Irish Local History

Cal McCarthy - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution - Revised Edition - BRAND NEW

McCarthy, Cal - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution - Revised Second Edition -  BRAND NEW 2023 Cumann na mBan, a women’s support group to the Irish Volunteers, was founded in 1914. Its aims...

Gwen Wilkinson - The Waters and the Wild - PB - BRAND NEW

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and...

Robert L. Harris / Returning Light : 30 Years of Life on Skellig Michael (Hardback)

 'On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and unravel over the empty sea. Often, no one else is there to stand...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of South Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 ( Murder Most Local - Book 4 )

This book, the fourth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of a large number of true life historical murders from the south Cork area .  This is true cri

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Mid Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 ( Murder Most Local - Book 5 )

This book, the fifth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of 36 true life historical murders in mid Cork ( broadly covering the area bound by millstreet , Macroom,...

Eamonn MacThomais / Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin (Large Paperback)

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Derek Stanley / North Dublin: From the Liffey to Balbriggan : Ireland in Old Photographs (Large Paperback)

 North Dublin is vibrant, lively and always changing, a place where people live against the backdrop of some of the city's most renowned landmarks and beautiful buildings. In this book, the author...

John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 2 - HB

In Old Ireland in Colour 2, the much-anticipated sequel to their beloved bestseller, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley have dug even deeper into Ireland's historical archives to uncover captivating...

Éamonn Mac Thomáis - Gur Cake and Coal Blocks - Dublin - Social History - PB 1986 Reprint - Illustrated

A collection of reminiscences of a childhood in the Dublin of the 1930's and 1940's. Used, but in good condition, yellowing to the external covers.   Illustrated with black and white line drawings...

Kilkenny Archaeological Society - Old Kilkenny Review - Number 56 - 2004- PB

Paperback with flaps, 224 pages, in as new condition.  Edited by Edward J Law & Cóilín Ó Drisceoil  0332-0774 56;   Doyle, Ian, & Brenda O’Meara

Pat Liddy / Walking Dublin : Twenty-four Original Walks in and Around Dublin (Large Paperback)

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Jeremy Corley / Maynooth College reflects on COVID 19 : New Realities in Uncertain Times (Large Paperback)

 Where is God in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic? This volume offers a variety of reflections from the perspectives of theology, scripture, philosophy, ethics, liturgy, pastoral, and canon law.

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...

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

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

Liam Ó Donnchú - Tom Semple and the Thurles Blues - HB 2015- Tipperary GAA

Tom Semple,  a Tipperary GAA icon, whose name is immortalised at Semple Stadium, is synonymous with the game of hurling, since he led the Thurles Blues to All-Ireland glory in 1906 and 1908. This...

Obelisk - Journal of Kilmacud & Stillorgan History Society 2021 - Number 13 - Dublin

Issue number 15 of Obelisk - the journal of Kilmacud and Stillorgan Local History Society, published 2021, a high quality production, printed on high quality paper , bound , with illustrations...

Mercedes Lillis - Two Hundred Years A growing 1787-1987 : The Story of the Ursulines in Thurles - PB

A history of the Ursulines ( a religious teaching order) and their long history in Thurles, Tipperary.  All such accounts of religious houses are valuable sources of local history and genealogy -...

Joan & Ray Stagles - The Blasket Islands : Next Parish America - PB - 1980

The Blasket Islands are famous for their writers, lore and unique location off the south-west tip of Ireland. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to explore the Great Blasket Island, learn its...

Obelisk - Journal of Kilmacud & Stillorgan History Society 2018 - Number 13 - Dublin

Issue number 12 of Obelisk - the journal of Kilmacud and Stillorgan Local History Society, published 2018, a high quality production, printed on high quality paper , bound , with illustrations...

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...

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...

Frank McDonald / A Little History of the Future of Dublin

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Tim Pat Coogan / The GAA and the War of Independence (Hardback)

 Founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball, the GAA enjoyed an intimate relationship with the nationalist movement from the turn of...

Mick O'Farrell / The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier

 This book contains the unpublished diaries of two men writing under fire on the streets of Dublin in April 1916.In Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de Brun wrote in his tiny diary about guard...

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...

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...

