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Edward Lear - Complete Nonsense - HB - Slipcased Folio Society

Hardcover, slipcased, in bright yellow covers and matching illustrated slipcase. This edition pubished by Folio Society UK , 4TH PRINTING 1999 ( This edition originally 1996 )  Illustrated by the...

Fintan O'Toole - A History of Ireland in 100 Objects (Coffee Table Book)

Objects don't just have stories, they tell stories. There is a certain paradox that surrounds them. They seem precise and fixed, literally tangible, yet they can put us in touch with the past in a...

Jasper Ungoed-Thomas - Jasper Wolfe of Skibbereen - HB - 2008

Born in 1872, a Methodist shopkeeper's son, Jasper Wolfe became a highly successful local solicitor in Skibbereen. A strong supporter of Home Rule, he gave an acclaimed speech at the rally in London...

Enno Stephan - Spies in Ireland - PB - 1965

Enno Stephan (1927–2018) was a German journalist and historian. He was conscripted into the German military at the age of 15 during the Second World War and subsequently became a prisoner of war. He...

Michael Dundon - The Rattler : Mickey Byrne - Tipperary Hurling Legend - PB 2011

Michael Byrne (10 September 1923 – 16 October 2016), better known as "the Rattler" Byrne, was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned fifteen years...

Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf - PB - Jaico Edition - 2006

Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the most notorious political...

James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury - Vanishing Ireland : Further Chronicles of a Disappearing World (Book 2) - HB - 2009

The second book in the ( hugely popular) Vanishing Ireland series .  Scratches and scuffing to front cover dustjacket.  1st PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION, 2009.  Closed tear to upper edge of front...

James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury - Vanishing Ireland (Book 1) - HB - 2006

Vanishing Ireland is a unique collection of portrait interviews looking at the dying ways and traditions of Irish life and taking us back to an Ireland virtually unrecognisable to today's post-boom...

Templemore Tidy Towns Committee - Templemore Through the Lens of Time - PB - 2010

A large format paperback, published 2010.  A wealth of historic photographs of the town of Templemore in North Tipperary, with a particular focus on past residents , hundreds of black and white...

Joe Ó Muircheartaigh & T.J Flynn - Princes of Pigskin : A Century of Kerry Footballers - HB - 2007

At the time of writing, Kerry had played in 52 football All-Irelands and won 34, making it the most successful county in Gaelic football. It has a long and storied history and many fabled heroes...

Jim Fogarty - The Dan Breen Cup : Tipperary County SH Finals 1931-2011 - PB

Jim Fogarty is a former Kilkenny librarian ( and GAA collector) this was his first book, detailing the history of hurling county finals in his native Tipperary.  Previous owner's name to title page,...

Frank O'Connor - The Mad Lomasneys - Vintage PB

A Pan Books UK paperback edition, 1970's . The prices on the back cover have been covered with a black marker, there is spine lean, tanning to pages, and previous owner's name to title page...

Frank O'Connor - Masculine Protest and Other Stories - Vintage PB

A collection of short fiction by O'connor, with period wraparound image of Cork city on front cover. Fade to spine, usual age tanning to pages.  1972 reprint edition, Pan Books UK. 

Marcus Bourke ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 1997

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  The Great Famine 1845 – 1852 The Famine in South Tipperary: Part II - Denis G. MarnaneThe Great Famine...

Marcus Bourke (Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2001

Paperback, larger format, signed on front endpage by a previous owner. Front cover corners slightly bumped.    Tipperary town one hundred years ago: the evidence of the 1901 CensusDenis G...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2002

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  Marcus Bourke: An Appreciation Marcus Bourke: BibliographyMarcus Bourke: A Biographical Sketch -William NolanMarcus Bourke and his Writings -Denis G...

Kevin A. Griffin ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2003

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name to title page.  210 Pages; 14 Articles The Benedictine Priory of Kilcommon - Richard O’Brien The Munster Hotel, Cathedral Street,...

Carmel Quinlan( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2004

Paperback , in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address written on inside front cover. 276 Pages; 15 Articles Excavations at Friar Street Cashel: A Story of Urban...

Mary & Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editors) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2006

Paperback , in very good condition, apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  Editors: Mary Ó Drisceoil agus Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 256 Pages; 23 Articles Excavation of Human Remains...

Mary & Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editors) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2007

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and address to title page.  Editors: Mary Ó Drisceoil agus Proinsias Ó Drisceoil190 Pages; 15 Articles Caolmhóin: Láthair Chatha I...

Proinsias Ó Drisceoil ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2008

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owners name and address on title page.  CONTENTS -  224 Pages; 16 Articles Properties in Carrick-on-Suir Granted to the Duke of Ormond in...

Dan Finnan ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2011

Paperback, in very good condition apart from previous owner's name and adddress to title page.  CONTENTS -  Editor: Dan Finnan164 Pages; 11 Articles Bagpuss of Cashel – The Tale of a Musical...

Denis Marnane ( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2016 ( 1916 Commemorative Issue)

Paperback , in excellent as new condition.  CONTENTS -  Tipperary in 1916 – Four Voices: Pierse McCan, Ernest Mulliner, William Langhorne and Michael Maherby Denis G. Marnane Part 1. General...

