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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. 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Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... 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Quick view Details Merrion Press | sku: MED4860, MED4861,MED4862,MED4863,MED4864 Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW MSRP: €22.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1123 Trevor West - Horace Plunkett - Co-Operation and Politics : A Biography - HB - 1986 Horace Plunkett is remembered for his efforts to transform Irish agricultural practice, through the Co-operative Movement which he founded in 1889, and its administration via the Department of Agriculture, which he established ten years later. From a... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1114 Frank Gallagher - The Indivisible Island : The Story of the Partition of Ireland - HB - 1957 A hardcover first edition, Gollancz UK, 1957. A history of the partition, what led to it, effects after, and a detailed history of Ulster in eth years 1912-1923. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1109 Lord Longford ( Frank Pakenham ) & Anne McHardy - Ulster - HB - 1981 A hardcover first edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. An excellent and concise history of Ulster ( used mostly in this context to refer to the Northern Ireland state) since partition ( as well as looking back at the history of the province... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1104 Cyril Falls - The Birth of Ulster - HB ( Methuen Library Reprint Reprint) - 1973 ( Originally 1936( In very good condition, apart from a small area of paper loss to base of dustjacket cover, and corresponding sunning to area of spine underneath. A notable history of the events of the Ulster Plantation. The Birth of Ulster still remains... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1612,MED1613 Las Fallon - The Great Liberties Whiskey Fire - PB - BRAND NEW On the night of June 18, 1875, a fire broke out in a whiskey warehouse in the Liberties, Dublin. As barrels of whiskey burst in the intense heat, flaming alcohol flowed through the streets, setting the city ablaze. The fire posed an unprecedented... MSRP: €12.99 Now: €12.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1007 Barry Desmond - No Workers Republic! - Reflections on Labour and Ireland 1913-1967 - PB Barry Desmond served in public offices in Ireland and in three European institutions for over 30 years. With a background in the trade union and political labour movement, he brings a unique perspective to these, his reflections on events, issues and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1000 John Killen - John Bull's Famous Circus : Ulster History Through Postcards 1905-1985 - HB John Killen's book, "John Bull's Famous Circus: Ulster History Through the Postcard, 1905-1985," uses postcards as a historical source to illustrate the social, political, and cultural landscape of Ulster. The title, "John Bull's Famous Circus," is a... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2238,MED3208 Joseph Robins - Custom House People - PB - 1993 Published by the IPA, 1993. A history of the Dublin Custom House and the organisations and history of the building Twilight of the Ascendancy 1781-1830 – John Beresford, James Gandon, James Napper Tandy, James Lever, The Maltons, The Sculptors,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... 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In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... 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Quick view sku: MED1123 Trevor West - Horace Plunkett - Co-Operation and Politics : A Biography - HB - 1986 Horace Plunkett is remembered for his efforts to transform Irish agricultural practice, through the Co-operative Movement which he founded in 1889, and its administration via the Department of Agriculture, which he established ten years later. From a... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1114 Frank Gallagher - The Indivisible Island : The Story of the Partition of Ireland - HB - 1957 A hardcover first edition, Gollancz UK, 1957. A history of the partition, what led to it, effects after, and a detailed history of Ulster in eth years 1912-1923. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1109 Lord Longford ( Frank Pakenham ) & Anne McHardy - Ulster - HB - 1981 A hardcover first edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. An excellent and concise history of Ulster ( used mostly in this context to refer to the Northern Ireland state) since partition ( as well as looking back at the history of the province... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1104 Cyril Falls - The Birth of Ulster - HB ( Methuen Library Reprint Reprint) - 1973 ( Originally 1936( In very good condition, apart from a small area of paper loss to base of dustjacket cover, and corresponding sunning to area of spine underneath. A notable history of the events of the Ulster Plantation. The Birth of Ulster still remains... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1612,MED1613 Las Fallon - The Great Liberties Whiskey Fire - PB - BRAND NEW On the night of June 18, 1875, a fire broke out in a whiskey warehouse in the Liberties, Dublin. As barrels of whiskey burst in the intense heat, flaming alcohol flowed through the streets, setting the city ablaze. The fire posed an unprecedented... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Quick view sku: MED1114 Frank Gallagher - The Indivisible Island : The Story of the Partition of Ireland - HB - 1957 A hardcover first edition, Gollancz UK, 1957. A history of the partition, what led to it, effects after, and a detailed history of Ulster in eth years 1912-1923. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1109 Lord Longford ( Frank Pakenham ) & Anne McHardy - Ulster - HB - 1981 A hardcover first edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. An excellent and concise history of Ulster ( used mostly in this context to refer to the Northern Ireland state) since partition ( as well as looking back at the history of the province... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1104 Cyril Falls - The Birth of Ulster - HB ( Methuen Library Reprint Reprint) - 1973 ( Originally 1936( In very good condition, apart from a small area of paper loss to base of dustjacket cover, and corresponding sunning to area of spine underneath. A notable history of the events of the Ulster Plantation. The Birth of Ulster still remains... