Irish History and Historical Biography

Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : Limerick Soviet 1919 - HB 1st- 1990

The original first edition printing in hardcover, O'Brien Press 1990, of then RTE journalist Liam Cahill's account of the short lived Limerick Soviet 1919, and how the events in the city in that year interacted with the wider nascent War of Independence...

R. F. Foster - The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland - HB

 Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century.Foster argues...

Ivor Hamrock - The Famine in Mayo : A Portrait from Contemporary Sopurces 1845-50 - HB 2

Second edition, first published 1998. Published by Mayo County Libraries. A collection of period accounts from the county, from newspapers, visitors, clergy, landlords, government officials etc. 

Donal J O'Sullivan - The Depot - A History of the Garda Síochana Depot at the Phoenix Park, Dublin - PB -

Signed by the author to the copyright page, dated 18/05/07. Originally built by the British in 1842, The Depot was the central training cenmtre for the RIC, and the new Irish Free State maintained the role there until 1964 when the Garda Training Centre...

Jarlath Killeen - Gothic Ireland : Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century - HB - 2005

Published by Four Courts Press, Dublin - 2005 .  Light age tanning to pages, otherwise good.  This book examines the formation of Anglican identity in Ireland throughout the long 18th century. Beginning with the 1641 Rebellion, which...

Peter Somerville-Large - Cappaghglass - HB

Hardcover, published by Hamish Hamilton UK, 1985.  Moderate to heavy age spotting to the page block, small area of laminate peel to upper edge of spine on the dustjacket. 

Brendan O'Donoghue - In Search of Fame and Fortune - The Leahy Family of Engineers 1780-1888

Hardcover, published by Geography Publications , 2006, signed and with a dedication to a previous owner.  With the exception of a few of the major figures, there have been relatively few publications on the individuals who made up the land...

Liam O'Connor - The Sailor and the Seamstress - PB - BRAND NEW

Every family has a story … for Liam O’Connor that story goes back to his great-grandparents, William and Norry Kennedy. Using the threads of his family’s past to weave a tapestry that is at once personal yet somehow universal, this...

Colm Wallace - Irish History : Strange But True - PB - BRAND NEW

We all know of of the various wars, the Famine and the pivotal events which have made the Ireland what it is today, but few know the stranger aspects of the nation's past. From body snatchers, to pirate queens and Celtic vampires, Ireland's hidden...

Brian Walker - Irish History Matters : Politics, Identities and Commemoration- BRAND NEW

While knowledge of history can explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of the myths and misuses of our history can bring a broader and more conciliatory approach to current political and social challenges. History or, more correctly,...

Enda Finnan - Navan Road - An Illustrated History - BRAND NEW

Enda Finnan examins the physical and social development of the Cabra /Navan Road district from the 18th to the 20th century. Tracing the landscape of the area back to the ancient route from the Ford of the Hurdles to Tara, by the 18th century the area...

John Crotty - The Irish Tricolour - Brand New

This important book reveals the untold story of the Irish tricolour: its true origins, a forgotten heroine, and the emblems it replaced. For the first time, a fully referenced history corrects long-standing myths and slurs surrounding Ireland's national...

Michael Loughman - James Ryan and the Development of the Irish State - BRAND NEW

This book examines the life of James Ryan (1892-1970) as a means by which to explore the emergence and development of the independent Irish state. As a figure who was at the centre of the foundational events of the independent Irish state from 1916 until...

Gill Books - Pocket Book of Saint Patrick - HB

Francis Kelly - Captain Francisco de Cuéllar: The Armada, Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish Monarchy, 1578–1606 BRAND NEW

Captain Francisco de Cuéllar was an officer who served with the ill-fated Spanish Armada. He was shipwrecked on the coast of Co. Sligo in September 1588. Known to Irish history for the extraordinary account he wrote of his experiences in Ireland,...

Jim Herlihy The Royal Irish Constabulary - Reprint PB - BRAND NEW

This book is designed to provide those interested in the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with practical advice regarding the availability of primary sources, their strengths and weaknesses. It examines the vast array of sources available...

Terence Dooley - The Big Houses and Landed Estates of Ireland - PB - Reprint - BRAND NEW

This book is designed to provide those interested in the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with practical advice regarding the availability of primary sources, their strengths and weaknesses. It examines the vast array of sources available...

Brian Murphy - Forgotten Patriot : Douglas Hyde & the Foundation of the Irish Presidency - PB 2016

 It had been a busy few days for Adolf Hitler, but Douglas Hyde had not slipped his mind ... On 25 June 1938, Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland. His values stood in stark contrast to those of the continental dictator. As a...

