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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67025K Michele Guinness / The Guinness Legend Taking as her starting point the scandal of the Ernest Saunders affair, Michele Guinness goes back to the founding of the brewery in Dublin by the legendary "first" Arthur Guinness. 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One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. ( Donoughmore - Knockea is located to the immediate south and south east of Limerick city, including areas that are now suburbs ( but were still more rural in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2758 Matt Cooper / The Maximalist - The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly (Signed by the Author) (Hardback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67025K Michele Guinness / The Guinness Legend Taking as her starting point the scandal of the Ernest Saunders affair, Michele Guinness goes back to the founding of the brewery in Dublin by the legendary "first" Arthur Guinness. 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MSRP: €19.95 Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view Bernard O'Hara - Mayo / Maigh Eo - Aspects of its Heritage - HB - SIGNED 1982 Signed by author and editor Bernard O'Hara ( signature is as gaeilge - Bearnard Ó hÉaghra). O'Hara has subsequently published a number of other Mayo interst books, and is a native of Kilasser, Mayo. A detailed collection of essays on... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90513H Cynthia O'Connor / The Pleasing Hours: James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont 1728-99 : Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts in Ireland (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90104K Robert Mahony / Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (Hardback) This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view John M Feehasn - The Shooting of Michael Collins - Vintage PB 1981 Was Michael Collins killed by an accident of war or was he ruthlessly murdered? 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Sharon Slater - The Little Book of Limerick - PB - 2014 The Little Book of Limerick is a compendium of fascinating information about the city and county, past and present. Here you will find out about Limerick's buildings and bridges, crime and punishment, tragic accidents, and its famous (and occasionally... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88559K Charles Callan & Barry Desmond / Labour in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown: Elections & Candidates 1919 - 1999 (Hardback) This book covers many decades and is divided into two parts,the first dealing with elections, the second with the candidates. A full history of Labour ( and the wider Irish Labour political movement ) in the district, as thesources required for such a... 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MSRP: €19.95 Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view Bernard O'Hara - Mayo / Maigh Eo - Aspects of its Heritage - HB - SIGNED 1982 Signed by author and editor Bernard O'Hara ( signature is as gaeilge - Bearnard Ó hÉaghra). O'Hara has subsequently published a number of other Mayo interst books, and is a native of Kilasser, Mayo. A detailed collection of essays on... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. 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MSRP: €19.95 Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view Bernard O'Hara - Mayo / Maigh Eo - Aspects of its Heritage - HB - SIGNED 1982 Signed by author and editor Bernard O'Hara ( signature is as gaeilge - Bearnard Ó hÉaghra). O'Hara has subsequently published a number of other Mayo interst books, and is a native of Kilasser, Mayo. A detailed collection of essays on... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. 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Quick view Merrion Press Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... 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Both of these possibilities are calmly and carefully examined by the author, who has rejected the traditional theory that he was killed as a result of a ricochet rifle bullet... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90041K Peter Somerville-Large / An Irish Childhood (Hardback) Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from where they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below, with the horse drawn delivery vans, the animals being driven to market, and their... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... 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MSRP: €19.95 Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view Bernard O'Hara - Mayo / Maigh Eo - Aspects of its Heritage - HB - SIGNED 1982 Signed by author and editor Bernard O'Hara ( signature is as gaeilge - Bearnard Ó hÉaghra). O'Hara has subsequently published a number of other Mayo interst books, and is a native of Kilasser, Mayo. A detailed collection of essays on... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. ( Donoughmore - Knockea is located to the immediate south and south east of Limerick city, including areas that are now suburbs ( but were still more rural in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2758 Matt Cooper / The Maximalist - The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly (Signed by the Author) (Hardback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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Quick view Merrion Press Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry: Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67025K Michele Guinness / The Guinness Legend Taking as her starting point the scandal of the Ernest Saunders affair, Michele Guinness goes back to the founding of the brewery in Dublin by the legendary "first" Arthur Guinness. She shows the development of the family into three main areas of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Catherine Wynne - Lady Butler : War Artist and Traveller 1846-1933 - HB - BRAND NEW This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in 1874. A favourite of Queen Victoria, she... MSRP: €55.00 Now: €17.