Irish History and Historical Biography

Peig McManus / I Will Be Good: A Memoir of a Dublin Childhood and a Life Less Ordinary (Large Paperback)

 Meet Peig McManus, an unforgettable Dublin character whose story will make you laugh and cry.-Her memoir of a 1940s' childhood is recounted with candour and wit, as she describes her early years in...

Michael O'Beirne - And the Moon at Night : A Dubliner's Story - PB 1981

And the Moon at Night: A Dubliner's Story by Michael O'Beirne. The second volume of Michael O'Beirne's autobopgraphy - following on from Mister talks about his young manhood in Dublin in the newly...

Richard Aldous & Colm Tóibín ( Editors) / Great Irish Speeches Book (Large Hardback)

 "Great Irish Speeches" contains 50 of the most stirring and memorable speeches in Irish history. From the political oratories of Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera to...

Diarmaid Ferriter / Judging Dev (Large Hardback)

 Eamon de Valera is the most controversial figure in modern Irish history and as this book argues, the most misunderstood. 'Dev' has been characterised as a stern, un-bending, devious and divisive...

Patrick Clancy, Sheelagh Drudy, Kathleen Lynch, Liam O'Dowd ( Editors) - Ireland : A Sociological Profile - PB - IPA -1987

Published by the Institute of Public Administration, 1986, this reprint 1987.  At the time of writing, gave a full introduction to the sociology of modern Ireland in the 1980's and hiow developments...

Máire MacSwiney Brugha - History's Daughter - HB - 2005

Máire MacSwiney Brugha is the only child of Terence MacSwiney, one of the greatest figures in Ireland's history, who died after seventy-three days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison on 25 October...

Michael McKeown - The Greening of a Nationalist - PB 1986

Michael McKeown provides a vivid account of the Irish experience that shaped his political attitudes over a 20-year span from the Border Campaign of the 1950s, through the Civil Rights agitation of...

Paul Sweeney / The Celtic Tiger: Ireland's Economic Miracle Explained (Large Paperback)

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Henry Boylan / A Voyage Round My Life (Large Paperback)

Of Drogheda sea-faring family back to early nineteenth century; worked for Land Commission; then administrative job with Radio Eireann; took degree in English and Irish at TCD; m. Patricia Clancy;...

Sectoral Development Committee Ireland : Reports and Recommendations c1983-1991 (16 Book Collection)

Sectoral Development Committee: Report and Recommendations c1983-1991 (16 Book Collection) Contains:   Report and Recommendations on the: building and construction industry sea-fishing and...

Journal of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland /.Years including 1940 - 1956 (15 Book Collection)

Journal of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland: Years including 1940 - 1956 (15 Book Collection) Contains: october 1956 october 1949 october 1951 october 1940 october 1946 october 1951 july...

Paul Tansey / Ireland at Work: Economic Groth and the Labour Market 1987-1997 (Large Paperback)

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Cathal Guiomard / The Irish Disease and How to Cure it (Large Paperback)

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Anthony J. Jordan / Christy Brown's Women (Large Paperback)

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Douglas Bennett - The Goldsmiths of Dublin : Six Centuries of Achievement - HB

this important book charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths, from the Middle Ages to the present. It demonstrates the close link between the guild and the city and shows how the...

Anne Chambers / Eleanor: Countess of Desmond (Large Paperback)

 'Richly detailed and often thought-provoking... This is an enthralling book.'Dervla Murphy, The Irish Times'A truly marvellous story--one in which truth is more brave and more resourceful than...

John Crotty - Spike Island - The Rebels, Residents and Crafty Criminals of Ireland's Historic Island - PB - BRAND NEW

A monastic outpost in the Celtic Sea, a fortress built to defend an Empire, a prison established to intern a nation; Spike Island’s remarkable 1300-year history far exceeds its modest acreage. No...

Andrew M Greeley - That Most Distressful Nation : The Taming of the American Irish - PB 1972

Stubborn, difficult, paradoxical, maddening, joyous, brilliant, poetic, visionary, melancholy, frustrating, bedevilling, and ingratiating - all these have been used to describe the Irish. And this...

Leo Cullen - Princes and Pirates : The Dublin Chamber of Commerce 1783-1983 - HB

  Small closed tears to upper edge of dustjacket in front cover, internally unmarked.  A history both of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce itself, and by extension, a commercial history of Dublin in the...

Paddy Joe Hill / Forever Lost, Forever Gone (Hardback)

   In 1974 Paddy Joe Hill was charged alongside five other men with the biggest mass murder on the Britih mainland - the Birmingham pub bombings. Arrested and beaten by members of the West Midlands...

Alice Taylor / To School Through the Fields and Quench the Lamp (Hardback)

 If ever a voice has caputured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hard back to a timeless past,...

Brendan O'Kelly / The Esat Story (Hardback)

 One Friday in 1988 Esat was going bust. The fledgling company had just lost a vital deal with a British partner. It looked like curtains, Denis O'Brien caught a flight to Leeds/Bradford and took a...

Thomas Lynch / Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans (Hardback)

 A writer's return to the old country reveals the binding continuities of family, faith, and language."So, Tom that went and Tom that would come back!" is how Nora Lynch greeted the young American...

T. Ryle Dwyer / Short fellow: A biography of Charles J. Haughey (Hardback)

 Adored and reviled in equal measure, Charles J. Haughey has been one of the most significant Irish political leaders of the late 20th century. The aim of this biography is to present a balanced...

