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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...

Christina Fredengren - Crannogs - A Study of People's Interaction with lakes, with Particular reference to Lough Gara - PB - 2002

Published by Wordwell, 2002, some notes and underlining to text internally, light edgewear to covers, a larger format paperback, illustrated throughout .  Covering a long time periood from the mesolithic to the present, while keeping the geographic...

Jasper Ungoed-Thomas - Jasper Wolfe of Skibbereen - HB - 2008

Born in 1872, a Methodist shopkeeper's son, Jasper Wolfe became a highly successful local solicitor in Skibbereen. A strong supporter of Home Rule, he gave an acclaimed speech at the rally in London in 1912 that launched the Irish Protestant Home Rule...

D. George Boyce - Nationalism in Ireland - 3rd Edition PB 1995

Based on extensive historical, literary and political research, this text examines the relationship between ideas and political and social reality. It explains why the aspirations of Irish nationalism have failed to modify the facts of Irish political...

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...

Brian Gurrin - Pre-Census Sources for Irish Demography - PB - 2002

Published by Four Courts Press, book 4 in the Maynooth Researcvh Guides for Irish Local History series. Larger format trade paperback size, slim, 98 pages with detailed index and bibliography/.  This book focuses on how local historians can source...

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

Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy - The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937 - HB - 2007

 This meticulously researched book draws on extensive primary sources to put the Irish constitution in a clear historical perspective. Using accessible language, the authors examine the political context of the conception of the constitution in...

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...

Martin Elsasser - Germany and Ireland 1000 Years of Shared History - Deutschland und Irland - 1000 Jahre Gemeinsamer Geschichte = PB - SIGNED 1997

Dual language edition - text in English and German.  Martin Elsasser was a former German ambassador to Ireland, esxpores a wide range of German- Irish historical links.   

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...

Seamus Heaney - Door Into the Dark - PB Reprint 2002, Originally 1969

Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuosness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early...

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...

Derek Stanley - North Dublin from the Liffey to Balbriggan ( Images of Ireland Series - PB - 2006

North Dublin is vibrant, lively and always changing, a place where people live against the backdrop of some of the city’s most renowned landmarks and beautiful buildings. In this book, the author captures the history of North Dublin before the...

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...

W.H Auden - Selected Poems - PB 1968

Previous owner's name and dates to front endpages.  Uneven partial sunfade tpo the front cover and spine.  This edition 1968   

Ted Hughes - Selected Poems 1957-1967 - PB

Previous owner's name anbd date to front endpages. Spine and areas close to spine are slightly sun faded Contains a wide selection of pomes from three of Hughes's collections - Lupercal, Woodwo and The Hawk in the Rain. 

Brian Hanley - None of the Literary Type : Liam Mellows - PB - 2016

A stapled booklet, 84 pages, issued as part of the Decade of Centenary celebrations, covers the life of Mellows in the revolutionary era, up to his executrion in a reprisal during the Irish Civil War. 

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...

John Barnes - Eva Peron - PB - 1978

A 1978 biography of the Argentinian 'First Lady' - exploring the paradoxes in her life.  Fontana Books, there is repair to the inside pages with (yellowing tape) 

Donnchadh Ó Cinnéide - In Song and Story - A Commemoration of the Centenary of Éirí Amach na CásC

A paperback collection of songs and verse relating to the revolutionary events of 1916  (and some written by those who participated) - published in association with Comhaltas , and issued as part of the decade of Centenaries.  In very good...

Seán MacBride ( Editor) - Crime and Punishment - 1982

A 1982 collection of essays  largely based on the Irish Penal System Commission Report, as well as the full text of the Ó Briain Report into the treatment of those in Garda custody  and the so called 'heavy gang' .  Published by...

Muiris Mac Conghail - The Blaskets : A Kerry Island Library - HB - illustrated - Reprint 1988

Hardcover, published by Country House, Dublin 1987.  The Blasket Islands lie off Slea Head, county Kerry. Great Blasket Island, now uninhabited the largest, was inhabited for thousands of years by a small Gaelic-speaking fishing community. In 1953...

