Irish Local History

William J Hayes - Holycross : The Awakening of the Abbey - PB - 2011

Paperback, profusely illustrated throughout. A detailed guide to the restoration of the Holycross Abbey in the town of Holycross, by the Suir in North Tipperary, covering the history of the abbey and...

Pat Walsh - Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown : Images of Ireland - PB

Paperback, published by The History Press, 2005, here from 2010 ( with new cover design)  Dun Laoghaire Rathdown sweeps from the Dublin Mountains down to the sea and this collection of over 200...

Colm Lennon - That Field of Glory : The Story of Clontarf , from Battleground to Garden Suburb - HB - 2014

Hardcover, published by Wordwell Books, 2014.  That field of glory: the story of Clontarf, from battleground to garden suburb   That field of glory tells the story of Clontarf, beginning with the...

Gareth McCormack - The Mountains of Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW

This landmark collection of imagery showcases the Irish mountains at their very best. Gareth McCormack has spent over 20 years exploring Ireland's hills, going to extraordinary lengths to capture...

Carsten Krieger - Wild Ireland - A Nature Journey From Shore to Peak - HB = BRAND NEW

Author and photographer Carsten Krieger takes us on a journey across Ireland to explore the nature we pass by every day, and that which is buried deep in the bog, high in the mountains and under...

Carsten Krieger - Ireland : Discover its Beauty - HB - BRAND NEW

A full photographic tour covering the whole of Ireland. Carsten Krieger's renowned evocative landscape photography is complimented by more intimate shots of craftspeople going about their daily work...

Carsten Krieger - Ireland's Coast - PB - BRAND NEW

In Ireland you are never far away from the border between land and sea and the coast is an integral part of the country. It is a place of natural beauty and vibrant history. Carsten Krieger takes the...

Carsten Krieger - Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way - PB - BRAND NEW

Take a photographic journey down Ireland’s Atlantic coast from Donegal in the north to Cork in the south. This beautiful book showcases the west coast in all its wild beauty: dramatic views, abundant...

Michael & Ethna Viney - Another Life Again - PB 1981 - Mayo - Irish Times - Rural Life

Published by Irish Times Books, 1981, this is the follow on to the authors' succesful Another Life, based on the long running column of nature notes and observations by husband and wife Michael and...

Andy Bielenberg - Locke's Distillery : A History - PB

  Originally published in 1993 Locke's Distillery was reissued in 2007 to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the company. Despite market dominance by Scotch in this century, Irish...

Margaret Dowling - Recapturing Bygone Days - Agricultural College Athenry - Galway - PB - 2013 - SIGNED

Paperback, published by Choice Publishing, 2013, signed by the author and dated  ''Launched 6-5-2013 enjoy reading Margaret'' An illustrated memoir of the Agricultural college at Athenry, opened in...

Bernard Share - Cobh Connections - A Record of Railway Service 1862-2012 - PB

Co-published by Iarnród Éireann in association with COBH150 and Titanic100 Commemoration,  2012. A history of railways in the wider Cork Harbour area.  Paperback, illustrated throughout 

Patricia McCarthy - A Favourite Study - Building the King's Inns - HB

Hardcover, illustrated throughout, published by Gill & Macmillan, 2006. 

Brian Mac Aonghusa - Hidden Streams : A New History of Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown - HB

Hardcover, published by Currach Press, 2007. In excellent condition, hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated throughout.  In Hidden Streams, local historian Brian Mac Aongusa takes the reader on a...

Haldane Mitchell / Omagh: Paintings and Stories From the Seat of the Chiefs (Coffee Table Book)

2000. First Published. 86 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Padded illustrated paper covered boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Flat signed by author and illustrator to title page...

Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society - Volume 24 - 1991 PB

Paperback, 166 pages with index, Light edgewear to covers Articles featured: A Report on the Excavation of Cashel at Ballyegan, near Castleisland, Co. Kerry (Martin E. Byrne)A Prehistoric Decorated...