Padraic Coffey / This Day in Irish History (Hardback)

 A vibrant miscellany of Irish life with an event for every day of the year, both recent – divorce, same-sex marriage & abortion referendums and Riverdance – and historical: the battles in Clontarf...

Desmond O'Malley / Conduct Unbecoming: A Memoir (Large Paperback)

 Desmond O Malley s career coincided with one of the most intense periods in Irish political life. In this landmark political memoir he offers fresh insights into the events that have shaped Ireland...

Conor O'Clery / The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune (Large Paperback)

 Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the...

Myles Dungan / Conspiracy: Irish Political Trials (Large Paperback)

 Conspiracy' focuses on the clashes, plots and perjuries that characterized seven notorious trials in Irish legal and political history between 1803 and 1916. Each trial shows how the legal system...

Samuel Lewis - County Clare : A History and Topography - PB 1995 ( Originally 1837)

CLASP Press, 1998, Paperback A Pre-Famine Snapshot of County Clare Agriculture Industry Infrastructure Fairs, Markets, Roads, Ruins, Schools, Churches, Gentlemen's Seats, Population, Early...

John Creedon / That Place We Call Home: A Journey Through the Place Names of Ireland (Large Paperback)

 John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in West Cork to traveling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new...

David Jacobson / Taming the Tiger: Social Exclusion in a Globalised Ireland (Large Paperback)

 Taming the Tiger argues that our current system of local governance is ill-equipped to meet this new challenge. It exposes a centralised and fragmented system that has evolved to serve the interests...

Arthur Matthews / Well remembered days: Eoin O'Ceallaigh's memoir of a twentieth-century Catholic life (Hardback)

 This is the fictious autobiography of Eoin O'Cellaigh, writer, poet, nationalist, playwright, civil servant, commentator (non-sport) and, above all, a defender of the traditional values of Ireland...

The Times Great Irish Lives: Obituaries of Ireland's Finest (Hardback)

 Discover the fascinating lives of the figures that have shaped Ireland from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Explore the rich history of the island’s cultural, social and political...

John Cooney / John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland (Hardback)

 An in-depth study of the most significant Irish clergyman in the history of the state. For three decades, 1940-72, as Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, John Charles McQuaid imposed his...

Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023

The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They...

Kevin C. Kearns / In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days (Hardback)

   For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city’s vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape...

Donal Cadogan - 99 Lives : Kilkenny Connections - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

This is a collection of stories of 103 ( a few extra snuck in) individuals  with connections to Kilkenny and who have made Kilkenny what it is today. There are well-known names such as Alice Kyteler,...

Donal Cadogan - About Kilkenny - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

A guide to Kilkenmny city and county, paperback, brand new, signed by the author.  With colour photography throughout - covers all locations countywide. 

Donal Cadogan - A Little Book of Alice Kyteler - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

A Little Book of Alice Kyteler delves deep into the darkness that is tied to the unexplainable occurrences of 14th century Ireland. The author’s fifth publication follows Alice Kyteler, a local woman...

Donal Cadogan - Kilkenny's Deadly Years - Murders Trials and Executions in Kilkenny 1823-1923 - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

''In its two hundred and thirty plus pages Cadogan concentrates on the years from 1823 to 1923 and introduces us to thirty four true crimes and explains that while some of the killings were caused by...

Erin Bishop / My Darling Danny: Letters from Mary O'Connell to Her Son Daniel, 1830-1832

   On May 9, 1830, fourteen year-old Daniel O'Connell Jr., son of the -Liberator, - left his comfortable home in Dublin to attend the Jesuit college at Clongowes Wood in County Kildare. Thus began a...

Jo Kerrigan - Follow The Old Road - PB - BRAND NEW ( PB - March 2024)

By turning off the main highway and discovering old routes, some of which have been travelled for thousands of years, you will see Ireland in an entirely different way. Follow the Old Road will take...

Colm Keane ( Editor) / The Jobs Crisis ( 1993) ( Thomas Davis Lecture Series )

Donal Fallon / Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets

 She is no small town, and this is no small story"BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCASTWander through some of Dublin's less obvious but more interesting streets and roads such as Henrietta...

Ruth Dudley Edwards / The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a...

Patricia Butler / Through the Green Baize Doors - Fota House

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Cristín Leach - From Ten till Dusk - A Portrait of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Twelve Stories - BRAND NEW 2023

A beautiful portrait of Ireland’s premier cultural institution - The RHA -  on the 200th anniversary of its founding. The reader is taken on a journey through the Academy’s storied history through...

Sean McMahon / Daniel O'Connell

 Readable life of Daniel O Connell, a giant who admitted to very human weaknesses but managed to wear with justice and dignity the trappings of greatness     All of our books are second hand, and...

Vivien Igoe & Robert Nicholson - Tales From the Tower : A Personal History of James Joyce Tower and Museum - PB - BRAND NEW

A Personal History of the James Joyce Tower & Museum by its Curators Vivien Igoe & Robert Nicholson Edited by Breandán Ó Broin With an introduction by Vincent Browne   Paperback,

Lindie Naughton - Herbert Simms : An Architect for the People - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin’s teeming slums, long regarded as the worst in Europe, were teetering on the brink of structural and sanitary public catastrophe during the early twentieth century. To tackle the crisis,...

Noel Howard - Ballinacarriga, Kilworth : A House, A Family, A Village - PB - BRAND NEW

The fraught period of Irish history from 1919-23 saw many “Big Houses” associated with British rule attacked and destroyed. Nowhere was this more evident than in County Cork, arguably the most...

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...