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Marie Gleeson - Be Like the Sea ( Life, Learnings and Leadership from an Irish Navy Captain) - PB - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE.  ‘The one thing you can’t fully control in a ship is the water all around you, so part of your plan is always reading and analysing the currents and...

Chris Lawlor - Little History of Wicklow - PB

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

Brian Walker - Irish History Matters : Politics, Identities and Commemoration- BRAND NEW

While knowledge of history can explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of the myths and misuses of our history can bring a broader and more conciliatory approach to current political and...

John Crotty - The Irish Tricolour - Brand New

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND INCLUDED IN THE PRICE   This important book reveals the untold story of the Irish tricolour: its true origins, a forgotten heroine, and the emblems it replaced. For the first...

Michael Loughman - James Ryan and the Development of the Irish State - BRAND NEW

This book examines the life of James Ryan (1892-1970) as a means by which to explore the emergence and development of the independent Irish state. As a figure who was at the centre of the...

Aileen Cox Blundell - Baby Led Feeding Cookbook - BRAND NEW

In this beautifully photographed book, Aileen Cox Blundell provides over 150 nutritious recipes free from refined sugar and salt, aimed at starting your child on a life-long food adventure.More...

Mary Ryan - It's Probably Your Period - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, to be published March 2026. Gill Books.  From hormones to contraceptives, fertility to menopause, work with your cycle to unlock better health.  Renowned endocrinologist Dr Mary Ryan is...

David Coleman - Fear Less - PB - BRAND NEW

The Ten-Step Guide to Helping Kids Take Charge of Anxiety.  Published by Gill Books, March 2026 David Coleman's work is focused on helping parents understand and manage anxiety in children and teens,...

Gill Books - Irish Granny's Complete Book of Bread and Baking - BRAND NEW

The Irish Granny's Complete Book of Bread and Baking is a heartwarming, flavour-filled celebration of Ireland's baking tradition. Inside its pages you'll find time-honoured recipes - from hearty soda...

Gill Books - Pocket Book of Saint Patrick - HB

Hardcover, published by Gill Books, 2026, small format hardcover.  Life, Legend and Legacy 

Paul O'Flynn - Ireland's Call : Six Nations Success - PB - BRAND NEW

It was a time of change for Irish rugby. Following World Cup heartbreak and the loss of inspirational captain Johnny Sexton, Ireland faced the new Six Nations season with many challenges. Could they...

Francis Kelly - Captain Francisco de Cuéllar: The Armada, Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish Monarchy, 1578–1606 BRAND NEW

Captain Francisco de Cuéllar was an officer who served with the ill-fated Spanish Armada. He was shipwrecked on the coast of Co. Sligo in September 1588. Known to Irish history for the extraordinary...

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

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

Stanislaus Kennedy ( Sr. Stan) & Síle Wall - Sacred Stillness - PB - BRAND NEW

Sacred Stillness is a tapestry woven from the unique contributions of the many people from different faiths and wisdom traditions who are part of the Sanctuary. It offers a variety of practical,...

David Edwards, Clodagh Tait & Padraig Lenihan ( Editors) - Age of Atrocity : Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland -PB - BRAND NEW

This book examines one of the bloodiest epochs in Irish history. Part one covers the 16th century, revealing how efforts by the Tudor monarchy to curb the powers of the autonomous Irish lords...

Orla Drumgoole - The Irish Mammy Cooks - HB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  100 recipes that taste of home - HB, 256 pages,  illustrated , published FEBRUARY 2026, Gill Books. A huge bestselling success of a book...

Pat Brereton - Farming in Ireland : Crisis and Climate - An Oral History from the Irish Midlands - PB - BRAND NEW

Rooted in the rich soil of Ireland’s heartland, Farming in the Midlands offers a vivid, multi-layered portrait of rural life across generations. From the challenges of smallholders to the innovations...

Pat Dargan - Medieval Dublin : An Illlustrated History - PB - BRAND NEW

Provides an insightful exploration of Dublin's rich architectural heritage, spanning from the medieval period through the normal era to the late 15th century. Featuring 45 significant structures this...

John Waddell - The Celtic World - A History - HB - BRAND NEW

At the dawn of history the Celts occupied a vast swathe of Europe from Ireland in the west to lands south of the Black Sea in asia Minor. The study of this Celtic past has often been a dispited and...

