Irish History and Historical Biography

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)

      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...

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...

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...

Denis Marnane ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2017 - ( 30th Anniversary Issue )

30th Anniversary, paperback , in excellent as new condition.  CONTENTS -  Stone Faces and Cats with Two tails: Nineteenth Century Stone Sculpture by James Dorney of TipperaryLouise Nugent John...

Trevor White / Alfie : The Life and Times of Alfie Byrne (Hardback)

   The first biography of the beloved long-time Lord Mayor of DublinAlfie Byrne was that rarest of things: a genuinely popular politician. He is still a figure of legend in Dublin, where he was...

Stephen Collins / The Power Game (Hardback)

    This volume charts the bitter struggle for power in Fianna Fail since the resignation of Sean Lemass in November 1966. For most of that period the party lurched from one convulsion to another...

Maurice Gorham - Ireland from Old Photographs - PB - 1979

Published by Batsford UK, 1979, this is a larger format paperback, collected and presented in context by Maurice Gorham. The date rage on the photographs runs from 1860 to circa 1910. Some...

Con Costello - Kildare : Saints , Soldiers & Horses - PB 1991

Based on articles the history of County Kildare that the author,  Con Costello , originally published in his Leinster Leader 'Looking Back' column, this is the second collection based on that...

Henry Boylan - Wolfe Tone - Gill's Irish Lives - PB 1981 - Irish Historical Biography

Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798)  was born in Dublin, trained as a barrister, and was a founder member of teh Society of united Irishmen in 1791- to break the connection with England and 'unite...

Sean O'Casey - Pictures in the Hallway : Autobiography Volume 2 - Vintage Pan PB

Light tanning to the page block, fade to the spine ( common to all this series) light creasing to the covers, and previous owner's name to the title page.  This takes up where the first book ( I...

Sean O'Casey - I Knock at the Door - Autobiography Volume 1 - Vintage Pan PB 1971

Sunning and fade to spine, small previous owners name to inside title page.  The first volume ( of 6 ) in this PB format of dramatist Sean O'Casey's autobiography, dealing with his early childhood...

T. Ryle Dwyer / Big Fellow, Long Fellow : A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera (Large Paperback)

    This is the first joint biography of the two major figures in the making of the modern Irish state. These two contrasting figures, one destined to die, the other a long-lived patriarch,...

Conor Kostick / The Easter Rising : A Guide to Dublin in 1916

   A vivid and entertaining guide to the events and locations of the Easter 1916 Rising.Defying all the odds 1600 men, women and children went out on 24 April, Easter Monday, 1916 to fight for an...

Angela Bourke / The Burning Of Bridget Cleary (Large Paperback)

    This text offers the story of Bridget Cleary, who in 1895 disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. Some said the fairies had taken her, but then her body was found. Her husband, father,...

Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : Limerick Soviet 1919 - HB 1st Edition - 1990

The original first edition printing in hardcover, O'Brien Press 1990, of then RTE journalist Liam Cahill's account of the short lived Limerick Soviet 1919, and how the events in the city in that year...

Gus Smith - Tommy O'Brien : Good Evenin' Listeners HB 1987 - RTE Radio 'Your Choice and mine'

Published by Madison, Dublin 1987. 1st edition. ISBN:1870862007 12mo, hardback in dustjacket, 233 pages including index. Illustrated. Good condition overall, no marks or damage noted, but HEAVY...

Michael Foy - The Sugar Industry in Ireland - HB Illustrated 1975 - Siúcra

A hardcover first edition, 1975 of Michael Foy's book on the history of Irish Sugar ( the company) and the wider history of the industry in Ireland to the mid 1970's . Issued for the 50th...

Frances Finnegan - Do Penance or Perish - A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland - 2001-HB

Do Penance or Perish is a history of four of Ireland's Convent Magdalen Asylums, established in the mid-nineteenth century for the ' detention of prostitutes undergoing reform'. It traces the...

Liam Ó Tuama - Jack Lynch : Where He Sported and Played - A sporting Biography HB Illustrated GAA 2000

Published by Blackwater Press, 2000, this is a hardcover larger format book covering the entire GAA career of Jack Lynch, former Taoiseach and Cork stalwart, and winner of 6 All Ireland medals in a...

