Irish History and Historical Biography

Sharon Slater - The A-Z of Curious County Limerick : Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics - BRAND NEW PB

Limerick's history stretches back over 1,000 years. It is famed for pigs and poetry, but only the surface of the history has been scratched. This book looks at the forgotten past such as the story of...

Tom O'Neill - The Battle of Clonmult : The IRA'S Worst Defeat - 1921 - Revised Edition 2019 - BRAND NEW

The Battle of Clonmult was the IRA's greatest loss of volunteers in a single engagement against Crown Forces. On Sunday, 20 February 1921, at Clonmult near Midleton in County Cork, almost the entire...

Séighin Ó Ceallaigh - Robert Byrne and The Limerick Soviet - SIGNED PB

In April 1919 in the city of Limerick, IRA volunteer Robert Byrne is shot in his hospital bed by the RIC during a rescue attempt. He had been on hunger strike for his rights as a political prisoner...

Ray Kavanagh / Spring, Summer and Fall: The Rise and Fall of the Labour Party 1986-1999 (Large Paperback)

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John Bruton / Faith in Politics (Hardback)

  A book of ideas & opinions concerned with the past, present, and future of Ireland. John Bruton served as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland from 1994 to 1997, and as a minister in several...

John Reynolds - The Templemore Miracles : Jimmy Walsh, Ceasefires and Moving Statues - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW

In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the guerrilla war that followed reached its peak in August 1920, in the garrison town of Templemore, when a series of extraordinary events occurred...

Ó Broin, Leon - Emmet - HB - As Gaeilge - Sáirséal & Dill - 1st Edition 1954 -

An Chéad Chló, Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1954. As Gaeilge san iomlán . Cur síos ar shaol Robert Emmet, agus Éiri Amach 1803.  HardcoverPublisher: Baile Attha Cliath, Sairseal Agus Dill., 1954Used...

Jackie Elger & Dolores Meaney - The Islands of the Fergus Estuary - Clare - BRAND NEW PB

This book looks at the Fergus islands of Co Clare, Ireland lying on the estuary stretching from Clarecastle to Shannon and Kildysart. It examines the larger islands - their history, archaeology and...

Maurice O'Connell ( Editor) - Daniel O'Connell : Political Pioneer - PB - 1991 - SIGNED

Published by the IPA ( Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 1991 ) this book gathers the essays delivered at the Danile O'Connell Workshop held in Derrynane, Kerry, in 1990, from a wide range...

Marie O'Neill / From Parnell to De Valera (Large Paperback)

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Andy Bielenberg ( Editor) - Irish Flour Milling : A History 600-2000 - HB - Lilliput

This book brings together a series of essays which unfold and illuminate the history of the Irish flour milling industry from the medieval period to the present day. Milling was one of Ireland’s...

Donal Nevin / James Larkin : Lion of the Fold (Large Paperback)

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Máire Cruise O'Brien ( Máire Mhac an tSaoi) - The Same Age as the State - A Biography - HB

Máire Cruise O'Brien explores the republican and revolutionary connections of her family as she was growing up, the fallout of the Civil War, and life in the Irish-speaking districts of Ireland...

Shane Kenny - Go Dance on Somebody Else's Grave : The Haughey Coalition 1989 - PB

For four weeks after the June 1989 General Election , Ireland faced a political crisis. secret meetings were held to break the deadlock. Heated scenes took place in the corridors of power. Haughey,...

Aiden A. Quigley - Green is My Sky - Ireland's Aviation History - PB - 1983

Published by Avoca Publications, 1983, this is both a history and a personal history - the author was a pilot himself , and was the pilot tasked with the notable papal flight in 1979.  Covers the...

Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter

A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter.  Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist  J.M...

Edward J Bourke - Murder by the Throat : Espionage, Assassination, Collaboration and Execution in the Irish War of Independence- PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Lloyd George boasted that he had “murder by the throat” in a London Guildhall speech on 10 November 1920.  He had flooded Ireland with troops, Black and Tans, Auxiliaries, secret service, touts and...

