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J.K Rowling - Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban - PB - Portuguese Brazil Edition

As aulas estão de volta a Hogwarts e Harry Potter não vê a hora de embarcar no Expresso a vapor que o levará de volta à escola de bruxaria. Mais uma vez suas férias na rua dos Alfeneiros, 4, foi triste e...

James Connolly Heron - The Words of James Connolly - PB - 1986

Connolly was a republican socialist, trade unionist and a revolutionary and his writings remain relevant in the modern Ireland of a century after his death.  James Connolly Heron, who writes the introduction and selected the extracts from Connolly's...

Laurence J. Kettle - Material For Victory - The Memoirs of Andrew J Kettle - PB - 1958

Paperback, published by C.J Fallon , Dublin.  Andrew ( better known as Andy) Kettle was a Dubliner and the right hand man of Parnell on land question and tenant issues. He was one of the founders of the Dublin Tenants’ Defence Association, and...

Matthew Josephson - Edison - A Biography - HB - 1961 ( Originally 1959)

Regarded as the classic standard biography on Thomas Edison. It is the only biography written in the last century to be recommended by the official voice of the caretakers of the Edison Laboratory National Monument in New Jersey which houses all of...

John Barry & Eamon Horan - Years of Glory : The Story of Kerry's All Ireland Successes - PB - 1977

Years Of Glory by John Barry and Eamon Horan is the story of Kerry’s All-Ireland successes throughout the the years (from the late 19th century)  up until 1976. It was published by The Kerryman in Tralee in April 1977. The book is packed full...

Jim McKeon and Jerry O'Sullivan - The Quiet Landscape - Archaeological Investigations on the M6 Galway to Ballinasloe National Road Scheme - PB

Archaeological investigations along the motorway route have opened new windows on the early history and prehistory of this landscape. In this book, readers can discover for themselves a hunter-gatherer camp site at Ballynaclogh, a Bronze Age lead mine at...

Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy and Alex Bayliss - Gathering Time - Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosureds of Southern Britain and Ireland - HB - 2011

Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual...

NRA - Recent Archaeological Discoveries on National Roads Schemes 2004 - Archaeology and the National Roads Authority - Monograph 2

Archeology and the National Roads Authority, Monograph Series No. 2. Proceedings of a seminar for the public, Dublin, September 2004.

NRA - Archaeology and the National Roads Authority - Monoghraph Series 3 - Provisions of Two Seminars in 2002 on Provisions for Archaeological Work within the National Roads Programme - PB

Proceedings of Two Seminars in 2002 on the Provisions for Archaeological Work within the National Roads Programme, Dublin, 27 February 2002 and Tullamore, 29 May 2002 . 

NRA - Settlement, Industry and Ritual - Archaeology and the National Roads Authority Monograph Series 3 ( Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes September 2005)

Edited by Jerry O’Sullivan and Michael Stanley, this monograph contains the proceedings of a seminar on recent archaeological discoveries on national road schemes held in The Gresham Hotel in September 2005.  

Olga Soffer & N.D Praslov - From Kostenki to Clovis : Upper Paleolithic-Paleo- Indian Adaptations

In July 1989, the first Soviet-American Symposium on Upper Paleolithic-PaleoIndian Adaptations was held in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) at the Institute of the History of Material Culture (formerly Institute of Archaeology). Nineteen of the 26...

Kevin Dwyer - Dwyer's Ireland : A view From Above - PB

Striking photograps of Ireland from the air, centering on both urban and rural sites. 

Martin Timoney - A Celebration of Sligo - HB ( Essays for Sligo Field Club) - SIGNED

Published by Sligo Field Club, 2002, signed by the author, dated and with a dedication ( to the late noted archaeologist Peter Woodman)  This collection of 34 essays celebrates fifty years of the Sligo Field Club and reflect the interests of its...

Roger Downer - Reflections from the Shannon - HB

Hardcover, published by Wordwell, 2007, with UL.  A collection of speeches and essays , including conferring speeches given over the years, essays on science, engineering, the role of the University, the scrum and much more.   

John Keenahan - St Michael's Church : Church , People and Landscape - Drumlion Roscommon 1856-2006

Hardcover, published 2006. The title is partly deceptive, it is much more than a history of the church in the parish, it's a history of the parish and surrounds in the 150 years covered - sport, industry, people, landscape, history and much more. Closed...

