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Conor Curran - Sport in Donegal - A History - PB - 2010

Published by The History Press Ireland, 2010, paperback Condition - previous owner's name and address to title page in pen, neatly, no other marks noted. Back cover corners slightly dogeared, otherwise a good solid copy.    A History of Sport...

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 on initial publication, and was a huge seller...

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 but the streets have no name!A friend of mine got a job...

Josephine Marnell - All in the Cooking - Book One - New Revised Edition PB - Educational Company - Vintage 1975

All in the Cooking should be a fruitful reference for anyone who enjoys baking - especially anyone running a café or tea shop … There are plenty of the nice old fashioned hot puddings and cold sweets that have been half-forgotten …...

George Moore - A Drama in Muslin - HB 1992 ( Originally 1886 )

Always an ambitious novelist, George Moore realised early in the composition of his third novel, 'A Drama In Muslin', how his chosen subject - the sentimental education of five girls born into the gentry of the west of Ireland - could be extended to...

J.F Quinn - History of Mayo Volume 2 - HB 1st Edition 1993

Edited by Brendan Quinn , the son of the original author and Western People journalist, Joe F Quinn, who first published the material for this book in a long series of weekly articles in the 1930's and 1940's.  Initally intended as a history of...

Denis G Marnane( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2014

Paperback, in very good condition  CONTENTS -  Editor: Denis G Marnane246 Pages; New archaeological evidence for medieval Tipperary Town from excavations By Ross Drummond and Lydia Cagney The Birth and Demise of the Marlfield Distillery...

Dick Walsh - The Party : Inside Fianna Fáil - PB - 1986

Paperback, published by Gill & Macmillan 1986, Dick Walsh was an Irish Times journalist at the time of publication.  Described as 'the first book to get behind the scenes in Fianna Fáil' and take a long look at its history , organisation...

Owen McCann - The Shell Book of the McCarthy Cup - PB - 1993

Published by Oisín Publications, 1993.  Covers the history of Senior Hurling Championship Finals up to 1992, discussions of each year, teams , with photographs throughout. 

Ciaran Brady - Worsted in the Game - Losers in Irish History - PB

Covers a diverse range of personalities from Irish history who either failed at their political mission, or whose carerrs ended without acheiving their aims - from Diarmait MacMurrough to John Redmond.   

Laurence J. Kettle - Material For Victory - The Memoirs of Andrew J Kettle - PB - 1958

Paperback, published by C.J Fallon , Dublin.  Andrew ( better known as Andy) Kettle was a Dubliner and the right hand man of Parnell on land question and tenant issues. He was one of the founders of the Dublin Tenants’ Defence Association, and...

Mark Roper ( Editor) / Poetry Ireland Review - Issue 63 Winter 1999 (Large Paperback)

Winter 1999 Issue 63   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 second hand book may damage it, so...

Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy and Alex Bayliss - Gathering Time - Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosureds of Southern Britain and Ireland - HB - 2011 ( Volume 1 & 2 )

Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual...

NRA - Archaeology and the National Roads Authority - Monoghraph Series 3 - Provisions of Two Seminars in 2002 on Provisions for Archaeological Work within the National Roads Programme - PB

Proceedings of Two Seminars in 2002 on the Provisions for Archaeological Work within the National Roads Programme, Dublin, 27 February 2002 and Tullamore, 29 May 2002 . 

George Fitzgerald / The Manuscripts (Large Paperback)

    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 second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

J. M. O'Neill / Rellighan, Undertaker (Large Paperback)

In a small rural town in Ireland, nothing is as it appears. Ester Machen brings with her a mystery, and death is stalking the young people of the town. Though 'the town is talking', the only person determined to get to the bottom of the mystery is the...

Kevin Dwyer - Dwyer's Ireland : A view From Above - PB

Striking photograps of Ireland from the air, centering on both urban and rural sites. 

John Patrick McHugh / Fun and Games (Large Paperback)

A stunning debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland, from the author of the acclaimed story collection Pure Gold. Seventeen-year-old John Masterson has no idea what he wants. It’s his last summer on the...

Scott Boldt / Hear My Voice (Large Paperback)

Hear My Voice: A Longitudinal Study of the Post-School Experiences of Early School Leavers. Dublin: Marino Institute of Education, 1997.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Patrick J. O'Connor / To Mete Out A Humanist Geography ( Large Paperback )

This volume of new and selected poems points up the quest to know the world through the perceptual lens of a humanist geography. The world that is informed by a diversity of influences passes as a stage, strange and wonderful, upon which a cast of...

Paul Williams / Crooks (Large Paperback)

For almost forty years, Paul Williams has chronicled the life and crimes of some of Ireland's most notorious godfathers, killers and thieves. In Crooks he brings his readers for a ride-along, taking us behind the scenes of his most notorious scoops,...

Roger Downer - Reflections from the Shannon - HB

Hardcover, published by Wordwell, 2007, with UL.  A collection of speeches and essays , including conferring speeches given over the years, essays on science, engineering, the role of the University, the scrum and much more.   

John Keenahan - St Michael's Church : Church , People and Landscape - Drumlion Roscommon 1856-2006

Hardcover, published 2006. The title is partly deceptive, it is much more than a history of the church in the parish, it's a history of the parish and surrounds in the 150 years covered - sport, industry, people, landscape, history and much more. Closed...

Annette Black & Michael B. Barry - Bridges of Dublin : The Remarkable Story of Dublin's Liffey Bridges - PB - 2015

A vivid history of Dublin unfolds in this exploration of more than 1,000 years of bridges over the river Liffey. From the time of the Vikings and their simple wooden bridge, through Dublin's late 17th-century expansion, when four new bridges were built...

