Irish History and Historical Biography

John Crowley, Mike Cronin, Cormac Moore & Charlie Roche ( Editors) - Atlas of Irish Sport History, Politics, Identity - BRAND NEW

TRACKED AN POST DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Atlas of Irish Sport - History, Politics, Identity Foreword by Mary McAleese Sport in all its forms is central to many people's lives...

Padraic Coffey - This Day in Irish History - PB

Published by O'Brien Press, 2022, trade paperback, illustrated in black and white.  You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle...

Seán Enright - After the Rising : Soldiers, Lawyers and Trials of the Irish Revolution - PB - 2016

In this sequel to his bestselling Easter Rising 1916: The Trials, Seán Enright puts the great legal cases of the period into context with exacting clarity, including the Mac Curtain Inquest, the...

Edel Bhreathnach - Monasticism in Ireland 900-1250 - HB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction.  Winner of the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2025 Winner of the 2025 ACIS James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books in the Humanities...

Fin Dwyer - A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders - HB -2023

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Des Geraghty - At the Dawning of the Day : Luke Kelly and the Dubliners - BRAND NEW

The voice of Luke Kelly and the music of the Dubliners provided a very welcome wake-up call for a sleepy and depressed Ireland in the early 1960s. It was the dawning of a new and brighter day when...

Anthony Murphy - Ireland : Land of Legend - BRAND NEW

Owen O'Shea - Unchanged and Unchangeable : Austin Stack and the Irish Revolution - HB - BRAND NEW

Biography of the Kerry revolutionary.  Austin Stack was one of the central figures in the Irish revolutionary period. From his role in the lead-up to the 1916 Rising, through his senior positions in...

Joseph Coohill - Ireland : A Short History ( 5th Edition) ) PB

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the...

Sinéad McCoole - No Ordinary Women : Irish Female Acvtivists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 - PB 2004

Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, activists and politicians – women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom. This book vividly recreates the characters, personalities and...

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence 1969

A paperback 3RD edition, 1969( still in predecimal pricing, the first decimal edition was 1971)  Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days...

Aodh de Blacam - What Sinn Féin Stands For - HB - 1921

A hardcover first edition, Mellifont Press, Dublin 1921. A small format hardcover in dark grey cloth with titles in black to front and spine.  247 pages, the full subtitle is ''The Irish Republican...

Denis G. Marnane - The 3rd Brigade : A History of the Volunteers/IRA in South Tipperary 1913-21 - PB - 2018

Along with the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, the actions and personalities of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade loom large in the public awareness of the War of Independence. The actions of Dan...

The Kerryman - With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom 1917 to the Truce : The Red Path of Glory - PB 1955 1st Edition

With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce. The Red Path of Glory. no author or editor listed , published by The Kerryman, 1950,  238 pages. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. A very...

Mark Clinton - Carrickmines Castle : Rise and Fall - HB - BRAND NEW

The Walshes were rooted in south County Dublin from the late fourteenth century. By the early 1600s members of the family had become actors in the theatre of war across Europe. These were times of...

Manchán Magan - Seeing What's Hidden - HB - BRAND NEW

FREE TRACKED AN POST DELIVERY INCLUDED IN IRELAND The third book in the trilogy from the late Manchán Magan, who completed the book shortly before his death in October 2025.  In his final book,...

James Stephens / The Insurrection in Dublin (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Max Barrett - A History of Ireland in 100 Stamps - HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE The story of Ireland through one hundred postage stamps issued since the creation of the Irish Free StateA stamp is about so much more than...

Leon Ó Broin - Comhcheilg sa Chaisleán - HB - As Gaeilger - 1963

Clúdach crua, foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, Baile Átha Cliath, 1963. Clúdach le Simon Ó Colmáin.  As Gaeilge san iomlán 

Frank Forde - Maritime Arklow - HB - 1988 - Wicklow

Hardcover, published by Glendale Books, 1988.  Condition , internally and externally is very good , apart from a rather scrawled gift dedication to a previous owner on the inside front title page ,...

Martin Wallace - Great Irish Lives ( Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

Great Irish Live provides a parade of some of Ireland's greatest men and women. Some are little known outside of Ireland such as Father Mathew, Lord Carson, or Hugh O'Neill but others are famous...

