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Tom O’Connell
Fine Art Auctioneer and Valuer
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Antiques Auction
Sat. 24th Sep. 2011
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Viewing
Thursday 22nd Sep. - 9am to 6pm
Friday 23rd Sep. – 9am to 9pm
Saturday 24th Sep. - from 9am till start of auction
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& collected before Monday 26th September
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General Auction Tue. 11th October 2011 at 12 noon
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1. The purchaser of each lot in the auction shall be the person deemed to be the highest bidder by the auctioneer. If a
dispute should arise as to who is the highest bidder then it shall be at the auctioneers discretion to either offer the item
for sale again or to continue bidding from the last un-disputed bid.
2. The auctioneer has the right to bid on behalf of the vendor on reserved items to help to attain the reserve price.
3. All winning bids in the auction are subject to a buyers premium of 15% plus Vat
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No purchased items of furniture shall be removed from the auction room during the auction, smaller items can be
removed only with the assistance of a porter.
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presented to a porter.
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the viewing period. Defects detected after sale by the purchaser will not void sale.
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working days. Storage charges will apply to items on a per day basis after this time.
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action.
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11. Lots shall be grouped together for auction at auctioneer’s discretion.
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next available auction date subject to sellers fee of 15% including Vat.
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Book. "Fifteen Plays of Shakespeare", With a Glossary Abridged From the Oxford Shakespeare Glossary of
C. T. Onions Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1916. Appears to
be First Edition Thus. 1143pp. The volume describes the collection as being Five (5) Comedies, Five (5)
Histories and Five Tragedies. Though describing "The Merchant of Venice" as a comedy is an unusual
classification.
Book. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published
by Oxford University Press 1940 Edition . First printed 1907. 912pp. Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4
August 1792 in Horsham, Sussex, England. After Shelley’s expulsion from school for expressing his atheistic
views, and now estranged from his father, he eloped with sixteen-year old Harriet Westbrook (1795-1816) to
Scotland. Shelley eloped a second time with Mary Godwin and her stepsister Claire in tow, settling in
Switzerland. The year 1816 was filled with highs and lows for Shelley. His wife Harriet drowned herself in the
Serpentine river in Hyde Park, London and Mary’s half sister Fanny committed suicide, but son William was
born (d.1819) and he and Mary wed on 30 December.In 1818, the Shelley’s moved to Italy and their son Percy
Florence was born a year later. Mary too was busy writing while they lived in various cities including Pisa and
Rome. Shelley continued to venture on sailing trips on his sc
Book. "The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens" Hardcover. In excellent condition.
Published by Chapman and Hall Ld. No date.( But 1890-1910 ?) A curiosity shop was, in
Dickens’ time, a place where One (1) could buy second hand goods of a precious,
ornamental or antique variety. Little Nell Trent looks after her grandfather in the gloomy
Start bid environs of such a shop and she is One (1) of many Dickens heroines to be utterly
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devoted and kind. Their fortunes go sharply downhill as the grandfather’s money is
wasted by a spendthrift son-in-law and Fred Trent, Nell’s brother. In this unfortunate
situation, the grandfather borrows money from the appalling Daniel Quilp, an unpleasantlooking dwarf.
Book, Hard cover " The Poetical works of Thomas Moore" complete in One volume
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Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1843. Condition complete with
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cover loose from spine
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Book, Hard cover "War Atlas" with 32 pages of fully coloured maps covering the
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belligerent countries, Neutral states and principal theatres of war. Compiled by George
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Philip & Son, Ltd exclusively for "The Daily Mail" c. 1940
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Book. "The Birds of the Air" by Allen W. Seaby Hardcover. In very good condition.
Published by A & C Black Ltd. 2nd Edition Autumn 1932. 179pp. Text with 8 colour
plates and 134 monochrome illustrations throughout. Full name Allen William Seaby.
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Born in London in 1867. Spent most of his life in Reading. A talented artist who
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illustrated many books on nature, ornithology and other animals, including some
Ladybird books. He was Professor of Art at Reading University from 1920 to 1933. A
nice book for any ornithologist
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Book. "Beginner’s Irish World Readers" No Author. ( ? Marie Therese Flanagan? )
Booklet. In very good condition (ex school library book) Published by Browne and Nolan
No date. (Suggested early 1930’s). 80pp. Illustrated. A selection of basic reading
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exercises which seem to have been expanded to include stories of particular Irish
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Interest.
Book. "Mr Punch’s Book of Sports"by Various Authors. Hardcover. In good condition.
Published by the Educational Book Co ltd. No date. (1910?) 192 pages full of Punch
humour from 1841 to 1907. A volume in the Punch Library of Humour. The Humours
of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, etc., As Pictured by Linley
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Sambourne, Phil May, L. Raven-Hill, F.H. Townsend, E.T. Reed, George du Maurier,
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Charles Keene, Frank Reynolds, Lewis Baumer, Gunning King, G.D. Armour, Arthur
Hipkins, Everard Haopkins, J. A. Shepherd, and Others with 225 Illustrations.
Book. "William the Detective" by Richmal Crompton Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
good condition (ex school library book with some markings) Published by George
Start bid Newnes Limited. Twentieth Abridged Impression 1967. 166pp. Thomas Henry
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(illustrator). First published in 1935.
Book. "Hints on Good Manners by Kathleen Ferguson Booklet. In very good condition.
Published and Printed by The Athlone Printing Works and Westmeath Independent. First
Start bid Edition 1901. 12pp plus advertisements. Very Scarce . The author gives her aim as to
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cure "bad habits' in Irish boys and girls. Kathleen Ferguson held a first class diploma
from the Dublin School of Cookery. She writes in the Preface " it is through love and
devotedness to the "little ones" it has been written by an Irishwoman.
Book. "A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse" edited by Lennox Robinson. Hardcover. In
excellent condition. Published by Macmillan & Co. First Edition 1925. A compilation of
Irish poetry, including 7 by AE, William Allingham, 4 by Emily Bronte , 6 by Padraic
Start bid Colum, 1 by William Congreve and John Eglinton, 4 by Oliver Goldsmith, 3 by James
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Joyce, 3 by James Stephens, 3 by J.M. Synge and Jonathan Swift, 13 by W.B. Yeats,
and many more. Also contains translations from Irish poetry.
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Book. "Pagan Ireland" by Eleanor Hull. Hardcover. In good condition (ex school library
book some markings). Published by M.H.Gill and Son Ltd. Edition 1922. 238pp. Eleanor
Henrietta Hull (1860-1935) was born in Manchester. England, of a County Down family.
Start bid She was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin and was a student of Irish Studies. She
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was a journalist and scholar of Old Irish and in 1899 was co-founder of the Irish Texts
Society for the publication of early manuscripts. She was honorary secretary for nearly
thirty years. She died in Wimbledon, England in 1935.
Book. "The Stormy Hills" by Daniel Corkery. Hardcover. In very good condition ( ex
school library book ) Published by Talbot Press. First Edition 1929. 260pp."Fourteen
stories representing the author's finest work . All of them depict the life of humble folk in
Start bid Munster viewed by One in thorough sympathy with them . The author does not moralise
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. He leaves the story to speak for itself. Corkery (1878-1964), professor of English UCC
1931-1947, "was the greatest single influence on Irish prose writing of today . Both as
teacher and writer he shaped several generations of Irish novelists and short story
writers.
Book. "Arabian Days" by Edna O’Brien . Hard cover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Quartet Books. First Edition 1977. 160pp with many colour and
black and white photographs. Photographs by Gerard Klijn. This photographic travel
Start bid narrative details what the author observed during the late seventies. The commentary is
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interesting not only in what she observes, but from her perspective as a Westerner, and
the attitudes toward the Middle East during this time period.
Book. "Woodcutter" by Desmond Egan, soft cover with wraps. In excellent condition.
Published by The Goldsmith Press. First Edition 1978. 41pp. illustrated by photographs
of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. Egan, Desmond (1936- ), poet and publisher. Born
Start bid in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, and educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, he taught
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until 1987. He founded the Goldsmith Press in 1972, and edited Era an occasional
literary magazine, from 1974.
Book. "No Flowers by Request & other stories by Michael Barry Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Eigse na Mainstreach Publications Fermoy. First
Edition 1979. A collection of Fourteen (14) short stories. Michael Barry was born in
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Rathcormac, Co Cork. Many of his stories have been published and have featured at
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writers festivals and by RTE. (Scarce)
Book." "Living Quarters" by Brian Friel. Soft cover, In excellent condition. Published by
Faber and Faber. First Edition 1978. 95pp.The protagonist is Commandant Frank Butler,
an ordinary army man who has suddenly become a hero late in middle age as a result of
Start bid his brave leadership of a United Nations peacekeeping force. Returning to his home
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town of Ballybeg to savour his triumph, Frank discovers that his young, second wife has
had an affair with his dissolute son by his first marriage.
Book. "Folk Music and Dances of Ireland by Breandán Breathnach. Soft cover In
Start bid excellent condition. Published by Mercier Books. Revised Edition 1977.152pp. Includes
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index, bibliography musical scores and lyrics. The classic study of the history and
development of Irish traditional music, song and dance.
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Book. "Christy Ring" by Val Dorgan Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Ward River Press. First Edition 1980.248pp. With photographic Illustrations. The legend
from Cloyne was the greatest hurler of all time . Those who saw him displaying his
talents through Four decades have great memories. One commentator described him as
Start bid the embodiment of skill and cunning. He first played for Cork in 1939 and his career at
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the top lasted a quarter of a century. The late Val Dorgan was the perfect writer to put
together the Christy Ring story - they were team-mates at the famous Glen Rovers club.
Dorgan began the book a year after Ring's death in 1979 and it is now considered a
classic of GAA writing.
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Set of Books:
"History of Ireland" by Rev E A D’Alton History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the
Present Day Full Six Volume set Volumes 1 - 6. Volumes Generally in very good
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condition (Two (2) volumes have a page torn, not text, One (1) volume has minor under
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lining.) Published by The Gresham Publishing Company Third Edition 1912. this was a
long-running project (1903-25), covering Irish history from the ‘earliest times to the
present day’, though in fact to 1908; published in half-volumes.
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Book. "Who’s Who, What’s What and Where in Ireland" In association with the Irish
Times. Hardcover. In very good condition. Published by Geoffrey Chapman Publishers,
London Dublin, First Edition 1973 with maps. glossary of Irish words, list of
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abbreviations, index of entries in who’s who section by professions, subject index.735
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pages. An Encyclopaedia, Fact book and comprehensive Who’s Who, still useful today.
Covers both Northern Ireland as well as the Republic. Professions include Accountancy,
Law, Education, Agriculture, Banking, , Medicine and others.
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Lot of 3 books:
"The Times Atlas of the World Family Edition" Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
Excellent condition. Published by Times Books 1991 Edition. This is a revised version of
the more common 1988 edition but still includes the former USSR. This edition was
overtaken by political events in 1991/2 and would be One (1) of the last atlases to show
the old USSR state. Yugoslavia is also shown.
start bid "Belling Format and Formula" No Author Soft cover. In excellent condition. Published
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by Belling & Co Enfield Middlesex. No Date. Large format Belling Cookery Book. 66
pages of recipes.
Straight forward cooking with measurements given in Imperial and metric.
"Boston a picture book to remember Her by" , No author. Hardcover with Dust jacket.
In excellent condition. Published by Crescent Books New York. First Edition 1986.
Unpaginated. A book of photographs showing Boston’s Vivid grasp of history and a
contemporary City of new ideas.
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Book. "Winters Tales from Ireland 2" Edited by Kevin Casey Hardcover. In excellent
Start bid condition. Published by Gill and Macmillan, First Edition 1972. 174pp. Includes
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stories from William Trevor, Kate O'Brien, Sean O Faolain, Patrick Boyle , Bernard
McLaverty, John McGahern, Desmond Hogan, , Kate Cruise O'Brien and others .
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Book "The Writers : a sense of Ireland" selected and edited by Andrew Carpenter and
Peter Fallon; with photographs of the writers by Mike Bunn Hardcover. In excellent
condition. Published by O’Brien Press First Edition 1980.224pp. Works by 44 Irish
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writers. Irish writing from established writers such as Beckett, O'Flaherty, and others to
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new younger writers and those with growing reputations. Extracts from novels, plays and
short stories as well as poetry. Illustrated with b/w photographs of the writers facing the
first page of their work.
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Book. "Modern Irish Short Stories" Selected with an Introduction by Frank O’Connor.
Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published by Oxford University Press. 1974 Edition.
Start bid 336pp World Classics no. 560. Writers include : -George Moore, E.OE Somerville and
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Martin Ross, Daniel Corkery, James Joyce, James Stephens, Liam O'Flaherty,
L.A.G.Strong, Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Eric Cross, Michael Laverty, Bryan
MacMahon, Mary Lavin, James Plunkett, and Elizabeth Bowen.
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Books. "Primary School Curriculum Teacher’s Handbook Parts 1&2" by An Roinn
Oideachais. Hardcover. In very good condition. Published by Browner & Nolan. 1971
Edition. Part I. 380pp. Part 2. 327pp. Two volumes. Illustrated with colour and black and
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white photographs and music. Chapters on Primary Education & the Structure of the
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Curriculum. Text written parallel in Irish and English..
"Chambers Biographical Dictionary" Edited by Magnus Magnusson . Hardcover with
Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Chambers. 1990 Edition. 1604pp.
20,000 Profiles of famous men and women from earliest times to the present day(1990).
A good clean copy.
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Lot of 3 Books:
"Body and Soul" Edited by David Marcus Paperback . In excellent condition. Published
by Poolbeg Press First Edition 1979 . 160pp. Irish Short Stories of Sexual Love. Twelve
stories . Writers include Frank O’Connor, Edna O’Brien, William Trevor and Tim Pat
Coogan.
"My Cousin Rachel" by Daphne Du Maurier Hardcover. In very good condition.
Start bid Published by the Reprint Society. First Edition Thus 1952. 320pp. During the first
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weeks of 1951 Daphne du Maurier spent her days in the writing hut in the grounds of her
beloved home at Menabilly and, using the notes that she had been working on during the
previous months, she began to write her tenth novel. The story that she wove this time
was a study in jealousy and suspense with a gothic quality similar to that found in
Charlotte Bronte's famous novel "Jane Eyre".
"The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol II" Hard cover . In excellent condition . Published by
Everyman’s Library No 54 1936 Edition. 726pp. Covers the period January 1
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Lot of 3 soft cover books:
"The Country Girls" by Edna O’Brien Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Penguin Books. 1965 Reprint. 193pp. Edna O’Brien’s classic novel
"The Cornet Player who Betrayed Ireland" by Frank O’Connor Paperback. In excellent
start bid condition. Published by Poolbeg Press. First Paperback Edition 1981. 238pp.
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"Flight" by Aubrey Malone Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by Cillenna
Press Ltd .First Edition No date .( but 1980 ?). 122pp. Aubrey Malone was born in
Mayo in 1953 and moved to Dublin in 1969 and worked in journalism . This collection
of Short Stories was described by John Feeney as "the most promising first collection
I’ve come across".
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Lot of 3 soft cover books:
"Early Days" by Mick McCarthy . Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Kildanore Press. First Edition 1990 182pp. Foreword by Bryan MacMahon and on back
cover John B Keane states " This is the book I begged Mick McCarthy to write years
ago. Brother of Balladeer and broadcaster Sean McCarthy , Mick has provided us with
something rare and original, to be treasured and re-read."
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"Rich and Rare" by Sean McMahon . Paperback . In excellent condition. Notes in biro
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on free rear page ) Published by Poolbeg Press. 1987 Edition. 379pp. A treasure house
of tradition, a store of ballads, songs, poems. A rich vein of fantasy, humour and
romance.
"Memory and Identity Personal Reflections" by Pope John Paul II. Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Phoenix. First Paperback Edition Thus 2005. 196pp. In
this volume, Pope John Paul II speaks for the first time on global politics.
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Lot of Three Hard cover books:
"The New Perspective" by K. Arnold Price Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Poolbeg Press. First Edition 1980 85pp.
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"Bogmail" by Patrick McGinley. Hard cover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition.
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( slight tear to front cover.) Published by Martin Brian & O’Keefe. First Edition 1978.
"Twenty Years A-Growing" by Maurice O’Sullivan. Hardcover. In excellent condition.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1978 Edition 298pp.
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Lot of 3 soft cover books
"The Brightening Day" by Michael McLaverty Paperback. In excellent condition.
Published by Poolbeg Press . 1987 and First Edition Thus. 278pp.
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"The Pornographer" by John McGahern Paperback. In excellent condition. Published
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by Quartet Books and Poolbeg Press. First Paperback Edition 1980
"Folktales of the Irish Coast" by Padraic O’Farrell Paperback. In excellent condition.
Published by Mercier Press. First Edition 1978. 64pp.
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Book - Softcover. "The Flight of the Eagle" by Standish O’Grady. In excellent
condition. Published by Mercier in the Mercier Irish Classic Series. Standish James
O'Grady (18 September 1846 – 18 May 1928) was an Irish author, journalist, and
historian. Standish O'Grady's childhood home - the Glebe - lies a mile west of
Castletownbere near a famine mass grave and ruined Roman Catholic chapel. After an
Start Bid initial lukewarm response to his writing on the legendary past in "History of Ireland:
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Heroic Period" (1878-81) and "Early Bardic Literature of Ireland" (1879), he realized that
the public wanted romance, and so followed the example of James McPherson in
recasting Irish legends in literary form, producing historical novels including "Finn and his
Companions" (1891), "The Coming of Cuculain" (1894), "The Chain of Gold" (1895),
"Ulrick the Ready" (1896) and "The Flight of the Eagle" (1897), and "The Departure of
Dermot" (1913).
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Lot of 3 books:
The Golden treasury By Francis Palgrave Hardback in excellent condition Published
by Collins 1980 Reprint 576pp. The well known collection of Poetry first complied in
1861. Lovely copy.
Anam Cara by John O’Donohue Paperback in excellent condition. Published by Bantam
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Books. 1999 Edition. The well known work on Celtic Spirituality.
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"The New Perspective" by K. Arnold Price Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Poolbeg Press. First Edition 1980 85pp. K. Arnold Price's first
novel, published when she was 84, is a subtle, richly layered rumination on the nature of
a middle-aged woman's relationship with her husband. It received little critical attention
or commercial success and soon went out of print.
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Book. Soft cover "Lives" by Derek Mahon. In excellent condition. Published by Oxford
University Press. Derek Mahon was born in Belfast, North Ireland, in 1941. He was
educated at Trinity College in Dublin. He has edited The Penguin Book of Contemporary
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Irish Poetry (1990) and Modern Irish Poetry (1972). His honours include the Irish
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American Foundation Award, a Lannan Foundation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship,
the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Arts Council Bursary, and the Eric
Gregory Award. He is a member of Aosdana and currently lives in Kinsale.
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Book. "Thy Tears Might Cease" by Michael Farrell Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Hutchinson Fifth Impression 1972. 592pp. The epic
novel of modern Ireland that critics have ranked beside Dr. Zhivago and The Leopard.
From a peaceful afternoon of the Irish gentry to the explosion of the Easter Rebellion of
Start bid 1916 into the nights of blood and terror that laid waste the land. "Michael Farrell finished
€3
writing the first draft of this novel shortly before the outbreak of World War II, but he
became so emotionally involved with the theme and characters of his creation that it was
psychologically impossible for him to relinquish his work to the public. The strange story
of the book's composition and ultimate publication is related in the introduction by the
poet Monk Gibbon. " This is the author's only novel. He died in 1962.
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Book, Soft cover "The Course of Irish History" edited by T W Moody and F X Martin.
In excellent condition. Published by The Mercier Press Cork. Tenth Printing 1977 404pp.
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Illustrated with 147 black &white plates. Notes, bibliography, chronology, index. A
€5
readable, yet scholarly, history of Ireland from the Stone Age to 1966; written by 21
scholars, all specialists in their own fields
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88
Lot of 3 soft cover books :
"Michael Collins" by Leon O Broin. Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Gill and Macmillan. Volume in Gill’s Irish Lives . First Paperback Edition 1980. 156pp.
"The Boss" by Joe Joyce and Peter Murtagh. Paperback. In Very Good condition
Start bid (front Cover creased) Published by Poolbeg Press. First edition 1983. 400pp. The book
€5
subtitled Charles J Haughey in Government, focuses on the Nine (9) crucial months in
1982 Haughey’s first government of his own making.
Corridor and Stairs by Yannis Ritsos Paperback in excellent condition. Published by
The Goldsmith Press First Paperback Edition 1976. 63pp with introduction and
illustration Translated from the Greek, together with the poems in original Greek
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€ 20
89
Book. "Haughey His Life and Unlucky Deeds" by Bruce Arnold Hardcover with Dust
Start bid jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Harper Collins First Edition 1993. 308pp with
€5
many photographic illustrations. This was the first comprehensive biography of Charles J
Haughey. A study of a period of recent Irish History that now seems so remote.
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90
Lot of 3 books:
"Patrick Pearse The Triumph of Failure" by Ruth Dudley Edwards Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by faber and Faber. First Faber Paperback Edition 1979 .
384pp.
"Under Goliath" by Peter Carter Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition.
Published by Oxford University Press. First Edition 1977. 169pp. The author in this
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novel, gives a robust yet sympathetic account of life for a 13 year old working class boy
€5
in Belfast, a bitterly divided city.
"Resurrection Day" by Brendan Du Bois Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Little, Brown. First UK Edition 1999. 389pp. What if the
Russians had not blinked during the Cuban missile crisis? A novel which explores what
the aftermath of nuclear war might have produced. A masterpiece of clever and cunning
political fiction.
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Book. "The Essential Gabriel Fitzmaurice" Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Mercier Press. First Edition 2008 159pp Gabriel Fitzmaurice
was born in 1952 in the village of Moyvane, County Kerry, where he still lives. He is
principal of the primary school in the village and is the author of more than thirty books,
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including collections of poetry in English and Irish; his books of verse for children have
€5
become classics. Gabriel frequently broadcasts on radio and television on education and
the arts.
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Lot of 3 soft cover books:
"Freedom the Wolfe Tone Way" by Sean Cronin and Richard Roche. Paperback. In
excellent condition. ( small sticker on cover) Published by Anvil Books Tralee, Co. Kerry.
First Edition 1973. 242pp. The book describes itself as follows : "It is a book for these
turbulent times." The book seeks to relate Tone’s message to the problems of Ireland in
the 1970’s.
"The Government and Politics of Ireland" by Basil Chubb Paperback. In excellent
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condition. Published by Oxford University Press. First Paperback Edition 1974. 364pp.
€5
With a long Historical introduction by David Thornley. Basil Chubb was Born in
Branksome, Dorset, in 1921. This book is still regarded as the classic work on Irish
Politics.
"Irish Trade Unions 1729-1970" by Andrew Boyd. Paperback. In very good condition.
Sticker removed from front cover. Published by Anvil Books 1976 Reprint. 155pp. A
graduate of Queen’s University, Andrew Boyd sets out the story of Irish Trade Unionism
and states it predates their establis
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93
Book. "The Greek Islands" by Lawrence Durrell Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
Start bid excellent condition. Published by Faber & Faber. First Edition 1978. 287pp with many
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illustrations both in colour and black and white. A guide but also a book to treasure for
anyone who has visited the Greek Islands.
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Book. Soft cover "The Age of de Valera" by Joseph Lee and Gearoid O Tuathaigh, In
excellent condition. Published by Ward River Press. First Edition 216 pp with numerous
photos Based on the RTE television series. Eamon de Valera, the sole surviving
Start bid commandant of the 1916 Rising, President of the first Dail, and founder of the Fianna
€5
Fail party evoked both loyal devotion and bitter condemnation in the Irish political scene.
Two leading historians analyse de Valera's Ireland: his achievements, failures, visions
and legacy.
Book. "Ireland before the Famine 1798-1848 by Gearoid O Tuathaigh Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Gill and Macmillan First Edition 1972. 237pp. This is
the 9th Volume of an 11 Volume series (the Gill Series on Irish History). This volume
covers the critical period when the potato began to dominate Irish agriculture (after
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1750). The impact of the potato on land use and population growth had consequences
€5
which were accentuated by the mid-1840's when the blight attacked potatoes. This is a
very comprehensive analysis of Irish culture, industry, politics and economy for the 50
years at the turn of the 18th Century
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Lot of 3 hard cover books:
"A Season in Hell" by Marilyn French Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Virago Press. First Edition 1998. An unforgettable, illuminating
memoir of the author's unheard-of victory over oesophageal cancer--One of her Three
(3) triumphant returns from the dead.
"My Cousin Rachel" by Daphne Du Maurier Hardcover. In very good condition.
start bid
Published by the Reprint Society. First Edition Thus 1952 . 320pp. This was to be her
€5
last truly historical novel based in Cornwall, although Two (2) other Cornish novels would
follow much later.
"Beloved Stranger" by Clare Boylan. Hardcover. With Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Little Brown and Company. First UK Dedition 1999. 309pp.
What happens when madness shatters a marriage? An acclaimed Irish novelist explores
this question in a comic, contemporary take on King Lear.
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Start bid Book, soft cover 'The Dallas Family Album' unforgettable moments from the famous
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TV series published 1980
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Lot of 3 soft cover books:
"Ireland Green" by Harry Bohan Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Veritas Publications Dublin. First Edition 1979. 115pp. r. Harry Bohan, Chairman of the
Ceifin Centre, qualified as Sociologist in the University of Wales and is currently Director
of Pastoral Planning in Diocese of Killaloe and Parish Priest in Sixmilebridge, Co Clare.
Start bid
"Nightlines" by John McGahern. Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
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Panther. 1979 reprint. 127pp. A collection of Twelve (12) short stories in the great
tradition of Irish Writers.
"Elizabeth bowen's irish Stories" paperback, in excellent condition, a 1986 reprint of
the original 1978 edition , published by Poolbeg
Book, soft cover 'The plough and the Stars' by sean o Casey with introduction, textual
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notes, commentaries and workshop activities by Sean moffatt published by Gill &
€5
Macmahon 1987
Book. "Ireland a history" by Robert Kee. Hardback with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1981 Reprint. 256pp with any
illustrations. Robert Kee CBE (born 5 October 1919 in Calcutta, India) is a British
broadcaster, journalist and writer, known for his historical works on World War II and
Start bid Ireland. Kee wrote and presented the documentary series Ireland - A Television History
€5
in 1980. The work received great critical acclaim and was widely shown both in the
United Kingdom and the United States. Following the series' transmission on RTE, Kee
won a Jacob's Award for his script and presentation.
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101
Book Hardcover "The Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West. In Good condition.
Published by Heinemann. 1963 Reprint of 1963 First Edition. 302pp. The book reached
No.1 on the New York Times bestseller list for adult fiction on 30 June 1963, and
became the No. 1 bestselling novel in the United States for that year. Morris West's
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protagonist Lakota is inspired by the life of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj.
€5
Slipyj was released by Nikita Khrushchev's administration from a Siberian Gulag in 1963,
the year of the novel's publication, after political pressure from Pope John XXIII and
United States President John F. Kennedy. Slipyj arrived in Rome in time to participate in
the Second Vatican Council.
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104
Book, Hardcover "Leabhar Aifrinn an Domhnaigh" (Sunday Missal). In excellent
Start bid condition. Published by Gaeltarra Eireann 1978 Edition. Page markers. Gilt edges.
€5
673pp Maille le hAifrinn Fheilte Mora agus Aifrinn ar leith Ghnais. An tAthair Padraig O
Fiannachta a chuir in eager.
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105
Book, Hard cover "Somebody Loves You" by Helen Steiner Rice, with dust jacket; in
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excellent condition 127pp with illustrations. Published by Hutchinson of London First UK
€2
Edition 1978 A collection of verse by this well known best selling author.
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106
Book, Paperback, "Letters from the Great Blasket" by Eibhlis Ni Shuilleabhain, in
very good condition (small label on front cover) published by The Mercier Press and
edited by Sean O Coileain First Edition 1978 87pp. This is a collection of letters written
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in English over twenty years from 1921 to 1951 mostly written by Eibhlis to George
€5
Chambers in London. A rich source for those looking to understand the whys and ways
of a lost culture. The letters give a unique insight into the great literary families of the
Blaskets of which Eibhlis was a member.
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Book, Paperback "Yarns" by John Jordan, in very good condition. Published by
Poolbeg Press 109pp. First Edition a collection of 13 short stories compiled for a volume
in Poolbeg series devoted to Irish Short Stories. John Edward Jordan born 8 April, 1930
went to Oxford on Studentship (beating John Montague) completed B.Litt. on verse
Start bid letters of John Donne . He was assistant. Lecturer at UCD, 1959 and lecturer 1965, he
€5
resigned in 1969 he was also involved with the Gate as actor and a founder-member of
Aosdana in 1983 He died aged 58, suddenly in Cardiff, during a Cumann Merriman
School.
Lot of 3 soft cover books:
"Tess of the d’Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy Paperback in very good condition
Published by Oxford Bookworms.1992. 124pp including many photo illustrations
"The Cards of the Gambler" by Benedict Kiely Paperback. In excellent condition.
Published by Millington. This classic novel from renowned novelist, short-story writer
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and broadcaster Benedict Kiely
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"The Green Mile 3 Coffey’s Hands" by Stephen King Paperback. In excellent
condition. Published by Penguin Books First UK Edition 1996 . It tells the story of death
row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who
displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities.
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Book, Hard cover "Charming Billy" by Alice McDermott, with dust jacket , in excellent
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condition ( some staining od dust jacket) Published by Farrar Straus and Giroux New
€5
York Eighth printing 1999 edition
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109
Book, Paperback "The Midnight Court" by Brian Merriman translated by David
Marcus. Published by O'Brien Press Ltd in 1975 72pp In very good condition: Professor
Sean O Tuama says of Merriman’s poem: The Midnight Court is undoubtedly One of the
Start bid greatest comic works of literature, and certainly the greatest comic poem ever written in
€10
Ireland. Another critic, Professor Declan Kiberd, in Irish Classics, 2000, says: Merriman’s
genius lay in his capacity to write in a language very close to the everyday speech of his
Clare, and yet somehow to infuse that speech with the rhymes and assonances of
poetry. Brian Merriman lived from 1749 to 1805.
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110
Lot of Two soft cover books, "Strange Fruit" by D.S.Sheridan, paperback published by
Poolbeg Press 1993 First edition 151pp in excellent condition together with a haunting
first novel set in Dublin "Oasis" by Padraig Rooney, paperback published by Poolbeg
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Press 1982 First edition 128 pp in excellent condition. Padraig Rooney was born in 1956
€5
in Monaghan. He has published many short stories, and this a novel. He won the Patrick
Kavanagh Award for Poetry in 1986. His poetry collections are In The Bonsai Garden ,
He spent many years in the Far East, and now lives in Switzerland.
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A complete set of monthly issues of 'The Irish Ecclesiastical Records' 1913
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Lot of Three books:
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Booklet "The Lindisfarne Gospels A Beginners Guide". No Author. In very good
condition Published by Marygate House 1982. 20pp. The Lindisfarne Gospels is an
illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the
British Library. The manuscript was produced on Lindisfarne in Northumbria in the late
7th century or early 8th century, and is generally regarded as the finest example of the
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kingdom's unique style of religious art, a style that combined Anglo-Saxon and Celtic
€5
themes, what is now called Hiberno-Saxon art, or Insular art. This is a guide produced
for visitors to Lindisfarne Island
Book, Soft cover "Candida". A Mystery by Bernard Shaw, In Poor Condition.
Published by Constable and Company London First soft cover Edition 1922. 156pp. A
comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw and was first published in 1898, as part of
his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife
Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who t
Lot of Three soft cover books:
"To School through the Fields" by Alice Taylor, paperback 1988 5th Printing Poor
condition
"Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century" by Edward MacLysaght paperback published
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by Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1979. In very good condition. First Paperback edition.
€5
This is an outstanding work on Irish social history 1660-1700
"Men Withering" by Francis MacManus, paperback published by Mercier Press, 1972.
In good condition
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Lot of Three soft cover books:
"The Prophet" by Kahil Gibran in excellent condition. Published by Pan 114pp
Illustrated. First Paperback edition 5th Printing 1982 .The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic
essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. It
was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The
Start bid Prophet has been translated into over forty different languages
€5
"The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene, in very good condition. Published by
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1975 Printing. 222pp The Power and the Glory (1940) is a
novel.
"A Strange Kind of Loving" by Sheila Mooney. In excellent condition .Published by
Poolbeg Press Ltd, 1990. 172pp with photographs. A fascinating autobiography
stretching from China to Roscommon.
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113
Book, Paperback "Short Stories of Padraic Pearse" Selected by Desmond Maguire
in very good condition ( small sticker on front cover) published by Mercier Press 4th
reprint 1979. The book is a dual language book in both Irish and English. Desmond
Start bid Maguire is a journalist well known for writings in Irish and English. These Five (5) stories
€5
show us that Pearse was a man of deep understanding with immense human awareness
of the way of life of the average person. He analyses the sorrows and joys of the Irish
people of his time, and writes of the tragedies of life and death from which they could
never escape.
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114
Lot of Three soft cover books "Sex and Sanctity" by T.P. O’Mahony published by
Poolbeg Press 1979 (First Edition) in excellent condition. It has been described as a racy
unpardonable novel. T. P. O’Mahony was born in 1939 in Cork and was the Irish Press
commentator on religious affairs He is an author of novels and theatre criticism.
"Padraic O Conaire" 15 short stories translated by 15 well known Irish writers,
Start bid published by Poolbeg Press 1982 192pp in excellent condition First Edition O’Conaire
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born in Galway in 1882 left his job in the Civil Service to become a travelling story-teller
and the author of Four hundred short stories, both for adults and children. This is an
interesting concept whereby 14 well known Irish writers each translate One of his best
known stories and "Patterns" by Eithne Strong Paperback published by Poolbeg
Press 1981 First edition 144pp in excellent condition She was born in West Limerick in
1925 was a member of Aosdana and was highly regarded by her fellow poets, her work
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Lot of Three soft cover books
"And So Began" by Seamus Wilmot Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
The Mercier Press First Edition 1972. 128pp. A translation of his book in Irish called
'Mise Meara'. Seamus Wilmot was born in Listowel Co Kerry and worked as a teacher
where One of his pupils was Bryan MacMahon. Seamus became Registrar of the
National University until 1972. A playwright as well as a novelist, And So Began has
been described as a work of imagination but not a "novel", more a parable of a man, a
country and a language.
"Sixpence in Her Shoe" and other stories by Maura Treacy Paperback. In very good
Start bid condition.( Sticker on Front Cover) Published by Poolbeg Press First Edition 1977.
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128pp One of a series produced by Poolbeg devoted to the modern Irish short story.
Maura Treacy was born in Kilkenny in 1946 and has a number of works published. In
1974 she won the Short Story competition at Listowel Writers Week. A collection of 15
short stories
"Your Breaking Point" by Dolores Whelan Paperback. In excellent condition.
Published by Attic Press Dublin. 1993 Reprint . Effective Steps to Reduce and Cope with
Stress. Dolores Whelan has been involved with education all her adult life, initially as a
biochemistry lecturer, and for the past 20 years as an educator and spiritual guide
working in the area of human and spiritual development in Ireland, Scotland, England
and USA
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Lot of 3 soft cover books :
Dan Pheaidi Aindi by John B Keane Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
the Mercier Press First Reprint Edition. 1978 . 100pp Dan Pheaidi Aindi is a
matchmaker who has made matches for 400 couples, only One (1) of which has failed.
As a second occupation he owns and runs a small dancehall, which does a great deal to
keep his small rural community alive and vibrant
Start bid The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
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Poolbeg Press. ( Some irregular printing pages 1-30) 1982 Edition. 254pp. The Big
Chapel was short listed for the 1971 Booker Prize and winner of the Guardian Fiction
Prize.
Tales From Bective Bridge by Mary Lavin Paperback. In Very Good condition.
Published by Poolbeg Press First paperback printing 1978 Edition with Introduction by
Mary Lavin and a preface by Lord Dunsany. Tales from Bective Bridge is a collection of
10 short stories concerning rural Ireland and its populace.
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117
Book, Soft cover "Gregorian Chant Experience" by Noirin Ni Riain, in excellent
Start bid condition. 187pp with musical scores. Published by The O’Brien Press First Edition
€5
1997. This book contains 40 chants with music words and Meditations NO CD. Noirin Ni
Riain has performed world wide.
