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Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The...

AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (Large Paperback)

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Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback)

Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger...

Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997)

Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey.  This copy is unnumbered, -...

Hector Ó hEochagáin - The Irish Words You Should Know ( *and how to use them everyday) - HB - BRAND NEW

When you speak in Irish every word is a tiny poem. Take loinnir – a word that describes the sunlight sparkling on the waves. Loinnir is also used to capture that merriness you feel after early pints...

Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry,...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with...

Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press

A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the...

Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995

US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy.  In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together...

Jude Collins / Laying it on the Line (Large Paperback)

A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established...

Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW

New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We...

Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto...

Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED

Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the...

Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB

Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983

Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló.  Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas curta roimhe seo.   

Pádraig McCarthy (Editor & Tranlator) - My Name is Patrick - Saint Patrick's Confessio - PB - BRAND NEW

Patrick is the first identifiable person in Irish history to have his life story recorded. Published in association with the launch of the St Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack, this booklet...

Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024)

The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised...

Ian Hannigan - Timeless Colours - Waterford - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Timeless Colours: Waterford celebrates the rich history of the Déise and its people through the meticulous colourisation of over 100 stunning images. From architectural gems like the Dromana Gate to...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW

PAPERBACK - BRAND NEW,  2024. In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she...

Patrick Casey, Joe Duignan & Kevin Cullen - Irish Doctors in the Second World War - HB- BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST This highly anticipated sequel charts the contributions of Irish doctors in the Second World War, a conflict that demonstrated to the world that the

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman - Irish Food History: A Companion - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Enlightening, entertaining and often surprising, Irish Food History: A Companion takes you on an unforgettable and expert journey through Ireland’s...

Helena King et al ( Editors) - Knowth - PB - BRAND NEW

Knowth, Co. Meath, has been a place of ritual and settlement from the beginning of the Neolithic to the modern era. It is a national monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Property: the ancient...

Cecil Allen / The Actor (Large Paperback)

A story of love and passion set in a time of war and violence. A story of one man’s struggle to find his place in the world. A story of theatre. A story of life. In 1914 a young Jim Brevin runs away...

Íde Ní Laoghaire & Mary Webb / Fond Memory : Consoling Words from the Irish Tradition (Hardback)

For times of sorrow and remembrance, or to be read at funerals. In times of sorrow, grief or loss we often look to our poets and songwriters, to our heritage and tradition for words of comfort, hope...

Éamonn MacThomáis - Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin - O'Brien Press - Illustrated 50th Anniversary Edition - BRAND NEW

50th Anniversary Edition  A beautifully presented and attractively laid out commemorative edition, with new introductions by Ivan O’Brien, MD of The O’Brien Press and best-selling author Dónal Fallon...

Patsy Peril & Deirdre Nuttall - Swimming Upstream : One Man's Fight to Save Wild Atlantic Salmon

Patsy Peril was born in 1943 in Coonagh, a small fishing community on the Shannon, not far from Limerick. His family fished from a traditional gandelow boat, using hemp nets. Further upriver was...

Eric Haughan - Unbeatable - Dublin's Incredible Six in a Row - BRAND NEW - PB

In late August 2014, Donegal's footballers smashed and grabbed an All-Ireland semi-final victory from Jim Gavin's seemingly unstoppable Dublin team. It would be the last Championship game the Boys in...

Gabriel Rosenstock - Púcaí Schmúcaí agus Dánta Eile - HB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW ( Le Cód QR)

GEARRLIOSTA GHRADAM RÉICS CARLÓ 2023 Tá idir sheandánta agus véarsaí úrnua sa bhailiúchán álainn seo d’fhilíocht Gabriel Rosenstock do pháistí. Cuireann ealaín aoibhinn Tarsila Krüse agus Úna Woods...

Alice Taylor - The Gift of a Garden - PB - BRAND NEW

‘This is a book about the comfort and sustenance that can be got from gardening and from the earth, about the wonderful pleasures and fulfilment that I get from my garden.’ Alice Taylor Alice’s...

John B Keane - Man of the Triple Name - PB ( Brandon PB )

"There is a wild animal after descending from the mountains and it is the man of the triple name, Dan Paddy Andy". With these words and many more Archdeacon Browne denounced the last of the great...

