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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...

J.K Rowling - Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal - PB - Portuguese Brazil Edition

Deveria ser um livro so para o publico infanto-juvenil. Mas, no mundo inteiro, gente de idades variadas le Harry Potter - um fenomeno da literatura mundial que desafia crencas e estimativas. Harry Potter e um garoto cujos pais, foram assassinados por um...

Desmond Young - Rommel - The Desert Fox - A Military Biography - PB 1969 ( Originally 1950)

A PB reprint edition of Brigadier Desmond Young's history of the life and military career of Erwin Rommel : The Desert Fox, published by Fontana UK.  The book was the first biography of Rommel and enjoyed immense popularity, especially in the UK...

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...

Thomas Pakenham - The Boer War - PB 1982 ( Originally 1979)

The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. Thomas...

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 - Dedicated to Sligo - Thirty Four Essays on Sligo's Past - HB - 2013

Hardcover , 2013 ( both editions PB & HB appear to have been issued simultaneously)  The book's full title is:"Dedicated to Sligo; Thirty-four Essays on Sligo's Past" A wide range of authors describe, analyse, interpret and re-interpret parts of...

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 collecvtion 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...

Roz Purcell - Natural Born Feeder - : Whole Foods | Whole Life - HB - 2016

Used, but in goodn condition - a menu plan is writtenm on the front endpage by a previous owner.    ROZ PURCELL'S APPROACH TO COOKING IS SIMPLE – USE WHOLE FOODS TO LIVE A WHOLE LIFE.Having developed a negative relationship with food that...

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

Paul Daly - Creating Ireland - The Words and Events That Shaped Us (Coffee Table Book)

Since it gathered for the first time on 21 January 1919, the Dail Eireann has been at the heart of Irish life, shaping the growing nation and providing the backdrop for many of the major debates that have defined Irish society. 'Creating Ireland' is a...

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...

Gordon L. Herries Davies - North From the Hook : 150 Years of the Geological Survey of Ireland - HB - 1995

A large format hardcover, published 1995, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Geological Survey of Ireland - a history of the organisation, a history of Irish geology, and a history of the staff, practices , procedures and advancements in the 159...

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...

John O'Donovan & Eugene Curry - The Antiquities of County Clare : Ordnance Survey Letters 1839 -

Published in this edition by CLASP , Ennis, 2003, originally published in 1997, based on transcribed letetrs and sources collected in 1924-28, and themselves based on the originbal letters, memoirs and notes collecetd by O'Donovan and Curry in Clare in...

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.