Irish History and Historical Biography

Leo Cullen - Princes and Pirates : The Dublin Chamber of Commerce 1783-1983 - HB

  Small closed tears to upper edge of dustjacket in front cover, internally unmarked.  A history both of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce itself, and by extension, a commercial history of Dublin in the...

Paddy Joe Hill / Forever Lost, Forever Gone (Hardback)

   In 1974 Paddy Joe Hill was charged alongside five other men with the biggest mass murder on the Britih mainland - the Birmingham pub bombings. Arrested and beaten by members of the West Midlands...

Alice Taylor / To School Through the Fields and Quench the Lamp (Hardback)

 If ever a voice has caputured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hard back to a timeless past,...

Brendan O'Kelly / The Esat Story (Hardback)

 One Friday in 1988 Esat was going bust. The fledgling company had just lost a vital deal with a British partner. It looked like curtains, Denis O'Brien caught a flight to Leeds/Bradford and took a...

Thomas Lynch / Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans (Hardback)

 A writer's return to the old country reveals the binding continuities of family, faith, and language."So, Tom that went and Tom that would come back!" is how Nora Lynch greeted the young American...

T. Ryle Dwyer / Short fellow: A biography of Charles J. Haughey (Hardback)

 Adored and reviled in equal measure, Charles J. Haughey has been one of the most significant Irish political leaders of the late 20th century. The aim of this biography is to present a balanced...

Padraic Coffey / This Day in Irish History (Hardback)

 A vibrant miscellany of Irish life with an event for every day of the year, both recent – divorce, same-sex marriage & abortion referendums and Riverdance – and historical: the battles in Clontarf...

Harry McGee / The Murderer and the Taoiseach (Large Paperback)

 A Murderer. A Leader. The Scandal of an Era. 'Reads like a thriller but is sadly all too true ... a brilliant account of shocking crimes and the dramatic political crisis they caused' David...

Conor O'Clery / The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune (Large Paperback)

 Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the...

Myles Dungan / Conspiracy: Irish Political Trials (Large Paperback)

 Conspiracy' focuses on the clashes, plots and perjuries that characterized seven notorious trials in Irish legal and political history between 1803 and 1916. Each trial shows how the legal system...

Samuel Lewis - County Clare : A History and Topography - PB 1995 ( Originally 1837)

CLASP Press, 1998, Paperback A Pre-Famine Snapshot of County Clare Agriculture Industry Infrastructure Fairs, Markets, Roads, Ruins, Schools, Churches, Gentlemen's Seats, Population, Early...

John Creedon / That Place We Call Home: A Journey Through the Place Names of Ireland (Large Paperback)

 John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in West Cork to traveling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new...

David Jacobson / Taming the Tiger: Social Exclusion in a Globalised Ireland (Large Paperback)

 Taming the Tiger argues that our current system of local governance is ill-equipped to meet this new challenge. It exposes a centralised and fragmented system that has evolved to serve the interests...

Arthur Matthews / Well remembered days: Eoin O'Ceallaigh's memoir of a twentieth-century Catholic life (Hardback)

 This is the fictious autobiography of Eoin O'Cellaigh, writer, poet, nationalist, playwright, civil servant, commentator (non-sport) and, above all, a defender of the traditional values of Ireland...

The Times Great Irish Lives: Obituaries of Ireland's Finest (Hardback)

 Discover the fascinating lives of the figures that have shaped Ireland from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Explore the rich history of the island’s cultural, social and political...

John Cooney / John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland (Hardback)

 An in-depth study of the most significant Irish clergyman in the history of the state. For three decades, 1940-72, as Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, John Charles McQuaid imposed his...

Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023

The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They...

Donal Cadogan - 99 Lives : Kilkenny Connections - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

This is a collection of stories of 103 ( a few extra snuck in) individuals  with connections to Kilkenny and who have made Kilkenny what it is today. There are well-known names such as Alice Kyteler,...

Donal Cadogan - About Kilkenny - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

A guide to Kilkenmny city and county, paperback, brand new, signed by the author.  With colour photography throughout - covers all locations countywide. 

Donal Cadogan - A Little Book of Alice Kyteler - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

A Little Book of Alice Kyteler delves deep into the darkness that is tied to the unexplainable occurrences of 14th century Ireland. The author’s fifth publication follows Alice Kyteler, a local woman...

Donal Cadogan - Kilkenny's Deadly Years - Murders Trials and Executions in Kilkenny 1823-1923 - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

''In its two hundred and thirty plus pages Cadogan concentrates on the years from 1823 to 1923 and introduces us to thirty four true crimes and explains that while some of the killings were caused by...

Erin Bishop / My Darling Danny: Letters from Mary O'Connell to Her Son Daniel, 1830-1832

   On May 9, 1830, fourteen year-old Daniel O'Connell Jr., son of the -Liberator, - left his comfortable home in Dublin to attend the Jesuit college at Clongowes Wood in County Kildare. Thus began a...

Helen Litton / The World War II Years: The Irish Emergency : An Illustrated History

 This account of Ireland during World War II years challenges a few entrenched perceptions as well as providing new photographs of the bombed scenes at East Wall in Dublin and elsewhere. As always,...

Charles Lysaght / The Times Great Irish Lives: Obituaries of Ireland's Finest

 Discover the fascinating lives of the figures that have shaped Ireland from the early 19th century to the present day. Explore the rich history of the island’s cultural, social and political...

Jo Kerrigan - Follow The Old Road - PB - BRAND NEW ( PB - March 2024)

By turning off the main highway and discovering old routes, some of which have been travelled for thousands of years, you will see Ireland in an entirely different way. Follow the Old Road will take...

