Irish Interest _______________________

Suhrkamp Publishing - Irisches Lesebuch - HB - 1996

Text entirely in German - translations of a wide selection of Irish Literature (of poems , short stories and extracts from novels and plays)  Published by Gudrun Boch Suhrkamp, 311 pages

Tatyana Feeney - Mo Chéad Rainn Gaeilge - HB- Leabhar Fuiame - BRAND NEW

6 beautiful traditional rhymes in Irish and 6 beautiful images6 rain áille thraidisiúnta agus 6 íomhá áilleSongs brought to life with beautiful bright pastel images Listen to the song at the push of...

John B. Keane - Letters of an Irish Publican - Vintage Mercier PB 1990 - Humour Kerry ( Originally 1974)

John B. Keane's skill at recognising the follies and weaknesses of men and women was evident in all of his writing. The letter writers and their correspondents prove to be fine examples of this. This...

John B. Keane - Strong Tea - PB Mercier - 1976 (Originally 1963)

A 1976 reprint edition paperback - of Strong Tea, a collection of mostly short essays and humourous articles, some reprinted from previously published essays in the Limerick Leader as well as radio...

Dorine Rohan - Marriage Irish Style - Vintage Mercier PB - 1969

Paperback, 1969. Mercier Press Cork. Small format paperback, cover design by Inge Nieuwstraten.  Tanning to pages, but a solid clean unmarked copy. 

Tatyana Feeney - Crann na nGuíonna - HB - BRAND NEW

Crann guíonna? Nó crann a bhíonn ag guí? Ceanglaíonn daoine a nguíonna den chrann seo. Ach… Nach bhfuil guíonna dá cuid féin ag an gcrann?   Pictiúrleabhar le Tatyana Feeney. Foilsithe ag My Irish...

Alan Nolan - The Sackville Street Caper ( Molly Malone and Bram Stoker Series) - BRAND NEW

 Dublin, 1858BRAM - boy seeking adventure (and things to write about)MOLLY - part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak thief!When Bram runs away from boarding school and meets streetwise Molly, he...

John & Sally McKenna - Ireland the Best - PB 2018 - AS NEW

The true Irish insider's guide to the very best Ireland has to offer. This fully comprehensive and independent guide to Ireland gives you only the very best recommendations, whatever your budget...

Kevin Toolis - Nine Rules to Conquer Death - HB - AS NEW

How should we conquer death? Our eternal existential question. The unspoken why of all action and thought. Death is all around us but unseen. A shadow companion who haunts our gnawing anxieties over...

June Caldwell - Room Little Darker - PB - AS NEW

From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of wanton sex, broken...

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin - Ceol na Mara - BRAND NEW - As Gaeilge

Cnuasach álainn amhrán bunaithe ar théama na farraige, curtha i láthair ag Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, Caitlín Ní Chualáin agus páistí scoile as Scoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, Co. na Gaillimhe. Tá amhráin...

Alan Nolan - The Riddle of the Disappearing Dickens - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin & London 1859: A Tale of Two Cities Bram Stoker: boy seeking adventure (and things to write about) Molly Malone: part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak thief! Best friends Molly and Bram are...

Ciarán Prior - Traces of Truth : A CSI Investigates Life and Death- PB - BRAND NEW 2024

BRAND NEW  ''This book recounts some of the more significant instances of grief, tragedy and sorrow I encountered throughout my crime scene investigation career. Along with some relevant snapshots...

Cian Manning - I Love Me County : Waterford Sporting Stories - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW  - TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  Published by History Press, September 2024.  The book's title is from a famous ( and heartfelt) quote from GAA player John...

Padraic Fallon Jr. / A Hymn Of The Dawn (Hardback)

A Hymn of the Dawn’ tells of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), his wife Don and their six sons during an idyllic summer in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s. At Prospect, a...

Martina Devlin - Edith : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Edith by Martina Devlin  Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of...

Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW

For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars...

Sheena Wilkinson - First Term at Fernside - PB - BRAND NEW

It’s a new term at Fernside boarding school, and Robin can’t wait for fun in the dorm, playing games and maybe even winning the coveted Form Shield. But for new girl Linnet, Robin’s younger cousin,...

Rebecca Brownlie - Abandoned Ireland : Volume 2 - BRAND NEW

SHIPPING WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST In Abandoned Ireland 2, photographer Rebecca Brownlie travels further off the beaten path to explore and showcase Ireland’s forgotten buildings before...

Peadar Thompson - Lost Gaels - BRAND NEW - HARBACK

TRACKED DELIVERY VIA AN POST INCLUDED IN THE PRICE.    ‘After the massacre, the GAA became even more important to us as a real sense of identity. It’s difficult to explain but we could cling to it in...

Kieran Sheedy - The Clare Anthology - HB - Clasp Press -1999

Hardcover, published by Clasp Press, 1999. Edited by Kieran Sheehy.  Moderate age tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. 264 pp. Hardback in dustjacket.  ISBN- 190054511X   The Clare Anthology...

Brian Ó Dálaigh - Corporation Book of Ennis - HB - 1990

A record of the transactions of Ennis Corporation in the period 1660-1810, hardcover, published by the Irish Academic Press ( in cooperation with Ennis Town Council. A valuable genealogival resource...

Cecily Joyce - Claddagh Ring Story - PB 1990

An account of the origins and history of Ireland's most famous and enduring love token - Galway's Claddagh Ring.  Paperback 1990, Illustrated.  SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - WITH BEST WISHES - CECILY JOYCE

Joan McBreen - A Walled Garden in Moylough - PB - SIGNED -1995

A US first edition paperback, published by Story Line Press, 1995 Signed by the author, undedicated to the title page.   

Liam Mac Philibín - Mise Pádraig - PB - 1960

Foilsithe ag FÁS ( Foilsiúcháin Ábhair Spioradálta) 1960, leagan Gaeilge do Confessio Naomh Pádraig. 

Martina Devlin - Charlotte : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Charlotte Brontë, who dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital and richly-drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arthur...

Benedict Kiely - A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories - PB -1977

A 1977 Poolbeg Press reprint of the debut 1963 short story collection from Tyrone native Benedict Kiely. Condition - internally very good, sunfade to spine, from orange to pale yellow. 144 pages...

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...

Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vintage PB - 1981

Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the...

John Scally / An Easter People: Essays in honour of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Large Paperback)

Sr Stanislaus Kennedy is a name that needs no introduction in Ireland. Whether known for here role as Life President of Focus Ireland, for her outspoken views on Ireland's forgotten or for her...

C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983

Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon ,...

Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge)

A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not...

Wilie Costello - A Connacht Man's Ramble - PB -2002 ( 4th Edition - Originally 1997)

Published by De Búrca, Dublin, this being the 4th printing. Paperback with flaps, Photographs and line drawings throughout. Signed by the author to the title page.  Recollections of growing up in...

Patrick Fagan - The Second City : Portrait of Dublin 1700-1760 - HB - 1986

Hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. Closed 0.5 cm tear to upper dustjacket edge. Map to endpapers. Rectangular ghostmark from label on front cover.  'Second City' refers to the period of rapid...

Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Third Revised and expanded edition, published May 2024. Cork University Press.  This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand...

Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB

“In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular...

ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature

The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published  by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ.   An...

Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009

he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty...

Eoin Ó Broin - Defects : Living the the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger - PB

  Across Ireland, thousands of people are now living in homes with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. De

Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY

Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her...

George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK

  ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all.

Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995

Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The...

AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback)

Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger...

Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997)

Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey.  This copy is unnumbered, -...

Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW

When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints...

Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry,...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with...

Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press

A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the...

Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995

US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy.  In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together...

Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback)

A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established...