Christine Kinealy - Tracing Your Irish Roots ( Appletree Pocket Guides ) - PB - BRAND NEW (Revised & Updated Edition) - 2019

2ND REVISED EDITION, 2019. Originally 1999, updated edition.  Whether building a family tree or simply researching the history of their ancestors, people of Irish heritage will find the means to...

Brian de Breffny - Castles of Ireland - PB -1985 (Originally 1977)

Originally published in hardcover by Thames and Hudson in 1977, this is a PB reprint, 1985. Primarily black and white photographs internally, some in colour. Organised a-z, with photographs by George...

Desmond Forristal - The Second Burial of Bishop Shanahan - PB - 1990

Published by Veritas Books, 1990, a biography of Tipperay born Joseph Shanahan, who founded religious orders and worked on what were termed 'The Missions' in Southern Nigeria  as priest and bishop ,...

Seán Duffy - Atlas of Irish History - 2ND Edition -PB

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...

Aaron Edwards - Enemies Within : The Explosive True Story of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair, Northern Ireland’s Most Infamous Paramilitary Godfather - BRAND NEW

‘Three things come with taking a man’s life. The first one is the easy bit – going into a room and shooting somebody… The second is preparing yourself if you get caught coming or going and getting...

TP O'Mahony - Forbidden Ireland : Church and State 1951 to the Present Day - PB - BRAND NEW

A definitive social history of modern Ireland. How did Catholic bishops lose their control over Irish women and Irish life? TP O’Mahony traces seven decades of Church–State conflict in Ireland, from...

Cliodhna Ni Anluain - Sounding Ireland : Radio and the Making of Us - BRAND NEW

At 7.45pm on 1 January 1926, a crackling voice over the airwaves marked the beginning of public broadcasting in Ireland. From that first transmission by 2RN - the precursor to RTÉ - ON AIR: A...

David Hare - Legacy : Ireland's National Historic Properties - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE STEP INSIDE THE STORY OF IRELAND’S MOST TREASURED PLACES... Discover the stories behind some of Ireland’s most iconic historic landmarks in...

Michael B. Barry - Catalpa : The Epic Story of the Greatest Prison rescue in Irish History - HB - BRAND NEW

Six prisoners. One whaleship. A plot bold enough to shake the British Empire.Catalpa tells the extraordinary true story of one of the most audacious operations in Irish history – the rescue of six...

Kerby Miller & Breandán MacSuibhne - A Letter Home : Irish Correspndence from America 1818-1972 - BRAND NEW

A Letter Home is a beautiful, illustrated book featuring over sixty letters – short and long – written to home by Irish emigrants to North America from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s.Drawn from the...

John Gibney / 1916-18 Changed Utterly: Ireland After the Rising (Coffee Table Book)

The years between 1916 and 1919 are easil

Russell Rees / Union to Partition: Ireland 1801-1921 (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Anne Chambers / La Sheridan : Adorable Diva - Margaret Burke Sheridan, Irish Prima Donna, 1889-1958 (Coffee Table Book)

La Seridan: Adorable Diva La Sheridan, as she became known to enthusiastic opera fans throughout Europe, was born Margaret Burke Sheridan in the town of Castlebar in Ireland. From 1918 until her...

Brendan Ó Cathaoir - Famine Diary - HB

Based on a wide selection of sources – contemporary newspapers, official correspondence and diaries – this book provides a graphic picture of conditions in the Irish countryside as the crisis...

T.F O'Sullivan - The Young Irelanders - HB 1944

Hardcover, lacking the original dustjacket, published by The Kerryman Newspaper, Tralee.  With titles in silver to the dark green spine, plain unlettered pale green paper covered boards to front and...

Niamh Hassett & Daniel Jack - Searching for Seán : Remembering Seán Treacy 100 Years On - PB - SIGNED- 2020

Paperback, published 2020 ( as part of the decade of Centenaries, this particular book was issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Treacy's death in Dublin's Talbot Street in October 1920 ...

