Irish History and Historical Biography

ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature

The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published  by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ.   An...

Geddes & Grosset: Chronology of Irish History (Hardback)

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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...

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...

Philip B. Ryan / Jimmy O'Dea: The pride of the Coombe (Hardback)

An important biography of Ireland's premier 20th century comic actor, describing his childhood, his theatrical apprenticeship and the years of his fame.  Originally published by Poolbeg Press...

Sharon Arbuthnot / A history of Ireland in 100 Words (Hardback)

Did you know that Cú Chulainn was conceived with a thirst-quenching drink? That 'cluas', the modern Irish word for 'ear', also means the handle of a cup? That the Old Irish word for 'ring' may have...

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...

Gerry Adams / Never Give Up:: Selected Writings (Large Paperback)

* Author is a high profile public figure with a strong following.* Writes for the first time about the death of close friend Martin McGuinness.* Guaranteed to generate media interest.     All of our...

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

David Ross / Ireland: History of a Nation (Coffee Table Book)

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John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley / Old Ireland in Colour (Coffee Table Book)

Old Ireland in Colour brings to life the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of these stunning images of all walks of Irish life throughout nineteenth and twentieth...

Fintan O'Toole / Irish Times Book of the Century, 1900-1999 (Coffee Table Book)

Fintan O'Toole draws together the key events of modern Irish history, showing how international factors shaped them and recalling the manner in which they were reflected in The Irish Times. The book...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (...

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.     

Malachi O'Doherty / How to Fix Northern Ireland (Large Paperback)

A highly topical and original investigation into the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement. In this thought-provoking and...

Mark O'Connell / A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention and Murder (Large Paperback)

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murders in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion.Malcolm...

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.’

Rachel Finnegan - The Memoirs and Diaries of Judith Isobel Chavasse : An Account of Life in West Cork and Waterford (1867-1935) - BRAND NEW SIGNED

Rachel Finnegan - The Memoirs and Diaries of Judith Isobel Chavasse : An Account of Life in West Cork and Waterford (1867-1935) - BRAND NEW ( JUNE 2024) DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE...

Tim Doyle / Get Up Them Steps (Large Paperback)

A memoir of the author's experiences serving with the Garda Síochána, the national police agency of the Republic of Ireland. His second book on the subject, the first being Peaks and Valleys...

Paddy Devlin / Straight Left : An Autobiography (Large Paperback)

This autobiography tells the story of Paddy Devlin, Belfast socialist and founder member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Danny Ellis / The Boy at the Gate (Large Paperback)

Danny Ellis was a survivor, strong and resilient. A successful singer/songwriter, he was proud of the way he'd 'handled' his painful past: the grinding poverty of the 1950s Dublin slums, and the...

Brendan Ogle / From Bended Knee to a New Republic: How the Fight for Water is Changing Ireland (Large Paperback)

An exploration of the Irish water issue that has raged through the country in recent years. Water in Ireland had always been provided by local government and paid for through taxes. In 2015 a new...

Elizabeth O'Toole / A Poet in the House: Patrick Kavanagh at Priory Grove (Large Paperback)

  In A Poet in the House: Patrick Kavanagh at Priory Grove, a memoir by Elizabeth O’Toole, we encounter a new Patrick Kavanagh.   All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Michael Foley / The Bloodied Field: Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920

An account of the dramatic events at Croke Park following the IRA assassination of British military agents in Dublin, resulting in the shooting dead of fourteen people by the Royal Irish Constabulary...

Richard Aldous , Niamh Puirseil / We Declare: Landmark Documents in Ireland's History (Coffee Table Book)

 From St. Patrick’s confession to the harrowing reports of the Famine Relief Commission, the dramatic Proclamation of the Republic and the controversial 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty, and the road to peace...

John Breslin , Sarah-Anne Buckley / Old Ireland in Colour 2 (Coffee Table Book)

 In Old Ireland in Colour 2 , the much-anticipated sequel to their beloved bestseller, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley have dug even deeper into Ireland’s historical archives to uncover...