Mallika Basu - In Good Taste - What Shapes What We Eat and Drink – and Why It Matters - BRAND NEW

It’s never been a better time to be a food lover. We binge Bake Off, follow foodie influencers, queue for trending hotspots and scroll endlessly for ideas on what to cook next.But for all this...

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

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa ( Editor - William Casey) - The Fenian Movement - PB - BRAND NEW

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa is one of the best known leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), better known as the Fenian Movement. This organisation emerged both in Ireland and America in the...

Noel Dundon - From the Ashes : Tipperary’s Stunning rise from outsiders to All-Ireland Champions - PB - BRAND NEW

From the Ashes is the extraordinary tale of how no-hopers Tipperary rose in twelve months to become All-Ireland senior hurling champions, beating the cream of the hurling crop and defying all...

Patricia McCarthy - Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland - A History of Amiable Exceess - HB - BRAND NEW

This book looks at Ireland’s love affair with claret, which began in earnest with the establishment of Irish families in the wine trade in Bordeaux in the early eighteenth century. So much red wine...

Molly Hennigan ( Editor) - An Asylum For My Affections : Sketches of Maeve Brennan- PB - BRAND NEW

On the occasion of her mother's birthday, the Irish writer Maeve Brennan wrote a letter to William Maxwell describing the emotional landscape provided by her mother. She wrote: 'She gave me an...

Emmet O'Connor - Rotten Prod : The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird - PB - BRAND NEW

James 'Dongaree' Baird, a boilermaker in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, was one of hundreds of 'rotten Prods', and thousands of Catholics, driven from their place of work by loyalists in 1920. The...

Aidan & Fergal Lenehan - Grit and Glory : A Decade at the Club - PB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the price.  This is a powerful story of Dublin’s only rural hurling and camogie club — a gritty, heartfelt journey through community, identity, and the...

James Quinn - Bloody Summer - A New History of the 1798 Rebellion - PB - BRAND NEW

The 1798 Rebellion was one of the bloodiest events in Irish history. Thousands of people were slaughtered in a single summer in a massive popular uprising against British rule. Thousands more were...

J.P O'Sullivan / Veil of Silence : - How the Irish State Covered Up an IRA Murder and Framed a Garda Whistleblower PB - BRAND NEW

In 1985 John Corcoran, a Garda informer within the ranks of the Cork IRA, was exposed and brutally executed by militant republicans. No one has ever been charged. For decades, speculation was rife...

James Durney - Special Powers : Civil War Internment At Newbridge Barracks and Tintown Camp - 1922-24 - PB BRAND NEW

he untold story of Ireland's forgotten prisoners In the shadow of civil war, over 5,500 republican prisoners found themselves trapped behind the wire at Newbridge Barracks and the Curragh internment...

Raymond Daly - Ten Faithful Years (1913-1923) in Song and Story - HB - BRAND NEW 2025 - OFFALY

Tracked shipping within Ireland via An Post is included in the cost.  A large format illustrated hardback, 512 pages, illustrated throughout.  This Historical Songbook tells the true story of the...

Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Lillis ó Laoire & Ríonach uí Ógáin - An Dias is Troime a Chromas - Aistí in Ómos do Phádraig Ó Héalaí - PB

Cnuasach aistí as Geile ( agus roinnt as Béarla) in omós ( mar festschrift) do Phádraig ó Héalaí leachtóir le Gaeilge in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe le fada an lá.  Cló Iar Chonnacht, 2025. 

Rónán Mac Con Iomaire - An Gluaiseacht : Scéal Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta - PB

An Ghluaiseacht: Scéal Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta - PB - 2025.  Tugann An Ghluaiseacht: Scéal Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta le chéile den chéad uair an scéal iomlán faoin nglúin radacach a...

Cecily Gilligan - Cures of Ireland - A Treasury of Irish Folk Remedies - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW COPIES - Published October 2025, Merrion Press, Paperback, originally published 2023 in hardcover, this is the paperback edition.  This book was our thebookshop.pro 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023...

Dave Moore - Dave's Bad Jokes 2 - HB - BRAND NEW

Dave Moore is back with more bad jokes! This family friendly, laugh-a-minute compilation has over 300 fresh jokes from Today FM's No.1 morning show:I played BONOpoly last night. It's like Monopoly...

Gerard Shannon - 2 BOOK LOT - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic & Rory O'Connor - To Defend the Republic - 2 x PB - BRAND NEW ( With 1 Signed Bookplate)

2 books on revolutionary era figures from historian Gerard Shannon. ( both also available singly)    Book 1- Liam Lynch - To Declare a Republic - PB - BRAND NEW The first major academic study on a...

