Irish Books

Dublin: Rainbow, 1985 First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Dungannon: Published by a Group of Lawyers and Priests for A Humanitarian Alternative, 1980 It was announced that as from 1 April 1980 there would be no entitlement to special category status for members of paramilitary organisations regardless of when the crimes had been committed. [A policy change announced in March 1976 had ended special category status to people sentenced after that date for scheduled offences. The decision to end special category privileges for paramilitary prisoners led to a protest campaign by Republicans in prisons across Northern Ireland. The protests began on 15 September 1976 when Kieran Nugent refused to wear prison issue clothes and covered himself with a blanket; hence the 'blanket protest'. The protest was to escalate and led eventually to two hunger strikes, one in 1980 and the most serious in 1981.] on 27th October 1980 Seven Republican prisoners began a hunger-strike to protest at the ending of special category status. Many prisoners volunteered to be part of the strike, but seven were selected to match the number of men who signed the Easter 1916 Proclamation of the Republic. The group consisted of IRA members Brendan Hughes, Tommy McKearney, Raymond McCartney, Tom McFeeley, Sean McKenna, Leo Green, and INLA member John Nixon. After a few weeks three prisoners in Armagh Women's Prison joined the strike, including Mairéad Farrell, followed by a short-lived hunger strike by several dozen more prisoners in HM Prison Maze. One of their key demands was that they should be allowed to wear their own clothes rather than prison uniforms. The Republican prisoners viewed themselves as 'prisoners of war' and were refusing to be treated, as they saw it, as ordinary criminals. [The tactic of the hunger strike has a special place in Republican history and it was to have a profound affect on Nationalists in Northern Ireland. This particular strike was to be called off on 18 December 1980. However, it also marked an escalation of the campaign which was to see a larger more serious hunger strike take place in 1981. The Republican hunger strike at the Maze Prison, and other prisons in Northern Ireland, was called off following the appeal by Tomás Ó Fiaich, then Catholic Primate of Ireland, on 17 December 1980. The strike had lasted for 53 days. [There had been suggestions towards the end of the strike that there would be a move towards conceding aspects of special status. Republicans claimed to have a document setting out proposals which would have met many of their demands.] This book let was produced at the beginning of the hunger strike and details the demands and biographies of those who took part Including Sean McKenna, Of the original seven hunger strikers, Sean McKenna's medical condition was the most serious. McKenna was moved to Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Kendal: Irish Academic Press, 1994 This book chronicles the important role of Ireland's seabourne military forces in the Civil War and in the Emergency and explains the rebirth of the Irish Naval Service in the late twentieth century. Ever since the Boreal Seas rose sufficiently to form the islands of Ireland and Britain some 8000 years ago, both have been dependant on water transport for their being. Their history has been formed by the sea from the days of the later Stone Age cultures to the present. In this century there have been so many changes to the approach of the Irish to the sea that Aidan McIvor's book is both timely and necessary. Much has been written about the manifold problems of Ireland and many books deal with her extraordinary history. But this is a book in a different category. Based on a great deal of research, it is the tale of the maritime country which, since the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, has consistently turned her back to the sea unless unusual events have caused a temporary change of heart. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Kendal: World Ship Society, 1982 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994 First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: An Pobal Eirithe, 1989. The Magazine of the Irish in Britain Representation Group on the struggle in Northern Ireland.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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Dublin: DFHQ, 1996 Booklet produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Irish Naval Service held at Cork and Cobh 1996. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. Presenting political, historical, cultural and literary perspectives on the Irish border, this volume brings together approaches from different disciplines to assess the changing role and percepton of the border. Following a contextual and historical introduction, a broad political analysis by Paul Arthur places the North-South and British-Irish relationships in their international setting. Ged Martin provides a history of the Partition, and Ian S. Wood brings this history up to the early-1960s in a contribution on the IRA border campaign. In a longer historical view, Ullrich Kockel develops a revised reading of the peculiar Scots-Ulster link. Moving towards contemporary concerns, Etain Tannam explores the changing cross-border relationship in the light of European regional policies in the 1980s and 1990s, while Steve Bruce gives a pessimistic assessment of an enduring Unionist attitude towards the border. Three chapters devoted to culture and identity end the book. The first focuses on different language policies north and south of the border; the second on literature as a source for tracing the development of a border mentality in Ireland; and the third on the development of border politics as expressed in 20th-century literature. Eugene McCabe and Shane Connaughton provide the prefaces.