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Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler - An Garbhán Óg - BRAND NEW

Arsa an Garbhán lena iníon óg:“Ná gabh isteach sa choill, go deo.”'Ach ní éisteann an Garbhán Óg. Isteach sa choill léi... Tá bród ar Futa Fata an leagan aistrithe seo de The Gruffalo's Child a chur...

Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway - BRAND NEW

Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is...

Kay Moloney Caball - The Kerry Girls : Emigration and the Earl Grey Scheme - PB - 2nd Edition - BRAND NEW

As part of the controversial Earl Grey Scheme, this is the true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry workhouses of Dingle, Kenmare, Killarney and Listowel in...

A O'Connor - The Secrets of Armstrong House - PB - BRAND NEW

Present day - Kate and Nico Collins are filming a docudrama about life in their home Armstrong House in Ireland during its golden age at the turn of the century. When they discover a cover-up of a...

A O'Connor - The Legacy of Armstrong House - BRAND NEW

2017 – At Armstrong House, Kate and Nico Collins are looking forward to a bright future with their young son Cian. When archaeologist Daniel Byrne arrives in the area to investigate life there during...

Robert O'Leary - Wild Waterways : A Celebration of life on an Irish River - PB - BRAND NEW

n our modern, distracted world it is easy to miss the kaleidoscope of life that exists on our doorsteps. Stretching nearly thirty kilometres from the Wicklow Mountains to the Grand Canal Dock, the...

A. O'Connor - The Legacy of Armstrong House - PB - BRAND NEW (Armstrong House Novels - Book 3 )

Present day – Kate and Nico Collins are filming a docudrama about life in their home Armstrong House in Ireland during its golden age at the turn of the century. When they discover a cover-up of a...

Martin Dillon - The Sorrow and the Loss: The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women - BRAND NEW

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Martin Dillon returns to shine a light on the role of women in the Troubles, amplifying voices long silenced by the din of history. Through raw and...

Gerry Daly & Erika McGann - Puifín Beag agus an Dorchadas - PB - BRAND NEW

Puifín Beag agus an Dorchadas by Gerry Daly and Erika McGann, Translated by Muireann ní Chíobháin. Aistrithe go Gaeilge ag Muireann Ní Chíobháin.  Tá cónaí ar phuifín beag ar Sceilg Mhichíl. Is breá...

Andrew Sneddon - Possessed by the Devil - The History of the Islandmagee Witch Trials 1711 - BRAND NEW

In 1711, in County Antrim, Ireland, eight women were put on trial accused of bewitching and demonically possessing young Mary Dunbar, amid an attack by evil spirits on the local community and the...

Elaine Callinan, Mel Farrell & Thomas Tormey - Vying For Victory : The 1923 General Election in the Irish Free State - PB - BRAND NEW

After 11 arduous months, on 24 May 1923, the guns fell silent, and the Irish Civil War finally came to an end. Twelve weeks later, all adults aged 21 or over - regardless of social status or gender...

Risteard Mac Liam - Fuaimeanna na Feirme : Sounds of the Farm - HB

Tá leabhar eile sa tsraith ag My Irish Books dírithe ar leanaí le cabhrú leo roinnt Gaeilge a fhoghlaim. This time its farm-based learning with Fuaimeanna na Feirme.The new sound book showcases the...

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...

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.     

Ciarán Wallace - Meath : The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923 - BRAND NEW

This book looks at the people of Meath during the turmoil of the revolutionary era. As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily life, some embraced the chance for change, risking life and...

Sarah Webb - The Weather Girls - PB - BRAND NEW

It’s 1944. Twelve-year-old Grace Devine lives at Blacksod Lighthouse and weather station in County Mayo with her parents and little brother. When a German plane crashes nearby, she and her best...

Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler - An Fathach is Breátha sa Tír - PB - BRAND NEW ( As Gaeilge ) - Translation by Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin

“Féach orm siar is aniar – Is mé an fathach is breátha sa tír!” Tá Seoirse tuirseach de bheith gioblach. Tá sé an-sásta lena chuid éadaí nua, go dtí go mbuaileann sé le roinnt ainmhithe a bhfuil...

Gabriel Cooney - Death in Irish Prehistory - PB - BRAND NEW

This is a book about life and death over 8,500 years in Ireland. It explores the richness of the mortuary record that we have for Irish prehistory (8000 BC to AD 500) as a highlight of the...

Manchán Magan - Thirty Two Words For Field - HB - BRAND NEW

  TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at...

Margaret Kelleher - The Maamtrasna Murders : Language , Life and Death in Nineteenth- Century Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective...

Emily Mark Fitzgerald , Ciarán McCabe & Ciarán Reilly - Dublin and the Great Irish Famine - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

TRACKIED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  Dublin did not escape the Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, while the capital witnessed an influx...

Olive Collins - The Memory of Music - BRAND NEW

One Irish family - 100 turbulent years. 1916: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they...

Sinéad Moriarty - Finding Hope - PB - BRAND NEW

Hope’s mum died over a year ago and she misses her terribly. Her twin elder sisters have each other, and her dad has just started dating again, but Hope is lonely.   A growing interest in the...

David Doolin - A History of Rugby in Leinster - HB - 2023

Leinster is one of the most successful and influential Irish sporting teams of all time. The team boasts a dazzling roster of players, past and present, including Brian O’Driscoll, Johnny Sexton,...

Michael Viney - A Year's Turning - HB - BRAND NEW

A Year’s Turning is one of Ireland’s greatest works of nature writing and nature memoir, in the tradition of writers such as Tim Robinson and Robert Macfarlane. Michael Viney and his wife Ethna...

Sinéad Moriarty - The Truth About Riley - PB - BRAND NEW

When Riley’s dad dies suddenly, leaving behind a mountain of debt, the life she’s used to starts crumbling around her. Suddenly finding herself homeless, Riley tries to keep up appearances at...

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha ( An Seabhac ) - Jimín Mháire Thaidhg ( JIMEEN ) - AS GAEILGE - ( Eagrán Caighdeánach Neamhghiorraithe)

ACHOIMRE Ós cionn céad bliain ó foilsíodh Jimín Mháire Thaidhg, tugann an t-eagrán maisithe seo léargas úr ar an leabhar is aitheanta i gcorpas litríocht Ghaeilge na n-óg. Sa bhliain 1919,

Gearóid Ó Faoleán - A Broad Church : The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland : Volume I - 1969 - 1980 - PB - BRAND NEW

  This groundbreaking book is the first to detail, with startling new revelations, just how integral the Republic of Ireland was to the Provisional IRA’s campaign at every level. The sheer level of...

Garry Bannister - Teasáras Gaeilge-Béarla / Irish-English Thesaurus - BRAND NEW HB

  Brand New!  Teasáras Gaeilge–Béarla le Garry Bannister, eagrán nua iomlánaithe de mhórshaothar an údair aitheanta. Beagnach 700,000 focal ánn 1088 leathanach Mórshaothar tagartha Treoir ghramadaí C

Stephen Gwynn - Highways and Byways : Part Two : Derry & County Antrim - PB 2013 - ( Originally 1899) BRAND NEW

Stephen Glynn travelled through Donegal and Co. Antrim on a bicycle. This is an account of that part of his trip from Derry to the Giant's Causeway and through the Glens of Antrim. The account is...

Paul Clements - Irish Shores : a Journey Round the Rim of Ireland ( 25th Anniversary Edition )- PB - BRAND NEW

'Irish Shores: A Journey Round the Rim of Ireland' tells the story of a hitchhike around the West of Ireland's coastline. It conjures up a picture of a pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, reminding us that...