Michael Byrne - Legal Offaly - The County Courthouse in Tullamore and the Legal Profession in County Offaly from the 1820's to the Present Day - HB - 2008 - SIGNED

Signed and dedicated to a previous powner by the author, dated 5th December 2008.  Large format hardcover, the author was with Hoey & Denning - Tullamore solicitors at the time of publication.  A history of the development of legal...

Angelique Day - Glimpses of Ireland's Past : The Ordnance Survey Memoir Drawings - Topography and Technique - PB - 2014 - SIGNED

Signed to the title page in neat black ink, undedicated, no other marks or damage. Slight area of uneven sunfade to the front cover.  The views of the landscape, the ancient sites and monuments, the objects and curiosities illustrated, are shown...

Stephen Callaghan & Caimin O'Brien - A History of Saint Brendan's Graveyard in Birr - HB - 2016

Large format hardcover, with a full detailing of all the graves and memorials in the historic graveyard, with photographs and transcriptions of all known gravestones and memorials, a history of the church and much more.  Gift inscription on the...

William Hayes & Joseph Kennedy - The Parish Churches of North Tipperary - Commemorating a Two-Hundred Year Heritage - PB - 2007 ( SIGNED by both Authors)

A large format illustrated paperback, with photographs thrpoughout, detailing the history of all churches in North Tipperary.  Paperback, 2007, signed by both authors , and dated 26-06-2007

Michael O'Connell, Fergus Kelly & James H. McAdam ( Editors) - Cattle in Ancient and Modern Ireland : -Farming Practices, Environment and Economy PB - 2016

A large format bound paperback, published 2016,  Cambridge Scholars Publishing , loosely laid in is a postcard addressed to one of the contributors from the editor.  Cattle have been the mainstay of Irish farming since the Neolithic began in...

Joe P. Plant - The Adventures of a Soldier's Wife - Ireland | India | England - 1915-1974 - PB

IRELAND  INDIA  ENGLAND 1915 - 1974 A story based on the memoirs of Pte. Sarah Kathleen Cunningham A memoir entrusted to and written by Joe P. Plant 1915. The true story of a young Irish Colleen. Sarah, eldest daughter of the Cunningham family...

J.P Mallory, Eiméar Nelis & Barrie Hartwell - Excavations on Donegore Hill Co. Antrim - PB

Report and discussions on the findings of archaeological excavations at the Co. Antrim site.  Published by Wordwell, 2011.  Large format paperback, illustrated throughout. 

Birr Year Review 2016 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2014 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2012 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2011 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2007 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2006 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2008 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Michael Viney - Ireland : Smithsonian Natural History - HB - 2003

Published by Blackstaff , 2003.  Hardcover, illustrated throughout, colour section of photographs to centre pages. Ireland conjures up images of nature's majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A...

Angela Desmond & Gina Johnson ( Editors) - New Agendas in Irish Prehistory - PB

Essays and papers in commemoration of Liz Anderson.  Published by Wordwell, Dublin.  Represents the proceedings of a conference held in Cork in 1999 in memory of Liz Anderson.  It comprises fifteen essays on various aspects of Irish...

Proinséas Ní Chatháin & Siobhán Fitzpatrick & Howard Clarke - Pathfinders to the Past - The Antiquarian Road to Irish Historical Wrtiting - HB- 2012

Compiled in celebration of the 150th anniversary of one of Ireland’s most distinguished and long-lived cultural institutions – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland – this collection of essays by distinguished scholars in a...

Fearghal McGarry - The Abbey Rebels of 1916 - A Lost Revolution - HB - 2015

The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution: those whose radical politics...

Graham Davis ( Editor) - In Seach of a Better Life : British and Irish Migration - HB - 2011

In Search of a Better Life challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. By no means were all migrants forced to leave their country by...

Blindboy Boatclub - The Gospel According to Blindboy - HB - Short Stories - 2017

 The Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories and visual art exploring the myths, complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland. Covering themes ranging from love and death to sex and...

John Priviledge - Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland 1879-1925 - HB

Hardcover, published by Manchester University Press, 2009. Foxing and age spotting on inside front covers, otherwise unmarked.  A biography of Cardinal Logue, Irelan'd longest serving Catholic Cardinal, and who led the Irish Church during a period...

