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TopGear: My Dad had a Midlife Crisis and Bought a Crap Car (3 Book Box Set)  

Kevin Donnelly, Michael Hoctor & Dermot Walsh - A Rising Tide - The Story of Limerick Harbour - PB -1994

A large format paperback, published 1994. Although the title is 'Limerick Harbour ' the content covers much of the history of shipping and port facilities in the wider Shannon estuary , including Foynes.  Illustrated throughout, 68 pages. Published...

D.D Rocca - Memories of the Way We Were - SIGNED - 2022

Signed with a dediaction from the author to the title page.  The author, Donal Rocca, also known as Don Rocca was born on 5th August 1941 in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish mother and Italian father. After a formal education by nuns, lay teachers and...

Frederic Arthur De Vere Robertson - Aircraft of the World - HB 1924

First edition, published by Oxford University Press, 1924, illustrated with colour plates, and black and white illustrations.  In illustrated boards, bumped and scuffed, binding tight, all images intact internally.  A history of aviation in...

Tommy Cecil - The Harsh Winds of Rathlin : Stories of Shipwrecks ( Extended Edition - PB ) BRAND NEW

This is an updated and extended edition of Thomas Cecil's original The Harsh Winds of Rathlin: Stories of Rathlin Shipwrecks, first published in 1989. This earlier edition contained the result of all the known wrecks known at the time. This new edition...

Gwen Wilkinson - The Waters and the Wild - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and navigated a 400km journey to the tidal waters of the River...

Nock, O. S - Railway Race to the North - Scotland - Vintage 1958 PB

Published by Ian Allan Publishing ( probably the pre-eminent publisherof railway material in the last century) - undated  but the preface is dated 1958.  Small format paperback, illustrated throughout in b&w , detailing the development (...

L T C Rolt - Green and Silver HB - 1993 Reprint ( originally 1949) - Canal Waterways Ireland

First published in 1949, Green & Silver by L.T.C. Rolt describes a journey through the inland waterways of Ireland. He takes us over the mighty Shannon from the upper limit of navigation at the little village of Battlebridge, near Leitrim down to...