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Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED7871 Eithne Massey - Where the Waters Flow : The Stories and Lore of Ireland's Rivers - HB - BRAND NEW ‘In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.’ Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired... 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MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED7871 Eithne Massey - Where the Waters Flow : The Stories and Lore of Ireland's Rivers - HB - BRAND NEW ‘In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.’ Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired... 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MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED7871 Eithne Massey - Where the Waters Flow : The Stories and Lore of Ireland's Rivers - HB - BRAND NEW ‘In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.’ Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired... 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MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED7871 Eithne Massey - Where the Waters Flow : The Stories and Lore of Ireland's Rivers - HB - BRAND NEW ‘In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.’ Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... 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MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... 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MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7799 Gareth Prendergast - Clear Hold Build - How the Free State Army won the Irish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW What was achieved by the Free State during the Irish Civil War was remarkable. Within a period of less than a year they raised and equipped a standing National Army of nearly 60,000 soldiers, defeating the anti-Treaty elements of the IRA. Using the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Quick view Details sku: X87486K Victor Griffin / Mark of Protest - An Autobiography(Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3831 Toner Quinn - What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music- and Other Essays - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW40052H Colm Keane & Una O'Hagan / The Monsignor (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW23166H Jackie Uí Chionna / Queen of Codes (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED7871 Eithne Massey - Where the Waters Flow : The Stories and Lore of Ireland's Rivers - HB - BRAND NEW ‘In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.’ Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED7871 Eithne Massey - Where the Waters Flow : The Stories and Lore of Ireland's Rivers - HB - BRAND NEW ‘In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.’ Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... 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Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED7871 Eithne Massey - Where the Waters Flow : The Stories and Lore of Ireland's Rivers - HB - BRAND NEW ‘In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.’ Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... 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Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED7871 Eithne Massey - Where the Waters Flow : The Stories and Lore of Ireland's Rivers - HB - BRAND NEW ‘In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.’ Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. And have inspired... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... 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In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... 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Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... 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In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1272,MED1273 Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED6559,MED6560 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7390 Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4848,MED4849 Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the reader on a fascinating county-by-county tour of... 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MSRP: €50.00 Was: €50.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4838,MED4839,MED4840,MED4841,MED4842 Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke out in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, the newly... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €45.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89807K Mary Kenny / 3 Days In September: When the Pope Came to Ireland (Hardback) Leading figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, religion and the arts contribute their recollections of - and reflections on - the papal visit in September 1979. Many of those who were personally or professionally involved in the visit offer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7743 Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry : Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1053,MED1054,MED1055,MED1056,MED4580,MED4581,MED4582,MED4583,MED4582,MED4979,MED4980 Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6953 Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1272,MED1273 Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED6559,MED6560 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7799 Gareth Prendergast - Clear Hold Build - How the Free State Army won the Irish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW What was achieved by the Free State during the Irish Civil War was remarkable. Within a period of less than a year they raised and equipped a standing National Army of nearly 60,000 soldiers, defeating the anti-Treaty elements of the IRA. Using the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4848,MED4849 Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the reader on a fascinating county-by-county tour of... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €19.95 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4835,MED4836,MED4837 Pat McCarthy - A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry : Making Medicines for the World Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector. How the industry evolved from small firms that supplied the Irish market... MSRP: €35.00 Was: €35.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED5841,MED5842 Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the British army in Ireland. The contribution of these men to... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €50.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4838,MED4839,MED4840,MED4841,MED4842 Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke out in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, the newly... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €45.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89807K Mary Kenny / 3 Days In September: When the Pope Came to Ireland (Hardback) Leading figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, religion and the arts contribute their recollections of - and reflections on - the papal visit in September 1979. Many of those who were personally or professionally involved in the visit offer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7743 Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry : Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1053,MED1054,MED1055,MED1056,MED4580,MED4581,MED4582,MED4583,MED4582,MED4979,MED4980 Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6953 Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1272,MED1273 Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED6559,MED6560 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... 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Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5270,MED5271,MED5272,MED5273,MED5274,MED5275,MED5276,MED5277,MED5278,MED5279,MED4280 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. 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MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... 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Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7883 Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4848,MED4849 Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the reader on a fascinating county-by-county tour of... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €19.95 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4835,MED4836,MED4837 Pat McCarthy - A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry : Making Medicines for the World Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector. How the industry evolved from small firms that supplied the Irish market... MSRP: €35.00 Was: €35.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED5841,MED5842 Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the British army in Ireland. The contribution of these men to... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €50.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4838,MED4839,MED4840,MED4841,MED4842 Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke out in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, the newly... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €45.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89807K Mary Kenny / 3 Days In September: When the Pope Came to Ireland (Hardback) Leading figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, religion and the arts contribute their recollections of - and reflections on - the papal visit in September 1979. Many of those who were personally or professionally involved in the visit offer... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... 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Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5474 John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED5478 Debbie Blake - Little Book of Tipperary - HB - BRAND NEW The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary’s industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7799 Gareth Prendergast - Clear Hold Build - How the Free State Army won the Irish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW What was achieved by the Free State during the Irish Civil War was remarkable. Within a period of less than a year they raised and equipped a standing National Army of nearly 60,000 soldiers, defeating the anti-Treaty elements of the IRA. Using the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4848,MED4849 Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the reader on a fascinating county-by-county tour of... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €19.95 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4835,MED4836,MED4837 Pat McCarthy - A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry : Making Medicines for the World Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector. How the industry evolved from small firms that supplied the Irish market... MSRP: €35.00 Was: €35.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED5841,MED5842 Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the British army in Ireland. The contribution of these men to... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... 