Haldane Mitchell - Images of Omagh and District - Volume 10 - PB

Paperback, published 2002, a photographic history book on Omagh and surrounding areas in County Tyrone.   

Haldane Mitchell - Images of Omagh and District - Volume 7 - PB

Paperback, published 1999, a photographic history book on Omagh and surrounding areas in County Tyrone. 

Lorcan Finnegan - Dublin Streets 2012-2022 - Photography - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover, as issued in bright yellow/ mustard coloured cloth covers, some bumps to corners.  The quality of the portraits - all candid street photography - is stunning. On occasion the subject is...

Ian Wilson - HMS Drake : Rathlin Island Shipwreck - PB - 2011

Paperback, published by Rathlin Island Press, 2011, in as new condition, 86 pages with photographs  The Royal Navy warship HMS Drake was torpedoed by the German U79 on October 2 1917 - this is the...

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...

E.T Craig - An Irish Commune - The Experiment at Ralahine - County Clare 1831-1833 - PB

Published by Irish Academic Press, 1983. The book is a reprint of the 1920 originalk by E.T Craig, as well as adding the essays by James Connolly ( 1910)  and Cormac ó Gráda ( 1974) Ralahine, just...

Lesley Bond - Blasket Bound : Memoirs of an Ireland Caretaker - PB - BRAND NEW

Like those who came before me, I arrived as an outsider, but the island does not allow one to remain separate for long. It takes root and leaves a mark you cannot shake.’ Lesley Bond and her partner...

Rita McCarthy - Forgotten Lives : The Story of the County Clare Mother and Baby Known as the County Nursery 1922-32 - PB - BRAND NEW

In 1922, the County Clare Nursery, a state-supported mother and baby home for County Clare, was opened in part of Kilrush Workhouse. For the ten years of its existence it was owned and funded by...

Dan Danaher - Powerful People : Ardnacrusha Power Station by the People Who Worked There - PB

With the flick of a switch on 22 July 1929, Ireland was changed forever. When President W T Cosgrave turned on power at Ardnacrusha Hydroelectric Station, it kickstarted an exciting era for the new...

Eilish McCarthy - Two Islands : Growing Up in County Clare - Liscannor, Inis Oírr and Ennis - PB - BRAND NEW

Eilish McCarthy made her vocal way into this world in October 1948. Some say she hasn’t stopped talking since! Eilish’s whole world was Liscannor, where her father was the local headmaster, with...

David Lee & Debbie Jacobs - Made in Limerick : History of Industries, Trade and Commerce - PB - 2003

Published by Limerick Civic Trust, 2002. The book, in a series of essays by a wide range of contributors, deals with the economic and industrial , commercial and trade history of the city, covering a...

Jack McKenna - Spoilt Rotten : Memoirs pf Jack McKenna of Listowel 1918-2028 - PB - Kerry

Published by North Kerry Literary Trust, Listowel, 2018.    Jack, of McKenna's Hardware fame, is one of the best known of the town's business leaders; and a major contributing force within the...

Valerie O'Sullivan - The MacGillycuddy's Reeks - HB - KERRY

THE MACGILLYCUDDY'S REEKS stretch for 19 magnificent kilometres along the eastern boundary of the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry. Renowned photographer Valerie O'Sullivan captures the rich heritage and...

Tom Ferris - Irish Railways in Colour : From Steam to Diesel 1955-1967 - HB 1992

Hardcover, published by Gill Books, 1992, the same edition was first published by UK transport centered published Midland Books. A full pictorial survey of days long gone on Irish Railways- north and...

Pat McCarrick - The Windings of the Moy Revisited - PB

From 1916 to 1918, the original author of The Windings of the Moy, Rev. James Greer, navigated his way up-river towards ‘these inner reaches of the Moy’. This book by photographer, Pat McCarrick...