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118
Booklet "Irish Gardens" by Edward Malins and the Knight of Glin, in excellent
condition. Published by Eason’s of Dublin. First Edition 1977 24pp many coloured and
black and white illustrations. This was Volume 11 in the Irish Heritage series. From the
authors of Lost Demesnes. Both writers have experience in writing distinguished works.
Edward Malins (1910-1996) was an early member of the Irish Georgian Society and an
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authority on Yeats as well as horticulture. Born in 1936 The Knight of Glin, Desmond
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Fitzgerald was educated at the University of British Columbia in Canada and Harvard in
the United States. He worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, in the
furniture department.[2] He later returned to Ireland, and became active in conservation
issues, becoming involved with the Irish Georgian Society at this time. He was appointed
its president in 1991.
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Lot of Three soft cover books :
"Your Rights as an Irish Citizen" by the Irish Association of Civil Liberty . In
excellent condition. Published by Ward River Press ("Paperfacts" series, no. 1). 1982
edition First Edition Thus. 80pp. An interesting handbook setting out the rights of the
citizen as they existed nearly 30 years ago
"Magic of Spring" by Canon Sheehan, In excellent condition. Published by Mercier
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Press . First Edition Thus 1973. 96pp. The Very Rev. Patrick Augustine Canon Sheehan
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(17 March 1852 - 5 October 1913), was an Irish Catholic priest, author, political activist
and was known and referred to as Canon Sheehan of Doneraile
"The Distant Past" by William Trevor. In excellent condition. Published by Poolbeg
Press First Edition 1979 . 176pp. One of a series produced by Poolbeg devoted to the
modern Irish short story.
Book, soft cover "Ulysses" by James Joyce. In excellent condition. Published by
Start bid Penguin Modern Classics. Reprint 1976 720pp. Joyce’s classic work in a good clean
€5
copy.
Book Soft cover "Digging up Dublin" Edited by Nicholas Maxwell, in excellent
Start bid condition. Published by O'Brien Press First soft cover edition 1980 64pp with
€5
illustrations, maps and drawings. A collection of essaya well illustrated concerning early
and medieval Dublin following the Wood Quay controversy.
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Lot of Three books,
Book. Hard cover "Royal Readers II" No author. In Very Good condition. Published by
T Nelson & Sons London. 1900 Edition 142pp. An interesting school book from the turn
of the last century. A collection of lessons, readings and poems. "The pieces are of a
character well calculated to give life and point and fresh interest to the daily work of the
class.
Book, soft cover "The Alternative Readers Second Book" No Author. In Poor
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condition. Published by Alex Thom & Co Dublin First Edition 1896. 96pp A collection of
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lessons for Irish schoolchildren from 125 years ago, the content is interesting to compare
with that of to-days readers
Book, Hard cover "Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography" No Author. In excellent
condition. Published by J.M.Dent & Sons 1933 268pp. Revised and Reset" edition of
this excellent collection of maps of the ancient world with a very detailed historical
gazetteer. Comprises coloured maps (pages 1-64), mono line maps (pages 65-77) and
gazetteer (pages 79-229)
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare with a preface by the Late Sir Donald
Wolfit CBE. Hardback with dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Spring Books
Start bid 19th Impression 1979 1081pp.This edition, complete and unabridged, his poems, plays,
€5
comedies, tragedies and histories. A copy of Shakespeare's work should have a place in
every home.
Book. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Hardcover . In good condition.
( some staining to back cover , very slight staining to text ) Published by Croome & Co.
No Date. But probably 1897. 424pp. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14,
1811 at Litchfield, Connecticut. The first Twelve (12) years of her life were spent in the
intellectual atmosphere of Litchfield, which was a famous resort of ministers, judges,
Start bid lawyers and professional men of superior attainments. Stowe was catapulted to
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international fame with the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1851. Following
publication of the book, she became a celebrity, speaking against slavery both in
America and Europe. She wrote A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) extensively
documenting the realities on which the book was based, to refute critics who tried to
argue that it was inauthentic.
Lot of Three soft cover books
"Pictures in the Hallway" by Sean O’Casey,paperback published by Pan Books
London 1971 First Paperback Edition 240pp in excellent condition. Volume Two of the
autobiography of Sean O'Casey, in which he becomes absorbed in politics and religion
Start bid and enters the theatre,
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"Call my brother back" by Michael McLaverty paperback published by Poolbeg Press
1979 184pp in excellent condition and the first of his eight novels and "Collected Short
Stories by Michael McLaverty" paperback published by Poolbeg Press 1987 278pp in
excellent condition. With an Introduction by Seamus Heaney
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Book, Hard cover "Shelley Poetry and Prose Introduction" by A M D Hughes
Start bid Hardback no dust jacket in excellent condition 199pp. Published by Oxford at the
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Clarendon press 1952 Edition. A collection of his works with essays from contemporaries
and notes and an introduction
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129
Book, Paperback "Sarah in Passing" by Eithne Strong, with illustrated cover. In
excellent condition. Published by Dolmen press First Edition 1974 71 pp. with 4 black
Start bid and white illustrations. There was no Hardback edition. Praised by such critics as
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Padraic Colum Bertrand Russell and Hilton Edwards/. This work follows on from her
Songs of Living. Eithne Strong (nee O’Connell) was born in west Limerick and her first
book of poetry appeared in 1961.
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130
Book, Hard cover "Loving Promises" by Helen Steiner, with dust jacket; in excellent
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condition 127pp with illustrations. Published by Hutchinson of London First UK Edition
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1978 A collection of verse by this well known best selling author.
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Book, Soft cover "Family Law in the Republic of Ireland" by Alan Joseph Shatter".In
excellent condition. Published by Wolfhound Press. First soft cover edition 1977. 360pp.
When this book was published in May 1977, Irish legal texts were rare. Added to that,
Family law was a largely unknown area of law for many practitioner's. This was the first
comprehensive account of Irish Family law and followed Two fundamental and
Start bid groundbreaking pieces of legislation; namely The Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses
€5
and Children Ac) t 1976 and the Family Home Protection Act 1976. When published the
overwhelming number of purchasers would have been Lawyers, Colleges and Libraries
and they would have mostly purchased the Hardcover Edition. The soft cover editions
( where they survived) tended to become very worn with use and tended to be disposed
of with each new edition ( there have been Four) Thus to find a 1977 paperback edition
is not common, to find One in this excellent condition is rare.
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Book, Hard cover "The National Ideal" by Joseph Hanly. In very good condition.
Published by Dollard Printing House Dublin First Edition 1931. with illustrations. A
practical exposition of true nationality appertaining to Ireland. This book attempts to
explain the significance of nationality and to show how some of the most important
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forces that promote nationality might be developed for the spiritual and material common
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good as appertaining to Ireland. An interesting account of how nationality was viewed in
the early 1930’s.
Lot of 3 soft cover books:
Dubliners by James Joyce. In excellent condition. Published by Penguin Modern
Classics (2/6 ) First published in 1914 this edition published in 1961.
The Art of James Joyce by A. Walton Litz . Paperback. In excellent condition.
Published by Oxford University press New York, A Galaxy Book 1968 Edition. This book
start bid supplies a wealth of data that adds up to an essential handbook for students
€5
of Joyce.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Paperback. In excellent
condition. Label on front cover. Published by Panther. 1979 Reprint. 229pp Joyce’s
evocation of a Catholic boyhood in Ireland and the struggle trough sin and sanctity
towards self express
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Soft cover "Catholic Bible Stories" by Sister Mary Theola SSND. Fair condition
covers damaged. Published by Regina Press. First Edition 1960. 322pp. Adaptations
from the bible into narrative type illustrated stories
Book Soft cover "The Good News Bible". In good condition. Published by The Bible
start bid Societies. First British Paperback Edition 1976. 1312pp
€5
Book "The Weekday Missal". The Weekday Missal: Weekday masses For The Proper
Of Seasons, The Proper Of Saints, Common Masses, Votive And Occasional Masses
Complete With Readings In One Volume, Texts approved for England & Wales,
Scotland, Ireland, South Africa. In excellent condition. Published by Collins. Tenth
Printing 1990 2104pp with page markers
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133
Book, Paperback "Full Employment and regional development" Edited by Diarmaid
O Cearbhaill, in excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica First edition
1981 177pp A collection of Nine essays and an introduction by the editor arising from a
Start bid
seminar in March 1979 organised by the Mid Western Regional Development
€5
organisation which debated the challenges to the Irish Economy in the early 1980’s. If
we knew then what we know now. The Editor worked in the Department of Finance
before returning to UCG
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€ 20
134
Lot of Three soft cover books
"Guests of the Nation" by Frank O’Connor, paperback published by Poolbeg Press
1979 First Poolbeg Edition.199pp.in excellent condition. A collection of short stories all
based on the Irish independence struggle. Frank O’Connor (real name Michael
O‘Donovan) was born in Cork in 1903 and it was this collection of short stories that
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brought him a world wide reputation as a master of the genre,
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"Collected Short Stories" by Michael McLaverty paperback published by Poolbeg
Press First Poolbeg Edition 1978 in very good condition 278pp and
"My Green Age" by Tom MacDonagh paperback published by Poolbeg Press 1986,
First Poolbeg Edition. 148pp in excellent condition. An autobiographical work set in
Dublin of the forties and fifties it is a frank free ranging account of the author’s early life.
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135
Lot of Three soft cover books,
"Desire and other stories" by James Stephens paperback published by Poolbeg
Press 1980 Introduction by Augustine Martin. 223pp. First Poolbeg Edition, in excellent
condition. James Stephens was born 1882 in Dublin, His father died 2 years later
mother remarried; he was sent to the Meath Protestant Industrial School for Boys
running away persistently. Between 1896 and 1912, he obtained work as a clerk in a firm
Start bid of solicitors and published his earliest story in 1905. He became friendly with Arthur
€10
Griffith in 1906 and contributed poems, stories and essays to Sinn Fein and to the Irish
Worker; George Russell heralded him as a new Irish genius. The stories are carefully
chosen to illustrate every aspect of Stephen's craft,
"Lost Fields" by Michael McLaverty paperback published by Poolbeg Press 1980
208pp. in excellent condition and "
The Road to the Shore" also by Michael McLaverty Paperback published by Poolbeg
Press 1982 in excellent condition. A collection of Short stories whic
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136
Book, Hard cover "The Vicar of Wakefield" by Oliver Goldsmith. In excellent
condition. Published by J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd 1956 reprint of 1908 Edition. 222pp
including Introduction. A Volume in the "Everyman's Library" Series. In "The Vicar of
Wakefield", Goldsmith gently mocks many of the literary conventions of his day - from
pastoral and romance to the picaresque - infusing his story of a hapless clergyman with
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warm humour and amiable social satire. Oliver Goldsmith (1735-1774) was the son of an
€5
Irish protestant clergyman; he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1749. He
studied medicine at Edinburgh and Leiden, but he was unsuccessful as a Doctor. In
1756 he settled in London, although he earned a great deal of money in his lifetime,
Goldsmith's extravagance kept him poor. He died penniless and £2,000 in debt in
London in 1774
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137
Lot of Three books:
"W.B.Yeats The Last Romantic" Selected and with an Introduction by Peter Porter,
hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Aurum Press. First
Edition 1990. Unpaginated. A Volume in the Illustrated Poets Series. Thirty-One of
Yeats' poems in a beautiful small volume. With coloured illustrations.
"Springs of Comfort" Hardcover spiral bound small format. In excellent condition.
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Published by S.N.M. Publications. No Date. Unpaginated. T. S. Eliot, Plato, C. G. Jung,
€5
Nietzsche and others. Colour illustrations. A collection of uplifting thoughts.
"Paul Henry" by S.B. Kennedy, Hardcover in excellent condition, a volume in the "Lives
of Irish Artists" series published by Town House Dublin. First Edition 1991 34 pp. 10
plates, of which 9 are in colour and One is black and white, plus pictorial front board.
Paul Henry was born in Belfast, studied in Paris and worked in England, but he was
most influenced by his years on Achill Island. His artistic vision was
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€ 15
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Lot of Three books:
138
"Tales out of School" Edited by Sean McMahon & Jo O'Donoghue Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Poolbeg First Edition 1993 . 164pp. This book was
published to mark the 125th anniversary of the foundation of the Irish National Teacher's
Organisation. A collection of selections from Irish writers on the subject of "school", the
writers all having a connection with school. This anthology is the first of its kind.
"The Great Hunger" by Cecil Woodham Smith Paperback. In good condition (slight
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fold to cover and loosening at spine.) Published by New English Library. June 1974
€5
Edition. 430pp Cecil Woodham-Smith was born in 1896 in Tenby, Wales. Her family, the
Fitzgeralds, were a well-known Irish family, One of her ancestors being Lord Edward
Fitzgerald, hero of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
"With Lads of Every Clan" by Various Authors. Paperback. In excellent condition.
Published by Clo Duanaire. Appears to be a First Edition No Date 69pp. A collection of
Songs in the Traditional idiom and unique in that all the material is new. Seven writers
are included in the collection, including Sean MacCarthy of Finuge Co Kerry who
contributes Four works including "in shame love, in shame" and "Shanagolden"
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Lot of Three Bryan NacMahon books:
139
"Here's Ireland", paperback. In Excellent condition. Published by Butler Sims Ltd 280
pp Revised edition 1982. This is a personal account of Bryan MacMahon's travels from
Donegal to Cork and Connemara to Dublin with many photographic illustrations.
"The End of The World", Paperback in good condition (some damage to cover)
Published by Poolbeg Press 156 pp First Edition 1976. a collection of 15 short stories
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compiled for a volume in Poolbeg series devoted to Irish Short Stories.
€10
"Jackomoora", Paperback In Excellent Condition. Published by Poolbeg 41pp with
illustrations. First Edition. A magical wonder tale lovingly retold by master story teller
Bryan MacMahon. He first heard this story in his youth. It is dedicated to the many
children (now grown up) to whom he told this story.
Bryan MacMahon (1909-1998) was born in Listowel; he was educated at St.
Michael's College, Listowel, and St. Patrick's Training College, Dublin. He worked
as a teacher for 45 years,
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€ 10
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Lot of Three books:
140
141
"Your Book of the Guitar" by Graham Wade". Hard cover, In excellent condition.
Published by Faber and Faber. First Edition 1980 63pp Illustrated. This work traces the
history of the guitar from the Middle Ages to 1980. The author stresses how to get the
best out of the examination system and how to approach practicing so that it becomes a
pleasure rather than a chore
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"The Faber Popular Reciter" Edited by Kingsley Amis. Soft cover, In Excellent
€5
condition. Published by Faber and Faber. First Edition 1978. 256pp. Collection of
poems for recitation. Many well known poems are found in this volume.
"The Sword in the Stone" by T H White. paperback In very good condition. Published
by Fontana Lions. 14th Impression 1982 .286pp Terence Hanbury White was born on
May 29, 1906, in Bombay, India. His father, Garrick Hanbury White, a former Royal Irish
Constabulary man from Co. Meath, had joined the Indian Civil Service and was then
District Superintendent of the Bombay Police.
Book, "The Irish Countryman" by Conrad Arensberg, Paperback. In excellent
condition. Published by The Natural History Press. American Museum of Natural History
edition 1968 71pp. This revised and expanded edition of the classic anthropological
study of Ireland is the definitive work on the Irish peasant, his customs, beliefs and way
Start bid of life. The first study by an anthropologist of a "modern" society, The Irish Countryman
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broke away from the then (i.e. in 1937 ) traditional areas of anthropological concern
anatomy, physiognomy and remains - and studied man’s acts, a shift in anthropological
study which has lasted to the present. A scientific study of rural Ireland in the years
immediately preceding World War II and a fascinating and readable examination of
Ireland 75 years ago.
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142
"Mascot Patsy-O" by Bryan MacMahon Paperback. In excellent condition 114pp.
Published by Poolbeg Press Ltd. First edition 1992. Bryan also wrote many children's
books including Patsy-O, Patsy-O and His Wonderful Pets, Jack O'Moore and the King
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of Ireland's son and Brendan of Ireland.
€5
"One for Sorrow" by Anthony Glavin paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Poolbeg Press 155pp First Edition 1980 a collection of 10 short stories compiled for a
volume in Poolbeg series devoted to Irish Short Stories. Anthony Glavin was born in
Boston in 1946.
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143
Book, Hard cover "The trial & execution of Socrates Plato" by Peter George,
A fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, cream spine and red cloth boards. Complete with
Start bid a cream, stiff-card slipcase. In excellent condition. Published by The Folio Society First
€15
Folio Edition 1972 197pp with Introduction and illustrations. In this famous book Plato,
who was Socrates’ pupil, tells of the trial and subsequent execution of the man he called
'the wisest and most just of all men- which turned him into the first known political martyr.
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144
Book, Hard cover "The Kellys and the O’Kellys" by Anthony Trollope. In excellent
condition, Published by Oxford University Press No 341 World’s Classic Series. 1978
Edition 516pp The author himself said of this work " a good Irish story, much inferior to
The Macdermots as to plot, but superior in the mode of telling." One of Trollope's
favourite themes runs all the way through the novel: the pursuit of money for its own
Start bid sake, and the triumph of true feelings over such avarice. Tightly constructed and
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speedily paced, anticipating in many ways the works of Somerville and Ross (written
over half a century later), The Kellys and the O'Kellys also introduces us to many of
Trollope's favourite preoccupations, such as hunting, racing, and betting. We see the
author's famous attention to detail: life in a small village inn or a lawyer's office, both of
which the reader can practically taste and smell. Here, too, we have Trollope's first
attempt at a description of a great country house, the gloomy Grey Abbey near t
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145
"Sisters" by June Levine. Soft cover in excellent condition. Published by Ward River
Press. 306pp First Edition. June Levine was born in Dublin. She is the author of Two
best-selling books Sisters, a personal history of the Irish feminist movement (Dublin,
Ward River Press, 1985); and Lyn (with Lyn Madden) a story of prostitution (Dublin, The
Women's Press, 1988). She was a well known journalist and also a researcher on the
Late Late Show on RTE.She died in Dublin in 2008. Her evaluation of the past Ten
years in terms of her own experience, and in terms of Irish feminism, makes fascinating
and absorbing reading.
Start bid "Dam-Burst of Dreams" by Christopher Nolan, Hard cover, laminated boards with
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colour photo of Nolan, no dust-jacket as issued. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
First Edition 1981, 128pp. Cerebral palsy meant that the Irish writer Christopher Nolan,
who died aged 43, could neither speak nor control his hands. His parents and elder
sister, however, helped him
"Amo, Amas, Amat and all that" by Harry Mount, Hard cover with Dust jacket.
Published by Short Books First Edition 2006 272pp. While Harry Mount's engaging little
Latin primer isn't likely to be much help to those for whom hic, haec, hoc is the result of a
night in the pub, it will succeed in reminding the 'Latin lovers' of its subtitle just how
elegant and versatile the language is.
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Book, "Muckross House Folk Museum" by Frank Lewis. Paperback In excellent
condition published by Skellig Books First Edition 1975 134pp with illustrations and plan
at rear. This charming work by well known presenter of The Saturday Supplement" on
Radio Kerry, Frank Lewis, is far more than a guide book. Frank’s well known love for his
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native Killarney is demonstrated by this work which gives an excellent history not merely
€5
of Muckross House but also of the Killarney and Muckross areas. Lavishly illustrated the
comprehensive work is a must for anyone who has an interest in Kerry or Ireland’s Folk
History.
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149
Book, "Shades of Green" Hard cover in excellent condition . Published by The Bodley
Head 330pp First Edition of this collection 1975. Eighteen Stories from Grahame
Greene's Collected Stories featured in Thames television's series Shades of Greene.
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English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, whose novels treat moral
€5
issues in the context of political settings. Greene was One of the most widely read
novelist of the 20th-century, a superb storyteller. Adventure and suspense are constant
elements in his novels and many of his books have been made into successful films.
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150
Booklet "The Legend of Tara" by Elizabeth Hickey, In excellent condition. Published
Start bid by Dundalgan Press, 1969 edition 39pp. Including Bibliography Green covers with Celtic
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Triskell on cover. A retelling of the wonders of the seat of the High King of Ireland and
his feasting hall. the legends and known Irish history of this hill of wonders.
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151
start bid Book, hardcover 'The Fair Hills of Ireland' by Stephen Gwynn with illustrations by
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Hugh Thomson 1906
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147
148
"Jack B Yeats" by Brian P Kennedy, Hard cover in excellent condition, a volume in the
"Lives of Irish Artists" series published by Town House Dublin First Edition 1991 35pp
with 10 col. plate illustrations. Jack B Yeats is probably Ireland’s most iconic painter of
the last 100 years. In 1924 One (1) of his paintings won an Olympic Silver Medal for the
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Irish Free State at the Paris Olympics Art Competition. Brian P Kennedy is the holder of
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a Masters and Doctorate degree in the History of Art and History from UCD, and he has
achieved high recognition both as a writer on Art, especially Irish Art and as a Museum
Director. This work contains a biography of Jack B Yeats and commentaries illustrated
by Coloured plates on some of his most famous works of Art.
"Full Employment and regional development" Edited by Diarmaid ó Cearbhaill
paperback in excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica First edition 1981
177pp A collection of Nine essays and an introduction by the editor arising from a
Start bid seminar in March 1979 organised by the Mid Western Regional Development
€5
organisation which debated the challenges to the Irish Economy in the early 1980’s. If
we knew then what we know now. The Editor worked in the Department of Finance
before returning to UCG
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Lot of 3 hard cover books:
152
"Eyeless in Gaza" by Aldous Huxley Hardback. In Good condition. Published by
Chatto and Windus. 1950 Reprint. 620pp. Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22
November 1963) was an English writer and One (1) of the most prominent members of
the famous Huxley family.
"The Singer Not the Song" by Audrey Erskine Lindop. Hardback. In excellent
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condition. Published by the Reprint Society. 1954. Audrey Erskine-Lindop (Born
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December 26 1920 in London , Died November 7 1986 , Isle of Wight ) was a British
writer, whose novels, short stories and scripts were extensively published.
"The Cardinal Sins" by Andrew M Greeley Hardback. In excellent condition. Published
by W.H.Allen London First British Edition 1981 Father Andrew M. Greeley (born
February 5, 1928, Oak Park, Illinois) is an Irish-American Roman Catholic priest,
sociologist, journalist and fiction writer. The book follows thirty years in the lives of Kevin
and Patrick, Two Irish Catholic boys from the west side of Chi
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153
Book, Soft cover "Soldier of the Rearguard the Story of Matt Flood" by Bill Hammond,
in Very Good condition ( slight damage to cover) Eigse na Mainistreach Publications,
Fermoy 69pp 1 photo First Edition 1977. Matt Flood was wounded in France in
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September 1916, joined the Irish Volunteers in September 1917, took part in the Arms
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attack near the Fermoy Wesleyan Church in September 1919 and became a member of
the elite Brigade Flying Column in September 1920. Matt was to have a long active
career, which Bill Hammond Cork born author narrates in this work.
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154
Book,"Beyond Tomorrow" by Father Timothy Leahy, Soft cover In Good condition.
( Some underlining and side notes p 1-13) Published by Father Timothy Leahy 132pp
Fourth Printing 5,000 copies November 1968 Father Tim Leahy was born in Millstream,
Abbeyfeale, in 1929 He received his primary education at Templeglantine National
School before joining the Salesian in Pallaskenry in 1944. He continued his education
there before going to Melchet Court, Southampton, where he was ordained in 1962.His
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work took him to Beirut, The Lebanon, in 1965 where he remained until they were
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ordered to leave in 1976 due to the war. While there he experienced the terrible sadness
of the war. He went to Lesotho in South Africa in 1981. While there he assisted and
befriended Mandela on his peace-keeping mission. He stayed in Lesotho, working up
until 1999 when he returned to Ireland to have a serious operation. He returned to
Pallaskenry where he continued his work until 2004 when he came to be confined to a
wheelchair He died April
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155
Pilgrimage along the Feale and other Poems" by Patrick Given booklet. In
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excellent condition. Published by October Press Ltd. Listowel , Co Kerry. Signed First
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Edition 1976. 32pp. A collection of 15 poems .
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156
Book,"Full Employment and regional development" Edited by Diarmaid O
Cearbhaill Soft cover in excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica First
edition 1981 177pp A collection of Nine essays and an introduction by the editor arising
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from a seminar in March 1979 organised by the Mid Western Regional Development
€5
organisation which debated the challenges to the Irish Economy in the early 1980’s. If
we knew then what we know now. The Editor worked in the Department of Finance
before returning to UCG
157
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The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin Hardback with Dust jacket, in Very Good
condition published by Hutchinson First Edition 1978 292pp with many colour
illustrations. This is the story of Tim Severin’s reconstruction of Kerry’s St Brendan
crossing of the Atlantic in the 6th Century. When setting off on his epic journey Tim
Start bid Severin departed from Brandon Creek Co Kerry in 1976. This is a fascinating account
€10
of the voyage. Tim Severin, Explorer, historian and writer, born in 1940 in Assam India
is a recognised scholar of Maritime History and is an Honorary Doctor of Letters from
Trinity College Dublin and a Gold Medalist of the Royal Geographical Society. This work
is of interest to all armchair explorers sailors and historians.
Book "Sex and Marriage in Ancient Ireland" by Patrick C Power. Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Mercier Press. First Edition 1976 96pp. In ancient
Ireland - from the dawn of history until the coming of the Normans - marriage customs
and sexual mores were very different from those that held sway in other European
countries - and especially from the 'Christian' customs that the Norman conquerors
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sought to impose on the Irish. Liberal and humane, they allowed for divorce and
€5
remarriage and acknowledged the status of women as independent individuals. This
riveting account, based on heroic, historical and legal sources, makes surprising and
entertaining reading.
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Lot of 3 soft cover books:
160
161
"The Little Monasteries" by Frank O’Connor". Booklet. In excellent condition .
Published by The Dolmen Press Poetry. 1976 Reprint . 45pp. Translations from Irish
Poetry mainly of the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuries. Written just Three (3) years
before his death, this volume is complementary to his acclaimed translations collected in
Kings, Lords and Commons. In this book we can see something of the Irish poetic
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achievement.
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"The Western Island" by Robin Flower Paperback. In excellent condition . Published
by Oxford University Press. 1979 Reprint of the 1978 Edition. 143pp. Dr Flower spent a
considerable amount of time between 1910 and 1930 living amongst the 150 inhabitants
of the Great Blasket island. He tells of the adversities and frugality of the Gaelicspeaking people, of the folk tales and the stories of ghosts and fairies and poets.
"Castle Rackrent" by Maria Edgeworth paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Oxford University Press. 1977 Re
start bid Book,"Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott, Hard cover no dust jacket in very good condition
€3
248pp, Published by Dean & Son Limited No Date, overall a good second hand copy
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162
"A Life of Her Own" by Maeve Kelly Paperback . In Very Good condition. Published
by Poolbeg Press. First Edition 1976. 144pp. A collection of 13 short stories compiled
for a volume in Poolbeg series devoted to Irish Short Stories. Maeve Kelly was born in
Dundalk in 1930.
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"Profiles in Courage" by John F Kennedy Paperback. In excellent condition.
€5
Published by Hamish Hamilton. First U.K. Paperback edition. 240pp. Profiles in Courage
is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography describing acts of bravery and integrity by
eight United States Senators throughout the Senate's history.
The Yeats Country by Sheelah Kirby paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Dolmen press. 1977 Reprint.. 47 pp Historical introduction, material on Sligo and Yeats.
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164
Book "Flight" by Aubrey Malone, Paperback in excellent condition, published by
Cillenna Press Ltd Signed First Edition 1980 122pp. Aubrey Malone was born in Mayo
Start bid in 1953 and moved to Dublin in 1969 worked in journalism writing such works as "The
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Brothers Behan" (1998); "The Cynic's Dictionary" (1998); "Historic Pubs of Dublin"
(2001); "Hemingway" (1999). This collection of Short Stories was described by John
Feeney as "the most promising first collection I’ve come across".
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165
Book, "Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn" adapted by P.J.O’Connor Paperback with
Tan card wraps with brown lettering and illustration on front in excellent condition.
Published by Proscenium Press, First Edition 1977 79 pp. This is volume 1 of the "New
Abbey Theatre Series". Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) was a major Irish poet and wrote
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2 novels. One of them, "Tarry Flynn", has been adapted by O' Connor for live
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performance in Two acts The adaptation took place in 1966 when the play was
preformed at the Abbey, Dublin. Tarry Flynn (1948), was called by the author 'not only
the best but the only authentic account of life as it was lived in Ireland this century'; it
was briefly banned.
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166
Book, Soft cover "Modern Irish Writing" Edited by Grattan Freyer, In excellent
Start bid condition. Published by Irish Humanities Centre First Paperback Edition 1979. 309pp. A
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Prose, Drama and Verse Anthology from twenty-eight Irish writers. A collection of some
of the finest works of 20th Century Irish Literature.
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163
Booklet,"Phoenix in the Flame" by James Lucey. In excellent condition. No Publisher.
No date but 1990 may be date of publication. First Edition.28pp James Lucey is a Tralee
poet and this work is a collection of poems and short essays dedicated to Dr Bryan
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MacMahon and with an introduction by Dr Bryan MacMahon and a contribution from
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Gabriel Fitzmaurice.
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167
A Life of Her Own by Maeve Kelly Paperback . In Very Good condition. Published by
Poolbeg Press. First Edition 1976. 144pp. A collection of 13 short stories compiled for a
volume in Poolbeg series devoted to Irish Short Stories. Maeve Kelly was born in
Dundalk in 1930. She lives in Limerick.
Proxopera by Benedict Kiely . Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by Quartet
Start bid Book/Poolbeg press . 1979 Edition and first edition thus.93pp. Described as a nearly
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flawless piece of Literature by County Tyrone native author and broadcaster.
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168
Book, "The Female Experience" by Catherine Rose, Paperback in excellent condition
Published by Arlen House First Edition 1975.110pp. The Story of the Woman Movement
in Ireland Feminist book publishing began during International Women's Year, 1975, in
Start bid Galway when a young Cork woman, Catherine Rose, founded a small press, Arlen
€5
House Ltd, named after her recently born son. In this work she was inspired by her
experience as a working woman who had to give up work because of the marriage bar
then in operation. It is described as a book written by a woman for women - and for men
who want to understand women..
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169
Book, Hard cover "The Country Life Collector's Pocket Book of China" Hard cover by
G.Bernard Hughes, with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Country Life
376pp with 900 illustrations. 1978 Edition .The aim throughout the book has been to
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facilitate identification, and to give the collector the satisfaction of knowing about his / her
€5
specimens, their fundamental substance and how they were produced." A
comprehensive guide to English pottery and porcelain with many black and white
illustrations throughout.
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170
Booklet, "Ross Castle at Nightfall" by Joseph Quirke, in excellent condition printed by
Castle Printing Listowel, Co Kerry. Signed First Edition 1975 27pp. Foreword by John B.
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Keane. Joseph Quirke was described by John B Keane as "a compassionate observer of
€10
human situations" and continued "There is an innate kindness and gentleness in the
work of Joseph Quirke"
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The Captain with the Whiskers by Benedict Kiely Paperback. In excellent Condition.
Published by Poolbeg Press 1980 Edition. First Edition thus. A seminal novel by One of
Ireland's greatest writers
171
Booklet, Soft cover, "The Swan Pond " by James Lucey. In excellent condition. No
Publisher. No date but 1991 appear to be date of publication. Signed and inscribed First
Edition.20pp James Lucey is a Tralee poet and this work is a collection of 33 poems
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many dedicated to people living in the Tralee area. The title of the work gets its name
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from a small stretch of water on the Lohercannon side of Blennerville near Tralee, Co
Kerry. The Poems also deal with the vanishing folklore of Tralee.
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172
Book, hardcover, "The Stories of Mary Lavin" Volume Two. In excellent condition.
Published by Constable. First Edition 1974 390pp. This collection was published Ten
(10) years after Volume One. It is a collection of 22 short stories all written between
Start Bid 1940-1960. In these stories Lavin focuses upon the least glamorous effects of the
€15
Madonna myth - killing rivalries between women and ossifying chastity. Lavin and
O'Brien share an awareness of the unrealistic desires - whether for superiority or
sacrifice - that the Madonna myth fosters in Irish women, along with the women's guilt at
never reaching their ideal of purity and selflessness.
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173
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Book, hardcover 'Irish Memories' by John Valentine. First edition with dustjacket.
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Book, soft cover "Clonmacnois" by John Ryan SJ. A Historical Survey, in excellent
condition. Published by The Stationery Office Dublin First Edition 1973 93pp. with map
and comprehensive index. This is not just a guide book but a very comprehensive and
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fully researched work on the History of One of Ireland’s most famous monastic sites.
€5
The author was born in 1894 in County Limerick and from 1942 to 1964 he held the
Chair of early Irish History at UCD. He wrote many articles and was a renowned
Academic. He died in 1973 some months after completing this work
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175
Book, Paperback "The Irish Faction Fighters of the 19th Century" by Patrick
O’Donnell, in very good condition (small sticker on front cover) published by Anvil Books
First Edition 1975 192pp. Patrick D O’Donnell was born in 1922 at the Kerries, Tralee Co
Kerry , Joined the Defence Forces in 1941. He started writing in 1960 and was a
contributor to the Irish defence journal "An Cosantoir" and wrote for Irish National and
Start bid Provincial papers and US magazines. He also wrote on Irish non-military history
€10
including legends of famous castles such as Castlemartin and Ballyheigue where a tale
of a ghostly appearance was picked up later by the American expert on the paranormal,
Hans Holzer, in his book The Lively Ghosts of Ireland. He was best known abroad for
this book: a sociological analysis of rural inter-clan feuding, and its exploitation as a form
of control to contain rising agrarian agitation in the 19th century Ireland. He deals in
detail with the last great faction fight at Balleagh, near Ballybunion Co Kerr
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176
Book, soft cover " Poets & Poetry of the Great Blasket" translated and edited by
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Seamus O Scannlain, in excellent condition, published by Mercier Press 2003. Bi€5
Lingual ( Irish and English)
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177
Book, Paperback, "Biddy Early the wise woman of Clare" by Meda Ryan, in excellent
condition published by The Mercier Press Signed First Edition 1978 111pp. This is the
story of Biddy Early born in East Clare in 1798 regarded by some as a witch and by
some as a woman of God. Dying in 1874 she lived and worked her "magic" through
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troubled times. It was also noted that she buried all Four (4) of her husbands the last of
€20
which was a man in his thirties, who she married when she was 71. Mistrusted by the
clergy she was highly regarded and sometimes feared by the people of Clare. Meda
Ryan has become well-known for her books on Michael Collins but this was her first full
length historical work. She is a respected Irish Historian
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"Children of the Rainbow" by Bryan MacMahon Paperback in very good condition.
Published by Butler Sims. 341pp 1983 Edition. A novel which tells of progress breaking
in on the age old pattern of life in Cloone. Described as" a story of Ireland of the heart.
"The Stone of Truth and other Irish folk tales" by Douglas Hyde Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Irish Academic Press 126pp First Paperback Edition
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1979. A selection of sixteen stories made by Gerard O'Flaherty from Legends of saints
€10
and Sinners collected by Douglas Hyde.
"Percy French and his songs" by James N Healy. Paperback in good condition.
Published by Mercier 172pp with music and illustrations. 1977 Edition William Percy
French was born at Cloonyquin House, Co. Roscommon on 1st. May 1854. He cwas a
composer of music and poetry, a singer and to artist. In 1891 his first wife died and
without work, he turned to the stage full time, touring the country on his bicycle and
painting as he went. H
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179
Start Bid Book, Soft cover - "Patrick Pearse, The Triumph of Failure" by Ruth Dudley
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Edwards, published by Faber and Faber London, 1979.