Angelique Day - Glimpses of Ireland's Past : The Ordnance Survey Memoir Drawings - Topography and Technique - PB - 2014 - SIGNED

Signed to the title page in neat black ink, undedicated, no other marks or damage. Slight area of uneven sunfade to the front cover.  The views of the landscape, the ancient sites and monuments, the objects and curiosities illustrated, are shown...

William Hayes & Joseph Kennedy - The Parish Churches of North Tipperary - Commemorating a Two-Hundred Year Heritage - PB - 2007 ( SIGNED by both Authors)

A large format illustrated paperback, with photographs thrpoughout, detailing the history of all churches in North Tipperary.  Paperback, 2007, signed by both authors , and dated 26-06-2007

Tom Heneghan / Faith, Hope and Paris : English Speaking Catholics in Turbulent France(Large Paperback)

When in 1869 Fr. Bernard O'Loughlin, C.P. founded St. Joseph's Church, he wrote it would be a Catholic parish "for all those at Paris who speak the English language." Over the next century and a half, this was one of the few descriptions that never...

Grace Cowley / Unexpected (Large Paperback)

A humorous, heartfelt, and honest account of growing up in Drogheda in the 90s. Grace's account of navigating childhood, friendships, and young motherhood with an unstoppable spirit will have you laughing and at times tearful. She handles serious...

Edmond Grace / Democracy and Public Happiness (Large Paperback)

Democracy and Public HappinessPoliticians claim to govern in the name of ‘the people’ but do we need them? Not if their only interest is in seeking attention for themselves and to enjoy the perks of office. However, people who want change...

Patricia Scanlan / City Girls Forever (Large Paperback)

As City Girl, Devlin Delaney's iconic gym and spa prepares to mark a big anniversary, her best friends, Caroline and Maggie are looking forward to a fabulous party where they can all put their problems behind them and celebrate. Devlin's past has...

Joe P. Plant - The Adventures of a Soldier's Wife - Ireland | India | England - 1915-1974 - PB

IRELAND  INDIA  ENGLAND 1915 - 1974 A story based on the memoirs of Pte. Sarah Kathleen Cunningham A memoir entrusted to and written by Joe P. Plant 1915. The true story of a young Irish Colleen. Sarah, eldest daughter of the Cunningham family...

Birr Year Review 2016 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2014 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2012 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2011 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2007 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2006 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Birr Year Review 2008 - PB - Offaly Annual

The Birr Review is an annual publication supported by Birr Lions Club, launched every December, chronicling the social events which have taken place in the Offaly town over the previous 12 months.

Michael Viney - Ireland : Smithsonian Natural History - HB - 2003

Published by Blackstaff , 2003.  Hardcover, illustrated throughout, colour section of photographs to centre pages. Ireland conjures up images of nature's majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A...

Fighting Words / What's the stories? (Large Paperback)

Stories from Collinstown College Transition Year students.    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...

Fintan O'Toole - A History of Ireland in 100 Objects (Coffee Table Book)

Objects don't just have stories, they tell stories. There is a certain paradox that surrounds them. They seem precise and fixed, literally tangible, yet they can put us in touch with the past in a direct and immediate way. What they said to their...

Debbie Deegan & Emily Hourican / To Russia With Love: The Children's Stories (Large Paperback)

This is the story of how Irish housewife Debbie Deegan who fought tooth-and-nail to re-unite two young Russian orphan pals. Mother of two Debbie admitted that she and her husband Mick had cried in bed almost every night, after they split up two best...

Fearghal McGarry - The Abbey Rebels of 1916 - A Lost Revolution - HB - 2015

The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution: those whose radical politics...

Graham Davis ( Editor) - In Seach of a Better Life : British and Irish Migration - HB - 2011

In Search of a Better Life challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. By no means were all migrants forced to leave their country by...

Daniel Ford - Michael's War - HB - 2003

Molly Keane & Sally Phipps - Molly Keane's Ireland : An Anthology - PB 1993

A Ted Smart ( Bookclub) edition 1993, of an anthology of Irish writing - fiction, poetry, historical accounts, essays, non fiction, from earliiest times, edited and selected by Molly Keane. 

Kevin C. Kearns - Dublin Street Life and Lore - An Oral History - PB 1997 ( Originally 1991)

A paperback reprint , 1997, originally 1991 in hardcover. Gill & Macmillan.  Kevin Kears publsihed a number of valuable social records of life in a rapidly changing Dublin, coincentrating on collecting the biographies of ordinray Dubliners ...

Eddie Keher - Hurling Heroes : Fourteen Hurling Greats Profiled - PB

Published by Blackwater Press, 2000.  An account by Kilkenny Hurler Eddie Keher of 14 other notable hurlers from the 20th century -  Tom Chesty, Joe Cooney, Ray Cummins, Tony Doran, Jimmy Doyle, Pat Fox, Len Gaynor, Pat Hartigan, Fan Larkin,...

Liam Ó Briain - Self Portrait - PB 2021 ( Originally 1950)

A 2021 reprint edition ( originally 1950 ) of Liam Ó Briain's autobiography Self Portrait.  Liam Ó Briain was a member of the Irish Volunteers, and fought in the 1916 Rising, and was subsequently a language professor in UCG from 1917...

Mitchelstown Writers Group - Another Mitchelstown Miscellany - PB 2016

Published 2016, a collection of local history, stort stories, poetry and essays by local writers and residents of the north Cork town. 

John Bowman - De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-73 - PB- 1989

Published by Oxford University Press, 1989 in paperback, originally 1982.  This is an interpretation of the lifelong preoccupation of Eamon de Valera, a revolutionary nationalist who defined his goal in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin and spent the...

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 pivotal figure in Ireland's revolutionary era,...