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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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG39 Colm Luibhéad - All the Green Gold : An Irish Boyhood - HB -1970 Published by Pall Mall Press, London 1970. Previous bookshop stamp from Zozimus Books, Gorey, to the inside front pastedown, and a previous owner's gift inscription ( 1973 ) The author paints aportarit of his youth and life in Ireland in the 1940's... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Sullivan, Patrick - I Heard the Wild Birds Sing : A Kerry Childhood - PB - 1991 Callinafercy is a small townland between Milltown and Killorglin in County Kerry. For generations, its people tilled the land, harvested the rivers , won the turf and made hay the traditional way. Part local history, part folklore, part calendar of the... 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Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2014- Volume 82 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1815 Éamonn Mac Thomáis - Gur Cake and Coal Blocks - Dublin - Social History - PB 1978 Illustrated A collection of reminiscences of a childhood in the Dublin of the 1930's and 1940's. Used, but in good condition, yellowing to the external covers. 1978 REPRINT OF TYHE 1976 ORIGINAL. Illlustrated with black and white line drawings by Liam Delaney... 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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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG39 Colm Luibhéad - All the Green Gold : An Irish Boyhood - HB -1970 Published by Pall Mall Press, London 1970. Previous bookshop stamp from Zozimus Books, Gorey, to the inside front pastedown, and a previous owner's gift inscription ( 1973 ) The author paints aportarit of his youth and life in Ireland in the 1940's... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Sullivan, Patrick - I Heard the Wild Birds Sing : A Kerry Childhood - PB - 1991 Callinafercy is a small townland between Milltown and Killorglin in County Kerry. For generations, its people tilled the land, harvested the rivers , won the turf and made hay the traditional way. Part local history, part folklore, part calendar of the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Corrigan, Mario - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009 Subtitled ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist -an also a s a 10th anniversary publication for the Cill... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has... 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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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG39 Colm Luibhéad - All the Green Gold : An Irish Boyhood - HB -1970 Published by Pall Mall Press, London 1970. Previous bookshop stamp from Zozimus Books, Gorey, to the inside front pastedown, and a previous owner's gift inscription ( 1973 ) The author paints aportarit of his youth and life in Ireland in the 1940's... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Sullivan, Patrick - I Heard the Wild Birds Sing : A Kerry Childhood - PB - 1991 Callinafercy is a small townland between Milltown and Killorglin in County Kerry. For generations, its people tilled the land, harvested the rivers , won the turf and made hay the traditional way. Part local history, part folklore, part calendar of the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Corrigan, Mario - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009 Subtitled ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist -an also a s a 10th anniversary publication for the Cill... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2015 - Volume 83 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Journal of the Armagh Diocesan History Society - Seanchas Ard Mhacha - Vol 24 No 2 - 2013 Paperback edited by Réamonn Ó Muirí , paperback in very good condition. A wide range of historical essays, reviews commentaries, etc, MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1607,MED1608 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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG39 Colm Luibhéad - All the Green Gold : An Irish Boyhood - HB -1970 Published by Pall Mall Press, London 1970. Previous bookshop stamp from Zozimus Books, Gorey, to the inside front pastedown, and a previous owner's gift inscription ( 1973 ) The author paints aportarit of his youth and life in Ireland in the 1940's... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Sullivan, Patrick - I Heard the Wild Birds Sing : A Kerry Childhood - PB - 1991 Callinafercy is a small townland between Milltown and Killorglin in County Kerry. For generations, its people tilled the land, harvested the rivers , won the turf and made hay the traditional way. Part local history, part folklore, part calendar of the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Corrigan, Mario - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009 Subtitled ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist -an also a s a 10th anniversary publication for the Cill... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2015 - Volume 83 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X78901H Chris Curtin / Irish Urban Cultures (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2076 John Healy - Nineteen Acres - Mayo - 1987 Edition - Biography Classic - Family History John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. 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A wide range of historical essays, reviews commentaries, etc, MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1607,MED1608 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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG39 Colm Luibhéad - All the Green Gold : An Irish Boyhood - HB -1970 Published by Pall Mall Press, London 1970. Previous bookshop stamp from Zozimus Books, Gorey, to the inside front pastedown, and a previous owner's gift inscription ( 1973 ) The author paints aportarit of his youth and life in Ireland in the 1940's... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Sullivan, Patrick - I Heard the Wild Birds Sing : A Kerry Childhood - PB - 1991 Callinafercy is a small townland between Milltown and Killorglin in County Kerry. For generations, its people tilled the land, harvested the rivers , won the turf and made hay the traditional way. Part local history, part folklore, part calendar of the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Corrigan, Mario - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009 Subtitled ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist -an also a s a 10th anniversary publication for the Cill... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2015 - Volume 83 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... 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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... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG39 Colm Luibhéad - All the Green Gold : An Irish Boyhood - HB -1970 Published by Pall Mall Press, London 1970. Previous bookshop stamp from Zozimus Books, Gorey, to the inside front pastedown, and a previous owner's gift inscription ( 1973 ) The author paints aportarit of his youth and life in Ireland in the 1940's... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Sullivan, Patrick - I Heard the Wild Birds Sing : A Kerry Childhood - PB - 1991 Callinafercy is a small townland between Milltown and Killorglin in County Kerry. For generations, its people tilled the land, harvested the rivers , won the turf and made hay the traditional way. Part local history, part folklore, part calendar of the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Corrigan, Mario - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009 Subtitled ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist -an also a s a 10th anniversary publication for the Cill... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2015 - Volume 83 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... 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MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X78901H Chris Curtin / Irish Urban Cultures (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2076 John Healy - Nineteen Acres - Mayo - 1987 Edition - Biography Classic - Family History John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. 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Quick view sku: BIG39 Colm Luibhéad - All the Green Gold : An Irish Boyhood - HB -1970 Published by Pall Mall Press, London 1970. Previous bookshop stamp from Zozimus Books, Gorey, to the inside front pastedown, and a previous owner's gift inscription ( 1973 ) The author paints aportarit of his youth and life in Ireland in the 1940's... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Sullivan, Patrick - I Heard the Wild Birds Sing : A Kerry Childhood - PB - 1991 Callinafercy is a small townland between Milltown and Killorglin in County Kerry. For generations, its people tilled the land, harvested the rivers , won the turf and made hay the traditional way. Part local history, part folklore, part calendar of the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Corrigan, Mario - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009 Subtitled ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist -an also a s a 10th anniversary publication for the Cill... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2015 - Volume 83 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. 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Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... 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Quick view O'Sullivan, Patrick - I Heard the Wild Birds Sing : A Kerry Childhood - PB - 1991 Callinafercy is a small townland between Milltown and Killorglin in County Kerry. For generations, its people tilled the land, harvested the rivers , won the turf and made hay the traditional way. Part local history, part folklore, part calendar of the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Corrigan, Mario - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009 Subtitled ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist -an also a s a 10th anniversary publication for the Cill... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Corrigan, Mario - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009 Subtitled ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist -an also a s a 10th anniversary publication for the Cill... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2015 - Volume 83 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... 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Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... 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Quick view sku: 59552H Melvyn Bragg / The Book of Books The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2015 - Volume 83 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X78901H Chris Curtin / Irish Urban Cultures (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2076 John Healy - Nineteen Acres - Mayo - 1987 Edition - Biography Classic - Family History John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. He joined "The Western People", Ballina, as a cub reporter in 1948 and moved to Dublin in 1950 to join the Irish News Agency. Later he worked with the Irish Press Group before joining the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... 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In this autobiography, he writes with candour, offering valuable insights into the events of the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... 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Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... 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Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... 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Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2015 - Volume 83 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. 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Quick view Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2017 - Volume 85 The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s journal, Béaloideas, which first... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X78901H Chris Curtin / Irish Urban Cultures (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2076 John Healy - Nineteen Acres - Mayo - 1987 Edition - Biography Classic - Family History John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. He joined "The Western People", Ballina, as a cub reporter in 1948 and moved to Dublin in 1950 to join the Irish News Agency. Later he worked with the Irish Press Group before joining the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91400H Ronan Casey / Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story (Hardback) Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story is a window on the real soul of Ireland, a snapshot of the way we were, the way we are and, hopefully, the way we'll always be.For anyone with a sense of humour and a taste for the absurd, here are the best of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72887H Edward Heath / The Course of My Life : The Autobiography of Edward Heath (Hardback) Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life and was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In this autobiography, he writes with candour, offering valuable insights into the events of the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: MED2076 John Healy - Nineteen Acres - Mayo - 1987 Edition - Biography Classic - Family History John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. He joined "The Western People", Ballina, as a cub reporter in 1948 and moved to Dublin in 1950 to join the Irish News Agency. Later he worked with the Irish Press Group before joining the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91400H Ronan Casey / Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story (Hardback) Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story