Egan, Thomas - The Story of Ballintubber Abbey - Vintage Booklet - Mayo - 1971

A stapled tourist centered booklet, first published in 1963, here in a 1971 updated reprint, a guide to the important monastic abbey at Ballintubber, , located between Castlebar and Ballinrobe, in...

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)...

Oughterard Agricultural Show - Celebrating 50 Years 1962-2012 - HB - Galway

This book celebrating fifty years of the Oughterard show was launched in August 2012 at the Show Grounds Oughterard, County Galway. With history, memories and images, this publication is a wonderful...

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

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Mick McCarthy - Early Days - 1990 - Kerry Autobiography - SIGNED

Light SUNFADE to the covers, internally there is a gift inscription to the title page  'to ( name) with lots of love, Mick McCarthy 24th May 1990) An account of growing up in rural Kerry (...

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

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...

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...

Liz Martin / Still Standing : An Irishwoman's Story of HIV and Hope (Large Paperback)

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Lyons, John ( Editor) - An Choinneal - Number 24 - 2008 - PB - Louisburgh Parish Journal

An Coinneal is Louisburgh Parish magazine, the oldest parish magazine in Ireland since 1959. It has published both Irish & English language articles over the years. It was the brainchild of Fr. Leo...

OPW - Áras an Uachtaráin : A History of the President's House - PB - 2013

Published in English and as Gaeilge ( back to back in the one book) -content is identical in both versions - this is a  full colour illustrated of Áras an Uachtaráin, the full history of the house ,...

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,...

Patrick W Joyce - Irish Names of Places - Volume II - HB

A hardcover copy, Phoenix Press, Undated of a key work of Irish placenames and topography - P.W Joyce's Irish Names of Places, Volume II. This is the standalone second volume in what was eventually a...

Paddy Crosbie - Your Dinner's Poured Out ! : Boyhood in the 20's in a Dublin that has Disappeared- PB - 1985 ( Originally 1981)

A paperback reprint (O'Brien Press, 1985) of Paddy Crosbie's 1981 bestseller, 'Your Dinner's Poured Out'Condition - light edgewear and scuffing

Fedamore News Magazine 2016 ( 43rd Edition) - PB - Limerick

The 43RD issue of the Fedamore Annual / Fedamore News, published 2016, cover shows Rita Gleeson , back cover shows hunting in Rural Limerick. A large format bound paperback, retailed at €10. 

Fedamore News Magazine 2014 ( 41st Edition) - PB - Limerick

The 41st issue of the Fedamore Annual / Fedamore News, published 2014, cover shows the opening ceremony of the refurbished Community Hall. A large format bound paperback, retailed at €10. Aerial...

Gillies Macbain / The Last Footman (Large Paperback)

 In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he...

Christopher Lee / This Sceptred Isle : 55BC-1901

 Based on the award-winning Radio 4 programmes THIS SCEPTRED ISLE tells the fascinating story of British history from Caesar's invasion in 55BC to Queen Victoria's death in 1901.Using extracts from...

Audrey Healy / Dubliners (Large Paperback)

 Audrey Healy's Dubliners: What's the Story? is a collection of interviews and pen pictures of more than fifty of the city's most famous sons and daughters. It ranges in scope from Arthur Guinness to...

Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB

This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired...

Carol Robinson Tweed / Taney : Progress of a Parish (Hardback)

  Profile of the growth, evolution and influence of the Parish of Taney in Dublin. 21 June 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the dedication service in Christ Church Taney, now known colloquially...

Richard Holmes / In the Footsteps of Churchill (Hardback)

 This remarkable new portrait of Churchill reveals the crucial influences that shaped his character - and the way his character in turn affected his decisions and actions As one of the most admired...

Sean Beecher / Day by Day: A Miscellany of Cork History (Large Paperback)

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Blackrock College Annual - 2009 School Yearbook - Dublin

SchooL college yearbook, coverage of sport, events, classes ( with photos of most senior year pupils , as well as detailed coverage of rugby, one of the school's most notable sports. Gift inscription...

Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill - Beyond the Twelve Bens - A History of Clifden & District : 1860-1923 - PB - 2nd Edition 1992

First published in 1986, this is the second printing of the second book on the history of Clifden, County Galway, by Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill. Paperback, 252 pages,  Illustrated throughout - this...