Vintage, Used & Collectible Books - March 2026

Nathalie Anderson ( Editor) - Open-Eyed, Full-Throated : An Anthology of American /Irish Poets - PB

Paperback, published by Arlen House 2019, there is a bookshop sticker on teh back cover, light edgewear, otherwise internally as new.  Open-Eyed, Full-Throated introduces forty-four distinct voices,...

Charles Breunig - The Age of Revolution and Reaction 1789-1850 ( 2nd Edition) - PB 1977

Paperback, 2nd revised edition 1977, originally 1970, a standalone volume in teh wider Norton History of Modern Europe series

Jerome Quinn - Ulster Gaelic Games Annual 1994 - PB

Paperback, published in association with Bass Brewing, 1994. The early 1990's were somewhat of a golden era for Ulster Football, with a succession of teams winning the All Ireland.  Illustrated. 

Mel Mermelstein - By Bread Alone : The Story of A4685 - A Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust - PB

Published 1979, this is the 1981 edition , reprint, paperback , illustrated.  By Bread Alone is the powerful story of the author's survival and of the decimation of his family, many friends, and...

Tommy Barrett & Susan Max - The Runaí - 50 Years of GAA Memories - PB

Paperback, published 2011, signed by both authors , also signed by past GAA Uachtarán Peadar Quinn ( presumably at the launch)  The book emphasises Tommy's republican side from his birth in...

Nuala O'Connor - Bringing it All Back Home : The Influence of Irish Music - PB - 2002

Linked with a TV documentary series of the same name, this is a 2002 PB published by Merlin Publishing Dublin.  Chronicles the long history of Irish music and Irish influence of muisc in the United...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Londonderry -Book IV - 1824, 1833-5 (Roe Valley Upper- Dungiven) - Volume 15

The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6'' ordnance survey...

Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy and Alex Bayliss - Gathering Time - Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosureds of Southern Britain and Ireland - HB - 2011 ( Volume 1 & 2 )

Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early...

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...

Jim O'Donnell & Seán de Fréine - Ciste Cúrsaí Reatha - PB

Paperback, as gaeilge san iomlán. Cnuasach téarmaí agus téarmaíocht ag baint le polataíocht, eacnamaíocht agus cúrsaí reatha.  Focail agus smaointe an lae inniu. Cad as dóibh? Ceard is brí leo?...

Noel Dundon - Captains of the Premier Ship : Tipperary's All-Ireland winning Senior Hurling Captains - PB

The book, a 320 page account of the life and times of the twenty one captains who led Tipperary to All-Ireland glory since 1887, was penned by Tipperary Star journalist Noel Dundon. Published by the...

Victor Papanek - Design for the Real World : Human Ecology and Social Change - PB 1978 ( Originally 1974)

Paperback, published in this edition by Paladin UK 1978, having first been published in 1971.  Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in...

J. Anthony Gaughan - Olivia Mary Taaffe 1832-1918 - HB

Olivia Mary Taaffe (1832–1918), founder of St Joseph's Young Priests Society, was born in 1832 in Annagh House, Ballyglunin, seven miles from Tuam, Co. Galway. Olivia and her sister (later Sr Mary...

Michael Davitt - Oomph of Quicksilver - Freacnairc Mhearcair ( Rogha Dánta) - Dual Language Edition - PB

Michael Davitt is a very well known writer and broadcaster for RTÉ. He founded the poetry broadsheet and journal Innti and was a central figure in a new movement in Gaelic poetry in the 1970s. He...

Cecily Joyce - Claddagh Ring Story - PB 1990

An account of the origins and history of Ireland's most famous and enduring love token - Galway's Claddagh Ring.  Paperback 1990, Illustrated.  SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - WITH BEST WISHES - CECILY JOYCE

Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY

Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her...

Eavan Boland - Object Lessons : The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time - HB US 1st Edition 1995

US 1st Edition, Norton USA, in dustjacket, as new copy.  In this important prose work, one of Ireland's major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together...

Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED

Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the...

Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB

Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983

Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló.  Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas curta roimhe seo.   

Liam Ó Muirthile - Walking Time agus Dánta Eile ( le CD) - PB -2000 - AS GAEILGE

Winner Gradam Litríochta Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1999. Lyrics celebrating the tradesman, and at the same time the work of the poet, as they interweave in these ‘dánta seanchais’ as the author calls them...

Padraigín Riggs, Breandán Ó Conchúir & Seán Ó Coileáin ( Eagarthóirí) - Saoi na hÉigse: Aistí in Ómós do Sheán Ó Tuama - HB 2000

Essays in honour of Seán ó Tuama, údar, eagarthóir agus leachtóir le Gaeilge i UCC, agus ceann do mhór-chriticí litríochta na Gaeilge .  Clúdach crua, foilsithe ag An Clóchomhar, 2000. 

Mike Cronin, Mark Duncan and Paul Rouse - The GAA : A People's History - HB 2014

This history of Gaelic games and the social world around them has been an outstanding success. From how and where Gaelic games were played and watched to their impact on Irish communities at home and...

Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald ( Editor) - Best Loved Yeats Poems - HB - BRAND NEW

I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams … Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from the pen of William Butler Yeats, poet, patriot, dramatist...

E.A D'Alton - History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - 6 VOLUME FULL SET - Gresham Publishing 1910 ( 3rd revised EDITION)

The printing history of this series is somewhat complex - and as follows - Originally published in 1903 ( the first edition , but incomplete).  -  this was a long-running project covering Irish...

Dale Carnegie - The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - HB - 1992

Good public speakers are made, not born - or so thinks Dale Carnegie, the pioneer of personal business skills. Yet business, social and personal satisfaction depend heavily upon a person's ability to...

Bruce Arnold - What Kind of Country - Modern Irish Politics 1968-1983 - PB

It would be comforting to claim that Ireland came of age during this period' writes Bruce Arnold... ' the evidence does not support that claim' ...   Arnold examines the relationship between the...

Spiros Zakas - Furniture in 24 Hours - PB 1977 ( 3rd Printing, Originally 1976)

A how-to for easy to make furniture. Detailed instructions, photos of finished product. 128 pages, indexed. A native of Atlanta, Spiros Zakas was a graduate of Grady High School and began his career...

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...

Liam O'Donnchu - Semple Stadium : Field of Legends - HB - AS NEW COPY - 2021 - GAA

Semple Stadium in Thurles, Co Tipperary, is truly "the home of hurling". This illustrated history of the stadium begins in 1884 when GAA was first founded in Thurles and chronicles the opening of...

Robert Bernen - Tales From the Blue Stacks - Vintage Poolbeg PB - 1980 - Donegal ( Originally 1978)

Born in New York, Robert Bernen settled in Donegal in 1970 where he and his wife took over a derelict hill farm north of Donegal town and started to raise sheep. There, he found his neighbours living...

Liam Ó Muirthile - Sanas - Cnuasach Filíochta le CD - PB - 2007

An bunchnuasach filíochta is téagartha agus is ilghnéithí ag an údar le tamall. Dhá chnuasach ar shlí é in aon cheann amháin, scátháin a chéile mar a thuigfí ó phalandróm an teidil. Dánta...

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,...

Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018

In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would...

George O'Brien - Dancehall Days - HB - 1ST Edition 1988

Dancehall Days brings the narrator to his father’s house in Monkstown, Dublin, to dream of a college education and of twisting the night away. Instead, he experiences the vicissitudes of a beloved...

Eleanor Knott - Irish Syllabic Poetry 1200-1600 - PB -2ed Reprint 1994

An introduction to Irish Syllabic Poetry of the period 1200-1600, with selections, notes and glossary, by Eleanor Knott, 2nd edition reprint, 1994, published by the school of Celtic Studies, DIAS,...

Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography 1986 - Politics Ireland

Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor,...

Ryan Tubridy - JFK in Ireland : Four Days That Changed a President - HB 1st Edition 2010

Award-winning broadcast journalist, Ryan Tubridy tells the fascinating story of the young, iconic President John F. Kennedy's only visit to Ireland. The idolized, handsome and glamorous John...

Robert Gibbings - Sweet Cork of Thee - Hardcover Illustrated 1952

A HB 1964 reprint edition of Kinsale born Robert Gibbings Sweet Cork of Thee, first published by Dent in1951.  Gibbings was a master illustrator, the artwork in this is evocative, and captures the...

Michael O'Sullivan & Bernardine O'Neill - The Shelbourne Hotel and It's People - HB - Dublin 1999

  Published by Blackwater Press, 1999, this is a history of Dublin's most notable hotel - The Shelbourne on Stephen's Green - this was issued on it's 175th anniversary , its now nearly at 200 years (...

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...

Walter Macken - Seek the Fair Land ( Irish Trilogy - Book 1) Vintage Pan Paperback

The first novel in Walter Macken's loose epic trilogy examining 300 years of Irish history.  Set amidst the Cromwellian Invasions, Seek the Fair Wind begins in 1641. Dominick McMahon, a merchant by...

Joseph T Carroll - Ireland in the War Years 1939-45 HB - 1st Ed 1975 - Emergency

A hardcover 1st Edition co published by David & Charles UK and Crane Russak USA, 1975, a detailed account of Ireland 's history during WW2 , referred to in Ireland at the time as 'The Emergency'...

Proinsias Ó Conluain - Seán T Ó Ceallaigh PB 1st Ed 1963 Gaeilge Biography

A paperback first edition, FNT , 1963 , of the autobiography of the youth and early years of Seán T Ó Ceallaigh, co written with Prionsias Ó Conluain.  Seán T, as he was universally known, had a...

Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket : The H-Block Story - PB Northern Ireland

A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin,  reprint 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication.

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence - 1971 Edition

A paperback edition, (the first decimal priced edition) - 1971 Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days in Ireland. Originally published in...