Irish History and Historical Biography

Margaret Kelleher - Mary and Padraic Colum Lives and the Dream - PB - BRAND NEW

Mary Colum was an influential reviewer and critic, feared for her rapier wit by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Her husband Padraic Colum was a successful author of children’s stories, a poet, playwright and essayist, and like Mary a...

Aidan Doyle - A History of the Irish Language - PB - 2015

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main...

Steven Moore - Behind the Garden Wall : A History of Capital Punishment in Belfast - PB

Very interesting and informative book in relation to the history of historic executions at  Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast - tells of capital punishment, the crimes, and info on the prisoners. The remains of those who were hung here are buried in...

Andrew Hughes - Lives Less Ordinary : Dublin's Fitzwilliam Square 1798-1922 - PB

A former RTE Reference library copy , but with only minor stanmps to the blank front endpages, with handwritten accession number. Published by the Liffey Press, 2011.  “So that’s our setting. Sixty-nine houses, four corners of Georgian...

Susan McKay - Northern Protestants : An Unsettled People (Updated )

Presenting and analysing over 60 in-depth interviews with northern Protestants, this work aims to impart an understanding of the range and complexity of Protestant attitudes in Northern Ireland. Within the overall Protestant community there is much...

Eoin O'Malley - Charlie vs Garrett : The Rivalry That Shaped Modern Ireland - HB - 2025

Hardcover, published by Eriu, 2025. As new condition.  The two opposing political figures that shaped Irish life in the 1980s and beyond. In the 1980s, Irish politics was dominated by a fierce rivalry between Charles J. Haughey and Dr Garret...

Séamas Mac Annaidh ( General Editor ) - Irish History (An Illustrated A-Z ) - HB - 2001

The history of Ireland is one of oppression and emancipation, characterized by foreign rule and the fight for freedom. It is a history in which religious and political conflicts sit side by side with a shared love of the ancient magic that enshrouds the...

Rory Sweetnam & Lisa Marr - New Zealand’s Irish Revolution

Offering original New Zealand perspectives on the Irish Revolution from the third Home Rule crisis to the establishment of the Irish Free State, this collection explores the political, social, and cultural evolution of Ireland from 1912 to 1923...

Myles Dungan - Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History - PB - BRAND NEW

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside...

Maurice J. Casey - Hotel Lux : An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals - PB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney 'If affection is the...

John Crowley, Mike Cronin, Cormac Moore & Charlie Roche ( Editors) - Atlas of Irish Sport History, Politics, Identity - BRAND NEW

TRACKED AN POST DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Atlas of Irish Sport - History, Politics, Identity Foreword by Mary McAleese Sport in all its forms is central to many people's lives and is an expression of culture that is very much...

Padraic Coffey - This Day in Irish History - PB

Published by O'Brien Press, 2022, trade paperback, illustrated in black and white.  You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the...

Seán Enright - After the Rising : Soldiers, Lawyers and Trials of the Irish Revolution - PB - 2016

In this sequel to his bestselling Easter Rising 1916: The Trials, Seán Enright puts the great legal cases of the period into context with exacting clarity, including the Mac Curtain Inquest, the trials of MacSwiney, Markievicz, Maher and Foley,...

David Dickson - The First Irish Cities : An Eighteenth Century Transformation - PB

The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities,...

Eunan O'Halpin - Defending Ireland : the Irish State and its Enemies Since 1922- PB - 1999

Analyzes the evolution of internal and external security policy in Ireland from independence to the 21st century. Professor O'Halpin examines the concept of external defence understood by first generation Irish leaders, charting the state's repeated...

Edel Bhreathnach - Monasticism in Ireland 900-1250 - HB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction.  Winner of the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2025 Winner of the 2025 ACIS James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences The history of...

Fin Dwyer - A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders - HB -2023

From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy , Fin Dwyer charts 200 years of Irish history, opening up our past as never before, by observing the grand societal...

Des Geraghty - At the Dawning of the Day : Luke Kelly and the Dubliners - BRAND NEW

The voice of Luke Kelly and the music of the Dubliners provided a very welcome wake-up call for a sleepy and depressed Ireland in the early 1960s. It was the dawning of a new and brighter day when more and more young people in Ireland began to find their...

Anthony Murphy - Ireland : Land of Legend - BRAND NEW

Owen O'Shea - Unchanged and Unchangeable : Austin Stack and the Irish Revolution - HB - BRAND NEW

Biography of the Kerry revolutionary.  Austin Stack was one of the central figures in the Irish revolutionary period. From his role in the lead-up to the 1916 Rising, through his senior positions in Sinn Féin and participation in the Irish...

