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It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Colbert Kearney - Down by the Liffeyside - PB - BRAND NEW A witty social history of a Dublin working-class family from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. This was no ordinary family. Colbert's grandfather, Peadar Kearney, was a veteran of 1916 and the War of Independence; his cousin was the IRA activist... 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MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Colbert Kearney - Down by the Liffeyside - PB - BRAND NEW A witty social history of a Dublin working-class family from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. This was no ordinary family. Colbert's grandfather, Peadar Kearney, was a veteran of 1916 and the War of Independence; his cousin was the IRA activist... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL114 Flavin , Timmy - At the Water's Edge - Two Boats ( Around Ireland by Kayak) - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW Paperback, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs taken on the trip, maps, nature photographs, landscape, gear , kayaks nd much more. This book, published in 2019, is the account by the late Timmy Flavin of a trip undertaken... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN483 Sophie White - Corpsing : My Body and Other Horror Shows - PB - BRAND NEW Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ó Neachtain, Seán - Ón Spidéal go Strasbourg : Cuimhní Cinn - PB - Politics - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW Foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, Gailiimh, 2020. 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Fiona’s huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It’s a decision... MSRP: €17.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Mark Mehigan - This is not a Self Help Book - PB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) Much of Mark Mehigan’s twenties read like a ‘how-to’ manual: How to get very drunk without raising people’s suspicions you might be an alcoholic. Although outwardly successful, nearing 30 he was hurtling towards a nervous... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL114 Flavin , Timmy - At the Water's Edge - Two Boats ( Around Ireland by Kayak) - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW Paperback, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs taken on the trip, maps, nature photographs, landscape, gear , kayaks nd much more. This book, published in 2019, is the account by the late Timmy Flavin of a trip undertaken... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN483 Sophie White - Corpsing : My Body and Other Horror Shows - PB - BRAND NEW Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ó Neachtain, Seán - Ón Spidéal go Strasbourg : Cuimhní Cinn - PB - Politics - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW Foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, Gailiimh, 2020. 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MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... 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MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: BN1032 Paul Brady - Crazy Dreams - BRAND NEW - PB ( MAY 2023) Crazy Dreams is the compelling and highly anticipated autobiography from Paul Brady, a musician whose remarkable career has spanned six decades and who is indisputably one of Ireland’s greatest living songwriters. This evocative memoir... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS Mark Townsend - Brother Damien Brennan ( The Silent Man Behind the Kilkenny Success Story ) - PB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Paperback, published March 2023, our copies are signed by the author, Mark Townsend - BRAND NEW Between 2000 and 2015, Kilkenny won 11 All Ireland senior hurling titles. It was an unprecedented period of success for any GAAside, and across the... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Colbert Kearney - Down by the Liffeyside - PB - BRAND NEW A witty social history of a Dublin working-class family from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. This was no ordinary family. Colbert's grandfather, Peadar Kearney, was a veteran of 1916 and the War of Independence; his cousin was the IRA activist... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL114 Flavin , Timmy - At the Water's Edge - Two Boats ( Around Ireland by Kayak) - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW Paperback, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs taken on the trip, maps, nature photographs, landscape, gear , kayaks nd much more. This book, published in 2019, is the account by the late Timmy Flavin of a trip undertaken... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN483 Sophie White - Corpsing : My Body and Other Horror Shows - PB - BRAND NEW Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ó Neachtain, Seán - Ón Spidéal go Strasbourg : Cuimhní Cinn - PB - Politics - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW Foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, Gailiimh, 2020. Clúdach bog - BRAND NEW - glan nua . Bíonn an pholaitíocht i gcónaí áitiúil, deirtear agus is cinnte go raibh sé sin... MSRP: Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Crosbie, Paddy - Your Dinner's Poured Out ! : Boyhood in the 20's in a Dublin that has Dissappeared- HB - A hardback first edition (O'Brien Press, 1981) of Paddy Crosbie's bestseller, 'Your Dinner's Poured Out'Condition - light edgewear and scuffing. Subtitled ' A boyhood in the twenties in a Dublin that has disappeared', it is full of... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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Fiona’s huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It’s a decision... MSRP: €17.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Mark Mehigan - This is not a Self Help Book - PB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) Much of Mark Mehigan’s twenties read like a ‘how-to’ manual: How to get very drunk without raising people’s suspicions you might be an alcoholic. Although outwardly successful, nearing 30 he was hurtling towards a nervous... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Colbert Kearney - Down by the Liffeyside - PB - BRAND NEW A witty social history of a Dublin working-class family from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. This was no ordinary family. Colbert's grandfather, Peadar Kearney, was a veteran of 1916 and the War of Independence; his cousin was the IRA activist... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL114 Flavin , Timmy - At the Water's Edge - Two Boats ( Around Ireland by Kayak) - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW Paperback, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs taken on the trip, maps, nature photographs, landscape, gear , kayaks nd much more. This book, published in 2019, is the account by the late Timmy Flavin of a trip undertaken... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN483 Sophie White - Corpsing : My Body and Other Horror Shows - PB - BRAND NEW Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ó Neachtain, Seán - Ón Spidéal go Strasbourg : Cuimhní Cinn - PB - Politics - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW Foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, Gailiimh, 2020. 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MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... 