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe - The English Language in Ireland - PB Mercier 1977 - Thomas Davis lectures - Linguistics

Essays include; Emergence of modern English dialects in Ireland, Anglo-Irish and its Irish background, The Anglo-Normans and their English dialect of South-East Wexford,  The dialects of Ulster, The...

Capuchin Annual 1959 - 26th Year of publication - Features on Irish Missions - History, Religion & Irish Society

Closed tear to lower edge of spine, Light edgewear only, solid in slightly oversize covers, as issued. There is a previous owner's name to the blank front endpaper.   The Capuchin Annual was...

Desmond Forristal - Oliver Plunkett in His Own Words ( Vintage Paperback)

Published by Veritas , Dublin 1975, tanning to pages, no other marks or damage noted. A biography of the life of the martyred Oliver Plunkett.  Light tanning to pages, and fade to spine ( from red to...

Tim Pat Coogan - Ireland in the 20th Century - HB 1st US Edition 2004

A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known Irish history writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ireland in the Twentieth Century will be a must-read for...

Patrick O'Donnell - The Irish Faction Fighters of the 19th Century - PB Anvil Press 1975

Published by Anvil Press, 1975, this is an important (and somewhat hard to find) copy of Patrick O'Donnell's history of Irish Faction fights in the early and mid 19th century - examining the effects...

Michael O'Connell- Shadows : An Album of the Irish People 1841-1914 - Photography - Social Life & Customs

Published by O'Brien Press in association with RTE in 1985, this is a themed collection of vintage and early Irish photography, from earliest days to the advent of WW1, and based on the TV series...

John A. Murphy - Ireland in the Twentieth Century - PB - ( Gill History of Ireland - Volume 11 ) - 1981

A masterful study of the turbulent 20th century ( to c 1972) by John A Murphy, 1975 Gill Books Light edgewear to the covers, some sun fade to spine. Rubbing to edgewear to primary page.  Some...

The Capuchin Annual 1972 - Articles on the Treaty 50th Anniversary 1922-72 PB - History & Commentary

This is the 1972 edition of the Capuchin annual, with the usual wide range of articles, history, poetry and commentary.  A particular feature of this issue is a number of articles commemorating the...

Ulick O'Connor - Oliver St John Gogarty : A Biography - PB

First published in 1963, with the title ' The Times I've Seen' Light creasing to covers, heavy tanning to page block, this is a 1981 paperback edition.  Oliver St john Gogarty was one of the most...

Robin Flower - The Irish Tradition - PB ( 1978 Reprint)

First published in 1947, these celebrated lectures and introductions to the medieval and modern Gaelic-speaking culture, which was drawing to a close when Flower first came to Ireland in 1910, form a...

George Morrison - An Irish Camera PB - 19th Century Photography - Pan, PB 1979

Including a number of images of Dublin and Cork from the earliest days of photography - daguerreotypes and calotype images from the 1840's , as well as a 65 other images of 19th century and early...

Mary E Daly - The Famine in Ireland - Dublin Historical Association - PB 1st Edition 1986

Published by Dundalgan Press, this is the first printing, 1986 of Mary Daly's The Famine in Ireland , published by the historical Association of Ireland under the editorship of Art Cosgrove.  Rather...

Fachtna O Drisceoil / The Missing Postman

 Postman Larry Griffin vanishes during his rounds in Stradbally on Christmas Day 1929. The only clue to what happened was an abandoned bicycle on a deserted country road. The story of the Missing...

Capuchin Annual 1968 - 35th Year - Features on Irish Election 1918 - & Religion, Politics , Culture & History

The 1968 issue of the Capuchin Annual - with a selection of features on the anniversary of the 1918 election, the last election held nationally under British rule, and the impact of events of that...

Frank Duff - Miracles on Tap - Vintage Montfort PB 1961 ( Edited by Denis McAuliffe) - Legion of Mary

Dubliner Frank Duff was the founder of in the religious Catholic organisation The Legion of Mary, a hugely influential organisation in early and mid 20th century Irish religious life.  Light...