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Elliot Stock, 1913 This seminal work traces the history of superstitions, legends and myths in Ulster, especially the folk tales of fairies, dwarves and giants.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: J. McLoughlin, 1844 In the winter of 432 Patrick landed near Saul and remained until spring, when he went to Tara and gained his first major converts. He defied the pagan priests of Tara by kindling the Easter fire on Slane, a nearby hill. This challenge to paganism created at first indignation, and subsequently respect, in the court of the high king. Tara became Patrick's headquarters, and with a band of followers he successively converted Meath, Leitrim, Cavan, and W Ireland. Further details of his missions are only generally known. In 444 or 445, with the approval of Pope St. Leo I, Patrick established his archiepiscopal see at Armagh. St. Patrick 's mission was successful; Ireland was almost entirely Christian by the time of his death. He understood and wisely preserved the social structure of the country, converting the people tribe by tribe. Out of his hierarchy, organized by tribal units, developed the Celtic abbot-bishop system. At Patrick's instance, the traditional laws of Ireland were codified. Patrick modified them to harmonize with Christian practice, and he mitigated the harsher ones, particularly those that dealt with slaves and taxation of the poor. He introduced the Roman alphabet. In 457 he retired to Saul, where he died. He was buried in Downpatrick, which was a great European shrine until its destruction by the English government in 1539. Also enshrined to him is Croaghpatrick. Patrick's connection with Saint Patrick's Purgatory in Lough Derg is undoubtedly only legendary. His personality is said to have been unusually winning, and many legends have become attached to his name. Some spotting and foxing and wear to spine top. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Privately Printed, 1906 An account of Wilde's trial for homosexual acts with Lord Alfred Douglas. Originally published by Charles Carrington. This edition c.1920s.. First US Edition. Paperback in Wraps. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Pan, 1988 A somewhat one sided view of the Irish conflict, glorifying the SAS while adding nothing to the analysis of the conflict and why it started. The ambush is alluded to in The Pogues' 1988 song "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" where the SAS are described as the "whores of the empire".. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1898 A very pro-English view of Irish Nationalism. Couple of minor marks, some foxing to prelims. Rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889 Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Poole: Woodstock Books, 1997. Traces the adventures of the initially prejudiced Gerald Blount, the younger son of an Irish peer, who mixes in Anglo-Irish political and literary circles in London, before a duel forces him to flee to the Ireland of secret agrarian societies, Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Association, and political uncertainty. John Banim (1789-1842) and his brother Michael Banim (1786-1876) collaborated on a number of novels, many of which were published under the general title 'Tales of the O'Hara Family'. Michael Banim explained that they were trying to 'insinuate, through fiction, the causes of Irish discontent, the conclusion to be arrived at by the reader, not by insisting on it on the part of the Author, but from sympathy with the criminals.' Originally published in 1828. John Banim (April 3, 1798 - August 30, 1842), Irish novelist, sometimes called the "Scott of Ireland," was born at Kilkenny. In his thirteenth year he entered Kilkenny College and devoted himself specially to drawing and miniature painting. He pursued his artistic education for two years in the schools connected with the Royal Society at Dublin, and afterwards taught drawing in Kilkenny, where he fell in love with one of his pupils. His affection was returned, but the parents of the young lady interfered and removed her from Kilkenny. She pined away and died in two months. Her death made a deep impression on Banim, whose health suffered severely and permanently. In 1820 he went to Dublin and settled finally to the work of literature. He published a poem, The Celt's Paradise, and his Damon and Pythias was performed at Covent Garden in 1821. During a short visit to Kilkenny he married, and in 1822 planned in conjunction with his elder brother, Michael (1796-1874), a series of tales illustrative of Irish life, which should be for Ireland what the Waverley Novels were for Scotland; and the influence of his model is distinctly traceable in his writings. He then set out for London, and supported himself by writing for magazines and for the stage, a volume of miscellaneous essays was published anonymously in 1824, called Revelations of the Dead Alive. In April 1825 appeared the first series of Tales of the O'Hara Family, which achieved immediate and decided success. One of the most powerful of them, Crohoore of the Bill Hook, was by Michael Banim. Introduction by John Kelly. From the series Hibernia: Literature and Nation in Victorian Ireland.. Facsimile 1828. Hardcover. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Home & Van Thal, 1946 First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1980 First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Heinemann, 1987 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Mowbrays, 1974 Some minor damp stains.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1991 First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Ian Allan, 1974 First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1972 Some minor wear. An unread copy.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1996 The rebellion of 1798 was one of the bloodiest and most dramatic events in Irish history. Brought about by a combination of French-inspired republicanism, government brutality and the sufferings of a brutalised peasantry, it ran its bloody course in one summer, ending in the utter defeat of those who had sought to overthrow the existing social and political order. The immediate results included wholesale murder, destruction and deportation. The chief political consequence was the abolition of the Irish parliament and an enforced union with Britain. That union, although achieved by thoroughly unsavoury methods, might have succeeded, had the British government kept its promise to grant emancipation to the country's Catholic majority. The commitment was not kept, and the twin legacy of a brutally suppressed rebellion and broken promises was to colour and influence Anglo-Irish relations into the twentieth century. The rebellion and its aftermath also had a profound effect on religious and political loyalties in Ireland itself. In this way it exerted a major influence on the course of modern Irish history.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1954 First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1973 A profoundly moving and poignant account of a community. This is the study of an isolated community on the West Coast of Ireland which, like hundreds of others, has endured an agonizing decline in virtually every aspect of life. Some fading to boards.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cork: Cork Historical Guides Committee, 1968 At a strategic and deepwater position in the harbour, the island has long been a military base. The island was first fortified in 1602, and initially an important base for the British Army. Later, the British Army moved to nearby Spike Island, and the fortifications were handed over to the British Navy. The Navy established a large arsenal on the island, and a naval dockyard was built during the Napoleonic Wars. Unlike the other fortifications in Cork Harbour, which formed part of the treaty ports, the dockyard was handed over to the Irish Free State in 1923. Haulbowline Island now houses the headquarters of the Irish Navy. Irish Steel was previously based on the island; however, the plant closed in 2002. Much radioactive contamination remained in the soil after the steel making process was terminated. In July 2006, it was announced that the former site of Irish Steel would be developed with apartments, offices, a hotel and a marina planned for the site. A brief history with b/w illustrations and colour fold-out at back. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Dublin: Hibernian Stamp Co., 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1981 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1973 Boards faded.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Lemma Publishing Corporation, 1973 Campbell's look at a series of legends current in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland in the 1880's esp. the Dragon Myth. Translated from the Gaelic with an introduction by George Henderson, Lecturer in Celtic Languages and Literature, University of Glasgow. The volume also includes The Geste of Fraoch and The Death of Fraoch, followed by The Three Ways and The Fisherman in the original Gaelic. Facsimile reprint of Campbell's 1911 edition. Texts in English and Gaelic.. First Thus. Cloth. New/No Jacket. Illus. by Rachel Duff. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: Nelson-Hall Inc., 1977 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975 An in-depth analysis of the politics of Irish neutrality during WWII, focussing on major figures such as de Valera, Churchill, Maffey, Gray, and the pressure from Britain and the U.S. on Ireland to enter the war.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Belfast: William W. Cleland, Ltd, 1947 A brief survey of Irish Republican propaganda and an exposure of its fallacies. With an introduction by Introduction by David Gray, the American Minister to Eire, 1940-47. Some wear to lower spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Boston: Murphy & McCarthy, 1881 Biography of was an Irish social campaigner and nationalist politician who founded the Irish National Land League. Michael Davitt was born in Straide, County Mayo, on March 25th 1846 at the height of the Great Famine. He was the second of five children born to Martin and Catherine Davitt. At the tender age of four Michael and his family were evicted from their home and forced to emigrate to Haslingden, Lancashire, England. This led Davitt to join the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Fenians organization in Ireland. He soon