Peter Heaney - Ulster Fairy Tales and Legends - PB - BRAND NEW

Where did the Red Hand, the famous symbol of Ulster, originate? It's the hand of Heremon, a chief so keen to be first to lay claim to the land that he cut his own hand off the threw it from a...

Acts of the Oireachtas 1957 - HB - Dáil Éireann - Bound

Bound in red cloth, titles to spine, the full legislation of the Houses of the Oireachtas for 1957 ' Consisting of The Public general Acts and A rivate Act, with Tables and index - DUAL LANGUAGE (...

Donal Neary - The Calm Beneath the Storm - Reflections & Prayers for Young People - PB

Published by Veritas Ireland, 1983, a collection of ( original) reflections and prayers by Jesuit Donal Neary.   

Niall Harbison / Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker (Large Paperback)

Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days feeding, caring for and rescuing the many street dogs he comes across...

Edward Burke - Ghosts of a Family : Ireland’s Most Infamous Unsolved Murder and the Origins of the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW

The gripping historical true crime story of Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder, the sectarian massacre of six Catholic civilians in their north Belfast home in 1922.     

Thomas Keneally / Fanatic Heart (Large Paperback)

John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charged with treason in Ireland and tried by an English judge he was snuck off mainland Ireland on the day...

Elizabeth Chadwick / The Irish Princess (Large Paperback)

Ireland, 1160 Aoife MacMurchada is just 14 years old when her father Diarmit, King of Leinster, is brutally deposed, and her family is forced to flee Southern Ireland into English exile. Diarmit...

Raymond Smith / Urbi et orbi and all that (Large Paperback)

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An Irish Quarterly Review Studies: Summer 2013 (Large Paperback)

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Iris M Taylor / Memoirs of a Reluctant German (Large Paperback)

The autobiography of a Quaker German, growing up in Holland, marrying an Irishman and becoming a Conamara local. A story of a open minded Weltenbummlerin. Inspiring.     All of our books are second...

Nicola Pierce / Chasing Ghosts : An Arctic Adventure

An enthralling novel of two stories that speak to each other across time and thousands of milesBased on the real events of Sir John Franklin’s expedition to find the Northwest Passage. In 1845, two...

Paul Williams / The Monk: The Life and Crimes of Ireland's Most Enigmatic Gang Boss

On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordinary decent criminal, a quintessential Robin Hood figure who fought the law - and won...

Evelyn Conlon / Not the Same Sky (Large Paperback)

By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than...

Blindboy Boatclub / Topographia Hibernica (Hardback)

You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind.Driving with a donkey stuffed in the...

Sandy Kelly / Sandy Kelly: In My Own Words (Hardback)

Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a...

John P. Crangle / The Transatlantic Conspiracy (Hardback)

John P Crangle was born in Ireland in 1941 and educated in Dublin where he met his wife Maeve and it is in this city that they have spent most of their lives together. After a spell in the legal...

Matt Cooper / Who Really Owns Ireland: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it (Large Paperback)

Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownership - who really controls the valuable land where we live, work and play and how did they acquire it?...

Ciaran Murphy / This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA (Large Paperback)

The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and communities - and yet most books about Gaelic games focus on the greatest players and inter-county teams...

Andrea Camilleri ( Edited by Eric Haywood ) / Camilleri and Ireland: Camilleri E L'Irlanda. Camilleri Agus Eire (Large Paperback)

Published by UCD Foundation for Italian Studies (2013) The book contains an introduction on Camilleri by Eric Haywood, Head of ItalianStudies at UCD and Director of the UCD Foundation for Italian...

Paul Tweed - From Holywood to Hollywood : My Life as an International Libel Lawyer to the Rich and Famous - PB - BRAND NEW

  In this engrossing memoir, internationally-renowned libel lawyer Paul Tweed lays bare the reality of defending the world’s biggest names in the court of law. During his four-decade car

James Durney - Jailbreak : Great Irish Republican Escapes, 1865–1983 -BRAND NEW

  ‘What has taken place here today was a carefully planned exercise to secure the release of a substantial number of POWs. The block is now under our control.’

Chris Judge - Evil Duck and the Feather of Fortune - PB - BRAND NEW

Twins Flo and Eddie are staying with their grandad while their mum travels for work. Nosing around in Grandad’s attic, they find a villainous-looking duck frozen inside a special,...