Irish History and Historical Biography

Brendan Ryan - A Land by the River of God : A History of Ferbane Parish - HB 1994

Hardcover, first edition ( and sole printing), published 1994 by the author and St Mel's Diocesan Trust.   An uncommon title.  Ferbane is a large markey town in Offaly, this book covers th history of the town , it's growth ande development...

Hugh Dorian - The Outer Edge of Ulster : A Memoir of Social lIfe in Nineteenth-Century Donegal - HB - 2000 ( Edited by Breandán Mac Suibhne & David Dickson)

In the 1890s, Hugh Dorian (1834-1914), a native of Fanaid on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal, completed a remarkable memoir which he entitled ‘Donegal Sixty Years Ago’. This fascinating text, although intended by Dorian for publication,...

Stella Frost ( Editor) - A Tribute to Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett - HB - 1957

Published by Browne & Nolan, Dublin, 1957.  Lacks the original dustjacket, there is a fair amount of pencil underlining to the text. All images are present ( the frontis and the section of colour and black and white reproductions at the rear) ...

Oliver St-John Gogarty / As I was Going Down Sackville Street (Vintage Paperback)

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Robert Lloyd Praeger / The Way That I Went (Vintage Paperback)

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Sean Edmonds / The Gun the Law and the Irish People (Vintage Paperback)

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Sean O'Faolain / The Irish (Vintage Paperback)

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Maurice Heffernan - Once There Was a Boy Who Survived - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

NB - PRICE INCLUDES TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND VIA AN POST.  A gripping tale of a boy who defied the odds and found hope in the face of unimaginable adversity. Once There Was A Boy Who Survived is a compelling memoir that delves into the...

Michael B. Barry - 1588 - The Spanish Armada and the 24 Ships Lost on Ireland’s Shores - BRAND NEW

By 1588, relations between the superpower of the time, Catholic Spain and the relatively small Protestant England had deteriorated to a new low. Philip II had decided that the best way to deal with English piracy and its support for the Dutch rebels was...

J.P McMahon - An Irish Food Story : 100 Foods That Made Us - HB - BRAND NEW

‘This book is about the story of Irish food and food in Ireland. They may seem like the same thing, but they’re not.’  An Irish Food Story looks at history, culture and identity in Ireland through 100 foods. From farmhouse...

Michael B. Barry & John O'Byrne - The Emergency in Colour : Ireland in Wartime - HB - BRAND NEW

The Emergency in Colour brings wartime Ireland to life in dramatic colour. Through extensive research, the photos presented here have been painstakingly hand-colourised by photographer John O’Byrne, showing what life on the island was like in...

Ian Miller - A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts - HB - BRAND NEW

FREE TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST Skulls, heads, hands, height, legs, sex organs, blood, brains, stomachs, ears and corpses – discover Irish history through the prism of the body. From the brutal beheading of the...

Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy, intrigue, innovation and international radical political...

T.F O'Sullivan - Goodly Barrow : A Voyage on an Irish River - PB - NEW Edition

Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Ireland’s second-longest river, from the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the sea in Waterford. T.F. O’Sullivan’s riverine narrative embraces legend and...

Eugene Reavey - The Killing of the Reavey Brothers - PB - BRAND NEW

In this gripping true crime account, Eugene Reavey takes readers on a harrowing journey through the darkest chapter of his life during the Northern Ireland Troubles. Reavey relives the tragic night in 1976 when his three brothers—John...

Bridget Hourican - Finding Mangan : The Lives and Afterlives of Ireland's National Poet - HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST June 1849: Dr William Wilde, passing a wretched hovel in Dublin’s Liberties, discovers James Clarence Mangan in a state of indescribable misery and squalor. Aged just 46, the man dubbed...

Dorine Rohan - Marriage Irish Style - Vintage Mercier PB - 1969

Paperback, 1969. Mercier Press Cor. Small format paperback, cover design by Inge Nieuwstraten.  Tanning to pages, but a solid clean unmarked copy. 

Sinéad Collins - Balrothery Poor Law Union , County Dublin 1839-1851 - PB

The Balrothery Poor Law Union served most of north Co. Dublin which in the 1830s was a rural, agricultural area with almost no industry. The main source of employment was as agricultural labourers of whom there was an over-supply due to the continuing...