Brendan O'Brien / O'Brien Pocket History of the IRA

 An accessible, clearly-written account of the IRA from its beginnings to today. It covers the origins and history of the organisation, its aims, the political and military thinking which has driven...

Risteard Mulcahy / Memoirs of a Medical Maverick (Large Paperback)

  Memoirs of a Medical Maverick offers a unique and often surprising insight into the rich, varied and extraordinary life of one of the most prominent, respected and outspoken medical men in...

Bernard Share & William Bolger - Irish Lives : Biographies of 50 Famous Irish Men and Women - HB - 1971

Hardcover 2nd edition with dustjacket, published by Allen Figgis , Dublin 1974, text by Bernard Share, artwork and design by William Bolger. Light edgewear to the jacket.  Organised thematically into...

Frank Mitchell - The Way That I Followed : A Naturalist's Journey Around Ireland - PB 1990

In The Way That I Followed, (1990)  Frank Mitchell, author of the bestselling Shell Guide to Reading the Irish Landscape sets out to provide a companion volume to Lloyd Prager's most successful book...

Joe O'Toole / Looking Under Stones - Roots, Family and a Dingle Childhood(Hardback)

 'This is not a story of me, but of me and mine, of my place and theirs, of places north, south, east and west in Ireland, but particularly of home life in Dingle and holidays in Galway, and of the...

Pat Boran / A Short History of Dublin

  This account is a canter through Dublin in all the ages of prehistory and history: Viking, medieval and capital of the colonized Ireland. Many of the events to which Dublin was host were tragic...

Rosaleen Crossan / Mary Aikenhead (Hardback)

  Explores the life of Mary Aikenhead, a 19th century Irish nun who founded the Religious Sisters of Charity. It reveals how this woman's extraordinary faith in God and her dedication to service...

Raymond Smith - Haughey & O'Malley - The Quest For Power - PB - FF & PD's - 1986

Published by journalist Raymond Smith in November 1986, this is the detailed account of the ( final) spit between Des O'Malley and Charles Haughey, and the eventual formation of the Progressive...

Raymond Smith - Charles J Haughey : The Survivor - PB 1983 - Irish Politics 1980's

Published by Aherlow Publishing 1983, this is journalist Raymond Smith's account of the period from 1982 to 1983 in which Irish politics was convulsed by internal divisions in Fianna Fáil, leadership...

Thomas Lynch / Booking Passage : We Irish & Americans

 In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that...

John Cooney - The Crozier & the Dáil : Church and State in Ireland 1922-1986 - PB - 1986

John Cooney was religious affairs correspondent with the Irish Times from the 1970's - this is his concise study of the complex role the Church played in first actively influencing the new Irish...

Dominic Daly - The Young Douglas Hyde - HB - 1974

This pioneering work comprises a literary history of the early revival, and provides an extensive bibliographical account of Hyde’s sources as a critic and bibliographer, and well as much information...

J.G Simms & Dublin Historical Association - Booklet - The Jacobite Parliament of 1689

A 28 page booklet in the numbered Irish History series, published by the Dublin Historical Association, a reprint from 1974, the price is blocked out in marker on the front cover.    The Jacobite...

Con Costello - Guide to Kildare & West Wicklow - PB - 1991

Published 1991, paperback, illustrated throughout, with line drawings by Maeve Costello, map by Seán Byrne.  An alphabetical gazetteer guide to all aspects of County Kildare ( and adjacent areas in...

Andrew Boyd - The Rise of Irish Trade Unions - PB - Anvil Press 1985 Reprint

Published by Anvil Press, 1972 , and reprinted in 1985 in this ( larger format) edition, this is a standard work on Irish Union history, by journalist and lecturer Brian Boyd, of Queens University...

Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983

Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life...

Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback)

 In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the...

