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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...

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

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...

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,...

Thomas Toomey - Forgotten Dreams - The Life and Times of Major John Gerard 'Ged' O'Dwyer - HB - Signed - 1995

  Light tanning to all pages, and light edgewear to the dustjacket. Moderate to heavy sunfade to the spine.  John Gerard (‘Ged’)O'Dwyer,  (1899–1996), Irish Volunteer, army officer, and showjumper,...

Lucy R Lippard - Pop Art - PB 3rd Edition Revised - 1970

Pop Art embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic color and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time. Here...

Patrick Augustine Sheehan ( Canon Sheehan) - The Loneliness of Winter ( Under the Cedars and the Stars) - 1973

( Originally issued as part a longer sequence called Under the Cedars and the Stars) - this section ( and the others, divided into 4 titles)    A hugely successful novelist , Sheehan ( 1852-1913) was...

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...

Tomas 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...

John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 2 - HB

In Old Ireland in Colour 2, the much-anticipated sequel to their beloved bestseller, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley have dug even deeper into Ireland's historical archives to uncover captivating...

Éamonn Mac Thomáis - Gur Cake and Coal Blocks - Dublin - Social History - PB 1986 Reprint - Illustrated

A collection of reminiscences of a childhood in the Dublin of the 1930's and 1940's. Used, but in good condition, yellowing to the external covers.   Illustrated with black and white line drawings...

Mary Arrigan - Mamó ar an Fheirm - HB As Gaeilge

Foilsithe ag An Gúm, BÁC, Mary Arrigan a scríobh agus a mhaisigh.  Mamó ar an Fheirm - 1996 ar dtús, seo é an dara cló 2002.   

Ulick O'Connor - Travels With Ulick - Vintage Mercier PB -1967

An account with the keen eye of an outsider, of a long multi city trip in the USA in spring 1965, in a period where cultural change and civil Rights issues were asserting themselves into the US...

Joan & Ray Stagles - The Blasket Islands : Next Parish America - PB - 1980

The Blasket Islands are famous for their writers, lore and unique location off the south-west tip of Ireland. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to explore the Great Blasket Island, learn its...

Thomas Flanagan - Year of the French - HB 1st UK ED 1979 - Killala 1798

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard,...

Joe Barry - Ate Mate and Follow the Band - PB - Templemore

Although described on the cover as a collection of short stories' this is perhaps more of a collection of personal memories of his life in and around the military barracks ( now the Garda College)...

Máire Uí Dhufaigh - An Garda Cósta - PB - As Gaeilge - 2012

Foilsithe ag Leabhar Breac, Conamara, 2012. Glan istigh is amuigh, clúdach bog.  ( CÓIP DARA LÁIMHE - SECONDHAND COPY)  An Garda Cósta: Tá sé ina shamhradh arís in Oileán na Leice, agus gan ag...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog : A Satirical Look at Ireland - 4 ( 1975) - Irish Times - Humour

Written by Donal Foley, this is one of a series of books from his collections of  hugely popular satirical essys for the Irish Times.  Lightest edgewear only, paperback, internally unmarked. 149...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog : A Satirical Look at Ireland - Book 2 (1973) - Irish Times - Humour

Written by Donal Foley, this is one of a series of books from his collections of  hugely popular satirical essays for the Irish Times.  Period gift inscription on inside front endpage, otherwise...

Anne Chambers - Granuaile : The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley 1530-1603 - PB

Grace O’Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land and at sea in the 16th century. In...

Josephine Marnell & Nora Breathnach - All in the Cooking - Book One - 2nd Revised Edition HB - Educational Company - Vintage - Colaiste Mhuire Book of Household Cookery ( incl dustjacket)

All In The Cooking. Book 1 - Colaiste Mhuire Book of Household Cookery. Dublin: Educational Company of Ireland, (1947). Second Edition, 250 pages with index Publisher’s dark brown cloth boards...

Frances Molloy ( Ann McGill ) - No Mate For the Magpie - Vintage PB - 1985

A paperback first edition, published by Virago UK, 1985. Debut novel. Written in frank Ulster dialect , this tells the story of Ann McGlone, a Catholic growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1950's...

Herbert Read - A Concise History of Modern Painting ( Thames and Hudson History of Art Series) - Vintage 1970 PB

First published in 1959, this is a fully revised and expanded 1974 reprint. Thames and Hudson are probably one of the best publishers of art books, both then ( at time of publication) and now . High...

James Stephens - The Crock of Gold - PB - Pan PB - 1981

A 1981 Pan paperback edition, externally clean and unmarked, moderate age tanning to pages, previous bookshop sticker to back cover.    When a crock of gold belonging to the leprechauns of Gort na...