Colm Keane ( Editor) / The Jobs Crisis ( 1993) ( Thomas Davis Lecture Series )

Ruth Dudley Edwards / The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a...

Cristín Leach - From Ten till Dusk - A Portrait of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Twelve Stories - BRAND NEW 2023

A beautiful portrait of Ireland’s premier cultural institution - The RHA -  on the 200th anniversary of its founding. The reader is taken on a journey through the Academy’s storied history through...

Sean McMahon / Daniel O'Connell

 Readable life of Daniel O Connell, a giant who admitted to very human weaknesses but managed to wear with justice and dignity the trappings of greatness     All of our books are second hand, and...

Vivien Igoe & Robert Nicholson - Tales From the Tower : A Personal History of James Joyce Tower and Museum - PB - BRAND NEW

A Personal History of the James Joyce Tower & Museum by its Curators Vivien Igoe & Robert Nicholson Edited by Breandán Ó Broin With an introduction by Vincent Browne   Paperback,

Lindie Naughton - Herbert Simms : An Architect for the People - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin’s teeming slums, long regarded as the worst in Europe, were teetering on the brink of structural and sanitary public catastrophe during the early twentieth century. To tackle the crisis,...

Noel Howard - Ballinacarriga, Kilworth : A House, A Family, A Village - PB - BRAND NEW

The fraught period of Irish history from 1919-23 saw many “Big Houses” associated with British rule attacked and destroyed. Nowhere was this more evident than in County Cork, arguably the most...

Gabriel Cooney - Death in Irish Prehistory - PB - BRAND NEW

This is a book about life and death over 8,500 years in Ireland. It explores the richness of the mortuary record that we have for Irish prehistory (8000 BC to AD 500) as a highlight of the...

Manchán Magan - Thirty Two Words For Field - HB - BRAND NEW

  TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at...

John Cullinane - Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing - 6 BOOK Lot - BRAND NEW

This is a collection of SIX PB books in the Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing Series, which covers the history and development of Irish dance, both in Ireland and worldwide. Published at...

John Cullinane - Aspects of 170 Years of Irish Dancing in Australia - PB - BRAND NEW - ( 1999)

This is the seventh book in the multi volume Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing Series, which covers the history and development of Irish dance, published 2006 , based on earlier material which...

John Cullinane - Aspects of the History of Irish Céilí Dancing 1897-1997 - PB - BRAND NEW - ( 1999)

A book in the multi volume Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing Series, which covers the history and development of Irish dance, published 1998 . This 80 page Irish publication is a complete...

John Cullinane - Irish Dancing Costumes : Their Origins and Evolution - PB - BRAND NEW - ( 1999)

This is the first book in the multi volume Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing Series, which covers the history and development of Irish dance, ( this is a reprint , 1999, originally published in...

John Cullinane -Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing - PB - BRAND NEW - ( 2003)

It is the fifth book in the multi volume Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing Series, which covers the history and development of Irish dance, published 1990 ( this is the second edition,...

John Cullinane - Further Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing - PB - BRAND NEW - ( 2003)

It is the fifth book in the multi volume Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing Series, which covers the history and development of Irish dance, published 1990 ( this is the second edition,...

John Cullinane - An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha ( Irish Dancing Commission) - Its Origins and Evolution - PB - BRAND NEW - ( 2003)

It is the sixth book in the multi volume Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing Series, which covers the history and development of Irish dance, piblished 2003.  Product description While there...

John Cullinane - Irish Dancing in North America - PB - BRAND NEW - ( 2001)

Dr. John Cullinane takes his reader through a fascinating account of Irish dancing in America. This book was first published in 1997,  and this reprint from 2001. It is the second book in the multi...

J.C Beckett - Belfast : The Making of the City : 1800-1914 - HB - 1988

Published by Appletree Press, 1988, larger format illustrated hardcover.  Creasing to front cover, especially at upper corner.  Covering the physical development of Belfast in the period 1800-1914 ,...

Margaret Kelleher - The Maamtrasna Murders : Language , Life and Death in Nineteenth- Century Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective...

Anthony J. Jordan / W.B.Yeats : Vain, Glorious, Lout - A Maker of Modern Ireland (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...

Elaine Crowley / Technical Virgins (Large Paperback)

In her best-selling first volume of autobiography, Cowslips and Chainies, Elaine Crowley remembered her childhood in 1930s Dublin with great warmth and poignance. In this delightful sequel she...

Margaret Molloy / Agnes Morrogh-Bernard: Foundress of Foxford Woollen Mills (Large Paperback)

In 1892 hunger, poverty and desolation were endemic in the area around Foxford in County Mayo in the aftermath of the great famine and the Land War. It was in this context that Agnes Morrogh-Bernard,...

Thomas J Morrissey - The Most Estimable Of Men - Judge John O'Hagan : Patriot, Poet , Scholar , Lawyer - PB - BRAND NEW

Judge John O’Hagan was a Young Irelander, poet, educationist, and liberal scholar. Law lecturer, commissioner for National Education and later in charge of the Land Commission, he was a man ‘beloved...

Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 2021 - Series 2, Volume 21 - PB

CONTENTS -  Regular Contributors to the Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968 to 2020 (Paul McCotter) Past lifeways between the Maine and the Laune: Archaeological...

David A Fleming - Edmund Sexten Pery : The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteeenth Century Ireland

Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later as Speaker of the Irish House...

Emily Mark Fitzgerald , Ciarán McCabe & Ciarán Reilly - Dublin and the Great Irish Famine - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

TRACKIED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  Dublin did not escape the Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, while the capital witnessed an influx...

Piers Wauchope - The Siege of Londonderry 1689 - HB - BRAND NEW

As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that flooded into the city, the governor...