Irish History and Historical Biography

Eoghan Corry / The History of Gaelic Football (Hardback)

 Gaelic footballers and their followers receive no payment, have no transfer system, and remain loyal to their home county as players or supporters. This is more than a sport - it is a subculture of...

John Guy / A Daughter's Love : Thomas and Margaret More (Hardback)

 This book will break open a secret. It is a gripping tale of love, loyalty and domestic happiness that came to be overwhelmed by the forces of ambition, deceit and treachery, from the award-winning...

Cathal Poirteir / Famine Echoes (Large Paperback)

 In the 1940s, the Folklore Commission conducted interviews with thousands of elderly people around Ireland who remembered what they themselves had heard from ancestors who had survived the Famine...

Alan Matthews / Farm Incomes : Myths and Reality (Large Paperback)

 Farmers in Ireland have been protesting again recently about low farm incomes and calling for further state support. Yet farmers already receive large sums in EU and Irish state transfers to support...

Melosina Lenox-Conyngham / A Life In Postcards (Large Paperback)

 Many people will remember Melosina's voice from 'Sunday Miscellany', where these pieces were first broadcast, or have read them in 'Irishwoman's Diary' in The Irish Times. Fewer may have discovered...

Valerie Cox / Independence Memories : A People's Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation (Large Paperback)

 A PEOPLE'S PORTRAIT OF A PERIOD OF MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN IRISH HISTORY.Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish...

Eoin O Broin / Home : Why Public Housing is the Answer (Large Paperback)

 Why is our housing system so dysfunctional? Why can it not meet social and affordable housing needs? Home examines the structural causes of our housing emergency, provides a detailed critique of...

Robert Kee - The Most Distressful Country ( The Green Flag : VOLUME 1 ) 1983 ( Originally 1972)

Robert Kee's history of Irish Nationalism stands as one of the most comprehensive and illuminating histories of the subject - This first volume covers the situation of Ireland from Tudor times, the...

Robert Kee - The Bold Fenian Men ( The Green Flag : VOLUME 2) 1983 ( Originally 1972)

Robert Kee's history of Irish Nationalism stands as one of the most comprehensive and illuminating histories of the subject - highly readable, and weaving teh strands of nationalism, - republicanism,...

Conor Brady - Guardians of the Peace : The Early Years of the Irish Police Force - Revised Centenary Edition 2022 ( An Garda Síochana) - BRAND NEW

Guardians of the Peace is a political history of the Irish police force, An Garda Síochana, from its foundation at the birth of

Michael V. Hanna - Denis Brenan Bullen ( 1802-66) Inspector of Anatomy for the Province of Munster : The controversial Career of a Cork Surgeon- PB - BRAND NEW - 2020

Denis Brenan Bullen was a controversial figure in the medical history of Cork in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. As a teenager in 1820 he played a central role when his father...

John Burke - Roscommon : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while retaining old economic desires. Almost wholly dependent on agriculture to fuel the local economy...

Brian Feeney - Antrim : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Antrim contained the largest Presbyterian population on the island of Ireland. It also contained most of Belfast – the largest city in Ireland – which...

David Ross / Male of a Cow: Traditional Irish Humour

  Not just another collection of Irish jokes, this anthology explores the unique national topics the Irish have traditionally found to be humorous and the history of Ireland’s oral tradition. It...

Breandan O h-Eithir / A Pocket History of Ireland

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Hill, Myrtle & Barber, Sarah ( Editors) - Aspects of Irish Studies - QUB JOURNAL 1990

This book provides an insight into the current debate on the importance of different cultural traditions in the community. It records the proceedings of the second Cultural Traditions Group...

Ingrid Seward / The Queen's Speech (Hardback)

 On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch in British history. During her 63 years on the throne, few have got to know her well, but there is one body of work...

Breandán Ó hEithir & Ruairí Ó hEithir ( Editors) - An Aran Reader - HB - 1999

An Aran Reader edited by Ruairi Ó hEithir and Breandán Ó hEithir The Aran Islands are among the most finely wrought land-masses in the western world. Their antiquity, diversity and cultural richness...

Julia Kelly - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW

Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and...

Seán Spellissy - The History of Limerick City - PB - 1998

This book is a chronicle of the development of  life in urban Limerick from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century. The origins of the city are Viking, the city was the subject of two...

Nanny Pat / Penny Sweets and Cobbled Streets : My East End Childhood

 Nanny Pat has always been the heart of her family, and her children and grandchildren regularly pitch up at her house for a cup of tea, a slice of her famous sausage plait and some wise advice.Now,...

Enda Watters- Missionary Memoirs - HB - 2009

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Dean Ruxton / Death on Ireland's Eye (Large Paperback)

 A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery - but what really happened?Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland's Eye, it was decided that she had drowned...

Ian Mortimer / The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

 Discover an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages.Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and...

David Greene - The Irish Language - PB- 1972 - Stair na Gaeilge ( Irish Life and Culture Series XIV)

  Solid in three colour paper cover with titles to spine. Some notes , minor underlining and emendations internally.  First  edition was 1966, issued as part of the Irish Life and Culture series, and...