Joseph Coohill - Ireland : A Short History ( 5th Edition) ) PB

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the product of a rich, multivalent history. Combining factual...

Eoin Neeson - The Civil War in Ireland 1921-23 - PB - 1969 ( Revised Edition)

A revised Mercier Press first edition, 1969, of Eoin Neeson's study of the Irish Civil War.  Edgewear and rubbing to the head/ top of the spine, some uneven sun fade to the red parts of the jacket.  One of the earliest general histories of the...

Sinéad McCoole - No Ordinary Women : Irish Female Acvtivists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 - PB 2004

Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, activists and politicians – women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom. This book vividly recreates the characters, personalities and courage of Ireland's revolutionary women...

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence 1969

A paperback 3RD edition, 1969( still in predecimal pricing, the first decimal edition was 1971)  Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days in Ireland. Originally published in 1949 as a...

Denis G. Marnane - The 3rd Brigade : A History of the Volunteers/IRA in South Tipperary 1913-21 - PB - 2018

Along with the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, the actions and personalities of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade loom large in the public awareness of the War of Independence. The actions of Dan Breen, Sean Tracy, Seamus Robinson and Sean Hogan from...

The Kerryman - With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom 1917 to the Truce : The Red Path of Glory - PB 1955 1st Edition

With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce. The Red Path of Glory. no author or editor listed , published by The Kerryman, 1950,  238 pages. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. A very good copy of this fragile publication, which is...

Paddy Doyle - The God Squad - PB 1st Edition 1988 - Irish Industrial Schools

Paddy Doyle's mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old... Paddy Doyle's...

Mark Clinton - Carrickmines Castle : Rise and Fall - HB - BRAND NEW

The Walshes were rooted in south County Dublin from the late fourteenth century. By the early 1600s members of the family had become actors in the theatre of war across Europe. These were times of almost endless turmoil. A constant stream of predicaments...

Max Barrett - A History of Ireland in 100 Stamps - HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE The story of Ireland through one hundred postage stamps issued since the creation of the Irish Free StateA stamp is about so much more than postage. It is a little piece of art, history and...

Leon Ó Broin - Comhcheilg sa Chaisleán - HB - As Gaeilger - 1963

Clúdach crua, foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, Baile Átha Cliath, 1963. Clúdach le Simon Ó Colmáin.  As Gaeilge san iomlán 

Frank Forde - Maritime Arklow - HB - 1988 - Wicklow

Hardcover, published by Glendale Books, 1988.  Condition , internally and externally is very good , apart from a rather scrawled gift dedication to a previous owner on the inside front title page , and signed by the author on the title page (neatly)...

Martin Wallace - Great Irish Lives ( Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

Great Irish Live provides a parade of some of Ireland's greatest men and women. Some are little known outside of Ireland such as Father Mathew, Lord Carson, or Hugh O'Neill but others are famous worldwide such as St Patrick, Arthur Guinness or George...

Christine Kinealy - Tracing Your Irish Roots ( Appletree Pocket Guides ) - PB - BRAND NEW (Revised & Updated Edition) - 2019

2ND REVISED EDITION, 2019. Originally 1999, updated edition.  Whether building a family tree or simply researching the history of their ancestors, people of Irish heritage will find the means to track down elusive family records and relatives in...

Shane Mac Thomáis - Glasnevin : Ireland's Necropolis - PB

An illustrated paperback, published by the Glasnevin Cemetery Trust, with photographs throughout, as well as maps to the graves of a number of the notable Irish people buried in the cemetery. 2010

Brian de Breffny - Castles of Ireland - PB -1985 (Originally 1977)

Originally published in hardcover by Thames and Hudson in 1977, this is a PB reprint, 1985. Primarily black and white photographs internally, some in colour. Organised a-z, with photographs by George Mott. 

Desmond Forristal - The Second Burial of Bishop Shanahan - PB - 1990

Published by Veritas Books, 1990, a biography of Tipperay born Joseph Shanahan, who founded religious orders and worked on what were termed 'The Missions' in Southern Nigeria  as priest and bishop , but whose life ended in controversy. 

Miriam Nyhan - Are You Still Below ? : The Ford Marina Plant, Cork 1917-1984 - HB

Published by Collins Press, Cork , 2007.  A fully illustrated history of the Ford Motor factory , built in Cork's Marina docklands, and operated as a car factory for 67 years of  the 20th century before it's closure in 1984. Henry Ford selected...

