Irish History and Historical Biography

Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - The Limerick Compendium - Paperback 1997

A sequel to Jim Kemmy's earlier Limerick Anthology, containing travellers' accounts of the city and county, sections on history, sport, the labour movement and the theatre. There is poetry and verse, and a selection of material from Limerick's heritage...

Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - FRENCH EDITION ( Number 25 - Summer 1989 )

The 1989 ' large format' back issue of the Old Limerick Journal ( and also one of the largest ) - this 1989 edition covered all aspects of the many historic links between Limerick and France.  192 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a...

Trevor Birney - Shooting Crows : Mass Murder, State Collusion and Press Freedom- PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW - TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  Everyone knows where they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The...

Rebecca Brownlie - Abandoned Ireland : Volume 2 - BRAND NEW

In Abandoned Ireland 2, photographer Rebecca Brownlie travels further off the beaten path to explore and showcase Ireland’s forgotten buildings before nature or the demolition man claims them forever. Through her evocative...

Mike Cronin & Mark Duncan - Revolutionary Times – Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation

Ireland during the period 1913–1923 was a nation in constant flux. Spanning a pivotal era marked by the Dublin Lockout, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the birth of the Irish Free State, Revolutionary Times captures the...

Kieran Sheedy - The Clare Anthology - HB - Clasp Press -1999

Hardcover, published by Clasp Press, 1999. Edited by Kieran Sheehy.  Moderate age tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. 264 pp. Hardback in dustjacket.  ISBN- 190054511X   The Clare Anthology contains a selection of prose and verse by...

Brian Ó Dálaigh - Corporation Book of Ennis - HB - 1990

A record of the transactions of Ennis Corporation in the period 1660-1810, hardcover, published by the Irish Academic Press ( in cooperation with Ennis Town Council. A valuable genealogival resource as well as an insight into the minutes of local...

William Garner - Ennis Architectural Heritage - PB 1981 ( An Foras Forbartha)

Published by An Foras Forbartha 1981 - ( it was later absorbed into the Environmental Protection Agency)  A copy book sized paperback, , 80 pages, a guide to the notable buildings and architecture of Ennis Town, County Clare.  Condition - very...

David Hogan - The Four Glorious Years - HB 1st Edition 1953

The Four Glorious Years, published by the Irish Press , Dublin, 1953, the first edition.  Illustrated with photos, and portrait of the author. With index, previous gift inscription dated Easter 1953 on front endpages.  The story of the most...

D.D Rocca - Memories of the Way We Were - SIGNED - 2022

Signed with a dediaction from the author to the title page.  The author, Donal Rocca, also known as Don Rocca was born on 5th August 1941 in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish mother and Italian father. After a formal education by nuns, lay teachers and...

Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 2016-2017 - PB ( VOLUME XX1 - PART 1)

Issued every two years , this is the 2016-2017 issue.  Contents -  John Wynn Baker et alii by Myro Kavanagh 7‘Weird and Wonderful Wart-Stones': Some Observations about the Bullaun Stones of County Kildare by Lorcan Harney and Stephen...

Helen M. Roe - Monasterboice and its Monuments - PB

Published 2003 by the County Louth Archaeological & History Society, 78 pages, slim ' copybook' format, illustrated throughout.  This is the third edition, 2003, first published in 1981. 

Marguerite Marie Dubois - Saint Columban : A Pioneer of Western Civilization - PB - 1961

Published by Gill Books, paperback with flaps, 1961.  Translated from the original French by James O'Carroll.  ( Variously known as Columbanus, Columban or Columba )  In excellent condition.  Cover shows the statue of the saint at...

Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press.  This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people,...

ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature

The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published  by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ.   An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of...

Fintan O'Toole / A History of Ireland in 100 Objects (Coffee Table Book)

Objects don't just have stories, they tell stories. There is a certain paradox that surrounds them. They seem precise and fixed, literally tangible, yet they can put us in touch with the past in a direct and immediate way. What they said to their...

Stephen J. Campbell / The great Irish famine: Words and images from the Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon (Coffee Table Book)

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Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback)

A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established over a century ago, it has re-emerged as central to...

Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB - BRAND NEW

  In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited...

David Ross / Ireland: History of a Nation (Coffee Table Book)

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John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley / Old Ireland in Colour (Coffee Table Book)

Old Ireland in Colour brings to life the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of these stunning images of all walks of Irish life throughout nineteenth and twentieth century. From the chaos of the Civil War to the...

Rupert Matthews / The Illustrated History of the Twentieth Century (Coffee Table Book)

More than any other this has been a century of change. Empires which took generations to build have been swept away, monolithic super states founded on ideology have been created and destroyed, technology we now take for granted was not even dreamed of...

Fintan O'Toole / Irish Times Book of the Century, 1900-1999 (Coffee Table Book)

Fintan O'Toole draws together the key events of modern Irish history, showing how international factors shaped them and recalling the manner in which they were reflected in The Irish Times. The book reproduces over 100 original articles from the paper,...

Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW

Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet presents the Saint’s own account of his capture,...

Ian Hannigan - Timeless Colours - Waterford - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Timeless Colours: Waterford celebrates the rich history of the Déise and its people through the meticulous colourisation of over 100 stunning images. From architectural gems like the Dromana Gate to the tranquil beauty of the River Suir, each...

Patrick Casey, Joe Duignan & Kevin Cullen - Irish Doctors in the Second World War - HB- BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST This highly anticipated sequel charts the contributions of Irish doctors in the Second World War, a conflict that demonstrated to the world that the pace of military warfare had changed forever...

Helena King et al ( Editors) - Knowth - PB - BRAND NEW

Knowth, Co. Meath, has been a place of ritual and settlement from the beginning of the Neolithic to the modern era. It is a national monument and part of a UNESCO World...

Éamonn MacThomáis - Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin - O'Brien Press - Illustrated 50th Anniversary Edition - BRAND NEW

50th Anniversary Edition  A beautifully presented and attractively laid out commemorative edition, with new introductions by Ivan O’Brien, MD of The O’Brien Press and best-selling author Dónal Fallon. The very first book...

Robert Allen / No Global: The People of Ireland Versus the Multinationals (Large Paperback)

Ireland's economy has seen phenomenal growth since the 1990s, as a result of an earlier decision by the state to chase foreign investment, largely from US corporates. As a result, manufacturers of raw chemicals, pharmaceuticals and highly dangerous...

David Burke - The Puppet Masters - PB - BRAND NEW

David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of Patrick Crinnion, a Garda intelligence officer in the Republic of Ireland who secretly served the British Secret Service, MI6, during the initial years of the Troubles. At the same time, The Garda...

Acts of the Oireachtas 1957 - HB - Dáil Éireann - Bound

Bound in red cloth, titles to spine, the full legislation of the Houses of the Oireachtas for 1957 ' Consisting of The Public general Acts and A rivate Act, with Tables and index - DUAL LANGUAGE ( Gaeilge & English, facing pages) , published by the...

Edward Burke - Ghosts of a Family : Ireland’s Most Infamous Unsolved Murder and the Origins of the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW

The gripping historical true crime story of Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder, the sectarian massacre of six Catholic civilians in their north Belfast home in 1922.      At 1.20am on 24 March 1922, five men, four dressed in...

Damien Kiberd / Media in Ireland: Issues in Broadcasting (Large Paperback)

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Mark O'Connell / A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention and Murder (Large Paperback)

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murders in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion.Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir...

James Durney - Jailbreak : Great Irish Republican Escapes, 1865–1983 -BRAND NEW

  ‘What has taken place here today was a carefully planned exercise to secure the release of a substantial number of POWs. The block is now under our control.’ The infamous 1983 H-Block breakout, which saw 38 IRA prisoners escape from...

Rachel Finnegan - The Memoirs and Diaries of Judith Isobel Chavasse : An Account of Life in West Cork and Waterford (1867-1935) - BRAND NEW SIGNED

Rachel Finnegan - The Memoirs and Diaries of Judith Isobel Chavasse : An Account of Life in West Cork and Waterford (1867-1935) - BRAND NEW ( JUNE 2024) DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. signed  In this meticulously researched...