Gerard Shannon - Rory O'Connor : To Defend the Republic - PB - BRAND NEW - ( With Signed Bookplate)

Best remembered for his tragic fate during the Irish Civil War, Rory O’Connor was in fact one of the most indispensable IRA leaders in the fight for Irish freedom in early twentieth-century Ireland...

Patrick K Egan - The Parish of Ballinasloe : its History From the Earliest Times to the Present Century - HB 1984( Originally 1960 ) ( Kenny's Edition)

This is the full 1984 reprint edition , republished by Kennys of Galway from the 1960 original ( Clonmore & Reynolds)    The Parish of Ballinasloe by Rev. Patrick K. Egan in twelve chapters tells the...

Steve Pyke - Scribendi - Portraits of Irish Writers 1985-2025 - HB - BRAND NEW

Featuring over 100 captivating portraits of many of Ireland’s greatest contemporary writers, alongside conversations with each on their writing life, Scribendi is a landmark book of portraits of...

Angela Byrne - Finding Mary : The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844

During a robbery on 10 March 1844, 14-year-old servant Mary Doherty was murdered in a farmhouse near Culdaff, Co. Donegal. There was no doubt locally about the perpetrator’s identity, but there was...

Margaret O'Sullivan - The Lismore Estate under William Robert Hood Rochfort in Counties Cork, Limerick and Tipperary - PB

In this study, using the words of both the land agent, William Rochfort (1847–1940), and the tenants on the Lismore (O’Callaghan) estate in Counties Cork, Limerick and Tipperary, the land...

Cormac Moore & Alan Tate - The Sweetness of Lemon's - BRAND NEW

Lemon's Confectioners used to have a slogan, "You cannot eat a better sweet". This Christmas you cannot get a more beautiful book, full of wonderful images. Lemon's Sweets were a Dublin based...

Turlough O'Riordan & Jane Grimson ( Editors) - Irish Stem Lives - PB - BRAND NEW

Across artificial intelligence, climate change, food safety, transport and communication, the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are integral to modern society. Through...

Frank Hopkins - Ireland's Hidden Histories - PB - BRAND NEW

From the depths of our island’s past, to more recent booms and busts, Irish history is replete with mesmerising stories and intriguing tales. In this fascinating and often hilarious romp through the...

Izzeddeen Alkarajeh & Eman Aburabi - Jibrin - HB - BRAND NEW

Palestinian couple Izz and Eman Alkarajeh came to Ireland with their four children in 2016. They eventually settled in Cork and started trading at Mahon Point Farmers' Market, where their entire...

Manchán Magan - Ninety-Nine Words For Rain ( And One for Sun) - HB - BRAND NEW

Meet the néaladóirí (cloud-watchers) and réadóirí (star-gazers) from our past who, without the luxury of Met Éireann at their disposal, observed birds, trees, animals, as well as markers on land and...

John Connors - Seán Hogan - His lIfe : A Troubled Journey - PB - BRAND NEW- 2019

Famously rescued by his more illustrious comrades at Knocklong railway station in May of 1919, Sean Hogan, the man central to the event did in time, become relegated to relative anonymity. This book...

John Connors - Dan Breen : The Man Behind the Myth - PB - BRAND NEW

Delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Dan Breen: The Man Behind the Myth - Tipperary's Famous Revolutionary.  Anyone with an interest in Irish history is aware of the legend of Dan Breen...

Ronald Rolheiser - Our One Great Act of Fidelity : Waiting For Christ in the Eucharist - PB - BRAND NEW

From the author of the bestselling, The Holy Longing, comes a book about the central expression of faith for hundreds of millions of Christians, the Eucharist.More so than anything else, the...

Larry Lynn Southard - Wayfaring : A Guide to Guidance - HB - SIGNED

This book (written by Cork member of the Society of Friends) Larry Lynn Southard and published in 2023 aims to provide a “handbook to help readers place themselves in a position that makes divine...

Jo Kerrigan - Stories From the Sea - HB - BRAND NEW

Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands have brought goods, ideas, invaders, influencers...

Cal McCarthy - In the Shadow of the Big Fellow : The Commemoration, Commercialisation, Study & Politicisation of Michael Collins - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Cal McCarthy is a Cork based historian and civil servant. This new book, published by Clonakilty based Michael Collins House Museum with financial aid also from Cork County Council, takes a detailed...