Irish Local History

Des Ekin - Hell or Some Worse Place : Kinsale 1601 - PB - BRAND NEW

Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601 As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del...

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...

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...

J.C Beckett - Belfast : The Making of the City : 1800-1914 - HB - 1988

Published by Appletree Press, 1988, larger format illustrated hardcover.  Creasing to front cover, especially at upper corner.  Covering the physical development of Belfast in the period 1800-1914 ,...

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

The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective of language change in late nineteenth-century Ireland...

Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 2021 - Series 2, Volume 21 - PB

CONTENTS -  Regular Contributors to the Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968 to 2020 (Paul McCotter) Past lifeways between the Maine and the Laune: Archaeological...

David A Fleming - Edmund Sexten Pery : The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteeenth Century Ireland

Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later as Speaker of the Irish House...

Piers Wauchope - The Siege of Londonderry 1689 - HB - BRAND NEW

As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that flooded into the city, the governor...

John Colgan - Nathaniel Colgan 1851-1919 : The Life, Times and Genealogy of an Enigmatic Dubliner

Nathaniel Colgan MRIA, a self-taught botanist, was known for his research on the ‘real’ shamrock and for his encyclopaedic survey, The flora of the county Dublin. Little was known of his early life...

Suzanne M Pegley - Thomas Conolly ( 1823-76) of Castletown House and the Social Networking of Power - PB - BRAND NEW

This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it acts as a prism through which to view...

Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - All the Way by the Grand Canal - HB - BRAND NEW

All the Way by The Grand Canal Written by Jo Kerrigan ,  Photographs by Richard Mills, Hardback, illustrated throughout, BRAND NEW 2023 edition.  Stretching from Dublin right through the Midlands...

Joe Duffy / Children of the Rising : The untold story of the young lives lost during Easter 1916

 Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now.Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic,...

Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - HB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách )

In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island...

Jimmy Woulfe / Voices of Kerry - Conversations With Men & Women of Kerry (Hardback)

 Voices of Kerry gives an insight into the Kerry mind through a collection of conversations with Kerry women and men. Among the twenty seven interviewees are; Bryan MacMahon, Micheal O...

Duncan Crosbie - Life in an Irish Castle : The Journal of a 17th Century Castle - HB 2007 ( Limerick)

The Journal of a 17th Century Castle in Times of Peace and War - Based on ( real) events in Limerick city in the 1640's, seen through the ( imagined) journal of a young boy - Will Fletcher. He...

Trevor White - A Little History of Dublin - PB - BRAND NEW

A Little History of Dublin is a high-speed history of life in the Irish capital. The key events are explained in short, digestible chapters, and the reader can expect to discover the complete history...

Robert Scott - Around and About Cong - PB 2017

Around and About Cong introduces the Cong area ( a small town on the Mayo Galway border)  through its history, people, places and legends. Over 5,000 years of history, from prehistoric Cong to the...

Deirdre Purcell - Follow Me Down To Dublin : The City Through the Voices of It's People- HB - Illustrated 2007

In Follow Me Down to Dublin, Deirdre Purcell takes to the streets of Dublin to meet those who inhabit her city and who, like her, love it. illustrated throughout, hardcover in dustjacket, published...

John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW

Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the...

John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 3 - HB - BRAND NEW - 2023

Due to overwhelming popular demand, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third installment of their record-breaking Old Ireland in Colour series.Often imitated but never equalled,...

Robert O'Byrne - Left Without a Handkerchief - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE On the afternoon of Wednesday, 10 January 1923, Lulu Bagwell wrote to her mother-in-law Harriet informing her the family house had been...

Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007

The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader...

Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Healaí - Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word ( Volume 2 ) ( Brand New)

Peig Sayers, together with Tomás Ó Criomhthain (The Islandman) and Robert J. Flaherty (Man of Aran) is one of the three towering figures that became celebrated by the late Gaelic Revival. Peig’s...

Peig Sayers & Bo Almqvist - Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All ( Volume 1 ) ( BRAND NEW)

Who was that Peig Sayers?’ She was anything but the maudlin and old-fashioned Peig remembered by generations of school children. From the descriptions of those who met her, the real Peig

A Pocket History of the Irish Famine: The Story of Ireland's Great Hunger (Hardback)

 he Great Famine, "an Gorta Mor" in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It's often referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, particularly...

Richard Hayward - Munster and the City of Cork - HB 1st Edition 1964

Edgewear and tears to the dustjacket, but solid copy in green cloth , titles in gilt to spine, on black panel. Illustrations throughout from Raymond Piper.  A five county travelling history of...

Matthew Potter - AMAI Centenary 1912-2012 - A Century of Service : A History of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland 1912-2012 - HB

A history of local government associations in Ireland, municipal government, and how local government evolved and changed in the period before and post independence.  Hardcover, with illustrations ,...

Donal Fallon - Three Castles Burning - PB - BRAND NEW

BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCAST.  A companion to the hugely successful podcast of the same name by Donal Fallon, THREE CASTLES BURNING is an enjoyable wander through some of Dublin's less...

Tom Hennessy - Sean Hogan's Flying Column ( 2nd Commemorative Edition 2023)

The second issue - published March 2023, with articles from the following contributors-  Dr.Ruan O Donnell ( UL History )  Niamh Hassett ( an essay on Esther Boyle, Roxborough and the Fight for...