Conor Cruise O'Brien / Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland (Large Paperback)

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James Connor Patterson ( Editor) - The New Frontier : Reflections From the Irish Border - PB - BRAND NEW

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, composed of non-fiction, fiction and poetry – it is a chorus of voices from some of the island’s greatest writers, that...

Alannah Hopkin - A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins - PB - BRAND NEW

This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and...

Jonathan Bardon & Stephen Conlin - Dublin : One Thousand Years of Wood Quay - HB - 1984

This book was inspired by the bitter controversy that dogged the plans by Dublin Corporation to build an enormous office block on the site of early Viking Dublin. 'The book tells the story of one...

Derek Molyneaux & Darren Kelly - Tomorrow With Bayonets - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

The raw intensity of the Irish Civil War is brought to life in this gripping, fast-paced journey through a year of change and conflict. Dublin’s descent into violent unrest surpasses the turmoil of...

Páraic Kerrigan - Reeling in the Queers - PB - BRAND NEW

The modern story of LGBTQ liberation in Ireland is often framed as one of success, with the triumph of the vote on the Marriage Equality referendum in 2015, the passing of the Gender Recognition Act...

Warren Farrell - So Once Was I : Tales From Glasnevin Cemetery - PB - BRAND NEW ( With author Signed adhesive bookplate)

charliebyrne.info - BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024.  ‘Remember now as you go by, as you are now so once was I, and as I am now so you shall be, so prepare for death and follow me.’ Every grave has a story to...

Dan Lawton - Hunted : The Kevin Barry Artt Story - His Wrongful Conviction for Murder, Daring Escape from the Maze Prison and Long Fight for Justice - PB - BRAND NEW

On Sunday, 26 November 1978, two IRA gunmen kicked in the front door at 8 Evelyn Gardens in Belfast, the home of Maze prison official Albert Miles. They executed Miles in front of his family and...

Arthur Mathews - Walled in by Hate - Kevin O'Higgins : His Friends and Enemies - BRAND NEW 2024

In July 1927, government minister Kevin O'Higgins was assassinated near his home in Booterstown, Dublin. Appointed Minister for Home Affairs in 1922 at the height of the Irish civil war, he had...

Denis Bradley - Peace Comes Dropping Slow : My Life in the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024)

Denis Bradley was born and raised in Buncrana, just 12 miles from the border with Northern Ireland. On joining the priesthood he found himself assigned to the cathedral parish in Derry city,...

Jennifer O'Leary / The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi's Money (Large Paperback)

 For almost two decades, Father Patrick Ryan evaded intelligence agencies across Europe and was, for a time, one of the most wanted men in Britain. In The Padre, award-winning investigative...

R.F. Foster / W.B. Yeats, A Life: The Apprentice Mage, 1865 - 1914 (Hardback)

 In the first authorized biography of W.B. Yeats for over fifty years, Roy Foster sheds new light on one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century...

Aidan O'Hara - A Damn Yankee , Am I ? Thanks ! - Portraits of the Irish in the era of the American Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW

The era of the American Civil War is assessed as being from the start of abolitionism in the 1830s, through the war itself and its aftermath. This fascinating book deals in detail with the Ireland...

Sarah Gearty & Michael Potterton - Town & Country : Perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas - PB - BRAND NEW - 2023

The interconnection between town and country is the central theme in this new volume. It is based on a seminar held in 2021 where contributors used and compared historic town atlases to understand...

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...

Cormac Moore - Laois : The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923 - BRAND NEW

The turbulent revolutionary period in modern Irish history from 1912 to 1923 had a profound impact on the political, economic and social make-up of Laois. The issue of land that had dominated the...

Catherine Swift, Brian Hodkinson & Tom Donovan, ( Editors) - Limestone and River : Essays on Limerick History in Honour of Liam Irwin - BRAND NEW

From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of limestone and river. The stone circles...

Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis - Armagh The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 - BRAND NEW

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy between unionism and nationalism...