Jimmy Kelly - At the End of the Day - HB - 2024

Biography of Waterfvord born UNITE trade unionist and activist Jimmy Kelly, who spent most of his life working at Waterford Glass. 

Anthony J Jordan - Seán MacBride - HB - 1993

A 1993 biography of the noted Irish human rights advocate , winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, founder of Amnesty International, son of Maud Gonne and Major John MacBride, assistant secretary to De Valera, IRA War of Independence fighter, assistant...

T. Ryle Dwyer - Behind the Green Curtain : Ireland's Phoney Neutrality During World War II (Hardback)

Previously, it had been well understood that, for reasons of geographical location, Ireland had been prepared 'to show a certain consideration for Britain' as Eamon de Valera explained to the German minister in Dublin. It was equally known that...

Yvonne Whelan - Reinventing Modern Dublin : Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity - HB

Yvonne Whelan takes the reader from the contested iconography of Dublin as it evolved in the years before Independence through to the contemporary plans for the millennium spire on O'Connell Street, showing how a shift has taken place from an intensely...

Joseph Robins - Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland in the Twentieth Century - HB

Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland in the Twentieth Century: Fifty Years of An Bord Altranais (The Nursing Board) 1950 - 2000 by Joseph RobinsIllustratedPublished by An Bord Altranais, 2000

David Edwards, Clodagh Tait & Padraig Lenihan ( Editors) - Age of Atrocity : Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland -PB - BRAND NEW

This book examines one of the bloodiest epochs in Irish history. Part one covers the 16th century, revealing how efforts by the Tudor monarchy to curb the powers of the autonomous Irish lords degenerated into a bitter cultural and sectarian conflict...

Pat Dargan - Medieval Dublin : A History - PB - BRAND NEW

Provides an insightful exploration of Dublin's rich architectural heritage, spanning from the medieval period through the normal era to the late 15th century. Featuring 45 significant structures this guide offers a glimpse into medieval Dublin...

John Waddell - The Celtic World - A History - HB - BRAND NEW

At the dawn of history the Celts occupied a vast swathe of Europe from Ireland in the west to lands south of the Black Sea in asia Minor. The study of this Celtic past has often been a dispited and debated territory and for centuries the true story of...

T.W Moody , R.B McDowell & C.J Woods - The Wtritings of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II -1795-1796 - PB

Published by Oxford University Press, 2009 ( the first paperback edition, , originally 2001.  Covers Tone's letters, essays and diaries , covering hsi time in France, and the illfated Bantry Bay expedition in 1796 ( one of the great what-ifs of...

Michael T Foy & Brian Barton - The Easter Rising - PB - 2011 ( oRIGINALLY 2009_

Published as a POD ( Print on Demand) edition, History Press, 2011.  In very good condition, as new, aprt from a slight curled bend to the page block ( which is common enough with POD editions. 

Aileen Heverin - The Irish Countrywomen's Association: A History : 1910-2000 - PB - 2000

  Paperback, published by Wolfhound Books , 2000. Illustrated.  Originally founded in 1910 as the Society of United Irishwomen ( a bit more revolutionary sounding) this book celebrated the 90th anniversarty of a key rural social organisation,...

Thomas McErlean, Rosemary McConkey & Wes Forsythe ( Editors) - Strangford Lough - An Archaeological Survey of the Maritime Cultural Landscape - HB

Hardcover, published by Blackstaff Press, 2002 Lacks the original dustjacket. Otherwise very good.  Strangford Lough in County Down has been officially designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty. For thousands of years, however, its appeal was much...

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa ( Editor - William Casey) - The Fenian Movement - PB - BRAND NEW

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa is one of the best known leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), better known as the Fenian Movement. This organisation emerged both in Ireland and America in the late 1850s, with the goal of gaining...

Brian Lacey - Adomnán, Adhamhnán, Eunan Life and afterlife of a Donegal Saint - PB

Adomnán (c.625–704) was ninth abbot of the monastery on Iona off the Scottish coast, and comarba (head) of the confederation of churches associated with St Columba/Colum Cille. Like Columba, Adomnán came from what is now County...

Patricia McCarthy - Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland - A History of Amiable Exceess - HB - BRAND NEW

This book looks at Ireland’s love affair with claret, which began in earnest with the establishment of Irish families in the wine trade in Bordeaux in the early eighteenth century. So much red wine from Bordeaux was being consumed by...

