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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... 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The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) 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 Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... 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VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... 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The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) 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 Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... 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VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... 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VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. 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Quick view Details Tipperary Books | sku: MED1560 Denis G Marnane - Land and Settlement : A History of West Tipperary to 1660 - PB -2003 MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BIG562 Richard Hayward - The Corrib Country - HB 1993 Reprint - Illustrated MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: LAR52 Brian Williams and Sarah Gormley - Archaeological Objects from County Fermanagh - ( NI Monographs series Number 5 ) - MSRP: €15.99 Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Merrion Press | sku: MED1992,MED1993 Malachi O'Doherty - Can Ireland Be One? - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR6398H Shane O'Doherty / The Volunteer - A Former IRA Man's True Story MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED1011 Des Fogerty - Sean South of Garryowen - PB - 2006 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Mercier Press John O'Callaghan - The Battle For Kilmallock - PB ( Military History of the Irish Civil War ) MSRP: €14.00 Was: €14.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details First World War | sku: BIG414 Joe Power - Clare and the Great War - PB - 2015 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Merrion Press Brian Callanan - Ireland's Shannon Story : A Case study of Local and Regional Development - PB - 2000 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG748 Deirdre Purcell - Follow Me Down To Dublin : The City Through the Voices of It's People- HB - Illustrated 2007 In Follow Me Down to Dublin, Deirdre Purcell takes to the streets of Dublin to meet those who inhabit her city and who, like her, love it. illustrated throughout, hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hachette Books, 2007. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. 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The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. 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Quick view Details sku: BIG562 Richard Hayward - The Corrib Country - HB 1993 Reprint - Illustrated MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: LAR52 Brian Williams and Sarah Gormley - Archaeological Objects from County Fermanagh - ( NI Monographs series Number 5 ) - MSRP: €15.99 Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Merrion Press | sku: MED1992,MED1993 Malachi O'Doherty - Can Ireland Be One? - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR6398H Shane O'Doherty / The Volunteer - A Former IRA Man's True Story MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED1011 Des Fogerty - Sean South of Garryowen - PB - 2006 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Mercier Press John O'Callaghan - The Battle For Kilmallock - PB ( Military History of the Irish Civil War ) MSRP: €14.00 Was: €14.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details First World War | sku: BIG414 Joe Power - Clare and the Great War - PB - 2015 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Merrion Press Brian Callanan - Ireland's Shannon Story : A Case study of Local and Regional Development - PB - 2000 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG748 Deirdre Purcell - Follow Me Down To Dublin : The City Through the Voices of It's People- HB - Illustrated 2007 In Follow Me Down to Dublin, Deirdre Purcell takes to the streets of Dublin to meet those who inhabit her city and who, like her, love it. illustrated throughout, hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hachette Books, 2007. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) 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 Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... 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MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. 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Quick view Details sku: LAR52 Brian Williams and Sarah Gormley - Archaeological Objects from County Fermanagh - ( NI Monographs series Number 5 ) - MSRP: €15.99 Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Merrion Press | sku: MED1992,MED1993 Malachi O'Doherty - Can Ireland Be One? - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR6398H Shane O'Doherty / The Volunteer - A Former IRA Man's True Story MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED1011 Des Fogerty - Sean South of Garryowen - PB - 2006 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Mercier Press John O'Callaghan - The Battle For Kilmallock - PB ( Military History of the Irish Civil War ) MSRP: €14.00 Was: €14.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details First World War | sku: BIG414 Joe Power - Clare and the Great War - PB - 2015 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Merrion Press Brian Callanan - Ireland's Shannon Story : A Case study of Local and Regional Development - PB - 2000 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG748 Deirdre Purcell - Follow Me Down To Dublin : The City Through the Voices of It's People- HB - Illustrated 2007 In Follow Me Down to Dublin, Deirdre Purcell takes to the streets of Dublin to meet those who inhabit her city and who, like her, love it. illustrated throughout, hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hachette Books, 2007. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) 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 Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. 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The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. 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Quick view Details Merrion Press | sku: MED1992,MED1993 Malachi O'Doherty - Can Ireland Be One? - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR6398H Shane O'Doherty / The Volunteer - A Former IRA Man's True Story MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED1011 Des Fogerty - Sean South of Garryowen - PB - 2006 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details Mercier Press John O'Callaghan - The Battle For Kilmallock - PB ( Military History of the Irish Civil War ) MSRP: €14.00 Was: €14.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details First World War | sku: BIG414 Joe Power - Clare and the Great War - PB - 2015 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Merrion Press Brian Callanan - Ireland's Shannon Story : A Case study of Local and Regional Development - PB - 2000 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG748 Deirdre Purcell - Follow Me Down To Dublin : The City Through the Voices of It's People- HB - Illustrated 2007 In Follow Me Down to Dublin, Deirdre Purcell takes to the streets of Dublin to meet those who inhabit her city and who, like her, love it. illustrated throughout, hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hachette Books, 2007. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) 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 Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... 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MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) 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 Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... 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MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... 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Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... 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Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... 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Quick view Details Merrion Press Brian Callanan - Ireland's Shannon Story : A Case study of Local and Regional Development - PB - 2000 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG748 Deirdre Purcell - Follow Me Down To Dublin : The City Through the Voices of It's People- HB - Illustrated 2007 In Follow Me Down to Dublin, Deirdre Purcell takes to the streets of Dublin to meet those who inhabit her city and who, like her, love it. illustrated throughout, hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hachette Books, 2007. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) 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 Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87168H James McKeon / Frank O'Connor : A Life Frank O'Connor's enormous literary success is all the more remarkable given that he was born and brought up in the slums of Cork, his childhood marked by poverty and illness. In 1928, he set off for the excitement of Dublin, where he became great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED802 Mike Cronin, Mark Duncan and Paul Rouse - The GAA : A People's History - HB 2014 This history of Gaelic games and the social world around them has been an outstanding success. From how and where Gaelic games were played and watched to their impact on Irish communities at home and abroad, politics, women in the GAA, music and much... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Barry McLoughlin & Emmet O'Connor - In Spanish Trenches : The Minds and Deeds of the Irish Who Fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW The Spanish Civil War has an enduring fascination, not least for the way it drew some 35,000 non-Spaniards to risk their lives to halt the march of fascism. It has also acquired renewed relevance from the surge of neofascism in Europe. At the same time,... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €28.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3370 Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG748 Deirdre Purcell - Follow Me Down To Dublin : The City Through the Voices of It's People- HB - Illustrated 2007 In Follow Me Down to Dublin, Deirdre Purcell takes to the streets of Dublin to meet those who inhabit her city and who, like her, love it. illustrated throughout, hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hachette Books, 2007. MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) 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 Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87168H James McKeon / Frank O'Connor : A Life Frank O'Connor's enormous literary success is all the more remarkable given that he was born and brought up in the slums of Cork, his childhood marked by poverty and illness. In 1928, he set off for the excitement of Dublin, where he became great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED802 Mike Cronin, Mark Duncan and Paul Rouse - The GAA : A People's History - HB 2014 This history of Gaelic games and the social world around them has been an outstanding success. From how and where Gaelic games were played and watched to their impact on Irish communities at home and abroad, politics, women in the GAA, music and much... 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VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED802 Mike Cronin, Mark Duncan and Paul Rouse - The GAA : A People's History - HB 2014 This history of Gaelic games and the social world around them has been an outstanding success. From how and where Gaelic games were played and watched to their impact on Irish communities at home and abroad, politics, women in the GAA, music and much... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED293 Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Barry McLoughlin & Emmet O'Connor - In Spanish Trenches : The Minds and Deeds of the Irish Who Fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW The Spanish Civil War has an enduring fascination, not least for the way it drew some 35,000 non-Spaniards to risk their lives to halt the march of fascism. It has also acquired renewed relevance from the surge of neofascism in Europe. At the same time,... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €28.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3370 Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €28.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3370 Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... 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MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart
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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view UCD PRESS Barry McLoughlin & Emmet O'Connor - In Spanish Trenches : The Minds and Deeds of the Irish Who Fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW The Spanish Civil War has an enduring fascination, not least for the way it drew some 35,000 non-Spaniards to risk their lives to halt the march of fascism. It has also acquired renewed relevance from the surge of neofascism in Europe. At the same time,... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €28.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3370 Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED3370 Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW4514H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... 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VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... 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The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... 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MSRP: €19.95 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. 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Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED2065 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. 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Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95857H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4426H Philip Marsden / The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination (Hardback) From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5666H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X94253H Micheal O hAodha / Voices from the Easter Rising (Large Paperback) Voices from the Easter Rising is a compelling collection of eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, and details how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED921 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Merrion Press Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023) ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: LAR84 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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