Irish History and Historical Biography

Kevin C. Kearns - Ireland's Arctic Siege : The Big Freeze of 1947 (Hardback)

On 19 January 1947 Ireland was invaded by a "freakish" anticyclonic weather phenomenon that lasted for two months. The arctic siege brought freezing temperatures of -14 Degrees Centigrade (7 DegreesF), a piercing east wind reaching 60-70 m.p.h., five...

Martin Wallace - British Government in Northern Ireland - HB - 1982

Published by David & Charles UK, 1982 - the subtitle gives teh scope of the study - from devolution to direct rule - the main focus being 1968 to 1979 .  Previous owners gift inscription on blank front endpage.   

Pat Tynan - Kilkenny : A History and Guide - PB - 2006

Featuring a detailed history of the city from the earliest times and a selection of images that show the city at its best, this book provides information on Kilkenny's long and noble history. It was the seat of Ireland's first independent parliament...

Joseph Lee - The Modernisation of Irish Society, 1848-1918 ( Gill History of Ireland Volume 10) - PB 1979

The Modernisation of Irish Society, 1848-1918 (Gill History of Ireland Series)     180 pages, Paperback First published 1973, this reprint 1979. Moderate tanning to pages.   

Cormac Moore & Alan Tate - The Sweetness of Lemon's - BRAND NEW

Lemon's Confectioners used to have a slogan, "You cannot eat a better sweet". This Christmas you cannot get a more beautiful book, full of wonderful images. Lemon's Sweets were a Dublin based confectionery company, and one which will have fond memories...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIV No. 98 Winter 2005

Contents include -  Aspects of Anglo-Norman secular settlement in Longford and Roscommon c. 1300 (Illustrated) -Linda Doran  Gaelic military organisation and the Nine Years' War - the army of Red Hugh O'Donnell - Darren McGettigan  ''Ruddy...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIV No. 97 Summer 2005

Contents include -  he Celtic cross at Limburg an der Lahn, Germany: a sentimental journey by Anthony O'Brien 241Irish participation in Scandinavian armies during the Thirty Years’ War by Alexia Grosjean and Steve Murdoch 277Flag of an Irish...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XII- No. 46 Summer 1975

Contents include -  Galway and the Jacobite War - Harman Murtagh Irish Privateers 1692 Notes on the Volunteers, Militia , Orangemen and Yeomanry of County Roscommon  - Oliver Snoddy The French are on the Sea - A Military History of Killiney Bay...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XX- No. 95 Summer 2004

Contents -  Irish tents in Spanish Flanders, winter 1641 (Illustrated) by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin and Gérard Aubert  ‘They lived and loved and died’: the integration of the Irish military at Aire-sur-la-Lys into...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI- No. 65 Winter 1986

Note there is a tea stain splash on the pink front cover, internally unmarked Contents -  The Battle of Ridgeway, 2 June 1866 by Peter Berresford Ellis 245Kilrush, Co. Clare and the Royal Munster Fusiliers: the Experience of an Irish town in the...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXI- No. 86 Winter 1999

Contents -  The standard of the Muskerry Cavalry (Illustrated) R.J. Tonson Rye Page 361Contemporary accounts of the battle of Rathmines, 1649 (Illustrated) Kenneth Ferguson Page 363Irish military men serving Spain in North America in the 18th and...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXII- No. 88 Winter 2000

Contents -  Three Castles: a sentinel in stone watching the north-west frontier of Gaelic Leinster Kenneth Ferguson Page 121Weston St.John Joyce - Author of Ireland's Battles and Battlefields Page 124The trend in warfare in Gaelic Leinster Emmett...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXII- No. 89 Summer 2001

Contents -  ‘His Lordship, A sketch in the Phoenix’: The 7th Earl of Cardigan at Sword exercise in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Castles and the Pallas placename: a German insight by Kenneth FergusonSome early Wild Geese at the Invalides by...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XX- No. 82 Winter 1997 ( Essays on the Irish Civil War)

Contents -  The British Military Evacuation - Anthony Kinsella The Civil War From a pro- Treaty Perspective - Michael Hopkinson The Irish Civil War - An Anti-Treaty Perspective - Brian Murphy  Organisation and Development of the pro-Treaty...

Turlough O'Riordan & Jane Grimson ( Editors) - Irish Stem Lives - PB - BRAND NEW

Across artificial intelligence, climate change, food safety, transport and communication, the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are integral to modern society. Through a selection of forty-six lives from the Dictionary of...

Dan Breen / My Fight For Irish Freedom (Large Paperback)

In 1919 a group of young men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight, begun in 1916, to drive the British out of Ireland. Dan Breen was to become the best known of them. At first they were...

Richard Doherty - Irish Volunteers in the Second World War - HB - 2002

This book looks at the contributions of a range of Irish men and women to the Allied cause between 1939 and 1945. Many Irish soldiers served in armoured regiments from the desert to Germany itself while a surprisingly large number were Gunners in the...