Richard Aldous / Great Irish Speeches (Coffee Table Book)

Great Irish Speeches" contains 50 of the most stirring and memorable speeches in Irish history. From the political oratories of Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera to emotive addresses by the nation's celebrated poets, writers...

Joseph Hone, Maurice Craig & Michael Fewer - The New Neighbourhood of Dublin - HB

''The City and County of Dublin Explored in 1949 and 2001'' In 1949, Joseph Hone and Maurice Craig explored 21 routes from Dublin city centre into the outlying county, making extensive scholarly notes of their observations. In this quality publication,...

Anthony Bailey - Acts of Union - Reports on Ireland - HB

Hardcover, published by Faber UK, a collection of long essays 1973-1979 on Northern Ireland and published originally in the New Yorker and other publications.  Hardcover, now in a protective Brodart jacket cover. 

J.J Feeney - A History of Ireland - From the Treaty of Limerick to Our Own Day- 1950's Schoolbook - ( illustrated by Karl Uhlemann)

Undated, but 1950's and published by the Educational Company of Ireland, this is a primary level schoolbook ( probably around 4th class level) of a short concise history of Ireland for schools . Despite being a school copy, this is in very good...

Jim Maher - The Flying Column - West Kilkenny 1916-1921 - PB

Jim Maher, the author, comes from a Kilkenny family with a strong Republican tradition, and his commitment to tell the story of the lives and times of the young freedom fighters of the borderland was strengthened when he went to teach in Tullaroan...

RIA - Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section C - Volume 111 - 2011 - PB ( Special Issue - Domestic Life in Ireland)

Large format illustrated - Section C covers papers and essays in Archaeology, Celtic Studies, Irish history, linguistics and literature.  The house and group identity in the Irish Neolithic (pp. 1-31)Jessica Smyth Domestic production and the...

Denis G Marnane & Mary Guinan Darmody - Finding Tipperary - A Guide to the Resources of the Tipperary Studies Department , Thurles Library - HB - 2006

A detailed illustrated catalogue/ gazetteer and guide to all the resources on Tipperary local histrory held by Tipperary County Libraries  Large format hardcover. 

Denis G Marnane ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2023

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  Holy Cross and Kilcooley: ‘Two Holy Cross abbeys in Tipperary By Niall C.E.]. O’Brien The role of a Cashel Man in the Abolition of Slavery By...

Nicholas Leach - The Lifeboat Service in Ireland : Station by Station - PB - 2005

For the past two hundred years, lifeboats have been stationed around the coasts of Britain and Ireland, ready to rescue the shipwrecked. In times past, shipwrecks were much more common and there was little provision to help those stranded at sea. Places...

John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - SIGNED

In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46...

Eleanor Fitzsimons / Wilde's Women (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Conor Lenihan / Albert Reynolds - Risktaker for Peace (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Diarmuid Ó Cearbhaill ( Editor) - Galway Town and Gown 1484-1984 - HB

Published by Gill and Macmillan 1984 for the Galway City Quincintennial, a collection of essays on the history since being incoprporated as a city in 1484.  Essays on placenames, history of health in the city, , economic and trade history, the...

Chrissy Osborne / Michael Collins - Himself (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Brian Ó Cuiv ( Editor) - Seven Centuries of Irish Learning ( 1000-1700) - PB

Paperback, published by Mercier Press, 1971, originally published by Government Publications, 1961.   

Daniel Corkery - The Fortunes of the Irish Language - Vintage PB

Paperback, this edition published by Mercier Press 1968, originally 1954. A history of the Irish language and Gaelic Ireland in the wider sense, from the earliest times until 1919, concentrating on the interaction between politics and language...

Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - ( Number 8 - Autumn 1981 )

Autumn 1981 edition 40 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors General Editor Jim Kemmy A forgotten benefactor [Robert Frith]The men of Park [poem] by Richard Ross-LewinHow the Shannon Scheme Workers Lived by Michael...

Seán Óg Ó Fearghail - Law (?) and Orders - The Story of the Belfast Curfew : 3-5 July 1970 - PB ( Northern Ireland)

Uncommon.  A 48 page large format stapled booklet , centering on the events surrounding the hugely controversial Belfast (Falls Road) Curfew in 1970.  The Central Citizens’ Defence Committee was founded on August 16th 1969 on the...

Ron Walsh - The Truth Behind the 1968 Aer Lingus Crash - PB - SIGNED - 2023

Signed by the author to the title page This collection of articles comprises a lifetimes research of the 1968 Aer Lingus Crash, and other pieces, some autobiographical , the author ( a Wexford native) s[pent much of his career as a maritime wireless...