Irish Local History

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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Myles Dungan / Four Killings (Large Paperback)

 The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash.'A vivid and chilling...

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 ,...

Frank Hanley- Kilkeedy : A Success Story From a Rural Parish on the Preservation of Historic Ruins - HB - 2001 - Limerick

Kilkeedy Graveyard near Clarina in county Limerick is home to two churches, one a medieval structure of which some features remain, and the second being a Church of Ireland church built in the 19th...

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...

Michael Viney / Reflections of Another Life (Large Paperback)

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Glenn Patterson / Backstop Land (Large Paperback)

 'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE. 'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been...

Patrick Guinness / Arthur's Round (Large Paperback)

 Ireland's best-known Irishman, his name and signature in every household and village in Ireland, and many abroad, is also the least known. Part of Dublin life for over two centuries, both family and...

Brendan Power / From the Heart of Ireland (Large Paperback)

  This unique collection boasts a wide range of contributors drawn from the four corners of Ireland. Some are well-known as broadcasters, politicians, writers and journalists; others are...

Uí Ógain, Ríónach ( Eagarthóir) - Béaloideas - Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society - HB - 2014- Volume 82

The object of the society as stated in the editorial of the first issue of Béaloideas, which appeared in June 1927, was to collect, preserve and publish the folklore of Ireland. The Society’s...

Denis O'Shaughnessy - A Spot so fair : Tales From St Mary's - Limerick

First published in 1998 of O'Shaughnessy's local history of St Mary'a Parish in the heart of Limerick city - covering the parish itself, Abbey Fishermen, historic events , parish personalities, life...

Martin Fletcher / Silver Linings : Travels Around Northern Ireland (Hardback)

  Northern Ireland has made headlines around the world for three decades. The province has become synonymous with conflict, terrorism and tortuous efforts to forge peace. But what is life there...

Antony Miall / The Xenophobe's Guide to the English

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K. S. Daly / Ireland: An Encyclopedia for the Bewildered (Hardback)

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