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87997K Munira H. Mutran / Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland (Large Paperback) A group of scholars who are part of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) gathered together at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in July 2002, to address the theme of "Interrelations: Irish Studies and other... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87257K Patrick Lindsay / Memories (Large Paperback) Patrick James Lindsay (1914 – 1993) was an Irish FG politician, minister and lawyer. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Tadhg O'Keeffe - Ireland Encastellated AD950-1550 : Insular Castle-Building in its European Context - HB - BRAND NEW 2021 Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by... MSRP: €45.00 Now: €17.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry: Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Lilliput Press Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain... MSRP: €18.95 Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view UCD PRESS Leann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90330K Mark O'Connell / A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder (Hardback) In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90513H Cynthia O'Connor / The Pleasing Hours: James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont 1728-99 : Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts in Ireland (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90104K Robert Mahony / Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (Hardback) This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view John M Feehasn - The Shooting of Michael Collins - Vintage PB 1981 Was Michael Collins killed by an accident of war or was he ruthlessly murdered? Both of these possibilities are calmly and carefully examined by the author, who has rejected the traditional theory that he was killed as a result of a ricochet rifle bullet... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Sharon Slater - The Little Book of Limerick - PB - 2014 The Little Book of Limerick is a compendium of fascinating information about the city and county, past and present. Here you will find out about Limerick's buildings and bridges, crime and punishment, tragic accidents, and its famous (and occasionally... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88559K Charles Callan & Barry Desmond / Labour in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown: Elections & Candidates 1919 - 1999 (Hardback) This book covers many decades and is divided into two parts,the first dealing with elections, the second with the candidates. A full history of Labour ( and the wider Irish Labour political movement ) in the district, as thesources required for such a... 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MSRP: €19.95 Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view Bernard O'Hara - Mayo / Maigh Eo - Aspects of its Heritage - HB - SIGNED 1982 Signed by author and editor Bernard O'Hara ( signature is as gaeilge - Bearnard Ó hÉaghra). O'Hara has subsequently published a number of other Mayo interst books, and is a native of Kilasser, Mayo. A detailed collection of essays on... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. ( Donoughmore - Knockea is located to the immediate south and south east of Limerick city, including areas that are now suburbs ( but were still more rural in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2758 Matt Cooper / The Maximalist - The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly (Signed by the Author) (Hardback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87486K Victor Griffin / Mark of Protest - An Autobiography(Large Paperback) This autobiography includes stories of village life in Co Wicklow between the wars, and of schooldays in Kilkenny and of the cosily eccentric Trinity College during the 1940s. Yet even these early pages are more than reminiscence. The stories paint a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87353H Andrew D Forrest / Worse Could have Happened (Large Paperback) A boyhood in the Irish Free State 1922-1937. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Toner Quinn - What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music- and Other Essays - BRAND NEW How do we create a deeper public discussion around music? What can folk music tell us about our society? How do we support music in our towns, villages and cities? And what can Ireland teach the world about music? For over two decades, Toner Quinn,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bob Quinn ( Toner Quinn - Editor) - Count Me Out : Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn - HB - BRAND NEW A landmark collection of essays and articles spanning the 1960s to the 2020s by the iconoclastic Irish filmmaker, photographer and writer. Published by Boluisce Press, February 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages. Edited by Toner Quinn, Bob Quinn's son... MSRP: €22.50 Now: €21.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87296K Padraic O'Farrell / Green and Chaste and Foolish - Irish Literary and Theatrical Anecdotes(Large Paperback) A compilation of 500 anecdotes attaching to Ireland's literary figures, great and small. Gill & Macmillan 1994. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87257K Patrick Lindsay / Memories (Large Paperback) Patrick James Lindsay (1914 – 1993) was an Irish FG politician, minister and lawyer. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Tadhg O'Keeffe - Ireland Encastellated AD950-1550 : Insular Castle-Building in its European Context - HB - BRAND NEW 2021 Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by... MSRP: €45.00 Now: €17.