Irish Interest _______________________

R.A.S Macalister - Ireland in Pre Celtic Times - HB 1921

Hardcover, rebound in covers, partly using the original illustrated boards, titles in gilt to black spine. First edition, Maunsel & Roberts 1921, London & Dublin.  "Ireland In Pre-Celtic Times"" is a...

Réamonn Ó Muireadhaigh - Féilscríbhinn Anraí Mhic Giolla Chomhaill - PB

Foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 2011.  I nDoire Cholm Cille féin a tháinig Anraí Mac Giolla Chomhaill chun an tsaoil sa bhliain 1940. Cuireadh oideachas air i gColáiste Cholm Cille, áit ar...

Ian Wilson - HMS Drake : Rathlin Island Shipwreck - PB - 2011

Paperback, published by Rathlin Island Press, 2011, in as new condition, 86 pages with photographs  The Royal Navy warship HMS Drake was torpedoed by the German U79 on October 2 1917 - this is the...

Marcus Power - Thy Will Be Done - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

John Doyle is an eight-year-old boy, who lives with his widowed mother, a devout religious fanatic, who is prone to unpredictable, violent outbursts. Their already strained and damaged relationship...

John O'Beirne Ranelagh - The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924 - PB ( June 2024 )

Using original interviews with key figures from the era, and extensive  use of documentation from the UCD archives. Ranelagh unravels the true influence of the oath-bound society without which the...

Tommy Barrett & Susan Max - The Runaí - 50 Years of GAA Memories - PB

Paperback, published 2011, signed by both authors , also signed by past GAA Uachtarán Peadar Quinn ( presumably at the launch)  The book emphasises Tommy's republican side from his birth in...

E.T Craig - An Irish Commune - The Experiment at Ralahine - County Clare 1831-1833 - PB

Published by Irish Academic Press, 1983. The book is a reprint of the 1920 originalk by E.T Craig, as well as adding the essays by James Connolly ( 1910)  and Cormac ó Gráda ( 1974) Ralahine, just...

Dennis Horgan - Dublin From the Air - Photography - HB - BRAND NEW

Hardcover, in full colour throughout, published 2018. Striking aerial images of Dublin city and suburbs , as well as many coastline and marine shots, NOTABLE BUILDINMGS AND ARCHITECTURE.  Dennis...

Brian Gallagher - Friend or Foe - PB - BRAND NEW

It's time to choose: friendship, family or loyalty to the cause.When Emer Davey saves her neighbour Jack Madigan from drowning, it seems that they will be friends forever. But eight months later,...

Brian Gallagher - Secrets and Shadows - PB - BRAND NEW

 When her home is destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing of the North Strand, Dublin in 1941, Grace Ryan is forced to move in with relatives in a different part of the city. There she meets Barry Malone,...

Brian Gallagher - Taking Sides

  In the Dublin of 1922 with Civil War about to break out, working class Annie Reilly is thrilled to win a scholarship to Eccles Street Convent School. A little frozen out by her old friends, yet not...

Brian Gallagher - Stormclouds - PB - BRAND NEW

 Big changes are coming to late-Sixties Belfast. At first life seems normal for Sammy and Maeve, two children from the opposing republican and loyalist communities. Sammy tries to avoid trouble with...

Brian Gallagher - Arrivals - PB - BRAND NEW

When teenager Ciara Farrelly visits her dead grandfather's Ontario home she uncovers a secret from his childhood.Back in 1928, twelve-year-old Mike Farrelly made friends with Wilson, a lonely, rich...

Brian Gallagher - Pawns : Ireland's War of Independence - PB - BRAND NEW

Brian Gallagher - Winds of Change - PB - BRAND NEW

Winds of Change explores the challenges faced by a range of characters against the backdrop of Land League agitation, evictions and boycotting in 1880’s Ireland. The story is told through the eyes of...

Philip Judge - In Sight of Yellow Mountain - A Year in the Irish Countryside - PB - BRAND NEW

I think I bought a house', I said, still slightly stunned. I've spent longer choosing a tie. First, a dream of escaping the city ... and then a century-old cottage to match the dream. Moving to a...

Sarah Webb - The Bookshop Sisters - PB - BRAND NEW

A story of sisterhood, secrets and standing up for what you believe in from the award-winning author of The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street and The Weather Girls.  It's 1956. When...

Ciara O'Connor - Skidderwolves - PB - BRAND NEW

The Skidderwolves are a pack of notorious wolves who keep everyone in twelve-year-old Rory McKenna’s village awake at night by skidding their way down Main Street, sending sparks of electricity...