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180
Book, Paperback "Register of Theses on Educational Topics in Universities in
Ireland" by John Coolahan and others Paperback in excellent condition. Published by
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Officina Typographica First edition 1980 87pp including index. A List of theses from
€5
1911-1979 as held in Trinity College Dublin, Queens Belfast, NUU Coleraine and the
Three colleges of NUI. A useful reference point for any student of education
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181
Book, Hard cover "Jonathan Swift Preacher and Jester" by Peter Steele, with Dust
jacket in excellent condition published by Clarendon Press Oxford First Edition 1978
252pp including Bibliography and Index . Dr Peter Steel was born in Perth, Western
Australia, and educated at the University of Melbourne, graduating BA in 1966, MA in
Start bid 1968, and PhD in 1976. He has taught at the University of Melbourne since 1966 and is
€10
now reader in English. From 1973 to 1977 Steele was rector of Campion College,
Melbourne, and from 1985 to 1991 was provincial superior of the Society of Jesus in
Australia. This is Steele's first important work described as magisterial in which he
emerges not only as an acute critic of Swift but also as a remarkable prose stylist in his
own right. The book examines Swift’s concern with instruction and entertainment.
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182
Book. "King of the Beggars" by Sean O’Faolain Paperback.In excellent condition.
Published by Poolbeg Press and First Edition thus. 1980 .336pp For more than thirty
years, Sean O'Faolain (1900–1991) was at the center of the national dialogue about
Start bid what sort of nation Ireland should be. O'Faolain was a native of Cork City; the son of an
€5
RIC constable, with degrees from University College, Cork, and Harvard. First published
in 1938 this is a classic biography of O’Connell.
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Book, Paperback, "The Irish French Connection 1578-1978" Edited by Liam Swords,
in excellent condition published by The Irish College Paris First Edition 1978 158pp plus
Appendices Bibliography and Index. This is a collection of Ten (10) essays (Seven in
English and Three in French) with a foreword by Most Rev. Tomas O Fiaich. The links
between France and Ireland are historical, military political and cultural. In addition to
the Irish College in Paris, founded in 1578, Nine (9) other Irish colleges were founded in
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France. Even in relatively modern times Irish influence can be seen in Patrice Maurice
€10
de Mac-Mahon, (1808 - 1893) who was a French general and politician with the
distinction Marshal of France, who served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875
and as the First President of the Third Republic, from 1875 to 1879. The essays cover a
variety of topics over the 400 years including "The Strange Story of Richard Ferris" born
between Killarney and Killorglin in 1754.
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184
Book, Soft cover "Wood You Believe Volume Three The Ancestral Self" by Fr. Jim
Cogley , with wraps. In excellent condition Published by Fr. Jim Cogley, First Edition
2007. 162pp. Fr Cogley with twenty-Five years experience of working in this area,
combines the wisdom of spirituality and psychology, with the discipline of wood turning to
provide a multitude of fascinating symbols, life changing insights and some valuable
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resources for healing. Amongst the many topic's discussed are the following areas:
€10
Remember your Ancestors, Recognize old Patterns, Release old Hurts, Recover from
Illness, Reclaim your Identity, , Restore what was Lost, Reunite with Lost Siblings,
Resolve old Conflicts, Reflect on Abortion, Revisit Memories and Places, Reawaken
Ancestral Gifts, Reconnect with Providence ,Redeem your Family Tree ,Revive your
Relationships, Recover from Family Trauma
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185
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Book, rare hardback book on Dail Debates after the Treaty 1921/22
€50
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186
Book, Soft cover "The Beast Factor" by Jonathan Hanaghan. In excellent condition.
Published by Tansy Books from Egoist First Edition 1979 97pp with illustrations.
Described as the most radical study of man and woman’s psychic needs in ages. It is
also a profound new study of the meaning of Christianity. It comes from the man who
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founded psycho-analysis in Ireland who was both a follower of Freud and Jesus. The
€5
Beast Factor is an eloquent Last Will and Testament of a man renowned in his lifetime
as a great healer of all kinds of disease and suffering. Jonathan Hanaghan ( 1887-1967)
was born in England of an Irish father and Scottish mother who came to Ireland in 1917
and remained until his death in 1967.
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Lot of 3 soft cover books '
The gentle art of matchmaking' by John B Keane, first edition 1973 published by
start bid mercier press,
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Short stories of Padraic Pearse' A dual language book by Desmond Maguire
published by Mercier press 1968 and '
The Playboy of the Western World' by JM Synge 1961
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188
Start Bid Book Softcover. "The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists In France and Belgium,
€12
1850-1914 by Julian Campbell. Published by The National Gallery Of Ireland 1985.
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189
Book, Paperback "Limerick - A handbook of Local History" by the History sub
committee of Coiste Oideachais Muinteoiri Luimnigh, in excellent condition
published by The Treaty Press Limited First Edition 1971 ? 142pp plus appendices,
index and map at rear. Though much used as a research tool for Geneaoloists and
Start bid historians copies of this work are very hard to find. The book, obviously the product of a
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lot of hard work details the history of Limerick City from Pre-History to the Twentieth
Century. Written originally as a guide for teachers it not merely traces the history of
Limerick but places that history in the context of the overall story of Ireland. A very
readable book which anyone with an interest in Limerick, Munster or Ireland should
possess
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190
Book, Paperback "All things Counter" By Ulick O’Connor, in excellent condition
Published by Dedalus First Paperback Edition 1986 38pp. A collection of twenty Six
poems. O’Connor has received the Annual Literary Award 1985 from The Irish-American
Institute, and is a member of Aosdana. Born in Rathgar, Dublin in 1928, O'Connor
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attended St. Mary's College, Rathmines and later University College Dublin, where he
€5
studied law and philosophy, becoming known as a keen sporting participant, especially
in boxing, rugby and cricket, as well as a distinguished debater– During his time there he
was an active member of the Literary and Historical Society. He subsequently studied at
Loyola University, New Orleans.
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The Three Lives of Gavan Duffy by Cyril Pearl, Hardback with Dust jacket, in
excellent condition 237pp with illustrations published by New South Wales University
Press Ltd First Edition 1979. The biography of Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903)
Barrister, MP, co-founder of The Nation, journalist, Irish patriot, tried for sedition,
Statesman, Prime Minister of Victoria Australia knighted and then retired to France he
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became the first President of the Irish Literary Society. Cyril Pearl was born in Fitzroy
€20
Victoria in 1906 and was a celebrated Australian writer and journalist who lived for a time
in Ireland. He wrote on diverse subjects from serious biographies to books about beer.
He died in Australia in 1987.
Book, Soft cover "France-Ireland Literary Relations" by Various Authors. In good
condition. Published by P U Universite de Lille III. First Edition 1974. 269pp. A selection
of essays all in English tracing the links between France and Ireland from the 16th to the
Start bid twentieth century. Some of the essays were originally written in French but were
€5
translated into English for this work. 16 essays and a poem. Deals with Synge, Joyce
O’Casey and Beckett amongst others and their links with France or French Literature.
Book, Hard cover "The road to brightcity" by Mairtin O Cadhain Translated from the
Irish by Eoghan O Tuairisc, with dust jacket in excellent condition published by Poolbeg
Press First Edition 1981 111pp Mairtin O Cadhain (1906-1970) was a scholar, journalist,
University professor and freedom fighter and is regarded by some as One of the greatest
Start bid writers of fiction in Irish. This is the first collection of his short stories to be translated.
€10
Eoghan O Tuairisc (1919-1982) a native of County Galway was an inaugural member of
Aosdana, when it was founded in 1981, and the first of its members to die. He was a
recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland prize, as well as an Abbey Theatre prize for a
Christmas pantomime in Irish. A bibliography of O Tuairisc's work, together with
biographical information, was published in Irish in 1988.
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194
Book, Paperback, "A sexual Relationship & other stories" by Gillman Noonan , in
excellent condition, 147pp Published by Poolbeg Press First Edition 1976 Maurice
Harmon, in ‘First Impressions: 1968-78’ (1979), wrote" In Gillman Noonan and Neil
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Jordan we find new images in the Irish imagination: the techniques emphasises the swirl
€5
of objects, broken figures, images, a dance of phenomena, what Noonan calls in
"Artifacts" "the drift of senseless forms". Gillman Noonan was born in 1937 and educated
at UCD
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195
Book, Hard cover "In Guilt and In Glory" by David Hanly, with dust jacket. In good
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condition. Published by Hutchinson 299pp First edition 1979 . A first novel from he well
€5
known RTE presenter.
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196
Book, Hard cover "He’s Somewhere in There" by Anthony O’Connor, with Dust
jacket, in excellent condition published by The Foxgate Press London First Edition 1975
217pp. This is a novel of the Irish Civil war based on a real incident in Anthony
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O’Connor’s time in the National Army during the Civil War which affected him deeply. He
€10
joined the Free State Army in 1922 and when demobilised in 1924 he emigrated to
Canada. During the Second World War he was a Squadron Leader in the RAF’s Fighter
Command. Copies of this book are not easy to find.
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197
Book,Paperback "People who Pray" by Fr Gerry Pierse. In excellent Condition.
Published by Claretian Publications. Second Philippine Printing 1998. 109pp the stores
in this book give different angles on the mysterious reality called prayer. Fr Gerry Pierse
(1940-1999) was a Redemptorist priest who came from Co. Kerry He went to the
Philippines in 1961 as a seminarian at the age of 21 and was ordained there in 1964. In
Start bid the early years of his ministry, he served mainly in the rural missions. Later he was
€5
parish priest in Three Redemptorist city parishes before he became prefect of the major
seminary. In later years, he specialised in giving retreats..This apostolate coincided with
his moving deeper into contemplative prayer. He was greatly inspired by the teaching of
Benedictine monk John Main, a fellow Irishman. From his own experience in the practice
of Christian Meditation, he formed and led meditation groups in his parishes and in the
provincial prison. Gerry Pierse died on 12 July 1999 from a swimming accid
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Book, Soft cover "Old Man on an Island A Joycean Bacchicepic" by James Henry. In
excellent condition. Published by James Henry. Signed First Edition 1976 153pp. A
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work written in the style of Joyce’s Ulysses by Belfast Author James Henry.
€20
Book, Soft cover "7 Stories" Illustrated by Henry J Sharpe. In excellent condition.
Published by Profile Press Clondalkin, Co Dublin. First Edition June 1975. 62pp A
Start bid collection of Seven (7) short stories written by Finian O Maoilmhichil, Jim King, John F
€5
Deane, Conleth O’Connor, Frank O’Carroll ( of Ballylongford), Michael Philips and Jack
Harte.
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Book. "The Pathology of Democracy" by Eoin O’Mahony Esq of the Inner Temple
and King’s Inns Booklet. In excellent condition. Reprinted from the Journal of
Comparative Legislation February 1929. First Edition No Date. 17pp. Eoin "The Pope" O'
Mahony (1904-1970) was a barrister, wit and political satirist. He tried and failed to seek
a nomination in the 1952 and 1966 Irish presidential elections. O'Mahony was educated
at Presentation Brothers' College and Clongowes Wood College before entering UCC .
Start bid He went on to present "Meet the Clans" on Radio Eireann, to write for the Sunday
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Review and to be a visiting Professor at Southern Illinois University - where his papers
are currently held. Eoin O’Mahony, a respectable barrister and something of a wandering
scholar, was affectionately given the nickname of ‘The Pope’, because One (1) day
when he was asked what he wanted to be -that’s what he replied. His first cousin was
the comedian Dave Allen.
Book, Soft cover "Treoir/ Guide Corca Dhuibhne its peoples and their buildings" by
Doncha O Conchuir Translated into English by Bryan MacMahon, in excellent condition
published by Clo Dhuibhne First Edition Signed by Bryan MacMahon 1977 50pp with
many photographic illustrations .Doncha O Conchuir was a dedicated and inspirational
teacher who made an outstanding contribution to the social, cultural and economic
Start bid development of his native Corca Dhuibhne.. Bryan MacMahon was born in Listowel, Co
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Kerry in 1909. He has written novels, short stories, pageants, radio features, plays and
television scripts. His other work includes his autobiography, a teacher all his life, he also
wrote stories for children, He is also well-known as the translator of Peig: Amongst his
awards are LL.D (hon.causa) National University of Ireland (1972). He was President of
Irish P.E.N. and a committee member of the Academy of Irish Letters. Also a member of
Aosdana, he died in 1998. This book is not usually listed as being One of his wo
The Collected Stories of Sean O’Faolain Vol. 1 Hardback with Dust jacket, in excellent
condition 445pp published by Constable, London . First U.K. Edition 1980 comprising
short stories from his earlier period some of which were banned in Ireland. Sean
O’Faolain was born 1900 in Cork was an active member of the freedom movement in
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Ireland becoming Director of propaganda, moving to Harvard University in 1926. From
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1929 he then lectured in Strawberry Hill College near London returning to Ireland in 1933
He was considered a master of the Short Story. Sean O’Faolain died 1991 in Dublin
Book, Paperback "On the Outside / On the Inside" by Tom Murphy published by
Gallery Books Signed First Edition 1976 with covers in excellent condition Tom Murphy
was born in Tuam, Co. Galway in 1935. He has written over twenty-Five (5) plays and
has received numerous awards and nominations, including an Irish Academy of letters
award, Two Harvey’s Irish Theatre Awards and an Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Lifetime
Achievement Award. A major retrospective of his work was presented at the Abbey
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Theatre in 2001. His work has been translated and performed in a number of European
€30
languages. Tom Murphy is a member of Aosdana and a patron of the Irish Theatre
Institute. He lives in Dublin. "On the Outside" was written in 1959 and subsequently
produced on Radio Eireann in 1962 and around the same year by an amateur group in
Cork. Chris O' Neill produced 'Outside' as a lunchtime show in the Project in 1972. Set
outside a dance hall in rural Ireland in the 1950's, Two lads stand outside the local dance
hall without the
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204
Booklet, "O’Connor Clan History" by Pat Harrold Souvenir Booklet in very good
condition printed by Oriel Printers Ltd of Charleville Co Cork 1985 24pp illustrated.
Published for the first modern gathering of the O’Connor Kerry Clan at Carrigafoyle
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Castle Ballylongford Co Kerry on 4th August 1985. This once off Booklet contains a
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chronological history of the O’Connor Clan Kerry and its Limerick branches from the
beginning of the Christian Era to 1666 when the castles and estates of the O’Connor
Kerry were confiscated. An unusual item.
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206
Book, Hard cover "Winter's Tale from Ireland" edited by Augustine Martin, with Dust
Start bid jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Gill and MacMillan First Edition 1970 . 167
€5
pages Tales from 12 Irish authors including Eithne Stronge, Bryan MacMahon, Mary
Lavin and James Douglas
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207
Book, Soft cover "Letters of an Irish Minister of State" by John B Keane. In very
good condition.( Slight damage to front cover) Published by The Mercier Press. First
start bid Edition 1978 96pp. This is the sequel to 'Letters of a Successful T. D. " .In this book, Tull
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MacAdoo becomes Minister for Bogland Areas with Special Responsibility for Game and
Wildlife". In this work readers also meet Tull MacAdoo’s family , his spendthrift son, his
hypochondriac wife and his beloved daughter Kate
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208
Book, Hard cover " The story of a success " By P. H. Pearse. Being the record of St
Start bid Enda's College September 1908 to Easter 1916. Edited by Desmond Ryan and
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published by Maunsel & Company Ltd, Dublin and London 1920. Third printing of the
original first edition 1917
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209
Book ."The last of the Heroes" by Billy Keane. Soft cover. In excellent condition.
Published by Ballpoint Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition 2005. 289pp. Billy is
well known as a sports columnist with the Irish independent and has built a huge
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following over the 10 years he has been writing for the paper. His columns are usually
€15
humorous and at times acerbic but always entertaining. This is his first novel tracing the
hilarious history of a family and a village as it twists and turns on its daily axis from the
time of the Civil War to the turn of the century.
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205
Book, Soft cover "The 1798 Rebellion" by Michael Kenny, In excellent condition.
Published by Country House Dublin First Edition 1996 48pp Illustrated in black and white
and colour. Photographs and Memorabilia from the National Museum of Ireland. The
rebellion of 1798 was One of the bloodiest and most dramatic events in Irish history.
Start bid Brought about by a combination of French-inspired republicanism, government brutality
€5
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.
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210
Book, Hard cover "Literary Tour of Ireland" by Elizabeth Healy, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Wolfhound Press. First Edition 1995. 272pp The Irish
preoccupation with place gave rise to a whole genre of Gaelic literature devoted
exclusively to place-lore. That sense has permeated Irish and Anglo-Irish literature up to
the present day. Intended as a practical guide to places with which poets and novelists
Start bid have been associated, this lovingly written and informative book will convey to the
€5
reader a sense of enchantment that comes from a knowledge of Ireland's richly textured
land and literature. En route, readers will encounter, perhaps rediscover, some of the
world's greatest literary personalities and be rewarded by the discovery of lesser-known
treasures. Extracts from poems and novels accompany the text, as well as maps,
illustrations, and gorgeous colour photographs, in addition to an extensive reading list.
The author was formerly editor of Bord Failte's Ireland of the Welcomes.
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Book, Hard cover "Land of Time Enough" by Raymond Gardner, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Hodder and Staughton First Edition 1977. 224 pages
Tan cloth-bound boards with gold title to spine, map end papers 32 black & white
photographs, with appendices showing Distance Tables, Data & Charts, and
Start bid Bibliography. a journey through the Waterways of Ireland. Raymond Gardner takes us
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on a voyage through the little frequented landscape, and gives us a glimpse of Ireland,
past and present From Carrick on Shannon to the great lakes of Killaloe, along the wild
tracts of the Grand Canal as it sweeps through the Midlands, and down the Barrow to its
meeting with the Nore and the Suir.
Songs of Glen na Mona by Brian O’Higgins soft cover, loose at rear, some markings
at front and rear by child to whom it was given as a present in 1943. Published by Brian
O’Higgins and printed at the Sign of the Three Candles Fleet St Dublin 111pp with
illustrations at foot of poems. 3rd Edition 1935. Brian O’Higgins (1882-1963) was elected
as a Sinn Fein MP in 1918 for Clare west and remained a TD until June 1927. He
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commenced writing poems at age 14 which were published in the Meath Chronicle and
€10
was a prolific writer, his best known achievement being the publication of the "Wolfe
Tone Annual" from 1932 to 1962. This is a collection of Poems written by O’Higgins
between 1900 and 1929 reflecting his strong love of Ireland especially rural Ireland.
Book, Soft cover "Next Door" by John McAuliffe published by The Gallery Press
Signed first edition 2007 John McAuliffe was born in 1973 grew up in Listowel Co Kerry
and is currently co director of the University of Manchester’s Centre for new writing. John
McAuliffe's main interests are in poetry, creative writing, contemporary literature and
Start bid Irish Studies, and he is interested in supervising research in any of these areas. He
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published his first collection of poems, A Better Life (Gallery), in 2002, which received a
major bursary from the Irish Arts Council and was short listed for the Forward First
Collection Award. His second collection Next Door was published in June 2007, and he
has also published poems in the TLS, Poetry Ireland Review, Metre, PN Review, Poetry
London and Poetry Review.
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214
Book, Hardcover "Gullivers Travels" by Jonathan Swift Edited and Introduced by
Colin McKelvie, with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Appletree Press.
First Edition Thus 1976 266pp with illustrations. Colin McKelvie (editor and introduction);
Start bid James Millar (illustrator). This edition incorporates for the first time Swift's original
€5
manuscripts corrections, found handwritten in the margins of his own 1726 edition. The
corrections are explained and detailed by Colin McKelvie, restoring a text which Swift
claimed had been basely mangled and abused and added to and blotted out by the
printer
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215
Book, Soft cover "Eves Moods Unveiled" by Jonathan Hanaghan. In excellent
condition. Published by The Runa Press Second Edition 1971. 64pp. A collection of 80
poems first published in 1957.Jonathan has been described as Ireland's first
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psychoanalyst. Rupert Strong in his preface to the work said of Hanaghan "none I
€5
believe knew more about women than Jonathan Hanaghan". He founded in 1942, the
Irish Psycho-Analytical Association which is the oldest psychotherapeutic body in
Ireland.
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216
Start Bid Book, Hard cover - "To Katanga and Back, a un case history", by Conor Cruise
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O'Brien. Published by Hutchinson of London 1962.
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217
start bid Book, hardcover 'Episode at Easter' by Sean MacEntee. First edition with dustjacket
€30
1966.
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218
Book, Hard cover, "Sailing into the Unknown Yeats Pound & Eliot" by M.L.
Rosenthal Hardback with Dust jacket in excellent condition. Published by the Oxford
University Press, New York, First Edition 1978 224pp including references and index.
Macha Louis Rosenthal (1917 – 21 July 1996) was a poet and critic and the author of
Start bid many books on Literature .The W. B. Yeats Society of New York renamed their award for
€5
achievement in Yeats studies the M. L. Rosenthal Award after Rosenthal's death. His
essay, Poetry as Confession, is credited with being the first application of the term
'confession' to the writing of poetry and therefore for the naming of the confessional
poetry movement. A study of Three (3) (3) men who helped make a new world of poetry.
This is not an ex-library copy.
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219
Start bid Book, " Criost Ri" by Sean O Loingsig. Hard cover with pictorial front board published
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by Muinntir C. S. O Fallamain, Teo 1931
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220
Start Bid Book, Softcover - "The I.R.A. at War 1916-1923", by Peter Hart, published by Oxford
€15
University Press 2003
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221
Book, Hard cover "John Foster The politics of Anglo-Irish Ascendancy" by A.P.W.
Malcomson, with dust jacket in excellent condition published by Oxford University Press
First Edition 1978 504pp including tables, bibliography and index. Anthony Malcomson
was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and
was awarded a PhD in history by QUB in 1970. Most of his working life was spent in the
Public Record Office Northern Ireland, of which he was director from 1988 until his
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retirement in 1998. His publications include many works on 18th Ireland. John Foster,
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1st Baron Oriel (1740 – 23 August 1828) was an Irish peer and politician. He was the
son of Anthony Foster of Louth, an Irish judge. He was elected Member of Parliament
(MP) to the Irish House of Commons for Dunleer in 1761. He made his mark in financial
and commercial questions, being appointed Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1784.
His law giving bounties on the exportation of corn and imposing heavy taxes on its
importati
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Book, Hard cover "The gems she wore" by James in very good condition with dust
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jacket, (some tears". 208pp with many photographic illustrations. Published by
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Hutchinson First edition 1972. A book of Irish Places by the author of Strumpet City
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Book, Hard cover "Day by Day" by Robert Lowell, with Dust jacket in excellent
condition. Published by Faber & Faber 138pp First UK Edition 1978 In 1917, Robert
Lowell was born into One of Boston's oldest and most prominent families. He attended
Harvard College for Two years before transferring to Kenyon College, where he studied
poetry under John Crowe Ransom and received an undergraduate degree in 1940. He
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took graduate courses at Louisiana State University where he studied with Robert Penn
€5
Warren and Cleanth Brooks. Considered by many to be the most important poet in
English of the second half of the twentieth century, Lowell continued to develop his work
with sometimes uneven results, all along defining the restless centre of American poetry,
until his sudden death from a heart attack at age 60. Robert Lowell served as a
Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1962 until his death in 1977.
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Book, Hard cover "Come when you can" Poems by Rupert Strong, with dust jacket in
excellent condition published by Tansy Books Dublin Signed first Edition 1981 Signed by
both Rupert and Eithne Strong. 87pp. This book is special as it has been signed by the
husband and wife poets Rupert and Eithne Strong. Rupert Strong (1911-1984) was born
Start bid in London and educated at Trinity College Dublin he was by profession a psychoanalyst,
€30
somewhat notorious in Dublin for his free conception of life; participant in White Horse
movement in Dublin 1940s; issued 5 vols. of poetry and established the Runa Press;
there is a Rupert & Eithne Strong Poetry Award at the annual Dun Laoghaire Arts
Festival.
Book soft cover "New and Selected Poems" by Brendan Kennelly, with wraps. In
excellent condition. Published by Gallery Books. First Edition 1976 64pp. Brendan
Kennelly was born 17 April 1936 at Ballylongford, Co. Kerry he played football for his
parish and county as a minor, junior and senior. He went to TCD on a long-standing
scholarship founded by an Anglo-Irish landlord of North Kerry and graduated in English
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& French (Double 1st); worked for a time as a bus-conductor in London then proceeded
€5
to Leeds University where he completed a PhD on "Modern Irish Poets and the Irish
Epic" (1966), and was the winner of "AE" Russell Award for Poetry, 1967. He was a
most successful and popular lecturer at Trinity College, and was awarded the Wild
Geese Trophy of the Ireland Fund of France, 2003 retiring from TCD, Summer 2005. He
received 2010 PEN Award for his contribution to Irish literature.
Book, Paperback "Yarns" by John Jordan, in very good condition. Published by
Poolbeg Press 109pp. First Edition a collection of 13 short stories compiled for a volume
in Poolbeg series devoted to Irish Short Stories. John Edward Jordan born 8 April, 1930
went to Oxford on Studentship (beating John Montague) completed B.Litt. on verse
Start bid letters of John Donne . He was assistant. Lecturer at UCD, 1959 and lecturer 1965, he
€5
resigned in 1969 he was also involved with the Gate as actor and a founder-member of
Aosdana in 1983 He died aged 58, suddenly in Cardiff, during a Cumann Merriman
School.
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Booklet "The Book of Kells" a selection of pages reproduced with a description
and notes by George Otto Simms, in excellent condition, published by The Dolmen
Press Signed 1976 Edition. no pagination with black and white, and colour illustrations,
George Otto Simms was born in Dublin in 1910. He took his BA, MA, BD, PhD, and DD
degrees at Trinity College, Dublin. Ordained a priest of the Church of Ireland in 1936, he
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spent his working life in the service of the church and was Archbishop of Armagh and
€30
Primate of All Ireland from 1969 until his retirement in 1980. A noted scholar and
historian, he lectured and wrote extensively, particularly on The Book of Kells, on which
he was internationally recognised as an expert. For almost 40 years he contributed a
weekly religious feature,’ Thinking Aloud', to the Irish Times. George Otto Simms died in
1991. This charming guide is signed by the author thus making it an unusual piece.
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228
Book. Soft cover "In the Name of the Game" by J J Barrett, in excellent condition.
Published by the Dub Press. 2nd printing December 1977. 196pp with photographic
illustrations J. J. Barrett, born in Tralee, Co. Kerry, in 1943 was an accomplished
Start bid footballer. As a journalist he has specialised in sport, most recently with the Evening
€5
Herald. In the Name of the Game, a study of Irish political and sporting history. This story
of how Six Kerry footballers epitomised the spirit of Gaelic games throughout the
country in the difficult '20s and '30s makes gripping reading from both the sporting and
historical viewpoint.
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Book, Hard cover "Famine" by Liam O’Flaherty, with Dust jacket in excellent condition
published by Wolfhound Press 1979 448pp. Liam O Flaherty (1896-1984) was a child of
the nineteenth century, and a man of the twentieth. Born in rural poverty, he was
passionate in his love of nature and abhorred everything brutish in man. He was an
exquisite writer of short stories about man and beast on Ireland’s western seaboard.
Start bid Famine, calmly dispassionate on the horrors of the Great Hunger, is regarded by many
€10
of his readers as his greatest work. He was a man with a divided nature; even the Gaelic
language of his childhood village was not the language his father wanted in the home.
Famine was written in 1937. In a review for the Irish Times, author John Broderick said
of the novel's character: "Mary Kilmartin (the heroine) has been singled out by Two
generations of critics as One (1) of the great creations of modern literature. And so she
is."
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Blackcock's Feather by Maurice Walsh Paperback. In excellent condition. Published
by Pan Books Limited 1974 First Edition Thus. 256pp
Green Rushes by Maurice Walsh Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by Pan
Books Limited 1974 First Edition Thus. 256pp.
Four
The Small Dark Man by Maurice Walsh Paperback. In very good condition. Published
Maurice
by Pan Books Limited Second Printing 1973 . 208 pp
Walsh
Green Rushes by Maurice Walsh Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by Pan
Books
Books Limited 1974 First Edition Thus. 256pp
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€20
Maurice Walsh was born on April 21, 1879 in Ballydonoghue, County Kerry. He was the
third child of Ten and the first son born to John Walsh, a local farmer, and his wife
Elizabeth Buckley. Maurice went to school in Lisselton, and later went to St Michael's
College in Listowel to prepare for the Civil Service examination. He entered the service
on July 2, 1901 as an Assistant Revenue Officer in the Customs and Excise Service.
Maurice had
Book Hard cover "Best Irish Short Stories" Edited by David Marcus, with Dust jacket.
In excellent condition. Published by Paul Elek. First Edition 1976. 180pp. A collection of
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15 new short stories from Irish writers including Benedict Kiely, Bryan MacMahon Sean
€5
MacMathuna and Neil Jordan.
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Start Bid Book, Softcover. "Roger Casement" by Brian Inglis, published by Coronet Books
€25
1974.
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233
Book, Soft cover "1840 CENTENARY 1940 THE STORY OF A HUNDRED YEARS" by
J. Ernest Davey. Booklet, In Good Condition. Published by W & G Baird Limited. First
Edition 1940. 92pp with 34 illustrations. An account of the Irish Presbyterian Church from
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the Formation of the General Assembly to the Present Time. An interesting account of
€20
the history of Irish Presbyterianism throughout the island from 1840 when the Two
strands of Irish Presbyterianism the Synod of Ulster and the Secession Synod united.
The author also refers back to a general History of Presbyterianism.
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234
Booklet, "The Cobweb's Glory" by Bryan Michael O'Connor ( ??a pseudonym for the
co-authors, Michael Kenneally and Patrick O'Connor), in excellent condition published by
Bookshop Publications Listowel Co Kerry First Edition. c.1960 64pp A Comedy in Three
Acts with a cast of Seven. This hilarious play is set in the kitchen of Mrs Costello's house
Living with her are her brother Jeremiah Gilhooley who is laid up with the gout; her much
Start bid put-upon daughter, Nora Mary , who wants to marry Stephen Sweeney but is prevented
€10
by her mother, as he cannot produce £500 to support her; and her wealthy, widowed
sister, Belinda Hanratty .who was once Jeremiah's sweetheart .The Cobweb is a
greyhound, Jeremiah's pride and joy and hope for the future, trained by his best friend,
Trooper Devane, an unwelcome visitor in Bessie Costello's house. Jeremiah is visited by
the bailiff, Matt Dunne, who wants to take the dog in lieu of his debts. A recipe for plenty
of misunderstandings, conspiracies, drama and, of course, comedy. The play
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235
Book, Hard cover "Pre-Christian Ireland - From the settlers to the early Celts" with
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dust Jacket by Peter Harbison, with 139 illustrations by Edelgard Soergel-Harbison.
€10
Published by Guild Publishing London 1989
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Book, soft cover "CATALOGUE FOR EXHIBITION OF DUTCH ART 1450-1900 ROYAL
Start bid ACADEMY OF ARTS LONDON 1929" Published by Royal Academy of Arts. Good
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condition. 320pp, paperback, some wear. With a 4 page introduction by Robert Witt. 921
items described in this major inter war exhibition
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237
Book. Soft cover, "From the Edge of Spring" by John O’Connor, In excellent
condition. Published by Good Counsel Press. First Edition 1976. 115pp. A first collection
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of verse rooted in the traditional catholic Countryside. Fr O’Connor was born on the
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Cork/Kerry border in 1926 and was ordained in the Augustinian Order. This collection
contains over 150 poems
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238
Book, Soft cover "THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 1731 TO 1941"
Start bid Booklet with wraps. In excellent condition. Published by Browne and Nolan Dublin. No
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author or year of publication given. (Presumed 1941). First Edition. 16pp. A short
History of the World Famous Royal Dublin Society.
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239
start bid Book, soft cover 'Peadar O Donnell' by Grattan Freyer first edition 1973 published by
€5
Bucknell University press
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240
Book, Hard cover "The Irish Town an approach to survival" by Patrick Shaffrey, with
Dust jacket in very good condition, published by The O’Brien Press Signed First Edition
1975 192pp with many photographic illustrations .Patrick Shaffrey is an eminent man in
the architectural world and One who has written well and with some eloquence on the
Irish town. Writing some years ago on the subject he advised that "a town’s distinctive
Start bid appearance, charm and quality should be retained despite the demands of modern
€30
development". In this sentence he was clearly recognising and acknowledging that
modern development should not destroy the character and quality of our towns.
He was born in Co. Cavan and held senior positions in City Planning departments in the
UK. The book is a remarkable work examining in depth a future for the planning of Irish
towns. Together with a planned trail for Kilkenny. Not just a book for town planners but
for all who have an interest in our urban environment. In this sentence he was clearly re
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Book, Hard cover "The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella" by Maurice Harmon, with Dust
jacket in excellent condition. Published by Wolfhound Press First Edition 1974. 126pp
Maurice Harmon took a PhD at Harvard University where he studied under John
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Kelleher. He was appointed. Associate Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at
€10
University College, Dublin; acted as editor University Review 1966-70, and later as editor
of Irish University Review.
Book, Hard cover "Stories of Michael Robartes and his friends and a Play in Prose"
Start bid by W.B.Yeats. In cream cloth and blue boards and thin paper jacket, some staining to
€10
paper jacket otherwise in excellent condition, Published by Irish University Press 1970.
Facsimile of 1931 edition 45pp.
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243
Book, Hard cover "Visitors Book" by Famous Writers now living in Ireland, with Dust
jacket.. In excellent condition. Published by Poolbeg Press . First Edition 1979 ,191
pages. Featuring Frederick Forsyth, Anne McCaffrey, Eric Haugaard and more. A
Start bid collection of 14 short stories from writers from UK, USA and elsewhere living in Ireland.
€5
This book arose as a result of an invitation from Poolbeg Press to these writers to write a
story with an Irish connection or inspired by Ireland. As a result this collection of comic ,
serious , mysterious and historical stories makes this book a most unusual collection of
short stories
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244
Book, Hard cover " The history of the volunteers of 1782" centenary edition, by
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Thomas Mac Nevin. Published by James Duffy and Co. Ltd. Dublin. 1882 in good
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condition
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246
Book, Hard cover "The stories of Frank O’Connor", with dust jacket, in excellent
condition. Published by Hamish Hamilton London .February 1976 Edition (12th Impress)
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367pp. A collection of 27 of his finest short stories. Frank O’Connor (real name Michael
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O‘Donovan) was born in Cork in 1903 and it was this collection of short stories that
brought him a world wide reputation as a master of the genre.
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247
Book. "The Axe to the Root" by James Connolly Booklet. In excellent condition.
Published by Irish Transport and General Workers Union. New Edition 1921 First Edition
Thus. With Introduction and "Old Wine in New Bottles (1914)". scarce item; 43 pp. A
vital booklet in the understanding of the foundation of the Irish Labour Party and Trade
Union movement. In 1894 Connolly founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party and in
1907 he began organising trade unions in Dublin and Belfast. He became editor of The
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Irish Worker and from 1911-1913 he organised trade unions in Belfast before moving to
€15
Dublin where, together with James Larkin, he organised workers during the Dublin LockOut. In 1914 Connolly published The Axe to the Root and, together with James White,
founded the Citizen Army. In 1915 The Irish Worker was suppressed and Connolly
published The Worker's Republic under the nominal ownership of Helena Moloney. In
the same year he published The Reconquest of Ireland (1915) in which he proclaimed:
'None so f
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Book, Hard cover, "Flesh the Greatest Sin" by Eithne Strong, with dust jacket in
excellent condition published by The Runa Press Co Dublin Signed First Edition 1980.
Eithne Strong is a bi-lingual poet and a short story writer and novelist. In English. This
work won the 1991 Kilkenny Design Award. She was born in West Limerick in 1925 was
Start bid a member of Aosdana and was highly regarded by her fellow poets, her work being
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praised by Michael Harnett, Padraic Colum and Robert Graves. 'A relentlessly probing
poem which in its anatomy of fear, guilt and inhibition and the sheer integrity of its vision,
may be compared very favourably with Patrick Kavanagh's 'The Great Hunger'.
