Irish Local History

Stephen Gwynn - Highways & Byways in Donegal and Antrim - 2013 PB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1903 )

If you take this book with you as you travel around Donegal and the Glens of Antrim you will find that you journey not only over land, but also over time. More than just about anywhere else, the...

Tommy Cecil - The Harsh Winds of Rathlin : Stories of Shipwrecks ( Extended Edition - PB ) BRAND NEW

This is an updated and extended edition of Thomas Cecil's original The Harsh Winds of Rathlin: Stories of Rathlin Shipwrecks, first published in 1989. This earlier edition contained the result of all...

Paul Clements - Irish Shores : a Journey Round the Rim of Ireland ( 25th Anniversary Edition )- PB - BRAND NEW

'Irish Shores: A Journey Round the Rim of Ireland' tells the story of a hitchhike around the West of Ireland's coastline. It conjures up a picture of a pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, reminding us that...

Tom Hennessy - Seán Hogan's Flying Column - PB - BRAND NEW ( Tipperary- War of Independence) BOOKLET

An illustrated 64 page book ( with photographs in colour and black and white) , independently published, Tipperary,  2022. Paperback ( this publication was supported with publications funding by...

Cal McCarthy - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution - Revised Edition - BRAND NEW

McCarthy, Cal - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution - Revised Second Edition -  BRAND NEW 2023 Cumann na mBan, a women’s support group to the Irish Volunteers, was founded in 1914. Its aims...

Gwen Wilkinson - The Waters and the Wild - PB - BRAND NEW

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and...

Jonathan Trigg - Death in the Fields : The IRA in East Tyrone - PB - BRAND NEW

  ‘In Belfast the Provos were trying to make the 6 o’clock news, in East Tyrone they were trying to kill you.’ With the adven

Robert L. Harris / Returning Light : 30 Years of Life on Skellig Michael (Hardback)

 'On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and unravel over the empty sea. Often, no one else is there to stand...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of South Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 ( Murder Most Local - Book 4 )

This book, the fourth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of a large number of true life historical murders from the south Cork area .  This is true cri

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Mid Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 ( Murder Most Local - Book 5 )

This book, the fifth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of 36 true life historical murders in mid Cork ( broadly covering the area bound by millstreet , Macroom,...

Eamonn MacThomais / Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

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...

Kilkenny Archaeological Society - Old Kilkenny Review - Number 56 - 2004- PB

Paperback with flaps, 224 pages, in as new condition.  Edited by Edward J Law & Cóilín Ó Drisceoil  0332-0774 56;   Doyle, Ian, & Brenda O’Meara

Jeremy Corley / Maynooth College reflects on COVID 19 : New Realities in Uncertain Times (Large Paperback)

 Where is God in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic? This volume offers a variety of reflections from the perspectives of theology, scripture, philosophy, ethics, liturgy, pastoral, and canon law.

Kilkenny Archaeological Society - Old Kilkenny Review - Number 68 - 2016 - PB

Paperback, 244 pages, in as new condition.  Edited by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil. 

Obelisk - Journal of Kilmacud & Stillorgan History Society 2021 - Number 13 - Dublin

Issue number 15 of Obelisk - the journal of Kilmacud and Stillorgan Local History Society, published 2021, a high quality production, printed on high quality paper , bound , with illustrations...

Mercedes Lillis - Two Hundred Years A growing 1787-1987 : The Story of the Ursulines in Thurles - PB

A history of the Ursulines ( a religious teaching order) and their long history in Thurles, Tipperary.  All such accounts of religious houses are valuable sources of local history and genealogy -...

Obelisk - Journal of Kilmacud & Stillorgan History Society 2018 - Number 13 - Dublin

Issue number 12 of Obelisk - the journal of Kilmacud and Stillorgan Local History Society, published 2018, a high quality production, printed on high quality paper , bound , with illustrations...

Michael V. Hanna - Denis Brenan Bullen ( 1802-66) Inspector of Anatomy for the Province of Munster : The controversial Career of a Cork Surgeon- PB - BRAND NEW - 2020

Denis Brenan Bullen was a controversial figure in the medical history of Cork in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. As a teenager in 1820 he played a central role when his father...

Manchán Magán - Listen to the Land Speak - HB - BRAND NEW

Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connected to the land. They used this connection to the...

Frank McDonald / A Little History of the Future of Dublin

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Tim Pat Coogan / The GAA and the War of Independence (Hardback)

 Founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball, the GAA enjoyed an intimate relationship with the nationalist movement from the turn of...

Breandán Ó hEithir & Ruairí Ó hEithir ( Editors) - An Aran Reader - HB - 1999

An Aran Reader edited by Ruairi Ó hEithir and Breandán Ó hEithir The Aran Islands are among the most finely wrought land-masses in the western world. Their antiquity, diversity and cultural richness...

Mick O'Farrell / The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier

 This book contains the unpublished diaries of two men writing under fire on the streets of Dublin in April 1916.In Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de Brun wrote in his tiny diary about guard...

Seán Spellissy - The History of Limerick City - PB - 1998

This book is a chronicle of the development of  life in urban Limerick from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century. The origins of the city are Viking, the city was the subject of two...