Daniel Corkery - The Stormy Hills - Short Stories - Vintage Mercier Paperback

A collectionm of 9 short stories , published in this edition by Mercier Press, c 1966 - ( undated in this printing)  Priced at predecimal 6/.  Cover design by John Skelton, paperback - contains...

Joseph Conrad - Nostromo ( Vintage Penguin Modern Classics Ed- ( Originally 1904)

Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of...

John Durnford-Slater - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953)

Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II,  John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier...

Desmond Ryan - Michael Collins and the Invisible Army - Vintage PB Anvil Press - War of Independence ( 1971 Edition)

Desmond Ryan, the literary executor of Padraig Pearse, was a pupil of his in St. Enda's College, Rathfarnham,  in the General Post Office, Dublin, in 1916.He had the inside knowledge of the events,...

Dermot Meleady - John Redmond : Selected Letters and Memoranda 1880-1918 - HB - 2018 - ( SIGNED & DEDICATED COPY)

Irish nationalist leader John Redmond left no diaries or memoirs, but was a prolific letter-writer. In John Redmond: Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880–1918, Dermot Meleady skilfully edits...

Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill - Beyond the Twelve Bens - A History of Clifden & District : 1860-1923 - PB - 2nd Edition 1992

First published in 1986, this is the second printing of the second book on the history of Clifden, County Galway, by Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill. Paperback, 252 pages,  Illustrated throughout - this...

Micheál Ó hAodha - The O'Casey Enigma ( Sean O'Casey) - Thomas Davis Lectures - PB - 1980

Issued by RTE/ Mercier Press, as part of the long running Thomas Davis Lectures Series, 1980. The centenary of o'Casey's birth was the impetus behind this publication, composed of a series of essays...

Tim Pat Coogan ( Editor) - Ireland and the Arts - PB - Literary Review Special - PB - 1982

( From the blurb) ... affords the general reader an insight into the names and influences of those who are writing an creating work of significance in Ireland , including original essays from Heaney,...

Éamonn Mac Thomáis - Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin - PB Reprint 1988 - Local History

First published in hardcover in 1974, this is the third edition,  paperback edition from 1988, in good condition, brief gift inscription on the title page, otherwise internally unmarked, a larger...

Mario Corrigan - Druim Criaig : The Ridge of Clay - The History of Kildare Town - PB - 2009

Subtitled  ' A Contribution to the History of Kildare Town' thi sis a collection of essays on all aspects of Kildrae History, originally published as a series in the Kildare nationalist  -an also a s...

John Healy - Nineteen Acres - Mayo - 1987 Edition - Biography Classic - Family History

John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. He joined "The Western People", Ballina, as a cub reporter in 1948 and moved to Dublin in 1950 to join the Irish News Agency. Later...

T.P O'Mahony - Sex and Sanctity ( Vintage Poolbeg PB )

Published by Poolbeg Press, Dublin , 1979 Ireland, 1978. 'One of the last bastions of male priviledge is toppled when , in a rural parish of Roscarbery, West Cork , a woman is ordained as a priest...

Dermot Bolger ( Editor) - The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction - PB - USA - 1994

This volume features fiction published since 1970. Arranged in chronological order, the volume moves from the traditional to the futuristic. Authors featured include Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Faolain,...

Fergus J O'Rourke - The Fauna of Ireland : An Introduction to the Land Vertebrates - PB - 1970

'Describes all the amphibians, reptiles and land mammals known to occur in Ireland, as well as an overview of birds on the island. Well illustrated with b&w photographs with a minimum of technical...

Robert Aickman (Editor) - The (1st ) Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories - Vintage PB - 1972( Originally 1964)

First published in 1964, this is a7th reprint -1972 , of the first book of the Fontana Ghost Stories Series.  Selected and edited by Robert Aickman who also writes an introduction and one tale of his...

Thomas C Butler - The Augustinians in Limerick - PB - 1988

Stapled booklet, published 1988. Solid and clean, some underlining throughout , chapters highlighted etc.  64 pages, black and white photography throughout, image of the main Augustinian Church on...

Micheál Ó Conghaile ( Eagarthóír ) - Croch Suas É - Amhráin as Gaeilge - 1987

An ceathrú cló, 1989 - ( ina bhfuil breis amhráin nach raibh sa gcéad chló i 1986 ) - eagraithe agus roghnaithe ag Micheál ó Conghaile, agus foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht , Béal a Daingin,...

E.E O'Donnell - Father Browne's Ireland : Remarkable Images of people and Places - HB -1989

''From each of the thirty-two counties, these remarkable photographs depict city and country life, people at home, at fairs and marketplaces. These are images that capture the look of the towns and...