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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED759 Maurice J Wigham - The Irish Quakers : A Short History - PB -1992 An outline of the long and distinguished history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, from their roots in the bitter sectarian warfare of teh 17th century to teh presetn day. Maurice Wigham sets the development of the society in the context of... MSRP: Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: £22.33 Was: £22.33 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... 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Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: £22.33 Was: £22.33 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... 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She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... 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She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... 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Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: £22.33 Was: £22.33 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED759 Maurice J Wigham - The Irish Quakers : A Short History - PB -1992 An outline of the long and distinguished history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, from their roots in the bitter sectarian warfare of teh 17th century to teh presetn day. Maurice Wigham sets the development of the society in the context of... MSRP: Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: £22.33 Was: £22.33 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... 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MSRP: £13.40 Now: £11.62 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. THEBOOKSHOP.IE ' BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 ! It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’... MSRP: £20.54 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95808H Marian Broderick / Bold, Brilliant & Bad: Irish Women from History (Large Paperback) From every county in Ireland Bold, Brilliant & Bad draws together the stories of over 120 amazing Irish women. Marian Broderick is back to explore the histories of remarkable Irish Women in history. From creative craftswomen to singing... 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MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: £15.15 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: £17.83 Was: £17.87 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X93628H Eamonn McCann / McCann : War & Peace in Northern Ireland (Large Paperback) A selection of columns, mostly on Northern Ireland, written for Hot Press magazine, 1987-1998. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: LAR67 Duncan Crosbie - Life in an Irish Castle : The Journal of a 17th Century Castle - HB 2007 ( Limerick) The Journal of a 17th Century Castle in Times of Peace and War - Based on ( real) events in Limerick city in the 1640's, seen through the ( imagined) journal of a young boy - Will Fletcher. He introduces us to the ghost of Sir Humfrey who takes the... MSRP: Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88222H,X88275H Shane Ross / Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle (Large Paperback) A biography of the Sinn Fé in leader, and Taoiseach in waiting, Mary Lou McDonald. Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Fé in leader... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED395,MED396 David Blake Knox - Facedown : The Disappearance of Thomas Niedermayer- PB - BRAND NEW 2023 On 27 December 1973 the nightmare began: late that night German businessman Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. Never seen alive again by his friends or family, he became one of the ‘disappeared’ and it seemed that no... MSRP: £15.15 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR30 T.W Moody F.X Martin & F.J Byrne - Early Modern Ireland : 1534-1691 - Volume III ( A New History of Ireland ) HB A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92559H Larry Donnelly / The Bostonian (Hardback) Life in an Irish American political family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED759 Maurice J Wigham - The Irish Quakers : A Short History - PB -1992 An outline of the long and distinguished history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, from their roots in the bitter sectarian warfare of teh 17th century to teh presetn day. Maurice Wigham sets the development of the society in the context of... MSRP: Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: £22.33 Was: £22.33 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... MSRP: £22.30 Was: £17.87 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED292,MED293 Patricia Byrne - The Preacher and the Prelate - The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £11.62 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. THEBOOKSHOP.IE ' BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 ! It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’... MSRP: £20.54 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007 The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader. This book is a major re-evaluation of Treacy and... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95808H Marian Broderick / Bold, Brilliant & Bad: Irish Women from History (Large Paperback) From every county in Ireland Bold, Brilliant & Bad draws together the stories of over 120 amazing Irish women. Marian Broderick is back to explore the histories of remarkable Irish Women in history. From creative craftswomen to singing... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED759 Maurice J Wigham - The Irish Quakers : A Short History - PB -1992 An outline of the long and distinguished history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, from their roots in the bitter sectarian warfare of teh 17th century to teh presetn day. Maurice Wigham sets the development of the society in the context of... MSRP: Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: £22.33 Was: £22.33 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED1037 Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018 In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an excellent resource for those interested in the history... 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MSRP: £13.40 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x64441H Tony Coote / Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance (Hardback) Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95808H Marian Broderick / Bold, Brilliant & Bad: Irish Women from History (Large Paperback) From every county in Ireland Bold, Brilliant & Bad draws together the stories of over 120 amazing Irish women. Marian Broderick is back to explore the histories of remarkable Irish Women in history. From creative craftswomen to singing... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... MSRP: £15.15 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New) Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s recollections were never written... MSRP: £17.83 Was: £17.87 Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW) Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig emerges as a warm, wise and humorous woman, with an... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76117H Tony Doherty / This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry A uniquely crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972) as the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family in Derry, Ireland. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life portrays a family... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED395,MED396 David Blake Knox - Facedown : The Disappearance of Thomas Niedermayer- PB - BRAND NEW 2023 On 27 December 1973 the nightmare began: late that night German businessman Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. Never seen alive again by his friends or family, he became one of the ‘disappeared’ and it seemed that no... MSRP: £15.15 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR30 T.W Moody F.X Martin & F.J Byrne - Early Modern Ireland : 1534-1691 - Volume III ( A New History of Ireland ) HB A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92559H Larry Donnelly / The Bostonian (Hardback) Life in an Irish American political family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED759 Maurice J Wigham - The Irish Quakers : A Short History - PB -1992 An outline of the long and distinguished history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, from their roots in the bitter sectarian warfare of teh 17th century to teh presetn day. Maurice Wigham sets the development of the society in the context of... MSRP: Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: £22.33 Was: £22.33 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. She was born in Massachusetts, her father James Cogan was born in Co. Cork and emigrated during the 1880s). Mary was educated at... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84726H Alice Curtayne / Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet (Large Paperback) Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane,... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... 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MSRP: £13.40 Now: £11.62 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Cures - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023 BRAND NEW COPIES - Published AUGUST 2023, Merrion Press, Hardcover. THEBOOKSHOP.IE ' BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023 ! It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’... MSRP: £20.54 Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view Brian Kenny - Tony Heffernan - From Merrion Square to Merrion Street - PB - BRAND NEW Signed A book about left wing irish politics 1970- 2011, Biography of Tony Heffernan a key media handler and back room organiser in Workers Party, Democratic Left and Labour Party. Member of IRA and Sinn Fein. Involved in the Northern Ireland conflict. Worked... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81120H The Times - Great Irish Lives : An Era in Obituaries (Hardback) An obituary combines the insight of the historian, with the immediacy of a daily newspaper and the journalist's love of human details. This unique collection celebrates those Irish individuals who have made the richest contribution to the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95808H Marian Broderick / Bold, Brilliant & Bad: Irish Women from History (Large Paperback) From every county in Ireland Bold, Brilliant & Bad draws together the stories of over 120 amazing Irish women. Marian Broderick is back to explore the histories of remarkable Irish Women in history. From creative craftswomen to singing... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93588H Mark Bailey / Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America (Large Paperback) Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American, but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 ) Description Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers... MSRP: £26.81 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X81334H Marguerite Penrose / Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? : How Dublin made me – and what I’ve learned along the way (Large Paperback) Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Dan Harvey - A Bloody Summer : The Irish at the Battle of Britain - PB - BRAND NEW The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Frank Pakenham ( Lord Longford) - Peace by Ordeal : The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 -- Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1935 ) The story of the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 which led to the founding of The Irish Free State. This paperback edition published by NEL, London, in 1972, having been first published in 1935. 318 pages, including index, in card covers. Wear and some... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x38856E Malachy McCourt / Singing My Him Song (Hardback) "All of us are scarred, but some go to extremes in the quest for the happy childhood they never had." Malachy McCourt -- actor, gadfly, raconteur, and author of the internationally bestselling memoir A Monk Swimming -- grew up amid death,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED759 Maurice J Wigham - The Irish Quakers : A Short History - PB -1992 An outline of the long and distinguished history of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, from their roots in the bitter sectarian warfare of teh 17th century to teh presetn day. Maurice Wigham sets the development of the society in the context of... MSRP: Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: sS2135 Conor Lenihan / Haughey Prince of Power (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED125. Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Gill Books | sku: BIG400 Kevin C Kearns - 1932 : A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key... MSRP: £22.33 Was: £22.33 Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG613 Mary C Bromage - De Valera and the March of a Nation - Vintage HB 1956) Mary Cogan Bromage (1906 – 1995) was an award-winning American author, academic, newspaper reporter, and teacher. 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