Egan, Thomas - The Story of Ballintubber Abbey - Vintage Booklet - Mayo - 1971

A stapled tourist centered booklet, first published in 1963, here in a 1971 updated reprint, a guide to the important monastic abbey at Ballintubber, , located between Castlebar and Ballinrobe, in...

Barry McCaffrey / Alex Maskey: Man and Mayor

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Oughterard Agricultural Show - Celebrating 50 Years 1962-2012 - HB - Galway

This book celebrating fifty years of the Oughterard show was launched in August 2012 at the Show Grounds Oughterard, County Galway. With history, memories and images, this publication is a wonderful...

Mick McCarthy - Early Days - 1990 - Kerry Autobiography - SIGNED

Light SUNFADE to the covers, internally there is a gift inscription to the title page  'to ( name) with lots of love, Mick McCarthy 24th May 1990) An account of growing up in rural Kerry (...

Ní Bhraonáin, Eimear & Harvey, Jeff - Is Féidir Linn : A Golden Ticket to Moneygall - HB -2011

 

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...

Ernie O'Malley - Raids and Rallies - PB - Vintage Anvil Press 1982

During the War of Independence, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some notes of his were smuggled out. `Most of all,' he wrote, `I would have liked to talk...

Liz Martin / Still Standing : An Irishwoman's Story of HIV and Hope (Large Paperback)

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Monkstown Park Annual 2005 - Christian Brothers College School Yearbook - PB

The annual school yearbook for Monkstown Park School ( CBS) 2005, fullcoverage of sport, academic events, staff, schiool societies and events etc 150 pages, illustrated throughout. 

Lyons, John ( Editor) - An Choinneal - Number 24 - 2008 - PB - Louisburgh Parish Journal

An Coinneal is Louisburgh Parish magazine, the oldest parish magazine in Ireland since 1959. It has published both Irish & English language articles over the years. It was the brainchild of Fr. Leo...

OPW - Áras an Uachtaráin : A History of the President's House - PB - 2013

Published in English and as Gaeilge ( back to back in the one book) -content is identical in both versions - this is a  full colour illustrated of Áras an Uachtaráin, the full history of the house ,...

Fedamore News Magazine 2016 ( 43rd Edition) - PB - Limerick

The 43RD issue of the Fedamore Annual / Fedamore News, published 2016, cover shows Rita Gleeson , back cover shows hunting in Rural Limerick. A large format bound paperback, retailed at €10. 

Fedamore News Magazine 2014 ( 41st Edition) - PB - Limerick

The 41st issue of the Fedamore Annual / Fedamore News, published 2014, cover shows the opening ceremony of the refurbished Community Hall. A large format bound paperback, retailed at €10. Aerial...

Christopher Lee / This Sceptred Isle : 55BC-1901

 Based on the award-winning Radio 4 programmes THIS SCEPTRED ISLE tells the fascinating story of British history from Caesar's invasion in 55BC to Queen Victoria's death in 1901.Using extracts from...

Audrey Healy / Dubliners (Large Paperback)

 Audrey Healy's Dubliners: What's the Story? is a collection of interviews and pen pictures of more than fifty of the city's most famous sons and daughters. It ranges in scope from Arthur Guinness to...

Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB

This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired...

Sean Beecher / Day by Day: A Miscellany of Cork History (Large Paperback)

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Blackrock College Annual - 2009 School Yearbook - Dublin

SchooL college yearbook, coverage of sport, events, classes ( with photos of most senior year pupils , as well as detailed coverage of rugby, one of the school's most notable sports. Gift inscription...

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...

Éamonn Mac Thomáis - The Labour and the Royal - PB Illustrated Dublin 1988 ( Originally 1979 )

A writer more closely associated with the Liberties area of Dublin, Eamonn Mac Thomáis was in fact born above Rathmines Fire Station, where his father was a Fire Brigade Officer. His father died when...

Terri Kearney - Lough Hyne : The Marine Researchers- In Pictures - PB - CORK

Large format paperback, published 2011, subtitled ' A Visual History of the Scientific research carried out at Europe's first Marine Nature Reserve' 96 pages, with period photographs, maps,...

Terri Kearney & Philip O'Regan - Skibbereen : The Famine Story - PB - BRAND NEW - CORK

Written by Terri Kearney and Philip O'Regan, both of Skibbereen Heritage Centre, Skibbereen: The Famine Story traces the tragic events of the crisis as it unfolded. Skibbereen was 'the very nucleus'...

William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of...

John Lindsey Darling - St. Multose Church Kinsale: As It Was, And Is, And Ought To Be - PB - BRAND NEW 2021

First published in 1895, St. Multose Church Kinsale: As it was, and is, and ought to be was the work of the then rector of Kinsale, the Rev. John Lindsey Darling. It used detailed architectural...

Robert Cochrane - A List of Ancient and National Monuments in the County of Cork - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021

Originally published in 1913, A List of Ancient and National Monuments in the County of Cork by Robert Cochrane includes beautifully illustrated descriptions of the six sites then under the control...

de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland

First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history.  from the blurb - ''In this skilful and...

Tom Nestor - Golfing in the Glenns : The Story of Birr Golf Club 1893-2003

Birr Golf Club by Tom Nestor, no isbn, 2003 paperback, illustrated.  In August 1893, the King's County Chronicle published an account of a game of golf which was played on the grounds of Mr...