Irish History and Historical Biography

David Ross / Male of a Cow: Traditional Irish Humour

  Not just another collection of Irish jokes, this anthology explores the unique national topics the Irish have traditionally found to be humorous and the history of Ireland’s oral tradition. It...

Manchán Magán - Listen to the Land Speak - HB - BRAND NEW

Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connected to the land. They used this connection to the...

Breandan O h-Eithir / A Pocket History of Ireland

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Hill, Myrtle & Barber, Sarah ( Editors) - Aspects of Irish Studies - QUB JOURNAL 1990

This book provides an insight into the current debate on the importance of different cultural traditions in the community. It records the proceedings of the second Cultural Traditions Group...

Ingrid Seward / The Queen's Speech (Hardback)

 On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch in British history. During her 63 years on the throne, few have got to know her well, but there is one body of work...

Julia Kelly - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW

Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and...

Seán Spellissy - The History of Limerick City - PB - 1998

This book is a chronicle of the development of  life in urban Limerick from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century. The origins of the city are Viking, the city was the subject of two...

Nanny Pat / Penny Sweets and Cobbled Streets : My East End Childhood

 Nanny Pat has always been the heart of her family, and her children and grandchildren regularly pitch up at her house for a cup of tea, a slice of her famous sausage plait and some wise advice.Now,...

Enda Watters- Missionary Memoirs - HB - 2009

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Dean Ruxton / Death on Ireland's Eye (Large Paperback)

 A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery - but what really happened?Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland's Eye, it was decided that she had drowned...

Ian Mortimer / The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

 Discover an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages.Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and...

David Greene - The Irish Language - PB- 1972 - Stair na Gaeilge ( Irish Life and Culture Series XIV)

  Solid in three colour paper cover with titles to spine. Some notes , minor underlining and emendations internally.  First  edition was 1966, issued as part of the Irish Life and Culture series, and...

Joe Barry - Ate Mate and Follow the Band - PB - Templemore

Although described on the cover as a collection of short stories' this is perhaps more of a collection of personal memories of his life in and around the military barracks ( now the Garda College)...

Robert Hogan ( Editor) - Feathers From the Green Crow : Sean O'Casey 1905-1925 - HB - 1962

A collection of the early writings of Sean O'Casey  - organised thematically - Education and Culture / Nationalism / The Irish Language / Labour / I Been Workin' on the Railroad / Controversies /...

Homan Potterton / Rathcormick: A Childhood Recalled (Large Paperback)

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Leon Ó Broin - Just Like Yesterday - An Autobiography - PB

Leon ó Broin was born in dublin in 1902, a schoolboy at teh time ogf teh 1916 rising, he afterwards became a member of Sinn Féin and the Gaelic league, he joined the Civil Service, acting as...

Nick Foster / Murder at Roaringwater (Large Paperback)

 Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of the final days of young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. This is a violent, unresolved murder, where the victim seemed to have a premonition of...

Kathleen Clifford / Back of the Hack : Growing Up in the Liberties (Large Paperback)

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Ní Bhraonáin, Eimear & Harvey, Jeff - Is Féidir Linn : A Golden Ticket to Moneygall - HB -2011

Eugene McCague - Arthur Cox 1891-1965 - HB - 1994

In the first 40 years of the independent Irish state, few people outside government wielded more influence than Arthur Cox. This biography recounts how he became in turn, an accomplished public...

Margery Brady - The Last Rose of Summer : The Love Story of Tom Moore & Bessy Dyke - PB

The biography of Thomas Moore and his wife the unfortunately named Bessy Dyke. Moore was a hugely inflential figure in 19th century Ireland, and his 'Moore's Melodies' were a key part of Irish...

Desmond Macnamara - De Valera ( World Leaders Past & Present Series) - HB - 1988

Traces the life of the Irish leader and poli

Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

 An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of...

Anne Chambers - Granuaile : The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley 1530-1603 - PB

Grace O’Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land and at sea in the 16th century. In...

Ernie O'Malley - Raids and Rallies - PB - Vintage Anvil Press 1982

During the War of Independence, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some notes of his were smuggled out. `Most of all,' he wrote, `I would have liked to talk...

Prionsias Mac Aonghusa ( Editor) - Quotations from P.H Pearse - Vintage PB -1979

Introduction by Seán Mac Bride, compiled edited and also intyroduced by Prionsias Mac Aonghusa ( who was a longtime resident and national school teacher in Rosmuc in the 1960's, where Pearse had his...

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc - The Battle For Limerick City 1922 ( Military History of the Irish Civil War ) - PB - BRAND NEW

Battle For Limerick City descibes the full story of the vicious battle between Republican and Provisional Government forces for control of Limerick city in the early parts of the Civil War. The...

Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 7th Revised Edition - 1981

First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is a revised 7th impression, September 1981 edition in paperback of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably...

Government Publications - OIDHREACHT 1916-1966 - 50th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising -

The official state commemorative publication, issued by Government Publications 1966, for the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Dual language text , as Gaeilge and in English. Illustrated...

Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous...

Simon Winchester / The Map That Changed the World

 THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first...

Julian Barnes / Letters from London

  Since 1990 Julian Barnes has written a regular `Letter from London' for the New Yorker magazine. These already celebrated pieces cover subjects as diverse as the Lloyd's insurance disaster, the...

Bruce Arnold - What Kind of Country - Modern Irish Politics 1968-1983 - PB

It would be comforting to claim that Ireland came of age during this period' writes Bruce Arnold... ' the evidence does not support that claim' ...   Arnold examines the relationship between the...

Jim O'Donnell - Wordgloss : A Cultural Lexicon (Words and Concepts you need to Know)

"Wordgloss" is a lively, comprehensive reference work, first published to acclaim in 1990, now reworked and extended. This invaluable compendium consists of a series of mini-essays, informed by Latin...

Sean McMahon - A Book of Irish Quotations - HB -1984

A comprehensive collection of memorable phrases, in prose, verse and song - by Irish people through the ages , from earliest times to the present day. Arranged alphabetically - politicians,...

Rex Taylor - Michael Collins : The Big Fellow - Vintage PB 1965 Biography Ireland

A NEL reprint edition 1970 , of the 1958 biography of Michael Collins, by Rex Taylor, in GOOD condition, light edgewear to the covers, spine uncreased , not ex library, no marks damage or...

Michael Kirby - Skelligside - PB - 1990 - Kerry Autobiography

Skelligside by Michael Kirby This is the remarkable folk autobiography of a small farmer, fisherman and poet from from the South Iveragh peninsula of Co. Kerry, part of Ireland’s western sea-board,...

Fréchet, René - Histoire de L'Irlande ( Que Sais-je?) - PB 1975 - French

Pas de quatrième de couverture ches PUF Que Sais je ?Je propose donc un extrait de l'introduction :"Il n"y a pas plus de race irlandais qu'il n'y a de race anglaise ou de race yankee : l'Irlande,...

Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath : The Authorised Biography (Hardback)

 The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler...

Hugh Weir - One Of Our Own - Memoirs of Change - HB - SIGNED -2001

Born in 1934 to a revolution and war experienced Irish rural ascendancy family, Hugh Weir was among the earliest of his kind to share in the evolution of modern Ireland. In spite of polio, he...

Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin- Seán Óg : His Own Story - PB - 1988

Published by Brophy Books, 1988. Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin was an enduring voice of sport commentary on Irish radio and television. For over 3 deacdes, and following on from his father, he brought news...

T.W.Moody - Davitt and Irish Revolution - 1846-1882 - PB - 1982

This book is a study of Michael Davitt in the context of two revolutionary movements – the Irish republican or fenian movement, and the ‘Land for the people’ movement. Born in Ireland in 1846, Davitt...

Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935)

Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more...

Seamus OBrogain / The Wolfhound Guide to the Irish Harp

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Richard Killeen / A Brief History of Ireland

  From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight...

Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field : Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 (Large Paperback)

 On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin...

Richard English / Irish Freedom

 Richard English's brilliant new book is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analysed. Full of rich detail, drawn from years of original...

Stephen Collins - Breaking the Mould : How the Progressive Democrats Changed Ireland - PB - Politics 2006

Stephen Collins' authoratitive history is based on his many years as one of Ireland's most distinguished political journalists; on interviews with leading figures in the Progressive Democrats over...

Maurice Goldring - L'Irlande - Ideologie d'une Revolution Nationale - PB - French Lamguage Ed 1976

Goldring was a French intellectual, former Communist and university lecturer who wrote extensievcly on Irish culture and history. Paperback, 1975, Edition Sociales, Paris In French. 

J.H Whyte - Church and State in Modern Ireland 1923-1970 - HB 1971HB - 1971

A standard work on 20th century Irish history, examining the long and often convoluted history of church- state interaction post independence. This is the first edition, 1971 ( a second edition was...

Andy Halpin / From Bray to Eternity (Hardback)

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Ulick O'Connor - All the Olympians : A Biographical Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance - PB - 1984 ( Celtic Dawn)

Paperback, published in this reprint edition by Owl Books/ Henry Holt, 1987 - Originally published in 1984 ( also published in Ireland under the title Celtic Dawn) . In excellent condition,...