Irish Local History

Jack McKenna - Spoilt Rotten : Memoirs pf Jack McKenna of Listowel 1918-2028 - PB - Kerry

Published by North Kerry Literary Trust, Listowel, 2018.    Jack, of McKenna's Hardware fame, is one of the best known of the town's business leaders; and a major contributing force within the community. But for him, the Lartigue Monorail...

Valerie O'Sullivan - The MacGillycuddy's Reeks - HB - KERRY

THE MACGILLYCUDDY'S REEKS stretch for 19 magnificent kilometres along the eastern boundary of the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry. Renowned photographer Valerie O'Sullivan captures the rich heritage and traditions of these hills, as well as the resilience of...

Andrew Cooper - Lough Swilly - A Living Landscape - HB - Donegal

Hardcover, published by Four Courts Press Internally very godd, however, the front cover has a closed gouged tear to the dustjacket ( visible in photo) no paper loss, cobvers underneath undamaged.  Nestled between Fanad and Inishowen peninsulas on...

Tom Ferris - Irish Railways in Colour : From Steam to Diesel 1955-1967 - HB 1992

Hardcover, published by Gill Books, 1992, the same edition was first published by UK transport centered published Midland Books. A full pictorial survey of days long gone on Irish Railways- north and south. Some of the then 'modern' traction portrayed in...

Arnold Horner - Mapping Offaly in the Early 19th Century - HB

This book describes the geography and early mapping of Offaly (known as King”s County between c. 1560 and 1920) with particular reference to the huge manuscript map of the county made by William Larkin. Larkin”s long-neglected map of...

Edenderry Historical Society - Edenderry - (Images of Ireland Series)- PB - 2009

Published by Nonsuch / The History Press, 2009.  A black and white photographic history of the Offaly town.   

Robert Devoy, Val Cummins, Barry Brunt, Darius Bartklett & Sarah Kandrot ( Editors) - The Coastal Atlas of Ireland - HB - 2021 - AS NEW COPY

The Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from across the island of Ireland and beyond, the Atlas takes an explicitly all-island approach; though the work...

Thomas Pakenham - The Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789 - HB - Illustrated Edition

 In May 1798 a hundred thousand peasants rose against the British government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been put down four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in heaps in a smoking and desolate countryside. Yet it...

Pat McCarrick - The Windings of the Moy Revisited - PB

From 1916 to 1918, the original author of The Windings of the Moy, Rev. James Greer, navigated his way up-river towards ‘these inner reaches of the Moy’. This book by photographer, Pat McCarrick stems from his experiences of the early stages...

Catherine J Delaney - Oak Park : People, Places and Politics - Carlow - HB

Hardcover, published 2018, a detailed history of the Oak Park estate in Carlow, architecture, family, landed estate history, and the Bruen family who were resident landlords for much of the estate';s long history. 

Jim Holohan - Great Miracles Performed by Father James Russell of Kilcommon - PB - 1994

A biography and examination of the life of Galbally native, Fr James Russell, (1877-1957) . During his life , Russell was credited by many devout Catholics as being a miracle curer of ailments and illnesses. 

David Lee - Remembering Limerick - Historical Essays Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Limerick's 1197 Charter) - PB - SIGNED

This copy signed and dedicated by the editor David Lee, and also signed ( in a separate signature) by journalist and Limerick native, David Hanly.  Paperback, published by Limerick Civic Trust . A collection of essays from a host pof contributors on...

Sean Spellissy - Limerick : The Rich Land - PB - 1989

Paperback, illustrated in black and white throughout ( with a section of colour photographs also) - a gazetteer of County Limerick, with photo and history sections featured on all towns villages throughout the county, as well as a large section on the...

W.R Hutchison - Tyrone Precinct ( A History of the Plantation Settlement of Dungannon and Mountjoy to Modern Times) - PB - 1951

Paperback, a modern reprint ( Donoghmore Historical Society) of the Dundalgan Press, 1951 ( a hardcover edition was issued in the same initiual year of publication)  A good copy of the author's close look at Tyrone's natural capitol of Dungannon,...

