Irish History and Historical Biography

John Downing / Enda Kenny : The Unlikely Taoiseach (Hardback)

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Christopher Winn / I Never Knew That About the Irish

 In this charming book bestselling author Christopher Winn turns his attention to the Irish people, taking us on a enthralling journey around their homeland, discovering en route the intriguing and...

W.J Mc Cormack - The Dublin Paper War 1786-1788 : A Bibliographical and Critical Enquiry - HB -1993

A Bibliography and Critical Inquiry, Including an Account of the Origins of Protestant Ascendancy and Its Baptism in 1792 - Hardback, published by Irish Academic Press.  The long and acrimonious...

Dave Hannigan / De Valera in America (Large Paperback)

 Retraces the steps of an incredible journey of a leader in exile that would resonate through Irish history for the rest of the century ...In June 1919 Eamon de Valera stowed away on a liner bound...

Eamonn MacThomais / Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin (Large Paperback)

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John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 2 - HB

In Old Ireland in Colour 2, the much-anticipated sequel to their beloved bestseller, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley have dug even deeper into Ireland's historical archives to uncover captivating...

Daniel Zuchowski / The New Dubliners (Large Paperback)

 "Bawdy and boisterous, it's an important book by a writer perfectly tuned into the experiences of the new Irish." (The Irish Times)***"The New Dubliners is an exciting new experiment and a...

Charlie Connelly / And Did Those Feet : Walking Through 2000 Years of British and Irish History (Large Paperback)

 The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're following the same path as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, or...

Tony Famer / Believing in Action : A History of Concern, 1968-2000 (Large Paperback)

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Tom Doyle - The Summer Campaign in Kerry 1922 - ( Mercier Military History of The Irish Civil War ) - PB - BRAND NEW

Follows the military course of the Civil War in Kerry in August and September 1922, focusing on specific engagements and tactics. Because of the defence line of the Munster Republic overland during...

Andy O'Mahony / Creating Space : The Education of a Broadcaster(Large Paperback)

   This is the story of a man whose lifelong concern has been to create space in his life for learning. Andy O'Mahony was among the first faces on Irish television in the early 1960s, both as a news...

Myles Dungan / How the Irish Won the West (Large Paperback)

   Here is the full story of the Irish immigrants and their decedents whose hard work helped make the West what it is today. Learn about the Irish members of the Donner party, forced to consume...

Seosamh MacGrianna - Mo Bhealach Féin - PB - BRAND NEW

Mo Bhealach Féin ( 'My Own Way' or This Road of Mine) was first published in 1940. It is an autobiographical novel by Donegal writer Seosamh Mac Grianna. Written in the mid-1930s and prompted by the...

Séamas Mac Annaidh ( General Editor ) - New Illustrated Irish History ( A-Z ) - HB - 2001

The history of Ireland is one of oppression and emancipation, characterized by foreign rule and the fight for freedom. It is a history in which religious and political conflicts sit side by side with...

Kilkenny Archaeological Society - Old Kilkenny Review - Number 68 - 2016 - PB

Paperback, 244 pages, in as new condition.  Edited by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil. 

Ulick O'Connor - Travels With Ulick - Vintage Mercier PB -1967

An account with the keen eye of an outsider, of a long multi city trip in the USA in spring 1965, in a period where cultural change and civil Rights issues were asserting themselves into the US...

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

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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)

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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...