Irish History and Historical Biography

Colin Coulter - The End of Irish History? - Critical Reflections on the Celtic Tiger

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. The purpose of this book is to systematically scrutinize the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the deceptively simple metaphor of the "Celtic Tiger." The...

R.K. Carty - Electoral Politics in Ireland: Party and Parish Pump - pb - 1983

This short and densely argued 1983book tackles many of the central issues of Irish politics in the style of contemporary political science. Its distinctive achievement is the mounting of a sustained and sophisticated attack on the system of proportional...

Seán Duffy - The Concise History of Ireland - HB - 2000

This attractive one-volume survey tells the story of Ireland from earliest times to the present. The text is complemented by 200 illustrations, including maps, photographs and diagrams. Sean Duffy, the general editor of the bestselling Atlas of Irish...

Seán Duffy - The Concise History of Ireland - PB - 2005

This attractive one-volume survey tells the story of Ireland from earliest times to the present. The text is complemented by 200 illustrations, including maps, photographs and diagrams. Sean Duffy, the general editor of the bestselling Atlas of Irish...

W.P Ryan - The Irish Labour Movement - HB - 1918 ( Talbot Press Reprint)

Hardcover, undated as was common with many Talbot Press titles, this is a volume (published with matching designs with the other unrelated titles) in the 'New Era Library' by the Talbot press.  Green cloth covers, titles in gilt to spine, publsiher...

Jonathan Shackleton & John McKenna - Shackleton : An Irishman in Antarctica - HB - 2002

Hardcover, published by Blackstaff Press, 2002. Light edgewear to the upper front edge of the dustjacket, but no tears or damage.  A 2002 biography of explorer Ernest Shackleton, lavishly illustrated with over a hundred photographs, maps and...

Raymond Daly - Ten Faithful Years (1913-1923) in Song and Story - HB - USED COPY

This copy has damage to the back cover - ( see photos ) - two indented large scratches. Other than that ( and the signed copy sticker not being removable, it is as internally unmarked. A large format illustrated hardback, 512 pages, illustrated...

Thomas O'Flynn - Frank Duff as I Knew Him - PB

Paperback, published by Praedicanda Publications, Dublin 1981.  Account of the life and religious work of Frank Duff ,who was founder of the Legion of Mary, a large religious organisation in 20th century Ireland. 

Steven G. Ellis - Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603 : English Expansion and the end of Gaelic Rule - PB

Published by Longman, 1998, the second ( standalone) volume in teh wider Longman History of Ireland. One external corner is dogeared.  Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a critique of traditional perspectives on...

Meda Ryan - Biddy Early : The Wise Woman of Clare - PB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1978)

Nestling between the Clare hills and overlooking Kilbarron Lake stands a two-roomed thatched cottage, once the home of a notorious red-headed woman called Biddy Early. Arguments still persist as to whether Biddy was a witch or a person of God, because...

Tomás De Bhaldraithe ( Translator) / The Diary of Humphrey O'Sullivan ( Diary of an Irish Countryman) ( Cín Lae Amhlaoibh) - PB - BRAND NEW

Written from January 1827 to July 1835, the diary of Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin of Callan, County Kilkenny, has been described as one of the most significant non-imaginative Irish prose writings of the nineteenth century. It is...

John Walsh - Ar Lámh Shábhála? Coimisiún na Gaeltachta 1926 - PB - BRAND NEW

Cloch mhíle ba ea 1926 i stair na hÉireann, tráth ar cuireadh go leor cor nua i saol na tíre a mairfeadh a rian go ceann i bhfad ina dhiaidh sin. Thosaigh an chéad stáisiún raidió 2RN ag craoladh, a...

Patsy Dan Rodgers - Rí Thoraí | The King of Tory : HB Dual Language Edition ( English| Gaeilge) - SIGNED 2018

Editor - A.J Hughes Dual language edition, foilsithe ag Clólann Bheann Mhadagáin, 2018, sínithe ag an údar.  Patsy Dan Rodgers (or Peatsaí Dan Mac Ruairí as gaeilge) was born at Westland Row in Dublin in...

Kathleen Clarke - Revolutionary Woman : Kathleen Clarke 1878-1972 : An Autobiography - PB 1991 ( Edited by Helen Litton)

A UNIQUE, ABSORBING, FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF AN ACTIVIST DURING THE MOST EXCITING PERIOD IN IRISH HISTORYKathleen Clarke was entrusted with all the plans and decisions of the Irish Republican Brotherhood prior to the Rising. In its aftermath, her husband,...

Rob Cross - The Colour of Ireland, Volume 1- HB - 2021

The Colour of Ireland presents a huge variety of captivating images from the 32 counties, from Dublin to Galway and Antrim to Cork, and inspires a new vision of Ireland's heritage. With incredible attention to detail, author Rob Cross has gained a...

Paul Rose -The Manchester Martyrs : A Fenian Tragedy - HB - 1970

  In Manchester, in September 1867, the Fenian Brotherhood carried out a raid on a prison van, which resulted in the rescue of two Fenian leaders, but also in the the trial, conviction and execution of three of the attackers - who became...

Gavan Reilly - The Secret Life of Leinster House - BRAND NEW - PB

THE SMALLER FORMAT PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE 2025 BESTSELLER.  What is it like to run for election? How do public representatives deal with the cut-throat competition from their rivals - and their own running mates? What's the Dail bar really like?...

Mary E. Daly - The First Department : A History of the Department of Agriculture - PB - 2002

Published by the IPA, Dublin, 2002, large format paperback, a detailed history of the Irish Department of Agriculture, and it's role and interactions with the Government and wider farming and Society, the impact of EEC membership, the development of...

Joan Miller - One Girl's War : Personal Exploits in MI5's Most Secret Station - PB - 1987

Joan Miller was personal assistant to Maxwell Knight, wartime chief of MI5's B5(b) counter-subversion section. This book describes her experiences. It was initially banned in Britain by the High Court as it was regarded as having exposed secret...

Daniel Corkery - The Hidden Ireland : A study of Gaelic Munster in the 18th Century - PB -1970 (Originally 1924)

Although modern research into the period has been significant, Daniel Corkery's study of Irish poetry and culture in eighteenth century Munster is widely acknowledged as having had a profound influence on the shaping of modern Anglo-Irish literature. The...

David Connolly - Martin Connolly of Kilgervin : Volunteer in the Ranks - PB

Undated, but published circa 2022, a family history of the author's predecessors, including his grandparents Bea O'Connor and Martin Connolly, both of whom were involved in the War of independence in North Galway, before settling in Carlow, and later...

Margaret Kelleher - Mary and Padraic Colum Lives and the Dream - PB - BRAND NEW

Mary Colum was an influential reviewer and critic, feared for her rapier wit by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Her husband Padraic Colum was a successful author of children’s stories, a poet, playwright and essayist, and like Mary a...

Aidan Doyle - A History of the Irish Language - PB - 2015

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main...

Steven Moore - Behind the Garden Wall : A History of Capital Punishment in Belfast - PB

Very interesting and informative book in relation to the history of historic executions at  Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast - tells of capital punishment, the crimes, and info on the prisoners. The remains of those who were hung here are buried in...

Andrew Hughes - Lives Less Ordinary : Dublin's Fitzwilliam Square 1798-1922 - PB

A former RTE Reference library copy , but with only minor stanmps to the blank front endpages, with handwritten accession number. Published by the Liffey Press, 2011.  “So that’s our setting. Sixty-nine houses, four corners of Georgian...

Susan McKay - Northern Protestants : An Unsettled People (Updated )

Presenting and analysing over 60 in-depth interviews with northern Protestants, this work aims to impart an understanding of the range and complexity of Protestant attitudes in Northern Ireland. Within the overall Protestant community there is much...

Eoin O'Malley - Charlie vs Garrett : The Rivalry That Shaped Modern Ireland - HB - 2025

Hardcover, published by Eriu, 2025. As new condition.  The two opposing political figures that shaped Irish life in the 1980s and beyond. In the 1980s, Irish politics was dominated by a fierce rivalry between Charles J. Haughey and Dr Garret...

Séamas Mac Annaidh ( General Editor ) - Irish History (An Illustrated 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 a shared love of the ancient magic that enshrouds the...

Rory Sweetnam & Lisa Marr - New Zealand’s Irish Revolution - BRAND NEW

Offering original New Zealand perspectives on the Irish Revolution from the third Home Rule crisis to the establishment of the Irish Free State, this collection explores the political, social, and cultural evolution of Ireland from 1912 to 1923...

Myles Dungan - Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History - PB - BRAND NEW

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside...

Maurice J. Casey - Hotel Lux : An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals - PB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney 'If affection is the...

John Crowley, Mike Cronin, Cormac Moore & Charlie Roche ( Editors) - Atlas of Irish Sport History, Politics, Identity - BRAND NEW

TRACKED AN POST DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Atlas of Irish Sport - History, Politics, Identity Foreword by Mary McAleese Sport in all its forms is central to many people's lives and is an expression of culture that is very much...

