Irish History and Historical Biography

Liam De Paor - Milestones in Irish History - PB 1986

The 13 essays in this slim volume cover 13 benchmark events in recorded Irish history - The Building of Newgrange and the Boyne Tombs Coming of Christianity Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf 1014 The Norman Invasion, The flight of the Earls The...

Jude Collins / Martin McGuinness:: The Man I Knew (Large Paperback)

In Martin McGuinness, The Man I Knew , Jude Collins offers the reader a range of perspectives on a man who helped shape Ireland's recent history. Those who knew Martin McGuinness during his life talk frankly about him, what he did and said, what sort...

Hazel P. Smyth - The B&I Line - HB - 1984

Hardcover, published by Gill & Macmillan , Dublin 1984, first edition hardcover in dustjacket.  Hazel Smyth was a former employee of  B&I, the shipping and ferry company that formed a crucial part of co,mmerce , trade and transport on...

A Church Centenary : O'Loughlin Memorial Church of St John the Evangelist , Kilkenny 1908-2008 - HB

Hardcover, both a history of teh church building itself, and teh widser parish and community.   

Valerie McGowan-Doyle - The Book of Howth : Elizabethan Conquest and the Old English - HB - 2011

This study provides the first sustained address of The Book of Howth and its compiler, Christopher St. Lawrence, 7th baron Howth (ca. 1510-1589). The Book of Howth ultimately offers a unique and extended Old English perspective on colonial conflict,...

Peadar O'Dowd - A History of County Galway - PB - 2004

Galway is the second largest county in Ireland and the largest in the province of Connacht, both in area and population. It is divided in two by the great expanse of Lough Corrib, the largest lake in the Republic of Ireland. To the west lie one of the...

Janet Todd - Daughters of Ireland : The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation - HB - 2004

They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century--and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle...

Martin Holland - Clonskeagh : A Place in History - HB - 2007

Hardcover, published by Linden Books, 2007.  421 pages. Illustrated. 250x175mm. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered silver, with original pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Modern Clonskeagh is now a fully integrated part of Dublin city but...

John Connors - Seán Hogan - His lIfe : A Troubled Journey - PB - BRAND NEW- 2019

Famously rescued by his more illustrious comrades at Knocklong railway station in May of 1919, Sean Hogan, the man central to the event did in time, become relegated to relative anonymity. This book re-rescues Sean Hogan and reveals a man that was...

John Connors - Dan Breen : The Man Behind the Myth - PB - BRAND NEW

Delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Dan Breen: The Man Behind the Myth - Tipperary's Famous Revolutionary.  Anyone with an interest in Irish history is aware of the legend of Dan Breen. Breen the fearless - and fearsome - warrior...

Gerard Moran & Raymond Gillespie ( Editor) - Galway - History and Society - HB 1996

The ninth published volume in the Irish County History Series, published by Geography Publications, 1996. This is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary study ever undertaken on Galway. Archaeologists, medievalists, Celtic scholars, geographers, and...

Robert Graham - A Scottish Whig in Ireland, 1835-38 : The Irish Journals of Robert Graham (Hardback)

Graham paid 3 visits to Ireland, touring Leinster and Munster in 1835 and then Connaught and Ulster in the following year. He also visited the Gore-Booths at Lissadell in 1838. His journals were to inform his mother and sisters in Edinburgh and weren't...

Conor Brady / The Guarding of Ireland: The Gárda Síochana and the Irish State Since 1960-2014 (Hardback)

In this timely history of the Garda Siochana, Conor Brady, widely recognised as the most authoritative historian of Irish policing, explores some of the biggest challenges the force has faced since 1960.Beginning with one of their greatest tests...

Rob Lewis / Fishers of Men (Hardback)

This is a true account of secret operations carried out by the British Army's most clandestine unit- the Force Research Unit in Northern Ireland. Through the author's own experiences, the story of an essential instrument in the fight against...

John Ardagh / Ireland and the Irish: Portrait of a Changing Society (Hardback)

Examined Ireland in the mid 1980's and discusses the conflicts between the goals for integrating Ireland into the European Union and the reality of its tight hold on traditional and sometimes outdated practices...

Seamus Grimes - Ireland in 1804 - A Contemporary Account - HB

An ex ( refernce) library copy, published by Four Courts Press, 1980.  Small format hardcover, as issued without dj in attractive cloth and boardscovers Based on an anonymous tour of the island of Ireland in 1804, and publsihed in 1806, a day to day...