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Lilliput Press Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain... MSRP: €18.95 Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view UCD PRESS Leann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90330K Mark O'Connell / A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder (Hardback) In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90513H Cynthia O'Connor / The Pleasing Hours: James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont 1728-99 : Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts in Ireland (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90104K Robert Mahony / Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (Hardback) This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88559K Charles Callan & Barry Desmond / Labour in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown: Elections & Candidates 1919 - 1999 (Hardback) This book covers many decades and is divided into two parts,the first dealing with elections, the second with the candidates. A full history of Labour ( and the wider Irish Labour political movement ) in the district, as thesources required for such a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Four Courts Press Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi ( Editors) Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi, editors. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. By the 1960s... MSRP: €19.95 Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view Bernard O'Hara - Mayo / Maigh Eo - Aspects of its Heritage - HB - SIGNED 1982 Signed by author and editor Bernard O'Hara ( signature is as gaeilge - Bearnard Ó hÉaghra). O'Hara has subsequently published a number of other Mayo interst books, and is a native of Kilasser, Mayo. A detailed collection of essays on... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67025K Michele Guinness / The Guinness Legend Taking as her starting point the scandal of the Ernest Saunders affair, Michele Guinness goes back to the founding of the brewery in Dublin by the legendary "first" Arthur Guinness. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87257K Patrick Lindsay / Memories (Large Paperback) Patrick James Lindsay (1914 – 1993) was an Irish FG politician, minister and lawyer. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Tadhg O'Keeffe - Ireland Encastellated AD950-1550 : Insular Castle-Building in its European Context - HB - BRAND NEW 2021 Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by... MSRP: €45.00 Now: €17.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view UCD PRESS Leann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90330K Mark O'Connell / A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder (Hardback) In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90513H Cynthia O'Connor / The Pleasing Hours: James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont 1728-99 : Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts in Ireland (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90104K Robert Mahony / Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (Hardback) This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view John M Feehasn - The Shooting of Michael Collins - Vintage PB 1981 Was Michael Collins killed by an accident of war or was he ruthlessly murdered? Both of these possibilities are calmly and carefully examined by the author, who has rejected the traditional theory that he was killed as a result of a ricochet rifle bullet... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90041K Peter Somerville-Large / An Irish Childhood (Hardback) Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from where they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below, with the horse drawn delivery vans, the animals being driven to market, and their... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Sharon Slater - The Little Book of Limerick - PB - 2014 The Little Book of Limerick is a compendium of fascinating information about the city and county, past and present. Here you will find out about Limerick's buildings and bridges, crime and punishment, tragic accidents, and its famous (and occasionally... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88559K Charles Callan & Barry Desmond / Labour in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown: Elections & Candidates 1919 - 1999 (Hardback) This book covers many decades and is divided into two parts,the first dealing with elections, the second with the candidates. A full history of Labour ( and the wider Irish Labour political movement ) in the district, as thesources required for such a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Four Courts Press Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi ( Editors) Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi, editors. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. By the 1960s... MSRP: €19.95 Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view Bernard O'Hara - Mayo / Maigh Eo - Aspects of its Heritage - HB - SIGNED 1982 Signed by author and editor Bernard O'Hara ( signature is as gaeilge - Bearnard Ó hÉaghra). O'Hara has subsequently published a number of other Mayo interst books, and is a native of Kilasser, Mayo. A detailed collection of essays on... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. ( Donoughmore - Knockea is located to the immediate south and south east of Limerick city, including areas that are now suburbs ( but were still more rural in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2758 Matt Cooper / The Maximalist - The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly (Signed by the Author) (Hardback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67025K Michele Guinness / The Guinness Legend Taking as her starting point the scandal of the Ernest Saunders affair, Michele Guinness goes back to the founding of the brewery in Dublin by the legendary "first" Arthur Guinness. She shows the development of the family into three main areas of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Catherine Wynne - Lady Butler : War Artist and Traveller 1846-1933 - HB - BRAND NEW This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in 1874. A favourite of Queen Victoria, she... MSRP: €55.00 Now: €17.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87997K Munira H. Mutran / Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland (Large Paperback) A group of scholars who are part of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) gathered together at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in July 2002, to address the theme of "Interrelations: Irish Studies and other... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is the first account of an Irish citizen... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: X87497K Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus / The Highland Lady in Dublin 1851-1856 (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87486K Victor Griffin / Mark of Protest - An Autobiography(Large Paperback) This autobiography includes stories of village life in Co Wicklow between the wars, and of schooldays in Kilkenny and of the cosily eccentric Trinity College during the 1940s. Yet even these early pages are more than reminiscence. The stories paint a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87353H Andrew D Forrest / Worse Could have Happened (Large Paperback) A boyhood in the Irish Free State 1922-1937. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Toner Quinn - What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music- and Other Essays - BRAND NEW How do we create a deeper public discussion around music? What can folk music tell us about our society? How do we support music in our towns, villages and cities? And what can Ireland teach the world about music? For over two decades, Toner Quinn,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bob Quinn ( Toner Quinn - Editor) - Count Me Out : Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn - HB - BRAND NEW A landmark collection of essays and articles spanning the 1960s to the 2020s by the iconoclastic Irish filmmaker, photographer and writer. Published by Boluisce Press, February 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages. Edited by Toner Quinn, Bob Quinn's son... MSRP: €22.50 Now: €21.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87296K Padraic O'Farrell / Green and Chaste and Foolish - Irish Literary and Theatrical Anecdotes(Large Paperback) A compilation of 500 anecdotes attaching to Ireland's literary figures, great and small. Gill & Macmillan 1994. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87257K Patrick Lindsay / Memories (Large Paperback) Patrick James Lindsay (1914 – 1993) was an Irish FG politician, minister and lawyer. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Tadhg O'Keeffe - Ireland Encastellated AD950-1550 : Insular Castle-Building in its European Context - HB - BRAND NEW 2021 Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by... MSRP: €45.00 Now: €17.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90330K Mark O'Connell / A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder (Hardback) In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90513H Cynthia O'Connor / The Pleasing Hours: James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont 1728-99 : Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts in Ireland (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90104K Robert Mahony / Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (Hardback) This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view John M Feehasn - The Shooting of Michael Collins - Vintage PB 1981 Was Michael Collins killed by an accident of war or was he ruthlessly murdered? Both of these possibilities are calmly and carefully examined by the author, who has rejected the traditional theory that he was killed as a result of a ricochet rifle bullet... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90041K Peter Somerville-Large / An Irish Childhood (Hardback) Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from where they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below, with the horse drawn delivery vans, the animals being driven to market, and their... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Sharon Slater - The Little Book of Limerick - PB - 2014 The Little Book of Limerick is a compendium of fascinating information about the city and county, past and present. Here you will find out about Limerick's buildings and bridges, crime and punishment, tragic accidents, and its famous (and occasionally... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88559K Charles Callan & Barry Desmond / Labour in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown: Elections & Candidates 1919 - 1999 (Hardback) This book covers many decades and is divided into two parts,the first dealing with elections, the second with the candidates. A full history of Labour ( and the wider Irish Labour political movement ) in the district, as thesources required for such a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Four Courts Press Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi ( Editors) Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi, editors. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. By the 1960s... MSRP: €19.95 Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view Bernard O'Hara - Mayo / Maigh Eo - Aspects of its Heritage - HB - SIGNED 1982 Signed by author and editor Bernard O'Hara ( signature is as gaeilge - Bearnard Ó hÉaghra). O'Hara has subsequently published a number of other Mayo interst books, and is a native of Kilasser, Mayo. A detailed collection of essays on... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Proinsias Mac Aonghusa & Liam Ó Réagáin ( Editors) - The Best of Connolly - Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A 1967 first printing of this edition. Cover art by John Skelton. One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. ( Donoughmore - Knockea is located to the immediate south and south east of Limerick city, including areas that are now suburbs ( but were still more rural in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2758 Matt Cooper / The Maximalist - The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly (Signed by the Author) (Hardback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67025K Michele Guinness / The Guinness Legend Taking as her starting point the scandal of the Ernest Saunders affair, Michele Guinness goes back to the founding of the brewery in Dublin by the legendary "first" Arthur Guinness. She shows the development of the family into three main areas of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Catherine Wynne - Lady Butler : War Artist and Traveller 1846-1933 - HB - BRAND NEW This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in 1874. A favourite of Queen Victoria, she... MSRP: €55.00 Now: €17.