Padraic Coffey - This Day in Irish History - PB

Published by O'Brien Press, 2022, trade paperback, illustrated in black and white.  You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the...

Seán Enright - After the Rising : Soldiers, Lawyers and Trials of the Irish Revolution - PB - 2016

In this sequel to his bestselling Easter Rising 1916: The Trials, Seán Enright puts the great legal cases of the period into context with exacting clarity, including the Mac Curtain Inquest, the trials of MacSwiney, Markievicz, Maher and Foley,...

David Dickson - The First Irish Cities : An Eighteenth Century Transformation - PB

The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities,...

Edel Bhreathnach - Monasticism in Ireland 900-1250 - HB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction.  Winner of the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2025 Winner of the 2025 ACIS James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences The history of...

Fin Dwyer - A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders - HB -2023

From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy , Fin Dwyer charts 200 years of Irish history, opening up our past as never before, by observing the grand societal...

Des Geraghty - At the Dawning of the Day : Luke Kelly and the Dubliners - BRAND NEW

The voice of Luke Kelly and the music of the Dubliners provided a very welcome wake-up call for a sleepy and depressed Ireland in the early 1960s. It was the dawning of a new and brighter day when more and more young people in Ireland began to find their...

Anthony Murphy - Ireland : Land of Legend - BRAND NEW

Owen O'Shea - Unchanged and Unchangeable : Austin Stack and the Irish Revolution - HB - BRAND NEW

Biography of the Kerry revolutionary.  Austin Stack was one of the central figures in the Irish revolutionary period. From his role in the lead-up to the 1916 Rising, through his senior positions in Sinn Féin and participation in the Irish...

Joseph Coohill - Ireland : A Short History ( 5th Edition) ) PB

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the product of a rich, multivalent history. Combining factual...

Sinéad McCoole - No Ordinary Women : Irish Female Acvtivists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 - PB 2004

Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, activists and politicians – women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom. This book vividly recreates the characters, personalities and courage of Ireland's revolutionary women...

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence 1969

A paperback 3RD edition, 1969( still in predecimal pricing, the first decimal edition was 1971)  Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days in Ireland. Originally published in 1949 as a...

Aodh de Blacam - What Sinn Féin Stands For - HB - 1921

A hardcover first edition, Mellifont Press, Dublin 1921. A small format hardcover in dark grey cloth with titles in black to front and spine.  247 pages, the full subtitle is ''The Irish Republican Movement: It's History, aims aims and ideals,...

Denis G. Marnane - The 3rd Brigade : A History of the Volunteers/IRA in South Tipperary 1913-21 - PB - 2018

Along with the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, the actions and personalities of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade loom large in the public awareness of the War of Independence. The actions of Dan Breen, Sean Tracy, Seamus Robinson and Sean Hogan from...

The Kerryman - With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom 1917 to the Truce : The Red Path of Glory - PB 1955 1st Edition

With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce. The Red Path of Glory. no author or editor listed , published by The Kerryman, 1950,  238 pages. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. A very good copy of this fragile publication, which is...

Paddy Doyle - The God Squad - PB 1st Edition 1988 - Irish Industrial Schools

Paddy Doyle's mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old... Paddy Doyle's...

Mark Clinton - Carrickmines Castle : Rise and Fall - HB - BRAND NEW

The Walshes were rooted in south County Dublin from the late fourteenth century. By the early 1600s members of the family had become actors in the theatre of war across Europe. These were times of almost endless turmoil. A constant stream of predicaments...

Manchán Magan - Seeing What's Hidden - HB - BRAND NEW

The third book in the trilogy from the late Manchán Magan, who completed the book shortly before his death in October 2025.  In his final book, Manchán Magan implores us – even dares us – to move from the limited rational...

Max Barrett - A History of Ireland in 100 Stamps - HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE The story of Ireland through one hundred postage stamps issued since the creation of the Irish Free StateA stamp is about so much more than postage. It is a little piece of art, history and...

Leon Ó Broin - Comhcheilg sa Chaisleán - HB - As Gaeilger - 1963

Clúdach crua, foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, Baile Átha Cliath, 1963. Clúdach le Simon Ó Colmáin.  As Gaeilge san iomlán 

Frank Forde - Maritime Arklow - HB - 1988 - Wicklow

Hardcover, published by Glendale Books, 1988.  Condition , internally and externally is very good , apart from a rather scrawled gift dedication to a previous owner on the inside front title page , and signed by the author on the title page (neatly)...