is a window on the real soul of Ireland, a snapshot of the way we were, the way we are and, hopefully, the way we'll always be.For anyone with a sense of humour and a taste for the absurd, here are the best of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72887H Edward Heath / The Course of My Life : The Autobiography of Edward Heath (Hardback) Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life and was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In this autobiography, he writes with candour, offering valuable insights into the events of the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED1681 John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge) First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits. In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91400H Ronan Casey / Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story (Hardback) Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story is a window on the real soul of Ireland, a snapshot of the way we were, the way we are and, hopefully, the way we'll always be.For anyone with a sense of humour and a taste for the absurd, here are the best of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72887H Edward Heath / The Course of My Life : The Autobiography of Edward Heath (Hardback) Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life and was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In this autobiography, he writes with candour, offering valuable insights into the events of the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 71572H Ben Judah / This is London This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91400H Ronan Casey / Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story (Hardback) Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story is a window on the real soul of Ireland, a snapshot of the way we were, the way we are and, hopefully, the way we'll always be.For anyone with a sense of humour and a taste for the absurd, here are the best of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72887H Edward Heath / The Course of My Life : The Autobiography of Edward Heath (Hardback) Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life and was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In this autobiography, he writes with candour, offering valuable insights into the events of the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91400H Ronan Casey / Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story (Hardback) Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story is a window on the real soul of Ireland, a snapshot of the way we were, the way we are and, hopefully, the way we'll always be.For anyone with a sense of humour and a taste for the absurd, here are the best of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72887H Edward Heath / The Course of My Life : The Autobiography of Edward Heath (Hardback) Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life and was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In this autobiography, he writes with candour, offering valuable insights into the events of the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X91400H Ronan Casey / Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story (Hardback) Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story is a window on the real soul of Ireland, a snapshot of the way we were, the way we are and, hopefully, the way we'll always be.For anyone with a sense of humour and a taste for the absurd, here are the best of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72887H Edward Heath / The Course of My Life : The Autobiography of Edward Heath (Hardback) Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life and was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In this autobiography, he writes with candour, offering valuable insights into the events of the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68151H Gene Kerrigan / Another Country (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74567H Kevin Myers / Burning Heresies (Large Paperback) In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. 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SALE Quick view sku: X72887H Edward Heath / The Course of My Life : The Autobiography of Edward Heath (Hardback) Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life and was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In this autobiography, he writes with candour, offering valuable insights into the events of the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Robert Jennings - Kilcoole : County Wicklow - History and Folklore , Historical Walks and Drives - PB - 1998 A mix of local and county history as well as a walking guide to the Kilcoole area, County Wicklow, published 1998, (partly as a Millennium Project). Kilcoole was for many yeras the setting for the fictionalised Glenroe RTE TV seres. This sets out 6... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: 88152H Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X94961H Tony Farmar / Ordinary Lives (Large Paperback) 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, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press 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... MSRP: €10.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87820H Peter Hart / Mick : The Making of Michael Collins Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92980H Annie Ryan / Witnesses (Large Paperback) The first book to draw on official witness statements of the Easter Rising (taken in the late 1940s) and only released to the public in 2002. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84528H Pete Brown / Shakespeare's Local (Hardback) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made this their local over... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X88744H Stella Tillyard / A Royal Affair (Hardback) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface, yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells the intertwined stories. His... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Merrion Press Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police... MSRP: Now: €14.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X93095H,X93131H Shane Ross / In Bed with the Blueshirts (Large Paperback) The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107884c Irma Kurtz / Dear London Irma Kurtz arrived in London from New Jersey in the late 1950s. Dismayed by the city's drabness, she quickly moved on to Paris - but returned in 1963, and stayed. Part memoir, part autobiography, this book offers insights into a love affair... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: 55126H Catherine Seymour / The Staircase Girls Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter...For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 11100E Mark Urban / Task Force Black The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 81588H Jane Dunn / Elizabeth and Mary This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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