Art, Design & Architecture

Geoffrey Willis - Jade ( Illustrated ) Mayflower Handbooks - Art & Antiques - 1970

Jade ( or its two common variants of jadeite and nephrite) has long been a hugely valued precious stone in many cultures ancient and modern - perhaps most prominently in China , where it was used to...

Mentor Publications - Home - Dathú - Colouring Book for Adults - PB - BRAND NEW

Welcome to Dathú ( COLOURING)  from Mentor Books - a uniquely Irish series of colouring books for adults. They have gathered a range of beautiful illustrations that will release your creativity and...

Neil Gaiman / Art Matters (Hardback)

 A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day...

Charles Nicholl / Leonardo Da Vinci

  Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is...

Mike Harding / A Little Book of Angels (Hardback)

 Mike Harding's first four Little Books for Aurum, published nine years ago - Gargoyles (9781854105615), Green Men (9781854105639), Misericords (9781854105622) and Stained Glass (9781854105646) -...

Larry Rivers / What Did I Do? (Large Paperback)

 What Did I Do? is the testimony of one of America's finest artists and includes memorable perceptions [and gossip] of friends, lovers, rivals, and the jazz and art worlds: Frank O'Hara, Terry...

Mark Patrick Hederman / Underground Cathedrals (Large Paperback)

  Coupled with very incisive and honest comments on the current state of the church in Ireland, and with a reflective meditation on the Murphy Report on the Dublin Archdiocese, Abbot Hederman...

Timothy Hilton - The Pre-Raphaelites ( Thames and Hudson History of Art) - HB - Illustrated - 19th Century Art

Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society...

John McEvoy & John Duffy - The Churches of Kildare and Leighlin 2000 AD - HB - Illustrated Architecture

Hardcover, with artwork by John Duffy , with a full listing of all the church architecture in the diocese - the 56 parishes in total, as well as other buildings of religious orders and educational...

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

Kenneth Clark - Civilization : A Personal View - PB - BBC -1973 ( Originally 1969)

The book to accompany the groundbreaking BBC series of the same name, broadcast in 1969 . The series consisted of thirteen programmes, written and presented by Clark, covering western European...

Brendan O'Carroll / Mrs Brown's Family Handbook

 Uncover hilarious and unique insights into the Brown family, in Brendan O'Carroll's first official book on his NTA winning comic creation Mrs Brown's Boys.Millions od us have wondered: how does...

Larry W. Phillips / Zen And The Art Of Poker

  Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration--many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen...

David Thomson / Nairn in Darkness and Light

 Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has...

Alex Kapranos / Sound Bites : Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand

 In September 2005, Alex Kapranos began writing about what he ate while touring the world with the rock band Franz Ferdinand. The writing is as much about where he eats and the people he eats with as...

Simon Elmes / Hello Again : Nine decades of radio voices

 It's now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration of the many...

Charles Saatchi / My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic : Everything You Need To Know About Art, Ads, Life, God And Other Mysteries And Weren't Afraid To Ask

  This book brings together the answers to almost 200 questions Charles Saatchi, the world's most influential art collector of the last thirty years, has been asked by journalists and visitors to...

Alistair Begg / Christmas Playlist : Four songs that bring you to the heart of Christmas

      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...

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...

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 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...

Guy Peellaert & Nik Cohn - Rock Dreams - PB - Taschen - Art

This reprint edition published by Taschen, Cologne, 2003. This is a 'Large Quarto' Paperback (33.5cm x 25cm) ( almost A3 size). White wrappers (paperback) with pink titling on cover; illustrated in...

Michael Haag / The Durrells of Corfu

 The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first...

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...

Dave Stone / Russell Brand Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know

 The summer of 2006 belonged to Russell Brand. It seemed as if the gangly motor-mouth, who resembled nothing so much as a Dickensian villain with a birdsnest on his head, was a sensation everywhere...

John Fleming / The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

     Need a handbook to your architect's business or studies? Struggling with your latest DIY project? Interested in the art of architecture? This classic work, now in its fifth edition, covers...

OPW - Building For Government : The Architecture of State Buildings : OPW Ireland 1900-2000 HB 1999 Illustrated

The most comprehensive record yet of the work of the OPW from 1900 to the present ."Building for Government" presents a unique illustrated guide to the important architectural work of the OPW,...

Judith Miller / How to Make Money Out of Antiques

    Assuming no previous knowledge of antiques, this is a guide to learning the tricks of the trade, developing an eye for a bargain, spotting fakes and forgeries, repairing and restoring, and...

Gemma Tipton ( Editor) - des/IRE - Designing Houses for Contemporary Ireland - PB -2008 - Architecture & Design

Should the standard of housing in Ireland reassure us or be a cause for grave concern? Against the 'luxury lifestyle' backdrop of Celtic Tiger Ireland, did we really build the right sort of homes and...

John O'Regan - Tony O'Malley - Gandon Editions - Works 14 - Irish Artist

Published by Gandon Editions, 1994 , this is part of the Gandon Editions Works series , this being number 14. 32 pages, illustrated in colour, with reproductions of the author's work and art, and a...

Colm Lincoln & Alan O'Connor - Dublin as a Work of Art - HB - Architecture -Urban History 1992

Dublin as a Work of Art by Colm Lincoln, with photography by Alan O'Connor , published by O'Brien Press, 224 pages. Illustrations. Colm Lincoln brings together the past and present in this...

Nikolaus Pevsner - An Outline of European Architecture - Penguin Pelican 7th Ed 1966

A 7th revised edition of Nikolaus Pevsner's masterful study of the entire scope of European architecture from the early medieval to the mid 20th century. Penguin Pelican edition ( but larger than the...

Peter and Linda Murray / The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists

This magnificant, bestselling reference book finally leaves its old look to join the modern Penguin subject dictionary series. Why exactly did Van Gogh cut off his ear? Was Warhol an original or just...