David Lee - Remembering Limerick - Historical Essays Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Limerick's 1197 Charter) - PB - SIGNED

This copy signed and dedicated by the editor David Lee, and also signed ( in a separate signature) by journalist and Limerick native, David Hanly.  Paperback, published by Limerick Civic Trust . A...

Peter Somerville-Large - Cappaghglass - HB

Hardcover, published by Hamish Hamilton UK, 1985.  Moderate to heavy age spotting to the page block, small area of laminate peel to upper edge of spine on the dustjacket. 

Brendan O'Donoghue - In Search of Fame and Fortune - The Leahy Family of Engineers 1780-1888

Hardcover, published by Geography Publications , 2006, signed and with a dedication to a previous owner.  With the exception of a few of the major figures, there have been relatively few publications...

Liam O'Connor - The Sailor and the Seamstress - PB - BRAND NEW

Every family has a story … for Liam O’Connor that story goes back to his great-grandparents, William and Norry Kennedy. Using the threads of his family’s past to weave a tapestry that is at once...

Chris Lawlor - Little History of Wicklow - PB

County Wicklow's landscape is dotted with pre-Christian sites – Baltinglass is known as the 'Hillfort Capital of Ireland'. Saint Patrick landed in Wicklow in 432 AD and the county also boasts...

Enda Finnan - Navan Road - An Illustrated History - BRAND NEW

Enda Finnan examins the physical and social development of the Cabra /Navan Road district from the 18th to the 20th century. Tracing the landscape of the area back to the ancient route from the Ford...

Jim Herlihy - The Royal Irish Constabulary - Reprint PB - BRAND NEW

This book is designed to provide those interested in the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with practical advice regarding the availability of primary sources, their strengths and...

Neil Hegarty - Dublin : A View from the Ground - HB - 2007

Hardcover, 2007, published by Portrait Books.  Dublin is one of only a handful of cities that holds international appeal and influence - a fact made more unique because its fame is based almost...

Donal Fallon (with James & Frank Flanagan) - The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park - HB - 2023

Hardback, published by Hachette Books, 2023, edgewear to the covers and the dustjacket corners.  The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people. From the...

Pat Dargan - Medieval Dublin : An Illlustrated History - PB - BRAND NEW

Provides an insightful exploration of Dublin's rich architectural heritage, spanning from the medieval period through the normal era to the late 15th century. Featuring 45 significant structures this...

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2021- PB - Tipperary Local History

The 2021 edition of the local parish based review, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Issued at the end of 2021, with events from November 2020- 2021  - covid times...

Holywood District U3A / Holywood People (Large Paperback)

    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...

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2020 - PB - Tipperary Local History

The 8th issued edition of the local parish based review - 2020, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Issued at the end of 2020, with events from November 2019-20.  Gift...

Templemore, Clonmore, Killea Review 2013 - PB - Tipperary Local History

The  first issued edition of the local parish based review - 2014, in larger format bound book size, illustrated in colour throughout. Issued at the end of 2013, with events from November 2012 to...

Sharon Slater - 366 Days of Limerick - PB - BRAND NEW

Christy Kerins - Ballingarry, Granagh and Clouncagh, County Limerick - PB - 2000

Published 2000 ( as part of a Millennium Project on local genealogy and history) this is a full guide to unpublished or uncollated non census data for the area - Landed Estates/ Encumbered Estates...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Antrim - Book XII - 1832-33, 1835-40 ( Ballynure & District) - Volume 32

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...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Antrim - Book XI - 1832-33, 1835-9 ( Antrim Town and Ballyclare) - Volume 29

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...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Londonderry - Book X - 1833-35, 1838 ( Mid Londonderry) - Volume 30

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...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Tyrone - Book II - 1825, 1833-5, 1840 ( Mid & East Tyrone) - Volume 20

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...

Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams (Editors) - Ordnance Survey Memoirs Ireland - Parishes of County Fermanagh - Book I - 1834-5 ( Enniskillen & Upper Lough Erne) - Volume 4

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...