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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS 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,... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications Brian Kenny - Mairín de Búrca : Activist Feminist Socialist - BRAND NEW SIGNED The first biography of one of Ireland’s most prominent political activists, social campaigners and lifelong feminists. Mairin De Burca was one of Ireland's leading feminists, activists and socialists in the 20th century..She was involved in the... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60415H 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60415H 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40959E Franny Moyle / Constance : The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde (Hardback) In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children’s... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Eric Cross - The Tailor and Ansty - PB - BRAND NEW As bizarre as it now seems, this book was banned by the absurd Censorship Laws in Ireland on initial publication in 1942. This edition has an introduction by Frank O'Connor, as well as an afterword by Eric Cross, who tells of the impact the controversy... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88843E Rab Fulton / West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children These stories are wild. These stories are magic. Maybe it’s wrong to try and trap them in a book. Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... 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Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children’s... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40308E Donald Harman Akenson / Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien : Anthology (Hardback) Conor Cruise O'Brien is recognized internationally for having lived a series of controversial public lives - scapegoated UN representative during the Belgian Congo crisis, champion of academic freedom at the University of Ghana, courageously independent... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88843E Rab Fulton / West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children These stories are wild. These stories are magic. Maybe it’s wrong to try and trap them in a book. Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications 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... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications Brian Kenny - Mairín de Búrca : Activist Feminist Socialist - BRAND NEW SIGNED The first biography of one of Ireland’s most prominent political activists, social campaigners and lifelong feminists. Mairin De Burca was one of Ireland's leading feminists, activists and socialists in the 20th century..She was involved in the... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60415H 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Chriomhthain (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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Jim Hunter - The Waves of Tory : Tonnta Thóraí - HB - Dual Language HB MSRP: €27.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurice J Wigham - The Irish Quakers : A Short History - PB -1992 An outline of the long and distinguished history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, from their roots in the bitter sectarian warfare of teh 17th century to teh presetn day. Maurice Wigham sets the development of the society in the context of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40959E Franny Moyle / Constance : The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde (Hardback) In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children’s... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40308E Donald Harman Akenson / Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien : Anthology (Hardback) Conor Cruise O'Brien is recognized internationally for having lived a series of controversial public lives - scapegoated UN representative during the Belgian Congo crisis, champion of academic freedom at the University of Ghana, courageously independent... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: S 2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Kevin C Kearns - 1932 - A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... 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Quick view Maurice J Wigham - The Irish Quakers : A Short History - PB -1992 An outline of the long and distinguished history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, from their roots in the bitter sectarian warfare of teh 17th century to teh presetn day. Maurice Wigham sets the development of the society in the context of... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40959E Franny Moyle / Constance : The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde (Hardback) In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children’s... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40308E Donald Harman Akenson / Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien : Anthology (Hardback) Conor Cruise O'Brien is recognized internationally for having lived a series of controversial public lives - scapegoated UN representative during the Belgian Congo crisis, champion of academic freedom at the University of Ghana, courageously independent... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: S 2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Kevin C Kearns - 1932 - A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Cathal Póirtéir ( Editor) / The Great Irish Famine ( Thomas Davis Lecture Series) -PB - BRAND NEW This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists and geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States –... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Eric Cross - The Tailor and Ansty - PB - BRAND NEW As bizarre as it now seems, this book was banned by the absurd Censorship Laws in Ireland on initial publication in 1942. This edition has an introduction by Frank O'Connor, as well as an afterword by Eric Cross, who tells of the impact the controversy... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88843E Rab Fulton / West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children These stories are wild. These stories are magic. Maybe it’s wrong to try and trap them in a book. Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications 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... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications Brian Kenny - Mairín de Búrca : Activist Feminist Socialist - BRAND NEW SIGNED The first biography of one of Ireland’s most prominent political activists, social campaigners and lifelong feminists. Mairin De Burca was one of Ireland's leading feminists, activists and socialists in the 20th century..She was involved in the... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60415H 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Chriomhthain (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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x40959E Franny Moyle / Constance : The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde (Hardback) In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children’s... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40308E Donald Harman Akenson / Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien : Anthology (Hardback) Conor Cruise O'Brien is recognized internationally for having lived a series of controversial public lives - scapegoated UN representative during the Belgian Congo crisis, champion of academic freedom at the University of Ghana, courageously independent... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: S 2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Kevin C Kearns - 1932 - A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Cathal Póirtéir ( Editor) / The Great Irish Famine ( Thomas Davis Lecture Series) -PB - BRAND NEW This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists and geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States –... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Eric Cross - The Tailor and Ansty - PB - BRAND NEW As bizarre as it now seems, this book was banned by the absurd Censorship Laws in Ireland on initial publication in 1942. This edition has an introduction by Frank O'Connor, as well as an afterword by Eric Cross, who tells of the impact the controversy... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88843E Rab Fulton / West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children These stories are wild. These stories are magic. Maybe it’s wrong to try and trap them in a book. Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS 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 Brian Kenny Publications Brian Kenny - Joe Deasy : A Life on the Left - PB - BRAND NEW & SIGNED Biography of veteran Labour and trade union activist in Ireland. Left wing politician from the 1940s to 2000s. Worked with Jim Larkin. Member of Communist party and Labour at a time of huge state and church hostility to any left of centre political... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications 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... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications Brian Kenny - Mairín de Búrca : Activist Feminist Socialist - BRAND NEW SIGNED The first biography of one of Ireland’s most prominent political activists, social campaigners and lifelong feminists. Mairin De Burca was one of Ireland's leading feminists, activists and socialists in the 20th century..She was involved in the... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60415H 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Chriomhthain (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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: x40308E Donald Harman Akenson / Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien : Anthology (Hardback) Conor Cruise O'Brien is recognized internationally for having lived a series of controversial public lives - scapegoated UN representative during the Belgian Congo crisis, champion of academic freedom at the University of Ghana, courageously independent... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: S 2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... 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Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS 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,... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60415H 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88843E Rab Fulton / West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children These stories are wild. These stories are magic. Maybe it’s wrong to try and trap them in a book. Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS 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 Brian Kenny Publications Brian Kenny - Joe Deasy : A Life on the Left - PB - BRAND NEW & SIGNED Biography of veteran Labour and trade union activist in Ireland. Left wing politician from the 1940s to 2000s. Worked with Jim Larkin. Member of Communist party and Labour at a time of huge state and church hostility to any left of centre political... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications 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... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications Brian Kenny - Mairín de Búrca : Activist Feminist Socialist - BRAND NEW SIGNED The first biography of one of Ireland’s most prominent political activists, social campaigners and lifelong feminists. Mairin De Burca was one of Ireland's leading feminists, activists and socialists in the 20th century..She was involved in the... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60415H 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Chriomhthain (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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... 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Quick view Mercier Press Cathal Póirtéir ( Editor) / The Great Irish Famine ( Thomas Davis Lecture Series) -PB - BRAND NEW This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists and geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States –... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Eric Cross - The Tailor and Ansty - PB - BRAND NEW As bizarre as it now seems, this book was banned by the absurd Censorship Laws in Ireland on initial publication in 1942. This edition has an introduction by Frank O'Connor, as well as an afterword by Eric Cross, who tells of the impact the controversy... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88843E Rab Fulton / West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children These stories are wild. These stories are magic. Maybe it’s wrong to try and trap them in a book. Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Chriomhthain (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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... 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Quick view Mercier Press Eric Cross - The Tailor and Ansty - PB - BRAND NEW As bizarre as it now seems, this book was banned by the absurd Censorship Laws in Ireland on initial publication in 1942. This edition has an introduction by Frank O'Connor, as well as an afterword by Eric Cross, who tells of the impact the controversy... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88843E Rab Fulton / West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children These stories are wild. These stories are magic. Maybe it’s wrong to try and trap them in a book. Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS 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,... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny Publications Brian Kenny - Mairín de Búrca : Activist Feminist Socialist - BRAND NEW SIGNED The first biography of one of Ireland’s most prominent political activists, social campaigners and lifelong feminists. Mairin De Burca was one of Ireland's leading feminists, activists and socialists in the 20th century..She was involved in the... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60415H 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57348H 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88843E Rab Fulton / West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children These stories are wild. These stories are magic. Maybe it’s wrong to try and trap them in a book. Maybe you should set them free and tell them. Some of these stories are strange and sad, some are a bit scary and some are a bit mad. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40200E Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... 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Quick view Gregory Allen - The Garda Síochána : Policing Independent Ireland 1922-82 - HB 1999 The author Gregory Allen was a former member of the Gardai. 'The insights that such service can alone provide complement the original and impressive research that underpins his book. The book deals with recruitment, living and working conditions, the... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Steve MacDonogh - Green and Gold : The Wrenboys of Dingle - PB 1983 ‘It is an occasion full of ambiguity: a group of strawboys moving down the street, faces, identities hidden behind high conical headgear, can convey a sense of menace, of vague terror even; and this is not to say that they are not also just... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Chriomhthain (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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: €24.95 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye,... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS 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,... 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