Sean Farren & Denis Haughey - John Hume: Irish Peacemaker - HB 2016

John Hume - civil rights activist, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and leading politician in Northern Ireland during the long period of the Troubles - gained worldwide recognition and respect for his principled...

John Coakley & Michael Gallagher - Politics in the Republic of Ireland 4th Edition - 2005

Politics in the Republic of Ireland  fully revised fourth edition - 2005 Building on the success of the previous three editions, this text continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of politics in the Republic of Ireland...

Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond - The J.R.R Tolkien Companion and Guide - 2 Volume Set Slipcased : Chronology & Reader's Guide - USA 2006 1st Editions

This is the US Houghton Mifflin edition of the 2 Volume gudie to Tolkien by Christina Schull & Wayne Hammond , first printings , 2006 , in uniform editions , Chronology and Reader's Guide. In black slipcase, with titles to slipcase in gily lettering...

Daniel Ford - Michael's War - HB - 2003

Molly Keane & Sally Phipps - Molly Keane's Ireland : An Anthology - PB 1993

A Ted Smart ( Bookclub) edition 1993, of an anthology of Irish writing - fiction, poetry, historical accounts, essays, non fiction, from earliiest times, edited and selected by Molly Keane. 

Kevin C. Kearns - Dublin Street Life and Lore - An Oral History - PB 1997 ( Originally 1991)

A paperback reprint , 1997, originally 1991 in hardcover. Gill & Macmillan.  Kevin Kears publsihed a number of valuable social records of life in a rapidly changing Dublin, coincentrating on collecting the biographies of ordinray Dubliners ...

Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB

A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh.  Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere.    In this critical assessment of...

Brian P. Murphy - The Catholic Bulletin and Republican Ireland - PB - 2005

Paperback, published by Athol Books Belfast 2005.  The Catholic Bulletin and Republican Ireland with Special Reference to J.J.O'Kelly (Sceilg'') - O'Kelly was editor of the newspaper in the crucial post 1916 period. 

Eddie Keher - Hurling Heroes : Fourteen Hurling Greats Profiled - PB

Published by Blackwater Press, 2000.  An account by Kilkenny Hurler Eddie Keher of 14 other notable hurlers from the 20th century -  Tom Chesty, Joe Cooney, Ray Cummins, Tony Doran, Jimmy Doyle, Pat Fox, Len Gaynor, Pat Hartigan, Fan Larkin,...

Liam Ó Briain - Self Portrait - PB 2021 ( Originally 1950)

A 2021 reprint edition ( originally 1950 ) of Liam Ó Briain's autobiography Self Portrait.  Liam Ó Briain was a member of the Irish Volunteers, and fought in the 1916 Rising, and was subsequently a language professor in UCG from 1917...

Dan O'Neill with Liam Horan - Divided Loyalties - PB - SIGNED

The Life and Times of a Mayo Man Who Won an All-Ireland Title with Louth in 1957 Signed by the author to the title page, undedicated.  Light edgewear to the covers,, bumps to corners of back covers. 

Chris Lawlor - A Revolutionary Village - Dunlavin County Wicklow 1900-1925

This 2021 publication provides an overview of the whole revolutionary period in the Dunlavin region. Playwright Brendan Behan famously acknowledged the republican reputation and revolutionary tradition of the west Wicklow village when he named an old...

Mitchelstown Writers Group - Another Mitchelstown Miscellany - PB 2016

Published 2016, a collection of local history, stort stories, poetry and essays by local writers and residents of the north Cork town. 

John Bowman - De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-73 - PB- 1989

Published by Oxford University Press, 1989 in paperback, originally 1982.  This is an interpretation of the lifelong preoccupation of Eamon de Valera, a revolutionary nationalist who defined his goal in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin and spent the...

Dennis Walder - Ted Hughes - Open Guides to Literature - PB - 1987

Issued as part of a series of Open University literary guides, this is a1987 examination of the work of poet Ted Hughes.  With some underlining and notes. 

John Resko - Reprieve - The Testament of John Resko - PB - 1956

Condemned to the electric chair in Sing Sing at the age of 18, John Resko is reprieved by the governor at the last minute and sentenced to life in Dannemora Prison where he has trouble adjusting to life behind bars. His interest and success as an artist...