George Hill - The Macdonnells of Antrim - HB Facsimile Reprint 1978 ( Originally 1973)

This is a hardcover facsimile ( a full copy using the original plates) of the 1873 edition of Hill's The Macdonnells of Antrim,. published in this reprint, Impact Amergin, Ballycastle, originally published in Belfast in 1873.  LACKS dustjacket,...

Peter Somerville-Large - Cappaghglass - HB

Hardcover, published by Hamish Hamilton UK, 1985.  Moderate to heavy age spotting to the page block, small area of laminate peel to upper edge of spine on the dustjacket. 

Brendan O'Donoghue - In Search of Fame and Fortune - The Leahy Family of Engineers 1780-1888

Hardcover, published by Geography Publications , 2006, signed and with a dedication to a previous owner.  With the exception of a few of the major figures, there have been relatively few publications on the individuals who made up the land...

Liam O'Connor - The Sailor and the Seamstress - PB - BRAND NEW

Every family has a story … for Liam O’Connor that story goes back to his great-grandparents, William and Norry Kennedy. Using the threads of his family’s past to weave a tapestry that is at once personal yet somehow universal, this...

Chris Lawlor - Little History of Wicklow - PB

County Wicklow's landscape is dotted with pre-Christian sites – Baltinglass is known as the 'Hillfort Capital of Ireland'. Saint Patrick landed in Wicklow in 432 AD and the county also boasts ecclesiastical sites, the most impressive being...

Enda Finnan - Navan Road - An Illustrated History - BRAND NEW

Enda Finnan examins the physical and social development of the Cabra /Navan Road district from the 18th to the 20th century. Tracing the landscape of the area back to the ancient route from the Ford of the Hurdles to Tara, by the 18th century the area...

Jim Herlihy The Royal Irish Constabulary - Reprint PB - BRAND NEW

This book is designed to provide those interested in the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with practical advice regarding the availability of primary sources, their strengths and weaknesses. It examines the vast array of sources available...

Terence Dooley - The Big Houses and Landed Estates of Ireland - PB - Reprint - BRAND NEW

This book is designed to provide those interested in the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with practical advice regarding the availability of primary sources, their strengths and weaknesses. It examines the vast array of sources available...

Michael Barry - Cork Airport : An Aviation History - HB - 2001

Published 2001, for the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Cork airport for commercial flights in October 1961.  A history of avioation in Cork, how the long campaign fpor an international airposrt was ultimately successful , and with a host...

Neil Hegarty - Dublin : A View from the Ground - HB - 2007

Hardcover, 2007, published by Portrait Books.  Dublin is one of only a handful of cities that holds international appeal and influence - a fact made more unique because its fame is based almost exclusively on cultural output. Dublin may not have an...

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2021- PB - Tipperary Local History

The 2021 edition of the local parish based review, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Issued at the end of 2021, with events from November 2020- 2021  - covid times.    Some small thumbprints to the covers,...

Peadar O'Dowd - Vanishing Galway - PB - 1987

Paperback, first edition published by the author and the Connaght Tribune Newspaper, 1987 (some of the essays in this book appeared as newspaper essays) A slim 72 page book, with illustrations, photographs and some line drawings interspersed with the...

Patricia Kernaghan / From Colm's Hill - A History of Colmcille's Parish, Belfast (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2020 - PB - Tipperary Local History

The 8th issued edition of the local parish based review - 2020, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Issued at the end of 2020, with events from November 2019-20.  Gift inscription on inside front cover.  

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2013 - PB - Tipperary Local History

The  first issued edition of the local parish based review - 2014, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Issued at the end of 2013, with events from November 2012 to 2013.   