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1612,MED1613 Las Fallon - The Great Liberties Whiskey Fire - PB - BRAND NEW On the night of June 18, 1875, a fire broke out in a whiskey warehouse in the Liberties, Dublin. As barrels of whiskey burst in the intense heat, flaming alcohol flowed through the streets, setting the city ablaze. The fire posed an unprecedented... MSRP: €12.99 Now: €12.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1007 Barry Desmond - No Workers Republic! - Reflections on Labour and Ireland 1913-1967 - PB Barry Desmond served in public offices in Ireland and in three European institutions for over 30 years. With a background in the trade union and political labour movement, he brings a unique perspective to these, his reflections on events, issues and... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... 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Quick view sku: MED1109 Lord Longford ( Frank Pakenham ) & Anne McHardy - Ulster - HB - 1981 A hardcover first edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. An excellent and concise history of Ulster ( used mostly in this context to refer to the Northern Ireland state) since partition ( as well as looking back at the history of the province... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1104 Cyril Falls - The Birth of Ulster - HB ( Methuen Library Reprint Reprint) - 1973 ( Originally 1936( In very good condition, apart from a small area of paper loss to base of dustjacket cover, and corresponding sunning to area of spine underneath. A notable history of the events of the Ulster Plantation. The Birth of Ulster still remains... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1612,MED1613 Las Fallon - The Great Liberties Whiskey Fire - PB - BRAND NEW On the night of June 18, 1875, a fire broke out in a whiskey warehouse in the Liberties, Dublin. 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Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... 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In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... 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Quick view sku: MED1104 Cyril Falls - The Birth of Ulster - HB ( Methuen Library Reprint Reprint) - 1973 ( Originally 1936( In very good condition, apart from a small area of paper loss to base of dustjacket cover, and corresponding sunning to area of spine underneath. A notable history of the events of the Ulster Plantation. The Birth of Ulster still remains... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1612,MED1613 Las Fallon - The Great Liberties Whiskey Fire - PB - BRAND NEW On the night of June 18, 1875, a fire broke out in a whiskey warehouse in the Liberties, Dublin. As barrels of whiskey burst in the intense heat, flaming alcohol flowed through the streets, setting the city ablaze. The fire posed an unprecedented... MSRP: €12.99 Now: €12.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1007 Barry Desmond - No Workers Republic! - Reflections on Labour and Ireland 1913-1967 - PB Barry Desmond served in public offices in Ireland and in three European institutions for over 30 years. With a background in the trade union and political labour movement, he brings a unique perspective to these, his reflections on events, issues and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1000 John Killen - John Bull's Famous Circus : Ulster History Through Postcards 1905-1985 - HB John Killen's book, "John Bull's Famous Circus: Ulster History Through the Postcard, 1905-1985," uses postcards as a historical source to illustrate the social, political, and cultural landscape of Ulster. The title, "John Bull's Famous Circus," is a... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2238,MED3208 Joseph Robins - Custom House People - PB - 1993 Published by the IPA, 1993. A history of the Dublin Custom House and the organisations and history of the building Twilight of the Ascendancy 1781-1830 – John Beresford, James Gandon, James Napper Tandy, James Lever, The Maltons, The Sculptors,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. 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Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... 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Quick view sku: MED1007 Barry Desmond - No Workers Republic! - Reflections on Labour and Ireland 1913-1967 - PB Barry Desmond served in public offices in Ireland and in three European institutions for over 30 years. With a background in the trade union and political labour movement, he brings a unique perspective to these, his reflections on events, issues and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1000 John Killen - John Bull's Famous Circus : Ulster History Through Postcards 1905-1985 - HB John Killen's book, "John Bull's Famous Circus: Ulster History Through the Postcard, 1905-1985," uses postcards as a historical source to illustrate the social, political, and cultural landscape of Ulster. The title, "John Bull's Famous Circus," is a... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2238,MED3208 Joseph Robins - Custom House People - PB - 1993 Published by the IPA, 1993. A history of the Dublin Custom House and the organisations and history of the building Twilight of the Ascendancy 1781-1830 – John Beresford, James Gandon, James Napper Tandy, James Lever, The Maltons, The Sculptors,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED3943,MED4547 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED1000 John Killen - John Bull's Famous Circus : Ulster History Through Postcards 1905-1985 - HB John Killen's book, "John Bull's Famous Circus: Ulster History Through the Postcard, 1905-1985," uses postcards as a historical source to illustrate the social, political, and cultural landscape of Ulster. The title, "John Bull's Famous Circus," is a... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2238,MED3208 Joseph Robins - Custom House People - PB - 1993 Published by the IPA, 1993. A history of the Dublin Custom House and the organisations and history of the building Twilight of the Ascendancy 1781-1830 – John Beresford, James Gandon, James Napper Tandy, James Lever, The Maltons, The Sculptors,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. 