Cal McCarthy - Cumann na mBan & the Irish Revolution | In the Shadow of the Big Fellow : The Commemoration, Commercialisation, Study and Politicisation of Michael Collins - 2 x PB BRAND NEW SIGNED

Both copies are brand new and flatsigned by the author, undedicated.  Cumann na mBan book is the Revised updated PB edition, Collins Press, Cork. 2014, originally 2007, however , this is in brand new condition.  Cumann na mBan - BRAND NEW...

Derek Lundy / Men That God Made Mad (Hardback)

In this remarkable book, Belfast-born Derek Lundy uses the lives of three of his ancestors as a prism through which to examine what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland. In Ulster, the name 'Lundy'...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII - No 108 - SUMMER 2010

PAPERBACK, DARK GREEN COVERS.  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews,shorter notes on military history, shorter articles, 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI - No 64 - SUMMER 1986

Metallic rust offset stain to front cover ( external only)  Colonel Henry, Eight Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen by Harman Murtagh 133Aspects of the military history of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland 1169 – 1225 by Randall Rogers...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI - No 62 - 1984

Uneven tanning to page block edges.  An Officer of the 8th The King’s Royal Irish Hussars by F. Glenn Thompson 1Some Documents Relating to the Involvement of the Irish Brigade in the Rebellion of 1745 by Hector McDonnell 3Irish Soldiers in...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XIII- No.50 - Summer 1977

Uneven tanning to page block edges.      As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews,shorter notes on military history, shorter articles, 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI- No.63 - 1985

Contents The Belfast Blitz by Robson S. Davison 65Imperial Yeomanry Notes by F. Glenn Thompson 84Irishmen in the Stuart Navy, 1660 – 90 by Hector McDonnell 87Terence Bellew McManus: Fenian by Precursor Brendan O’Cathaoir 105Guns and Castle in...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXII- No.87 Summer 2000

Contents Vol. XXII Summer 2000 No 87 The Military History Society of Ireland, 1949-99: a message to mark the golden jubilee (Illustrated)Donal O'Carroll Page 1The battle of Manning Ford, 4 June 1643 Niall Brunicardi Page 3Niall Brunicardi (1913-1997)...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIII- No. 94 Winter 2003

Photograph of a collar and two armlets worn by a negro in the band of the Kilkenny Militia, c. 1793 facing page 361Preserving Donegal - the battle of Glenmaquin, 16 June 1642 by Patrick McCarthy 361Jacobite Artillery, 1689-91 by Harman Murtagh 383General...

James Morrissey - On the Verge of Want ( Congested District Board Reports ) - HB

Hardcover, published by Crannóg Books.  A full reproduction of a select number of 'Congested District ' reports from teh west of Irealnd, documenting poverty and social conditions in the early 1890's, as reported on by visiting inspectors...

John FitzMaurice Mills - The Noble Dwellings of Ireland - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Thames & Hudson UK 1987 Signed and with a brief dedication to a previous owner by teh author on the title page.  There is heavy age spotting and foxing to the (mostly white) dustjacket and to the (blank) preliminary pages...

Naas Local History Group - Nás na Ríogh : From Poorhouse Road to the Fairy Flax : An Illustrated History of Naas - HB

A large format hardcover, 1990, published by Naas Local History Group on association with the Leinster Leader.  Illustrations and photographs of Naas in times past - most from the late 19th and early 20th century.  Signed by a anumber of teh...

E.E O'Donnell - Father Browne's Titanic Album - HB - 1998

Father Browne's lifelong hobby was photography.  This volume concentrates on photographs relating to R.M.S 'Titanic'. Browne joined the ship at Southampton 10th April, 1912, and disembarked at Queenstown (now Cobh). During the only safe journey the...

Edward McParland - Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760 - HB

Large format hardcover, published by Yale UP , 2001. Newspaper review loosely laid in.    This innovative book examines the public architecture of Ireland from 1680 to 1760, a crucial period during which the country undertook the combined tasks...

David Ross - Ireland - History of a Nation - PB 2008 Edition

This original and updated, readable history tells the story of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day. The history is written from the point of view of the Irish people. Updated in 2008 the text explains the Irish question aimed at someone who...

James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury - Vanishing Ireland ( 1) - HB - 2006

Vanishing Ireland is a unique collection of portrait interviews looking at the dying ways and traditions of Irish life and taking us back to an Ireland virtually unrecognisable to today's post-boom generation. Illustrated with over a hundred evocative...

Rob Cross - The Colour of Ireland, Volume 2 - HB - 2023 - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

Breathing new life into Ireland's history once again, this carefully restored and colourised collection of wonderful black and white images captures the beauty of the nation's fascinating past. This sequel to the bestselling The Colour of Ireland...