became part of the inner circle of the local group. Two years later he left the printing firm to devote himself full time to the IRB, as organising secretary in Northern England and Scotland, organising arms smuggling to Ireland. Davitt was arrested in Paddington Station in London in May 1870 while awaiting a delivery of arms. He was convicted of a treason-felony and sentenced to 15 years of penal servitude in Dartmoor Prison. Here he was kept in strict isolation during the unremitted portion of his term. In prison he concluded that ownership of the land by the people was the only solution to Ireland's problems. He managed to get a covert contact to an Irish MP John O'Conner Power who begun to campaign against cruelty inflicted to political prisoners, reading Davitt's letters in the Parliament. Partially due to public furore Davitt was released when he had served seven and half years, along with other political prisoners on 19 December 1877, on a "ticket of leave". Davitt rejoined the IRB and became a member of its Supreme Council. The British Government had introduced a concept of "fair rents" in the year of his arrest, but he continued to hold that the common people of Ireland could not improve their lot without the ownership of their land, and frequently insisted at Fenian meetings that "the land question can be definitely settled only by making the cultivators of the soil proprietors". In 1873 while Davitt was imprisoned his mother and three sisters had settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the late 1870s, Davitt travelled to United States in a lecture tour sponsored by Dr. William Carroll, Irish-American Fenian, hoping to gain the support of Irish-American communities for his new policy of "The Land for the People". In 1886 Davitt married Mary Yore, of Oakland, California. In 1887 the couple returned to Ireland and lived in the Land League Cottage in Ballybrack, Dalkey, County Dublin that was given to them as a wedding present by the people of Ireland. They had five children, three boys and two girls, though one, Kathleen, died of tuberculosis aged 7, in 1895. Michael Davitt died in Elphis hospital, Dublin on May 30th 1906 at the age of sixty of acute septic poisoning. Not wishing to have a public funeral, Davitt's body was brought quietly to the Carmelite Friary, Clarendon Street, Dublin. Over 20,000 people filed past his coffin the next day, his coffin was then brought by train to Foxford, County Mayo. A huge crowd attended his funeral in the grounds of Straide Abbey, in the shadow of the church where he was baptised. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1978 Study on Irish author George Moore. Irish Literary Studies, No. 3.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Dublin: M.H.Gill & Son, 1926 Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice (Irish: Iognáid Rís; 1 June 1762 - 29 August 1844), was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund Rice was the founder of two orders of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. Rice was born in Ireland at a time when Catholics faced oppression under Penal Laws enforced by the British authorities. He forged a successful career in business and, after a tragic accident which killed his wife and left his daughter disabled, devoted his life to the education and service of the poor. Christian Brother and Presentation Brother schools around the world continue to follow the system of education and traditions established by Edmund Rice.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cork: The Mercier Press, 1967 First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Millstreet: Aubane Historical Society, 1992 A speech given to the Duhallow Heritage Centre on 22nd, 1992.. First Edition. Pamphlet. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Coleraine: Coleraine Printing Co., 1987 First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Dublin: Pavee Point Publications, 1992 Produced by The Dublin Travellers Education and Development Group.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Pluto Press, 1985 on Ireland's future, Contributors include: Gerry Adams, Ken Livingstone, Sean McBride, Tony Benn, Clive Soley, Mary Robinson, Sean Redmond etc. An unread copy.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Dublin / Belfast: Bookworks Ireland, 1988 Features and photographs on the struggle in Northern Ireland.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Belfast: Committee on the Administration of Justice, 1998 13 people, including 6 children, were killed by plastic and rubber bullets between 1972 and 1981. Some creasing to covers.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Conservative Central Office, 1972 Staples rusted away.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 Explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the 19th century analysing novels by Edgeworth, Owenson, Gaskell, Kingsley and Trollope and writings by Burke, Carlyle, Engels, Arnold and Mill.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1937 Contents: Our Background. Protestantism in the New Ireland. Liberty in Ireland. Our Attitude to Force. The Social Order. Christianity and Culture.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Information on Ireland, 1981 First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Sydney: Third World Bookshop, 1969. Some rubbing and creasing.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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