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Book. "Francis Ledwidge" by Alice Curtayne Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Publisher: Martin Brian and O'Keeffe Ltd, First Edition 1972. Not
merely a biography of Ireland’s First World War poet but also the book catches an
aspect of ordinary, everyday Ireland during the pre-rising period in a rare and sadly
moving way. On July 20th 1917 Ledwidge wrote a letter to his friend and fellow poet
Start bid Katherine Tynan in which he spoke of his longing for home "I want to see again my
€5
wonderful mother, and to walk by the Boyne to Crewbawn and up through the brown and
grey rocks of Crocknaharna. You have no idea of how I suffer with this longing for the
swish of the reeds at Slane and the voices I used to hear coming over the low hills of
Currabwee. Say a prayer that I may get this leave, and give us a condition my punctual
return and sojourn till the war is over." On July 31st the 1st Battalion of the Royal
Inniskillen Fusiliers of which Frank was a member were repairing the road to Pilkem n
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249
Book, Hard cover "The Mandelbaum gate" by Muriel Spark, with dust jacket, in Very
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good Condition Published by "The Reprint Society", 1966. 330pp A novel set in
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Jerusalem first published in 1965 by this well known novelist.
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250
Booklet, "The Easter Proclamation 1916" Dolmen Press. In excellent condition.
Published by Dolmen Books. Special Edition 1975. 8pp The proclamation was first set
up and printed at Liberty Hall, Dublin, on Easter Saturday 23 April 1916. The compositor
was Liam O'Brian and 1500 broadsheet copies were printed by Christopher Brady.. This
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booklet designed by Liam Miller has been set by hand in Victor Hammer's uncial type
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and printed at Dolmen press by Garrett Doyle under the supervision of Liam Browne.
The frontispiece is based on the bronze statue of " The Death Of Cuchulain" by Oliver
Sheppard which commemorates the 1916 Rising in the General Post Office. Dublin.
Published at the Dolmen Press Dublin July 1975
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251
Book, softcover, "Blood and Stations" by John Jordan . Paperback with wraps. In
excellent condition. Published by Gallery Books. First Edition 1976 . John Jordan was
Start Bid born in Dublin in 1930.This poetry collection Blood and Stations comprises verse and
€10
autobiographical prose. He also wrote short stories. In addition to his written work he
was a celebrated poetry and theatre critic, academic and broadcaster. A member of
Aósdana. He died in Wales in 1988.
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Book, Hard cover "A Memory and other Stories" by Mary Lavin, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by constable First Edition 1972. 223pp A collection of 5
stories. Mary Lavin was born in Massachusetts, USA, in 1912, but she lived in Ireland
Start bid from 1921, at first in Athenry Co Galway, and later in Meath and Dublin. She was a
€10
prolific writer and won many awards for her writing. She was a member of Aosdána, and
was elected Saoi, its highest honour, in 1992. She died in 1996.
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253
Book, Hard cover "A Bibliography of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne" by
Geoffrey Keynes Kt, with Dust jacket. In excellent Condition. Published by Clarendon
Press Oxford First Edition 1976. 285pp including index and reproductions of front pieces.
Contents include chronology of Berkeley's life, list of titles, major works, lesser works,
collected works, life, and letters, index of printers and publishers, and general index.
Start bid Some title pages have been reproduced. George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher,
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the eldest son of William Berkeley (an officer of customs who had, it seems, come to
Ireland in the suite of Lord Berkeley of Stratton, lord lieutenant, 1670-72, to whom he
was related), was born on the 12th of March 1685, in a cottage near Dysert Castle,
Thomastown, Ireland. He passed from the school at Kilkenny to Trinity College, Dublin
(1700), where, owing to the peculiar subtlety of his mind and his determination to accept
no doctrine on the evidence of authority or convention, he left the beaten tra
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254
Book "THE ISLANDS OF IRELAND THEIR SCENERY, PEOPLE, LIFE AND
ANTIQUITIES" by Thomas H Mason Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
The Mercier Press, Cork, Ireland, First Edition Thus. 1967 141 pp The result of a
lecture the author gave to the Royal Dublin Society, this book covers the East Coast ,
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Poteen, Tory, Inishmurray, Achill, Clare, Inishbofin, The Aran islands, , Blasket, Skelligs,
€15
and Saltee Islands as well as Antiquities, music, marriage on the Aran Islands. The
author was One (1) of the last hereditary Freemen of the City of Dublin and his intense
feeling for island people emerges strongly from every chapter. The work was first printed
in 1936 so at a time when most of these islands were still inhabited
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Book, Soft cover "Letters of a Love Hungry Farmer" by John B Keane, In excellent
condition. Published by Mercier Paperback. Signed and Inscribed First Edition 1974.
89pp. The Love-Hungry Farmer is set in rural Ireland in the 1950's. John Bosco Mc Lane
is a 56 year-old bachelor and virgin. He lives in his dilapidated and neglected tiny
cottage alone. He is desperate for companionship but finding someone in the isolated
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community of Bannabeen proves quite difficult. The Love-Hungry Farmer decides to
€20
make contact with a professional matchmaker and avail of the services. The few
previous chances for love that have presented themselves have all culminated in
hilarious and humiliating ends. John Bosco employs matchmaker Dicky Mick Dicky
O'Connor to help him. He considers using modern technology to lure in someone to love
and even ponders becoming a priest to remedy his problem.
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Lot of 2 soft cover books:
" Lifelines New and Collected Compiled" by Donal O’Connor, Caroline Shaw and
Stephanie Veitch.2" Soft cover, In excellent condition. Published by Town House
Dublin .2006 Edition. 361pp. Updated version of the well loved Lifelines series. Letters
from many famous people who have chosen their favourite poems. 341 famous people
not alone choose their favourite poem but in nearly every case give their reasons for
their selection. The original idea came from Students in Wesley College Dublin in 1985
to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.
" Lifelines 2" Forward by Paul Durcan. oft cover, In excellent condition. Published by
Town House Dublin .1994 reprint of 1994 Edition. 334pp.
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257
Start Bid Book Hardcover, "Wings On The Cross", A Padre With The R.A,F. By P.Hamilton
€35
Pollock 1st Edition 1954.
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Book, paperback "Degrees of Kindred" by Eithne Strong, in excellent condition,
published by Tansy Books from Egotist Signed first Edition 1979 106pp. Eithne Strong
was born in Glensharrold West Limerick in 1925 and wrote poetry both in English and
Irish, as well as writing novels and short stories in English. Her poetry collections
includes, "An Sagart Pinc" (1990), "Songs of Living" (1961), "Flesh - The Greatest Sin"
Start bid (1980), ), "Spatial Nosing - New and Selected Poems" (1993), She published a collection
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of short stories, "Patterns"(1981), and in addition to this novel she wrote "The Love
Riddle" (1993). In 1991 she won the Kilkenny Design Award for "Flesh - The Greatest
Sin". She was a member of Aosdana, After raising a family of Seven daughters and Two
sons she went on to take a degree at Trinity College, she died in Monkstown, Dublin in
1999.
Book. Hard cover "Out of Focus" by Alf MacLochlainn Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition (sticker removed from front cover). Published by The O’Brien Press
First Edition 1978. Alf Mac Lochlainn was born in Dublin in 1926, studied at University
College, Dublin, and became a librarian, with internships at the Library of Congress and
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Simmons College in Boston. He was Director of the National Library of Ireland and
€5
Librarian of University College, Galway, chairman of the James Joyce Institute of Ireland,
and a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library. He was inaugural holder of the Visiting Chair
of Irish Studies at Burns Library, Boston College, from 1991 to 1992.
Book, Soft cover "Cork’s Hurling Story From 1980 to the Present time" (1976) by
Tim Horgan. In excellent condition. Published by Anvil Books. First edition 1977. Tim
Horgan well known Cork hurling historian traces the history of the Cork hurlers from their
first All Ireland victory to their 22nd title in 1976. Lovers of the game will delight in this
Start bid fascinating narrative. There are 16 pages of photographs including 22 senior All Ireland
€20
wining teams. In March 1977, Tim Horgan released the original of ‘Cork’s Hurling Story’,
a book documenting Cork hurling from 1890 to 1977. It was a book of its time, bereft of
modern technology in terms of design, but invaluable in terms of information and
reference.
Book Hardcover "The Manual of Children of Mary". In excellent condition. Published
by M H Gill & Son Ltd 1950 Edition. 414pp. The manual for the Sodality of the Blessed
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Mary which was instituted in 1563 in Rome by John Leon. Its chief aim is" to foster a
€5
more than ordinary devotion to our Blessed Lady." Includes prayers in Latin and English
and the Pre Vatican II Mass in English
Booklet, Soft cover "Boundaries" by John Liddy. In excellent condition. Published by
Janehunt first Edition 1974. 36pp. John Liddy born in Youghal Co Cork but grew up in
the Rathbane area of Limerick he moved to Madrid 23 years ago where he works as a
Start bid teacher. Former editor of the literary review The Stony Thursday Book, with Jim Burke.
€10
He has Five books of poetry to his credit, . His work has been widely praised by critics
such as Desmond O’Grady and Patrick Galvin. John Liddy's poetry has been described
as having no boundaries.
Book Hard cover "Discoveries a Volume of Essays by William Butler Yeats" in
Start bid cream cloth and light blue boards with thin paper jacket, facsimile of 1907 edition and
€10
limited to 200 copies only.Book and Dust jacket in Excellent condition. One of the fine
IUP reprints of the Cuala/Dun Emer Press editions of the early twentieth century 43pp.
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Booklet "Irish Ballad Book" Volume 1. In excellent condition. No editor , publisher or
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printer. No Date. 30pp A collection of the words to 30 Irish Songs
€5
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265
Book, Hard cover "The Monasteries of Ireland" by Daphne Desiree Charlotte Pochin
Mould, in Excellent Condition published by B.T.Batsford Ltd London Signed First Edition
1976. 188pp with illustrations. A survey of monastic ruins found all over Ireland and the
religious orders that founded them. Includes a time chart, gazetteer, and bibliography.
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The author, photographer, broadcaster, geologist, traveller, pilot and Ireland’s first
€30
female flight instructor was born in Salisbury England in 1920 but has lived in Cork since
1931 a geologist by training, she commenced writing after moving to Scotland and then
her interest in Celtic Saints brought her to Ireland. Her books are becoming collector’s
items and this signed copy is in that category
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266
start bid Book, hardcover 'Birchwood' by John Bannville, first edition 1973 with dust jacket in
€10
very good condition
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267
Book, Paperback "The Scatterin" by James McKenna, published by The Goldsmith
Press Ltd 1977 First edition of author's first play in very good condition. Scarce. James
McKenna was born in Dublin 1933 and was a genuine Renaissance man. A highly
regarded sculptor, he was also a noted playwright, poet and occasional polemicist, and
Start bid was a candidate in the June 1977 General Election, campaigning on the slogan "Art for
€10
the people" In 1959 he wrote his first and most successful play, The Scatterin', about
emigration in the teddy boy era. This became One of the hits of the 1960 Dublin Theatre
Festival. and got rave reviews from the Irish, British and US critics. The play was later
staged in the West End where it ran for Five weeks. It has been revived in several
productions since
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268
start bid Book soft cover 'The Man from Cape Clear' A translation by Riobard P. Breatnach of
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Conchur O Siochain's's 'Seanchas Chleire' published by the Mercier press 1975
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Book, Soft cover "The First Convention" by Thomas McCarthy. In excellent condition.
Published by The Dolmen Press First Edition 1978 45pp Thomas McCarthy was born in
Cappoquin, Co Waterford in 1954. This was his first collection and won him The Patrick
Kavanagh Poetry Award 1977
It is a collection of 37 poems. Described by Eavan Boland as the first poet born into the
Republic to write about it critically, McCarthy has done so from the perspective of a
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family dedicated and loyal to the state's most successful and powerful political party:
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Fianna Fail. But his poems are not eulogies to the party or apologies for its policies; they
are more like an exploration of the party as an object of loyalty and devotion (like a lover
objectified) with all the potential such an object has for empowerment and betrayal.
McCarthy has attracted much lazy and inattentive criticism including One reviewer who
presumed he was writing about the Soviet Communist Party
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Book. "If Words Were Wrens" introduced by John Fisher. Soft cover, In excellent
condition. Published by Pinchpenny Press Goshen Indiana USA. First Edition 1974.
49pp. An anthology of Irish Poetry. With poems by Francis Stuart, Richard Murphy,
Seamus Deane Derek Mahon, Richard Ryan, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, and
Austin Clarke. In January1940, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the
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novelist Francis Stuart (1902-2000) moved from County Wicklow to Berlin, where he had
€5
accepted a university lecturing position. Stuart remained in he Third Reich for the
duration of the war, and between 1942 and 1944 he made over One (1) hundred
broadcasts on German radio to Ireland. The German sojourn and the broadcasts have
been at the heart of the long-running controversy over Stuart and it was during this
period in Germany he wrote "Ireland" which appears in this volume
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271
start bid Book, hard cover 'Dublin Made Me' by C.S. Andrews, first edition 1979 with dust jacket
€10
(jacket torn)
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272
Book, Soft cover "Fledged and Flown" by Bryan Michael O’Connor. In excellent
condition published by Bookshop Publications Listowel, Co. Kerry First Edition 1960.
start bid 20pp An Election Comedy in One Act with a cast of Six . Almost a period piece, with the
€20
main lure of becoming a T.D. being "the £650 a year free of Income Tax". One Act plays
very popular in the 1960’s are difficult to find today. This play was performed in Listowel
Co Kerry in the late 1970’s
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273
Muckross House Folk Museum by Frank Lewis Hardback with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition published by Skellig Books First Edition 1975 134pp with illustrations
and plan at rear. This charming work, by well known presenter of The Saturday
Start bid Supplement" on Radio Kerry, Frank Lewis, is far more than a guide book. Frank’s well
€10
known love for his native Killarney is demonstrated by this work which gives an excellent
history not merely of Muckross House but also of the Killarney and Muckross areas.
Lavishly illustrated the comprehensive work is a must for anyone who has an interest in
Kerry or Ireland’s Folk History.
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274
Book, Hard cover "A selection from the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats", in
Start bid cream cloth and blue boards and thin paper jacket, some staining to paper dust jacket
€10
otherwise in excellent condition, Published by Irish University Press 1970. Facsimile of
1913 edition 29 pp.
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275
Book. "Silence is Golden" by Eric Cross. Paperback. In excellent condition. Published
by Poolbeg Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition 1978. 123pp. A collection of
Fourteen Short Stories. This book is One of a series devoted to the modern Irish short
story. Eric Cross was born in Cheshire, England in 1908 to an Irish mother and an
English father. He subsequently obtained a degree in chemistry from Manchester
university and worked with ICI, during which time he was closely involved in the
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development of the Oxo cube among other things. In 1939 he came to Cork in Ireland
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and became part of a group which included which included Seamus Murphy, the stone
mason and sculptor, Nancy McCarthy, another chemist from Douglas, Captain Sean
Feehan, the founder of the Mercier Press and Father Tim Traynor a priest of some
notoriety. Later Eric Cross purchased a horse drawn caravan and moved it to Gougane
Barra in West Cork. Gougane was frequented by the group, who were drawn to it by the
famous couple known as the Tail
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Book. "If Words Were Wrens" introduced by John Fisher. Soft cover, In excellent
condition. Published by Pinchpenny Press Goshen Indiana USA. First Edition 1974.
Start bid 49pp. An anthology of Irish Poetry. With poems by Francis Stuart, Richard Murphy,
€5
Seamus Deane Derek Mahon, Richard Ryan, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, and
Austin Clarke.
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277
Book, Hard cover "Monasterboice" by R.A.S. Macalister, no dust jacket in excellent
condition 79pp Published by Dundalk Dundalgan Press 1946 1st Edition. with plates and
line drawings. The latest additions to the impressive list of Dr. Macalister's studies in
archæology brings him back from Palestine and the mainland of Europe to Ireland, to
Monasterboice, the site of the Two great crosses which are the noblest of all sculptured
Start bid works of their own kind and amongst the greatest sculptural achievements of any
€5
country or epoch in the world's history. Robert Armstrong Stewart Macalister was born
into a Scottish family in Dublin and studied in Cambridge where his father was Professor
of Anatomy from 1883. He was Professor of Celtic Archaeology at University College
Dublin from 1909 until 1943. Previously he had been Director of the Palestine
Exploration Fund (1900-1909), his major project being the excavation of Tell el-Jazari,
the biblical city of Gezer. In Ireland he conducted several excavations and field survey
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278
Book, Soft cover "Post mortem" by Liam Mac Uistin. In excellent condition. Published
by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish Playwrights Series First
US Edition 1977. 32pp . A play in Two acts . Liam Mac Uistin was born in Dublin in
1938. His published work include novels , published plays in Irish and other plays
Start bid include An Baired Gorm, Soldiers, and the television plays The Glory and the Dream,
€10
Post Mortem, and An Breac. The latter Two were short-listed for the Prix Italia and were
later translated into Hebrew and many European languages for transmission. He lives in
Dublin. One of his writings was selected by The Irish Government for inscription in the
National Garden of Remembrance. The Play is set in the West of Ireland in the 1950's
and is dedicated to exiles everywhere.
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279
Set of Seven hard cover books "Indian myth and legend", " Myths of Babylonia &
Assyria", "Teutonic Myth and Legend", " Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe" & "
Start bid Egyptian myth and legend" all by Donald A. Mackenzie., together with " Classic Myth
€40
and Legend" & " Romance & Legend of Chivalry" both by A. R. Hope Moncreiff
All part of the One set published by The Gresham Publishing company, c. 1920
All in very good condition
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280
Book, Hardcover " The Troubles - Ireland: 1912-1922." with dust jacket, Freedom from
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English Rule! Self-government for Ireland! by Ulick O'Connor, published by The Bobbs€25
Merrill Company, Inc. Indianapolis/New York. 1975.
€ 40
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€ 10
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281
Book, Hard cover "All Graduates & Gentlemen" by Muriel McCarthy, with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by The O’Brien Press. First Edition . 1980.
Start bid 239pp. The story of the library founded in 1701 by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh to
€5
provide the Irish public with the best and most recent books by the finest European
writers.
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Book, Hard cover "Getting Through" by John McGahern. A rare collectible, first
edition 1978 151pp in excellent condition, with dust jacket published by Faber and
Faber. While John McGahern is most famous for his novels "The Barracks" and
"Amongst Women", he was also a renowned short story writer and this collection of
Short Stories (his second) continues his skills of prose rhythm and precise controlled
Start bid writing. Born in 1934 in Leitrim , he maintained his close links with rural Ireland running a
€30
farm as well as developing a literary career which led him to be described as One (1) of
Ireland’s finest and most revered writers. No stranger to the building sites of England, he
also lectured in Ireland, the UK, the USA and Canada. He trained as a primary school
teacher and brought all these varied aspects of his life to his novels and short stories. He
died 30th March 2006.
€ 80
- € 120
283
Book, Hard cover "Letters to the New Island" by William Butler Yeats edited and with
an Introduction by Horace Reynolds, with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published
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by Oxford University Press First Edition, Thus 1970. A collection of essays and reviews
€10
and including a detailed introduction (68 pages) to the work. First issued in 1934. These
essays and reviews were written in the 1880's and 1890's
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284
start bid Book, soft cover 'King of the beggers' a life of Daniel O Connell by Sean O Faolain
€5
1970
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€ 20
285
Book, "DEATH OF A SALESMAN" by Arthur Miller. Hardback. No Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by the Viking Press New York First Edition 1949 Death
Start bid of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the
€10
recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Premiered
at the Morosco Theatre in February 1949, the original production ran for a total of 742
performances.
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286
Book, Soft cover "The Savages" by James Douglas. In excellent condition. Published
by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish Playwrights Series First
US Edition 1979 74pp. Its first production on April 8th 1970 starred Eamon Keane in the
leading role. The Play is set in a Midland County town in the 1960's. James Douglas,
Start bid was born in 1929 in Bray, Co. Wicklow, he contributed to many RTE serials, among
€10
them The Riordans, and Tolka Row . He wrote radio and television plays, His stage
plays include North City Traffic Straight Ahead, The Savages and What Is the Stars? In
this play, Douglas compares the natives of midlands Ireland with those of the Congo,
when the son of midlands family stationed with the U.N. Troops in the Congo, comes
under siege from the Congolese
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287
Book, Hard cover "A Way of Life Like any Other" by Darcy O’Brien with dust jacket,
in excellent condition. Published by Martin Brian & O’Keefe London First Edition 1977
149pp. The author’s first novel set in Hollywood USA. The author’s main character is a
once famous cowboy star. Darcy O’Brien, born 1939 in California turned a Hollywood
childhood into award-winning fiction, taught literature at Two universities and became the
Start bid best-selling author of several ''true-crime'' books, died in 1998 at his home in Tulsa,
€10
Oklahoma. Mr. O'Brien had won an Edgar Allen Poe Award for non-fiction last year for
''Power to Hurt,'' about a small-town judge in Tennessee accused of using his power to
rape, assault and sexually blackmail several women in his community. He had just
completed work on ''The Hidden Pope,'' a book about the little-known friendship between
Pope John Paul II and a Jewish schoolmate in Poland that helped bring about Vatican
recognition of Israel in 1994. Mr. O'Brien was also chosen to be One of Thr
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289
Book. Ireland from Grattan’s Parliament to The Great Famine Compiled and Edited
by James Carty Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by
Start bid C.J.Fallon LTD Dublin. Fifth Edition 1966. 180pp with many illustrations. A Documentary
€5
Record. A collection of primary and contemporary sources and materials from the period.
James Carty (1901-1959) was born in Wexford and was a historian and Assistant
Librarian at the National Library of Ireland.
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290
Book,. Soft cover "Cancer" by Eugene McCabe. In good condition. (Some marking to
front cover) Published by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish
Start bid Playwrights Series First US Edition 1980. 39pp. A Story and a Play. Born in Glasgow in
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1930 and educated at Blackrock College and UCC. A Playwright, novelist and script
writer and this play won the Writers Award at the Prague International Festival in 1974.
The play is set in Fermanagh in the early 1970's
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288
Book. "When the Norman Came" by M.O hAnnrachain. Hardcover. In very good
condition (back cover attached to spine but loose, binding is by staple). Published by
Browne and Nolan Ltd. School edition by Rev T Corcoran No Date . 170pp. Michael
O'Hanrahan was born in New Ross, Co. Wexford in 1877. He was educated by the
Christian Brothers in Carlow and also received his secondary education there. Michael
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O'Hanrahan was a member of Conradh na Gaeilge and he was secretary in the year
€5
1899. Together with his brother Henry he founded the Workman's Club in Carlow. .
When Michael O'Hanrahan's father died, the family moved to Dublin. He became a
member of Sinn Fein. He and his brother Henry were fighting in Jacob's biscuit factory
during the 1916 Rising. He was shot in Kilmainham Gaol on May 4th 1916.
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Book, Soft cover "Da" by Hugh Leonard In excellent condition. Published by
Proscenium Press Delaware USA Society Of Irish Playwrights Series First Edition
1975 . Scarce. 75pp Hugh Leonard's classic play set in Dublin, the 1960s. After Da's
funeral, Charlie returns to his childhood home only to find his father's ghost stubbornly
unwilling to leave the house or his son's mind. As the events of Charlie's youth and Da's
Start bid troubled relationship with Mother are replayed, we discover the darkly comic, bittersweet
€20
relationship that existed between father and son." A beguiling play about a son's need to
come to terms with his father and himself. 'Hugh Leonard, enjoyed great success on
Broadway with his plays Da and A Life. His jousts with critics and journalists, and his
acid newspaper columns also earned him a reputation as a feared but entertaining
curmudgeon. / As the leading spirit behind the Irish dramatic revival of the 1960s and
1970s, he became the country's most caustic social commentator and its most skil
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Book, Hard cover "Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde" Edited by Rupert Hart-Davies,
with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Oxford University Press. First
Edition Thus 1979. 406pp including biographical Table and Index. Sir Rupert Charles
Hart-Davis (28 August 1907 - 8 December 1999) was an English publisher, editor and
man of letters. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. As a
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biographer, he is remembered for his biography of Hugh Walpole , as an editor, for his
€10
Collected Letters of Oscar Wilde and, as both editor and part-author, for the
Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters. A superb collection of letters written by Wilde from 1878 to
1900 with detailed and comprehensive footnotes accompanying the chosen letters. A
book for any fan of Oscar Wilde
Book, Soft cover "Thoor Ballylee" by Mary Hanley & Liam Miller. In excellent
condition (crease on back cover).Published by The Dolmen Press Revised second
edition 1977.32pp with illustrations. Edited by Liam Miller from a paper given by Mary
Hanley to the Kiltartan Society in 1961 with a foreword by T. R. Henn Thoor Ballylee was
Yeats's monument and symbol; in both aspects it had multiple significance. It satisfied
his desire for a rooted place in a known countryside, not far from Coole and his life-long
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friend Lady Gregory. To live in a Tower complemented, perhaps, his alignment with a
€5
tradition of cultivated aristocracy which he had envied and a leisured peace which he
had enjoyed. The tower was originally a Norman fortfield house owned by the powerful
de Burgo family during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. W.B. Yeats, Nobel Prize
winner, poet and senator, bought this ancient Norman tower and adjoining cottages in
1916. for £35.00.
Book, Hard cover "Returning to a Dream" by William Vincent Sieller, with Dust jacket.
In excellent condition. Published by Golden Quill Press, Francestown, NH, Signed First
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Edition 1979. 112pp A collection of 95 poems (including "Old Beggar: County Kerry) This
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is the author's sixth book of poetry. A teacher from New England by profession , his
poems have appeared in many publications.
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Book. "The Years Flew By" by Sydney Czira ( nee Gifford) Paperback. In excellent
condition. Published by Gifford & Craven, Dublin First Edition signed by Finian Czira
1974 108pp. With a Conclusion by Jack White. The nom de plume of Czira was John
Brennan. Black etching of Czira on cover. Finian Czira is the illustrator for the work . This
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is a remarkable work about a remarkable woman, sister-in-law to Thomas MacDonagh
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and Joseph Plunkett. She describes the Dublin of the early twentieth century and her life
as a rebel. She went to New York in 1914 & founded the Cumann nba mBan there.
She returned to Ireland in 1922 and worked as a broadcaster and journalist until her
death in 1974.
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296
Book, "WAS EAMON DE VALERA A REPUBLICAN ?" by Donald H Akenson
Booklet . In very good condition. Some slight markings in pencil on text. Published by
University of Notre Dame Press Indiana. 24pp Donald Akenson received his B.A. from
Yale University and his doctorate from Harvard University. He is Professor of History at
Start bid Queen's University and Beamish Research Professor at the Institute of Irish Studies,
€25
University of Liverpool, and Senior Editor of the McGill-Queen's University Press. His
works include eighteen non-fiction books, including more than a dozen about Irish
history, and Five novels. This booklet is a reprint from "The Review of Politics" 1971 and
it examines De Valera’s career between 1917 to 1926 and examines whether he was a
pragmatist or a doctrinaire republican.
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297
Book, Soft cover "Across the Water" by Mary Lennon, Marie McAdam and Joanne
O'Brien. In excellent condition. Published by Virago Press . First Edition Signed by all
Three Authors.1988 224pp. Irish Women's Lives in Britain. At times during the twentieth
century more Irish women than men emigrated to live in Britain. Yet this pattern has
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gone largely unnoticed. This work is a result of a unique collection of oral testimonies
€10
and photographs. Various experiences are examined from working as a chambermaid in
the 1930's to teaching in the 1990's. From arriving to facing "No Irish, No Dogs, No
Blacks" Notices to raising children across Two cultures. All Three authors were born in
Dublin and spent time in socialist and women's movements in Ireland and in the UK.
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298
Book, Hard cover "Foreign affairs and other stories" by Sean O'Faolain, with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Constable London 226pp First Edition 1976
Includes 8 stories - The Faithless Wife; Something, Everything, Anything, Nothing
Start bid (previously entitled Venus or The Virgin) ; An Inside Outside Complex; Murder at
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Cobbler's Hulk; Foreign Affairs; Falling Rocks, Narrowing Road, Cul-de-sac, Stop. A
reviewer wrote " what struck me first is this wonderful combination of humour and the
most serious of topics, be it love, death or religion - or often all Three (3). The second
thing that struck me is O Faolain's gorgeous use of language and rhythm
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299
Book Softcover. "The Cobweb’s Glory" by Bryan Michael O’Connor ( a pseudonym
for Bryan MacMahon). Booklet in excellent condition published by Bookshop
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Publications Listowel Co Kerry First Edition. 1960? 64pp A Comedy in Three Acts with a
€5
cast of Seven (7). ‘The Cobweb’s Glory’, by Bryan Michael O’Connor. The play is still
performed by amateur groups up to the present day.
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Book, hardcover. "To Shorten the Road" by George Gmelch and Ben Kroup
Hardback with dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by The O’Brien Press. First
edition 1978 189 pp. photo-illustrations; glossary; index; bibliography. Stories gathered
Start Bid between 1930 and 1972 by the Irish Folklore Commission. "Most of the tales are
€10
'Marchen' or what are commonly referred to as magic or fairy tales. A number of the well
known as well as many rarer specimens of these tales of wonder and imagination are
represented here in versions by the specific conditions of Traveller life.". The book is the
result of a collaboration between an anthropologist and a folklorist.
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301
Book, Hard Cover "And Again" By Sean O’Faolain with Dust jacket, in excellent
condition, published by Constable First Edition 1979 287pp. Although known for his short
stories this is One (1) of Three (3) novels that Sean O’Faolain wrote and tells the highly
inventive and original story of a 65 year old Dublin man who is given the opportunity to
start a new life….backwards , commencing at his present age of 65 until he arrives back
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in the womb of time. However he will have no memory of the details of his life to date
€20
but will be able to retain the fruits of his experience. He will be haunted by his unremembered past. On publication of the work One (1) critic wrote that as a result of this
work O’Faolain’s reputation as merely a great short story writer was expanded to include
his being a great novelist. Apart from being an enjoyable novel this novel also deals with
the themes of memory and nostalgia.
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302
Book, Hard cover "Between the Lines W.B. Yeats’s Poetry in the Making" by Jon
Stallworthy, with Dust jacket, in excellent condition. Published by the Clarendon Press
Reprint 1971 261pp including index and facsimile of page 2 of Byzantium. A nice copy of
this somewhat elusive item of Yeats criticism. Jon Stallworthy has transcribed and
Start bid arranged unpublished manuscripts to plot the fascinating progress of Yeats’s mind. The
€10
work is an investigation of the act and intense labour of love that makes a poem. Born in
London, editor, critic, and poet Jon Stallworthy was educated at the University of Oxford,
where he won the Newdigate Poetry Prize. Formerly the poetry editor of Oxford
University Press, Stallworthy is professor emeritus of English at the University of Oxford,
and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Start Bid Book, hardcover. "Ireland Painted by A.Heaton Cooper",Described by Frank Mathew,
€35
Published by A & C Black, London 1916.
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Book, Hard cover "Love Songs of Connacht" by Douglas Hyde Introduction by
Micheal O hAodha, with Dust jacket. In excellent Condition. Published by Irish University
Press, First Edition Thus 1969 158 pp, . A reprint of the original edition of 1893 with a
new introduction. Douglas Hyde spent 1891 / 2 in Canada as an interim professor of
modern languages in the University of New Brunswick. When he returned to Ireland, he
Start bid travelled the countryside collecting Irish folk tales and poetry. The result of his labour
€20
was Abhrain Gradh Chuige Connacht, or Love Songs of Connacht, first published in the
newspapers and issued as a book in 1893—the original texts in Irish with translations in
verse and prose. His work had a remarkable effect. W. B. Yeats wrote: ‘the prose parts
of that book were to me, as they were to many others, the coming of a new power in
literature’. It inspired Yeats, Synge and Lady Gregory.
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Lough Derg A Poem by Patrick Kavanagh Paperback with wraps. In excellent
condition. Published by Martin Brian & O'Keefe, First UK Edition 1978 24pp
Frontispiece illustration. With foreword by Paul Durcan. Patrick Kavanagh was born on
21 October 1904, in Mucker townland, Inniskeen parish, Co. Monaghan, the son of
James Kavanagh, a small farmer with sixteen acres who was also a cobbler, and Bridget
Start bid Quinn. He attended Kednaminsha National School from 1909 to 1916 and worked on the
€40
family farm after leaving school. He married Katherine Barry Moloney in April 1967 and
lived with her in Waterloo Road, Dublin. He died on 30 November the same year in
Dublin. Lough Derg is a masterly poem and essential to any full understanding of
Patrick Kavanagh. Durcan describes the work as being to "Canterbury Tales" what "the
Great Hunger" is to "Piers Ploughman." Lough Derg is about the terrible need to love
greater than the need to be loved
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306
Book. "The Wind that round the Fastnet sweeps" by John M Feehan. Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Mercier press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 1978
The Secret Places of the West Cork Coast. This book is a penetrating spiritual odyssey
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but also a magnificent account of the wild rugged coastline and the people he met. John
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Feehan was born on 8 September 1916 near Cashel Co. Tipperary, after joining the
Army and rising to the rank of captain he then founded The Mercier Press. Feehan died
in Cork on 25 May 1991
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307
Book, Hard cover "The Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry" by
Charles Smith, with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Mercier Press
1979 Edition. 313pp with fold out maps and illustrations. A re-issue of the work published
at Dublin in 1756. Charles Smith's Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry was
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originally privately published by Smith in 1756 and represents the last of his works
€30
before his death in 1762. Smith was born in 1715 and studied at Trinity College, Dublin,
from where he qualified as a doctor and practiced as an apothecary in the Dungarvan
area of County Waterford. However, Smith is now best remembered as One of Ireland's
earliest topographers and writers of county histories
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309
"Friends & Occasional Lovers" by Gillman Noonan Paperback. In excellent condition.
Published by Poolbeg Press. First Edition 1982.
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"Daughter of the Queen of Sheba" by Jacki Lyden Paperback. In excellent condition.
€5
Published by Viragpo Press . First Edition 258pp.
"Vatican" by Francesco Papafava Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Monumenti Musei E Gallerie Pontificie. Second Edition 1993 192pp. With many coloured
illustrations.
Book, Soft cover "Cancer" by Eugene McCabe. In good condition. (Some marking to
front cover) Published by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish
Start bid Playwrights Series First US Edition 1980. 39pp. A Story and a Play. Born in Glasgow in
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1930 and educated at Blackrock College and UCC. A Playwright, novelist and
scriptwriter and this play won the Writers Award at the Prague International Festival in
1974. The play is set in Fermanagh in the early 1970's
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Come Trailing Blood by Paul Smith, Hardback with Dust jacket, in excellent condition
243pp published by Quartet Books First UK edition 1977. Paul Smith’s first novel. Born
in Dublin 1920 died in Dublin 1997, Paul Smith is an Irish writer who deserves to be
better known. He left school aged eight and went on to become a member of Aosdana.
He began his career working with the Gate and Abbey theatres in the 1930s and 1940s
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and commenced his writing career in Sweden in the 1950’s where he taught English.
€5
This novel (first published in the US as Esther’s Altar) is set against the background of
Dublin in Easter Week 1916. Smith has been compared favourably with Sean O’Casey.
Thomas Wolfe, Dickens and Dostoyevsky. An interesting addition to any collection of
Irish Literature.
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312
Book, Paperback "Columbanus in his own words" by Tomas O Fiaich, in excellent
condition published by Veritas Publications Signed First Edition 1974 175pp. A work
written by One (1) famous Irish Churchman about another famous Irish Churchman. In
this work written by Tomas O Fiaich in 1974 when he was President of St. Patrick’s
College Maynooth he traces the life of Columbanus using a cross section of the writings
of the saint and further places those writings in the context of the times. Columbanus
Start bid
(543-613) is believed to have founded either by himself or by his followers over 60
€20
monasteries in Western Europe. He is probably even better known in Northern Italy than
in Ireland and his body rests in the Monastery of Bobbio between Milan and Genoa, a
monastery he founded. Tomas O Fiaich was born in Cullyhanna County Armagh in 1923
and in 1977 was appointed Archbishop of Armagh. In June 1979 Pope John Paul II
appointed him Cardinal and he was deeply involved in the pope’s visit to Ireland later
that year. Hi
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313
Book, Hard cover "The Sound of Hooves" by Bryan MacMahon, with Dust jacket. In
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excellent condition. Published by The Bodley Head 176pp First Edition 1985. A collection
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of Twelve short stories, his third, widely praised especially "The Gap of Life
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314
Book, Softcover, "The Comic History of Kerry" by Paddy Lysaght. in good condition
(some staining to rear cover.). Published by The Mercier Press. Signed and inscribed
First edition 1981 96pp. Scarce. Paddy Lysaght was born in Limerick went to school in
Start Bid St Michael’s College Listowel. In 1942 he emigrated to London where he worked for 14
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years in a bookshop in the Strand. On returning to Ireland he worked with Mercier Press
and then with his brothers in the family run Treaty Press Ltd in Limerick. He is the
author of a number of humorous books and was a regular contributor and participant in
Listowel Writers Week.
