Irish History and Historical Biography

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 Shannon 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...

Seamus MacAnnaidh / Irish History (Coffee Table Book)

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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...

Anthony Adolph / Collins Tracing Your Irish Family History (Coffee Table Book)

FOREWORD BY RYAN TUBRIDY The authoritative and comprehensive guide to tracing your Irish ancestry There's never been a better time to trace your Irish family history. Vast internet resources and DNA testing, as well as access to censuses, religious...

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

**CURRENTLY AWAITING RESTOCK**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...

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...

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...

Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2008

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  CONTENTS -  224 Pages; 16 Articles Properties in Carrick-on-Suir Granted to the Duke of Ormond in 1668Conleth ManningStatus and Structure: Social...

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

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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...

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...

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...

Patrick 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...

Jonathan Bardon - A Short History of Ulster - HB - BRAND NEW

A new version of Jonathan Bardon's definitive tome, A History of Ulster, this book provides a comprehensive account of the province from the earliest settlements nine thousand years ago to the turmoil of the Troubles, and the fragile peace period that...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 113 - Summer 2012

Contents -  Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War’ (1862), by Louis Lang  Camp California, Virginia: where Meagher’s men steeled themselves for war (illustrated) by Niall R. Brannigan  Captain...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 114 - Winter 2012

Contents -  Soldiers Three – A visit to the Royal Hospital’: a painting of 1899 by The Mac Egan [Darius Joseph MacEgan] (1856-1939)  A description of the painting by F. Glenn Thompson  A note on the artist by James...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 112 - Winter 2011

Contents -  James Kirkland and other Potsdam Grenadiers of Irish birth (Illustrated) by Kenneth Ferguson  Beheaded at Cork and buried with a piper: the traditional fate (and strange afterlife) of Captain Súgán ––...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 111 - Summer 2011

Contents -  Heinrich Trajektin von Solms–Braunfels (1638-93): Williamite General in Ireland (Illustrated) by Daniel Herbert  The artillery train of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1640 by Malcolm Mercer  The Ulster Army of the...

Darach MacDonald / The Chosen Fews : Exploding Myths in South Armagh (Large Paperback)

In the early 1970s, Britain's then Northern Secretary Merlyn Rees disdainfully dubbed South Armagh Bandit Country. The name stuck. Crossmaglen, a town with a peaceful past, was transformed into the most infamous killing field for British soldiers...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII- No. 110 Winter 2010 ( Essays on the Irish War of Independence)

Contents -  DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEWAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-1921No. 110 (Winter 2010) Aerial Mail, 1919-22: records of the Post Office and AirMinistry touching the carriage of mail by aeroplane duringthe conflict in Ireland - Douglas N. Muir...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII- No. 109 Autumn 2010 ( Essays on the Irish War of Independence)

Contents -  ESSAYS ON THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-1921PART II - No. 109 (Autumn 2010) Leo Whelan’s painting of the I.R.A. G.H.Q. staff, 1921 -Risteárd Mulcahy  Enlistment of ex-soldiers in the Royal Irish Constabulary ..............

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII - No. 107 - SPRING 2010

A special issue on 'the Irish Rebellion ( Irish War of Independence) in the 6th Divisional Area ( ie Munster - 6th Divisional Area was teh Britiah Army designation for Munster in this period.  An account compiled in 1922 by Sir Peter Strickland, and...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXX - No. 120 - Winter 2015

Irish Faces on the Plains of Abraham: West’s painting; the letters home of Lieutenant Henry Browne; and the ancestry of Major-General James Wolfe by Kenneth Ferguson 121AppendicesThe Genealogy of James Wolfe by Anthony R. Wagner (1908-1995) 141Some...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXX - No. 119 - Summer 2015 ( Battle of Waterloo)

WaterlooSergeant James Graham (1791-1845) of Clones, Hougoumont, and the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham by Kenneth Ferguson 1Ireland and the Waterloo Campaign by Peter Molloy 13A fabricated speech put into the mouth of the Duke of Wellington by Kenneth...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 118 - Winter 2014

Irish Command Headquarters, Parkgate, Dublin’ by Anthony Kinsella 361The Duke of Parma's Company of Irish Guards, 1702-1733 by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 363John Ryan of Ballynakill (1768-1811): an elusive Wild Goose by N. H. H. Adams...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 117 - Summer 2014

  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 116 - Winter 2013

  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 115 -Summer 2013

  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 105 - Summer 2009

Detail from the Trinity College painting of the battle of Kinsale facing page 241Towards a new interpretation of the Nine Years’ War by Eoin Ó Néill 241The battle of Kinsale and other military associations with the Library of Trinity...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 104 - Winter 2008

The upper r/h corner is dogeared slightly, otherwise unmarked.    As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 103 -SUMMER 2008

Montcalm’s Irish soldiers, 1756-1757 (Illustrated) by René Chartrand 1Dunalong, Co. Tyrone –– the ‘fort of the ships’ by G. V. C. Young 3Anne Eleanor Burroughs (1898-1981) –– Women’s Army Auxiliary...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 102 -Winter 2007

Depiction of a Grenadier of the Royal Irish Regiment, 1704 facing page 361The first gun in Ireland: 1332? by Randolph Jones 361Summit at Binche, 5 November 1607 by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 363Some Irish military connections with Minorca by...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 106 -Winter 2009

    As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXV - No. 101 -Summer 2007

Contents -  Sandes Soldiers’ Homes (Illustrated) by Bryan MacMahon 241The Ulster Militia, 1630-31 by Clive L.C. Hollick 257King Charles I and his assignation for ‘swiving’ 261Crux Hiberniae: the Cross of Ireland (Illustrated) by...