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Charlie Mulqueen - The Murphy's Story of Munster Rugby - PB 1993

On a memorable afternoon in 1978, Munster Rugby made global sporting headlines with a sensational 12-0 defeat of the New Zealand All Blacks at Thomond Park.  Fourteen years later, world Champions...

J.G Simms & Dublin Historical Association - Booklet - The Jacobite Parliament of 1689

A 28 page booklet in the numbered Irish History series, published by the Dublin Historical Association, a reprint from 1974, the price is blocked out in marker on the front cover.    The Jacobite...

Con Costello - Guide to Kildare & West Wicklow - PB - 1991

Published 1991, paperback, illustrated throughout, with line drawings by Maeve Costello, map by Seán Byrne.  An alphabetical gazetteer guide to all aspects of County Kildare ( and adjacent areas in...

John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973

A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork...

Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983

Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life...

Bryan MacMahon / Lion-Tamer and Other StoriesT

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Paul Jones - The Irish Brigade - Vintage NEL PB - 1971 - Irish in the US Civil War

First published in 1969, this is the first NEL PB edition , 1971.  Condition - tanning to page block, , creases to spine, internally unmarked , no inscriptions or marks noted. Light sun fade to...

T. W. Moody / The Course of Irish History (Large Paperback)

 The Course of Irish History is the classic general history of Ireland, covering the economic, social and political development of the island of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day. It...

Eleanor Knott - Irish Syllabic Poetry 1200-1600 - PB -2ed Reprint 1994

An introduction to Irish Syllabic Poetry of the period 1200-1600, with selections, notes and glossary, by Eleanor Knott, 2nd edition reprint, 1994, published by the school of Celtic Studies, DIAS,...

Anthony Glavin / Colours Other Than Blue (Large Paperback)

  Maeve Maguire, single mother of a teenage daughter, works as the Senior Nurse in a Dublin Home for the Elderly. Grieving over her father's recent death, she begins to keep a notebook at the...

Paul M O'Reilly & Mike Fitzpatrick - EV+A - OPEN 2005 - Limerick Art

Running until 2010, e v+ a was Ireland's pre-eminent annual exhibition of contemporary art, featuring artists from home and abroad selected by a leading international curator. Each e v+ a exhibition...

Kieran Allen / The Celtic Tiger : The Myth of Social Partnership in Ireland (Large Paperback)

  The Celtic tiger has been hailed a triumph as a success story for the free market. This book looks under the surface to discover a discontented majority who are losing out. The booming economy...

Bernard S Wilson - Miss Mary - BRAND NEW - ( illustrated by Julia Castano )

PHYLLIS WHITSELL / A Song for Bridget

 The unforgettable true story behind the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Finding Tipperary Mary.Bridget 'Tipperary Mary' Larkin faced poverty, bereavement, cruelty and abandonment many times over,...

Brian Moore / Catholics

 A story about loss of faith - its substitutes, its sublimation and its torments. Brian Moore is the author of "Lies of Silence" and "No Other Life". All of our books are second hand, and while you...

AAI Awards 2007 - New Irish Architecture 22 - PB

Published annually, this isfully illustrated in colour , detailed accounts Awards  MEETING PLACE, North Campus Development, Cork Institute of Technology de Blacam and Meagher, Boyd Barrett...

John B. Keane - Self Portrait - PB - Autobiography Mercier Press - 1976 ( Originally 1964) - Kerry

In Self-Portrait Keane writes of his own experiences, addressing the reader in an intimate, confessional voice that often seethes with emotion, as in the following excerpt, in which he seeks to jolt...

Jason Byrne / Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy : The Short-Arse Years: Jason Byrne's Memoir (Hardback)

 '"Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus...

Tom McCaughren / Run With the Wind (Large Paperback) ( Fox Series - Book 1 )

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Marita Conlon-McKenna / A Girl Called Blue (Large Paperback)

 Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own. Fostered out...

John Cowell - The Begrudgers - O'Brien Press - HB 1978

Despite his valuable work as a medical doctor, John Cowell ( 1904-1998)  had always wished to be an author. On retirement in 1977 he made it his priority. In 1978 his first novel, The Begrudgers, was...

Francis Brennan / Francis Brennan's Book of Household Management : How to Create a Happy Home (Hardback)

  Francis Brennan is known for his impeccable taste and high standards in homemaking, so there's no better man to tell you how to wash your sheets, clean your oven and arrange your cushions. In...

Maeve Binchy / Nights of Rain and Stars (Hardback)

  Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left...

Dorothy Nelson - In Night's City - PB 1st Ed Wolfhound -1982 - Rooney Prize Winner

On the night of a father's death, two women remember. Esther, the wife denied, and Sara, her corrupted daughter, look back at the father's overwhelming cruelty and ahead to their freedom from him...

Hollywood.com - The Guide to Film Directors ( 20th Century) - PB - Cinema Reference

Published 2004, USA.  From the blurb - A smart authoritative who's who of the film directors who have made motion picture history - profiles of more than 300 notable moviemaker, movie moguls and...

Sophie White / Filter This (Large Paperback)

   'I loved this so much ... a modern, witty, razor-sharp page-turner' Emer McLysaght, co-author Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling'So sweet, so funny -- I loved it' Marian Keyes'Ali is one of the...

Emer McLysaght / The Importance of Being Aisling : Country Roads, Take Her Home ( Aisling Series - Book 2 )

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Ó Coigligh, Ciarán - Doineann & Uair Bhreá - Filíocht - As Gaeilge PB - 1985

Foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 1985, cnuasach filíochta. 58 leathnach, clúdach bog Beagáinín salach ar na clúdaigh , glan istigh gan aon mharc ná aon scríobh. 