Joe Barry - Ate Mate and Follow the Band - PB - Templemore

Although described on the cover as a collection of short stories' this is perhaps more of a collection of personal memories of his life in and around the military barracks ( now the Garda College)...

Robert Hogan ( Editor) - Feathers From the Green Crow : Sean O'Casey 1905-1925 - HB - 1962

A collection of the early writings of Sean O'Casey  - organised thematically - Education and Culture / Nationalism / The Irish Language / Labour / I Been Workin' on the Railroad / Controversies /...

Homan Potterton / Rathcormick: A Childhood Recalled (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Leon Ó Broin - Just Like Yesterday - An Autobiography - PB

Leon ó Broin was born in dublin in 1902, a schoolboy at teh time ogf teh 1916 rising, he afterwards became a member of Sinn Féin and the Gaelic league, he joined the Civil Service, acting as...

Nick Foster / Murder at Roaringwater (Large Paperback)

 Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of the final days of young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. This is a violent, unresolved murder, where the victim seemed to have a premonition of...

Ní Bhraonáin, Eimear & Harvey, Jeff - Is Féidir Linn : A Golden Ticket to Moneygall - HB -2011

Eugene McCague - Arthur Cox 1891-1965 - HB - 1994

In the first 40 years of the independent Irish state, few people outside government wielded more influence than Arthur Cox. This biography recounts how he became in turn, an accomplished public...

Margery Brady - The Last Rose of Summer : The Love Story of Tom Moore & Bessy Dyke - PB

The biography of Thomas Moore and his wife the unfortunately named Bessy Dyke. Moore was a hugely inflential figure in 19th century Ireland, and his 'Moore's Melodies' were a key part of Irish...

Desmond Macnamara - De Valera ( World Leaders Past & Present Series) - HB - 1988

Traces the life of the Irish leader and poli

Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

 An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of...

Anne Chambers - Granuaile : The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley 1530-1603 - PB

Grace O’Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land and at sea in the 16th century. In...

Ernie O'Malley - Raids and Rallies - PB - Vintage Anvil Press 1982

During the War of Independence, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some notes of his were smuggled out. `Most of all,' he wrote, `I would have liked to talk...

Prionsias Mac Aonghusa ( Editor) - Quotations from P.H Pearse - Vintage PB -1979

Introduction by Seán Mac Bride, compiled edited and also intyroduced by Prionsias Mac Aonghusa ( who was a longtime resident and national school teacher in Rosmuc in the 1960's, where Pearse had his...

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc - The Battle For Limerick City 1922 ( Military History of the Irish Civil War ) - PB - BRAND NEW

Battle For Limerick City descibes the full story of the vicious battle between Republican and Provisional Government forces for control of Limerick city in the early parts of the Civil War. The...

Valerie Cox / Growing Up with Ireland (Large Paperback)

 'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and men whose stories and...

Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 7th Revised Edition - 1981

First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is a revised 7th impression, September 1981 edition in paperback of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably...

Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous...

Simon Winchester / The Map That Changed the World

 THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first...

Julian Barnes / Letters from London

  Since 1990 Julian Barnes has written a regular `Letter from London' for the New Yorker magazine. These already celebrated pieces cover subjects as diverse as the Lloyd's insurance disaster, the...

Bruce Arnold - What Kind of Country - Modern Irish Politics 1968-1983 - PB

It would be comforting to claim that Ireland came of age during this period' writes Bruce Arnold... ' the evidence does not support that claim' ...   Arnold examines the relationship between the...

Jim O'Donnell - Wordgloss : A Cultural Lexicon (Words and Concepts you need to Know)

"Wordgloss" is a lively, comprehensive reference work, first published to acclaim in 1990, now reworked and extended. This invaluable compendium consists of a series of mini-essays, informed by Latin...

Sean McMahon - A Book of Irish Quotations - HB -1984

A comprehensive collection of memorable phrases, in prose, verse and song - by Irish people through the ages , from earliest times to the present day. Arranged alphabetically - politicians,...

Rex Taylor - Michael Collins : The Big Fellow - Vintage PB 1965 Biography Ireland

A NEL reprint edition 1970 , of the 1958 biography of Michael Collins, by Rex Taylor, in GOOD condition, light edgewear to the covers, spine uncreased , not ex library, no marks damage or...

Fréchet, René - Histoire de L'Irlande ( Que Sais-je?) - PB 1975 - French

Pas de quatrième de couverture ches PUF Que Sais je ?Je propose donc un extrait de l'introduction :"Il n"y a pas plus de race irlandais qu'il n'y a de race anglaise ou de race yankee : l'Irlande,...

Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath : The Authorised Biography (Hardback)

 The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler...

Hugh Weir - One Of Our Own - Memoirs of Change - HB - SIGNED -2001

Born in 1934 to a revolution and war experienced Irish rural ascendancy family, Hugh Weir was among the earliest of his kind to share in the evolution of modern Ireland. In spite of polio, he...

Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin- Seán Óg : His Own Story - PB - 1988

Published by Brophy Books, 1988. Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin was an enduring voice of sport commentary on Irish radio and television. For over 3 deacdes, and following on from his father, he brought news...