Tipperary Books & Tipperary Authors

Pat Bracken - The Growth and Development of Sport in County Tipperary 1840-1880 - HB

The growth and development of sport in Co. Tipperary, 1840 to 1880, was promoted and supported by the landed elite and military officer classes. In the instances of cricket, rugby union and...

Paul Whyte - Harrow the Boys - PB - BRAND NEW

In a not too distant future, much of Ireland’s midwest has been flooded by rising sea water. Life goes on, people adapt, live their lives, survive. Ram is a wader from the hillside settlement of...

Peg Hanafin - Getting More Out of Life - PB - 2014 - BRAND NEW

In the midst of the hustle and bustle of your life, take time to reflect and spend just one minute each day to ponder on life's experiences, values, and meaning. In this book Peg presents some...

Peg Hanafin / Getting More out of Life (Coffee Table Book)

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

Peg Hanafin / Getting More out of Life: A collection of thoughts on everyday themes (Coffee Table Book)

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

Peg Hanafin / I wish i had known (Hardback)

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

PHYLLIS WHITSELL / A Song for Bridget

 The unforgettable true story behind the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Finding Tipperary Mary.Bridget 'Tipperary Mary' Larkin faced poverty, bereavement, cruelty and abandonment many times over,...

Phyllis Whitsell / Finding Tipperary Mary

The astonishing real story of a daughter's search for her own past and the desperate mother who gave her up. Phyllis Whitsell began the search for her birth mother as a young woman and although it...

Phyllis Whitsell / Finding Tipperary Mary (Hardback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'What an extraordinary story... very moving indeed' Vanessa Feltz, Radio 2The astonishing true story of a daughter's search for her own past and the desperate mother who...

Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2008

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  CONTENTS -  224 Pages; 16 Articles Properties in Carrick-on-Suir Granted to the Duke of Ormond in...

Richard Aldous - Tony Ryan : Ireland's Aviator

 Tony Ryan was one of the greatest Irishmen of the twentieth century.Ingenious, driven and sometimes reckless, his sheer spirit and adventurousness made him Ireland's Aviator. Born in a railwayman's...

Richard Aldous / Tony Ryan : Ireland's Aviator (Hardback)

 Tony Ryan was one of the greatest Irishmen of the twentieth century.Ingenious, driven and sometimes reckless, his sheer spirit and adventurousness made him Ireland's Aviator. Born in a railwayman's...

Seamus J King, Liam Ó Donnchú, Jimmy Smyth - Tipperary 's GAA Ballads - PB

A paperback edition, 2000, published by Lár na Páirce, Thurles.  Signed to title page by Liam Ó Donnchú, also signed on another page by Seamus J King and Jimmy Smyth, as well as by the previous owner...

Seamus J. King - Cashel King Cormacs : GAA History 1985-2005 - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover in dustjacket, signed by the author to tyhe title page, and dated 28/04/06.  Internally very good, solid clean and unmarked, externally the dustjacket shows bumps and creasing to the top/...

Seamus J. King - Tipperary's G.A.A Story 1985-2004 - PB

Paperback, published by Coiste Chumarsáide Thiobraid Árainn, 2005. The third chronological volume of the series, covering the years 1985-2004.  Takes up where Volume 2( 1935-1984) ended, and covers...

Sinéad Delahunty - Delalicious : A Full Plate For a Full Life - PB - BRAND NEW

Sinéad Delahunty has learned many life lessons on the football field. Most importantly, she has mastered how to fuel her body healthily. Her debut cookbook is bursting with recipes that are full...

Stephen Gleeson - Tipperary : Game of My Life - PB - 2020

Paperback, this reprint via Hero Books ( their digital imprint)  2022, originally 2020. Light edgewear to the cover, lower corner is dogeared slightly.  Thirty-five of the greatest Tipperary hurlers...

T.F Griffin - Searching for New Horizons - PB

Paperback, published 2004, a collection of essays from Thurles based solicitor T.D Griffin.  Some spotting to page block, otherwise good. 

Tadhg O'Keeffe - Fethard : Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 13 - ( Historic Maps)

A LARGE FORMAT PLASTIC BINDER FORMAT , with loose ( full size colour reproductions of historic maps - Ordnance Survey and earlier) of the historic town of Fethard , County Tipperary.  Published by...

