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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED607 John Mitchel- Jail Journal (1848-1953) - PB- Preface by Arthur Griffith Full text version of Mitchel's original journal, with a preface by Arthur Griffith ( from the 1913 edition) as well as along introductory essay by author and historian Thomas Flanagan, Published by University Press of Ireland . 1982 Heavy age... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR107 Redmond Fitzgerald - Cry Blood, Cry Erin : The Fight for the Irish Republuc - HB 1966 Hardcover, 1966, published by Barrie & Rockliff UK, probably as a tie in with eth 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... 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A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG580 Gerard Hayes-McCoy - Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland 1565-1603 - HB - 1996 An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. They were a force to be... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. 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A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... 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A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... 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Quick view Details Jane Helleiner - Irish Travellers and the Politics of Culture - HB - 2000 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BIG413 Conor Cruise O'Brien - States of Ireland -HB -1972 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED298 J Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details B M Walker - Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801-1922 - HB - 1978 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Martello Press Books Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Martello Press Books | sku: BIG361,BIG362,BIG363,BIG364,BIG365,BIG366,BIG367,BIG368 Trevor White - Malton's Views of Dublin : The Story of a Georgian City - HB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €29.95 Was: €29.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Martello Press Books | sku: MED332,MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: MED504,MED505,MED506,MED507,MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Martello Press Books | sku: MED320,MED321,MED322,MED323,MED324,MED325,MED326,MED327,MED328,MED329 Frank McDonald - A Little History of the Future of Dublin - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Anthem for the Innocent- PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Pre-Order Now Quick view First Editions | sku: MED673 Uinseann Mac Eoin - Harry : The Story of Harry White - PB - 1985 The Story of Harry White as Related to Uinseann MacEoin (1985) Harry. The Story of Harry White as related to Uinseann MacEoin with some early Photographs, and more recent Portraits by Colman Doyle. Published in Dublin by Argenta, 1985. First (and sole)... MSRP: Now: €42.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED607 John Mitchel- Jail Journal (1848-1953) - PB- Preface by Arthur Griffith Full text version of Mitchel's original journal, with a preface by Arthur Griffith ( from the 1913 edition) as well as along introductory essay by author and historian Thomas Flanagan, Published by University Press of Ireland . 1982 Heavy age... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR107 Redmond Fitzgerald - Cry Blood, Cry Erin : The Fight for the Irish Republuc - HB 1966 Hardcover, 1966, published by Barrie & Rockliff UK, probably as a tie in with eth 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG580 Gerard Hayes-McCoy - Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland 1565-1603 - HB - 1996 An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. They were a force to be... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. Using historical photographs ( primarily late 19th century up until WW1) to illustrate aspects of Irish history. Previous owners name written in pen isnide back cover, Hardcover. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... 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His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Pre-Order Now Quick view First Editions | sku: MED673 Uinseann Mac Eoin - Harry : The Story of Harry White - PB - 1985 The Story of Harry White as Related to Uinseann MacEoin (1985) Harry. The Story of Harry White as related to Uinseann MacEoin with some early Photographs, and more recent Portraits by Colman Doyle. Published in Dublin by Argenta, 1985. First (and sole)... MSRP: Now: €42.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG580 Gerard Hayes-McCoy - Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland 1565-1603 - HB - 1996 An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. They were a force to be... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED607 John Mitchel- Jail Journal (1848-1953) - PB- Preface by Arthur Griffith Full text version of Mitchel's original journal, with a preface by Arthur Griffith ( from the 1913 edition) as well as along introductory essay by author and historian Thomas Flanagan, Published by University Press of Ireland . 1982 Heavy age... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR107 Redmond Fitzgerald - Cry Blood, Cry Erin : The Fight for the Irish Republuc - HB 1966 Hardcover, 1966, published by Barrie & Rockliff UK, probably as a tie in with eth 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... 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Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... MSRP: Now: €18.99 Pre-Order Now Quick view Tipperary Books Gerard Shannon - Alderman Joseph MacDonagh TD -Tipperary's Forgotten Revolutionary Politician ( 1883-1922) Winner of Tipperariana Book of the Year 2022 Unlike his more famous oldest brother, 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, the story of Alderman Joseph MacDonagh, TD and has been largely forgotten. He has been referred to as 'one of the greatest young Irishman of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW 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... 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Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED607 John Mitchel- Jail Journal (1848-1953) - PB- Preface by Arthur Griffith Full text version of Mitchel's original journal, with a preface by Arthur Griffith ( from the 1913 edition) as well as along introductory essay by author and historian Thomas Flanagan, Published by University Press of Ireland . 1982 Heavy age... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR107 Redmond Fitzgerald - Cry Blood, Cry Erin : The Fight for the Irish Republuc - HB 1966 Hardcover, 1966, published by Barrie & Rockliff UK, probably as a tie in with eth 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... 