Brian Siggins - The Great White Fair : The Herbert Park Exhibition of 1907 - PB

Published by the History Press, a 2011 reprint of the 2007 edition.  Using postcards and photographs, this book tells the story of one newspaper editor's vision and the men and women who brought the...

Samuel Clark & James S. Donnelly Jr. (Editors) - Irish Peasants : Violence and Political Unrest 1780-1914 - PB - 1983

A key work on agraraian Ireland in the long 19th century, with essays from a host of notable historians - David Dickson, Paul Bew, David Miller, Paul Roberts, Liam Kennedy  Heavy age spotting and...

Sheila Carden - The Alderman : Alderman Tom Kelly 1868-1942 and Dublin Corporation - PB

October 2007: Dublin City Public Libraries has just published a biography of Alderman Tom Kelly, who was an influential member of Dublin City Council in the early decades of the 20th century, a...

Laurence Flanagan - Irish Women's Letters - HB

  This selection of letters is drawn from women from every background - the big houses of the Anglo-Irish gentry, small farms scattered throughout the countryside, urban slums and middle-class...

Jack Holland - The American Connection : U.S Guns, Money & Influence in Northern Ireland - PB ( 2nd Revised Edition 1999)

Originally published in 1987, this is the much expanded and updated edition 1999, covering the period inbetween in detail ( including the role of the USA in the wider Northern Ireland Peace...

Silvermines Historical Society - Mining the Past : The History, People and Places of Silvermines District - PB - 2020

Volume IX of the journal, edited by John Kennedy, published 2019 for 2020 Silvermines is an historic area ( mostly upland , located immediately south of the town of Nenagh in Tipperary) ISSN-...

Silvermines Historical Society - Mining the Past : The History, People and Places of Silvermines District - PB - 2024/25

Volume IX of the journal, edited by John Kennedy, published 2024 for 2024/25 Silvermines is an historic area ( mostly upland , located immediately south of the town of Nenagh in Tipperary) ISSN-...

Silvermines Historical Society - Mining the Past : The History, People and Places of Silvermines District - PB - 2021

Volume IX of the journal, edited by John Kennedy, published 2020 for 2021 Silvermines is an historic area ( mostly upland , located immediately south of the town of Nenagh in Tipperary) ISSN-...

T.W Moody & F.X Martin- The Course of Irish History - PB Illustrated - Vintage 1990 15th Impression

The Course of Irish History is the classic general history of Ireland, covering the economic, social and political development of the island of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day. It...

''Political Economy''(R.W Gamble- Pseudonym) - The Irish Landlord and his Accusers, with an Account of Misguided Legislation and Consequent Demoralization and Danger, Social and Political - HB 1882

The Irish Landlord and his Accusers is an 1882 book by R.W. Gamble detailing the intense social, political, and economic conflicts between Irish landowners and tenant farmers.The book traces the...

Mary Carroll / Women Drive Tractors Too - 18 True Stories of Irish Women in Argiculture (Coffee Table Book)

Presents a collection of biographic stories of women in agriculture This book is a legacy from the IFA Equality Project, but more importantly it allows these 18 remarkable women to each tell her own...

Fionnuala O'Connor / In Search of a State : Catholics in Northern Ireland (Large Paperback)

Catholics in Northern Ireland This is a study of the perceived monolith of Northern Catholicism and the realities it conceals. In a series of interviews with Catholics from every walk of life, and...

Brian Inglis - The Freedom of the Press in Ireland - 1784-1841 - HB - 1965

Hardcover, published by Faber UK, a standalone volume in the wider 'Studies in Irish History series/ Edgweear to the cover, the dustjacket is now in a removable Herma jacket protector.  Discusses the...

Barry O'Donnell (Editor) - Irish Surgeons and Surgery in the Twentieth Century - HB - SIGNED 2009

Hardcover, published by Gill Books,2008 edited by Barry O'Donnell. With a gift inscription by him , ''to Charles, a fellow collector of important trivia, with admiration, Barry, June...

Mark Hennessy - Trim : Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 14 - ( Historic Maps)

A LARGE FORMAT PLASTIC BINDER FORMAT , with loose ( full size colour reproductions of historic maps - Ordnance Survey and earlier) of the historic town of Trim , County Meath  Published by the RIA as...