Thomas McErlean, Rosemary McConkey & Wes Forsythe ( Editors) - Strangford Lough - An Archaeological Survey of the Maritime Cultural Landscape - HB

Hardcover, published by Blackstaff Press, 2002 Lacks the original dustjacket. Otherwise very good.  Strangford Lough in County Down has been officially designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty. For thousands of years, however, its appeal was much...

HMSO - Ring of Gullion - Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - PB - 1991

Large format paperback, published 1991, in connection with the Designation of the Sliabh Gullion area ( in Armagh) as a an area of Outstanding Natural BeAUTY.  With maps in the text, guidelines to nature in the area, landcsape archaeology etc. 

Gabrielle Ní Mheachair - Ó Meachair : The Story of a Clan - PB

Paperback, published by Uí Cairin Press, Templemore, 2014.  A genealogical history of the Maher family, a hugely prominent surname in Tipperary.  Gabrielle Ní Mheachair was born in 1961 in Ivy Hall, Templemore, Co. Tipperary. She...

Sharon Slater - 366 Days of Limerick - PB - BRAND NEW

Christy Kerins - Ballingarry, Granagh and Clouncagh, County Limerick - PB - 2000

Published 2000 ( as part of a Millennium Project on local genealogy and history) this is a full guide to unpublished or uncollated non census data for the area - Landed Estates/ Encumbered Estates data, burials marriages etc . 

Clare Keogh - Over the Counter : Cork's Retail Heritage - HB

Published by Mercier Press, Cork. Hardcover, 2008. Internally very good, some light scuffing to back covers.  A striking collection of retail buildings in Cork ( City and County)  - mostly shop and retail interiors, and with portraits of those...

Michael Fewer - Rambling Down the Suir - PB

The Suir played a critical and unique role in the colonisation the country, first by the Vikings in the 9th century, and a few centuries later by the Normans, who from their strongholds in riverine cities such as Waterford were to change the face of...

Robert Lloyd Praeger - Natural History of Ireland - HB - 1950

An undated ( but 1972) EPP reprint edition, first published 1950 .  This edigtion with an introduction by Raymond Piper.  The covers are in a period removable jacket cover, this was taped to the inside covers, leaving a brown tape ghostmark on...

Brid Donohoe & Nicholas Baxter ) Editors) - Ballymachugh & Drumloman South - Cavan - HB

Hardcover, as issued without dustjacket, published 2008.  A detailed history of the Cavan parishes ' 'our home place by Sheelin's side' 

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Antrim - Book XII - 1832-33, 1835-40 ( Ballynure & District) - Volume 32

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Antrim - Book XI - 1832-33, 1835-9 ( Antrim Town and Ballyclare) - Volume 29

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Londonderry - Book X - 1833-35, 1838 ( Mid Londonderry) - Volume 30

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Tyrone - Book II - 1825, 1833-5, 1840 ( Mid & East Tyrone) - Volume 20

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Fermanagh - Book I - 1834-5 ( Enniskillen & Upper Lough Erne) - Volume 4

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Antrim - Book X - 1831-40 ( East Antrim : Glynn, Inver, Kilroot and Templecorran) - Volume 26

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Armagh - Book I- 1838-9 ( Ballymartin, Ballyrobert, Ballywalter, Carnmoney, Mallusk) - Volume 2

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Down -Book I - 1834-6 (South Down) - Volume 1

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Londonderry -Book III - 1831-5 (Roe Valley Lower) - Volume 11

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Londonderry -Book XI - 1821, 1833, 1836-7 (South Londonderry) - Volume 34

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Londonderry -Book XIII - 1831-8 ( Clondermot and the Waterside) - Volume 34

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Londonderry -Book XII - 1829-30, 1832, 1834-6 ( Coleraine and Mouth of the Bann ) - Volume 33

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Londonderry -Book VI - 1831, 1833, 1835-6 ( North-East Londonderry ) - Volume 22

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Antrim -Book III- 1833, 1835, 1839-40 ( Larne & Island Magee ) - Volume 10

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the...