Irish History and Historical Biography

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI - No 62 - 1984

Uneven tanning to page block edges.  An Officer of the 8th The King’s Royal Irish Hussars by F. Glenn Thompson 1Some Documents Relating to the Involvement of the Irish Brigade in the Rebellion of 1745 by Hector McDonnell 3Irish Soldiers in...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XIII- No.50 - Summer 1977

Uneven tanning to page block edges.      As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews,shorter notes on military history, shorter articles, 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI- No.63 - 1985

Contents The Belfast Blitz by Robson S. Davison 65Imperial Yeomanry Notes by F. Glenn Thompson 84Irishmen in the Stuart Navy, 1660 – 90 by Hector McDonnell 87Terence Bellew McManus: Fenian by Precursor Brendan O’Cathaoir 105Guns and Castle in...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXII- No.87 Summer 2000

Contents Vol. XXII Summer 2000 No 87 The Military History Society of Ireland, 1949-99: a message to mark the golden jubilee (Illustrated)Donal O'Carroll Page 1The battle of Manning Ford, 4 June 1643 Niall Brunicardi Page 3Niall Brunicardi (1913-1997)...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIII- No. 94 Winter 2003

Photograph of a collar and two armlets worn by a negro in the band of the Kilkenny Militia, c. 1793 facing page 361Preserving Donegal - the battle of Glenmaquin, 16 June 1642 by Patrick McCarthy 361Jacobite Artillery, 1689-91 by Harman Murtagh 383General...

John FitzMaurice Mills - The Noble Dwellings of Ireland - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Thames & Hudson UK 1987 Signed and with a brief dedication to a previous owner by teh author on the title page.  There is heavy age spotting and foxing to the (mostly white) dustjacket and to the (blank) preliminary pages...

E.E O'Donnell - Father Browne's Titanic Album - HB - 1998

Father Browne's lifelong hobby was photography.  This volume concentrates on photographs relating to R.M.S 'Titanic'. Browne joined the ship at Southampton 10th April, 1912, and disembarked at Queenstown (now Cobh). During the only safe journey the...

Edward McParland - Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760 - HB

Large format hardcover, published by Yale UP , 2001. Newspaper review loosely laid in.    This innovative book examines the public architecture of Ireland from 1680 to 1760, a crucial period during which the country undertook the combined tasks...

David Ross - Ireland - History of a Nation - PB 2008 Edition

This original and updated, readable history tells the story of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day. The history is written from the point of view of the Irish people. Updated in 2008 the text explains the Irish question aimed at someone who...

Rob Cross - The Colour of Ireland, Volume 2 - HB - 2023 - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

Breathing new life into Ireland's history once again, this carefully restored and colourised collection of wonderful black and white images captures the beauty of the nation's fascinating past. This sequel to the bestselling The Colour of Ireland...

George Cunningham - From Landlords to Genetics : The Historical and Modern Story of the Trant Estate, dovea, Thurles Co Tipperary - HB - 2019

'From Landlords to Genetics' tells the story of the historical and modern Trant estate at Dovea, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.It covers the physical and historic landscape of the area, the fortunes of the Trant generations from before and during their tenure at...

James Connolly - Socialism and Nationalism - A Selection from the Writings ( Edited by Desmond Ryan) - HB - 1948

A hardcover first edition ( thus) , published 1948 at the Sign of Three Cndles Press, Dublin.  Small format hardcover, with slightnly rubbed pictorial cover, internally very good, binding tight, no marks noted.  James Connolly was a...

Dónal Murray - Tracks of the City : An Introduction to the Railways, Tramways and Metro in Dublin - PB

Published by Colourpoint Books, 2014.  A history and exploration of Dublin's public transport, particularly the tram system which was onec one of teh largest city systems in Europe, which began to be renewed with the arrival of the DART, and in the...

Helen Livingston - Ireland Photographic Memories - PB ( Francis Frith Photographic Collection)

Paperback, publsihed by Frith Book Company, 2018.  Photographs ( mostly landscape, scenic attractions and tourist themed) taken throughout Ireland from the late 19th to the mid 20th century, north and south

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill & Yseult Thonley / RTÉ 100 Years : Ireland in the 20th Century HB

RTE 100 Ireland in the 20th Century is a unique and stimulating record of Ireland's progression through the 20th century, and one that, in Brian Farrell's words in the introduction, connects as to history with an instant immediacy.  Illustrated...

