Irish History and Historical Biography

Begbie, Harold - The Lady Next Door - HB 1ST Edition 1914

"The Lady Next Door", in other words, Ireland, is an account of the tour of Ireland by a pro-Home Rule British Liberal journalist, published in 1914. It provides valuable interview material and personal impressions of several prominent Nationalists and...

Fréchet, René - Histoire de L'Irlande ( Que Sais-je?) - PB 1975 - French

Pas de quatrième de couverture ches PUF Que Sais je ?Je propose donc un extrait de l'introduction :"Il n"y a pas plus de race irlandais qu'il n'y a de race anglaise ou de race yankee : l'Irlande, c'est d'abord un climat" Ainsi s'exprime Bernard...

Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath : The Authorised Biography (Hardback)

 The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler offers a timely reassessment of Edward Heath's...

Walsh, Gabriel - Maggie's Breakfast : A Memoir (Large Paperback) - BRAND NEW

The son of dysfunctional and destitute parents secures employment as a member of the morning breakfast staff in Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel. The job affords the boy a respite from his father's profound apathy and his mother's obsession with religion. His...

Hugh Weir - One Of Our Own - Memoirs of Change - HB - SIGNED -2001

Born in 1934 to a revolution and war experienced Irish rural ascendancy family, Hugh Weir was among the earliest of his kind to share in the evolution of modern Ireland. In spite of polio, he underwent military service and worked in London and Dublin...

Gwynn, Stephen - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935)

Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a ( modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver...

Wilson, Judith C - Willim Conor 1881-1968 : The Life and Work of an Ulster Artist - HB 1981

Painter and illustrator, born in Belfast, where he was especially known for his pictures of the city’s shipyards and working-class street life. Was born William Connor and sometimes signed work Liam, Liam Conor or Liam O’Conocohair. Began...

Capuchin Annual 1937 - 8th Year of Publication - PB

Very Good. 1937 Paperback ( published November 1936) . A Very Good copy in a  FAIR to good cover - the covers show edgewear , and dustmarking, sabout a 2 cm loss of external papers over teh binding at base of spine. All the earlier Capuchin annuals...

Goldring, Maurice - L'Irlande - Ideologie d'une Revolution Nationale - PB - French Lamguage Ed 1976

Goldring was a French intellectual, former Communist and university lecturer who wrote extensievcly on Irish culture and history. Paperback, 1975, Edition Sociales, Paris In French. 

Conor O'Clery - Phrases Make History Here : Political Quotations on Ireland 1886-1987 - PB

Here are the words of over one hundred years of oral history , just as they were spoken and written - in the passion of the moment- all shades of public opinion ; green, orange, right left, clerical secular , loyalist, republican, serious and...

Tim Pat Coogan- 1916 : One Hundred Years of Irish Independence - From the Easter Rising to the Present (Hardback)

The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing...

Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990

Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback.  A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. 

Brian Maye / The Search for Justice : Trocaire: a History (Large Paperback)

  Over the last thirty-seven years, Trocaire has worked to try to cope with some of the major natural disasters, human tragedies and critical fl ashpoints that have occurred throughout the world: the Ethiopian famine in 1984 85; the Tsunami in...

Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society - Volume 22 - 1989 PB

Paperback, 193 pages with index, Light edgewear to covers Articles featured: The Pattern of Kilmakilloge (Gerard J. Lyne)  The Godfrey Papers: Abstracts and Deeds, 1840-1848 (Valerie McK. Bary and Jane Spring) The Kenmare Estates...

Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, Volume 10 1977- PB

Paperback, 169 pages with index, excellent condition Articles featured: Excavation of a Fulacht Fiadh at Dromkeen East, Causeway (Dermot C. Twohig) An Ogham Stone and Cross-Slab from Ratass Church, Tralee (Thomas Fanning) Land Tenure in Kenmare and...

Meleady, Dermot - John Redmond : Selected Letters and Memoranda 1880-1918 - HB - 2018

Irish nationalist leader John Redmond left no diaries or memoirs, but was a prolific letter-writer. In John Redmond: Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880–1918, Dermot Meleady skilfully edits Redmond’s correspondence to offer new and...

Villiers-Tuthill, Kathleen - Beyond the Twelve Bens - A History of Clifden & District : 1860-1923 - PB - 2nd Edition 1992

First published in 1986, this is the second printing of the second book on the history of Clifden, County Galway, by Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill. Paperback, 252 pages,  Illustrated throughout - this was a particularly succeSsful local history title,...