George Cunningham - From Landlords to Genetics : The Historical and Modern Story of the Trant Estate, dovea, Thurles Co Tipperary - HB - 2019

'From Landlords to Genetics' tells the story of the historical and modern Trant estate at Dovea, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.It covers the physical and historic landscape of the area, the fortunes of the Trant generations from before and during their tenure at...

James Connolly - Socialism and Nationalism - A Selection from the Writings ( Edited by Desmond Ryan) - HB - 1948

A hardcover first edition ( thus) , published 1948 at the Sign of Three Cndles Press, Dublin.  Small format hardcover, with slightnly rubbed pictorial cover, internally very good, binding tight, no marks noted.  James Connolly was a...

Dónal Murray - Tracks of the City : An Introduction to the Railways, Tramways and Metro in Dublin - PB

Published by Colourpoint Books, 2014.  A history and exploration of Dublin's public transport, particularly the tram system which was onec one of teh largest city systems in Europe, which began to be renewed with the arrival of the DART, and in the...

Helen Livingston - Ireland Photographic Memories - PB ( Francis Frith Photographic Collection)

Paperback, publsihed by Frith Book Company, 2018.  Photographs ( mostly landscape, scenic attractions and tourist themed) taken throughout Ireland from the late 19th to the mid 20th century, north and south

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill & Yseult Thonley / RTÉ 100 Years : Ireland in the 20th Century HB

RTE 100 Ireland in the 20th Century is a unique and stimulating record of Ireland's progression through the 20th century, and one that, in Brian Farrell's words in the introduction, connects as to history with an instant immediacy.  Illustrated...

Gordon T Ledbetter - John McCormack : The Great Irish Tenor - PB -2003

John McCormack was born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, in 1884. By his late twenties, he was a world-famous opera singer and, at the height of his popularity, was as famous, flamboyant and well-paid as rock stars of today. In this biography, Gordon T...

Joe Ó Muircheartaigh & T.J Flynn - Princes of Pigskin : A Century of Kerry Footballers - HB - 2007

At the time of writing, Kerry had played in 52 football All-Irelands and won 34, making it the most successful county in Gaelic football. It has a long and storied history and many fabled heroes. This collection of interview-based essays surveys Kerry...

Christiaan Corlett - Robert L Chapman's Ireland : Photographs From the Chapman Collection 1907-1957 - HB

Hardcover, published by Collins Press, Cork.  The Chapman Collection  is a unique collection of photography spanning the half century from 1907-1957. Chapman was a keen cyclist, and much of his work was taken on his numerous trips throughout...

Anne Cadwallader / Holy Cross: The Untold Story (Large Paperback)

The loyalist blockade to prevent young catholic schoolchildren from walking a short distance through "their territory" and therefore not be able to attend school was one of the very lowest points in the history of the state of Northern Ireland.In what...

Brian Showers - Literary Walking Tour of Gothic Dublin - PB

Dublin has spawned three important writers in the nineteenth century gothic tradition: Charles Maturin (1782-1824), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) and Bram Stoker (1847-1912). These writers contributed memorable and influential stories that were...

Brendan McGowran & Corinne Silva - Róisín Bán : The Irish Diaspora in Leeds - HB

Emigration is a common theme throughout Irish history. As Dermot Bolger recognises in his foreword, it is one that has touched almost every family in Ireland. Until recently thousands found work in Britain’s major industrial centres. For a large...

Ronald Cox & Philip Donald - Ireland's Civil Engineering Heritage - PB - 2013

Until the early eighteenth century, life for the majority of people in Ireland had not changed greatly since the Middle Ages, but then the pace of change began to accelerate. New sources of power heralded the Industrial Revolution in Britain, although...

Andy Bielenberg - The Shasnnon Scheme and the Electrification of the Irish Free State - PB

Jo Kerrigan - Stories From the Sea - HB - BRAND NEW

Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands have brought goods, ideas, invaders, influencers. Our legends, and particularly the imramma or magical...

Harold Good & Martin O'Brien / In Good Time: A Memoir (Large Paperback)

Rev. Harold Good, ’Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process, lifts the curtain on his remarkable life in this enthralling memoir. From Ian Paisley’s turbulent...

Stephen Kelly / A Failed Political Entity (Large Paperback)

Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question, 1945-1992   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers...

Seamus MacAnnaidh / Irish History (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Gerard Brockie / Modern Ireland Documents Resource Book (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Angela Phelan / Who's Who in Ireland: The Influential Irish (Coffee Table Book)

Any attempt to provide a definitive listing of Ireland's most influential people right now is like trying to catch hold of quicksilver. Everything is changing by the nano second and influential people are emerging in just about f every walk of life all...