Gordon T Ledbetter - John McCormack : The Great Irish Tenor - PB -2003

John McCormack was born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, in 1884. By his late twenties, he was a world-famous opera singer and, at the height of his popularity, was as famous, flamboyant and well-paid as rock stars of today. In this biography, Gordon T...

Anne Cadwallader / Holy Cross: The Untold Story (Large Paperback)

The loyalist blockade to prevent young catholic schoolchildren from walking a short distance through "their territory" and therefore not be able to attend school was one of the very lowest points in the history of the state of Northern Ireland.In what...

Brendan McGowran & Corinne Silva - Róisín Bán : The Irish Diaspora in Leeds - HB

Emigration is a common theme throughout Irish history. As Dermot Bolger recognises in his foreword, it is one that has touched almost every family in Ireland. Until recently thousands found work in Britain’s major industrial centres. For a large...

Andy Bielenberg - The Shasnnon Scheme and the Electrification of the Irish Free State - PB

Jo Kerrigan - Stories From the Sea - HB - BRAND NEW

Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands have brought goods, ideas, invaders, influencers. Our legends, and particularly the imramma or magical...

Harold Good & Martin O'Brien / In Good Time: A Memoir (Large Paperback)

Rev. Harold Good, ’Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process, lifts the curtain on his remarkable life in this enthralling memoir. From Ian Paisley’s turbulent...

Stephen Kelly / A Failed Political Entity (Large Paperback)

Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question, 1945-1992   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers...

Seamus MacAnnaidh / Irish History (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Gerard Brockie / Modern Ireland Documents Resource Book (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Angela Phelan / Who's Who in Ireland: The Influential Irish (Coffee Table Book)

Any attempt to provide a definitive listing of Ireland's most influential people right now is like trying to catch hold of quicksilver. Everything is changing by the nano second and influential people are emerging in just about f every walk of life all...

Colm Connolly / Michael Collins (Coffee Table Book)

Michael Collins was a powerful man whose charm, intelligence, and oratorical prowess propelled him to the forefront of the Irish fight for independence from Britain. Seventy-five years after his death, his memory still resonates throughout Irish...

Robert C. Sinclair / Across the Irish Sea (Coffee Table Book)

The important short-sea route between Liverpool and Belfast was largely the preserve of the Belfast Steamship Company, and the formation and development of this company forms the central theme of this book. This is no narrow history of a shipping...

Thomas Keneally / Now And In Time To Be: Ireland & the Irish (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Cal McCarthy - In the Shadow of the Big Fellow : The Commemoration, Commercialisation, Study & Politicisation of Michael Collins - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

  Cal McCarthy is a Cork based historian and civil servant. This new book, published by Clonakilty based Michael Collins House Museum with financial aid also from Cork County Council, takes a detailed look at the legacy and impact of  Michael...

Labhrás Ó Nualláin / Memoir of an Irish Economist (Large Paperback)

Working Class Manchester to Irish Academia. Labhrás Ó Nualláin 1912 -2000 Labhrás Ó Nualláin was a lecturer and subsequently Professor of Economics at University College Galway. Prior to his academic career he...

Thomas J Culhane - The Barony of Shanid : A Short History of Shanagolden, Foynes and Robeststown ( Limerick ) - PB - 2003

Paperback, 2003. A very detailed and original work on West Limerick, the author gained a lot of content from his father on local history, townlands, placenames and much more.  Particularly strong on local estates, big houses, townlands and much...

Michael Sheridan / A Man Called Harris (Hardback)

Richard Harris was a giant who oozed charisma on screen. But off screen he was troubled and addicted to every pleasure life could offer. Coming from a repressed Irish Catholic background, he was forced by a teenage illness to abandon his beloved...

Gerry Adams / Selected Writings (Large Paperback)

"Adams writes fluently and observantly . . . He displays a hard-edged compassion for the silent poor, the old and the down-and-out." Financial Times   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Fintan O'Toole / We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 (Hardback)

Fintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government—in despair, because all the young people were leaving—opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long,...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1996

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part I - Denis G. Marnane Memories of the Famine from the Irish Folklore CommissionIntroductiona. The Famine in Ballylooby - Tadhg...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1997

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part II - Denis G. MarnaneThe Great Famine & Fethard Temporary Fever Hospital -...