J.C Beckett - A Short History of Ireland - Vintage PB - 5th Edition 1973

A revised fifth 1973edition. light edgewear , some slight curling to corners . First published in 1952. The main areas of focus are the 19th and early 20th centuries.  One of the standard authorities and historians of Ireland. Primarily a political...

Terri Kearney - Lough Hyne : From Prehistory to the Present - PB - SIGNED BRAND NEW

This illustrated publication on Lough Hyne traces man’s interaction with the lough for over 4,000 years. Terri Kearney utilises the physical landscape, local knowledge and folklore as well as historical sources to explore the unique aspects of...

De Breffny, Brian - In The Steps of Saint Patrick - HB - 1982

A detailed  historical examination and description of tje life of St. Patrick, following his travels through Ireland, depicting his life and examining the wide body of folklore and writings that have surrounded him and the places he visited...

Terri Kearney & Philip O'Regan - Skibbereen : The Famine Story - PB - BRAND NEW - CORK

Written by Terri Kearney and Philip O'Regan, both of Skibbereen Heritage Centre, Skibbereen: The Famine Story traces the tragic events of the crisis as it unfolded. Skibbereen was 'the very nucleus' of the Famine. Horrific reports from the Skibbereen...

William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix...

John Lindsey Darling - St. Multose Church Kinsale: As It Was, And Is, And Ought To Be - PB - BRAND NEW 2021

First published in 1895, St. Multose Church Kinsale: As it was, and is, and ought to be was the work of the then rector of Kinsale, the Rev. John Lindsey Darling. It used detailed architectural drawings, sketches and photographs to illustrate...

Robert Cochrane - A List of Ancient and National Monuments in the County of Cork - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021

Originally published in 1913, A List of Ancient and National Monuments in the County of Cork by Robert Cochrane includes beautifully illustrated descriptions of the six sites then under the control of the Board of Works – St. Keiran's...

M.J MacManus - Eamon de Valera : A Biography - HB ( Originally 1944)

First published in 1944, this is a reprint from the same year, 1944. Covers the career of De Valera up until 1943.  Lacks the original dustjacket, but solid in tan cloth covers, binding tight, clean and unmarked. Spotting to the cover. Titles in...

Bernard Tucker - Jonathan Swift ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1983

Jonathan SWIFT ( 1667-1745) perhaps best known for his dark satire, A Modest Proposal ( 1728) and for the classic Gulliver's Travels,( 1726)  was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral from 1713 until his death. The biography discusses his life,...

O'Donovan, John - G.B Shaw ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1983

George Bernard Shaw ( 1856-1950) , won the Nobel Prize in 1925, and lived in Hertfordshire for the later years of his life, after a youth in Dublin, with his eccentric family, the Shaws. A prolific dramatist, he was also a journalist, peace activist, a...

Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY

Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued...

de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland

First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history.  from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long...

Frank C McDermott - Taking the Long Perspective : Democracy and Terrorism in Ireland : The Writings of W.E.H Lecky and After - HB - 1991

Published by Glendale, Dubli, 1991. 1st edition. Physical description: 203 p: ill; 25 cm. Notes: Based on the writings of the nineteenth century historian W.E.H. Lecky ( 1838-1903) and using his work as a basis for a History of Ireland in the...

Litton, Helen - The Celts : An Illustrated History - PB - 2003 ( originally 1997) - BRAND NEW

In the eyes of the world Ireland is a Celtic country - but just how Celtic is Ireland? Do we know whether the Celts arrived at all? What was their real impact on this western island at the edge of the known world? 138 pages. ISBN:...

Michael Viney / Reflections of Another Life (Large Paperback)

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Joe Queally - Echoes From A Civil WAR - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW - 2021 - CLARE

Echoes from a Civil War tells two stories of violent death in rural Ireland during the 1920s. In December 1925, at Fanore, north Clare, Guard Thomas Dowling was cut down at night by shotgun blasts aimed at him from behind the cemetary wall as he...

John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Disappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW

Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are...

Patrick Mc Sweeney- The Forgotten Vice-Commandant : Johnny Mc Sweeney , Mid Limerick Brigade IRA - SIGNED - BRAND NEW 2021

The story of a Limerick City mid-ranking IRA Volunteer’s experiences in the struggle for Irish independence. Penned by his grandson, this well-illustrated book delivers a detailed account of Johnny Mc Sweeney’s various activities and...

John Walsh / The Globalist - Peter Sutherland : His Life and Legacy(Hardback)

 THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.PETER SUTHERLAND played a defining role in world history over the past 25 years and was arguably...

