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Brian Moore - Black Robe ( HB First Edition- 1985)

North America. It is the beginning of the 17th century. To Father Paul, the Algonquin are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father...

Sinéad de Valera - More Irish Fairy Tales ( Vintage Piccolo PB )

Published in this Piccolo paperback edition, illustrations by Julek Heller.  A collection of 10 classic irish fairytales, aimed at a 8-10 readership. Tanning to page block, some uneven age spotting...

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...

John Milton - Poetical Works - HB ( Oxford Poetical Works ) - Edited by Douglas Bush

Hardcover, signed to the front endpage by a previous owner. some sunfade to the orange covers, ( faded to yellow on spine)  This edition 1979 . first published in this edition 1966.  Complet poems,...

Michael Farrell - Northern Ireland : The Orange State - PB 2nd Edition 1980 ( Originally 1976)

Despite being a very inflential title, this book remains hard to come by, in either the first edition or in subsequent reprints This is a 2nd edition 1980 ( the first edition was 1976, and the second...

Matthew Potter - Amazing Lace - A History of the Limerick Lace Industry - HB

A detailed history of the historically huge role that lacemaking and associated industries played in the 19th and 20th century in Limerick City.  Limerick is probably the most famous of all Irish...

Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973

Published by Anvil Press, 1973.  'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the...

Christopher Logue ( Editor) - Sweet & Sour - An Anthology of Comic Verse - HB - 1983

Published by Batsford UK , 1983, illustrated throughout by John Glashan.   

David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB

Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964,...

Nello Ponente - Modigliani ( Dolphin Art Series) - PB - 1969

Published by Thames and Hudson, 1969, a small format paperback, with 80 full colour images from the artist's work.  Light edgewear only. 

Robert Burns - The Poems of Robert Burns - HB ( Oxford Standard Authors Edition) - 1963

Gift inscription to previous owner on the front endpages, price clipped on inside front flap.  Although heavily dustdarkened on the top edges of the page block, otherwise unmarked, a solid, small...

John B. Keane - Letters of an Irish Publican - Vintage Mercier PB 1990 - Humour Kerry ( Originally 1974)

John B. Keane's skill at recognising the follies and weaknesses of men and women was evident in all of his writing. The letter writers and their correspondents prove to be fine examples of this. This...

Phoebe Pool - Impressionism - PB - 1970

Reprint paperback edition, Thames & Hudson UK , 1970, originally 1967.  with 209 images, 77 of which are in colour. Covers the full history of French Impressionism, one of the most important and...

Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vintage PB - 1981

Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the...

Walter de la Mare - Pleasures and Speculations - HB - 1940

Hardcover, 1940, a collection of essays, literary criticism and essays on poetry and writing from the noted short story writer Lacks the origfinal dustjacket, a clean solidn copt in grey cloth...

Paul Healy - God Save All Here - Memories of Life in County Roscommon During the 20th Century - PB 1999

Published 1999, author Paul Healy was a reporter at the time with the Roscommon Champion Newspaper.  Oral histories from a number of Roscommon natives, , giving insights into local life and national...

Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - HB 1959 ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge)

A hardcover first edition ( 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight. not...

Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition

Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English...

Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995

AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (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 we...

Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997)

Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey.  This copy is unnumbered, -...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with...

Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press

A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the...

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...

Acts of the Oireachtas 1957 - HB - Dáil Éireann - Bound

Bound in red cloth, titles to spine, the full legislation of the Houses of the Oireachtas for 1957 ' Consisting of The Public general Acts and A rivate Act, with Tables and index - DUAL LANGUAGE (...

Francois Mauriac - Thérese Desqueyroux - PB ( FRENCH LANGUAGE Edition) PB 1975

Pour éviter le scandale et protéger les intérêts de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme Thérèse a tenté d'empoisonner, dépose de telle sorte qu'elle bénéficie d'un non-lieu. Enfermée dans...

Jean Oliver Héron & Pierre Marchand - La France en Poésie - PB - Folio

A collection of classic poetry in French This reprint 2001 Folio Junior

Benedict Kiely - A Cow in the House and Other Stories - HB 1978 - First Edition

A hardcover first edition, published by Victor Gollancz UK, 1978, attractive small format hardcover with tan and green colour cover design.  Externally, creasing to dustjacket. Internally excellent,...

Jonathan Bardon & Stephen Conlin - Dublin : One Thousand Years of Wood Quay - HB - 1984

This book was inspired by the bitter controversy that dogged the plans by Dublin Corporation to build an enormous office block on the site of early Viking Dublin. 'The book tells the story of one...

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet - Pocket Edition - Hardcover Spirituality Classic - 1979 - HB

The Prophet, first published in 1923 ( 1926 in the UK), is the story of a seer and his wisdom. The book's astonishing success turned it into a mystical and spiritual guide for the modern era and...

Ian R. Macleod - Breathmoss and Other Exhalations - HB - SHORT STORIES ( Golden Gryphon USA -2004)

This collection of literary short fiction combines fantasy, science fiction, and horror in vivid settings, peopled with ordinary humans with normal relationships, and the interaction of the mundane...

Ian R Macleod - SONG OF TIME - HB ( PS Publishing UK - 2008)

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial A future world of unrelenting change, strangeness, and uncertainty, experienced through the passions and memories of one...

Sean Flynn & Padraig Yeates - Smack : The Criminal Drugs Racket in Ireland - Vintage True Crime - 1985

A rather hard to find title, which ( from the year of publication- 1985) explores and details the 'first generation' of large scale drug dealing and supply in Ireland , and particularly the Dunne...

An Caisleán - The Castleconnell Ahane & Montpelier Journal 2022 - Parish Annual Limerick

The 2022 local parish annual for Castleconnell/ Ahane, with information on local clubs, schools, history  societies, aas well as essays on local history and photographs, 128 pages.  Bound booklet...

An Caisleán - The Castleconnell Ahane & Montpelier Journal 2017 - Parish Annual Limerick

The 2017 local parish annual for Castleconnell/ Ahane, with information on local clubs, schools, history  societies, aas well as essays on local history and photographs, 128 pages.  Stapled booklet...

Newport Newsletter Committee - Newport News 1990 - PB TIPPERARY

The annual publication from the Newport ( Tipperary Committee, with local sport news, developments in the year, a huge range of photographs ( from the toewn and also from surrounding areas such as...

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy - Jane's Adventures in a Balloon - HB 1975

Hardcover, Gollancz UK  Although this is a sequel to the earlier books in the series ( Jane's Adventures In and Out of the Book and Jane's Adventures on the Island of Peeg, thsi works as a...

André Gide - La Symphonie Pastorale - PB

A pASTOR adopts a young blind girl whom his daughter, Charlotte, names "Gertrude". His wife, Amélie, resents Gertrude because the pastor dedicates more attention to Gertrude than to their five...

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster - HB ( Harrap Library edition)

Undated , but preface added to this edition dated 1912. Originally published in 1864-5.  D'arcy Thompson was professor of Classics at UCG ( then Queen's College Galway) during the 19th century ( one...

Jack Lambie - Designing and Building Composite Remote Control Model Aircraft - PB 1987

Published by Motorbooks International , Osceola Wisconsin, 1987. illustrated throughout A ( detailed) how to guide to building model aircraft from scratch - using foam, kevlat fdibreglass , as well...

Michael McKeown - The Greening of a Nationalist - PB 1986

Michael McKeown provides a vivid account of the Irish experience that shaped his political attitudes over a 20-year span from the Border Campaign of the 1950s, through the Civil Rights agitation of...

Which Magazine - Which Way to Repair and Restore Furniture - PB - 1983

An ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK GUIDE  FEATURES PRACTICAL ADVICE ON REPAIR AND BASIC WORKING RESTORATION OF FURNITURE .  Covers tables and chairs in particular , advice on varnishing, veneers, basic and...

Sportsfile & Damian Lawlor - Treaty Triumph - How Limerick's Young Hurlers Lifted the Liam MacCarthy Cup 2018 - PB

This 168 page book is a pictorial record of how Limerick's young hurlers captured the hearts of a county and lifted the Liam MacCarthy cup in 2018 - the first win since 1973. Treaty Triumph was...

Journal of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland /.Years including 1940 - 1956 (15 Book Collection)

Journal of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland: Years including 1940 - 1956 (15 Book Collection) Contains: october 1956 october 1949 october 1951 october 1940 october 1946 october 1951 july...

Dick Francis - High Stakes - HB 1975

Under the guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds, wealthy inventor Steven Scott watches as his horses win race after race, a winning streak that could be broken by a troublemaker in his own stable.  A...

Andrew M Greeley - That Most Distressful Nation : The Taming of the American Irish - PB 1972

Stubborn, difficult, paradoxical, maddening, joyous, brilliant, poetic, visionary, melancholy, frustrating, bedevilling, and ingratiating - all these have been used to describe the Irish. And this...

Frédéric Martinez - Petit éloge des Vacances - PB 2013

En vacances, il faut désapprendre les allées ratissées qu’empruntent nos vies au cordeau : le temps est nu. Le cri aigre des goélands, la rumeur stridente des cigales submergent la fureur des...

Glyn Frewer / The Raid (Vintage Paperback)

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John Powell / Will The Real Me Please Stand Up (Vintage Paperback)

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Jessica Stirling / Beloved Sinner (Vintage Paperback)

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Paul Scott / Johnnie Sahib (Vintage Paperback)

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Joseph Bayly / The Last Thing We Talk About (Vintage Paperback)

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