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Book, Hard cover "Preoccupations Selected Prose 1968-1978" by Seamus Heaney,
with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Faber and Faber. First Edition
1980. 224pp Heaney’s first prose collection. A fascinating voyage into the art and
Start bid practice of poetry. Included are reflections on his own work, critical pieces on the poetry
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of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; and explorations of the
works of Robert Lowell and William Butler Yeats. Heaney’s individual voice is
unmistakable throughout these twenty essays.
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Book. "The Wind that round the Fastnet sweeps" by John M Feehan. Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Mercier press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 1978
The Secret Places of the West Cork Coast. This book is a penetrating spiritual odyssey
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but also a magnificent account of the wild rugged coastline and the people he met. John
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Feehan was born on 8 September 1916 near Cashel Co. Tipperary, after joining the
Army and rising to the rank of captain he then founded The Mercier Press. Feehan died
in Cork on 25 May 1991
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316
Book. "HOCKEY IN IRELAND" by T.S.C.Dagg. Hardcover with Dust jacket. Book in
Very good condition. Dust jacket has some tears and repair to rear. Published by The
Kerryman, Tralee Co Kerry. First Edition 1944. T.S.C. Dagg was for many years a Civil
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Servant in the Department of Finance. He was Vice President of Trinity College’s
€20
Historical Society and an author and historian. In Irish Hockey circles he was known for
his unselfish and energetic work in creating the Headquarter grounds at Londonbridge
Road, Dublin . He played for Ireland from 1903 to 1911.
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Book. Soft cover "Flesh the greatest Sin" by Eithne Strong, In excellent condition.
Published by The Runa Press Monkstown. First Edition Signed and Inscribed 7th June
1980. Not paginated c 45pp Eithne Strong is a bi-lingual poet and a short story writer
and novelist in English. This work won the 1991 Kilkenny Design Award. She was born
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in West Limerick in 1925 was a member of Aosdana and was highly regarded by her
€20
fellow poets, her work being praised by Michael Harnett, Padraic Colum and Robert
Graves. 'A relentlessly probing poem which in its anatomy of fear, guilt and inhibition and
the sheer integrity of its vision, may be compared very favourably with Patrick
Kavanagh's 'The Great Hunger'
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"SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M." by E. Somerville and Martin Ross
Hard cover, Illustrated Boards front and rear. In excellent condition. Published by
Longmans, Green and Company London. Tenth Impression of First Edition 1899 (1901)
Edith Somerville (1858 - 1949) and her cousin, Violet Martin (1862 - 1915), wrote
sympathetically (and with great wit) of the late 19th Century Irish society in which they
Start bid lived. The Irish R. M. is One of their most popular works. with illustrations by
€40
Sommerville. A beautiful copy of this well known work. This is how Edith Somerville, in
her nostalgic work, Irish Memories (1917), records the profound significance of her first
meeting with her cousin, Violet Martin. " It was, as it happens, in church that I saw her
first, in our own church, in Castle Townshend. That was on Sunday, January 17, 1889...
it has proved the hinge of my life, the place where my fate, and hers, turned over, and
new and unforeseen things began to happen to us." It was a meeting which was to re
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Book, Hard cover "Missing Persons" by E.R.Dodds, with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Clarendon Press Oxford.1979 Reprint. 202pp. First published
1978. Eric Robertson Dodds (26 July 1893 – 8 April 1979) was an Irish classical
scholar. He signed all his publications E. R. Dodds. He was Regius Professor of Greek
Start bid at Oxford. He came from an Irish Protestant background but was an atheist from an early
€10
age. Although most of his adult life was spent in England he always retained very strong
links with his Irish roots. . Dodds knew many of the leading literary figures in Britain and
Ireland, including W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats, and 'A.E' (George Russell). He was literary
executor for Louis Macneice.
Book, Hard cover " The Evolution of Sinn Fein" by Robert Mitchell Henry, published
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by The Talbot Press, Dublin first Edition c. 1920s
€40
Content complete with water staining and wear to cover
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Book, Soft cover "Sorry! No Hard Feelings" by David Hayes.In excellent condition.
Published by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish Playwrights
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Series First US Edition 1978. . 65pp. A Three Act Play set in a Garda Barracks in a
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small town somewhere in Ireland. David Hayes was born in 1919 and his first play was
produced in 1946. A Dubliner he has written many plays for Radio and Television.
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322
Book, Hard cover "Brendan of Ireland" by Bryan MacMahon, In good condition apart
from One page which has been torn and most of which is missing.. Published by
Methuen & Co Ltd First Edition. 46 pages with superb photographs by Wolfgang
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Suschitzky. This work was One of a series published by Methuen entitled " Children
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Everywhere". This volume is remarkable for its photographs which were taken in and
around Listowel and provide a fascinating collection of views of North Kerry 50 years
ago.
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323
Book, Hard cover "The Head-Gear of the Tribe" by Desmond O'Grady, with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by the Gallery Press First Edition 1979 98pp. A
Collection of Poetry with a foreword by peter Fallon. Desmond O'Grady was born in
Limerick in 1935 and spent most of his childhood in West Clare and the Irish-speaking
districts of County Kerry. His first book, Chords and Orchestrations, was published in
Start bid 1956, and he has since published numerous collections of poems and translations. . The
€30
Gallery Press published The Headgear of the Tribe: new and selected poems in 1979 He
is a poet, professor, Harvard teaching fellow, editor, translator, Aosdana member. Widely
travelled, O'Grady left his Limerick home in the 1950's to teach in Paris, Rome and
America. Reputed not only for his seventeen collections of poetry and his linguistic
prowess, O'Grady was a founding member of the European Community of Writers. After
taking his doctorate at Harvard, in the USA, he taught at the American University in C
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324
Book, Soft cover "The Enemy Within" by Brian Friel. In excellent condition.
Distributors label on front cover. Published by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA
The Irish Play Series First US Edition 1980. 64pp. A play in Three acts with an
introduction by D.E.S. Maxwell and Preface by the author.The action takes place in
Columba's room or cell, in the Autumn of 587, on the island of Iona, off the West coast of
Scotland. Brian Friel was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone in 1929, and in 1939 moved with
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his family to Derry. He has published Two collections of short stories. In 1980, Brian Friel
€20
co-founded the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry. His numerous awards include the
London Evening Standard Award for 'Aristocrats' (1988) and again for 'The Home Place'
(2005), a Tony Award (1992) and Laurence Olivier Award (1991) for the massively
successful 'Dancing at Lughnasa' and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish
Times (1999). Brian Friel served in the Senate from 1987 to 1989. He has received
honorary doctora
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Parnell and his Party 1880-1890 by Conor Cruise O’Brien, Hardback with Dust jacket,
in excellent condition (slight tear on top of Dust jacket) 373pp published by Oxford
University Press 1974 Edition. When copies of this work come on the market they are
invariably ex-library copies. This is an opportunity to obtain a good clean copy of this
seminal work. Charles Stuart Parnell was the Chairman of the Irish Party in the House of
Start Bid Commons from 1880 until shortly after the O’Shea Divorce case in 1890. Conor Cruise
€30
O’Brien’s maternal grandfather was an Irish Parliamentary Party MP at the time of the
Parnell split and this work was written in 1957 and was the first work to place Parnell in
the context of the Irish Nationalist Party at Westminster at the close of the 19th Century.
This edition was published in 1964 when Dr O’Brien revised the original text with the
assistance of Professor F.S.L.Lyons. Reviewers praised the scholarly but clear and
readable style of the book together with its intelligent politica
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Book, Hard cover, "Gur Cakes & Coal Blocks" by Eamon MacThomais, with Dust
jacket, in excellent condition published by The O’Brien Press Signed First Edition 1976
160pp with many black and white drawings.Eamonn MacThomais (1927–2002) was an
author, broadcaster, historian, advocate of the Irish language and lecturer. He presented
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his own series on Dublin on RTE during the 1970s and was well known for guided tours
€40
and lectures of his beloved Dublin. In a series of books of which this is One MacThomais
took the reader back to the Dublin of the 1940’s and tells of the hardships and fun and
laughter in an easy conversationalist style.
Book Paperback "The Honey Spike by Bryan MacMahon. In excellent condition 219pp.
Published by the Talbot Press. First paperback edition Inscribed by Bryan MacMahon.
Bryan MacMahon (1909-1998) was born in Listowel; he was educated at St. Michael's
College, Listowel, and St. Patrick's Training College, Dublin. He worked as a teacher for
45 years, and was One of the founders of Listowel Drama Group and of Listowel Writers'
Start bid Week .He was President of Irish P.E.N., the society of playwrights, from 1972-73, an ex€20
committee member of the Academy of Irish Letters, and a member of various
Government commissions . This play was produced at the Abbey Theatre in 1961. In the
Play A young tinker couple, Breda Claffey and her husband Martin, travel from their
native Kerry to the Antrim coast because they want to see 'the top of Ireland'. They are
caught up in I.R.A. activity along the border before making a desperate race south again
to The Honey Spike, the 'lucky' hospital. Their first child is about to arrive and this is
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Book. "Ballads of Irish Chivalry" by Robert Dwyer Joyce edited with annotations by
his brother P.W.Joyce. Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published by The Talbot Press
Ltd. No Date. Appears to be First Edition. A volume in "The New Era Library" 212pp.
Robert Joyce became a civil servant and succeeded his brother Patrick as principal of
the Model School, Clonmel. He was a collector of Irish music and contributed poems,
Start bid stories and articles to a number of periodicals, including the Nation and the Harp. He
€10
produced a volume of poems, but remains most famous for the following songs "The
Wind that Shakes the Barley", "The Blacksmith of Limerick", and "The Boys of Wexford" .
He became closely associated with the Fenian movement. He had literary success with
Ballads of Irish Chivalry (1872) and Deirdre (1876). This latter sold 10,000 copies in its
first week of publication. He returned in 1883 to Dublin, where he died the same year.
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start bid Booklet " Unconquered ireland" by Brian O Higgins. No date published by Brian O
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Higgins, The Heartstone 68 Upper O Connell St, Dublin
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330
Book, Hard cover "Discovering Kerry" by T.J. Barrington, no dust jacket. In very good
condition but missing original clear plastic grid overlay for the maps. Published by
Blackwater Press. Signed First Edition 1976 336pp with over 200 b/w illustrations &
Start bid maps. Large-format in red cloth boards. Forward written by Bishop Eamonn Casey. This
€40
definitive work on Kerry describing its History, Heritage and Topography. T J Barrington
spent 14 years writing the book travelling into every corner of the area . TJ Barrington
was the first director of the IPA, and an early advocate of public service staff training and
development.
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331
Book, Soft cover "Black Man's Country" by Desmond Forristal. In excellent condition.
Published by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish Playwrights
Series. A play in Two acts , First US Edition 1975. Scarce. 50pp. A play set in Nigeria at
the time of the Civil War during which Biafra was established. For fifty years the Irish
missionaries have treated Biafra almost exclusively as their own. When the Biafran Civil
Start bid War broke out they found themselves rejected by the Nigerian Government and their
€20
time there was endangered. Desmond Forristal was born in Dublin in 1930 and educated
at O'Connell School and Belvedere College. He studied Philosophy at U.C.D. and
theology at Holy Cross College, Dublin, where he was ordained a priest in 1955. He
served as curate in several Dublin parishes and became involved in film and television
work with the Radharc Film unit, first as a writer and later as a director. Forristal also
contributed articles to a number of journals and was stage and screen critic for '
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332
Book. "Irish Shop Fronts" Introduction by Patrick O'Donovan Photographed by John
Murphy Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by Appletree Press. Signed First
Start bid Edition. Signed by Photographer John Murphy. Around 100 pages (unpaginated).
€20
Evocative ,splendid and simple colour photographs by Murphy, with an introduction by
Patrick O'Donovan. Mostly from rural Ireland. While copies of this book are available,
copies signed are scarce.
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Book. Hard cover "The Shrine" by Mary Lavin. In excellent condition. Published by
Constable. First Edition 1977. 156pp. Mary Lavin was born in Massachusetts, USA, in
1912, but she lived in Ireland from 1921, at first in Athenry Co Galway, and later in
Meath and Dublin. Her awards included The James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1943);
Start bid Guggenheim Fellowships (1959 and 1961); The Katherine Mansfield Prize (International
€5
P.E.N) (1961); The Irish American Foundation Literary Award (1979); and The Allied
Irish Banks Literary Award (1981). An Arrow in Flight: A Tribute to Mary Lavin at 80, was
broadcast by RTE in May 1991.She was a member of Aosdana, and was elected Saoi,
its highest honour, in 1992. She died in 1996.
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334
Book, Soft cover "IRISH ECONOMIC HEADACHES A DIAGNOSIS" by Joseph
Johnston .In excellent condition. Published by Aisti Eireannacha II First Edition August
1966. 64pp Professor Joseph Johnston was born in Castlecaulfield, Co. Tyrone and
educated at TCD and Lincoln College Oxford. He wrote and issued "Civil War in Ulster"
Start bid
(1914) arguing that the Ulster Unionist rebellion was a British conspiracy he studied
€20
economics in India, America, Java, China and Japan. He lectured in Ancient History at
TCD. He was critical of The Fianna Fail agricultural policy and undertook management of
several farms to demonstrate his principles. This is a collection of 15 Articles covering
all aspects of the Irish Economy.
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335
Book, Soft cover "Aaron Thy Brother" by Conor Farrington. In excellent condition.
Published by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish Playwrights
Series Signed First US Edition 1975. A play in Three Acts . 86pp. Conor Farrington
(1928-1996) was born in Dublin, educated at St. Columba's, TCD, and Yale Drama
School. Took part in English acting tours in Malta and India. In Radio Eireann Repertory
from 1955 His plays include The Last P.M., or Stella and the Big Bang (Gate 1964);
Start bid
Aaron Thy Brother, verse play about John Philpot Curran with a chorus of Irish soldiers
€20
in the Congo (Peacock 1969 Newark: Proscenium 1975). He regularly took parts in
Radio Eireann plays. In this play set in 1802-1803, John Philpot Curran is the last
apparently free inheritor of Grattan's tradition. Guilt-ridden over the death of One
daughter and tied by tradition to the Tone/Grattan idea of the duty of free protestants to
the Ireland of the day. Robert Emmet is courting Curran's daughter, Sarah. All kinds of
politic
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Book, Hard cover "Three Noh Plays" by Ulick O’Connor, with Dust jacket in very good
condition published by Wolfhound Press Signed First Edition 1980 47pp with illustrations
and music score. Ulick O'Connor was born in Dublin in 1929. His main works include in
addition to these Three (3) plays several other works of drama, poetry collections and
his prose includes "Biography", Irish "Tales and Sagas" and "The Troubles: Michael
Collins and the Volunteers in the Fight for Irish Freedom 1912-22." He has received the
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Annual Literary Award 1985 from The Irish-American Institute, and is a member of
€30
Aosdana. He is also a well known Broadcaster. Noh (? No?), - derived from the
Japanese word for "skill" or "talent" - is a major form of classical Japanese musical
drama that has been performed since the 14th century. Many characters are masked,
with men playing male and female roles. O’Connor uses this style to deal with the theme
of fulfillment of self.
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Book, Paperback "Journey Home" by Luai O Murchu (Louis Murphy), in Very Good
Condition published by Sliabh Guillion Books Co Dublin Signed First Edition 1997.93pp
This collection of short stories has a foreword by the late Dr Bryan MacMahon and was
launched by Frank Lewis at Listowel Writers Week 1997. Louis Murphy was born on
30th May 1909 in Newtownhamilton Co Armagh and his work took him to Listowel Co
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Kerry in 1946. A writer and Broadcaster in both English and Irish he was a founder
€20
member of Listowel Writer’s Week and its first Chairman from 1971 to 1977. He also
wrote much of his work under the pen name Redmond O’Hanlon. (possibly after the 17th
Century Co Armagh outlaw). A collection of Twelve (12) short stories based on his
Ulster background and much praised by Dr Bryan MacMahon.
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338
Book, Hard cover "Women Writers 1621-1744", with dust jacket, in excellent condition.
288pp Published by Cork University Press and printed by The Kerryman. First edition
Start bid third impression July 1946 An unusually early text on the role of women writers such as
€5
Aphra Behn, Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Fanshawe and others. She was born in 1904 and
was educated in Cork and London University appointed lecturer in English at Cork
University. She died in 1993.
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339
Book, Soft cover "Saturday Night Women" by Michael Judge. In excellent condition.
Published by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish Playwrights
Series Signed First US Edition 1977. Scarce. 58pp including music. A play in Two acts
with songs. Men are pitted against women in this comedy with Women's Lib at its core.
Born in Dublin in 1921, Michael Judge is a playwright, short story writer and writer for
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radio and television. Although he worked as a full-time teacher and toward the end of his
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teaching career was Vice Principal of Colaiste Mhuire in Dublin from the 1950s on, he
was also a regular contributor to RTE, writing his own radio plays as well as writing
scripts for well-known radio and television series including Tolka Row, Harbour Hotel,
Wanderly Wagon, The Riordans and Glenroe. He published his first novel, Vintage Red,
in 2004 at the age of 83. A second novel, 'From The Left Hand', followed in 2005
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Start bid Book Hardcover. "The Angler's Guide To The Irish Fisheries" by Joseph Adams.
€50
Published by Hutchinson & Co. London First Edition 1924
Book, Hardcover "Peacock in Flight" by Katharine Gordon with dust jacket. In
Start bid excellent condition. Published by Hodder and Staughton First edition 1979. Gordon's
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second novel in a series of eight historical novels set in Colonial India in the nineteenth
Century.
Book, Soft cover "A farewell to English" by Michael Hartnett, with wraps. In excellent
Condition. Published by Gallery Books. Limited First Edition of 750 ( un-numbered)
36pp A collection of 22 poems , the title poem caused some controversy at the time.
Michael Hartnett was born in 1941 in Newcastle West, County Limerick and died in
October 1999 in Dublin. He came to school late and did not receive his leaving certificate
Start bid until he was twenty years old. Nevertheless, he was a fluent Irish speaker and also had a
€20
reading capacity in several other languages. After working for many years in the
Department of Posts and Telegraphs, he became a lecturer in creative writing at
Thomond College in Limerick. He received the Irish-American Cultural Institute Award in
1980, the Irish Arts Council Award for the best book in Irish in 1986, the Irish American
Cultural Institute Award in 1988, and the American-Ireland Fund Literary Award in 1990.
He was a member of Aosdana, a government-sponsored group of Irish artists. Bren
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Booklet "Pilgrimage along the Feale and other Poems" by Patrick Given. In
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excellent condition. Published by October Press Ltd. Listowel , Co Kerry. Signed First
€15
Edition 1976. 32pp. A collection of 15 poems .
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Book, Soft cover "Around Athea" by Dan Keane. In excellent condition. Published by
Dan Keane October 2005. 76pp illustrated. Inscription from Kit (Ahern) to previous owner
and by Author. Dan Keane of Coilagoryeen, Moyvane, Co Kerry, occupies a rare place in
the esteem, admiration and affection of North Kerry people for very many reasons. His
genial personality, his racy-of-the-soil competence as a Master of Ceremonies on festive
Start bid
occasions, his sensitivity as a poet and ballad maker, all mark, and indeed hallmark him,
€20
as a true son of his environment and One in complete harmony with the rural
background from which he sprang. Athea might seem a touch on the small side but, like
all old settlements, it contains a rich vein of stories, heritage and science within its walls
and fields. This work is a cornucopia of facts stories and verses of Athea and the
surrounding area.
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Book. "Cannwyll Yn Olau" by Nesta Wyn Jones. Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Gwasg Gomer . (In Candle Light) Signed and Inscribed
in Welsh and English First Edition. 46pp. A collection of poems in Welsh. Poet, writer
and critic. Winner of the Arts Council in 1987 for her volume of poetry Between laugh
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and cry. After leaving the University College of Bangor she worked on the series
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Horizons (Welsh as a First Language Project books for secondary schools) and then
with the Welsh Books Council in Aberystwyth. She won a travelling scholarship from the
Arts Council in 1976 and again in 1991. She is a member of the Welsh Academy since
1970. She has published extensively over the years.
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Book, Hard cover "Cattle in Ancient Ireland" by A.T Lucas
In Excellent condition. Published by Boethius Press Kilkenny. First Edition 1989 315pp
including References Indices Glossary and Maps. This book is based on a series of
lectures given in 1983 by Dr Lucas at University College Galway and originally entitled
"Cattle in Ancient and Medieval Ireland ". In their forward Etienne Rynne and Gearoid
Start bid
MacEoin tell how upon his retirement in 1976 as Director of the National Museum of
€50
Ireland Dr Lucas worked at preparing for publication all his research and just a few hours
before his death on March 28th 1986 he completed the checking of this work for
publication. This work encompasses such topics as: Care of Cattle, Milking, The
Creaght, Cattle Raiding and Blood as Food up to the early seventeenth century. The
reference section alone is remarkable for its depth of research
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Book, soft cover "The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse" Edited by Tom Paulin. In
excellent condition. Published by Faber and Faber 1994 Edition 407pp including index
and acknowledgements. Described by Seamus Heaney as "One (1) of the best
Start bid
anthologies in years". A collection of work songs and street cries, nursery jingles graffiti,
€5
lyrics of suffering and celebration charms and chants. A delightful collection of
alternative works by well known as well as anonymous authors.
Book, Soft cover "Skinner’s Fancy" by Sean O’Meara, In excellent condition ( Sticker
on front cover). Published by Profile Poetry. First Paperback Edition 1979. 52pp. Born
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in Dublin in 1933 a poet , playwright and this is his first collection of poetry.
€5
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Book, Hard cover "Black List Section H" by Francis Stuart, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Martin Brian & O'Keefe. Reprint of the Southern Illinois
University Edition. First Edition Thus 1975. 425 pages. Described by the author as "an
imaginative fiction in which only real people appear, and under their actual names where
possible." Follows the line of the author's own experience, from the politically twisted
Start bid 1920s in Ireland, by way of inter-war experience in London and the Continent, to the
€20
crucial time at the beginning of the war when he went to Germany. As a writer, Stuart
was predominantly a novelist, with fiercely and uncompromisingly autobiographical
works such as Black List: Section H (1971) to his credit, but he was also distinguished as
a poet and essayist. His credo was: "Better to be carried away in any direction, and
become a prodigal son or lost sheep, than not be carried away at all." He prized
individual conscience yet craved the "natural and recognised roots" that f
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Book. "Dublin 4" by Maeve Binchy. Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by
Poolbeg Press. Signed 1986 Edition. 208PP.A society hostess entertains her husband's
Start bid mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the
€20
dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a
shattered career This is not the common Arrow edition but the hard to find Poolbeg 1986
reprint of the 1982 Ward Press Edition.
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352
Book, Hard cover - "History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War", 1st
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edition by Major D. J. L. Fitzgerald, M.C. Published by Gale and Polden Ltd,
€70
Wellington Press, Aldershot. 1949.
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Book. "The Irish Faction Fighters of the 19th Century" by Patrick O'Donnell
Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by Anvil Books. Signed and Inscribed First
Edition 1975. 192pp. He was born in the Kerries Tralee, Co. Kerry, only child of Denis
O'Donnell, and Hannah Leane, and was also known as "Paddy" or "P.D.". He was a
direct descendant of John O'Donnell of Ardfert, and descended from an O'Donnell of
Start bid Tyrconnell, He wrote on Irish military and non-military history including legends of
€30
famous castles such as Castlemartin and Ballyheigue, where a tale of a ghostly
appearance was picked up later by the American expert on the paranormal, Hans
Holzer, in his book The Lively Ghosts of Ireland. He was best known abroad for his book
The Irish Faction Fighters of the 19th Century, (published by Anvil Books, Dublin, 1975),
a sociological analysis of rural inter-clan feuding, and its exploitation as a form of control
to contain rising agrarian agitation in the 19th century in Ireland.
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Book, Soft cover "Salvation the Stranger" by Brendan Kennelly. Octavo, plain
wrappers, printed dust jacket In excellent condition. Published by Tara Telephone
Publications, (Dublin), 1972.Signed First Limited Edition, One of 2000 copies printed.
Inscribed and signed by Brendan Kennelly.
Start bid The first Two of these volumes were written under different circumstances, Bread while
€40
Kennelly was resident at Trinity and Salvation, the Stranger during his year's sojourn in
Pennsylvania and New York; both collections treat concerns that are typical of his
earlier work. The books aim to reflect what the prefatory note to Salvation, the Stranger
calls the "inexplicable moments of redemption in the grim seasons,".
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Book, Soft cover "Adharca Broic" by Michael Hartnett, with wraps. In excellent
condition. Published by Gallery books. First paperback edition 1978. 36pp The first
collection of Michael Hartnett’s poems in Irish. He was born in Newcastle West, Co.
Start bid Limerick, educated at University College and Trinity College in Dublin. After living in
€20
London and Madrid, he returned to Limerick to teach at the National College of Physical
Education. His poetry reflects his deep involvement with Irish culture in its treatments of
folklore, mythology, and the Catholic devotional sensibility.
Start Bid Book, Softcover - "Christy Ring" by Val Dorgan First published by Ward River Press,
€20
Dublin 1980
Book. "Governing without Consesus" by Richard Rose Hardcover with dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Faber & Faber First Edition 1971. Richard Rose (born
8 April 1933 St Louis, Missouri) is an American political scientist who is currently Director
of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Professor of Politics at the University of
Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University and
Start bid
completed his PhD at the University of Oxford He has conducted research on a wide
€10
range of topics, including the Northern Ireland conflict, EU enlargement, democratisation,
elections and voting He was formerly Professor of Politics at the University of
Strathclyde, a position he held from 1966 to 2005, and Lecturer in Government at the
University of Manchester, from 1961 to 1966.
€ 50
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€ 80
€ 30
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€ 40
€ 20
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357
start bid Book, Hard Cover "Kingsclere" by John porter published 1896 by Chatto & Windus, A
€50
book detailing winners of the great Classic races
€ 70
- € 100
358
Book, Hard cover "Wild and Free" by Cyril & Kit O Ceirin, with Dust jacket, in excellent
condition published by The O’Brien Press First Edition 1978 151pp with many
illustrations. Cyril O Ceirin was born in Dublin on February 9th, 1934. While in South
Africa he met Kit Foley, his future wife, who was working there as a nurse. The seventies
Start bid
and eighties were years of great literary and artistic output for both Cyril and Kit. They
€20
formed the highly successful collaborative team of Cyril and Kit O Ceirin in putting their
names to such works as "Wild and Free", O'Brien Press, 1978, a book on the wild
harvest that became a classic. The book details 22 wild and free easily available plants
and 100 recipes to utilise them.
€ 30
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359
Book, Soft cover - "Sean Treacy and the Third Tipperary Brigade I.R.A." by
Start Bid
Desmond Ryan, illustrated early copy. Published by Anvil Books, and printed by The
€65
Kerryman Tralee. 1945, in good condition
€ 80
- € 100
€ 30
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360
Book, Softcover, Croix Sculptees Irlandaises By Françoise Henry Paperback. In good
condition. Published by Relations Culturelles d'Irlande - Dublin. Aux trois flambeaux,
(The Three (3) Candles) Dublin 1964. couverture illustree, 75 pages + 64 planches en
hors texte en noir, carte. First Edition 1964 75pp and 64 illustrations in black and white
Start Bid and map. This work in French is illustrated with 64 black and white photographs of the
€20
High Crosses of Ireland. It is a detailed examination of the High Crosses of Ireland.
Françoise Henry (1902–1982)[ was a scholar of early Irish art. She studied at the École
du Louvre with Henri Hubert. She worked for University College Dublin from 1934 to
1974.
67
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361
Book, Hard cover "The Words upon the Window Pane" by W.B. Yeats, in cream cloth
and blue boards and thin paper jacket in very good condition. Published by Irish
Start bid
University Press 1970. Facsimile of 1934 edition 58pp. A Play in One act, with notes
€10
upon the play and its subject, by William Butler Yeats. Reprint of the Cuala Press, 1934
original.
€ 20
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362
Book. Hard cover "Napper Tandy" by Rupert J. Coughlan with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Anvil Books Limited. First Edition 1976. 276pp. A
Dubliner, born in 1740, he became involved in the political animation of late 1770s
Dublin. As secretary of the Dublin branch of the United Irishmen, he was the link
between the upper class Protestant leaders and the Catholic rank and file. When the
government proscribed the United Irishmen in 1792, Tandy felt exposed and travelled to
Start bid
America. Tandy left for Paris in the spring of 1797 without demanding or discussing any
€10
personal financial reward. Once there, he joined with Tone in pestering the Directory
(French government) to send an invasion force. He was captured by the British at
Hamburg and taken to London. The British shipped Tandy off to Dublin. Despite a trial
for treason carrying the death sentence he was acquitted. He was promptly rearrested
and taken to Lifford Jail to face charges for his treasonable activities in Donegal. He was
found gui
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363
Book, Soft cover "Encounter in the Wilderness" by Hugh Carr. In excellent condition.
Published by Proscenium Press Newark, Delaware USA Society Of Irish Playwrights
Series Signed First US Edition 1978. 48pp. A Three Act Play. Peter Abelard (10791142) was a French philosopher, considered One of the greatest thinkers of the 12th
century. He fell in love with his pupil Heloise, the niece and pride of Canon Fulbert. They
Start bid became lovers, and were secretly married. An outraged Fulbert exacted revenge on
€20
Abelard by having him castrated. Abelard entered the Benedictine Order, Heloise
became a nun. Ten years lapse before they meet again, and it is this period of their
relationship that the play addresses. Hugh Carr was born in Dunkineely and grew up in
the Donegal Gaeltacht. His plays have been presented at the Abbey, the Gate, and
Focus Theatre amongst others. Carr has had a number of short stories broadcast by
RTE. His play, The Mummers of Relig, won the Listowel Writers Week Drama Award.
€ 40
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364
Book. Soft cover "The Riddle of Erskine Childers" by Michael McInerney . In
excellent condition. Published by E & T O’Brien First Edition 1971. 88pp. Protestant,
Imperialist, Unionist, British officer, world famous author - yet, in 1919, Erskine Childers
joined the Irish Resistance movement, surrendering fame, and comfort and to become
actively engaged in the Irish independence struggle. Michael McInerney was born in
Limerick and was educated at Limerick Vocational School. While working as a clerk on
Start bid
the railways in London he joined the Communist Party and was co-founder of the
€10
London Connolly Club. He contributed to the Daily Worker and was editor of the Irish
Front from 1939 to 1941, when he became a clerk for the Great Northern Railway in
Belfast. During this period he was an active trade unionist and editor of the Communist
Party of Ireland newspaper, Unity. In 1946 he moved to Dublin as a reporter on the Irish
Times and was appointed political correspondent in 1951. Among his many writings are
biographi
€ 20
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€ 40
365
Start Bid Book Soft Cover." The Irish Volunteers 1913-1915" Edited by F.X.Martin .Published
€50
by James Duffy, Dublin 1963
€ 60
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366
Start Bid Book, Hard cover - "Ireland" by Conor Cruise O'Brien, with dust jacket, edited by
€20
Owen Dudley Edwards. First published in 1969 by Andre Deutsch Limited.
€ 30
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€ 40
367
Start Bid Book Softcover. An Early Draft Of The irish Constitution, as approved by Dail
€25
Eireann.
€ 40
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€ 50
€ 30
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€ 40
369
Book. "Guardians of the Peace" by Conor Brady Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
Start bid excellent condition. Published by Gill and MacMillan Dublin, First edition. 1974 254pp
€10
illustrated with photographs. This book examines in detail the political background to the
setting up of an unarmed Irish Police Force
€ 20
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€ 30
370
Book, Hard cover "Synge and The Ireland of his time" by William Butler Yeats
Hardback. in cream cloth and blue boards and thin paper jacket in excellent condition,
start bid
Published by Irish University Press 1970. Facsimile of 1911 edition 43pp. This was
€10
intended as an introduction to Synge’s works to be published after his death but
following a row with the publishers Yeats withdrew it and published it separately.
€ 20
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€ 40
371
start Bid Book Hardcover. "My Fight For Irish Freedom" by Dan Breen, Published by The
€60
Talbot Press, Dublin. First Edition 1944.
€ 70
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€ 80
372
Start Bid Book Hardcover "Agony At Easter, The 1916 Irish Uprising" with Dust Jacket by
€45
Thomas M.Coffey. Published by George G.Harrap, 1970
€ 60
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€ 80
373
Book, Soft cover "Travels and Adventures of St Brendan the Navigator" by Rev
Francis Nunan, Printed by Kerryman Ltd. Tralee 96pp First Edition Signed by Author.
Start bid
1971. The appendix contains "Kerry's Ancient See and Shrine Ardfert- Brendan" The
€20
Rev Francis Nunan wrote a number of books concerning North Kerry and its
associations with St. Brendan. This work is scarce and contains in effect Two books.
€ 30
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€ 40
374
Start Bid Book, Hard cover - "The Victory of Sinn Fein, How it won it, and how it used it". - 1st
€45
edition, by P.S. O'Hegarty. Published by The Talbot Press Ltd. Dublin 1924.
€ 60
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€ 80
€ 30
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€ 50
€ 70
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€ 90
368
375
376
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Book, Soft cover "Comic Songs of Cork and Kerry" by James N. Healy, In excellent
condition. Published by Mercier Press. Signed First Edition 1978. 48pp another in the
series published by Mercier of words, music and chords of songs of a humorous nature
Start bid this book concentrating on Cork and Kerry. Collected and annotated by James N. Healy;
€20
music written out by Con O'Donovan. Songs include The Bould Thady Quill, The Kerry
Recruit, Doran’s Ass, The Ballygologue Brigade and Lyracroumpane. A difficult book to
find, which makes this signed copy even more scarce.
Book, Soft cover "In Exile" by Louis Hemmings, Drawings by D.W. In Excellent
condition. Printed by B.E.S. Mountmellick Laois. 32pp with illustrations. Signed Limited
First Edition January 1979
Louis Hemmings was born in 1957, the third child of pioneering Irish hand-weavers /
fashion designers. In 1969 he went to a Quaker co-ed boarding school by choice, to
Start bid
escape divorcing parents. He became a convinced Christian at the age of 18 and found
€20
himself under the influence of the blind and deaf Christian poet from Cornwall, Jack
Clemo. Ten years ago he started Samovar, a used online theological book business,
which is now his principal job. He has had a number of poems published in Poetry
Ireland and Hot Press
Start Bid Book, Hard cover. "A Servant Of The Queen, Her Own Story" by Maud Gonne
€50
MacBride. Published by Golden Eagle Books, Dublin 1950
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377
Book, Hard cover "ANNALS ANECDOTES AND TRADITIONS OF THE IRISH
PARLIAMENT 1172-1800 " by J. Roderick O’Flanagan B.L. In Very Good condition.
Published by M.H.Gill and Son Dublin First Edition 1895 208pp including index. J.
Start bid Roderick O’Flanagan (1814-1900) was also the author of The Munster circuit: tales,
€40
trials, and traditions (1880) and wrote a number of articles for the National Dictionary of
Biography & several novels as well as a number of books on Irish historical subjects,
such as The History of Dundalk (1861) and The Lives of the Lord Chancellors of Ireland
(1870).
€ 60
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378
Book. "Lost Demesnes" by Edward Malins and Desmond Fitzgerald The Knight of
Glin Hardcover with dust jacket. In excellent condition. (some wear to the top of the dust
Start bid jacket) Published by Barrie & Jenkins. Signed and dated First Edition 1976 208pp .
€40
Including the addendum and Errata slip. Signed by The Knight of Glin. A study of
landscape design and gardening from the latter part of the 17th century to the mid 19th
century. With many photographic illustrations
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379
Book, Hard cover " Arthur Griffith and Sinn Fein" by Sean O Luing. booklet published
Start bid
1967 by Methuen & Co. Ltd, signed by the Author and dated 14 - 3 -1967.
€20
With later hard cover binding ( Scarce publication)
€ 40
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380
Book, Softcover, "Comic Songs of Ireland" by James N. Healy Booklet. In excellent
condition. Published by Mercier Press. Signed First Edition 1978. 48pp another in the
Start Bid series published by Mercier of words, music and chords of songs of a humorous nature
€20
from Ireland. Collected and annotated by James N. Healy; music written out by Con
O'Donovan. Songs include Finnigans Wake, The Moonshiner, Paddy Heggarty’s
Breeches, and the Garden where the Praties Grow.
€ 30
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381
Book, Hard cover "Irish Silver in the Rococo Period" by Kurt Ticher, (no dust jacket)
in excellent condition 141pp with 105 Black and white photographic plates. Published by
Start bid Irish University Press First edition 1972. This is a comprehensive work that is well
€50
illustrated. It is an intensive study of the whole subject and in particular, the evaluation of
decoration on Irish Silver in the period 1725-1775. Kurt Ticher was a noted silver
authority and author of books
€ 80
- € 120
382
Book, Soft cover "Mount Merrion the old and the new" Edited by J. Anthony
Gaughan Published by Church of St. Therese, Dublin, 1981. 20pp. Illustrated, about
Mount Merrion published to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of St. Therese’s Church.
Scarce Dublin parish history. Fr. Tony received his early education in Listowel, Co.
Kerry, , where he was taught by Bryan MacMahon and Frank Sheehy, and in St.
Michaels College, Listowel, where he learned Latin and Greek. He continued his studies
Start bid
in Dublin, where from an early age he was an outstanding man of great scholarship,
€40
receiving his BA in University College Dublin in 1953, his BD from Pontifical University in
Maynooth in 1956, his MA University College Dublin in 1965, and his Doctorate in
Philosophy in 1992, and his Doctorate in Literature in 1996. His very first publication was
" The Concept of Being: A Study in Metaphysics": in 1969. And yet among Fr. Tony's
most endearing qualities is that he never lost his common touch, and continues to have
an unique ability
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€ 80
383
Book, "Unusual Irish Careers" by John B Keane Paperback in Very Good Condition.
Published by The Mercier Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition 1982 100pp. A
Start bid
selection of unorthodox and unusual careers, including Forelock Tugger, Corner-Boy ,
€40
Heifer Coursing, Eaves Chute Eviscerator and Career Avoidance Officer. A hilarious
work by the Listowel born writer, which deserves to be better known.
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387
388
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Book. "A Treasury of Irish Folklore" by Padraic Colum Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Crown Publishers New York. Second revised edition
Start bid
1967. 620pp. Includes musical scores. " The Stories, Traditions, Humour, Wisdom,
€5
Ballads, and Songs of the Irish People",
Book. "Irish Saints" by Robert T. Reilly. Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published
by Vision Books. First Edition 1964. 172pp. Illustrations by Harry Barton. A native of
Lowell, Massachusetts, Robert T. Reilly was a Lieutenant in Europe during World War
II. He was captured just before the Battle of the Bulge and spent Six (6) months as a
Start bid POW. A free lance writer for more than fifty years, Reilly has published over 1,000
€5
articles and short stories in more than 100 national and regional publications. His
published books include Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal (4th Edition), which was made
into a Walt Disney film, Massacre at Ash Hollow, Rebels in the Shadows , Irish Saints
and Come Along to Ireland.
Book, Paperback, "The British Campaign in Ireland" by Charles Townshend in
excellent condition published by Oxford University Press First Paperback Edition 1978
242pp including extensive Appendices, Sources and Bibliography, Tables, Graph , Maps
and Index. Charles Townshend was born in 1945. A British historian, he specialises in
the history of British Involvement in Ireland. He is Professor of International History at
Start bid Keele University, UK. This is a study of the response of the British Government to the
€40
struggle for Irish independence in the early twentieth century and how it ultimately failed.
The work was hailed by critics in Britain, the USA and in Ireland. Mr Townshend has
written a number of books on Ireland and is regarded as a balanced and scholarly writer.
The noted Irish historian F.S.L. Lyons wrote of this book "This is a work of most exact
and painstaking scholarship ". The footnotes , bibliography and references are
extensive .He refers for example to an RIC report of February 1921 " A Ten (
Book, Soft cover "Doneraile" by J. Anthony Gaughan In excellent condition Published
by Kamac Publications. Signed Second Revised Edition 1970 171pp with 2 maps, 1
folding; 23 illustrations; Foreword by John B. Keane, Scarce. Contents include
Doneraile's early history; The 'Faerie Queene' country; Much-storied St Leger Family; An
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Tathair Eoghan O Caoimh, the Poet-Priest; The curse of Doneraile and the recantation;
€40
John Leary, victim of the 'Doneraile Conspiracy'?; The illustrious Dr Croke; An Tathair
Peadar O Laoghaire; Canon Sheehan; Modern Doneraile; Places of interest near
Doneraile. Fr Gaughan’s Second Book.
Book, Hardcover - "The Making of a Republic", by Kevin R. O'Shiel, published by
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Talbot Press Limited, Dublin. c. 1930s. (Book content complete but cover detached from
€35
spine)
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- € 100
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389
Book, Hard cover "Peadar O’Donnell" by Michael McInerney, with Dust jacket, in
excellent condition. 255pp Published by The O’Brien Press, First Edition 1974 This work
is not easy to come by and is very hard to locate in such good condition as this. A profile
in depth of a great Irishman becomes, in this book, a history of Ireland from 1919 to
Start bid 1974. Peadar O’Donnell was born on 22nd Feb. 1898, Meenmore, Co. Donegal, One of
€20
Eleven children, became a National School teacher, working on Arranmore and Inisfree
islands, aided Donegal migrants in Scotland, 1916; full time organiser for ITGWU in
1918, joined Volunteers in 1920; Donegal Brigade IRA Commandant, 1921, with Liam
O’Flaherty, seized the Rotunda for the Unemployed 1922; member of Republican
garrison of captured Four Courts, July 1922 and that is just his early life
€ 50
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390
Book. Paperback "A Little Book for John O'Mahony's Friends" by Katherine Tynan,
In Very Good condition. Published by Mosher, First Edition 1909 Scarce . 56pp.
Katharine Tynan (23 January 1861 - 2 April 1931) was an Irish-born writer, known mainly
for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1898 to the writer and barrister Henry
Albert Hinkson (1865-1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson
(or Katharine Tynan-Hinkson or Katharine Hinkson-Tynan). John Francis O'Mahony
Start bid
(1816 Kilbeheny, County Limerick, - February 7, 1877) was a Gaelic scholar and the
€20
founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood in the United States, sister organisation to
the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The close of the civil war in the spring of 1865 gave a
great impetus to the Fenians, owing to the number of Irish-American soldiers that were
disbanded and anxious to see service elsewhere. Money poured into the Fenian
exchequer; probably $500,000 was subscribed between 1860 and 1867 Many
differences occurred between
€ 40
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391
Book, Hard cover "Here's Ireland by Bryan MacMahon". In Excellent condition.
Start bid
Published by Butler Sims Ltd 280 pp Revised edition 1982. This is a personal account
€10
of Bryan MacMahon's travels
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392
Book, Hard cover "LIFE IN OLD DUBLIN" by James Collins, possibly rebound in
excellent condition Published by James Duffy and Co. Ltd., 38 Westmoreland Street.
First Edition 1913. 206pp Written by James Collin it is a curious volume which appears
Start bid
to have originally been written either for occasional publication in a newspaper or,
€50
possibly, for delivery at a local history group. It may have been a vanity publication as a
list of subscribers is included at the back. It is a quirky look at the old city with many
historical documents and the occasional swipe at the City Fathers through the ages.
€ 80
- € 120
393
Book "Nineteen-Sixteen Anthology" School Edition Compiled by Edna C. Fitzhenry
Bound together with The Poets of 1916 with Life and Notes published by The
Educational Company Paperbacks. In fair condition. Re-covered paperbacks in One
volume. First item Published by Browne and Nolan Ltd. 107pp. Second item published
Start bid by The Educational Company Limited. 32pp. The first book is A collection of primarily
€10
Irish poems many inspired by the Rising of Easter Week, 1916. Poets include Roger
Casement, Thomas MacDonagh, Padriac Pearse, W.B. Yeats, Dermott O'Byrne, A.E.,
and James Stephens. Second item is a volume in the Educational series of Irish Poets
and contains brief lives of and poems from Patrick Pearse Thomas McDonagh Joseph
Plunkett and Roger Casement.
€ 30
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394
Book, Soft cover "The Mare Near You" Edited by Mary Jane Zimmernan.In excellent
Start bid
condition. Published by Pinchpenny Press. First Edition 1977. Scarce . 53pp. Three
€10
poems each from Brendan Kennelly, Peter Fallon and Nicholas Lindsa
€ 20
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395
Start Bid Book, Hard cover - "Women of 'Ninety Eight" by Mrs. Thomas ConCannon, M.A. 4th
€45
edition. Published by M.H. Gill and Son, Ltd. Dublin
€ 60
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396
Book, softcover. "Dan Pheaidi Aindi" by John B Keane Paperback. In excellent
condition. Published by the Mercier Press Signed and Inscribed in Irish by Author First
Edition. 1977 100pp.This is what the Lyrecrompane National School web site says of its
favourite son "Every year in August the Dan Paddy Andy festival is held in memory of
Start Bid
Dan Paddy Andy the Matchmaker. Dan Paddy Andy was born in Renagown in 1899.
€20
Dan made at least Ten (10) matches a year. He made his first match in 1932. Dan was
known as the man with the triple name or the wild man of the mountain. Dan opened a
dancehall in Renagown. John B Keane wrote a book about him in both English and Irish.
Dan died in 1965 at the age of 66 and he died in the same room as he was born in.
€ 30
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397
Book, Soft cover "Headquarters Battalion Army of the Irish Republic Easter Week
1916" by John M. Heuston OP. In very good condition. No Publisher but Imprimatur
Joannes Carolus Archiep, Dublin. 10 Aprilis, 1966 (Archbishop John Charles McQuaid).
Start bid Printed by Nationalist Printers Carlow. 74pp illustrated and with Maps. First Edition.
€20
Scarce. This account of Happenings in Dublin was written in the main in 1949. The book
deals with the military movements in Dublin during Easter Week. It is thus a military
history of the events of Easter Week rather than the usual Chronological narration. The
Appendices give roll calls of the various Companies involved.
€ 40
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398
Book, soft cover "Comic Songs of Ireland" by James N. Healy. In very good condition.
Published by the Mercier Press. First Edition 1978 48pp with words music and chords. A
Start bid
collection of well known and not so well known Irish Humorous songs such as " Thank
€10
you ma'am says Dan" ,"The Peeler and the Goat"," Whiskey in the Jar" , " The One-eyed
Riley", "Phil the Fluther's Ball , in all a total of 28 songs with words and music.
€ 20
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399
Book, Hard cover "LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL" by Lord Rosebery, in very good
condition. Published by Arthur L. Humphreys First Edition 1906 187pp. Lord Rosebery
wrote of this book "After Lord Randolph S Churchill’s death, his mother asked me to
write something about him. I excused myself as it was then too near his time. It may be
still too near, at least to arrive at a cool and impartial estimate that, in any case can
Start bid
scarcely be done by a personal friend. Lord Rosebery, served as Prime Minister from 5
€50
March 1894 to 22 June 1895. He was born in London on 7 May 1847 .Despite not having
a degree, he was considered to be One of the most widely read young men of his time.
Rosebery declared that he had only Three ambitions: to marry an heiress, to win the
Derby and to become Prime Minister. He achieved all Three . He died at Epsom on 21
May 1929 at the age of 81.
€ 80
- € 120
400
Book Softcover. "Fifty Years Of Liberty Hall, The Golden Jubilee Of The Irish Transport
Start Bid
And General Workers Union 1909-1959." Printed In The Republic Of Ireland At The Sign € 100
€85
Of The Three Candles, Dublin 1959.
- € 120
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401
Book, Hard cover "The writings of Brendan Behan" by Colbert Kearney, with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Gill and Macmillan Limited Signed and
inscribed First Edition 1977. 155 pages Including acknowledgments, preface, notes,
select bibliography, index. This work evaluates Behan's performance as a writer and his
contribution to modern Anglo-Irish Literature and drama. . The central works discussed
Start bid
are "The Quare Fellow" and "Borstal Boy". Colbert Kearney studied at University College
€20
Dublin and King's College Cambridge. His teaching includes Shakespeare and Irish
writing in English from its beginnings in Swift, Moore, Mangan and Carolan to its
flowering in Yeats, Joyce, Synge and O'Casey. His current research interest is the
influence of the Irish oral tradition and Hiberno-English on Irish writers such as O'Casey,
Behan and O'Connor.
€ 40
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402
Book, Hard cover "Thomas Johnson" by J. Anthony Gaughan, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Kingdom Books Signed First Edition 1980 513pp
including Index. Illustrated. With Appendices. Thomas Johnson (21 November 1882 - 22
June 1969) was an Irish trade unionist and politician, and was the first Leader of the
Labour Party in Dail Eireann. This is not simply a biography but a history of the Irish
Labour movement from 1900 up to the 1960's. Johnson was born near Knock, County
Start bid
Mayo. From 1902 to 1916 he worked first as a national teacher and then as a school
€60
principal. In 1926 he became general secretary of the Irish National Teachers'
Organisation. He was a member of Dail Eireann from 1922 to 1932, serving as leader of
the Irish Labour Party in the Dail from 1927 to 1932. From 1929 to 1930 he was
president of the Irish Labour Party and the Irish Trade Union Congress. In 1935 he
founded the Educational Building Society. As an example of the depth of research the
list of sources used by Fr. Gau
€ 80
- € 120
403
Book. "The Road to Brightcity" by Mairtin O Cadhain. Paperback. In excellent
condition. Published by Poolbeg Press. First Edition in English signed by Translator
Eohan O Tuairisc. 1981. 111pp. Short Stories translated by Eoghan O Tuairisc, Mairtin
O Cadhain (1906 - 18 October 1970) was One of the most prominent Irish language
Start bid writers of the twentieth century.Mairtin O Cadhain was born in Cois Fharraige in the
€10
Connamara Gaeltacht in 1906. He is best known for his major novel, Cre na Cille .
Which has been translated into English as Graveyard Clay. A national school teacher in
his early life, he was interned for his activities in the IRA during World War II. He became
a lecturer in Irish in Trinity College Dublin in 1956, and became Professor of Irish there in
1969. He died in 1970.
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Book, Soft cover "The Retreat of Ita Cagney Culu Ide" by Michael Hartnett, with
illustrated wraps. In excellent condition. (Slight tear to front wrap) Published by the
Goldsmith Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition 33pp. Culu Ide/The Retreat of Ita
Cagney (1975) shows him exulting in the emotional spaciousness that Irish opened up
for him, a freedom further exploited in Adharca Broic (1978).The publication of Culu
Ide /The Retreat of Ita Cagney marked a turning point in Michael Hartnett’s poetic
Start bid
development. Having consolidated his position as One of the most important
€50
contemporary Irish poets writing in English he then decided to write in Irish only. In this
book One finds both the last of his English and the first of his Irish poems. The Two
versions are related-variations, it might be said, on the same theme. Despite this close
correspondence it is true that the Irish is not a translation of the earlier English poem.
Part of the fascination of this volume. A very scarce book.
Book, Hard cover "Skellig Island outpost of Europe" by Des Lavelle with Dust jacket
in Very Good Condition published by The O’Brien Press Signed First Edition 1976
112pp with many illustrations.
This is the story of Two (2) of the world's most stunning and un spoilt islands,Skellig
Start bid Michael and Little Skellig, which lie off the coast of Kerry. In this work Lavelle explores
€30
the history of the islands from 1400 BC. to the extraordinary, isolated Early Christian
monastic settlement with its stone ‘beehive' huts and on to the twentieth Century. He
describes the abundant bird life, including the huge colony of gannet's, and tells of the
history, legend, geology, plant life, the lighthouse, the seals and the underwater world.
Book, Hard cover "Written on the Wind" Edited by Louis McRedmond, with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by RTE in Association with Gill and MacMillan.
Inscribed and Signed by Louis McRedmond, Bryan MacMahon and Micheal O hAodha
Start bid First Edition 1976 . 171pp Personal Memories of Irish Radio 1926-1976. Scarce Item. A
€50
unique work in that it is not only signed by the Editor but also by Two of the contributors.
This book contains 11 reminiscences of the days of radio broadcasting from the days of
2R N to Radio Eireann to RTE Radio. A most interesting and unusual item.
Book. "Nowhere But In Praise" by Padraig J Daly Soft cover. In excellent condition.
Published by Profile Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 43pp. PADRAIG J. DALY
was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford in 1943 and is now working as an Augustinian
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priest in Dublin. He has published several collections of poetry, among them The Last
€10
Dreamers: New & Selected Poems (1999) and The Other Sea (2003), as well as his
translations from the Italian of Edoardo Sanguineti, Libretto (1999) and Paolo Ruffilli, Joy
and Mourning (re issued 2007).
Book. "Bertie Ahern The Autobiography" Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Hutchinson London. Signed First Edition 2009 372pp with many
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photographs. Signed by the author, on title page. Bertie Ahern, Three times Irish
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Taoiseach, is often described as an enigma.
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Book. Soft cover "I Never Saw a Purple Cow" by Sean McCarthy, In excellent
condition. Published by Clo Duainaire, Cork. First Edition 1987. 154pp. A personal and
Start bid humorous account of the 'folk boom' as it happened.. Sean tells the story of folk in the
€5
late fifties and the Folk club he was involved in the "Crubeen". Stories of Listowel,
Camden Town and beautiful Clapham Junction.
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Book, Hardcover "Tarry Flynn" by Patrick Kavanagh, with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Marin Brien O' Keefe Ltd.1975 Reprint.256pp. First published in
1948, and first published in this edition in 1972, this the first reprint. According to One
reviewer A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet,
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farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm,
€20
poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy One. The only solution is to rise
above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Like "The Green Fool", his
autobiography, Patrick Kavanagh's "Tarry Flynn" is an idyllic and beautifully evocative
account of life as it was lived in Ireland earlier this century.
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Book, Soft cover "The Ram of God" by John B Keane. In excellent condition.
Published by The Mercier Press Signed First Edition 1991 168pp. A collection of 47
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delightful short stories from the witty pen of John B. Titles include : Is Cork Sinking? ,
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Bingo and the In laws, Shake hands with the Devil and The Colour of Kerry. Signed
copies of John B. Keane’s work are scarce
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Book, Soft cover "Muckross House Folk Museum" by Frank Lewis. In excellent
condition published by Skellig Books Signed and Inscribed First Edition 1975 134pp with
illustrations and plan at rear. This charming work by well known presenter of "The
Saturday Supplement" on Radio Kerry, Frank Lewis, is far more than a guide book.
Start bid Frank’s well known love for his native Killarney is demonstrated by this work which gives
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an excellent history not merely of Muckross House but also of the Killarney and
Muckross areas. Lavishly illustrated the comprehensive work is a must for anyone who
has an interest in Kerry or Ireland’s Folk History. Many photographs and illustrations,
colour on the cover, black-and-white inside
Book, Hard cover "The Singing Flames" by Ernie O’Malley, with dust jacket, in
excellent condition. Published by Anvil Books Limited. First edition 1978 312pp
including index. Ernie O’Malley was born in Castlebar Co. Mayo in 1898 and was a
medical student when the Rising of 1916 broke out. During the Civil war he became OC
of the Republican army for Leinster and Ulster. Shot in 1922 he was captured and
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imprisoned until July 1924. He left Ireland settling in the USA where he began his
€30
memoir "on another Man’s Wound" his story of the War of Independence. He worked on
this second memoir, telling his story from July 1921 to July 1924, during the 1950’s. He
died in 1957 and Frances Mary Blake arranged and finalised his drafts and note to
produce this volume which has been described as One (1) of the fullest personal
account of the 1921-1924 years.
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Book, Hard cover "Scouting in Ireland" by J. Anthony Gaughan Hardback with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Kingdom Books Signed First Edition 2006,
193pp including Index. Illustrated. This is a comprehensive account of Scouting in
Start bid Ireland. Like all Fr Gaughan's work the History of Scouting in Ireland from its
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commencement in 1908 has been thoroughly researched and presented in a clear a
readable style. The book examines the Three scouting movements in Ireland and how
they evolved with a changing Irish Society. Signed copies of Fr Gaughan's Books are
scarce.
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- € 120
415
Register of Theses on Educational Topics in Universities in Ireland by John
Coolahan and others Paperback in excellent condition. Published by Officina
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Typographica First edition 1980 87pp including index. A List of theses from 1911-1979
€5
as held in Trinity College Dublin, Queens Belfast, NUU Coleraine and the Three colleges
of NUI. A useful reference point for any student of education.
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Book. "The Grey Feet of the Wind" by Cathal O’Byrne Hardcover. In good condition
ex school library book. Original fawn canvas, brown boards, lettered white. Published by
T. Fisher Unwin London, First Edition 1917 80 pp. This work was published in Ireland
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and USA in 1917 but this is the first edition. Cathal O'Byrne (1867 – August 1, 1957)
€20
was an Irish singer, poet and writer, born in Belfast of Wicklow parents. This is a
collection of over 40 poems of nationalist emigration and nature themes.
417
Joseph Holloway's Irish Theatre Edited by Robert Hogan and Michael J. O'Neill . In
Three Volumes Soft covers with Pictorial wraps . In excellent condition . Published by
Proscenium Press
Dixon, California . First edition .(1968-1970) Three volumes containing the years 19261944. Joseph Holloway (1861-1944) was born in Dublin and was an architect and
theatrical dilettante. He redesigned the and designed costumes for Deirdre in the first
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performance (Nov. 1906), which were deemed unsuitable by Yeats and others. Richard € 120
€80
Kain in "Dublin in the Age of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce" wrote "The fullest
account remains to be published - the voluminous diary of the architect and playgoer
Joseph Holloway, whose 221 manuscript ledgers provide a daily record of Dublin events
from 1895-1944. Holloway, the eternal bystander, was always looking in on rehearsals,
attending lectures and plays, hearing all the gossip. Whatever the occasion, he wrote it
down with Boswellian detail. And few things escaped him.
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418
Book, Hard cover " The Red Petticoat and other stories" by Bryan MacMahon, Book
In Very good condition ( Dust jacket : Staining to rear of Dust jacket; a tear to front)
Start bid Published by Macmillan & Co 215pp First Edition Signed by Bryan MacMahon 1955 . A
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collection of 19 short stories including Wedding Eve -- Evening in Ireland -- The Broken
Lyre and others. This was the second collection of short stories and followed his highly
acclaimed collection " The Lion Tamer".
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start bid Book, hard cover 'Iris na Nodlag' illustrated by Eileen Coghlan, the irish Junior Red
€20
Cross Annual 1944 published by Brown and Nolan with dust jacket
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420
Book. "The Labour and the Royal" by Eamonn MacThomais Hardcover with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by The O'Brien Press. Signed and Inscribed
First Edition 1979. MacThomais came from a staunch Republican family. He was born
Edward Patrick Thomas in the Dublin suburb of Rathmines. His father, a fire-brigade
Start bid officer, died when Eamonn was Five (5) years old and his family moved to Goldenbridge,
€10
Inchicore. He left school at 13 to work as a delivery boy for White Heather Laundry,
learning Dublin neighbourhoods with great thoroughness. He said he found work to help
his mother pay the rent. He later worked as a clerk, and was appointed credit controller
for an engineering firm. From 1974 he wrote a number of books on old Dublin. He also
started a number of walking tours of Dublin, which proved very popular.
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421
Book, Hard cover, "When Cromwell Came To Drogheda, A Memory of 1649". - 1st
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edition, Edited from the record of Clarence Stranger, A captain in the Army of Owen
€45
O'Neill. by Randal McDonnell. Published by M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd. Dublin. Scarce Book
€ 60
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422
Book. "High Island" by Richard Murphy . Paperback. In excellent condition. Published
by Harper & Row. Signed First US Edition. 1974. 118pp. Richard Murphy spent much of
his early childhood in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, where his father served in the Colonial
Service and was active as mayor of Colombo and Governor General of the Bahamas (in
succession to the Duke of Windsor). He first received his education at Canterbury
School and Wellington College. He won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, at
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17, where he studied English under C.S. Lewis. He was later educated at the Sorbonne
€15
and between 1953 and 1954, he ran a school at Crete. In 1954, he settled at Cleggan,
on the coast of Galway. Several years later, in 1959, he purchased and renovated a
traditional type of boat, which he used to ferry visitors to the island. In 1969, he
purchased Ardoilean (High Island), a small island in the vicinity of Inishbofin. Since 1971
Murphy has been a poet-in-residence at Nine (9) American universities. Now he lives in
Sr
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423
Book. "A Small Light: Ten songs of O'Connor of Carrigafoyle" by Brendan
Kennelly. Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Gallery Books
Signed and Inscribed First Edition. June 1979 18pp. Professor Kennelly's sixth book
marking a return to the Lyric Form. The O'Connor Kerry were chiefs of a large territory in
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north Kerry, displaced further northwards by the Norman invasion to the Limerick
€40
borders, where they retained much of their power down to the seventeenth century.
Today, the descendants of these O' Connors are far and away the most numerous, with
the majority of all the many O' Connors in Ireland concentrated in the
Kerry/Limerick/Cork area
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Book, Hard cover "Where Our Voices Broke Off" By James Seay ,with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by the Gallery Press, Signed Limited First Edition. 1978
not paginated. One of 250 copies. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page.
Designed and illustrated by Timothy Engelland. The book is a beautiful volume published
simultaneously in the USA and By The Gallery press in May 1978. It was printed at
Northampton and bound by hand by Museum Bookbindings in Dublin. The author of
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Four (4) books of poetry, James Seay was born January 1, 1939, in Panola County,
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Mississippi. He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Mississippi in
1964, and followed it Two (2) years later with a M.A. degree from the University of
Virginia. He has taught English at a number of colleges and universities, including
Virginia Military Institute, the University of Alabama, and Vanderbilt University. Since
1974 he has taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
€ 40
Book, Soft cover "Laoithe na Feinne by Padraig O Siochfhradha (An Seabhac).
Unknown binding Published by Clolucht an Talboidigh 319pp First Edition 1941 Scarce.
Tales of the Fianna: Sixty-Four Stories of the Fenian cycle completely re-edited by An
Seabhac, Padraig O Siochrfhradha (NOTE Pages uncut). Written in Gaelic alphabet.
Padraig O Siochfhradha (1883 - 19 November 1964) Born in Baile an Ghoilin near
Dingle in Co. Kerry, he was a renowned editor, publisher and folklorist. He and his
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brother Micheal O Siochfhradha were writers, teachers and Irish language storytellers,
€ 100
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Padraig O Siochfhradha's most famous book, written under the pen-name An Seabhac
(The Hawk), is the semi-autobiographical comedy Jimin Mhaire Thaidhg, published in
1919, which follows his childhood under the control of his powerful mother, Maire. He
became an active organiser for the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and was imprisoned Three
(3) times for his activities. He was a member of Seanad Eireann from 1946-48, 1951-54
and 1957-64, being nom
Book ."THE GLAMOUR OF DUBLIN" by D.L.Kay. Hard cover, In excellent condition.
Published by The Talbot Press Dublin. First Edition 1918. Scarce. Daniel Laurence
Kelleher, (1883-1958), playwright and man of letters. Born in Cork and educated at UCC,
he was associated in his early career with the group of dramatists known as the ‘Cork
Realists’ Stephen Grey (1910) was produced at the Abbey in 1910, and thereafter he
wrote A Contrary Election (1910). His travel sketches reflect his varied career, and
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include Paris, Its Glamour and Life (1914), Lake Geneva (1914), and this volume The
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Glamour of Dublin (1918, as ‘D. L. Kay’), The Glamour of Cork (1919), Round Italy
(1923), and Great Days with O'Connell (1929). His poetry includes Cork's Own Town
(1920), Poems Twelve a Penny (1911) and Twelve Poems (1923). A series of sketches
written after the 1916 Rising giving an unusual insight into Dublin in the years
immediately following the Easter Rising.
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Book. "A Journey to the Seven Streams" by Benedict Kiely Paperback. In excellent
condition. Published by Poolbeg Press. Signed First Edition 1977. 143pp. A collection of
Nine Short Stories. This book is One (1) of a series devoted to the modern Irish short
story. Benedict Kiely. In an interview published in an Irish newspaper in 1987, Benedict
Kiely (1919-2007) was described as "our pre-eminent living seannachie" in
Start bid acknowledgement of his deep familiarity with, and understanding of, Irish oral tradition.
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Many of Kiely's own stories, indeed (beginning with the collection A Journey to the
Seven Streams in 1963), contain elements of the seannachie's stock-in-trade:
discursiveness, allusiveness, high spirits and hyperbole. At his most characteristic,
perhaps, Kiely raises local colour, stylish deeds and natural exuberance to a mockheroic level. But other forms of literary expression were available to him, and he made
good use of all of them.
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428
Book. "Droving" by Matt Mooney Soft cover. In excellent condition. Published by Matt
Mooney. Foreword by Garry MacMahon. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 63pp A
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Trilingual (English, Irish and French) collection of poetry. Matt Mooney was born near
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Loughrea, South Galway. He later moved to Listowel where he was a teacher for many
years. His first collection of poems Droving was launched at Writers' Week 2003
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book, Hard cover "A Picture Book by Frank O’Connor Illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers",
in cream cloth and light blue boards, with thin paper jacket, in excellent condition.
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Published by Irish University Press, 1971 Photo-lithographic facsimile of the first edition
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of 1943. Not commonly available. A delightful essay concerning south and west
Ireland.72 pp
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Book. "The Pedlars Revenge" by Liam O'Flaherty Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
Excellent condition. Published by Wolfhound Press. Dublin Signed First Edition 1976.
Start bid 222pp. A collection of 21 short stories by this Irish author who belongs to the same
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vintage as Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, Francis Stuart and Austin Clarke, all of
whom grew to manhood before Ireland gained her independence. This volume includes
some uncollected and unpublished stories written between 1923 and the 1960's.
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Book, "FAMOUS IRISH TRIALS" by M McDonnell Bodkin KC Introduction by Eamonn
G Hall soft cover with Wraps. In excellent Condition Published by Ashfield Press First
Paperback Edition Thus 1997 Reprint of 1918 edition. Famous Irish Trials was first
published in 1918 and includes political, religious and murder trials. When McDonnell
Bodkin was invited to write a book on famous Irish trials, he was advised that there is
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nothing the public 'so love to read as a good savage, sensational murder'. He did not
€ 100
€70
write a book devoted exclusively to murders, but did include a 'couple of murder trials'
selected 'not for the gruesome details of crime, but for the curious incidents or interesting
illustrations of character that were brought to light at the trial'. The author had a particular
interest in politics and in this book One of his famous trials relates to the defence of that
enigmatic figure, Charles Stewart Parnell.
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Book, hardcover, "Beside the Fire" by Douglas Hyde Irish Folklore Series General
Editor Seamus O Duilearga. In excellent condition. Published by Irish University Press.
Start Bid First Edition Thus 1978 132pp A facsimile of the 1910 London edition. In 1890 Douglas
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Hyde published Besides the Fire: a collection of Irish Gaelic folk stories, a work that is a
landmark in Irish folklore studies and in Irish literary history, because of his scholarly
approach and because his translations are in the genuine English speech of the people.
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Book, Soft cover "Field Work" by Seamus Heaney. In excellent condition. Published by
Faber and Faber Signed First Edition 1979. " In 1938, W.B. Yeats admonished his
colleagues: "Irish poets, learn your trade." Seamus Heaney, born the following year, has
learned his trade so well that it is now a second nature wonderfully responsive to his
first. And the proof is in "Field Work," a superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching
Start bid book he has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have
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despaired of seeing such a thing." So wrote Denis Donoghue in 1979 in the New York
Times. He continued " These poems make you feel that the best part of poetry is given
not as inspiration but as something you have had the luck to see, hear, smell or taste,
and that the poem adds only a grace note here and there to a music virtually complete. It
is doubtless untrue. But Heaney's new poems sound, yes, so natural that you believe
them to be forces of nature, like rain and sunset, and forces of culture only by
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- € 180
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Book, Hard cover " The Knights of Glin" by J. Anthony Gaughan, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Kingdom Books First Edition 1978 222pp including
index. Illustrated and with fold out tables. Father Gaughan's sixth work and One much
consulted by genealogists and historians. The Knights of Glin are a branch of the great
Norman Fitzgerald family, also known as the Geraldines. As Earls of Desmond, the
Fitzgeralds were granted extensive lands in County Limerick in the early 14th Century by
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their Desmond overlords. The Desmond family were all descended from the Norman
€50
Maurice Fitzgerald, a companion-in-arms to Strongbow. Maurice was the son of Gerald
of Windsor, and his wife the Welsh Princess Nesta. The Fitzgeralds came to Ireland from
Wales in the 1170's as mercenaries, at the request of King Dermot MacMurrough to help
him subdue his subjects This is a rare opportunity to acquire this work. Born in Listowel
Fr Gaughan is a respected writer and historian who has produced 24 books.
Book, hard cover "Land War and eviction in Derryveagh 1840-1865" by Liam Doran,
with dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Annaverna Press ltd. First Edition.
Edition limited to 1000 copies this is copy no 524. In 1980, Liam Dolan, after extensive,
exhaustive research, published his epic work entitled, "Land War and Evictions in
Derryveagh". Also known as the Glenveagh Evictions. The official Derryveagh Eviction
Report tells us that there were 46 houses from which 47 families were evicted. 159
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children were put out on the road. 28 homes were unroofed or levelled with only 4
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families temporarily re admitted. 11,602 acres of land were seized. The total number of
persons having only the sky for their shelter was 244. The author continues to relate the
sad tale: "By Two, Wednesday afternoon, the terrible work had been accomplished and
a deathly silence descended over the whole area. The Derryveagh District had been
cleared of people and Adair had accomplished what the ravages of the Great Famine
had
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Book. "A Sense of Place Irish Lives-Irish Landscapes" by Roslyn Dee & Gerry
Sandford Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published by New Island Books, Dublin,
First Edition 2000
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112pp; black and white photos. Thirty-Five (5) Irish men and women give revealing
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interviews and are beautifully photographed, each in a place in Ireland with special
meaning for them.
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Book, Hard cover "Where the River Shannon Flows" by Richard Hayward,with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition (Tear on Spine of Dust jacket). Published by Dundalgan
Press. 327pp plus Map Illustrated with photographs. 1950 Edition .Richard N. Hayward
(1898-1964) was born in Larne, Co. Antrim. He wrote curtain raisers for Ulster Players,
witnessed launch of Titanic, founded Belfast Repertory Theatre, with Tyrone Guthrie,
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President of PEN and Naturalist Field Club, and wrote Ulster dialect, plays and novels.
€20
He wrote a travel series, This is Ireland; Leinster and the City of Dublin, Connacht Mayo,
Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon, and Munster and Cork City, also other Irish
topographical works, notably Where the River Shannon Flows (1940). In this work the
author journeyed the length of the Shannon from its source to the sea investigating
legends history and making a travel picture of the River.
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Start Bid Book, Soft cover " With The I.R.A. In The Fight For Freedom, 1919 to the truce". - 1st
€85
edition,Published by The Kerryman Ltd, Tralee.
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Book. "Leaves" by Desmond Egan Soft cover. In excellent condition. Published by The
Goldsmith Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 1974. 55pp with Drawings by
Charles Cullen. Desmond Egan, Desmond poet and publisher. Born in Athlone, Co.
Start bid Westmeath, and educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, he taught until 1987. He
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founded the Goldsmith Press in 1972, and edited Era, an occasional literary magazine,
from 1974. His poetry collections include Midland (1972), Leaves (1974) and many
others. He has been awarded the US National Poetry award for his Collected Poems.
Artistic Director The Gerald Manley Hopkins International Festival, he lives in Co Kildare.
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440
Book. "Rucks Mauls and Gaelic Football" by Moss Keane with Billy Keane
Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Merlin Publishing.