Adamnán ( Marsden, John ) - The Illustrated Columcille - The Life of St Columba - HB - 1991

The holy man, known to the Gael as Columcille and to the wider world as Columba of Iona, has endured through 14 centuries as one of the most awesome personalities of early medieval Europe. This book offers a portrait in words and pictures of the man, his...

Tomás Mac Conmara - The Scariff Martyrs : War Murder and Memory in East Clare - PB - 2021 - BRAND NEW

In November 2008, Tomás Mac Conmara sat with a 105 five-year-old woman at a nursing home in Clare. While gently moving through her memories, he asked the east Clare native; ‘Do you remember the time that four lads were killed on the Bridge...

Brendan Hughes & Douglas Dalby - Up Like a Bird - The Rise and Fall of an IRA Commander - PB - 2021 - BRAND NEW

Brendan Hughes’ gritty memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s as it evolved into one of the most sophisticated guerrilla movements in the world. With all the ingredients of a fast-paced thriller, Hughes...

Sam McBride / Burned (Large Paperback)

  One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish political history: originally a green-energy initiative, the Renewal Heat Incentive (RHI) or 'cash-for-ash' scheme saw Northern Ireland's government pay £1.60 for every £1 of fuel...

Larkin, Felix M - Terror & Discord - The Shemus Cartoons in the Freeman's Journal 1920-1924 - PB

Published in the Freeman's Journal Newspaper between 1920 and 1924, the Shemus cartoons were remarkably hard hitting comments on the events of that period. During the War of Independence, they targeted the increasingly brutal nature of British rule in...

Pauric Travers - Settlements and Divisions - Ireland 1870-1922 ( Helicon History of Ireland Series - PB - 1988)

The period 1870-1922 was one of settlements - in land acts, labour law  - attempted settlements - various Home Rule acts, and divisions - of the island, of nationalism and Unionism, and of the wider political relationships within these islands...

Risteárd Mulcahy - Richard Mulcahy ( 1886-1971) : A Family memoir - SIGNED - PB - 1999

Publisher: Dublin, Aurelian Press, 1999, paperback. First Edition, First Printing Richard Mulcahy was active in Irish military and political fields in the revolutionary era and the establishment of the Irish Free State, and these memoirs recall...

Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback)

 During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,...

Valerie Pakenham - Exploring Ireland's Middle Kingdom - PB - 2021 - BRAND NEW - Meath

EXPLORING IRELAND's Middle Kingdom - BRAND NEW - PUBLISHED 2021A guide to the ancient kingdom of Meath by Valerie Pakenham Ireland’s Middle Kingdom or Midhe once stretched from the Shannon to the Irish Sea. Created in the Iron Age as...

Julia Kelly / Matchstick Man (Large Paperback)

 Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends...

Bennett, Isabel ( editor) - Excavations in Ireland 2006 - Archaeology - Wordwell

This edition of the annual summary contains the largest number of annual excavation summaries to date (2,214), with at least a further 193 sites for which summaries were not received. Contained within its covers is a useful overview of what was happening...

Michael Lenihan - Cork Burning - PB - BRAND NEW - War of Independence 1920

A tale of arson, loot and murder' was how one source described the events that would befall Cork city on the night of 11-12 December 1920. In a scene of almost unprecedented destruction, members of the British forces bent on revenge for the ambushes at...

Anthony J. Jordan / To Laugh or to Weep : Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien (Large Paperback)

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Brenda Ní Shuilleabháin & Lanka Haouche Perren - Aneas : Saíocht ó Thradisiún Gaelach na Mumhan - HB - ( Words of Wisom From the Irish Tradition of Munster) - Bilingual

Gearrliosta Leabhar na Bliana 2014 - Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin Tá cáil i bhfad is i ngearr ar Chorca Dhuibhne don saibhreas béaloideasa, idir amhráin, véarsaíocht agus eile atá ar...

Mary McAleese / President Mary McAleese : Building Bridges (Hardback)

 From 1997 to 2011, Mary McAleese has served as President of Ireland, and become one of the most popular Presidents Ireland has ever has known.Representing Ireland on the world stage through the highs of the Celtic Tiger and the lows of recent...

Aibhistín Ó Duibh ( Eagarthóir) - Óraidí a Chuaigh i gcion - PB - AS GAEILGE - BRAND NEW (

208 lch; clúdach bog; 9781909907638 - Foilsithe ag Leabhar Breac Ó thús na staire, tá sé aitheanta gur gléas cumhachtach cumarsáide an óráid phoiblí. Bíonn feidhm le briathra a...