Terence de Vere White - Tom Moore : The Irish Poet - HB - 1977

Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), also known as Tom Moore, was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. His setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 7 ( 2007)

Volume 7 in the ongoing series of photographs by Sean Curtin of Limerick City's history, streets, and people.  104 pages, photographs from newspaper and previously unpublished sources.  Condition - Good, internally unmarked, slight dogear to...

Maurice Lenihan - The History of Limerick - HB - 1991 Mercier Edition ( Originally 1866)

Maurice Lenihan - full title is Limerick Its History and Antiquities, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, from the Earliest Ages, with Copious Historical, Archaeological, topographical and Genealogical Notes and Illustrations, Maps, Plates, and...

Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - The Limerick Compendium - Paperback 1997

A sequel to Jim Kemmy's earlier Limerick Anthology, containing travellers' accounts of the city and county, sections on history, sport, the labour movement and the theatre. There is poetry and verse, and a selection of material from Limerick's heritage...

Jim Rees - The Life of Captain Robert Halpin - PB - 1995

Robert Halpin was born at the Bridge Tavern in Wicklow Town in 1836 and died at Tinakilly House in Rathnew in 1894. He went to sea aged 11 and became a Master Mariner at 22. In his career, he captained the SS Great Eastern and also laid marine telegraph...

Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - FRENCH EDITION ( Number 25 - Summer 1989 )

The 1989 ' large format' back issue of the Old Limerick Journal ( and also one of the largest ) - this 1989 edition covered all aspects of the many historic links between Limerick and France.  192 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a...

Trevor Birney - Shooting Crows : Mass Murder, State Collusion and Press Freedom- PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW - TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  Everyone knows where they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The...

Rebecca Brownlie - Abandoned Ireland : Volume 2 - BRAND NEW

In Abandoned Ireland 2, photographer Rebecca Brownlie travels further off the beaten path to explore and showcase Ireland’s forgotten buildings before nature or the demolition man claims them forever. Through her evocative...

Peadar Thompson - Lost Gaels: Family Testimonies of Members of the GAA Killed During the Conflict in Ireland - BRAND NEW

‘After the massacre, the GAA became even more important to us as a real sense of identity. It’s difficult to explain but we could cling to it in a sense, and say this is ours, this is us.’ – Claire Rogan, wife of Adrian Rogan,...

Mike Cronin & Mark Duncan - Revolutionary Times – Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation

Ireland during the period 1913–1923 was a nation in constant flux. Spanning a pivotal era marked by the Dublin Lockout, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the birth of the Irish Free State, Revolutionary Times captures the...

Kieran Sheedy - The Clare Anthology - HB - Clasp Press -1999

Hardcover, published by Clasp Press, 1999. Edited by Kieran Sheehy.  Moderate age tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. 264 pp. Hardback in dustjacket.  ISBN- 190054511X   The Clare Anthology contains a selection of prose and verse by...

Brian Ó Dálaigh - Corporation Book of Ennis - HB - 1990

A record of the transactions of Ennis Corporation in the period 1660-1810, hardcover, published by the Irish Academic Press ( in cooperation with Ennis Town Council. A valuable genealogival resource as well as an insight into the minutes of local...

Sean Spellissy - The History of Galway : City and County - PB - 1999

The History of Galway, City & County. Sean Spellissy. Published by Celtic Bookshop, Limerick  1999. 492 pages. Large format, illustrated throughout, a detailed a-z gazetteer history from earliest times to modern times. Every aspect of the...

Cecily Joyce - Claddagh Ring Story - PB 1990

An account of the origins and history of Ireland's most famous and enduring love token - Galway's Claddagh Ring.  Paperback 1990, Illustrated. 

Liam Mac Philibín - Mise Pádraig - PB - 1960

Foilsithe ag FÁS ( Foilsiúcháin Ábhair Spioradálta) 1960, leagan Gaeilge do Confessio Naomh Pádraig. 

James Bonwick - Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions - HB Reprint 1986 ( Originally 1894)

Originally published 1894, this is a ( full text) facsmilie reprint from Dorset Press, 1986. Bonwick was an English born Australian historian, academic and author.  Moderate to heavy foxing / spotting to the pages, dust dulled to the top edges of...