Seán Duffy - Atlas of Irish History - 2ND Edition -PB

Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many peoples have by turns established themselves on this remote island, creating an historical dynamic whose dispersed voices are now...

Aaron Edwards - Enemies Within : The Explosive True Story of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair, Northern Ireland’s Most Infamous Paramilitary Godfather - BRAND NEW

‘Three things come with taking a man’s life. The first one is the easy bit – going into a room and shooting somebody… The second is preparing yourself if you get caught coming or going and getting life in prison – could you...

TP O'Mahony - Forbidden Ireland : Church and State 1951 to the Present Day - PB - BRAND NEW

A definitive social history of modern Ireland. How did Catholic bishops lose their control over Irish women and Irish life? TP O’Mahony traces seven decades of Church–State conflict in Ireland, from the Mother and Baby crisis to the Magdalene...

Cliodhna Ni Anluain - Sounding Ireland : Radio and the Making of Us - BRAND NEW

At 7.45pm on 1 January 1926, a crackling voice over the airwaves marked the beginning of public broadcasting in Ireland. From that first transmission by 2RN - the precursor to RTÉ - ON AIR: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF IRISH RADIO traces a...

David Hare - Legacy : Ireland's National Historic Properties - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE STEP INSIDE THE STORY OF IRELAND’S MOST TREASURED PLACES... Discover the stories behind some of Ireland’s most iconic historic landmarks in this stunningly illustrated celebration of...

Michael B. Barry - Catalpa : The Epic Story of the Greatest Prison rescue in Irish History - HB - BRAND NEW

Six prisoners. One whaleship. A plot bold enough to shake the British Empire.Catalpa tells the extraordinary true story of one of the most audacious operations in Irish history – the rescue of six Fenian prisoners who were transported to Fremantle...

Kerby Miller & Breandán MacSuibhne - A Letter Home : Irish Correspndence from America 1818-1972 - BRAND NEW

A Letter Home is a beautiful, illustrated book featuring over sixty letters – short and long – written to home by Irish emigrants to North America from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s.Drawn from the Imirce collection at the University of...

Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill - Alexander Nimmo & the Western District - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Connemara Girl  Publications, signed by the author, undedicated.  Alexander Nimmo was a pioneering Scottish civil engineer who transformed the infrastructure of western Ireland during the early 19th century. In 1822,...

John Gibney / 1916-18 Changed Utterly: Ireland After the Rising (Coffee Table Book)

The years between 1916 and 1919 are easily overshadowed by more dramatic times, but these were years of profound transformation, as violent insurrection in 1916 Ireland transformed into a landslide political victory under three years later, against...

Russell Rees / Union to Partition: Ireland 1801-1921 (Coffee Table Book)

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

Anne Chambers / La Sheridan : Adorable Diva - Margaret Burke Sheridan, Irish Prima Donna, 1889-1958 (Coffee Table Book)

La Seridan: Adorable Diva La Sheridan, as she became known to enthusiastic opera fans throughout Europe, was born Margaret Burke Sheridan in the town of Castlebar in Ireland. From 1918 until her sudden retirement from the stage of grand opera in 1930,...

Edmund Curtis - A History of Medieval Ireland : 1086-1513 - HB ( 1968 reprint of the 1938 Revised Edition)

A hardcover 1968 co-production edition ( Barnes & Noble US & Methuen UK) of the revised 1938 edition. Originally published in 1923, this was an influential work on Irish medieval history, being the standard work for much of the 20th century...

T.F O'Sullivan - The Young Irelanders - HB 1944

Hardcover, lacking the original dustjacket, published by The Kerryman Newspaper, Tralee.  With titles in silver to the dark green spine, plain unlettered pale green paper covered boards to front and rear. The front inside hinge is cracked heavily,...

Niamh Hassett & Daniel Jack - Searching for Seán : Remembering Seán Treacy 100 Years On - PB - SIGNED- 2020

Paperback, published 2020 ( as part of the decade of Centenaries, this particular book was issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Treacy's death in Dublin's Talbot Street in October 1920 .  Signed, undedicated by both authors to the title...

Medieval Ireland - The Enduring Tradition ( New Gill History of Ireland 1 ) 1988

Originally published in 1983 in German, this subsequently was reissued by Gill as Volume 1 in the  6 volume 1980's New Gill History of Ireland (NGHI)  Creasing to front covers, creasing to spine.