Irish Interest _______________________

Robert Kee - The Bold Fenian Men ( The Green Flag : VOLUME 2) 1983 ( Originally 1972)

Robert Kee's history of Irish Nationalism stands as one of the most comprehensive and illuminating histories of the subject - highly readable, and weaving teh strands of nationalism, - republicanism,...

Fullam, Brendan - The Final Whistle ( Large Paperback ) 2000

The writer relives glories of the past and present, recalling the greats and giving new generations the chance to debate and speculate on many events that have passed beyond living memory. This...

Jim O'Shea / Abuse : Domestic Violence, Workplace and School Bullying

 The book examines abuse (not clerical or institutional abuse). It explores boundaries and how abuse is an invasion of boundaries. It explores physical, emotional, verbal and financial abuse. The...

Conor Brady - Guardians of the Peace : The Early Years of the Irish Police Force - Revised Centenary Edition 2022 ( An Garda Síochana) - BRAND NEW

Guardians of the Peace is a political history of the Irish police force, An Garda Síochana, from its foundation at the birth of

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...

John Burke - Roscommon : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while retaining old economic desires. Almost wholly dependent on agriculture to fuel the local economy...

Brian Feeney - Antrim : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Antrim contained the largest Presbyterian population on the island of Ireland. It also contained most of Belfast – the largest city in Ireland – which...

Louise O'Neill / Idol (Large Paperback)

 'IDOL is fresh, glamorous, and surprising, taking an issue we all care about and with a deft twist, recalibrating our position. It dazzles us before revealing the darkness at its heart. Louise...

Rachael English / The Letter Home (Large Paperback)

 The Number One bestsellerINSPIRED BY TRUE FAMINE-TIME EVENTS, THE LETTER HOME INTERWEAVES THE LIVES OF THREE REMARKABLE WOMEN, ACROSS TIME AND TIDES, IN AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY OF THE HEART.When...

John Scally - Great GAA Rivalries : Unforgettable Showdowns - BRAND NEW

 'Will bring back a treasure trove of great memories for GAA fans.' CYRIL FARRELLFans always answer in the affirmative when their team asks: Will you still love me tomorrow? However, for many GAA...

Rose Servitova - A Season at Sanditon - PB - 2022 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

When Charlotte Heywood arrives at the fledging seaside resort of Sanditon, she quickly forms strong views on her new social circle. While she finds some to be agreeable enough, others inspire less...

Peter Regan - Shannon Harps ( Book 1 ) - PB - 2002

Joe Duggan is determined to create an all-star underage Gaelic football team out of the local children, but with a shortage of players and recycled materials for equipment, no one is sure that the...

Siobhán Doyle - History of the GAA in 100 Objects - HB - BRAND NEW 2022

The GAA is a hugely significant aspect of the Irish consciousness and plays an influential role in Irish society that extends far beyond the sport itself. In popular imagination and experience, the...

Frank McDonald / A Little History of the Future of Dublin

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Hill, Myrtle & Barber, Sarah ( Editors) - Aspects of Irish Studies - QUB JOURNAL 1990

This book provides an insight into the current debate on the importance of different cultural traditions in the community. It records the proceedings of the second Cultural Traditions Group...

Freddie Alexander / Mr Spicebag (Hardback)

 Be warned, Reader, this book isn't about a normal spice bag, nor is it about a normal boy. Quite the opposite. This book is about the Spice Bag, and our unlikely hero: a 10-year-old boy named George...

Breandán Ó hEithir & Ruairí Ó hEithir ( Editors) - An Aran Reader - HB - 1999

An Aran Reader edited by Ruairi Ó hEithir and Breandán Ó hEithir The Aran Islands are among the most finely wrought land-masses in the western world. Their antiquity, diversity and cultural richness...

Peter Boylan / In the Shadow of the Eighth (Large Paperback)

 In over forty years in medicine - seven of these as Master of the National Maternity Hospital - obstetrician Peter Boylan was at the births of more than 6,000 babies. He saw women and families at...

Jade Sharma - Problems - BRAND NEW

  'Funny, observant, self-destructive Maya has problems. A sweet, handsome, heavy-drinking husband she's not sure she loves. Her detached, selfish lover. Her overdue thesis and dead-end job. Her...

Julia Kelly - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW

Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and...

Seighín Ó Ceallaigh - The Half Mile Road - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

Inspired by a real border and a real political crisis.Brian McKee is a widowed farmer, still farming his beef and dairy herds on his farm that straddles the border between Monaghan and Fermanagh...

Patricia Gibney / The Lost Child ( Detective Lottie Parker - Book 3 )

 'Let me out! Please . . .' My tiny fists pound the door, but my voice reverberates off the stone walls and hangs in the air as if suspended by spider's webs. No one comes . . .Years later, a woman...

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...

Blake Morrison - Seamus Heaney ( Contemporary Writers Series ) - PB - 1982

In Seamus Heaney's poetry, ordinary objects and places – a sofa, a satchel, the sound of rain – are sanctified. But it has edge and politics, too. Blake Morrison recognises an astonishing poetic...

Tom McCaughren - The Whitethorn of the Dancing - PB - 2022 - BRAND NEW

A man is hot dead in New York, and as the NYPD investigate, the main suspect flees to Ireland. But what connects the shooting to events there? As the story unfolds, we learn of a past romance in the...

