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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...

William Bulfin - Rambles in Eirinn - HB - BRAND NEW

In 1902, William Bulfin embarked on a cycling tour of Ireland, his musings along the way offering a fascinating glimpse into early 20th-century Ireland during a time of significant social change...

Marion McGarry - Irish Customs and Rituals: How Our Ancestors Celebrated Life and the Seasons - PB - BRAND NEW

From the author of The Irish Cottage comes a new book, exploring old Irish customs and beliefs. Chapters focus on the quarter-day festivities that marked the commencement of each season:...

Sarah Cassidy & Kunak McGann - The A-Z of Being Irish - BRAND NEW

The A to Z of Being Irish by Sarah Cassidy and Kunak McGannThis handy A to Z is packed with insider knowledge and quirky Irishisms for locals and blow-ins alike. Read it or we’ll tell your Mammy you...

Darina Clancy, Jim Horgan & Patricia Horgan Whyte - The Irish Lumières: The Horgan Brothers - PB - BRAND NEW

Through the Lens of Time: The Horgan Brothers’ Ireland 1890-1940 Step back in time through the extraordinary photographs of The Horgan Brothers, who captured Ireland during its transformation from...

Marian Broderick - Bold, Brilliant and Bad : Irish Women from History - PB - BRAND NEW

From every county in Ireland, meet women who made a real difference to the world we live in today. From creative craftswomen to singing sensations, poets to sporting champions, patriots, scientists...

Christina Wade - Filthy Queens : A History of Beer in Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW 2025

A History of Beer in Ireland In Filthy Queens, Dr Christina Wade looks at the history of beer alongside some of the biggest events in the story of Ireland. You’ll find an 18th-century courtesan...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Central Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2023 ( Murder Most Local - Book 6 )

This is the 6th book in the Murder Most Local Series of County Cork. This covers all the remaining county From Ballincollig to Mallow, Glanmire to Fermoy and everywhere in between. Like the books for...

David O'Donoghue - Line of Fire : Journeys Through a Media Minefield - PB - BRAND NEW

A thrilling chase through a media minefield – from Belfast riots to intrigue at a Paris news agency, then on to Singapore, New York and elsewhere. Author David O’Donoghue harks back to a lost world...

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...

Timothy O'Neill - The Irish Art of Calligraphy - PB - BRAND NEW

An essential guide for anyone who has ever wanted to try their hand at calligraphy. Delve into Ireland’s artistic past and, with guidance from a master calligrapher, learn how to write your own...

Kunak McGann - Everything is Mnásome - 365 Days of Celebrating Irish Women - HB - BRAND NEW

Need a reason to feel mnásome? Look no further! For each day of the year, we celebrate Irish women, their extraordinary achievements and landmark victories. From stone-throwing suffragists,...

Martin O'Donoghue & Emer Purcell - John Redmond and Irish Parliamentary Traditions - PB - BRAND NEW

Exploring the (political) life of John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party tradition, this collection offers a new perspective on the legacy of the Redmond family using a longue durée approach,...

Tomás Finn & Tony Varley ( Editors ) - Inside Rural Ireland Power and Change since Independence - BRAND NEW

In the early decades of native rule rural Ireland – and in particular the new farmer-owners who had emerged as the major winners in the recent agrarian revolution – exerted a considerable influence...

Miriam Nyhan Gray (Editor) - A Tract for Our Times - A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985 - PB - BRAND NEW

In 1989 renowned historian J. J. Lee published his magnus opus, Ireland 1912–1985: Politics and Society (Cambridge University Press). Not only had Lee written a classic, but he also managed to...

Ian Miller - A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts - HB - BRAND NEW

FREE TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST Skulls, heads, hands, height, legs, sex organs, blood, brains, stomachs, ears and corpses – discover Irish history through the prism of...

Carlo Gébler - A Cold Eye : Notes From a Shared Island 1989-2024 - PB - BRAND NEW

If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year? Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday...

Adrian Frazier - John Montague : A Poet's Life - HB - BRAND NEW

In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry achieved an historic quality, a golden era to compare with the verse of the Elizabethan and the Romantic periods. A Poet's Life is the definitive biography...

Dorothy Cross - Kinship - HB - BRAND NEW

Kinship is a unique undertaking in the artistic career of one of Ireland's leading artists. This book, and the artistic project it is part of, charts the act of returning a mummified body of a man to...

Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy,...

Donal Magner - Why Forests? - The Case for Multipurpose Forestry in Uncertain Times - PB - BRAND NEW

Donal Magner knows the importance of forests better than most as illustrated in his critically acclaimed Stopping by Woods, the definitive guide to over 340 of Ireland’s forests and woodlands. In Why...

Dylan Brennan - Let the Dead - PB - BRAND NEW

Deeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan Brennan’s Let the Dead concerns itself with life’s alchemical processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet; a photographer...

Alice Taylor - A Place Called Home- HB - BRAND NEW

In fact, two places called home … For over sixty years, Alice Taylor has lived in the village of Innishannon, the gateway to West Cork. But her childhood was spent on a farm in North Cork, near the...

Enya Martin - One For the Girlos - PB - BRAND NEW

Laugh, cringe and nod along with Enya Martin in her funny and disarmingly honest look at friendship. This tongue-in-cheek manual dives headfirst into the complexities of female friendships, offering...

Eugene Reavey - The Killing of the Reavey Brothers - PB - BRAND NEW

In this gripping true crime account, Eugene Reavey takes readers on a harrowing journey through the darkest chapter of his life during the Northern Ireland Troubles. Reavey relives the tragic night...

Joe Geraghty - Out of Sight : Stories of Ireland's Blind and Vision Impaired Sportspeople - PB -2024

Ciarán Prior - Traces of Truth : A CSI Investigates Life and Death- PB - BRAND NEW 2024

BRAND NEW  ''This book recounts some of the more significant instances of grief, tragedy and sorrow I encountered throughout my crime scene investigation career. Along with some relevant snapshots...

Cian Manning - I Love Me County : Waterford Sporting Stories - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW  - TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  Published by History Press, September 2024.  The book's title is from a famous ( and heartfelt) quote from GAA player John...

Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW

For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars...

Rebecca Brownlie - Abandoned Ireland : Volume 2 - BRAND NEW

SHIPPING WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST In Abandoned Ireland 2, photographer Rebecca Brownlie travels further off the beaten path to explore and showcase Ireland’s forgotten buildings before...

Peadar Thompson - Lost Gaels - BRAND NEW - HARBACK

TRACKED DELIVERY VIA AN POST INCLUDED IN THE PRICE.    ‘After the massacre, the GAA became even more important to us as a real sense of identity. It’s difficult to explain but we could cling to it in...

Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Third Revised and expanded edition, published May 2024. Cork University Press.  This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand...

George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK

  ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all.

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...

Seamus O'Rourke - Standing in Gaps - BRAND NEW

New edition of the bestselling independently published memoir about the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim. ‘We hadn’t a clue ‘til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We...

Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto...

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...

Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024)

The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised...

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...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW

PAPERBACK - BRAND NEW,  2024. In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she...

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...

Patsy Peril & Deirdre Nuttall - Swimming Upstream : One Man's Fight to Save Wild Atlantic Salmon

Patsy Peril was born in 1943 in Coonagh, a small fishing community on the Shannon, not far from Limerick. His family fished from a traditional gandelow boat, using hemp nets. Further upriver was...

Eric Haughan - Unbeatable - Dublin's Incredible Six in a Row - BRAND NEW - PB

In late August 2014, Donegal's footballers smashed and grabbed an All-Ireland semi-final victory from Jim Gavin's seemingly unstoppable Dublin team. It would be the last Championship game the Boys in...

Alice Taylor - The Gift of a Garden - PB - BRAND NEW

‘This is a book about the comfort and sustenance that can be got from gardening and from the earth, about the wonderful pleasures and fulfilment that I get from my garden.’ Alice Taylor Alice’s...

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.     

Paul Tweed - From Holywood to Hollywood : My Life as an International Libel Lawyer to the Rich and Famous - PB - BRAND NEW

  In this engrossing memoir, internationally-renowned libel lawyer Paul Tweed lays bare the reality of defending the world’s biggest names in the court of law. During his four-decade car

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...

Joseph Brady - Dublin From 1970 to 1990 : The City Transformed - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin’s footprint grew steadily during the 1970s with housing transforming the landscape of the west of the city, especially in Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanchardstown. It was a time of change with...