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Quick view Details B M Walker - Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801-1922 - HB - 1978 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Martello Press Books Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Martello Press Books | sku: BIG361,BIG362,BIG363,BIG364,BIG365,BIG366,BIG367,BIG368 Trevor White - Malton's Views of Dublin : The Story of a Georgian City - HB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €29.95 Was: €29.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Martello Press Books | sku: MED332,MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: MED504,MED505,MED506,MED507,MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Martello Press Books | sku: MED320,MED321,MED322,MED323,MED324,MED325,MED326,MED327,MED328,MED329 Frank McDonald - A Little History of the Future of Dublin - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Anthem for the Innocent- PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Pre-Order Now Quick view First Editions | sku: MED673 Uinseann Mac Eoin - Harry : The Story of Harry White - PB - 1985 The Story of Harry White as Related to Uinseann MacEoin (1985) Harry. The Story of Harry White as related to Uinseann MacEoin with some early Photographs, and more recent Portraits by Colman Doyle. Published in Dublin by Argenta, 1985. First (and sole)... MSRP: Now: €42.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED607 John Mitchel- Jail Journal (1848-1953) - PB- Preface by Arthur Griffith Full text version of Mitchel's original journal, with a preface by Arthur Griffith ( from the 1913 edition) as well as along introductory essay by author and historian Thomas Flanagan, Published by University Press of Ireland . 1982 Heavy age... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR107 Redmond Fitzgerald - Cry Blood, Cry Erin : The Fight for the Irish Republuc - HB 1966 Hardcover, 1966, published by Barrie & Rockliff UK, probably as a tie in with eth 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... 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Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... MSRP: Now: €18.99 Pre-Order Now Quick view Tipperary Books Gerard Shannon - Alderman Joseph MacDonagh TD -Tipperary's Forgotten Revolutionary Politician ( 1883-1922) Winner of Tipperariana Book of the Year 2022 Unlike his more famous oldest brother, 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, the story of Alderman Joseph MacDonagh, TD and has been largely forgotten. He has been referred to as 'one of the greatest young Irishman of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW 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... 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Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Bob Quinn - The Atlantean Irish : Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage - PB - BRAND NEW The main argument of Quinn's book dismissed as myth the popular belief in the origins of the ancient inhabitats of Ireland and propose instead that they are part of a common 'Atlantean' culture that includes the western seaboard of Europe and North... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: BIG459 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED487,MED488 Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025 Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today... MSRP: €9.99 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. 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Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG580 Gerard Hayes-McCoy - Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland 1565-1603 - HB - 1996 An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. They were a force to be... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. Using historical photographs ( primarily late 19th century up until WW1) to illustrate aspects of Irish history. Previous owners name written in pen isnide back cover, Hardcover. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW Synopsis For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED458 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Bob Quinn - The Atlantean Irish : Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage - PB - BRAND NEW The main argument of Quinn's book dismissed as myth the popular belief in the origins of the ancient inhabitats of Ireland and propose instead that they are part of a common 'Atlantean' culture that includes the western seaboard of Europe and North... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: BIG459 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED487,MED488 Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025 Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today... MSRP: €9.99 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €21.95 Was: €25.00 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Gibbings - Lovely is the Lee : Hardcover 1945 - Illustrated Cork Galway Travel - US Edition A hardcover first US edition ( originally 1945) of Robert Gibbings's Lovely is the Lee, published by H Woolf, New York. The title is slightly misleading, as the book is as much about Galway and Conamara as it is about Cork, half being given to each... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wolfe Tone - The Autobiography of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II 1796-1798 ( Edited by R.Barry O'Brien) - HB Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED607 John Mitchel- Jail Journal (1848-1953) - PB- Preface by Arthur Griffith Full text version of Mitchel's original journal, with a preface by Arthur Griffith ( from the 1913 edition) as well as along introductory essay by author and historian Thomas Flanagan, Published by University Press of Ireland . 1982 Heavy age... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR107 Redmond Fitzgerald - Cry Blood, Cry Erin : The Fight for the Irish Republuc - HB 1966 Hardcover, 1966, published by Barrie & Rockliff UK, probably as a tie in with eth 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG580 Gerard Hayes-McCoy - Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland 1565-1603 - HB - 1996 An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. They were a force to be... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. Using historical photographs ( primarily late 19th century up until WW1) to illustrate aspects of Irish history. Previous owners name written in pen isnide back cover, Hardcover. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW Synopsis For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... MSRP: Now: €18.99 Pre-Order Now Quick view Tipperary Books Gerard Shannon - Alderman Joseph MacDonagh TD -Tipperary's Forgotten Revolutionary Politician ( 1883-1922) Winner of Tipperariana Book of the Year 2022 Unlike his more famous oldest brother, 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, the story of Alderman Joseph MacDonagh, TD and has been largely forgotten. He has been referred to as 'one of the greatest young Irishman of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW 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... 