Signed and Inscribed First Edition signed by Moss Keane and Billy Keane. 2005. Very
Scarce. 210pp. Weeshie Fogarty of Radio Kerry's Terrace Talk fame wrote of the book. "
In this extraordinary life story the late Moss Keane (1948-2010) tells the honest account
of how an awkward boy who couldn't get onto his school team became the rugby icon
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who played his 50th Cap for Ireland in Twickenham .Making his debut in Currow's
€40
under-14 GAA football team, he graduated to playing for Kerry's under-21s and
University College Cork, where Sigerson Cup victories followed. But when a challenge
from a rival rugby club was issued Moss had found his calling. From Ireland's 1974
International Championship win, the unforgettable Munster defeat of the All Blacks in
1978, Lansdowne FC victories, the Lions Tour and Ireland's Triple Crown triumph in '82,
to near-death experie
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Book, soft cover "Letters to the Brain" by John B Keane. In excellent condition.
Published by Brandon Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition 1993 160pp. All his life
Thomas Scam has pursued Life’s pleasures to the full, heeding neither the health of his
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body nor the well-being of his soul. As he reaches mid-life the Long years of excess
30
have taken their toll, and now the various organs of his body are sending urgent
messages to the Brain. The Organs are outspoken. This is One (1) of the successful
Letters …… Series which commenced with the classic Letters of a Successful TD
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Book. "The Irish Co-Operative Movement" by Patrick Bolger Hardback with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Institute of Public Administration. Signed and
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Inscribed First Edition 1977 The definitive , scholarly but readable history of the Co€20
operative movement in Ireland and the people who made this continuing contribution to
Irish society and economy.
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Book. "Sam’s Cross" by Paul Durcan Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition.( Dust jacket a little frayed at corner). Published by Profile Poetry. First Edition
1978. Paul Durcan was born in Dublin on October 16, 1944. He received a B.A. from
University College Cork, and won the prestigious Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1990 for
'Daddy, Daddy'. He is generally regarded as a social critic and satirist, his main targets
Start bid Irish social and religious institutions. For a variety of conflicting reasons, he has been
€10
compared to Patrick Kavanagh (for his attacks on Irish society), D.H. Lawrence (for his
tendency to write 'poetry of the present moment'), W.B. Yeats (for measuring
contemporary Ireland against a legendary backdrop), and Walt Whitman (for his
evangelism).
444
Start Bid Book, Hard cover "The Blueshirts" by Maurice Manning, 1st edition with dustjacket,
€100 published by Gill and Macmillan Ltd. 1970. A rare and very interesting book.
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- € 150
445
Book, Hard cover "The Green Cockatrice" by Basil Iske (Elizabeth Hickey), with dust
jacket. In excellent condition published by Meath Archaeological and Historical Society,
205pp including appendices and index 1978 First Printing of the First Edition Scarce. In
1978 Elizabeth Hickey wrote The Green Cockatrice which claimed that William Nugent
(1550-1625) who was an Irish rebel, brother of Christopher, fourteenth baron of Delvin
Start bid (Fifth Baron Delvin), and the younger son of Richard Nugent, thirteenth baron Delvin,
€150 from whom he inherited the manor and castle of Ross in County Meath, was the real
author of Shakespeare's works. She claimed he led a life which gave him insights into
the kind of political, religious, military, legal and international diplomatic intrigues that
populate Shakespeare's works .Hickey also drew on the many works that have been
published which highlight the remarkable Irishisms in Shakespeare, like this for example
by W H Blume writing in the Weekly Irish Times on the 29th of June 1901:"I
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446
Book. "Ireland a terrible beauty" by Jill and Leon Uris . Soft cover In excellent
condition. Published by Corgi. First Edition Thus 1977. 288pp Jill and Leon Uris , in this
beautifully illustrated book examine the Republic and Northern Ireland and the
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"Troubles", at the time the book was written. It is more than this however , with 388
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photographs 108 in full colour it is an evocation of Ireland 35 years ago. Leon Marcus
Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical
fiction and the deep research that went into his novels.
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Book. "Irish Folk Ways" by E.Estyn Evans Hardcover. In excellent condition.
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. Third Impression 1966 324pp. First published
1957. A classic in its field, this charming work by a noted scholar explores traditional
Start bid Irish customs and activities--from thatching a roof, churning butter, cultivating and
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harvesting crops, making pots and pans and building furniture to behaviour at weddings,
wakes, festivals, and funerals. "For all its learning, the book is popular in the best way,
and admirably illustrated. . . ."--"Times Literary Supplement." (London)
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448
Book, Soft cover " Thomas Ashe 1885 - 1917" by Micheal Morain in both Irish and
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English language,in good condition and signed by the author and Two of the
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contributor's. the book is complete with fold out family tree at back
€ 60
- € 100
450
Lig Sinn I gCathu by Brendan o hEithir Hardback plastic illustrated cover, in excellent
condition, published by Sairseal agus Dill Baile Atha Cliath Signed First Edition 1976
205pp. Brendan O hEithir was the nephew of Liam O’Flaherty. He was born on Inish Mor
in 1930.). A journalist and broadcaster as well as a novelist he was a familiar face on
RTE . This work was translated into English under the title Lead Us into Temptation and
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when translated into German sold well in East Germany. Set in the University town of
€30
"Ballycastle" in April 1949, it has been described as a comic romp, poking fun at many
Irish sacred cows and not a book to present to your maiden aunt. The work is set against
the background of Ireland declaring itself a Republic at Easter 1949 and the effect this
has on a number of drunken undergraduates in Ballycastle ( in reality - Galway ) . He
died after a short illness in October 1990.
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€ 60
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452
Book, Hard cover "Donn Bo agus Danta Eile" by Padraig O Fiannachta, in excellent
condition published by An Sagart, Maynooth. Signed First Edition 56pp. A collection of
poetry mostly in Irish with some in English Father Padraig O Fiannachta was born at
Start bid Ballymore Dingle in 1927 and ordained at Maynooth in 1953. A noted poet and
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translator as well as a travel writer, in this work .He says he believes more in the afterlife
than in this life. Therefore it is not surprising that the spiritual dimension in his work is
quite strong. But this does not preclude his work form being concerned with the land and
rural life.
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453
Book, Hard cover "Cosmhuintir" by Liam O Murchu, with Dust jacket in excellent
condition published by FNT Dublin First Edition 1975. 119pp The title of this work
translates as Ordinary People. Liam O Murchu was born in Blarney Street, Cork City in
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1929. He attended UCC where he studied literature. He later turned to writing, and his
€10
works were published in the Ireland, Britain and the United States. This is an
autobiographical work in Irish by the well known RTE broadcaster best known for his
ground breaking Trom agus Eadrom programme.
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451
Book, paperback, "O Chorr na Mona go Bangalore" by Padraig O Fiannachta
Paperback, in excellent condition published by An Sagart, Maynooth Signed First Edition
1975 102pp with Illustrations. Father Padraig O Fiannachta was born at Ballymore
Dingle in 1927 and ordained at Maynooth in 1953. A noted poet and translator as well
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as a travel writer, in this work Fr O Fiannachta describes a journey made by Fr O
€10
Fiannachta to India in 1974 describing the many varied experiences he encountered
during his visit.
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454
Na Connerys by Liam O Murchu Hardback with illustrated front and rear covers. In
excellent condition, published by Sairseal agus Dill Baile Atha Cliath Signed First Edition
1974.129pp Liam O Murchu was born in Blarney Street, Cork City in 1929. He attended
UCC where he studied literature. He later turned to writing, and his works were
Start bid published in the Ireland, Britain and the United States. This is work by the well known
€40
RTE broadcaster best known for his ground breaking Trom agus Eadrom programme.
This work is a Three act play in Irish based on a well known song concerning the true
story of the Two Connery brothers Sean and Seamus , and their dispute with their
Landlord which led them to be condemned to serve penal servitude for life in New South
Wales
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455
Book, Hard cover "An Braon Broghach" by Mairtin O Cadhain, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Oifig an tSolathair, Dublin, 1968 Edition. 192pp.
Originally published 1948 - collection of short stories in the Irish language by the most
Start bid renowned writer of the mid-twentieth century in the Irish language. Mairtin O Cadhain
€5
(1906-1970) was born in Cois Fharraige, near. Spiddal, Connemara, Co. Galway he was
a native Irish speaker and schoolteacher, dismissed for membership of IRA, in which he
served as recruiting officer in the 1930s, he recruited Brendan Behan and was involved
in establishment of Co. Meath Gaeltacht (Rath Cairn).
€ 10
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456
Book, Paperback "An Lomnochtan" by Eoghan O Tuairisc, in good condition
Published by Clo Mercier First edition 1977 95pp He was a native of Ballinasloe, County
Galway and was educated at Garbally College. His entered St. Patrick’s Teacher
Start bid Training College, Drumcondra in 1939, graduating with a Diploma in Education in 1945.
€5
He was awarded an M.A., by University College Dublin in 1947.
O Tuairisc held a commission in the Irish Army during the Emergency from 1939 to
1945. He was a teacher in Finglas, Co. Dublin from 1940 to 1969. From 1962 to 1965,
he was editor of Feasta, the journal of Conradh na Gaeilge. He died in 1982.
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457
Book, Hard cover "La dar Saol" by Sean O Criomhhain ,with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Oifig An tSolathair Dublin 1972 Edition 147pp The author of La
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Dar Saol is the son of Tomas O Criomhthain, author of The Islandman. He writes about
€10
his life after leaving the Blasket Island, raising his family, fishing off Ballydavid and an
account of day to day living during the 50s and 60s.
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458
Book, Hard cover "An Druma Mor" by Seosamh Mac Grianna, Illustrated cover. In
excellent condition Published by Oifig An tSolathair Dublin 1972 Edition. Mac Grianna
started writing in the early 1920s, and his creative period lasted some Fifteen (15) years.
Start bid He wrote essays, short stories, travel and historical works, a famous autobiography, Mo
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Bhealach Féin, and a novel, as well as translating many books. He was imbued with a
strong, oral traditional culture from his childhood, and this permeated his writings,
particularly in the early years. This novel is set in the Rosses area of Donegal and is in
Irish.
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459
Book, Paperback "An Gra inAmhrain na n Daoine" by Sean O Tuama in Good
condition Front Cover damaged. Published by An Clochomhar Tta 1978 Edition Sean O
Tuama (1926 - 2006), poet, dramatist, and critic, grew up in Gurranebraher and studied
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at University College Cork. He later became Professor of Modern Irish Literature at UCC,
€5
as well as a visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Toronto. This is
his most notable academic work), In this work he examines the effects of AngloNorman influence on Irish Culture especially in the area of love songs
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460
Book, soft cover "Filiocht Ghaeilige na Linne Seo" by Frank O’Brien (Modern Gaelic
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Poetry) In Very Good Condition. Published by An Clochomhar Tta 2nd Edition 1978
€5
347pp including Index. Highly regarded as a reference book on Modern Irish Poetry.
€ 10
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461
Book, Hard cover "Skerrett" by Liam O’Flaherty,with dust jacket, in excellent
condition . Published by Wolfhound Press. Reprint 1977 287pp Liam O’Flaherty was
Start bid born at Gort na gCapall, Inishmor, the largest of the Aran Islands, in 1896. He wrote in
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English and Irish. This is One of a number of his books which have been re-issued by
The Wolfhound Press of Dublin. He was a member of Aosdana, and died in 1984. This
work is One of his novels and was originally written in 1932.
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462
Book, Hard cover "An Fear Aduaidh" by Mícheal O Suilleabhain, with dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Foilseachain Naisiunta Teoranta, First Edition 1978,
Start bid 282pp. Irish language novel. Micheal O Suilleabhain, died aged 87, was in turn a soldier,
€5
a teacher and a schools inspector. A short-story writer, dramatist and poet, he published
the first of Three novels while in his 60s. He was born in 1917 at Emila near Ballyferriter
Co Kerry.
€ 10
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€ 20
463
Book, Paperback "Aisling Mhic Conglinne" in excellent condition. Published by Officina
Typographica First edition 1980 53pp A wicked satirical work in poetry and prose from as
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early as the twelfth century The Vision is the story of Anier MacConglinne, a scholar from
€5
Armagh, and his efforts to rid King Cathal Mac Finnguine of a "demon of gluttony" that
lived in Cathal's throat
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464
Book, Hardcover "Mearam!" by Gabriel Rosenstock, with dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by An Clochomhar Tta, Baile Atha Cliath, First Edition 1981 48pp
Start bid Illustrated. . Although he has worked in prose, drama and translation, Rosenstock is
€10
primarily known as a poet. He has written or translated over One hundred books.
Rosenstock is a member of Aosdana, and a former chairman of Poetry Ireland He is
assistant editor with An Gum, an Irish language publisher. He lives in Dublin.
€ 20
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€ 30
465
Book, Hard cover "Leabhair na hEagna" Book of Wisdom translated from the Hebrew
Start Bid and Greek under the guidance of the Irish bishops, with Dust jacket, in excellent
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condition (part of front dust jacket rubbed) Published by Sagart Press Maynooth First
Edition thus 1976 241pp. A translation into Irish of Books from the Bible.
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466
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Book, Paperback "Aisling Mhic Conglinne Nua-Leagan" le Tomas O Flionn (the
Vision of MacConglinne a new version by Tomas O Flionn), in excellent condition.
Published by Officina Typographica First edition 1980 53pp A parody of the vision genre
of religious text, it has been described as the "best major work of parody" in the Irish
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language. It is a wickedly satirical work in poetry and prose from as early as the twelfth
€5
century The Vision is the story of Anier MacConglinne, a scholar from Armagh, and his
efforts to rid King Cathal Mac Finnguine of a "demon of gluttony" that lived in Cathal's
throat.
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467
Book, Paperback "Mo Sceal Fein" by An tAthair Peadar O Laoghaire in excellent
condition. Published by Longman Brun agus O Nuallain. No date 189pp. A work that will
be familiar to students of Irish. This Irish novel is the story of the Author and the Irish
nation from famine times on. This version is not just for a dialect specialist but for the
ordinary reader it’s a book that contains humour and dejection in equal measures as well
Start bid as pride and self-mockery It gives an account of life in the poorhouse in Macroom. Fr O
€5
Laoghaire was born in. Liscarrigane, parish of Clondrohid, Co. Cork; ordained on the
11th June 1867. He supported Michael Davitt and the Land League; founded small
libraries and administered schools; a native speaker, his faith in the literary potential of
the Irish language was encouraged by Archbishop John MacHale who reproached him
for failing to mention Irish writers in a prize-winning essay on literature; he was a founder
member of the Gaelic League, 1893, and began writing in Irish soon a
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468
Book, Hard cover "An Draoidin" ( The Pipqueak) by Maire, in excellent condition,
published by Oifig an tSolathair, First Edition 1959 in old Gaelic Script.Maire was the
pen name of Seamus O Grianna (1889-1969) born in Ranafest in the Co. Donegal
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Gaeltacht, brother of MacGrianna, he worked as a farm hand in Lagan Valley and
€5
Scotland and afterwards trained as teacher at St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra Dublin
.He became a schoolteacher in Tyrone, Dublin, and Donegal. A Rare chance to obtain
this work
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469
Book, Hard cover "Traolach Mac Suibhne" by Diarmaid O Briain, In excellent
condition. Published by Foilseachain Naisiunta, First Edition 1979 195pp with Photo
illustrations. On March 13, 1920, Terence MacSwiney was unanimously elected Lord
Mayor of Cork by the city's Corporation, composed of representatives of Sinn Fein, the
Redmond, O’Brien and Unionist parties. His new duties found him redoubling his
Start bid enthusiasm for and devotion to the cause of Irish freedom. Lord Mayor MacSwiney. He
€5
performed his mayoral duties without payment, because he had, with characteristic
unselfishness, assigned his salary elsewhere. Prior to this, he had represented the midCork constituency in the Dail since the election of 1918, and was also Brigadier of the
No.1 Brigade, Cork IRA.He was arrested by the British on charges of sedition and
imprisoned in Brixton prison in England. His death there in October 1920 after 74 days
on hunger strike brought him and the Irish struggle to international attention.
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470
Book, Hard cover "Muineadh an Dara Teanga" by Sean P Mathuna, with Dust jacket
in Excellent condition Published by Oifig an tSolathair, Dublin, First edition 1974 pp 247.
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A study of the science of teaching a second language tracing its development between
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1570 and 1972. Originally from New York where he was born in 1930 the Author is a
highly respected Linguist text is in Irish. Works by this author are not easily obtained
€ 40
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471
Book Soft cover "Amhranleabhar Ogra Eireann". In Good Condition markings to front
Start bid and rear cover but main text clean. Published by Ogra Eireann 1964 Edition. 80pp. Irish
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and English Language songs, Irish songs in the seanchlo style. A collection of ballads
collected under the auspices of the famous magazine "Our Boys"
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472
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Book Soft cover "Fili Oga Inis Oirr" Various Authors (Young Poets of Inisheer). In
very good condition (sticker on front cover) Published by Clo Chois Fharraige. First
Edition 1977. Scarce. Unpaginated. A collection of poems in Irish written by 14 children
start bid of Inisheer aged between 8 and 12
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Book, Soft cover "Peig" Edited by Maire Ni Chinneide. In excellent condition.
Published by Comhlacht Oideachais Na hEireann. No Date 217pp.
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473
Book, soft cover "Mearam!" by Gabriel Rosenstock, In excellent condition. Published
by An Clochomhar Tta, Baile Atha Cliath, First Edition 1981 48pp Illustrated. Gabriel
Rosenstock was born in Kilfinane, Co. Limerick and studied at University College Cork,
where he associated with the Innti group of poets. A former chairman of Poetry Ireland,
he is a member of several international haiku associations, and holds an honorary life
Start bid membership of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Society. Rosenstock worked for
€5
some time on the television series Anois is Aris on RTE, then on the weekly newspaper
Anois. Until his retirement he worked with An Gum, the publications branch of the NorthSouth body which promotes the Irish language, Foras na Gaeilge. Although he has
worked in prose, drama and translation, Rosenstock is primarily known as a poet. He
has written or translated over One (1) hundred books. Rosenstock is a member of
Aosdana, and a former chairman of Poetry Ireland He is assistant editor with An Gum, a
€ 10
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474
Book, Soft cover "Bunreacht Na hEireann (Constitution of Ireland)" In excellent
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condition. Published by Government Publications. 214pp. Text in Irish and English.
€5
Together with Amendment Slip, covering the 1972 amendments
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475
Book, soft cover "Milis An Teanga" by Padraig O Fiannachta. In excellent condition
Published by Mercier Press, Dublin, First Edition 1974 64pp. Illustrated. History of the
Irish Language from the beginning.
Padraig O Fiannachta is a renowned Irish language scholar, poet and priest, born in the
Kerry Gaeltacht in 1927. He studied at Maynooth, University College Cork and All
Hallows, Clonliffe College. He was ordained a priest in 1953. He spent some time in
Start bid
Wales prior to returning to Maynooth College where he became professor of early Irish in
€10
1960 as well as Welsh Language lecturer. He was made professor of Modern Irish at
Maynooth in 1982. He was awarded the Douglas Hyde prize for literature in 1969. He
translated and edited an Irish language version of the Bible - An Biobla Naofa which was
published in 1982.He retired from Maynooth in 1992, returning to Dingle as parish priest.
In 1998 he was awarded the title Monsignor by the Catholic Church. He is involved in
many Dingle events such as the blessing of t
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476
Book, Hard cover "Dochas Agus Duaineis by Aindrias O Muimhneachain. In
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excellent condition but with slight tear to Dust jacket. Published by Mercier Press First
€20
Edition 1974 196pp Illustrated
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Book, Soft cover "Mearam!" by Gabriel Rosenstock. In excellent condition. Published by
An Clochomhar Tta, Baile Atha Cliath, First Edition 1981 48pp Illustrated.
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477
Book, Hard cover "Crainn is Cairde" by Mairtin O Direain , in excellent condition
Published by An Clochomar, Baile Atha Cliath, First Edition 1970 48pp. A collection of 41
Poems all in Irish. Born in the Aran Islands, Mairtin Direain joined the postal service in
Start bid Galway in 1928. He moved to Dublin in 1937 where he worked in the civil service until
€10
1975. He represented Ireland at the Warsaw Autumn Poetry Festival in 1977. He
received Arts Council awards in 1964 and 1971. He also received the Butler Prize with
Eoghan O Tuairisc (1967); and the Ossian Prize for Poetry from the FVS Foundation,
Hamburg (1977).
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478
Booklet "La Fheile Bride" by Sean C O Suilleabhain, in excellent condition. Published
by Clodhanna Teoranta, First Edition 1977 16pp including footnotes. Born in 1903 and
famous for his writings. In 1945, he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy. He also
served as a member of the Cultural Relations Committee (Department of Foreign
Affairs), the Place names Commission and the Radio Eireann Authority and as council
Start bid
member of the Folklore Society. He gave long and distinguished service as a committee
€10
member of An Cumann le Bealoideas Eireann (The Folklore of Ireland Society),
becoming Patron of the Society in 1981. To the last, Sean retained a keen interest in
folklore studies, the Department of Irish Folklore (and its staff) and the vast collections
which he personally had done so much to create, index and order. He passed away
peacefully in his sleep, on 13 December 1996. Rarely comes onto the market.
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479
Book, Hard cover "An Triail / Breithiunas" by Mairead Ni Ghrada. In excellent
condition.Baile Atha Cliath: Oifig an tSolathair, 1978. . 1st edition. Two plays in Irish
Mairead Ni Ghrada (1896-1971) was born in Kilmaley Co. Clare. She joined Cumann na
mBan and was secretary to Ernest Blythe during First Dail she became Radio Eireann’s
chief announcer, 1927-35 she produced Irish language school textbooks and was friend
Start bid of Peig Sayers She wrote plays and novels She wrote An Triail which was performed at
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the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1964 and it was successfully performed also in translation
(1965); It was with her most noted play "An Triail" that she caught the attention of the
public. She highlighted some of the harsh truths about Irish society and exposed the
hypocrisy of the time. The play is thought to have been based on an incident near her
home remembered from her youth: the victimisation of a pregnant young single girl while
the man involved escaped condemnation. While some people were shocked at the
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480
Book. "Banta Dhun Urlann" by Sean O Luing. Soft cover. In excellent condition.
Published by Clodhanna Teo Baile Atha Cliath 6 Sraid Fhearchair, Baile Atha Claith 2,
Signed and Insrcibed First Edition 1975. Sean Brendan O Luing was born 1917- in
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Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry, educated at St. Brendan's, Killarney, and UCD. He spent Three
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(3) years as a school-teacher and then joined Translation Department at Dail Eireann,
1943-82. He also worked as a translator in Brussels and died in 2000. This work is a
collection of poems in Irish.
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€ 30
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481
Seanchas an Tailliura Edited by Aindriasd O Muimhneachain Hardback with Dust
jacket in excellent condition .Published by Clo Mercier First Edition 1978. 169pp with
illustrations and maps. A collection of seanchas (or tales) which Sean O Croinin of the
Irish Folklore Commission collected from Buckley in 1942 , edited by Aindrias O
Muimhneachain as Seanchas an Tailliura/The Tailors Stories (1978); Timothy Buckley
(1863-1945) lived in Garrynapeaka, near Gougane Barra with Anastasia (‘Ansty’); he
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was a masterful teller of fireside tales of matchmaking, marriages, wakes and inquests,
€10
and the history of their black cow, all narrated by the Tailor as he was known
occasionally egged on by earthy rejoinders from his wife, for the delectation of a growing
fireside audience in their remote cottage. These stories caused mixed delight and furore
on their appearance in book form as Eric Cross’s Tailor and Ansty banned in 1943 as
‘being in its general tendency indecent’ under the Censorship Act of 1929. This
collection of
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482
Book, Hard cover "Leas Ar Ar Litriocht" by Padraig O Fiannachta, with dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by An Sagart Maynooth First Edition 1974. 197pp
including index. This book explores the work of some of the Irish Language's most able
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writers in good, attractive Irish. Padraig O Fiannachta, a Maynooth priest at the time, and
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now a Monsignor in Co. Kerry. It is a collection of 18 essays and based on public
lectures which he gave in Irish to folklorist's, medical doctors, teachers, students, and
local groups throughout Ireland. It is highly readable and very interesting.
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483
484
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Book, Hard cover " Seanfhocail Uladh" by Enri O Muirgheasa, white cloth covers
with decorative gilt. In excellent condition. Published by Oifig an tSolathair, 1976. 200pp
Start bid Enri O Muirgheasa (1874-1945) born in Co. Monaghan, a native Irish speaker he was a
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school inspector and Gaelic League worker and he collected and edited Irish poems
and sayings. This work was first published in 1907.Scarce
Book. "Cogarnach Ar gCosta" by Ger O Ciobhain . Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Clo Dhuibhne, Tralee, Signed and Inscribed First
Edition 1979 91pp Illustrated. Signed and dated by author on title page . Ger was born in
1928 to Maurice and Kate (nee Long) of Gorta Dubh, Ballyferriter . After attending
school at Baile an Eanaigh, Ger carved out a life for himself on the family farm also
Start bid fishing upon Smerwick Harbour's Atlantic waves. It was the exploits of Ger in 1975 that
€20
captured the nations interest. On 29th June, he left Ballyferriter in a 13-year-old
Naomhog with the intention of becoming the first man to circumnavigate the Irish coast.
He completed the momentous task in Six weeks and Six days arriving home on 12th
August after rowing 1,200 miles around Ireland. His achievement made national news
and Ger went on to write a book entitled Cogarnach ar gCosta which became part of the
Leaving Cert Syllabus.
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485
Book, Soft cover "Ar Seachran" by Tomas O Cinneide, in very good condition.
Published by Clo Dhuibhne Baile an Fheirtearaigh First Edition 1981 (The Wild Rover) O
Cinneide was a native speaker born in Graigue, at the end of the Dingle peninsula, in
1914. He was in his time a clerical student, an army officer, a teacher of Gaelic, a
Start bid postman, an American emigrant, a factory worker in San Francisco, a library sweeper,
€10
and a seanchai. The book tells the story with humour and without self-pity. Too
independent to suffer fools in authority and too sociable to keep the money he saved, he
got more of life's kicks than ha'pence. In his papally named caravan he contemplates life
- and death - in his birthplace. His mellifluous Irish narrative was tape-recorded and
later transcribed by Patrick Tyers.
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486
Book Hard cover "Listowel and its Vicinity" by J Anthony Gaughan, with Dust jacket.
Book in very good condition dust jacket worn. Published by Mercier Publishing. Signed
Second Edition 1974 Illustrated in both Black and white and Colour with Maps. 640pp
NOTE While all copies of this work are scarce, copies of the second edition are
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especially rare so this Signed copy of the second edition makes it an exceptionally rare
€300
item. The definitive History of Listowel and its surroundings from prehistoric times to the
20th Century. A work of outstanding research. Over 80 pages of Sources and Index. Fr
Gaughan was born in Listowel in 1932 educated locally and at UCD and st Patrick's
College Maynooth. Ordained on 26th May 1957 he worked as teacher and lecturer
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487
Book, Soft cover "The storied Hill of Corrin Facts and Fairytales" by Sean O
Murchu. In excellent condition. Published by : Eigse na Mainistreach Publications,
Fermoy. 53pp. First Edition No date but prob. 1978. Corrin near Fermoy Co Cork, now
crowned with the symbol of Christianity was once a Druidic burial place. Corrin is said to
be the burial place of the Druid, Mogh Ruith. In Irish mythology he was a powerful blind
Start bid Druid of Munster who lived on Valentia Island in Co. Kerry. However, the most famous
€10
story about Corrin probably is the One every child was told by their parents, that of the
king who had only One son whose death by drowning was foretold by a Druid. The king
decided to build a castle for his son on the top of Corrin, far removed from the rivers and
streams of the Blackwater Valley. Work commenced on this place of safety for the king's
son but the young boy, while looking into a barrel of water that had been brought to the
summit by the craftsmen, fell in and drowned, thus fulfilling the pro
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488
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Book, Hard cover "Gairdin an Anama" Editor Padraig O Fiannachta, with Dust jacket.
In excellent condition. Published by An Sagart Maynooth First Edition Signed and
Inscribed by the Editor 1977 145pp. In this book One (1) finds the everyday prayers
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learned at school in Ireland as well as prayers for the Sacraments of Baptism,
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Confirmation, Communion, Confession, Marriage, prayers for Mass, for children and
many others.
91
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489
Book, Hardcover "An Biobla Naofa" Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published by An
Sagart Maynooth. First Edition Thus 1981 edition. Each book of the bible paginated
separately. Arna Aistriu on Mbunteacs Faoi Threoir o Easpaig Na hEireann Maille Le
Reamhra Agus Brollaigh. As new. Monsignor Padraig O Fiannachta's love for the Irish
language and Irish culture and folklore is evident in all that he does and says. He spent
Start bid Six years working as a teacher and priest in Wales before taking up the position of
€20
Professor of Early and Middle Irish and lecturer in Welsh in Maynooth College. He went
on to become Professor of Modern Irish before moving back to his native Dingle in Co.
Kerry. He has written extensively on Irish folklore, edited countless books and also writes
poetry. He also runs a cultural centre in West Kerry and has an encyclopaedic
knowledge of local heritage and folklore! One of Padraig's greatest achievements is An
Biobla Naofa (1981), the Maynooth Irish Bible, of which he was editor and translat
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490
Book Soft cover " The Dream of Oengus Aislinge Oengus" by Francis Shaw An Old
Irish Text critically restored and edited with Notes and Glossary. In very good condition.
Published by Clo Chois Fharraige. Reproduction of 1934 edition. 119pp contents
contained in Shaw's book include: Preface, Abbreviations, Glossary (48 pages), Index of
Persons and Places (3 pages). Written by an unknown author, Aislinge Oenguso is of
interest to those studying Irish folklore, myths and legends. It recounts the story of
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Oenguso, son of Dagda and Boand, and his quest to find the woman whom he has
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dreamt of every night for over a year. Such was his love for the woman, Oenguso
became ill with a sickness that none could diagnose, until they sent for Fergne Lieig,
who determined that Oenguso was wasting away from the absence of love. Messengers
were dispatched all over Ireland to find the woman and eventually it was discovered that
the girl was Caer Ibormeith, the Daughter of Ethal Anbuail, who took the form of both a
woman and a swa
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491
Book, Soft cover " Troscan Na mBanta" by Sean Toibin. In excellent condition.
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Published by Oifig an tSolathair Baile Atha Cliath. 1973 Edition. In the Irish language,
€10
157pp with illustrations
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492
Book. "Art Mac Cumhaigh Danta" by Tomas O Fiaich (Poems by Art Mac Cumhaigh
1738-1773) Soft cover. In excellent condition Published by An Clochomhar Tta. Signed
Inscribed First Edition and thus Scarce. The poems of Mac Cumhaigh splendidly
introduced by Tomas O Fiaich. MacCumhaigh was One (1) of the most celebrated of the
south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the eighteenth century .He was part of the
Airgialla tradition of poetry and song. It is commonly believed that Mac Cumhaigh was
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born in Creggan, County Armagh (The same area as Cardinal O Fiaich) where a branch
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of the Ui Neill had been the traditional patrons of the poets under the old order. This
book is the most comprehensive research into Mac Cumhaigh's life and works and it
could only suggest a birthplace on or near the Louth/Armagh border in or near the parish
of Creggan. Mac Cumhaigh eked out a living as a spailpin, or travelling labourer. Sean O
Tuama and Thomas Kinsella remark about Mac Cumhaigh's most famous poem, Ur-Chill
An Chreagain, tha
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493
Book, Hard cover "Oidhche Shamhraidh agus Scealta Eile" by Maire (Summer Nights
and other stories) Hardback in excellent condition .Published by Oifig an tSolathair First
Edition 1968 in old Gaelic Script. Maire was the pen name of Seamus O Grianna
(1889-1969) born in Ranafest in the Co. Donegal Gaeltacht, brother of MacGrianna, he
worked as a farm hand in Lagan Valley and Scotland and afterwards trained as a
Start bid teacher at St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra Dublin. He worked as a schoolteacher in
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Tyrone, Dublin, and Donegal. He was an organiser for Dail Ministry of Education 1919;
interned for 18 months as a Republican 1922-23; employed as civil servant in Customs
and Excise 1932 and worked as translator of "An Gum". He was very active in
controversies over the Irish orthography and refused to allow "Caisleain Oir" (1924), a
novel, to be standardised in the 1960s. He was a prolific writer from 1921 to 1968. A
Rare chance to obtain this work
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494
Book, Hard cover "Dochartach Duibhlionna agus Scealta Eile Cuid a hAon" by
Saothar Sheosaomh Mhic Grianna Hardback with Dust jacket. In excellent condition,
published by Coiste Foilsitheoireachta Chomhaltas Uladh, First edition 1976 Seosamh
MacGrianna, brother of Seamus O Grianna, was born in Ranafast, County Donegal. He
was educated at St. Eunan's College, Letterkenny, St. Columb's College, Derry and St.
Patrick's Teacher Training College, Dublin. MacGrianna choose the Mac as opposed to
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the Ó version of his name to distinguish between himself and his brother Seamus as
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they were both school-teachers and writers. During the War of Independence
MacGrianna joined the IRA and in 1921 he was imprisoned in Letterkenny, Buncrana
and in the Newbridge Army Barracks for several months. MacGrianna partook in the Civil
War on the republican side and was imprisoned by the Free State in Newbridge Gaol
and in the Curragh Internment Camp for Two years from 1922. Seosamh Mac Grianna is
also heralded as producing important ur
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495
Book soft cover "Cnuasacht de Cheoltai Uladh" by Sean O Baoighill. In excellent
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condition. Published by Comhaltas Uladh First Edition 1944. 55pp. Includes words and
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music score for some 25 Traditional Ulster Folk Songs. Written in seanchlo style
€ 20
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496
Book, Softcover, "Dha Leagan Ghaeilge" Den Rubaiyat by Tadhg O Donnchadha. In
excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica Galway 1980. Tadhg O´
Donnchadha was an Irish writer, poet, editor, translator and a prominent member of
Conradh na Gaeilge and the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was born in Carrignavar,
Start Bid County Cork, which was an Irish-speaking area, and educated there and at St Patrick's
€10
Teacher Training College, Drumcondra, Dublin. In 1901 he became editor of the Irishlanguage newspaper Banba, and also became Irish-language editor of the Freeman's
Journal. In 1905 he published his first book of poems, Leoithne Andeas. In 1916 he
became Professor of Irish at University College, Cork, where he remained until his
death.
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497
Booklet, "La Fheile Bride" by Sean C O Suilleabhain, in excellent condition. Published
by An Chead Chlo First Edition 1977 16pp including footnotes. Born in 1903 and famous
for his writings.In 1945, he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy. He also served as a
member of the Cultural Relations Committee (Department of Foreign Affairs), the Place
names Commission and the Radio Eireann Authority and as a council member of the
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Folklore Society. He gave long and distinguished service as a committee member of An
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Cumann le Bealoideas Eireann (The Folklore of Ireland Society), becoming Patron of the
Society in 1981. To the last, Sean retained a keen interest in folklore studies, the
Department of Irish Folklore (and its staff) and the vast collections which he personally
had done so much to create, index and order. He passed away peacefully in his sleep,
on 13 December 1996
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€ 40
498
Book, Hard cover "Saol Fo Thinn" by Sean O Tuama, in excellent condition. Published
by An Clochomhar Tta. First Edition 1978 40pp. Sean O Tuama( 1926-2006) was born in
Start bid Cork, raised bilingually and entered UCC in 1942. He was appointed Professor of Irish
€30
at UCC, 1967. He wrote plays poetry and many articles in both English and Irish. This
work is a collection of his poetry in Irish.. Poems private and public from an able critic
and One of the most influential figures in the cultural life of his generation.