Mark Loughrey / A Century of Service : A History of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, 1919-2019 (Hardback)

  In February 1919, 20 nurses and midwives meeting in Dublin to discuss their poor working conditions took a historic decision to establish a trade union--the first of its kind in the world. The...

Phyllis Browne / Thanks for the Tea, Mrs. Browne : My Life with Noel Browne (Large Paperback)

  Noel Browne was one of the key figures in 20th-century Irish politics: a radical in his time, he campaigned for health improvements for women and children back in the '50s, when the Church and...

Bernard S Wilson - Miss Mary - BRAND NEW - ( illustrated by Julia Castano )

PHYLLIS WHITSELL / A Song for Bridget

 The unforgettable true story behind the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Finding Tipperary Mary.Bridget 'Tipperary Mary' Larkin faced poverty, bereavement, cruelty and abandonment many times over,...

Simon Fitzmaurice / It's Not Yet Dark (Hardback)

 In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (mnd). He was given four years to live. In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse, Simon knew with crystal clarity that now...

David McWilliams / The Pope's Children (Hardback)

  David McWilliams' brilliant survey of Ireland today is a celebration of success. He takes us to Deckland, that suburban state of mind where you'll find the Kells Angels, those out-of-town...

M.E Collins - An Outline of Modern Irish History 1850-1951 - PB - EDCO - 1974

Published by Edco (The Educational Company of Ireland) , 1974, this was aimed at pre Junior Cert classes ( Intermediate Cert as it was at the time) - a concise history of Ireand in the century since...

Brian Keenan / An Evil Cradling (Hardback)

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H.C Casserley - Irish Railways in the Heyday of Steam - HB - Illustrated

Hardcover first edition, with b&w photographs illustrated throughout. The photographs and the transport infrastructure photographed is primarily from the 1920's and 1930's ( the era between the wars)...

Padraig de Búrca & John F Boyle - Free State or Republic - UCD Centenary Classics - PB BRAND NEW - 2015 - ( Originally 1922

 Free State or Republic? provides eye-witness accounts by two reporters from the Irish Independent newspaper of the historic Treaty debates of Dail Eireann, held in University College Dublin's...

Joseph Johnston - Civil War in Ulster - UCD Centenary Classics - PB - BRAND NEW - 2015 - ( Originally 1913)

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Each volume is introduced by Fearghal...

Mary Carbery - The Farm by Lough Gur : The Story of Mary Fogarty - PB - BRAND NEW - Limerick

"The Farm by Lough Gur" was first published in London in 1937 and quickly reprinted. It was well received in England and a best-seller in Dublin. Some questioned its quiet recall of an elysian rural...

John Hutchinson - James Arthur O'Connor - Artist - PB 1985 - Illustrated

Published 1985 on the occasion of an exhibition in the National Gallery of the work of this important Irish artist.  Paperback 208 pages, with images from O'Connor's work, many in colour, as well as...

Micheál MacGréil - Prejudice in Ireland Revisited - PB 1996 - Sociology

An expanded and updated edition ( 1996) of the changing social attitudes of Irish people, based on the pioneering work in sociological analysis by Mac Gréil , from the University of Maynooth. Survey...

Maire Cruise O'Brien / The Same Age as the State : The Autobiography of Maire Cruise O'Brien (Hardback)

 Maire Cruise O'Brien explores the republican and revolutionary connections of her family as she was growing up, the fallout of the Civil War, and life in the Irish-speaking districts of Ireland...

Georgina Louise Hambleton / Christy Brown The Life That Inspired My Left Foot (Hardback)

 Christy Brown was severely disabled from birth with cerebral palsy and unable to use any part of his body other than his left foot. Doctors said he was a mental defective and that he would never be...

Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography 1986 - Politics Ireland

Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor,...

Nathaniel Harris - The Shaws : The Family of George Bernard Shaw - Dublin - Illustrated by Andrew Farmar

Published by J.M Dent & Sons, 1977, this is a short illustrated history of the early life and family of George Bernard Shaw, one if Ireland's most accomplisged authors, and the winner of Nobel Prize...