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Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED487,MED488 Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025 Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today... MSRP: €9.99 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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Quick view sku: MED607 John Mitchel- Jail Journal (1848-1953) - PB- Preface by Arthur Griffith Full text version of Mitchel's original journal, with a preface by Arthur Griffith ( from the 1913 edition) as well as along introductory essay by author and historian Thomas Flanagan, Published by University Press of Ireland . 1982 Heavy age... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR107 Redmond Fitzgerald - Cry Blood, Cry Erin : The Fight for the Irish Republuc - HB 1966 Hardcover, 1966, published by Barrie & Rockliff UK, probably as a tie in with eth 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. Using historical photographs ( primarily late 19th century up until WW1) to illustrate aspects of Irish history. Previous owners name written in pen isnide back cover, Hardcover. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW Synopsis For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED458 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Bob Quinn - The Atlantean Irish : Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage - PB - BRAND NEW The main argument of Quinn's book dismissed as myth the popular belief in the origins of the ancient inhabitats of Ireland and propose instead that they are part of a common 'Atlantean' culture that includes the western seaboard of Europe and North... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... 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MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED487,MED488 Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025 Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today... MSRP: €9.99 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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Quick view sku: LAR107 Redmond Fitzgerald - Cry Blood, Cry Erin : The Fight for the Irish Republuc - HB 1966 Hardcover, 1966, published by Barrie & Rockliff UK, probably as a tie in with eth 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A history of the 1916 Rising, and the events of the War of Independence, what sets this apart from the myriad other... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG580 Gerard Hayes-McCoy - Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland 1565-1603 - HB - 1996 An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. They were a force to be... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. Using historical photographs ( primarily late 19th century up until WW1) to illustrate aspects of Irish history. Previous owners name written in pen isnide back cover, Hardcover. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW Synopsis For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... MSRP: Now: €18.99 Pre-Order Now Quick view Tipperary Books Gerard Shannon - Alderman Joseph MacDonagh TD -Tipperary's Forgotten Revolutionary Politician ( 1883-1922) Winner of Tipperariana Book of the Year 2022 Unlike his more famous oldest brother, 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, the story of Alderman Joseph MacDonagh, TD and has been largely forgotten. He has been referred to as 'one of the greatest young Irishman of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW 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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED458 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: BIG581 An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Limerick - PB - 2012 A detailed achitectural guide to the national monuments, notable buildings and arcaheological sites of County Limerick ( the city hada seperate book) Paperback, 2012. Published by the Government of Ireland, part of the National Inventory of... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... 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Quick view sku: BIG580 Gerard Hayes-McCoy - Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland 1565-1603 - HB - 1996 An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. They were a force to be... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. Using historical photographs ( primarily late 19th century up until WW1) to illustrate aspects of Irish history. Previous owners name written in pen isnide back cover, Hardcover. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW Synopsis For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... MSRP: Now: €18.99 Pre-Order Now Quick view Tipperary Books Gerard Shannon - Alderman Joseph MacDonagh TD -Tipperary's Forgotten Revolutionary Politician ( 1883-1922) Winner of Tipperariana Book of the Year 2022 Unlike his more famous oldest brother, 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, the story of Alderman Joseph MacDonagh, TD and has been largely forgotten. He has been referred to as 'one of the greatest young Irishman of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW 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... 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Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED487,MED488 Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025 Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today... MSRP: €9.99 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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Quick view sku: BIG579 Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- HB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. Using historical photographs ( primarily late 19th century up until WW1) to illustrate aspects of Irish history. Previous owners name written in pen isnide back cover, Hardcover. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW Synopsis For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... MSRP: Now: €18.99 Pre-Order Now Quick view Tipperary Books Gerard Shannon - Alderman Joseph MacDonagh TD -Tipperary's Forgotten Revolutionary Politician ( 1883-1922) Winner of Tipperariana Book of the Year 2022 Unlike his more famous oldest brother, 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, the story of Alderman Joseph MacDonagh, TD and has been largely forgotten. He has been referred to as 'one of the greatest young Irishman of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW 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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED458 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Bob Quinn - The Atlantean Irish : Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage - PB - BRAND NEW The main argument of Quinn's book dismissed as myth the popular belief in the origins of the ancient inhabitats of Ireland and propose instead that they are part of a common 'Atlantean' culture that includes the western seaboard of Europe and North... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: BIG459 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED487,MED488 Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025 Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today... MSRP: €9.99 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €21.95 Was: €25.00 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Gibbings - Lovely is the Lee : Hardcover 1945 - Illustrated Cork Galway Travel - US Edition A hardcover first US edition ( originally 1945) of Robert Gibbings's Lovely is the Lee, published by H Woolf, New York. The title is slightly misleading, as the book is as much about Galway and Conamara as it is about Cork, half being given to each... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wolfe Tone - The Autobiography of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II 1796-1798 ( Edited by R.Barry O'Brien) - HB Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG555 Maurice Gorham - Ireland Yesterday - HB ( Photography 1971) Hardcover, published by Avenel US, 1971. Using historical photographs ( primarily late 19th century up until WW1) to illustrate aspects of Irish history. Previous owners name written in pen isnide back cover, Hardcover. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW Synopsis For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... MSRP: Now: €18.99 Pre-Order Now Quick view Tipperary Books Gerard Shannon - Alderman Joseph MacDonagh TD -Tipperary's Forgotten Revolutionary Politician ( 1883-1922) Winner of Tipperariana Book of the Year 2022 Unlike his more famous oldest brother, 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, the story of Alderman Joseph MacDonagh, TD and has been largely forgotten. He has been referred to as 'one of the greatest young Irishman of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW 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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED458 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... MSRP: €32.00 Was: €32.00 Now: €11.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Was: €27.95 Now: €25.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. 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Quick view sku: BIG534 Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED458 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED487,MED488 Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025 Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today... MSRP: €9.99 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wolfe Tone - The Autobiography of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II 1796-1798 ( Edited by R.Barry O'Brien) - HB Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG523 John Gilmore - Kingscourt - A History ( Cavan) - PB - 2012 A detailed local history, 2012 of Kingscourt, on the borders of Cavan and Meath. Covers history, settlement, sport, businesses and commerce in the town, notabale buildings, graveyards and much more. Independently published, but high quality... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85343K Carlo Gébler / The Siege of Derry - A History THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85274K Michael Clemenger / Holy Terrors: A Boy, Two Brothers, A Stolen Childhood Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland's notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward Garner - To Die By Inches : The Famine in North East Cork - PB 1986 Published by Éigse Books, Fermoy 1986. A particularly hard to find book , published only in a small print run. Condition - heavy tanning to pages, binding tight, the edge of the front cover is dogeared in the corner. Edward... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB ( 1965 Irish Civil Defence booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War ) Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design. A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving nuclear war and fallout ( the emphasis on fallout... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW Synopsis For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... MSRP: Now: €18.99 Pre-Order Now Quick view Tipperary Books Gerard Shannon - Alderman Joseph MacDonagh TD -Tipperary's Forgotten Revolutionary Politician ( 1883-1922) Winner of Tipperariana Book of the Year 2022 Unlike his more famous oldest brother, 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, the story of Alderman Joseph MacDonagh, TD and has been largely forgotten. He has been referred to as 'one of the greatest young Irishman of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW 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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED458 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wolfe Tone - The Autobiography of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II 1796-1798 ( Edited by R.Barry O'Brien) - HB Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED458 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish : A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - HB 2002 - BRAND NEW Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... 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Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED487,MED488 Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025 Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today... MSRP: €9.99 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €21.95 Was: €25.00 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Gibbings - Lovely is the Lee : Hardcover 1945 - Illustrated Cork Galway Travel - US Edition A hardcover first US edition ( originally 1945) of Robert Gibbings's Lovely is the Lee, published by H Woolf, New York. The title is slightly misleading, as the book is as much about Galway and Conamara as it is about Cork, half being given to each... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wolfe Tone - The Autobiography of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II 1796-1798 ( Edited by R.Barry O'Brien) - HB Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view Robert Gibbings - Lovely is the Lee : Hardcover 1945 - Illustrated Cork Galway Travel - US Edition A hardcover first US edition ( originally 1945) of Robert Gibbings's Lovely is the Lee, published by H Woolf, New York. The title is slightly misleading, as the book is as much about Galway and Conamara as it is about Cork, half being given to each... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wolfe Tone - The Autobiography of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II 1796-1798 ( Edited by R.Barry O'Brien) - HB Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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