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87997K Munira H. Mutran / Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland (Large Paperback) A group of scholars who are part of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) gathered together at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in July 2002, to address the theme of "Interrelations: Irish Studies and other... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is the first account of an Irish citizen... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: X87497K Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus / The Highland Lady in Dublin 1851-1856 (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88559K Charles Callan & Barry Desmond / Labour in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown: Elections & Candidates 1919 - 1999 (Hardback) This book covers many decades and is divided into two parts,the first dealing with elections, the second with the candidates. A full history of Labour ( and the wider Irish Labour political movement ) in the district, as thesources required for such a... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... 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One of the harder to find Mercier paperbacks of the era. An introduction to the works of James Connolly, noted socialist, trade unionist and revolutionary ( 1868-1916) . A selection... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Thomas Toomey & Harry Greensmyth - An Antique and Storied Land - PB - 1991 A History of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough, Co Limerick and its environs. ( Donoughmore - Knockea is located to the immediate south and south east of Limerick city, including areas that are now suburbs ( but were still more rural in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2758 Matt Cooper / The Maximalist - The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly (Signed by the Author) (Hardback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87486K Victor Griffin / Mark of Protest - An Autobiography(Large Paperback) This autobiography includes stories of village life in Co Wicklow between the wars, and of schooldays in Kilkenny and of the cosily eccentric Trinity College during the 1940s. Yet even these early pages are more than reminiscence. The stories paint a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87353H Andrew D Forrest / Worse Could have Happened (Large Paperback) A boyhood in the Irish Free State 1922-1937. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Toner Quinn - What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music- and Other Essays - BRAND NEW How do we create a deeper public discussion around music? What can folk music tell us about our society? How do we support music in our towns, villages and cities? And what can Ireland teach the world about music? For over two decades, Toner Quinn,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bob Quinn ( Toner Quinn - Editor) - Count Me Out : Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn - HB - BRAND NEW A landmark collection of essays and articles spanning the 1960s to the 2020s by the iconoclastic Irish filmmaker, photographer and writer. Published by Boluisce Press, February 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages. Edited by Toner Quinn, Bob Quinn's son... MSRP: €22.50 Now: €21.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87296K Padraic O'Farrell / Green and Chaste and Foolish - Irish Literary and Theatrical Anecdotes(Large Paperback) A compilation of 500 anecdotes attaching to Ireland's literary figures, great and small. Gill & Macmillan 1994. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... 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How do we support music in our towns, villages and cities? And what can Ireland teach the world about music? For over two decades, Toner Quinn,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bob Quinn ( Toner Quinn - Editor) - Count Me Out : Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn - HB - BRAND NEW A landmark collection of essays and articles spanning the 1960s to the 2020s by the iconoclastic Irish filmmaker, photographer and writer. Published by Boluisce Press, February 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages. Edited by Toner Quinn, Bob Quinn's son... MSRP: €22.50 Now: €21.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87296K Padraic O'Farrell / Green and Chaste and Foolish - Irish Literary and Theatrical Anecdotes(Large Paperback) A compilation of 500 anecdotes attaching to Ireland's literary figures, great and small. Gill & Macmillan 1994. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... 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Quick view Bob Quinn ( Toner Quinn - Editor) - Count Me Out : Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn - HB - BRAND NEW A landmark collection of essays and articles spanning the 1960s to the 2020s by the iconoclastic Irish filmmaker, photographer and writer. Published by Boluisce Press, February 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages. Edited by Toner Quinn, Bob Quinn's son... MSRP: €22.50 Now: €21.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87296K Padraic O'Farrell / Green and Chaste and Foolish - Irish Literary and Theatrical Anecdotes(Large Paperback) A compilation of 500 anecdotes attaching to Ireland's literary figures, great and small. Gill & Macmillan 1994. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87257K Patrick Lindsay / Memories (Large Paperback) Patrick James Lindsay (1914 – 1993) was an Irish FG politician, minister and lawyer. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Tadhg O'Keeffe - Ireland Encastellated AD950-1550 : Insular Castle-Building in its European Context - HB - BRAND NEW 2021 Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by... MSRP: €45.00 Now: €17.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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