Art, Design & Architecture

David Thomson / Nairn in Darkness and Light

 Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of...

Alex Kapranos / Sound Bites : Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand

 In September 2005, Alex Kapranos began writing about what he ate while touring the world with the rock band Franz Ferdinand. The writing is as much about where he eats and the people he eats with as the unusual flavours he tastes on the road...

Derek Garvey - A Century of Irish Ads - HB - Illustrated - Commercial Advertisement - 2000

The author discusses hundreds of print( and later TV)  ads that appeared in Irish newspapers and on television throughout the 20th century.  This is shown well, among others changing habits: e.g. cigarette advertising in the 1960s and...

O'Reilly, Paul M & Fitzpatrick, Mike - EV+A - OPEN 2005 - Limerick Art

Running until 2010, e v+ a was Ireland's pre-eminent annual exhibition of contemporary art, featuring artists from home and abroad selected by a leading international curator. Each e v+ a exhibition is documented in book form, with a keynote essay by the...

Gaunt, William - The Pre-Raphaelite Dream - HB - Illustrated 1943 - 19th Century Art

First published in 1942 ( under teh slightly different title 'The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy' , this is a 1943 reprint society edition , hardcover illustrated throughout with b7w reproductions of a number of distinsctive artworks from teh Pre Raphaelite...

John Wyse Jackson / We All Want to Change the World : The Life of John Lennon (Hardback)

 Touching for the first time on John Lennon's Irish roots and how his background influenced his music, philosophy and attitude to life and politics, this title travels to the heart of the 'little child inside the man'.     All of our...

O'Regan, John ( Editor) - John Noel Smith - Gandon Editions -Profile Series, Number 26 - HB - Irish Art

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Peellaert, Guy, & Cohn, Nik - Rock Dreams - PB - Taschen - Art

This reprint edition published by Taschen, Cologne, 2003. This is a 'Large Quarto' Paperback (33.5cm x 25cm) ( almost A3 size). White wrappers (paperback) with pink titling on cover; illustrated in a riot of colour throughout - full page images. The...

Portia De Rossi / Unbearable Lightness : A Story of Loss and Gain

 "I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Although there was a certain glamour to anorexics, I didn't want to be one. I just wanted to excel in dieting. And weighing in at 80 pounds...

Kennys Bookshop - Faces in a Bookshop : Irish Literary Portraits - HB , 1990- Art & Photograpy of Authors and Writers -

With an introduction by Gerald Dawe, published by Kennys Bookshop, Galway, 1990, to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the shop on High Street, Galway in 1940.  In blue boards, with titles in gold to spine. In a black and heavily...

Dave Stone / Russell Brand Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know

 The summer of 2006 belonged to Russell Brand. It seemed as if the gangly motor-mouth, who resembled nothing so much as a Dickensian villain with a birdsnest on his head, was a sensation everywhere. From being the commentator on Big Brother to...

John Berger / Ways of Seeing

 Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before...

John O'Regan - James Scanlon : Sneem - Gandon Editions - Works 1 - Irish Artist

This book documents a single project by the stained-glass artist and sculptor, James Scanlon. Sited in Sneem, Co Kerry, the project was created on a piece of derelict ground along the river. The artist employed local men to build the dry-stone-wall huts,...

Maurice Craig - Dublin 1660-1860 - PB - (Revised 1980 Edition) - Urban Development & Architecture

A modern classic, and perhaps the key book on the history of the development of Dublin city from late medieval to the late 19th century . This is the revised 1980 edition, published by the original publisher , Allen Figgis, with the author's corrections...

Beryl Cook - The Works : Illustrated- Art - Penguin PB 1979

A first Penguin paperback edition ( large format A4 size) of Beryl cook's artworks - The Works, 1979 ( first published in 1978)  In very good condition - internally unmarked.  Her collection includes her unique and often tongue in cheek...

Daniel Farson - With Gilbert & George in Moscow HB Art Bloomsbury Uk 1991

With Gilbert & George In Moscow by Daniel Farson. Hardback first edition published by Bloomsbury UK in 1991. Approximately 10"x8" illustrated with colour and B&W photographs. In the spring of 1990, Daniel...

Bruce Arnold - A Concise History Of Irish Art - PB 1969 ( Thames & Hudson History of Art) Illustrated

Bruce Arnold traces the complex evolution of Irish art through three millennia, showing how it has drawn on Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Mediterranean sources. The author repatriates Irish artists who are frequently regarded as "English"--including...