Tim Doyle / Get Up Them Steps (Large Paperback)

A memoir of the author's experiences serving with the Garda Síochána, the national police agency of the Republic of Ireland. His second book on the subject, the first being Peaks and Valleys (published 1997.) An honest, and often humorous,...

Harman Murtagh - Irish Midland Studies : Essays in Commemoration of N.W English - HB 1980

Published by the Old Athlone Society, 1980, hardcover internally in excellent condition but in a somewhat edgeworn dustjacket ( which is now in a clear plastic removable cover)  Essays ( on a diverse array of subjects, and also covering counties...

Brendan Ogle / From Bended Knee to a New Republic: How the Fight for Water is Changing Ireland (Large Paperback)

An exploration of the Irish water issue that has raged through the country in recent years. Water in Ireland had always been provided by local government and paid for through taxes. In 2015 a new water utility was created by the national government with...

J.F Quinn - History of Mayo , Volume 1 - HB 1st Edition 1993

Edited by Brendan Quinn , the son of the original author and Western People journalist , Joe .F Quinn, who first published the material for this book in a long series of weekly articles in the 1930's and 1940's.  Initally intended as a history of...

Dúchas /Niah - Survey of the Architectural Heritage of County MEATH

Published 2002,  paperback, with 2 x (Windows based) cdROM ( with map content) also. (THIS ELEMENT IS UNUSED, BUT IS PROBABLY INACCESSIBLE UNLESS YOU HAVE AN OLD PC )  in external plastic slipcase, opens out gatefold style.  Part of the...

Seán Ó Cuirreáin - The Queen v Patrick O'Donnell : The Man Who Shot the Informer James Carey - PB - BRAND NEW

Patrick O’Donnell achieved the status of a national hero when he killed Ireland’s most infamous informer James Carey on board a steamship off the coast of South Africa in 1883. Why did the quiet-spoken labourer from the Donegal Gaeltacht...

Mary MacDiarmada - Art O'Brien and Irish Nationalism in London 1900-1925 - HB - BRAND NEW

Joint winner of the NUI Publication Prize in Irish History 2023London-born and reared, Art O’Brien’s journey from wealthy electrical engineer to leader of Irish militant nationalism in London was, by any measure, quite extraordinary. This...

Richard Doherty - Irish Men and Women in the Second World War - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, BRAND NEW, 2021. Originally published in hardcover in 1999.  The publication of this book in 1999 provided the first detailed examination of the many Irish men and women, all volunteers, who served in the Second World War. It led the way...

Richard Aldous , Niamh Puirseil / We Declare: Landmark Documents in Ireland's History (Coffee Table Book)

 From St. Patrick’s confession to the harrowing reports of the Famine Relief Commission, the dramatic Proclamation of the Republic and the controversial 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty, and the road to peace and the Good Friday agreement, the...

Peter Crawford / The Living Isles : A Natural History of Britain and Ireland (Coffee Table Book)

 The story of the natural history of the British isles, this companion book to the BBC TV series has been produced to coincide with its repeat showing as part of the national project "Safari UK". The book tells the story of our changing landscape...

Paul Mulhern / The Story of HB: 80 Years of Ireland's Favourite Ice Cream (Coffee Table Book)

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Turtle Bunbury / The Glorious Madness: Tales of the Irish and the Great War (Large Hardback)

   From the generals and field commanders through to the troopers and nurses on the front lines, the Irish served at every turn in the Great War.They tore through the skies in flimsy biplanes. They soared across the seas in battleships. They...

Richard Chambers / A State of Emergency (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback).

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Peter Sheridan / 44 - A Dublin Memoir (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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James Connor Patterson ( Editor) New Frontier : Reflections From the Irish Border - PB - BRAND NEW

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, composed of non-fiction, fiction and poetry – it is a chorus of voices from some of the island’s greatest writers, that conveys in its multiplicity the true...

Alannah Hopkin / A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins - PB - BRAND NEW

This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a...