Ellen Coyne - Dirty Dancing : The Inside Story of the Irish Dancing Cheating Scandal - PB - BRAND NEW

From the outside, Irish dancing seems like a wholesome world of dazzling costumes, intricate footwork and groomed hair. The sport and art form, made world-famous by the smash hit Riverdance, is an...

Sinéad O’Hart (Illustrated by Úna Woods) - Ellora McGee Trainee Banshee : The Pooka Plant - BRAND NEW

Ellora’s pooka grandad is visiting and he’s given Ellora some magical seeds to help her with her schoolwork. The seeds grow into a Listening Lily, which has petals that look like ears and grows...

Karen Harte - Effie is Offline - BRAND NEW

Fifteen-year-old Effie has spent her entire life in the spotlight as the daughter of @ourbighappyfamily, a famous Irish influencer family known for their picture-perfect posts. But after her dad’s...

Lesley Bond - Blasket Bound : Memoirs of an Ireland Caretaker - PB - BRAND NEW

Like those who came before me, I arrived as an outsider, but the island does not allow one to remain separate for long. It takes root and leaves a mark you cannot shake.’ Lesley Bond and her partner...

Stephen Walsh / Shine | Variance (Large Paperback)

" Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times " An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice"...

Anna Heussaff / Bas Tobann (Large Paperback)

Aistríonn teaghlach ó Bhaile Átha Cliath go dtí teach ar chósta an iardheiscirt chun a saol a thosú as an nua agus gnó turasóireachta a bhunú i mBéarra. Músclaítear fiosracht na mná, Aoife, nuair a...

Louis Murphy - St Killian's G.A.C - Whitecross - SIGNED - HB GAA Armagh

Signed by the author ( as gaeilge) to the title page.  St Killians G.A.C Whitecross is a Gaelic Athletic Club based in the village of Whitecross in County Armagh.  Published 1996. 

Gresham Publishing Company - Irish Orators and Oratory - HB c1915

Hardcover, published by Gresham Publishing, undated as was the usual policy with Gresham Editions, lacking the dustjacket. Embossed with a convent ownership stamp, no other marks or damage noted...

Emmet Larkin - The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Fall of Parnell - 1888-1891 HB - 1979

Hardcover, published by Liverpool University Press, 1979.  Larkin argued in this important work that the IPP and Parnell, along with the Irish Catholic Church, were operatring as a near defacto...

Ralph Riegel - Three Kings - Cork | Kilkenny | Tipperary : The Battle For Hurling Supremacy - HB

The old rivalries between these three counties are around as long as the GAA itself, and as hard-fought and intensely felt now as any time over the past hundred and twenty years.This book honours...

Micheál Ó Conghaile - Stop Your Shenanigans : Colourful Irish Words for Everyday Use PB - BRAND NEW

Colourful Irish Words for Everyday Use In Ireland, the art of conversation / crua-chaint is highly valued. We like to 'put a skin on a story' / craiceann a chur ar scéal because words are not just...

John McKenna - The Lock-Keeper's Wife - PB - BRAND NEW

Julie McDermot has just been released from ‘The Mental’, the psychiatric institution where her husband committed her after the devastating loss of their two infant children. Returning to her narrow,...

Tim MacGabhann - Found in a Context of Destruction - PB - BRAND NEW

Novelist and essayist Tim MacGabhann’s debut poetry collection demonstrates a rare confidence and coherence, charting the course of addiction and recovery in a series of formally assured and blackly...

Rita McCarthy - Forgotten Lives : The Story of the County Clare Mother and Baby Known as the County Nursery 1922-32 - PB - BRAND NEW

In 1922, the County Clare Nursery, a state-supported mother and baby home for County Clare, was opened in part of Kilrush Workhouse. For the ten years of its existence it was owned and funded by...

Dan Danaher - Powerful People : Ardnacrusha Power Station by the People Who Worked There - PB

With the flick of a switch on 22 July 1929, Ireland was changed forever. When President W T Cosgrave turned on power at Ardnacrusha Hydroelectric Station, it kickstarted an exciting era for the new...

Eilish McCarthy - Two Islands : Growing Up in County Clare - Liscannor, Inis Oírr and Ennis - PB - BRAND NEW

Eilish McCarthy made her vocal way into this world in October 1948. Some say she hasn’t stopped talking since! Eilish’s whole world was Liscannor, where her father was the local headmaster, with...