Matt Murphy - An Islander Looks Back ( Cork / Sherkin ) - PB - 1990

PB, 1990. An Islander Looks Backby Matt Murphy - €10.00 Genre:Cork / Irish Biography / Irish History and Culture / Irish Interest / RARE & OUT OF PRINT - Format:Paperback   Tanning to page block.  No...

John M Haffert - Meet the Witnesses of the Miracle of the Sun - PB - 2009 ( Originally 1961) - Fatima

A paperback 2009 reprint of the 1961 original, discussing the experience sof the visionaries at Fatima in 1917.  Illustrated with black and white photographs

John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - HB

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...

Cosaint Shibhialta - Bás Beatha - PB (1965 Irish Civil Defence Booklet on Survival in a Nuclear War )

Booklet, 56 pages, stapled. The punched hole in the upper corner is part of the design.  A 1965 Irish government Civil Defence booklet issued to give advice to houseowners and farmers on surving...

Paul P. Walsh - A History of Templemore and its Environs - PB

Originally published 1991, reprinted ( revised) 2006.  Most towns in Tipperary have compiled and recorded their very interesting histories, but up until the publication of this book,  no effort had...

Joe Sheerin - A Crack in the Ice - PB Dolmen Press - 1985

Dolmen Press paperback, a review slip is laid in loosely.  Light edgewear to covers, otherwise unmarked. 

John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975

Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period...

J.M MacCarthy - Limerick's Fighting Story : From 1916 to the Truce with Britain - Vintage PB

Limerick's Fighting Story offers eye witness and first hand accounts of the struggle for independence in Limerick city and county.When the Truce was declared in the War of Independence in July 1921,...

Einhard - Life of Charlemagne ( Vita Karoli Magni) - HB SLIPCASED - Folio

Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He was the first recognized Roman emperor in Western Europe since...

Seán Duffy - Atlas of Irish History - 3rd Edition -PB - 2012

Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many peoples have by turns established themselves on this remote island, creating...

Paddy Berry - More Wexford Ballads - 1987

  The author's second collection ( and he was the recocognised expert on historic balladry and folk songs) from Wexford, following on from the 1982 ''Wexford Ballads''. Over 120 ballads and poems ,...

Arnold Haskell - Ballet : A Complete Guide to Appreciation : History, Aesthetics, Ballets , Dancers- Vintage Penguin 1951 HB

First published 1938, this is a reprinted revised edition 1951.  Hardcover, Penguin. Uneven sun coloration to spine. Internally unmarked.  Penguin ( Bound PELICAN ) A122

John M Feehan - The Magic of the Kerry Coast - PB - 1980

The Magic of the Kerry Coast , John M Feehan, Mercier Press , 1980 REPRINT, ORIGINALLY 1979.  John Feehan was an accomplished sailor. He began his odyssey in Crookhaven and continues the journey to...

James N Healy - The Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads - Volume 2 : History and Politics - PB -1969

Paperback, published by Mercier Press, Cork, 1969.  A standalone selection of political and historical themed street ballads and songs, volume 2 of a projected 7 book series. Many ballads in the...

Nicole Cooley - Milk Dress ( Poems) - PB 2010 - Signed & Dedicated

Published by Alice James Books, Farmington, Maine, 2010.  Signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided a blurb on the back cover)  In this cool, manifold chronicle...

Bruce Snider - Paradise, Indiana ( Poems) - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated - 2012

  Signed , dated and dedicated by the poet Bruce Snider to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided a blurb for the back cover) ( 2012)   A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy...

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

John B. Keane - Strong Tea - PB Mercier - 1976 (Originally 1963)

A 1976 reprint edition paperback - of Strong Tea, a collection of mostly short essays and humourous articles, some reprinted from previously published essays in the Limerick Leader as well as radio...

Dorine Rohan - Marriage Irish Style - Vintage Mercier PB - 1969

Paperback, 1969. Mercier Press Cork. Small format paperback, cover design by Inge Nieuwstraten.  Tanning to pages, but a solid clean unmarked copy. 

Charles Dickens - Dickens in Europe & Dickens' London - 2 x HB Slipcased Folio Society

Essays and travel writing by Charles Dickens, selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance, Originally published by Folio circa 1975.  Uniform with Dicken's London, essays by him on his life in and...

Paul Healy - God Save All Here - Memories of Life in County Roscommon During the 20th Century - PB 1999

Published 1999, author Paul Healy was a reporter at the time with the Roscommon Champion Newspaper.  Oral histories from a number of Roscommon natives, , giving insights into local life and national...

Gillian Clarke - Selected Poems - ( Carcanet Signature Series) PB 1985

Selected Poems, originally in Carcanet's Signatures series, has proven to be one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through six printings in ten years after publication. ...

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...

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...

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...

Germaine Greer - The Obstacle Race : The Fortunes of Women Painters and their Work - HB - 1979

Germaine Greer explains why there have been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo or Poussin by exploring the psychological, economic and political reasons for the virtually unchallenged...

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...

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...

Joe Duffy - Children of the Rising : The Untold Story of the Young Lives Lost During Easter 1916- HB

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