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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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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Quick view Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 2021 - Series 2, Volume 21 - PB CONTENTS - Regular Contributors to the Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968 to 2020 (Paul McCotter) Past lifeways between the Maine and the Laune: Archaeological excavations on the N70 Kilderry Bends Road Improvement... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press David A Fleming - Edmund Sexten Pery : The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteeenth Century Ireland Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1771 and 1785, ensured that he was at... MSRP: €65.00 Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Seamus O'Malley - Irish Culture & ''The People' - HB - 2023 This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84721H,X84726H 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 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... 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Quick view Four Courts Press David A Fleming - Edmund Sexten Pery : The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteeenth Century Ireland Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1771 and 1785, ensured that he was at... MSRP: €65.00 Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view Seamus O'Malley - Irish Culture & ''The People' - HB - 2023 This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats's work, populism... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88222H,X88275H Shane Ross / Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle (Large Paperback) A biography of the Sinn Fé in leader, and Taoiseach in waiting, Mary Lou McDonald. Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Fé in leader... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books Tom Hennessy - Cuimhneachán Liam Ó Loinsigh : 16th July 2023 ( Liam Lynch Commemorative Booklet ) An 18 page booklet , issued on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the death of Liam Lynch, published by the Committee ( Sean Nugent, Nicola Ní Chonaill, with Tom Hennessy, Pat O'Donnell, Tommy O'Leary, Pat Boyce and Terry Crowe... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 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 Was: €24.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... 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Quick view Seamus O'Malley - Irish Culture & ''The People' - HB - 2023 This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats's work, populism... MSRP: €76.00 Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Emily Mark Fitzgerald , Ciarán McCabe & Ciarán Reilly - Dublin and the Great Irish Famine - PB - BRAND NEW 2023 Dublin did not escape the Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, while the capital witnessed an influx of the rural poor seeking refuge and relief. However, Dublin has remained largely neglected in popular and... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press Piers Wauchope - The Siege of Londonderry 1689 - HB - BRAND NEW As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84721H,X84726H 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 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... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR30 T.W Moody F.X Martin & F.J Byrne - Early Modern Ireland : 1534-1691 - Volume III ( A New History of Ireland ) HB A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 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 SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 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 Was: €24.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84721H,X84726H 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 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... 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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: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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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Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History John Colgan - Nathaniel Colgan 1851-1919 : The Life, Times and Genealogy of an Enigmatic Dubliner Nathaniel Colgan MRIA, a self-taught botanist, was known for his research on the ‘real’ shamrock and for his encyclopaedic survey, The flora of the county Dublin. Little was known of his early life and family or of his interests beyond... MSRP: Now: €11.50 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Suzanne M Pegley - Thomas Conolly ( 1823-76) of Castletown House and the Social Networking of Power - PB - BRAND NEW This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it acts as a prism through which to view the power of the ascendancy class in the second half of... MSRP: €12.95 Now: €11.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87891H Kevin C Kearns / Dublin Tenement Life : An Oral History (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71595H David Slattery / Poet Madman Scoundrel - 189 Unusual Irish Lives (Large Paperback) Following on from the bestselling success of How to Be Irish, David Slattery has penned Poet, Madman, Scoundrel: 189 Unusual Irish Lives, another witty and insightful book about the Irish, this time looking at the famous, infamous and not-so-famous (but... 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Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Suzanne M Pegley - Thomas Conolly ( 1823-76) of Castletown House and the Social Networking of Power - PB - BRAND NEW This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it acts as a prism through which to view the power of the ascendancy class in the second half of... MSRP: €12.95 Now: €11.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87891H Kevin C Kearns / Dublin Tenement Life : An Oral History (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 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 SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 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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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.00 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. THEBOOKSHOP.IE ' BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 ! It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88222H,X88275H Shane Ross / Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle (Large Paperback) A biography of the Sinn Fé in leader, and Taoiseach in waiting, Mary Lou McDonald. Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Fé in leader... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books Tom Hennessy - Cuimhneachán Liam Ó Loinsigh : 16th July 2023 ( Liam Lynch Commemorative Booklet ) An 18 page booklet , issued on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the death of Liam Lynch, published by the Committee ( Sean Nugent, Nicola Ní Chonaill, with Tom Hennessy, Pat O'Donnell, Tommy O'Leary, Pat Boyce and Terry Crowe... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84721H,X84726H 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 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 | sku: MED292,MED293 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: €13.00 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. THEBOOKSHOP.IE ' BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 ! It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 - 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: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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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Quick view sku: X71595H David Slattery / Poet Madman Scoundrel - 189 Unusual Irish Lives (Large Paperback) Following on from the bestselling success of How to Be Irish, David Slattery has penned Poet, Madman, Scoundrel: 189 Unusual Irish Lives, another witty and insightful book about the Irish, this time looking at the famous, infamous and not-so-famous (but... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - HB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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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MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 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 SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 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 Was: €24.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84721H,X84726H 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,... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.00 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. THEBOOKSHOP.IE ' BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 ! It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 - 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: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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 sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X73020H Gerard Whelan / Spiked: Church-State Intrigue and the Rose Tattoo (Large Paperback) In 1957 Dublin's Pike Theatre-famous for discovering Behan and premiering Waiting for Godot-staged Tennessee Williams's celebrated play, The Rose Tattoo, to packed audiences. Shortly after, the theatre director was arrested on the grounds of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: LAR67 Duncan Crosbie - Life in an Irish Castle : The Journal of a 17th Century Castle - HB 2007 ( Limerick) The Journal of a 17th Century Castle in Times of Peace and War - Based on ( real) events in Limerick city in the 1640's, seen through the ( imagined) journal of a young boy - Will Fletcher. He introduces us to the ghost of Sir Humfrey who takes the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88222H,X88275H Shane Ross / Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle (Large Paperback) A biography of the Sinn Fé in leader, and Taoiseach in waiting, Mary Lou McDonald. Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Fé in leader... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books Tom Hennessy - Cuimhneachán Liam Ó Loinsigh : 16th July 2023 ( Liam Lynch Commemorative Booklet ) An 18 page booklet , issued on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the death of Liam Lynch, published by the Committee ( Sean Nugent, Nicola Ní Chonaill, with Tom Hennessy, Pat O'Donnell, Tommy O'Leary, Pat Boyce and Terry Crowe... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR30 T.W Moody F.X Martin & F.J Byrne - Early Modern Ireland : 1534-1691 - Volume III ( A New History of Ireland ) HB A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 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 SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 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 Was: €24.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84721H,X84726H 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 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 | sku: MED292,MED293 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: €13.00 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. THEBOOKSHOP.IE ' BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 ! It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’... MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 - 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: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84721H,X84726H 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 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 | sku: MED292,MED293 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: €13.00 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. THEBOOKSHOP.IE ' BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 ! It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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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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: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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 sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X81120H 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 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 sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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 sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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