Edward Culleton, Nicholas Furlong & Patrick Sills - By Bishop's Rath and Norman Fort - The Story of Piercestown- Murrintown ( Wexford ) PB 1994

Paperback, published locally in Wexford, 1994. Includes a large section of gravestone inscriptions at rear from Drinagh, Kilmacree, Kildavin, Johnstown Castle, Piercestown, Rathaspeck and Rathmacknee...

Denis G Marnane - Cashel : History and Guide - PB - Tipperary

The town of Cashel lies nestled in the protective shadow of one of Ireland's most impressive landmarks, the Rock of Cashel. This limestone outcrop rises dramatically above the Golden Vale and is home...

Brian Williams and Sarah Gormley - Archaeological Objects from County Fermanagh - ( NI Monographs series Number 5 ) -

Patrick K Egan - The Parish of Ballinasloe : its History From the Earliest Times to the Present Century - HB 1984( Originally 1960 )

This is the full 1984 reprint edition , republished by Kennys of Galway from the 1960 original ( Clonmore & Reynolds)    The Parish of Ballinasloe by Rev. Patrick K. Egan in twelve chapters tells...

Paul O'Brien - A Question of Duty : The Curragh Incident 1914 - PB

As the world marched to war the army of the British Empire secretly faced one of the most momentous crises of its history. In the Curragh Camp in Kildare, a group of senior British Army Officers...

Gerard Hannan - Bards and Blackguards : Limerick and the Art of Storytelling - PB

Perhaps best known to the world as the yellow suited man who confronted Frank McCourt in a memorable Late Late Show, this is the account by Hannan of a number of Limerick City notables, storytellers...

Joe Power - Clare and the Great War - PB - 2015

This book delves in to the economic and political life during the terrible conflict of the Great War in County Clare. The Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause which many of...

Fergus Murphy - The Mansfields of County Kildare : A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks - 1870-1915 - PB - BRAND NEW

While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this latter group have received little scholarly...

John O'Callaghan - Limerick : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

Limerick was a key social, political and military battleground during the Irish revolution of 1912-23. By examining a wide range of contemporary sources, O'Callaghan reveals what life was like for...

Tom Bruen / Finglas Memories - Through Our Eyes Volume 2

      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...

Lochlannn Ó Tuairisg - An Mine : Sléacht agus Ár i gCois Fharraige - PB - BRAND NEW

Céad bliain go ham seo, ar 15 Meitheamh 1917, agus an Cogadh Mór ina thintreach ar tír agus ar muir, phléasc mianach farraige ar an Trá Shalach sa Lochán Beag, baile beag cúig mhíle dhéag siar ó...

Michael Houlihan - In Search of Dreamtime in County Clare - PB - BRAND NEW

In Search of the Dreamtime in County Clare There is a Clare awaiting our re-discovery, lying in clear sight but now rarely seen. It comes from a time when the fortunes of the countryside had a...

Owen O'Shea - No Middle Path : The Civil War in Kerry ( PB ) - BRAND NEW

The violence and divisions caused by the Civil War in County Kerry in 1922-23 were more vicious, bitter, and protracted than anywhere else in Ireland. For generations, the fratricide, murder, and...

Dáithí de Mórdha - Raidió na Gaeltachta : Cultúr & Pobal - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022

Tugtar féachaint sa leabhar seo ar an dtionchar atá imeartha ag Raidió na Gaeltachta (RnaG) ar shaol agus ar chultúr mhuintir nа Gaeltachta ó bunaíodh an tseirbhís lán-Ghaeilge i 1972. Déantar scéal...

Tomás Ó Máille - An tIomaire Rua : Cogadh na Saoirse i dTuaisceart Chonamara - PB 2007 ( 1939 ar dtús)

Réamhrá le Gearóid ó Tuathaigh. Eagrán Nua, foilsithe ag An Gúm , 152 leathnach.  Tá breis eolais san eagrán seo, mapa don cheantar taobh istigh don chlúdach ,  grianghrafanna curtha leis, agus...

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...

Johann Georg Kohl - Travels in Ireland - PB 2016 ( Originally 1844) - BRAND NEW

A German traveller's perception of Pre-famine Ireland, with explanatory notes and index added to the original text. This is a snapshot of an Ireland that was about to vanish. Two years after the...

Stephen Gwynn - Highways & Byways in Donegal and Antrim - 2013 PB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1903 )

If you take this book with you as you travel around Donegal and the Glens of Antrim you will find that you journey not only over land, but also over time. More than just about anywhere else, the...

Tommy Cecil - The Harsh Winds of Rathlin : Stories of Shipwrecks ( Extended Edition - PB ) BRAND NEW

This is an updated and extended edition of Thomas Cecil's original The Harsh Winds of Rathlin: Stories of Rathlin Shipwrecks, first published in 1989. This earlier edition contained the result of all...

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...

Tom Hennessy - Seán Hogan's Flying Column - PB - BRAND NEW ( Tipperary- War of Independence) BOOKLET

An illustrated 64 page book ( with photographs in colour and black and white) , independently published, Tipperary,  2022. Paperback ( this publication was supported with publications funding by...

Cal McCarthy - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution - Revised Edition - BRAND NEW

McCarthy, Cal - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution - Revised Second Edition -  BRAND NEW 2023 Cumann na mBan, a women’s support group to the Irish Volunteers, was founded in 1914. Its aims...

Gwen Wilkinson - The Waters and the Wild - PB - BRAND NEW

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and...