Alvy Carragher / The Cantankerous Molly Darling

Molly Darling wants life to be as simple as wellies and porridge - this isrural Ireland after all. Instead, Mum's hiding in the attic; Dad's run away, leaving only a PowerPoint to explain; her sister...

John O'Regan ( Editor) - John Noel Smith - Gandon Editions -Profile Series, Number 26 - HB - Irish Art

Smith. It features and in-depth essay and extensive interview with the artist. EXTRACTS "John Noel Smith is a brilliant painter. There are few people of whom one can say that with any level of...

Miller, Nick - Truckscapes : Drawings From a Mobile Studio : 1998-2007- HB - Sligo

Sligo resident artist Nick Miller  created som eremarakable landscape artworks from the back of his obile studio - a converted lorry he could move around as he chose, using the back door as a 'frame'...

W. B. Yeats / The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

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H.C Casserley - Irish Railways in the Heyday of Steam - HB - Illustrated

Hardcover first edition, with b&w photographs illustrated throughout. The photographs and the transport infrastructure photographed is primarily from the 1920's and 1930's ( the era between the wars)...

Coill Dubh ( Blackwood Village) 1952- 1992 - Local History Kildare - PB - 2019 Reprint, Originally 1993 - Bord na Móna

First published in 1993. Blackwood village is unique in that it was one of the few locations in Ireland that was built as a worker village, largely for and by employees of Bord na Móna, in the years...

Bernobich, Beth - Ars Memoriae ( Éireann Sequence - Book 1 ) - HB 1st Edition - 2009

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Dónal Ó Baoill & Éamonn Ó Tuathail - Úrchúrsa Gaeilge ( Eagrán Leasaithe 1992) - PB

Cúrsa iomlán i scriobh na Gaeilge is ea Úrchúrsa Gaeilge. Cuireadh i gcló den chéad uair é i 1980 agus tá sé á usáid go forleathan sna coláistí Oideachais agus sna hOllscoileanna ó shin.  Tá an...

Ó Gadhra, Nollaig - Ríocht Roinnte : Cúlra agus Ceachtanna Olltoghchán 1983 sna Sé Chontae- HB - Tuaisceart Éireann - As Gaeilge

Iarracht atá sa leabhar seo chun torthaí olltoghchán Westminster i 1983 i dtuaisceart Éireann a shuíomh i gcomhthéacs na staire agus é ''a mhiniú i dtearmaí an tsaoil mar atá - ní mar ba mhaith linn...

Derek Landy / Desolation ( Demon Road - Book 2 )

 THE EPIC NEW THRILLER CONTINUES.Book two in the mind-blowing new supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.Reeling from their...

Darragh McKeon / All That is Solid Melts into Air (Hardback)

 All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon is an exceptionally moving novel of interwoven lives, set amidst one of the most iconic disasters in living memory.'Daring, ambitious, epic,...

Sarah Maria Griffin / Other Words for Smoke

 Voted Teen & YA Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards. From the author of Spare and Found Parts, described as "fierce and fearless" by V. E. Schwab and "beautifully written and compelling"...

Sean Kelly / Hunger: The Autobiography (Hardback)

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Padraig de Búrca & John F Boyle - Free State or Republic - UCD Centenary Classics - PB BRAND NEW - 2015 - ( Originally 1922

 Free State or Republic? provides eye-witness accounts by two reporters from the Irish Independent newspaper of the historic Treaty debates of Dail Eireann, held in University College Dublin's...

Joseph Johnston - Civil War in Ulster - UCD Centenary Classics - PB - BRAND NEW - 2015 - ( Originally 1913)

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Each volume is introduced by Fearghal...

J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966

A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers.  A wily American driving his...

Mary Carbery - The Farm by Lough Gur : The Story of Mary Fogarty - PB - BRAND NEW - Limerick

"The Farm by Lough Gur" was first published in London in 1937 and quickly reprinted. It was well received in England and a best-seller in Dublin. Some questioned its quiet recall of an elysian rural...

John Hutchinson - James Arthur O'Connor - Artist - PB 1985 - Illustrated

Published 1985 on the occasion of an exhibition in the National Gallery of the work of this important Irish artist.  Paperback 208 pages, with images from O'Connor's work, many in colour, as well as...

Christine Dwyer Hickey - Tatty - PB - 2004

This book is the portrayal of a young Dublin girl who is growing up in a turmoiled family of alcoholics. The book begins when she is four and stays with her throughout the events of her life until...

Micheál MacGréil - Prejudice in Ireland Revisited - PB 1996 - Sociology

An expanded and updated edition ( 1996) of the changing social attitudes of Irish people, based on the pioneering work in sociological analysis by Mac Gréil , from the University of Maynooth. Survey...

Francis MacManus - Heimkehr nach Watergate - HB -1965 GERMAN Language Edition

A German language edition, in hardcover of Watergate by Francis MacManus, published here by Rex-Verlag, Munich.  Hardcover in an attractive dustjacket.  1965 Verlag Rex, 1965. Buch 166 seiten...

Susan Lanigan - White Feathers - PB - BRAND NEW - WW1 Novel - SIGNED

In 1913, young Irish emigrant Eva Downey is trapped in London with a remote father and hostile stepmother. When she is awarded a legacy from an old suffragette to attend a finishing school in Kent,...

Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography 1986 - Politics Ireland

Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor,...

Nathaniel Harris - The Shaws : The Family of George Bernard Shaw - Dublin - Illustrated by Andrew Farmar

Published by J.M Dent & Sons, 1977, this is a short illustrated history of the early life and family of George Bernard Shaw, one if Ireland's most accomplisged authors, and the winner of Nobel Prize...