Brinsley MacNamara - The Clanking of Chains ( A story of Sinn Féin) - Anvil Press Vintage PB

A paperback REPRINT edition, Anvil Press, of Brinsley Macnamara's The Clanking of Chains, first published in 1919- 20 by Maunsel. Originally titled as The Clanking of Chains - A Story of Sinn Féin. John Weldon, who used the penname Brinsley...

John B. Keane - Letters of a Civic Guard - Vintage PB - 1st 1976

A first paperback edition originally published 1976 Leo Molair is a longtime Garda, writing letters to his nephew who is also a guard, but of only two years standing..  

John Wyndham - The Seeds of Time - Vintage Penguin PB SF 1963 ( Originally 1956(

In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, conducts ten experiments along the theme of 'I wonder what might happen if . . .' There's the story of the meteor,...

Harold O'Sullivan - A History of Local Government in the County of Louth - PB - 2000

A HISTORY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LOUTH,focusing primarily on the century since the Local Government Act of 1898. . 

Peadar O'Donnell - Proud Island - PB - 1985 ( Originally 1975)

A 1985 O'Brien Press reprint of the 1975 original. Light spotting to pages, binding tight, otherwise unmarked. 

Donal Shanahan - The Green and Golden Years of Toomevara GAA 1885-1985 - HB - 1985

A hardcover first and sole edition ( published 1985) of the history of teh historic Toomevara GAA club, in the heart of North Tipperary. One of a number of such club histories published in 1984-85 for the centenary GAA celebrations. The Toomevara...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 11 ( 2011)

Volume 11 in the ongoing series of photographs by Sean Curtin of Limerick City's history, streets, and people.  104 pages, photographs from newspaper and previously unpublished sources.  Condition - Good, internally unmarked, slight dogear to...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 6 ( 2006)

Volume 6 in the ongoing series of photographs by Sean Curtin of Limerick City's history, streets, and people.  104 pages, photographs from newspaper and previously unpublished sources.  Condition - Good, internally unmarked, slight dogear to...

Tom Christoph McDermott - A Little Town in Ireland - PB - Roscommon

Paperback, publsihed by Nelson, 2011, signed by teh author with a dedication, and dated 2012.  An account of the author's life and youth in his native Roscommon town, followed by a long career with RTE.   

George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman at the Charge - HB - 1973

A hardcover first edition, Barrie & Jenkins UK, 1973 Price clipped on the inside front cover flap. Excellent wraparound cover art by A.E Barbosa, and map of the middle east and central Asia to dfront and rear endpages.  The fourth volume of...

Brendan O'Neill - Irish Cathedrals, Churches and Abbeys - HB - 2002

Hardcover, published by Caxton Books, 2002.  An illustrrated guidebook to Ireland's notable churches  and cathedrals ( ancient and modern )   

Tom Ferris - The Gleam of the Lines - An Illustrated Journey Through Two Centuries of Irish Railway History - HB - 2009

Hardcover, illustrated throughout with artwork, painted reconstructions of trains and stations, period and modern photography, maps of train networks, etc.  Gill & Macmillan , 2011. 

Dermot Kavanagh - Ollie - The Hurling Life & Times of Ollie Walsh - PB -2006 - Kilkenny GAA

A larger formast paperback, 2006, published by Blackwater Press.  Oliver ( Ollie) Walsh ( 1837-1996) was a notable hurler , originally from Thomastown.  There is a sliced line ( as if from a blade) on the front cover. 

Paddy O'Brien ( Editor) - Toomevara GAA - 25 Glorious Years 1986-2010 - HB

A hardcover fully illustrated history of the Tipperary club, covering all levels and codes.  The first endpage is partly loose, no other flaws or damage noted.   

John Duffy - Barrow Bridges and related subjects - PB - 2007

Large format paperback, illustrated throughout, with modern photography, period images, and line drawings.  Introduction by Dick Warner.  "No one person can be a historian and an archaeologist, an engineer and a zoologist and a master of all...

John O'Meara - The Singing Master - HB - 1990

Published by Lilliput Press, 1990, hardcover,  From the library of former Tánaiste  John Wilson, and bearing his signature and dated 22-1-1991.  This essay in autobiography opens in Eyrecourt, east Galway, and describes an early...

Margaret Cornish - Still Waters - Mystery Tales of the Canals - HB - 1982

Hardcover, published by Robert Hale UK, 1980.