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1992

Editor: Marcus Bourke244 pages; 28 Articles The IRA in West Tipperary in 1931 – The Assassination of Superintendent CurtinDenis G. MarnaneThe End of the Civil War: The Third Tipperary Brigade (1921-1923); Part IIIAn tAthair Colmcille, O. Cist.The...

Marcus Bourke( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1999

Paperback.  Condition - front and rear covers curled/ dogeared, book does not lie flat when on level surface as a result. rear cover corners creased. Signed by pervious owner on title page. Some foxing and age spotting to inside rear cover, and...

Marcus Bourke( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2001

Paperback, larger format, signed on front endpage by a previous owner. Front cover corners slightly bumped.    Tipperary town one hundred years ago: the evidence of the 1901 CensusDenis G Marnane Tipperarymen in Spain (1936 – 1937) - Pat...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2002

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  Marcus Bourke: An Appreciation Marcus Bourke: BibliographyMarcus Bourke: A Biographical Sketch -William NolanMarcus Bourke and his Writings -Denis G. MarnaneMarcus Bourke: His GAA Writings -Seamus J...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2003

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name to title page.  210 Pages; 14 Articles The Benedictine Priory of Kilcommon - Richard O’Brien The Munster Hotel, Cathedral Street, Thurles: Archaeological Excavations 1998-1999...

Carmel Quinlan( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2004

Paperback , in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address written on inside front cover. 276 Pages; 15 Articles Excavations at Friar Street Cashel: A Story of Urban SettlementO’Donovan et al The Fennells of Cahir - Michael...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2014

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address to title page CONTENTS -  Editor: Dan Finnan230 Pages; 16 Articles The Use of Masons Templates on some Early Christian Sculpture from Lorrha, Co. Tipperary and Tisaran Co...

Padraic McCormack / The Rocky Road to the Dáil: Politics from the Inside (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Volume XXV Summer 2006 - Number 99

The Irish Sword is the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, In very good condition overall, as new.  Depiction (by Seán Ó Brógáin) of soldiers of Sir Phelim O’Neill’s Regiment of Foot...

Eimear O'Callaghan / Belfast Days : A 1972 teenage diary (Large Paperback)

Belfast 1972. It's the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish 'Troubles', and 16-year-old Eimear O'Callaghan, a Catholic schoolgirl in West Belfast, bears witness in her new diary. What follows is a unique and touching perspective into the daily life of an...

Jean McMann - Loughcrew : The Cairns - A Guide - PB - 1984

This guide is intended as an introduction to a little known yet uniquely important landmark, the Neolithic cairns at Loughcrew in County Meath, Ireland. The site is a key monument not only in the history of Ireland, but in the world's history of...

Clongowes College - The Clongowes Union Centenary Chronicle - HB

Published 1997 for the centenary of the founding of the Clongowes Union  ( Clongowes is a prominent Jesuit founded College )  Hardcover, illustrated throughout. 

Margaret Ward - Fearless Woman : Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW - 2019

This full-length biographical study - substantially rewritten and updated from the 1997 edition - of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century.  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, part of a pioneering generation, played a...

Oliver Whelan / Landholding in the new English settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875 (Large Paperback)

The new Protestant settlement in the lordship of Clonmore, centred around Hacketstown, proved resilient to the 1641 rebellion and attracted investment, including by Dublin bureaucrats and landed and military figures. Entrepreneurial Catholics turned to...

Eamonn McCann / Dear God : The Price of Religion in Ireland (Large Paperback)

1999.  An expose of the uses and abuses of religious bigotry in Ireland by one of the country's leading radical journalists and the author of War in an Irish Town' - the classic account of the impact of the 'Troubles' on ordinary people. A book that...

Lonergan - Druid Theatre - 50 Years- BRAND NEW

This fully-illustrated and authorised history marks 50 years of Ireland's most ground-breaking and successful theatre company. Founded in 1975, Druid is a touring theatre company, anchored in the West of Ireland and looking to the world.   Druid...