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

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

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2014 - PB - Tipperary Local History

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

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2015- PB - Tipperary Local History

The 2015 edition of the local parish based review, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Some small thumbprints to the covers, light shelfwear.  160 pages, large format. 

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2017 - PB - Tipperary Local History

The fifth 2017 edition of the local parish based review, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Some small thumbprints to the covers, light shelfwear.  180 pages, large...

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2018 - PB - Tipperary Local History

The 6th issued edition of the local parish based review - 2018, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout.    The usual mix of sport, local news, business news,, and a huge...

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2019- PB - Tipperary Local History

The 2019 edition of the local parish based review - 2019, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Issued at the end of 2019, with events from November 2018- 2019     Some...

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

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

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

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

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2022 - PB - Tipperary Local History

The 10th issued edition of the local parish based review - 2022, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout.    The usual mix of sport, local news, business news,, and a huge...

Thurles Drama Group - Them Was Days : 50 Years of Thurles Drama Group - HB - 2017

Hardcover, an illustrated history of 50 years of local drama in Thurles, Tipperary, hardcover, illustrated throughout with a host of photographs of performaces from those years.   

Tipperary GAA County Board - Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2009 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2009( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2009) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  Large format paperback, excellent copy. Colour photography throughout, and full local...

Tipperary GAA County Board - Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2012 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2012 ( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2012) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  224 pages, large format paperback, excellent copy . Full colour photography...

Tipperary GAA County Board - Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2013 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2013 ( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2013) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  272 pages, large format paperback, creases to lower front cover corner. Full colour...

Tipperary GAA County Board - Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2016 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2016( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2016) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  Large format paperback, excellent copy. Colour photography throughout, and full local...

Tipperary GAA County Board - Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2018 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2018 ( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2012) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  216 pages, large format paperback, excellent copy. Colour photography throughout,...

Tipperary GAA County Board - Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2020 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2020 ( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2012) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  240 pages, large format paperback, excellent copy. Colour photography throughout,...

Tipperary GAA County Board- Tipperary GAA Annual / Yearbook 2022

192 pages, in full colour, a detailed account of all county and club events, matches, scores, for Tipperary, 2022, ( but details events of 2021) A large format a4 paperback, detailed guide. Every...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2010 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperay GAA Official Yearbook (2010 - covers and has full results for 2009) 

Tom Hennessy - Sean Hogan's Flying Column ( 2nd Commemorative Edition 2023)

The second issue - published March 2023, with articles from the following contributors-  Dr.Ruan O Donnell ( UL History )  Niamh Hassett ( an essay on Esther Boyle, Roxborough and the Fight for...

Tom Ryan / Light-hearted tales from The Watery Mall (Large Paperback)

Akin to most of my generation, I am too young to remember the olden days when marble playing and comic swapping were the principalities of youth. The times of yo-yos and luck pennies, the era of...

Upperchurch Drombane Historical Journal - Issue 4 - 2013 - PB - Tipperary

The fourth issue of the Upperchurch Drombane, Historical Journal, , a local history publication on the two joined parishes west of Thurles , in Tipperary.  very good condition

Will Fahey / Mariol - PB - BRAND NEW

Mariol, a teenage ‘misfit' girl forces an acquaintance with a semi reclusive man in his sixties. The characters in the story come from varying socio-economic backgrounds and sexual orientation. Some...

William J Hayes - Knocknagow to Brussels : The Origins and Achievements of South Tipperary NFA/IFA 1955-2005 - HB

Hardcover, published by the South Tipperary IFA, 2005, a numbered copy from the edition of 1200 ( this being copy 955)  A history ( illustrated throughout) of farminmg, farming organisations and...

William J Hayes - Moyne Templetuohy : A Life of Its Own - The Story of a Tipperary Parish - 2 x hb

Volume I - Published 2001, states 'in two volumes' (the series was later expanded and another volume added)  Illustrated throughout , covers the history and archaeology of the parish from earliest...

Diarmuid O'Flynn - The Boy Wonder of Hurling : The Story of Jimmy Doyle Told in His Own Words - HB

Tipperary's Jimmy Doyle was "The Boy Wonder" of hurling in the 1950s and 1960s. It was famed broadcaster Michael O'Hehir who first dubbed Jimmy "The Boy Wonder", and the title caught on with the...