Vincent McDonnell / Ireland: Our Island Story (Large Paperback)

Master storyteller Vincent McDonnell relates the exciting story of Ireland from the earliest times, as Stone Age settlers arrived 10,000 years ago through to the present day. From the building of the...

Brian Gallagher - The Case of the Disappearing Double - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin, 1912. The summer stretches out before twins Tim and Deirdre. Their friend Joe is a hundred miles away in Limerick... but when Deirdre spots a boy who looks exactly like him on a Dublin beach,...

Maurice Gorham - Ireland from Old Photographs - HB - 1971

Published by Batsford UK, 1971, this is a larger format hardback, collected and presented in context by Maurice Gorham. The date rage on the photographs runs from 1860 to circa 1910. Some photographs...

Seamus J. King - Tipperary's G.A.A Story 1985-2004 - PB

Paperback, published by Coiste Chumarsáide Thiobraid Árainn, 2005. The third chronological volume of the series, covering the years 1985-2004.  Takes up where Volume 2( 1935-1984) ended, and covers...

Jo Kerrigan - Old Ways, Old Secrets - Pagan Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW

In a land like ours, the old beliefs bring pleasure and wisdom…Exploring the legends, special places and treasured practices of old, Jo Kerrigan reveals a rich world beneath Ireland's modern layers...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog : A Satirical Look at Ireland - 3 (1974) - Irish Times - Humour

Written by Donal Foley, this is one of a series of books from his collections of  hugely popular satirical essys for the Irish Times.  Lightest edgewear only, paperback, internally unmarked. 149...

Johnny B & Johnny Smacks / Dear Johnnies : The two Johnnies Solve All Your Problems - HB

 Based on the hugely successful podcast and tour, in Dear Johnnies the popular duo solve all your life's problems. From finding the perfect date on your agricultural science course to surviving a...

Jo Kerrigan - Brehon Laws : The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW

A fascinating look at the lifestyle and values of ancient Ireland Thousands of years ago, Celtic Ireland was a land of tribes and warriors; but a widely accepted, sophisticated and surprisingly...

Eileen Good / Knock - Places Apart (Large Paperback)

Eileen Good gives a history of Knock, desriptions of the apparitions there, and information about pilgrimages.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Frank Corr - Irish Hotels : A Celebration - HB - 2017 ( IHF)

To mark the 80th Anniversary of the Irish Hotels Federation, the IHF commissioned a book looking back at how the sector has evolved over the years and the contribution that hotels have made to the...

Sportsfile - Great Moments in Hurling ( Updated Edition ) - 2023

New, updated edition, published in paperback. Hurling is unique to Ireland, and widely considered the fastest sport in the world. Fast, physical, athletic and driven by local and national rivalries,...

Steve Brennan & Bernadette O'Neill - Emeralds of Tinseltown : The Irish in Hollywood - HB - 2007

Hardcover, published by Appletree Press, 2007.  Illustrated .  With stars like Colin Farrell, Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Roma Downey and directors Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan...

Patrick Bishop - The Irish Empire : The Story of the Irish Abroad - HB

In The Irish Empire Patrick Bishop looks at why, in the last four hundred years, to be brought up in Ireland meant being prepared to leave it, an Irish cultural mindset that has persisted almost to...

Charles Mollan, William Davis & Brendan Finucane - Irish Innovators in Science and Technology - HB - 2002

Hardcover, published by the Royal Irish Academy, 2002.  A gazetteer type guide to notable Irish scientists, researchers and technologists, from the late 1700's to the late 20th century, arranged...

Howard Clarke, Sarah Dent & Ruth Johnson - Dublinia : The Story of Medieval Dublin - PB

Dublinia is the story of a unique period in Irish history told with passion, imagination and accuracy. This book leads the reader through the noise and bustle of the medieval streets of Dublin...

Neil Richardson - Dark Times, Decent Men : Stories of Irishmen in World War II - PB

At least 130,000 Irish - from north and south of the border - served during the Second World War. Seven thousand never returned. They fought as soldiers in Europe, North Africa and the Far East, as...

Martyn Turner - Pack Up Your Troubles - 25 Years of Northern Ireland Cartoons - PB - 1995

Paperback, co-published by Lilliput Press and Irish Times Books , Martyn Turtmer was the longterm cartoonist for the Irish Times Newspaper. 

Jack McKenna - Spoilt Rotten : Memoirs pf Jack McKenna of Listowel 1918-2028 - PB - Kerry

Published by North Kerry Literary Trust, Listowel, 2018.    Jack, of McKenna's Hardware fame, is one of the best known of the town's business leaders; and a major contributing force within the...