Irish History and Historical Biography

Seosamh MacGrianna - Mo Bhealach Féin - PB - BRAND NEW

Mo Bhealach Féin ( 'My Own Way' or This Road of Mine) was first published in 1940. It is an autobiographical novel by Donegal writer Seosamh Mac Grianna. Written in the mid-1930s and prompted by the...

Colm Ó Gaora- Mise - PB - As Gaeilge - War of Independence Memoir - Rosmuc Galway

A paperback edition in the original Irish - ALL TEXT AS GAEILGE of Colm ó Gaora's 1944 autobiography Mise.  The Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) consisted to a large degree of a series of...

Séamas Mac Annaidh ( General Editor ) - New Illustrated Irish History ( A-Z ) - HB - 2001

The history of Ireland is one of oppression and emancipation, characterized by foreign rule and the fight for freedom. It is a history in which religious and political conflicts sit side by side with...

Kilkenny Archaeological Society - Old Kilkenny Review - Number 68 - 2016 - PB

Paperback, 244 pages, in as new condition.  Edited by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil. 

Ulick O'Connor - Travels With Ulick - Vintage Mercier PB -1967

An account with the keen eye of an outsider, of a long multi city trip in the USA in spring 1965, in a period where cultural change and civil Rights issues were asserting themselves into the US...

Fiona MacCarthy / Last Curtsey : The End of the Debutantes (Hardback)

 'In 1958 - the year in which Krushchev came to power in Russia, the year after Eden's resignation over Suez, two years after John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" - the last of the debutantes, myself...

John Guy / A Daughter's Love : Thomas and Margaret More (Hardback)

 This book will break open a secret. It is a gripping tale of love, loyalty and domestic happiness that came to be overwhelmed by the forces of ambition, deceit and treachery, from the award-winning...

Alan Matthews / Farm Incomes : Myths and Reality (Large Paperback)

 Farmers in Ireland have been protesting again recently about low farm incomes and calling for further state support. Yet farmers already receive large sums in EU and Irish state transfers to support...

Melosina Lenox-Conyngham / A Life In Postcards (Large Paperback)

 Many people will remember Melosina's voice from 'Sunday Miscellany', where these pieces were first broadcast, or have read them in 'Irishwoman's Diary' in The Irish Times. Fewer may have discovered...

Eoin O Broin / Home : Why Public Housing is the Answer (Large Paperback)

 Why is our housing system so dysfunctional? Why can it not meet social and affordable housing needs? Home examines the structural causes of our housing emergency, provides a detailed critique of...

Robert Kee - The Most Distressful Country ( The Green Flag : VOLUME 1 ) 1983 ( Originally 1972)

Robert Kee's history of Irish Nationalism stands as one of the most comprehensive and illuminating histories of the subject - This first volume covers the situation of Ireland from Tudor times, the...

Robert Kee - The Bold Fenian Men ( The Green Flag : VOLUME 2) 1983 ( Originally 1972)

Robert Kee's history of Irish Nationalism stands as one of the most comprehensive and illuminating histories of the subject - highly readable, and weaving teh strands of nationalism, - republicanism,...

T.W Moody & F.X Martin - The Course of Irish History - PB Illustrated - Vintage 1978 REPRINT

The Course of Irish History is the classic general history of Ireland, covering the economic, social and political development of the island of Ireland from prehistoric times to the late 1960's. It...

Conor Brady - Guardians of the Peace : The Early Years of the Irish Police Force - Revised Centenary Edition 2022 ( An Garda Síochana) - BRAND NEW

Guardians of the Peace is a political history of the Irish police force, An Garda Síochana, from its foundation at the birth of

Michael V. Hanna - Denis Brenan Bullen ( 1802-66) Inspector of Anatomy for the Province of Munster : The controversial Career of a Cork Surgeon- PB - BRAND NEW - 2020

Denis Brenan Bullen was a controversial figure in the medical history of Cork in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. As a teenager in 1820 he played a central role when his father...

John Burke - Roscommon : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while retaining old economic desires. Almost wholly dependent on agriculture to fuel the local economy...

Brian Feeney - Antrim : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Antrim contained the largest Presbyterian population on the island of Ireland. It also contained most of Belfast – the largest city in Ireland – which...

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...

James Deeny - To Cure and to Care : Memoirs of a Chief Medical Officer - PB - 1989

In 1944, Lurgan born James Deeny was appointed Chief Medical Officer for Ireland The two main problems confronting him were tuberculosis, where Ireland had the worst problem in Western Europe, and a...

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

      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...

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...

Charles Thomas - Britain and Ireland in Early Christian Times AD 400-800 - PB - 1971

A history of the development and spread of Christianity in the 4 centuries between the fall of Roman Britain and the arrival of the Vikings to Ireland and Britain - taking in art , architecture,...

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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Diarmaid Ferriter / Between Two Hells : The Irish Civil War (Hardback)

 In December 1921, five months after a truce between the IRA and British Crown Forces, Sinn Fein negotiators signed a compromise treaty with representatives of the British government. It created the...

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)

      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...

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)

      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...

Emily O'Reilly / Masterminds of the Right (Large Paperback) 1992

This short book is a thoroughly informative account of the individuals and secretive Catholic organisations behind the introduction of the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution in 1983 (banning...

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

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...