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc - The Battle For Limerick City 1922 ( Military History of the Irish Civil War ) - PB - BRAND NEW

Battle For Limerick City descibes the full story of the vicious battle between Republican and Provisional Government forces for control of Limerick city in the early parts of the Civil War. The...

Antoinette Tyrell - Home To Cavendish - PB - BRAND NEW 2019

The Irish Civil War is raging across County Cork, and sixteen-year-old Edith Cavendish, bored within the confines of her privileged life, embarks on a forbidden love affair with local rebel Tadgh...

Eoghan Ó Tuairisc - I Am Lewy ( An Lomnochtán ) - Translation by Mícheál Ó hAodha - BRAND NEW ( Bullaun Press)

This is the first appearance in English of six-year-old Lewy and his unique, impressionistic account of a tumultuous few months in the early 1920s. At the fair with his demobbed, slightly...

Francesca Simon - Dónall Dána - Luíochán na Nollag ( Horrid Henry 's Christmas Ambush ) - PB - As Gaeilge

Aistrúchán le Fearghas Mac Lochlainn ar Horrid Henry: A Christmas Ambush. Tá plean ag Dónall Dána – caithfidh sé Saintí a sháinniú lena chinntiú go bhfaighidh sé na bronntanais ar fad atá uaidh an...

John Lindsey Darling - St. Multose Church Kinsale: As It Was, And Is, And Ought To Be - PB - BRAND NEW 2021

First published in 1895, St. Multose Church Kinsale: As it was, and is, and ought to be was the work of the then rector of Kinsale, the Rev. John Lindsey Darling. It used detailed architectural...

Brendan Hughes & Douglas Dalby - Up Like a Bird - The Rise and Fall of an IRA Commander - PB - 2021 - BRAND NEW

Brendan Hughes’ gritty memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s as it evolved into one of the most sophisticated guerrilla movements in the world. With all...

Damien Quinn ( Editor) - The Drawn Game - Volume 2 - An Illustrated look at the GAA - PB BRAND NEW - 2021

The Drawn Game is an illustrated look at Gaelic Games. 96 pages featuring artwork from 25 incredible artists and conversations with legends from the world of Hurling, Camogie and Gaelic Football...

Eve Morrison - Kilmichael - The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW

  The Kilmichael Ambush of 28 November 1920 was and remains one of the most famous, successful – and uniquely controversial – IRA attacks of the Irish War of Independence. This book is the first...

Tom O'Neill - The Battle of Clonmult : The IRA'S Worst Defeat - 1921 - Revised Edition 2019 - BRAND NEW

The Battle of Clonmult was the IRA's greatest loss of volunteers in a single engagement against Crown Forces. On Sunday, 20 February 1921, at Clonmult near Midleton in County Cork, almost the entire...

Blindboy Boatclub - The Gospel According to Blindboy - 15 Short Stories - BRAND NEW

Sunday Business Post Book of the Year Blindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, Ireland's foremost satirist and now the talented author of a collection of brilliant short stories and visual...

Domhnall Ó Fotharta - Siamsa an Gheimhridh : Cois an Teallaigh in Iar Chonnachta - Conamara - PB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW

Ba é Domhnall Ó Fotharta, oide scoile sa gCaladh i bparóiste Bhaile an Dúin, údar an leabhair seo. Cnuasach ilchineálach atá ann, amhráin, scéalta, orthaí, paidreacha, seanráite, cluichí agus...

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha ( An Seabhac ) - Jimín Mháire Thaidhg - AS GAEILGE - ( Eagrán Caighdeánach Neamhghiorraithe)

ACHOIMRE Ós cionn céad bliain ó foilsíodh Jimín Mháire Thaidhg, tugann an t-eagrán maisithe seo léargas úr ar an leabhar is aitheanta i gcorpas litríocht Ghaeilge na n-óg. Sa bhliain 1919,

Damien Quinn - The Drawn Game - Volume 1 - An Illustrated look at the GAA - PB BRAND NEW - 2020

Liz Gillis - The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011

Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning...