork academic's accidental discovery of microscopic humanoid beings living inside flies unleashes a four-century conspiracy that stretches from Galileo's revolutionary revelations to the chaos of Brexit. What begins as scientific curiosity becomes a...

Alice Kelly - From Scratch : 80 Foolproof Recipes from Easy Traybakes to Showstopping Cakes - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE. @fromscratchbaker Alice Kelly started @FromScratchBaker in early 2022 after purchasing a disused horse box for €600. Turning a renovation project into a successful business, Alice bega...

Jessica Scott-Whyte - Séamus Almost Famous ( Illustrated by Becka Moor) - PB - BRAND NEW

The first book in a new laugh-out-loud Irish series for every kid who’s ever felt like the odd one out.A warm and funny story about friendship, family and the lengths one boy will go for fame ''Malcolm in the Middle meets Milly McCarthy''...

Cormac Quinn - Murder on Lough Derg - PB - BRAND NEW

All journalist Jack Myers wants is a relaxing Irish holiday. Retreating from his demanding job as a foreign correspondent, he thinks he's found the perfect escape - the stately St Peter's Manor, perched on the edge of Lough Derg in County Tipperary, just...

Nessa O'Mahony - Dodder Daughter - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Salmon Press, April 2026.  Nessa O’Mahony’s sixth collection, Dodder Daughter, explores the feminine in all its cycles, charting a river’s course through youth, maturity and the enigma of old age...

Tony Gaynor - The Curse & Scourge of All Irishmen: General Henry Lawes Lutterell, Second Earl of Carhampton - BRAND NEW

The Curse & Scourge of All Irishmen: General Henry Lawes Lutterell, Second Earl of Carhampton From the privileged world of the Luttrells of Luttrellstown to the blood—soaked politics of rebellion and repression, this book dissects the life and...

Neal Doherty - The Complete Guide to the Statues and Sculptures of Dublin City - PB - BRAND NEW

With full-colour photos and detailed maps, this is an informative guide to the more than 250 statues and sculptures in Ireland's capital city. This book will entertain and inform visitors, while providing a beautiful and practical walking guide to both...

Robert O'Byrne - The Irish Aesthete : Buildings of Ireland : Lost and Found - HB - BRAND NEW

Since 2012 Robert O'Byrne has produced theirishaesthete.com, an award-winning site exploring the country's extensive architectural heritage through words and pictures, In 2024 Lilliput Press published a collection of his texts and photographs: The Irish...

Ciara Mageean - My Greatest Race - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND INCLUDED IN THE COST Co-written with Cliona Foley. Published by Gill Books. Few Irish track athletes are as universally loved as Ciara Mageean, who has remained endearingly down-to-earth, candid and optimistic despite the dramatic...

Jo Kerrigan - Brehon Laws : The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW

A fascinating look at the lifestyle and values of ancient Ireland Thousands of years ago, Celtic Ireland was a land of tribes and warriors; but a widely accepted, sophisticated and surprisingly enlightened legal system kept society running smoothly. The...

Enda Finnan - Navan Road - An Illustrated History - BRAND NEW

Enda Finnan examins the physical and social development of the Cabra /Navan Road district from the 18th to the 20th century. Tracing the landscape of the area back to the ancient route from the Ford of the Hurdles to Tara, by the 18th century the area...

David Coleman - Fear Less - PB - BRAND NEW

The Ten-Step Guide to Helping Kids Take Charge of Anxiety.  Published by Gill Books, March 2026 David Coleman's work is focused on helping parents understand and manage anxiety in children and teens, offering practical, expert advice with humor...

Gill Books - Irish Granny's Complete Book of Bread and Baking - BRAND NEW

The Irish Granny's Complete Book of Bread and Baking is a heartwarming, flavour-filled celebration of Ireland's baking tradition. Inside its pages you'll find time-honoured recipes - from hearty soda bread and crumbly scones to sweet tarts, cakes and...

Orla Drumgoole - The Irish Mammy Cooks - HB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  100 recipes that taste of home - HB, 256 pages,  illustrated , published FEBRUARY 2026, Gill Books. A huge bestselling success of a book !    Orla Drumgoole is an Irish mammy...

John Waddell - The Celtic World - A History - HB - BRAND NEW

At the dawn of history the Celts occupied a vast swathe of Europe from Ireland in the west to lands south of the Black Sea in asia Minor. The study of this Celtic past has often been a dispited and debated territory and for centuries the true story of...

David Almond & P.J Lynch - Caoimhín agus na Lonta Dubha - PB

Nuair a théann Caoimhín chun cónaithe sa mhainistir, bíonn cumha air i ndiaidh a mhuintire agus an domhain taobh amuigh. Lá amháin, síneann sé a dhá lámh amach an fhuinneog agus...

Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Remedies - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW COPIES - Published October 2025, Merrion Press, Paperback, originally published 2023 in hardcover, this is the paperback edition.  This book was our THEBOOKSHOP.IE 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 on initial publication, and was a huge seller...

Séamus Ó Neill - Flood Tide (Tonn Tuile) - HB - BRAND NEW

This 40,000-word semi-autobiographical novel offers a unique, contemporaneous view of neutral Ireland during World War II through the eyes of a young Germanophile journalist. Despite its historical setting, the book remains surprisingly relevant today,...