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His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. 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For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... 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In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Quick view sku: MED3253,MED3254 Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN. How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: OFB53 Heinrich Dörrie / 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Exact Copy) The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98312K Andrew Bielenberg / The Irish Diaspora (Large Paperback) This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... 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In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Quick view sku: MED838 Bryan Cooper - The Tenth ( Irish) Division in Gallipoli - HB Facsimile Reprint ( Originally 1917) This history covers the period from the raising of the division to its departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915. It was the first divisional history to appear in print, and it is a matter for regret that its scope is so narrow a one. As a... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: BIG908 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )- SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND WITH LETTER ( ALS) FROM CAMILLE SOUTER TO eAVAN BOLAND ENCLOSED Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €176.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... 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Quick view sku: MED4245 Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and international. Spanning thirty years, this is the first collection... MSRP: Now: €29.50 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED3579 Ciara O'Dowd - Wild-Looking But Fine - Abbey Theatre Actressses of the 1930s - PB - BRAND NEW Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED1148 Justin Dolan Stover - Enduring Ruin : Environmental Destruction During the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED748 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis - Portrait of a Revolutionary - General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State - HB - 1992 Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit behind the civil war that ensured the survival of the new state. In this illuminating portrait, Maryann Valiulis uses... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. 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MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... 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In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... 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Quick view sku: MED722 Robin Bryans ( Robert Harbinson) - Ulster : A Journey through the Six Counties - HB - 1964 Illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps. Blue-green cloth boards; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Moderate rubbing and tanning to edges of dustjacket, especially at head and tail of spine. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4999,MED5000 Nicola Pierce - Great Irish Wives - BRAND NEW Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when... MSRP: Now: €17.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. Uses origianl documentray spources ( many from the NLI) to chronicle Parnell's huge role in the latter 19th century in Irish political life... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... MSRP: €26.95 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Mary Attenborough & Michael Gallagher - Unbroken - PB - BRAND NEW FREE DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. ‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED881 John Reynolds - 46 Men Dead : The RIC in County Tipperary 1919-22 - BRAND NEW In January 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1140 Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman - PB - BRAND NEW In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maynooth Studies in Local History Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001 This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering... 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Quick view sku: MED618 Valeric Cox, Doris Manly, Loretto Browne & Nick Lowry - The Facilitators - HB 1983 A conservative analysis of the liberal movements in Ireland in the 1980's , seeing the onset of liberal vlaueds as being a negative force in Irish society. Published by Brandsma , undated, but circa 1983 ( there are many refrences to the 8th... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED617 M ó Dubhghaill ( Editor) - Insurrection Fires at Eastertide - HB 1966 Extracts from various writings on the Rising of Easter Week 1916, with commentary by the compiler. First edition. Foreword by Seán T Ó Ceallaigh. Mercier Press, Cork. MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG593 Noel Kissane - Parnell : A Documentary History - HB - 1991 Hardcover, as issued in boards without dustjacket, published by the National Library of Ireland, 1991. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG548 Michael Finnegan - Banner, Emblem, Flag or Symbol : The Marching Banners of Cavan County Museum - HB - 2015 Published by Cavan County Museum, 2015, a detailed and fully illustrated look at the range of historical political and religious banners ( Loyalist, Unionist, Republican and Nationalist in their collection) MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED4903,MED4904,MED4905 Donal Fallon - The Dublin Pub : A Social and Cultural History - BRAND NEW DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST. OUR THEBOOKSHOP.IE BOOK OF THE YEAR - 2025! For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the... 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Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED3943,MED4547 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED4759,MED4760 Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED3943,MED4547 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED3943,MED4547 Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW) ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us... MSRP: €21.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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