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MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Colbert Kearney - Down by the Liffeyside - PB - BRAND NEW A witty social history of a Dublin working-class family from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. This was no ordinary family. Colbert's grandfather, Peadar Kearney, was a veteran of 1916 and the War of Independence; his cousin was the IRA activist... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL114 Flavin , Timmy - At the Water's Edge - Two Boats ( Around Ireland by Kayak) - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW Paperback, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs taken on the trip, maps, nature photographs, landscape, gear , kayaks nd much more. This book, published in 2019, is the account by the late Timmy Flavin of a trip undertaken... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN483 Sophie White - Corpsing : My Body and Other Horror Shows - PB - BRAND NEW Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ó Neachtain, Seán - Ón Spidéal go Strasbourg : Cuimhní Cinn - PB - Politics - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW Foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, Gailiimh, 2020. Clúdach bog - BRAND NEW - glan nua . Bíonn an pholaitíocht i gcónaí áitiúil, deirtear agus is cinnte go raibh sé sin... MSRP: Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Crosbie, Paddy - Your Dinner's Poured Out ! : Boyhood in the 20's in a Dublin that has Dissappeared- HB - A hardback first edition (O'Brien Press, 1981) of Paddy Crosbie's bestseller, 'Your Dinner's Poured Out'Condition - light edgewear and scuffing. Subtitled ' A boyhood in the twenties in a Dublin that has disappeared', it is full of... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: €17.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Mark Mehigan - This is not a Self Help Book - PB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) Much of Mark Mehigan’s twenties read like a ‘how-to’ manual: How to get very drunk without raising people’s suspicions you might be an alcoholic. Although outwardly successful, nearing 30 he was hurtling towards a nervous... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €16.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Michael O'Farrell - Fugitive : The Michael Lynn Story - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024) Fugitive: The Michael Lynn Story is a fast-paced and thrilling journey into the mind of a reluctant fugitive brought down by his own insatiable greed. This is investigative journalism at its most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Colbert Kearney - Down by the Liffeyside - PB - BRAND NEW A witty social history of a Dublin working-class family from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. This was no ordinary family. Colbert's grandfather, Peadar Kearney, was a veteran of 1916 and the War of Independence; his cousin was the IRA activist... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL114 Flavin , Timmy - At the Water's Edge - Two Boats ( Around Ireland by Kayak) - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW Paperback, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs taken on the trip, maps, nature photographs, landscape, gear , kayaks nd much more. This book, published in 2019, is the account by the late Timmy Flavin of a trip undertaken... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN483 Sophie White - Corpsing : My Body and Other Horror Shows - PB - BRAND NEW Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ó Neachtain, Seán - Ón Spidéal go Strasbourg : Cuimhní Cinn - PB - Politics - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW Foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, Gailiimh, 2020. Clúdach bog - BRAND NEW - glan nua . Bíonn an pholaitíocht i gcónaí áitiúil, deirtear agus is cinnte go raibh sé sin... MSRP: Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Crosbie, Paddy - Your Dinner's Poured Out ! : Boyhood in the 20's in a Dublin that has Dissappeared- HB - A hardback first edition (O'Brien Press, 1981) of Paddy Crosbie's bestseller, 'Your Dinner's Poured Out'Condition - light edgewear and scuffing. Subtitled ' A boyhood in the twenties in a Dublin that has disappeared', it is full of... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Mark Mehigan - This is not a Self Help Book - PB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) Much of Mark Mehigan’s twenties read like a ‘how-to’ manual: How to get very drunk without raising people’s suspicions you might be an alcoholic. Although outwardly successful, nearing 30 he was hurtling towards a nervous... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €16.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Michael O'Farrell - Fugitive : The Michael Lynn Story - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024) Fugitive: The Michael Lynn Story is a fast-paced and thrilling journey into the mind of a reluctant fugitive brought down by his own insatiable greed. This is investigative journalism at its most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... 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MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL114 Flavin , Timmy - At the Water's Edge - Two Boats ( Around Ireland by Kayak) - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW Paperback, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs taken on the trip, maps, nature photographs, landscape, gear , kayaks nd much more. This book, published in 2019, is the account by the late Timmy Flavin of a trip undertaken... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN483 Sophie White - Corpsing : My Body and Other Horror Shows - PB - BRAND NEW Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ó Neachtain, Seán - Ón Spidéal go Strasbourg : Cuimhní Cinn - PB - Politics - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW Foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, Gailiimh, 2020. 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It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Colbert Kearney - Down by the Liffeyside - PB - BRAND NEW A witty social history of a Dublin working-class family from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. This was no ordinary family. Colbert's grandfather, Peadar Kearney, was a veteran of 1916 and the War of Independence; his cousin was the IRA activist... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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Quick view sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Crosbie, Paddy - Your Dinner's Poured Out ! : Boyhood in the 20's in a Dublin that has Dissappeared- HB - A hardback first edition (O'Brien Press, 1981) of Paddy Crosbie's bestseller, 'Your Dinner's Poured Out'Condition - light edgewear and scuffing. Subtitled ' A boyhood in the twenties in a Dublin that has disappeared', it is full of... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Compare Selected
Quick view Crosbie, Paddy - Your Dinner's Poured Out ! : Boyhood in the 20's in a Dublin that has Dissappeared- HB - A hardback first edition (O'Brien Press, 1981) of Paddy Crosbie's bestseller, 'Your Dinner's Poured Out'Condition - light edgewear and scuffing. Subtitled ' A boyhood in the twenties in a Dublin that has disappeared', it is full of... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Compare Selected