G.A Hayes McCoy - Irish Battles : A Military Hostory of Ireland 1014-1798 - PB 1990 ( Originally 1969)

This readable account brings together a compendium of Irish Battles from Clontarf in 1014 to Arklow in 1798. Each of the dozen or so battles has a chapter devoted to it. The author is careful to provide a useful background for each event, with...

Michele Guinness / The Guinness spirit: Brewers, bankers, ministers, and missionaries (Large Paperback)

When the first Arthur Guinness founded a small brewery on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin he could not have foreseen the dynasty of brewers and bankers that would emerge. This is a history of the famous Irish brewing family, the Guinnesses...

William Garner - Ennis Architectural Heritage - PB 1981 ( An Foras Forbartha)

Published by An Foras Forbartha 1981 - ( it was later absorbed into the Environmental Protection Agency)  A copy book sized paperback, , 80 pages, a guide to the notable buildings and architecture of Ennis Town, County Clare.  Condition - very...

David Hogan - The Four Glorious Years - HB 1st Edition 1953

The Four Glorious Years, published by the Irish Press , Dublin, 1953, the first edition.  Illustrated with photos, and portrait of the author. With index, previous gift inscription dated Easter 1953 on front endpages.  The story of the most...

D.D Rocca - Memories of the Way We Were - SIGNED - 2022

Signed with a dediaction from the author to the title page.  The author, Donal Rocca, also known as Don Rocca was born on 5th August 1941 in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish mother and Italian father. After a formal education by nuns, lay teachers and...

Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vinatge PB - 1981

Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the remarkrable success story of the son of a native...

Kathleen Hughes & Ann Hamlin - The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church - Vintage PB - 1977

From the back cover - ' Conceived primarily for people visiting the remains of early Christian church sites, the book answers the questions which are asked by a visitor without specialist knowledge - what was the functionof these places, why were the...

Darach MacDonald / Hard Border - Walking Through a Century of Irish Partition (Large Paperback)

Hard Border goes to the very roots of the Irish boundary where, after decades of division and conflict, a fragile peace has prevailed since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Post-Brexit, it is the only land frontier between the United Kingdom and the...

Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 2016-2017 - PB ( VOLUME XX1 - PART 1)

Issued every two years , this is the 2016-2017 issue.  Contents -  John Wynn Baker et alii by Myro Kavanagh 7‘Weird and Wonderful Wart-Stones': Some Observations about the Bullaun Stones of County Kildare by Lorcan Harney and Stephen...

Constance Markievicz - Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz- 1934

''Prison Letters of Countess Markeivicz (Constance Gore-Booth), also Poems and Articles Relating to Easter Week by Eva Gore-Booth, and a Biographical Sketch by Esther Roper, with a Preface by President De Valera, with illustrations''  is the full...

Helen M. Roe - Monasterboice and its Monuments - PB

Published 2003 by the County Louth Archaeological & History Society, 78 pages, slim ' copybook' format, illustrated throughout.  This is the third edition, 2003, first published in 1981. 

Marguerite Marie Dubois - Saint Columban : A Pioneer of Western Civilization - PB - 1961

Published by Gill Books, paperback with flaps, 1961.  Translated from the original French by James O'Carroll.  ( Variously known as Columbanus, Columban or Columba )  In excellent condition.  Cover shows the statue of the saint at...

Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997)

Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout.  Recollections of growing up in rural Mayo of the thirties and forties. With an introduction by Dr. Tom Mitchell...

ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature

The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published  by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ.   An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of...

Hélène O’Keeffe, John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo and Mike Murphy - Atlas of the Irish Civil War - HB - BRAND NEW

This new volume in the award-winning Atlas Series presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922–3). The centenary of the Civil War has prompted wide-ranging research into that tumultuous...

Maurice Manning - Irish Political Parties : An Introduction ( Studies in Irish Political Culture ) - PB 1972

Published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972, when Manning was still a politics lecturer ( before he entered politics himself)  A detailed examination of the origins of the Irish political system , 50 years after independence. He examines the sudden...

Barry Raftery - Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age - PB 1997

Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age by Barry Raftery Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how do these images compare with archaeological evidence? The...

Geddes & Grosset: Chronology of Irish History (Hardback)

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