Gerard Hannan - From Bards to Blackguards - PB - 2001

Limerick and the art of storytelling - paperback, published 2001. 

Donal Cadogan - About Kilkenny - PB

A paperback guide to Kilkenny city and environs, fully illustrated throughout. 

Sarah Durcan & Lian Bell ( Editors) - WTF Happened - #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre - PB - BRAND NEW

Sarah Durcan was a lead organiser of the #WakingTheFeminists campaign. She is the Executive Director of Science Gallery International, and has served on several non-profit boards. She co-authored Five Years On – Gender in Irish Theatre, An Interim...

Curriculum Development Unit / Celtic Way of Life (Large Paperback)

A colorful and warlike people, constantly on the move, the Celts spread from Central Europe to Ireland, bringing with them their beliefs and customs, new crafts and skills, tools and weapons of iron and a Celtic language. Here we explore their home life,...

Alison Maxwell / Ronnie : The Authorised Biography of Veronica Dunne (Coffee Table Book)

DR VERONICA DUNNE, affectionately known as Ronnie, has lived a life high on drama and excitement, and an invincible dedication to her art. From a small music studio on Dublin’s Nassau Street to the vast arenas of Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert...

Hazel P. Smyth - The B&I Line - HB - 1984

Hardcover, published by Gill & Macmillan , Dublin 1984, first edition hardcover in dustjacket.  Hazel Smyth was a former employee of  B&I, the shipping and ferry company that formed a crucial part of co,mmerce , trade and transport on...

A Church Centenary : O'Loughlin Memorial Church of St John the Evangelist , Kilkenny 1908-2008 - HB

Hardcover, both a history of teh church building itself, and teh widser parish and community.   

Janet Todd - Daughters of Ireland : The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation - HB - 2004

They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century--and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle...

John Connors - Seán Hogan - His lIfe : A Troubled Journey - PB - BRAND NEW- 2019

Famously rescued by his more illustrious comrades at Knocklong railway station in May of 1919, Sean Hogan, the man central to the event did in time, become relegated to relative anonymity. This book re-rescues Sean Hogan and reveals a man that was...

John Connors - Dan Breen : The Man Behind the Myth - PB - BRAND NEW

Delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Dan Breen: The Man Behind the Myth - Tipperary's Famous Revolutionary.  Anyone with an interest in Irish history is aware of the legend of Dan Breen. Breen the fearless - and fearsome - warrior...

Robert Graham - A Scottish Whig in Ireland, 1835-38 : The Irish Journals of Robert Graham (Hardback)

Graham paid 3 visits to Ireland, touring Leinster and Munster in 1835 and then Connaught and Ulster in the following year. He also visited the Gore-Booths at Lissadell in 1838. His journals were to inform his mother and sisters in Edinburgh and weren't...

J.C Beckett - A Short History of Ireland - Vintage PB - 3rd Edition 1966

A revised edition. Light edgewear , some slight curling to corners . First published in 1952. The main areas of focus are the 19th and early 20th centuries.  One of the standard authorities and historians of Ireland. Primarily a political history,...

Jacqueline Creaven d'Towey - The Quaker Community in Ballymurray, Roscommon 1718-1848 - PB - BRAND NEW

  This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the Croftons of Mote Park, and the challenges they encountered until the final discontinuance of Ballymurray...

John Ardagh / Ireland and the Irish: Portrait of a Changing Society (Hardback)

Examined Ireland in the mid 1980's and discusses the conflicts between the goals for integrating Ireland into the European Union and the reality of its tight hold on traditional and sometimes outdated practices...

Derek Lundy / Men That God Made Mad (Hardback)

In this remarkable book, Belfast-born Derek Lundy uses the lives of three of his ancestors as a prism through which to examine what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland. In Ulster, the name 'Lundy'...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII - No 108 - SUMMER 2010

PAPERBACK, DARK GREEN COVERS.  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 64 - SUMMER 1986

Metallic rust offset stain to front cover ( external only)  Colonel Henry, Eight Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen by Harman Murtagh 133Aspects of the military history of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland 1169 – 1225 by Randall Rogers...

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...

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 Thornley / 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...

Christiaan Corlett - Robert L Chapman's Ireland : Photographs From the Chapman Collection 1907-1957 - HB

Hardcover, published by Collins Press, Cork.  The Chapman Collection  is a unique collection of photography spanning the half century from 1907-1957. Chapman was a keen cyclist, and much of his work was taken on his numerous trips throughout...

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...

Breandan Delap / Mad Dog Coll : An Irish Gangster

Prohibition-era New York City was overrun by gangsters who relied on muscle to make their mark, but few were as vicious as Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll. An Irish immigrant who grew up in reformatories and on the mean streets, Coll played by his own...

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