Graphic Studio Dublin : Members 2010 ( 50 Years of Printmaking 1960-2010 - HB

Hardcover, issued by Graphic Studio Dublin, 2010, marking 50 years of fine art printmaking, from establishment in 1960. , foreword by Donald Teskey RHA. , both a history of the participating artists...

Seamas O'Reilly / Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? (Large Paperback)

  'A gorgeous memoir' Pandora Sykes 'Tender, sad and side-splittingly funny' Annie MacManus 'A heartfelt tribute to an alarmingly large family held together by a quietly heroic father' Arthur...

Thomas Flanagan - Year of the French - HB 1st UK ED 1979 - Killala 1798

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard,...

Christine Dwyer Hickey - The Gambler - PB - ( Dublin Trilogy - Book 2 )

This haunting novel, the second of the trilogy, is set for the most part in Dublin between the wars and is a disturbingly accurate picture of a family’s slow decline. Published by New Island, 2006,...

VERITAS - I nGrá Dé - Rang a Ceathair ( Bunscoil 6 ) ( 4TH CLASS - Leagan Gaeilge)

The as gaeilge version of Grow in Love , I NGRÁ DÉ ( BUNSCOIL 6 ) aimed at 4th class ( nb not 6TH CLASS)  Foilsithe ag Veritas - published by Veritas. 

Sportsfile - A Season Of Sundays 2020 - GAA Photography - Yearbook - 2020 HB - Sport

This 192 page hardback coffee table book (300mm x 300mm) is a collection of images of the 2020 Gaelic Games year by the Sportsfile photographers. With text by Alan Milton, it is a record of the...

Paul Williams / The Monk

 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...

David Greene - The Irish Language - PB- 1972 - Stair na Gaeilge ( Irish Life and Culture Series XIV)

  Solid in three colour paper cover with titles to spine. Some notes , minor underlining and emendations internally.  First  edition was 1966, issued as part of the Irish Life and Culture series, and...

Ó hUallaigh, Peadar - An Ceirtlín Órga - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge

Cnuasach filíochta foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 2021. Is ceoltóir as Cluain Meala ó dhúchas é an t-údar, atá in chonaí i gCiarraí . 

Anthony Glavin / Nighthawk Alley (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Nicholas Ryan / Stone Upon Stone : The Use of Stone in Irish Building

Stone has been used for building in Ireland for over 6,000 years. The earliest farmers arrived about 4000 BC and found stone was a valuable building material. Since then, stone has left imprints in...

Carolyn Swift- Robbers in the Town - Vintage Irish PB - Children's 1983

A small format paperback, published by the Children's Press, Dublin, 1984 of Carolyn Swift's Robbers in the Theatre, the fifth ( but standalone) book in her Robbers In The....series. Cover art by...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Braywatch

 South Dublin's favourite son thought he could face any challenge - until he was asked to cross the bridge over the River Dargle.For Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby hero, celebrated bon vivant...

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)...

Jeremiah Newman- Return to the Sacred : A Socio Religious Analysis ( Signed) PB -1986

An essay in socio-religious analysis. Its special interest is the impact of modern society on religion, and in particular on Irish Christianity.  Signed by the author ( a former Cathiolic bishop of...

Robert Hogan ( Editor) - Feathers From the Green Crow : Sean O'Casey 1905-1925 - HB - 1962

A collection of the early writings of Sean O'Casey  - organised thematically - Education and Culture / Nationalism / The Irish Language / Labour / I Been Workin' on the Railroad / Controversies /...

Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022

The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this...

Leon Ó Broin - Just Like Yesterday - An Autobiography - PB

Leon ó Broin was born in dublin in 1902, a schoolboy at teh time ogf teh 1916 rising, he afterwards became a member of Sinn Féin and the Gaelic league, he joined the Civil Service, acting as...

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...

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 (...

Benedict Kiely - Proxopera ( Vintage Poolbeg PB 1977)

Light edgewear to jacket, some tanning to page block.  The Binchey family come home from a Donegal holiday to find three masked men in possession of their lakeside home; their aged housekeeper g

Paul Williams / The Monk (Large Paperback)

 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...

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

Law Society of Ireland - Hibernian Law Journal - 2010 ( Volume 9 ) - PB

PAPERBACK - light edgewear, otherwise unmarked.  1393-8940 Hibernian Law Journal - 2010 - contents Author

Patrick West - Beating Them at Their Own Game : How The Irish Conquered English Soccer - PB - SIGNED 2006

Beating Them at Their Own Game charts how Irish players, managers and business people have come to have a disproportionate influence on soccer in the UK. An entertaining survey of the growing...

Máire Uí Dhufaigh - An Garda Cósta - PB - As Gaeilge - 2012

Foilsithe ag Leabhar Breac, Conamara, 2012. Glan istigh is amuigh, clúdach bog.  ( CÓIP DARA LÁIMHE - SECONDHAND COPY)  An Garda Cósta: Tá sé ina shamhradh arís in Oileán na Leice, agus gan ag...

Eugene McCague - Arthur Cox 1891-1965 - HB - 1994

In the first 40 years of the independent Irish state, few people outside government wielded more influence than Arthur Cox. This biography recounts how he became in turn, an accomplished public...