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MSRP: €17.99 Was: €17.99 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG948 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22708H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13741H John Doyle / A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age (Hardback) Celebrated TV critic John Doyle has penned an Irish memoir that gives a portrait of a boy and his country transformed by television. Funny, insightful, and engaging, A Great Feast of Light begins in the small town of Nenagh, where... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28786H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921,MED5937 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1274 George Morrison - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - PB -1981 The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the aftermath of the bloody fighting in 1924 –... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED3610,MED3799,MED6949 Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Was: €17.99 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG948 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: wW13516H Phyllis Whitsell / A Song for Bridget (Hardback) The unforgettable true story behind the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Finding Tipperary Mary. Bridget 'Tipperary Mary' Larkin faced poverty, bereavement, cruelty and abandonment many times over, yet never lost the heart to pursue true... 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From war to revolution, famine to emigration, The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past to lifeIreland is a nation obsessed with death. We find a thrill in the moribund, a strange... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Cló Iar Chonnacht - As Gaeilge Cormac Ó Comhraí - Sa Bhearna Bhaoil : Gaillimh 1913-1923 - PB - As Gaeilge Tréimhse chorraitheach shuaite ba ea na deich mbliana idir 1913 agus 1923 do mhuintir na Gaillimhe, idir chathair agus chontae. Tháinig athrú ó bhonn ar shaol polaitiúil, eacnamaíoch agus sóisialta an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921,MED5937 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1274 George Morrison - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - PB -1981 The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the aftermath of the bloody fighting in 1924 –... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED3490 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED5161,MED5202,MED7339 Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... 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Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... 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MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1274 George Morrison - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - PB -1981 The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the aftermath of the bloody fighting in 1924 –... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED3610,MED3799,MED6949 Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... MSRP: €17.99 Was: €17.99 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED416 Finbarr Bradley & James Kennelly - Gombeens at the Gate : Renewing the Rising through Ideals, Character and Place This book argues that the Irish State has wandered far afield from the ideals, character, ethos, and aspirations of its founders, proposing a way forward to generate the innovative, dynamic and equitable society that was fought for, but never achieved, a... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG948 Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence. Hardcover, with illustrations , photographs and index of past members etc... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: wW13516H Phyllis Whitsell / A Song for Bridget (Hardback) The unforgettable true story behind the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Finding Tipperary Mary. Bridget 'Tipperary Mary' Larkin faced poverty, bereavement, cruelty and abandonment many times over, yet never lost the heart to pursue true... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94314H James Felton / You Don't Want to Know (Hardback) JAMES FELTON'S "ASSHOLES" IS OUT NOW With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.Ever wondered why the chainsaw was... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4363,MED4364,MED4364 Donal Fallon - Three Castles Burning - PB - BRAND NEW BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCAST. A companion to the hugely successful podcast of the same name by Donal Fallon, THREE CASTLES BURNING is an enjoyable wander through some of Dublin's less obvious but more interesting streets and roads... MSRP: €15.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED4029 Thomas Toomey - Forgotten Dreams - The Life and Times of Major John Gerard 'Ged' O'Dwyer - HB - Signed - 1995 ( HEAVY) age spotting to the page block , tanning to all pages, and light edgewear to the dustjacket. Moderate to heavy sunfade to the spine. O'Dwyer, John Gerard (‘Ged’) (1899–1996), Irish Volunteer, army officer, and... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31421H Gillian O'Brien / The Darkness Echoing : Exploring Ireland's Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion (Large Paperback) The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller! From war to revolution, famine to emigration, The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past to lifeIreland is a nation obsessed with death. We find a thrill in the moribund, a strange... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Cló Iar Chonnacht - As Gaeilge Cormac Ó Comhraí - Sa Bhearna Bhaoil : Gaillimh 1913-1923 - PB - As Gaeilge Tréimhse chorraitheach shuaite ba ea na deich mbliana idir 1913 agus 1923 do mhuintir na Gaillimhe, idir chathair agus chontae. Tháinig athrú ó bhonn ar shaol polaitiúil, eacnamaíoch agus sóisialta an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: €22.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6381 Barry McLoughlin & Emmet O'Connor - In Spanish Trenches : The Minds and Deeds of the Irish Who Fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW The Spanish Civil War has an enduring fascination, not least for the way it drew some 35,000 non-Spaniards to risk their lives to halt the march of fascism. It has also acquired renewed relevance from the surge of neofascism in Europe. At the same time,... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €28.00 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: MED3370 Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22708H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13741H John Doyle / A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age (Hardback) Celebrated TV critic John Doyle has penned an Irish memoir that gives a portrait of a boy and his country transformed by television. Funny, insightful, and engaging, A Great Feast of Light begins in the small town of Nenagh, where... 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Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... 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MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1274 George Morrison - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - PB -1981 The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the aftermath of the bloody fighting in 1924 –... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED3610,MED3799,MED6949 Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading... 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From war to revolution, famine to emigration, The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past to lifeIreland is a nation obsessed with death. We find a thrill in the moribund, a strange... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Cló Iar Chonnacht - As Gaeilge Cormac Ó Comhraí - Sa Bhearna Bhaoil : Gaillimh 1913-1923 - PB - As Gaeilge Tréimhse chorraitheach shuaite ba ea na deich mbliana idir 1913 agus 1923 do mhuintir na Gaillimhe, idir chathair agus chontae. Tháinig athrú ó bhonn ar shaol polaitiúil, eacnamaíoch agus sóisialta an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22708H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13741H John Doyle / A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age (Hardback) Celebrated TV critic John Doyle has penned an Irish memoir that gives a portrait of a boy and his country transformed by television. Funny, insightful, and engaging, A Great Feast of Light begins in the small town of Nenagh, where... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED3490 Conor Kostick - Strongbow : The Norman Invasion of Ireland - PB ( BRAND NEW - 2023) ( The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country’s history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful personalities and sharp political twists and turns,... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13252H Chet Raymo / Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain (Hardback) In 'Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain', a science writer celebrates an enduring symbol of Ireland's Celtic past, Christian tradition, and love of nature. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW19916H Michael O'Sullivan / Seán Lemass: A Biography (Hardback) [Lemass, Seán] O'Sullivan, Michael. Seán Lemass: A Biography. Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 216 pages, 57 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95585H Mel Plehov / The Pocket Encyclopedia of Ireland (Hardback) This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens in Dublin. Packed full of information, charts, illustrations, lists and photographs, it provides the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4800H David Ross / George Bernard Shaw (Hardback) George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) was a prolific dramatist, critic, essayist, pamphleteer and social reformer. The shy, idealistic Irishman separated himself from his opinionated public persona, ‘G. B. S.’, and his eccentric alter... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28786H Rosita Boland / A Secret Map of Ireland (Large Paperback) When the award-winning Irish Times? journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had? in common with all Irish children?a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED921,MED5937 Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964 Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper. A five county travelling history of Munster, with a focus on towns , historic sites and... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1274 George Morrison - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - PB -1981 The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the aftermath of the bloody fighting in 1924 –... 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