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Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History | sku: MED5402 Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7799 Gareth Prendergast - Clear Hold Build - How the Free State Army won the Irish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW What was achieved by the Free State during the Irish Civil War was remarkable. Within a period of less than a year they raised and equipped a standing National Army of nearly 60,000 soldiers, defeating the anti-Treaty elements of the IRA. Using the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... 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MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6953 Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... 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Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7799 Gareth Prendergast - Clear Hold Build - How the Free State Army won the Irish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW What was achieved by the Free State during the Irish Civil War was remarkable. Within a period of less than a year they raised and equipped a standing National Army of nearly 60,000 soldiers, defeating the anti-Treaty elements of the IRA. Using the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4848,MED4849 Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the reader on a fascinating county-by-county tour of... 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MSRP: €50.00 Was: €50.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4838,MED4839,MED4840,MED4841,MED4842 Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke out in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, the newly... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €45.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89807K Mary Kenny / 3 Days In September: When the Pope Came to Ireland (Hardback) Leading figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, religion and the arts contribute their recollections of - and reflections on - the papal visit in September 1979. Many of those who were personally or professionally involved in the visit offer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7743 Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry : Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1053,MED1054,MED1055,MED1056,MED4580,MED4581,MED4582,MED4583,MED4582,MED4979,MED4980 Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6953 Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1272,MED1273 Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED6559,MED6560 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED7799 Gareth Prendergast - Clear Hold Build - How the Free State Army won the Irish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW What was achieved by the Free State during the Irish Civil War was remarkable. Within a period of less than a year they raised and equipped a standing National Army of nearly 60,000 soldiers, defeating the anti-Treaty elements of the IRA. Using the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4848,MED4849 Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the reader on a fascinating county-by-county tour of... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €19.95 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4835,MED4836,MED4837 Pat McCarthy - A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry : Making Medicines for the World Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector. How the industry evolved from small firms that supplied the Irish market... MSRP: €35.00 Was: €35.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED5841,MED5842 Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the British army in Ireland. The contribution of these men to... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €50.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4838,MED4839,MED4840,MED4841,MED4842 Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke out in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, the newly... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €45.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89807K Mary Kenny / 3 Days In September: When the Pope Came to Ireland (Hardback) Leading figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, religion and the arts contribute their recollections of - and reflections on - the papal visit in September 1979. Many of those who were personally or professionally involved in the visit offer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... 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Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4848,MED4849 Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the reader on a fascinating county-by-county tour of... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €19.95 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4835,MED4836,MED4837 Pat McCarthy - A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry : Making Medicines for the World Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector. How the industry evolved from small firms that supplied the Irish market... MSRP: €35.00 Was: €35.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED5841,MED5842 Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the British army in Ireland. The contribution of these men to... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €50.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4838,MED4839,MED4840,MED4841,MED4842 Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke out in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, the newly... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €45.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89807K Mary Kenny / 3 Days In September: When the Pope Came to Ireland (Hardback) Leading figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, religion and the arts contribute their recollections of - and reflections on - the papal visit in September 1979. Many of those who were personally or professionally involved in the visit offer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7743 Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry : Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1053,MED1054,MED1055,MED1056,MED4580,MED4581,MED4582,MED4583,MED4582,MED4979,MED4980 Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6953 Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1272,MED1273 Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED6559,MED6560 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED7751 Pearse Lawlor - The Burnings 1920 - PB Many RIC officers were killed during the War of Independence period but the murders of Divisional Commissioner Colonel Smyth from Banbridge and District Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn led to unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5591,MED5592 Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4848,MED4849 Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the reader on a fascinating county-by-county tour of... MSRP: €19.95 Was: €19.95 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4835,MED4836,MED4837 Pat McCarthy - A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry : Making Medicines for the World Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector. How the industry evolved from small firms that supplied the Irish market... MSRP: €35.00 Was: €35.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED5841,MED5842 Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the British army in Ireland. The contribution of these men to... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... 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MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6953 Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1272,MED1273 Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED6559,MED6560 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED7632 Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990 A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. Published 1990. Internally, a very good copy, the msotly white dustjacket shows edgewear at the corners, and general light scuffing to covers. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED4547,MED6894,MED6895,MED7475 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us have left us a... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? 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Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... 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MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6953 Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... 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Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3618 Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... 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Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... 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MSRP: €35.00 Was: €35.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED5841,MED5842 Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the British army in Ireland. The contribution of these men to... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €50.00 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED4838,MED4839,MED4840,MED4841,MED4842 Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke out in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, the newly... MSRP: €50.00 Was: €45.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89807K Mary Kenny / 3 Days In September: When the Pope Came to Ireland (Hardback) Leading figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, religion and the arts contribute their recollections of - and reflections on - the papal visit in September 1979. Many of those who were personally or professionally involved in the visit offer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED1163 Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW ‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED5750,MED5751,MED7107 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and abandoning swathes of Northern nationalists... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED7743 Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry : Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1272,MED1273 Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED6559,MED6560 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7066 Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... MSRP: €25.00 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED7114 Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED3513,MED3514,MED3807,MED3808 Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author, at a time when she had long since let go of... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6912 J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary Ignatius of the Presentation Sisters, Midleton)... MSRP: Now: €11.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED4758,MED5596,MED6950 Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... 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MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6953 Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... 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