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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...

Valerie O'Sullivan - The MacGillycuddy's Reeks - HB - KERRY

THE MACGILLYCUDDY'S REEKS stretch for 19 magnificent kilometres along the eastern boundary of the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry. Renowned photographer Valerie O'Sullivan captures the rich heritage and...

Thomas Bartlett, Kevin Dawson & Dáire Keogh - Rebellion - A History of 1798 - PB

A chronicle of Ireland's first attempt at winning freedom from English rule examines the events of 1798 within the social and political context of eighteenth-century Ireland.  Tie in with the RTE TV...

Mike Cronin - Irish History for Dummies - PB - 2006

Paperback, published by Wiley , 2006 In very good condition throughout. Ideal for anyone seeking an outline of Irish history and events, detailed enough to be valuable and of use to studens ( about...

Anne Holland - The Grand National : The Irish at Aintree - HB

The Aintree Grand National is the world’s most famous horserace – fast-paced, exhilarating and occasionally perilous. Everyone – serious racing fraternity and occasional flutterers alike – has heard...

Turtle Bunbury & James Fennell - Sporting Legends of Ireland - HB 2010

Hardcover, 2010, published by Mainstream Publishing UK. Portgrait photoghraphy throughout by James Fennell.  HB, covers a wide range of Irish sport, from boxing to GAA, rugby, athletics, football,...

Noel Kissane - Treasures from the National Library of Ireland - HB - 1994

Published 1994, an illustrated collection of 100 artistic and literary highlights from the items held by the Irish National Library. 

Caitriona Lally - Home Economics : A Memoir - BRAND NEW ( with Signed Adhesive Bookplate)

'Since I’ve had my first book published, I’ve earned more from cleaning than from writing. The home economics don’t add up.' HOME ECONOMICS is Caitríona Lally’s humorous, thought-provoking memoir of...

Mervyn Wall - Leaves for the Burning - PB

Lucian Brewse Burke, a middle-aged public servant, works in a shabby county council sub-office in the bleak Irish midlands, mired in Kafkaesque bureaucracy and petty skirmishes with locals. Upon the...

Elizabeth Healy - Literary Tour of Ireland - PB

Large format illustrated paperback, published by Wolfhound Press, in this PB edition, 2001, originally 1995.  A guide to literary sites around Ireland, organised in the form of a county by county...

Pauline Hall - Grounds - PB - 1983

Brandon Books, Originally 1983,  The novel charts the youth and adolescence of a Margaret Hogan , growing up in Dublin from the late 1940's to the 1960's

David Lee - Remembering Limerick - Historical Essays Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Limerick's 1197 Charter) - PB - SIGNED

This copy signed and dedicated by the editor David Lee, and also signed ( in a separate signature) by journalist and Limerick native, David Hanly.  Paperback, published by Limerick Civic Trust . A...

R.A.S MacAlister - The Archaeology of Ireland - HB - 1928

Hardcover, first edition, published by Methuen, London, 1928.  Internally solid, unmarked, not ex library, no underling or notes, pencilled price to blank front endpage.  The dustjacket is edgeworn...