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499
Book Hardcover "Mearam!" by Gabriel Rosenstock with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by An Clochomhar Tta, Baile Atha Cliath, Signed and Inscribed First
Edition 1981 48pp Illustrated. Gabriel Rosenstock was born in Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
and studied at University College Cork, where he associated with the Innti group of
poets. A former chairman of Poetry Ireland, he is a member of several international haiku
associations, and holds an honorary life membership of the Irish Translators' and
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Interpreters' Society. Rosenstock worked for some time on the television series Anois is
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Aris on RTE, then on the weekly newspaper Anois. Until his retirement he worked with
An Gum, the publications branch of the North-South body which promotes the Irish
language, Foras na Gaeilge. Although he has worked in prose, drama and translation,
Rosenstock is primarily known as a poet. He has written or translated over One hundred
books. Rosenstock is a member of Aosdana, and a former chairman of Poetry Ireland
He i
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500
Book, Hard cover "An Ruraiocht" by Cormac O Cadhlaigh, in excellent condition
Published by Stationery Office, Dublin, First Edition 1956 510pp. Literary legends
associated with the Ultonian - romances & romances of the Ulster cycle. Rare book,
written entirely in Gaelic script. The Ulster Cycle is a group of legendary stories from
early Irish literature, set in and around the reign of Conchobar Mac Nessa in Ulster. Who
Start bid ruled the Ulaid from Emain Macha. The most prominent hero of the cycle is Conchobar's
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nephew, Cu Chulainn. The Ulaid are most often in conflict with the Connachta, led by
Queen Medb, her husband, Ailill, and their ally Fergus mac Roich, a former king of the
Ulaid in exile. The longest and most important story of the cycle is the Tain Bo Cuailnge
or "Cattle Raid of Cooley", in which Medb raises an enormous army to invade the Cooley
peninsula and steal the Ulaid's prize bull, Donn Cuailnge, opposed only by the
seventeen-year-old Cu Chulainn. His warriors include his nephews, Cu Chulainn and
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Book. "An Lanuin" by Padraic Breathnach.Hardback with dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Foilseachain Naisiunta Teo. Born in 1942 in Moycullen Co .
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Galway he was educated at UCG, after which he worked as a teacher before becoming
€10
lecturer at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He has published many collections of
Short Stories and Two (2) novels.
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502
Book, Hard cover "Bean Ruadh de Dhalach" by Maire, in excellent condition.
Published by Oifig an tSolathair First Edition 1966 in old Gaelic Script. Maire was the
pen name of Seamus O Grianna (1889-1969) born in Ranafest in the Co. Donegal
Gaeltacht, brother of MacGrianna, he worked as farm hand in Lagan Valley and
Start Bid Scotland and afterwards trained as teacher at St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra Dublin
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.He became schoolteacher in Tyrone, Dublin, and Donegal. A Rare chance to obtain this
work. In this novel The Red headed woman of the title travels quite extensively to
carry out work, to the Lagan district of central and east Ulster and to Scotland as a "tatty
hoker", a common occupation for young west of Ireland seasonal migrants up to the
1950s.
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503
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Book, Soft cover "Dha Leagan Ghaeilge Den Rubaiyat" by Tadhg O Donnchadha,
with Wraps. In excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica Galway 1980.
Tadhg O Donnchadha was an Irish writer, poet, editor, translator and a prominent
member of Conradh na Gaeilge and the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was born in
Carrignavar, County Cork, which was an Irish-speaking area, and educated there and at
Start bid St Patrick's Teacher Training College, Drumcondra, Dublin. In 1901 he became editor of
€5
the Irish-language newspaper Banba, and also became Irish-language editor of the
Freeman's Journal With Maire Ni Chinneide, Sean O Ceallaigh, and Seamus O
Braonain he drew up the first rules for the new game of camogie in 1903. He also
invented the name of the game, which comes from the stick used, called a caman. In
1905 he published his first book of poems, Leoithne Andeas.
504
start bid Book, hard cover 'Creamarai' by Micheal O Sulleabhain.First edition with dust jacket
€10
published by Foilseachain Naisiunta Teoranta 1984
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505
start bid Book, hard cover 'An Duinnineach' by Proinsias O Conluain and Donncha O
€10
Ceileachair second edition 1976
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507
start bid Book, hard cover 'Padraic O Conaire Deorai' by Paidraigin Riggs signed by author
€30
limited edition number 56 of only 200 copies
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€ 70
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508
Book. "Cnoc an Fhomhair" by Fr Michael O Ciosain Hardcover with dust Jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by An Sagart First Edition 1988 . 270pp. Knockanore is
the highest hill in the North Kerry area and the 990th highest in Ireland. Knockanore is
the most northerly summit in the North Kerry area and also the most easterly. An tAthair
Start bid Micheal O Ciosain served as priest for forty years in Ballyferriter, but he came from Cnoc
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an Fhomhair, a district in North Kerry stretching southwards from the River Shannon.
Cnoc an Fhomhair is a comprehensive and scholarly account of the history and tradition
of this district from earliest times to the beginning of the twentieth century. It is fully
illustrated.
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Book. "La Agus Oidhche" by Micheal MacLiammhoir Hard cover with Dust jacket. In
Excellent condition. Published by Mhuinntir C. S. O Fallamhain First Edition 1929 .
Start bid
109pp. A collection of short stories by the world famous actor and founder of the Gate
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Theatre born in Kensal Green, London in 1899.
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510
Book, Hard cover "An Bhinn Bhreac" by Breandan O hUallachain with Dust jacket, In
Start bid
excellent condition Published by Government Publications Office, First Edition 1966. 10
€20
short stories in Irish. 74 pp.
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511
Book. Soft cover " O Pheann an Phiarsaigh" by Padraig Mac Piarais. Edited by
Micheal O Siochfhradha
Paperback. In excellent condition Published by Comhlacht Oideachais Na hÉireann.
First Edition No Date. 111pp. i. teacsa toghaidhe as an saothar liteardha do rinne
Padraig Mac Piarais. The Collected Works of Patrick Pearse. Nine Essays and Seven
Start bid short stories. Patrick Pearse was born in 1879 at . 27 Gt. Brunswick St., Dublin [now
€10
Pearse St.]; son of James Pearse, an English mason and monumental sculptor from
Birmingham, originally a Unitarian (converting to Catholicism on his second marriage),
who came to Ireland to work on the Pugin Church on Thomas St. and also sculpted the
‘Erin Go Bragh’ pediment of the National Bank, College Green; his mother, Pearse’s
second wife, was a native of Co. Meath. This edition was prepared for schools but is now
Scarce
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512
Book, Hard cover "Seal Thall, Seal Abhus" by Breandan O hUallachain with
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illustrated cover . In excellent condition . Published by Oifig an tSolathair Baile Atha
€10
Cliath First Edition 1973 96pp. Very Rare
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513
Book, Softcover, "Dha Leagan Ghaeilge" Den Rubaiyat by Tadhg O Donnchadha. In
excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica Galway 1980. Tadhg O´
Donnchadha was an Irish writer, poet, editor, translator and a prominent member of
Conradh na Gaeilge and the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was born in Carrignavar,
County Cork, which was an Irish-speaking area, and educated there and at St Patrick's
Start Bid
Teacher Training College, Drumcondra, Dublin. In 1901 he became editor of the Irish€10
language newspaper Banba, and also became Irish-language editor of the Freeman's
Journal. In 1905 he published his first book of poems, Leoithne Andeas. In 1916 he
became Professor of Irish at University College, Cork, where he remained until his
death.
514
Book, hardcover '1882-1982 Beathaisneis a Ceathair' 1994 number 90 of a limited
start bid
edition of only 200 copies by Diarmuid Breathnach and Maire Ni Mhurchu signed by both
€30
authors
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515
Book, Softcover, "Dha Leagan Ghaeilge Den Rubaiyat" by Tadhg O Donnchadha. In
excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica Galway 1980. Tadhg O´
Donnchadha was an Irish writer, poet, editor, translator and a prominent member of
Conradh na Gaeilge and the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was born in Carrignavar,
Start Bid County Cork, which was an Irish-speaking area, and educated there and at St Patrick's
€10
Teacher Training College, Drumcondra, Dublin. In 1901 he became editor of the Irishlanguage newspaper Banba, and also became Irish-language editor of the Freeman's
Journal. In 1905 he published his first book of poems, Leoithne Andeas. In 1916 he
became Professor of Irish at University College, Cork, where he remained until his
death.
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516
Book Softcover. "Seanchas Sliabh gCua" by Pádraig Ó Milléadha. Paperback. In
excellent condition (pages uncut). Published by Bealoideas, Ireland, Undated 90pp,
reprinted from Bealoideas, vol. VI. No. II. Sliabh gCua is a traditional district of west
Start Bid County Waterford, Ireland, between Clonmel and Dungarvan. In ancient writings its
€10
location was less precisely understood, often encompassing the mountain ranges of the
Knockmealdowns, Monavullagh Mountain and Comeraghs. It was an Irish-speaking area
until the late 19th century. Many people associated with the Irish sean-nós singing
tradition, such as Pádraig Ó Mílléadha came from the area.
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517
Book. "Duanaire Gaedhilge" Volume 1 by Róis Ní Ógáin Hardback. In very good
condition .Published by Comhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann. Dublin. No date but Gaelic
script suggests pre 1945. 170pp 78 poems in Irish with notes at back in English The
Start Bid author of this collection of Gaelic poetry 1600-1800 is a fascinating person. Born Rose
€
Maud Young in Ahoghill Co Antrim in 1865 she was a protestant and life long Unionist,
she yet was at the forefront of the Gaelic revival. She took a major role in organizing the
first Feis na nGleann in the Glens of Antrim on June 30th 1904. She died in 1947. She
issued 3 volumes between 1921-1930.
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518
start bid Book, hard cover '1782-1881 Beathaisneis' 1994 by Maire Ni Mhurchu and Diarmuid
€30
Breathnach signed by Diarmuid breathnach & dated 2000
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519
Book Hardcover. "Allagar na hInise" by Tomás Ó Criomhthain. In excellent condition.
Published by Oifig An tSoláthair, Dublin. First Published in 1928 This edition published
by the Irish Government and so First Edition Thus. 1977. 355pp with photographic
illustrations. Covers the period 5th December 1918 to 1st January 1923. Editor is
Padraig Ua Maoileoin. It has been claimed that Ó Criomhtháin would never have
Start Bid become a writer had Brian Kelly, the son of a Killarney businessman, not come on a visit
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to the island in 1917. After some time there, it seems that Kelly tried to persuade Ó
Criomhtháin to write little pieces in Irish about life on the island. Brian Kelly had to leave
the island soon after, but he suggested that O Criomhtháin should write little pieces
daily, or frequently at least, and post them to himself. This was done from 1918 to 1924
in diary form. Kelly had the wisdom then to send the carefully kept pieces to An
Seabhac, the great Gaelic scholar and writer. It is now known as 'Allagar na hInse
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520
start bid Book, hardcover 'Merriman agus File Eile' by Art O Beolain signed by author & dated
€30
1985 number 10 of a limited edition of only 200 copies
€ 50
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€ 70
521
start bid Book, hardcover 'Leachtai Ui Chadhain' by Eoghan O Hanluain signed by author &
€30
dated 1989 limited edition number 38 of only 200 copies
€ 50
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522
Book, Hard cover "Caint An Chlair by An tAthair Seoirse Mac Cluin Volume I
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Published by Oifig an tSolathair, Dublin, 1973 Edition in Gaelic script. An opportunity to
€20
obtain a scarce book
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523
Book, Softcover, Dha Leagan Ghaeilge Den Rubaiyat by Tadhg O Donnchadha. In
excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica Galway 1980. Tadhg O´
Donnchadha was an Irish writer, poet, editor, translator and a prominent member of
Conradh na Gaeilge and the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was born in Carrignavar,
Start Bid County Cork, which was an Irish-speaking area, and educated there and at St Patrick's
€10
Teacher Training College, Drumcondra, Dublin. In 1901 he became editor of the Irishlanguage newspaper Banba, and also became Irish-language editor of the Freeman's
Journal. In 1905 he published his first book of poems, Leoithne Andeas. In 1916 he
became Professor of Irish at University College, Cork, where he remained until his
death.
€ 20
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€ 30
524
Book - Hardcover. "Donn Bó agus Danta Eile" by Padraig Ó Fiannachta, in excellent
condition published by An Sagart Maynooth. First Edition 56pp. A collection of poetry
mostly in Irish with some in English. Father Pádraig Ó Fiannachta was born at Ballymore
Start Bid
Dingle in 1927 and ordained at Maynooth in 1953. A noted poet and translator as well
€5
as a travel writer, in this work .He says he believes more in the afterlife than in this life.
Therefore it is not surprising that the spiritual dimension in his work quite strong. But this
does not preclude his work form being concerned with the land and rural life.
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525
start bid Book, hardcover 'An Duine is Dual' by Eoghan O Hanluain signed by author and
€30
dated 1980 number 28 of a limited edition of only 200 copies
€ 50
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€ 70
526
Book. "Fiche Blian Ag Fas" by Muiris O Suilleabhain Hardcover with Dust cover. In
excellent condition. Published by An Sagart. Signed by an Athair Padraig O Fiannachta.
1976 Edition. 238pp. Effectively the 2nd edition of the classic which was originally issued
in Irish & English in 1933. Twenty years coming, Twenty years good, Twenty years
declining, Twenty years useless. This classic of Irish literature takes its title form this
Start bid alternative proverb, Fiche bliain ag fas. It is a memoir written in 1933 by Muiris O
€40
Suilleabhain. He was born on Great Blasket Island in 1902. O Suilleabhain tells a
touching story of life in the islands. It was translated into English as Twenty Years AGrowing the same year it was published in Irish. It was later published into many other
languages and has been acclaimed by international critics as a jewel of Irish culture. O
Suilleabhain died in Connemara in 1950. A chance to read this gem in its original
language. an Athair Padraig O Fiannachta is referred to in the Preface to th
€ 80
- € 120
527
Book Hardcover. "Margadh Na Saoire" by Máire Mhac An tSaoi Hardback. In excellent
condition. Published by Sairseal agus Dill . Second Edition 1971. Máire Mhac an tSaoi
was born in Dublin in 1922. Her main collections are: Margadh na Saoire (1956);
Start Bid Codladh an Ghaiscigh (1973); An Galar Dubhach (1980), and An Cion go dtí Seo (1987).
€10
Her autobiography is entitled "The same age as the state". She has also published A
Heart Full of Thought, a selection of translations from Classical Gaelic poetry. She won
the O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award of the Irish American Cultural Institute, 1988, and was
awarded a D. Lit. Celt. honoris causa by the National University of Ireland in 1992.
€ 20
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€ 30
528
start bid Book, soft cover 'Gach uige Mar a Habhar' by Micheal O Hallmhurain and Maurice
€30
Galway first edition 1994 signed by both authors
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€ 70
529
start bid Book, hardcover 'Nua - Leamha' number 51 of a limited edition 1996 of 200 copies
€30
signed by author Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha
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€ 70
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Book, hardcover '1882-1982 Beathaisneis a Do' 1994 number 48 of a limited edition of
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only 200 copies by Diarmuid Breathnach and Maire Ni Mhurchu, signed by Diarmuid
€30
breathnach
Book, Hard cover "Sinead" by Caitlin ui Thallamhain, with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Foilseachain Naisiunta Teoranta, First Edition 1979. 147pp
Sceal Shinead Bean De Valera. A Biography in Irish of Sinead de Valera. . Sinead Ni
Fhlannagain, born in Balbriggan, was a young teacher when she met Eamon de Valera
Start bid in Dublin. They married in 1910, and she raised a family of Five (5) sons and Two (2)
€5
daughters while her husband spent much time in prison, on the run and as a Republican
envoy in the United States. Although she did not have an easy life as a young married
woman, she never complained. Later she became a beautiful and dignified Taoiseach's
wife and Presidential consort.
Book - Hardcover with dust jacket. "Leabhar Sheáin Í Chonaill" Collected by Séamus
Ó Duilearga. In excellent condition (Some marks to Front cover). Published by
Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann An Colaiste Ollscoile Dublin. 1977 Edition . 492pp. With
summaries in English of each story. The material was collected between 1925 and 1931.
When Seán Ó Conaill (1853-1931), Cill Rialaigh, parish of Prior Co. Kerry. When Seán Ó
Start Bid Conaill, , Co. Kerry, was in his seventies, Séamus Ó Duilearga collected his repertoire,
€20
consisting of over 150 folktales and legends, as well as songs, poems, prayers, and
other traditional items, and he also recorded an account of his life. This material
appeared in Leabhar Sheáin Í Chonaill (1948). The book is "an attempt to show the
richness of story and tradition stored in the memory of One (1) man". This book includes
over 150 folktales and legends, as well as songs, poems, prayers and other items.
Book hardcover . "Scéalaíocht na Ríthe" by Tomas Ó Floinn and Proinsias Mac
Cana illustrated by Micheál MacLiammóir Hardback. In excellent condition. Published by
Start Bid Sáirséal agus Dill. First Edition 1956 220 pages with colour plates. These stories are not
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well-known, it isn’t any wonder that they aren’t as the general public hasn’t had access to
them in hundreds of years. The book is wonderfully illustrated by Micheál Mac Liammóir.
A beautiful Book.
Book. "Deoraíocht" by Pádraic Ó Conaire. Hard cover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Cló Talbot Áth Cliath. 1973 Edition 131pp. With an Introduction
Start bid by Micheal Mac Liammóir. (Exile) (1910), a novel by Pádraic Ó Conaire, it tells the story
€5
of Micheál Ó Maoláin, an Irish exile in London. Badly mutilated as a result of an accident,
he spends his compensation foolishly.
Book, Soft cover "Flos Fomhair 1978" Edited by Eoghan O Tuairisc. In excellent
condition. Published by An tOireachtas 1978 Edition. 85pp. Collection of eight essays in
Irish. Eoghan O Tuairisc 1919-1982 [Eugene Rutherford Louis Watters] was born in
Ballinasloe Co. Galway joined the army in 1939 and entered St. Patrick’s TT College,
Start bid Drumcondra, in 1939; worked as Dublin teacher at Finglas, 1940-69; completed an MA
€10
at UCD, 1947. He was a poet, critic, editor novelist in English and Irish. And wrote verse
in Irish and English. A lament by Desmond Egan appeared in Elegies (1996). He was an
inaugural member of Aosdana. He died at Caim, Co. Wexford,
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Book. soft cover "An Lomnochtán" by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc,In excellent condition
( removed sticker stain on cover) Published by Mercier Press. First Edition 1977. 95pp.
He was a native of Ballinasloe, County Galway and was educated at Garbally College.
His entered St. Patrick’s Teacher Training College, Drumcondra in 1939, graduating with
Start bid a Diploma in Education in 1945. He was awarded an M.A., by University College Dublin
€5
in 1947.
O Tuairisc held a commission in the Irish Army during the Emergency from 1939 to
1945. He was a teacher in Finglas, Co. Dublin from 1940 to 1969. From 1962 to 1965,
he was editor of Feasta, the journal of Conradh na Gaeilge. He died in 1982.=
Book. Soft cover "Leathanaigh Ó Mo Dhialann" by Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta.In
excellent condition. (Rubbing to Cover). Published by Clódhanna Teoranta First Edition
1978. 111pp. Illustrated. Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght; Éamonn Mac Giolla
Iasachta ( 1887-1986 ). MacLysaght was born near Bristol. Son of Sidney Royse
Lysaght, Keeper of Genealogical Office, and independently wealthy novelist. He was
raised in Raheen, Co. Clare and educated at. Nash House, Bristol, and Rugby College,
Start bid
then briefly at Corpus Christi, Oxford, leaving without a degree after a rugby injury .He
€10
recuperated in Co. Clare, living in a caravan and there discovered is Irish roots; In 191718 he supported the West Clare Brigade in the War of Independence, assisting with
logistics. He was imprisoned on return from Britain following a trip to publicise the Black
and Tan atrocities. He was elected to the Irish Senate, 1922-25;. He is world famous
as Ireland’s leading Genealologist. These notes or short essays cover the period 10th
Ju
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Lot of 3 soft cover Irish Language Books:
538
3 soft
cover
Irish
Languag
e Books
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"Cnoc na Si by Mairead ni Chinneide Paperback. In very good condition (Slight
damage to front cover. Published by Clodhanna Teoranta. First Edition 1976 44pp. With
Illustrations. By the author of books on Irish for parents and An Damer theatre.
"Duanta Aneas" by Padraig O Mileadha Paperback. In excellent condition. Published
by Clo Chois Fharraige. First Edition 1977. 91pp. Edited by Gearoid Denvir. This is a
collection of poetry by a renowned Waterford poet. Padraig O Mileadha will be a name
familiar to many people interested in the singing tradition of the Deise area of Waterford.
"Ceithre Dhrama do Leanai" by Sean O Briain and Padraig O Siochru Paperback. In
very good condition ( some marking to cover ) Published by Oifig an tSolathairt. First
Edition 1979. 106pp. Four Plays for Children in Irish.
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539
540
541
542
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Book. "Aeriris" Editor Proinsias Mac Aonghusa Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by An Clóchomhar. Signed and Dated First Edition 1976.
191pp with photographs. Reprints of Compositions which were prepared for the Radio
Eireann radio programmes "Aeriris" which were broadcast in the 1960’s. Proinsias Mac
Aonghusa was born in Salthill in Galway in 1933, and grew up in Rosmuck. He was
Start bid
educated at St Ignatius College, Galway, before going on to the Abbey School of Acting
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in Dublin. His career in broadcasting began in in 1952 when he started working for Radio
Éireann. By the '60s, he was working in television for RTÉ, UTV and the BBC. He
finished his RTÉ career as Editor of the long-running current affairs programme, Féach.
He died in 2003.
Book, Hard cover "Dromin Athlacca" by Mainchin Seoighe, with Dust jacket In
excellent condition. Published by Glor na nGael. First Edition 1978 214pp including index
and illustrated. (Scarce) Mainchin Seoighe is a native of Tankardstown, Bruree, Co.
Limerick. He is recognized as being Limerick's leading historian and has several books
Start bid
to his credit. Some of his early published works appear under his English name Mannix
€10
Joyce. Mainchin Seoighe has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of
Limerick in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the study of Limerick history and
literature. This is the story of a remarkable rural parish to the north west of Kilmallock.
Start Bid Book, Hardcover - "Kitty O'Shea - An Irish Affair" with dust jacket by Jane Jordan.
€15
First Edition, published by Sutton Publishing 2005
Book. "Donall O Conaill" by An tAthair Antaine O Duibhir. Hardcover. In excellent
condition. Published by Oifig An tSolathair. 1967 Reprint of 1949 Edition. 246pp Scarce.
A hard to find biography of Daniel O’Connell in Irish. Father O Duibhir’s biography closes
thus :In proof of this One (1) finds numerous monuments in his honour throughout the
country. The beautiful statue of the Liberator by John Henry Foley (1818 - 1874) adorns
Start bid the main street of the Capital. And it is fitting that that street should be named after him
€30
as a token of honour and respect and to show to the world at large the gratitude of the
people of Ireland. The noblest and most appropriate monument of them all, however, is
the tall round tower above his crypt in Glasnevin. It is a fitting symbol, for every Irish
generation, of the place in the history of the nation of Daniel O’Connell and his
eloquence. Fr Ó Duibhir was born in 1903 and died in 1947.
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€ 80
- € 120
543
Book, Hardcover, "Carlow in 98, The Autobiography of William Farrell of Carlow", Start Bid
1st edition, edited by Roger J. McHugh. Published by Browne and Nolan Limited, The
€30
Richview Press, Dublin. March 1949
€ 40
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544
Book. "Gnéithe Den Chaointeoireacht" Editor Breandán Ó Madagáin Soft cover In
excellent condition (mark on front cover). Published by Published by An Clóchomhar.
First Edition 1978. Scarce. 81pp with music scores. Léachtaí a tugadh ag Scoil
Gheimhridh Chumann Merriman i mBaile Uí Bheacháin, Co. an Chláir, Eanáir, 1978.
Start bid Includes bibliographical references. Breandán Ó Madagáin has long been a noted
€10
scholar in the field of the Irish language and the song and poetic traditions associated
with it. He was Professor of Irish in NUI, Galway and used often sing the poems to his
students during lectures, illustrating the integral function of music in Irish poetry. In this
book he brings together the many strands of his knowledge to uncover the fascinating
historical musical traditions of Ireland.
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Book. "Blath agus Taibhse" by Micheál Mac Liammóir. Hardcover in decorative
green/gilt cloth boards, in publisher's clear plastic dust jacket. In excellent condition.
Published by Sáirséal agus Dill Dublin. Second Edition 1967 99pp. Mac Liammoir was a
Start bid
stout supporter and admirer of the Irish language . 'He kept his private diary in Irish. He
€10
was fluent in a number of European languages also. A collection of work described by
the author as "Prose Poems"
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€ 15
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548
Book. "Buicéad Poitín & Scéalta Eile" by Pádraic Breathnach. Soft cove, In excellent
condition. Published by Clódhanna Teoranta. First Edition 1978. 157pp. Breathnach,
Start bid
Pádraic (1942- ), writer of fiction. Born in Moycullen, Co. Galway, he was educated at
€5
UCG, after which he worked as a teacher before becoming lecturer at Mary Immaculate
College, Limerick.
€ 10
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549
Book. "Iarbhlascaodach ina Dheoraí" by Seán Sheáin Í Chearnaigh Hardcover. In
excellent condition. Published by Sairséal Agus Dill. First Edition 1978. 149pp with
Start bid
maps. Seán Sheáin Í Chearnaigh was born in 1912 and died in 1997. A superb narrative
€40
from a Blasket Island native talking in the book on the theme of Exile. This is a scarce
work.
€ 80
- € 150
550
Book, Hard cover "Fifty Years Young" A Tribute to John B Keane Edited by John M
Feehan, with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Mercier Press. Limited
first edition (Limited to 500 copies and Signed by John B Keane.) Unique Item. John B
was born on the. 21 July 1928 at 45 Church Street, Listowel, Co. Kerry, son of William B.
Keane, a school-teacher, and Hannah [nee Purtill] Keane. He was educated at St.
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Michael's College then became apprenticed to a pharmaceutical chemist in 1946 and
€ 150
€80
then emigrated to Northampton 1952. There he began writing and returned to Listowel.
This work is a collection of 11 essays on all aspects of John B Keane's work.
Contributors include Brian Cleeve, Des McHale, Christy Brown and Ray McAnally.
Unsigned copies of this work rarely appear for sale, with its inscription and signature
from the Late John B this is a very special item.
- € 200
546
547
Book. "Ainmneacha Plandaí agus Ainmhithe - Flora and Fauna Nomenclature"
Tomas O’Conaire . Soft cover In very good condition. Some marking to cover.
Start bid Published by Oifig an tSolathair, Dublin First Edition 1978 162pp. Illustrated. Gives Irish
€10
and English translations for common and uncommon flora and fauna with Latin names.
Indexed in both languages. A most unusual yet useful work.
Book. "Cín Lae Amhlaoibh" by Tomás de Bhaldraithe . Soft cover In excellent
condition. Published by Clochomhar, Baile Atha Cliath (Dublin), Third edition 1976. The
Diary of Humphrey O'Sullivan 1827-1835 Written by Amhlaoibh O Suilleabhain,
Start bid (Humphrey O'Sullivan),(1780-1837) while living in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. between the
€5
years 1827 to 1835. It is invaluable for the insight it gives into life in rural Ireland in the
early 19th century, and is a rare example of an early modern diary written in the Irish
language.
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Book." An Bealoideas agus an Litriocht" by Bo Almqvist Booklet. In excellent
condition. Published by Clo Dhuibhne. First Edition 1977. 27pp. (Folklore and Literature).
Born in 1931 Bo Almqvist is Emeritus Professor and a former Head of the Department of
Irish Folklore, University College Dublin. He specialises in Scandinavian and Irish folk
start bid
literature and folk beliefs and has published widely on these topics. He has also carried
€10
out much collecting from Blasket Islanders, in particular Peig Sayers' son, Micheal O
Gaoithin, and other storytellers in Dun Chaoin, e.g. Bab Feiritear, and he is a co-editor of
the publication of their stories, O Bheal an Bhab. (Scarce)
Book. "An tOileán A Treigeadh by Sean Sheain I Chearnaigh. Hardcover. In excellent
condition. Published by Sairséal Agus Dill. " Gentle reminiscences of a Blasket Islander
Start bid that conjure up another era.". . Seán Sheáin Í Chearnaigh was born in 12912 and died in
€5
1997. A superb narrative from a Blasket Island native .
€ 20
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553
Start Bid Book Hardcover - "Out of the Lions Paw, Ireland Wins Her Freedom". by
€35
Constantine FitzGibbon. First published by Macdonald and Co. 1969
€ 50
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554
Start Bid Book, Softcover - "Dublin's Fighting Story 1916-1921, Told by the men who made it,
€75
with unique pictorial record of the period". Published by the Kerryman Ltd.
€ 90
- € 100
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555
Book. "Dulra agus Duchas Our Heritage" by Micheal Mac Ginnea and Mairead Ni
Nuadhain . Hardcover with Dust jacket . In excellent condition . Published by An Roinn
Oideachais. First Edition 1979. 154pp. With many illustrations. Published to
Start bid commemorate the centenary of the birth of Padraig Pearse. The first book to "attempt a
€5
detailed account of Irish habitats". It introduces the reader to the natural environment
and to some of the folklore which is associated with various plants , animals, landscapes
and buildings. The book is bi-lingual ( Irish and English) A nice book.
556
Start bid Book, Hard cover " Sean og O Caomhanaigh" by Sean O Luing, Booklet published
€10
1979 with later hard cover binding, signed on first page by the author and dated 1979.
€ 20
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557
Book. "Tus agus Fas Oglach na hEireann" Hardcover. In very good condition (some
very minor spotting in early pages). Published by Oifig Diolta Foillseachain Rialtais,
Dublin, First Edition 1936 347 pp.Scarce. A translation by Liam O Rinn of account by
Maurice Moore of the Irish Volunteers between 1913 and 1917. Moore was born at
Ticnock, Cobh, County Cork in 1897. His family had strong republican connections and
he joined Irish Volunteers in Cobh in 1916. As a member of the Cobh Company of the
Start bid
IRA Moore took part in the capture of Carrigtwohill Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)
€20
barracks. He was later involved in the capture of Cloyne RIC barracks and numerous
other actions of the local IRA against British crown forces. In February 1921 Moore was
One of a flying column of over 20 IRA men billeted in an old farmhouse at Clonmult, near
Midleton under Commandant Diarmuid Hurley. They were tracked down and surrounded
by a company of the Hampshire Regiment of the British Army and RIC, Black and Tans
and Auxiliaries.
€ 40
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Book. "Caislean an Smachta" by Padraic Colum translated into Irish by Niall O
Domhnaill Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. (Dust jacket a little rubbed)
Published by Oifig an tSolathair. First Edition 1939. 435pp. A translation into Irish of
Start bid Padraic Colum’s novel Castle Conquer printed in seanchlo print. Padraic Colum (8
€5
December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer,
playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was One (1) of the leading
figures of the Celtic Revival. Castle Conquer written in 1923 was his first novel.
€ 10
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559
Book. Soft cover "The Deserted Village" by Oliver Goldsmith. In excellent condition.
Published by Goldsmith Press. Goldsmith Bi-Centenary Edition 1974. 36pp .Illustrated.
Start bid With an note on the author and a summary of his life. This bi-centenary edition sold out
€10
on publication. This edition features the complete text of The Deserted Village, a short
life of Goldsmith and an introduction to the poem by poet Desmond Egan; a number of
photographs., and the little known portrait by his contemporary, Bunbury." Scarce.
€ 20
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€ 30
560
Start Bid Book, Hardcover, "Guerilla Days in Ireland" by Commandant General Tom Barry. €45
1st edition (distressed) Published by Irish Press Limited, Dublin. 1949.
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- € 120
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562
563
564
565
Book. "Ciarraighe" No author Hardcover In very good condition (Some staining to
covers and fading to spine) Published by Stationery Office, Dublin, 1941.359pp.
Illustrated. Part of the Stair na gConndae (County History) series. Scarce. Written in Irish
Start bid
in the seanchlo style. This series commenced in 1938 with a history of Roscommon,
€20
then followed Clare, Monaghan, Carlow, Kerry, Sligo and Cork in 1946. The book covers
the history of Kerry from pre-Christian days to 1691.
Book. "Aill an Ghabhair" by Seosamh O Torna Hardcover. In very good condition
(some spotting to early pages) published by Oifig an tSolathair. First Edition 1940.
Start bid
221pp.A collection of short stories written in seanchlo print.
€5
Book. "Arda Wuthering" by Emily Bronte Translated into Irish by Sean O Ciosain.
Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published by Oifig Foillseachain Rialtais. First Edition
Start bid
1933. Sean O Ciosain translated a number of classical works into Irish during the early
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years of the State. This is a translation of Emily Bronte’s famous classic work "
Wuthering Heights". Scarce.
Book. "An Seanchaidhe Muimhneach" by An Seabhac. Hardcover. In excellent
condition. Published by Institute Bealoideasa Eireann, Dublin First Edition 1932.
404pp. (Padraig O Siochfhradha) Mearcra De Bhealoidear Ilchineal o "An lochrann"
Start bid 1907 - 1913. In 1932 Padraig O Siochfhradha (The Hawk) published "Ancient Munster."
€40
It was a collection of folklore published in the years from 1907 to 1913 in the light to
save them from the danger of being lost and to make them generally available to the
public again.
Start Bid Book, Hardcover - "The Carlow Gentry" by Jimmy O'Toole, with dust jacket Published
€12
by Jimmy O'Toole 1993
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Book. "The Playboy and the Yellow Lady" by James Carney. Paperback. In excellent
condition. Published by Poolbeg Press. First Edition 1986. Scarce. The true story of
James Lynchehaun, peasant land agent, adventurer and rogue - the model for Synge's
Start bid
Playboy of the Western World - whose brutal assault on an English landowner, Agnes
€5
MacDonnell, on Achill Island One (1) October night in 1894 caused a sensation
throughout Ireland. This book paints a vivid picture of Irish society at the turn of the 20th
century.
567
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Book, Hardcover, "No Other Law, The story of Liam Lynch and the Irish Republican
Start Bid Army 1916-1923. "We have declared for an Irish Republic and will no live under any
€65
other law", - 1st edition, by Florence O'Donoghue, published by Irish Press Ltd. Dublin
1954
Book, " Dublin be Proud " by Pat Liddy. Hard cover with dust jacket in very good
Start bid
condition, dust jacket with some tears Signed by the author, first edition 1988 published
€20
by Chadworth Limited Dublin
Book. Hard cover "Childhood’s Pattern" by Gillian Avery, with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Hodder and Stoughton. First Edition 1975. 256pp. A study of
the heroes and heroines of children's fiction 1770 - 1950. Gillian (Elise) Avery is a British
Start bid children’s novelist and literary historian. She was born in Reigate on 30 September
€10
1926. She worked first as a journalist on the Surrey Mirror, then for Chambers
Encyclopaedia and Oxford University Press. She is the author of several studies of
children’s history and early children’s literature; and this scholarly interest is reflected in
her own books for children, which have a Victorian setting.
Book. Hard cover "The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore" Edited by Charles Kent.In
excellent condition. Published by George Routledge And Sons. 1885 Edition. 599pp.
With Memoir and notes by Charles Kent. The centenary edition with illustrations. Edited
Start bid
with memoir and notes by Charles Kent. This collection includes the Odes of Ancreon;
€5
Juvenile Poems; Irish Melodies; National Airs, Greek Anthology and Miscellaneous
Poems.
€ 20
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€ 40
€ 80
- € 100
€ 40
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€ 30
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€ 15
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570
start bid Book, hard cover 'The Poor Mouth' by Myles Na Gopaleen second impression 1974
€20
with dust jacket translated into English by Patrick C. Power
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571
Book. "The Black Prophet" by William Carleton. Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Irish University Press . A Volume in the Irish Novels
Series. This volume is a reprint of the text of the 1899 edition. 408pp. There is also an
Start bid
introduction by Timothy Webb. The Novel was first published in 1847. His most famous
€5
novel, The Black Prophet: a tale of Irish Famine, set during the Great Famine, describes
the moral and social ills of Irish society and the horrors of famine. It is a powerfully
emotive and provocative account that quickly became a bestseller
€ 10
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€ 10
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572
Book. "Selected Stories of Sean O’Faolain, Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Constable. First Edition 1978 270pp. This book is an excellent
way to get a first taste of Seán Ó Faoláin's stories. It has taught me a lesson about
Start bid reading only the newest books: there is nothing old-fashioned about these stories, which
€5
are no less fresh, original and experimental now than they must have been 60 years
ago.
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Book. "The Crows of Mephistopheles" by George Fitzmaurice Paperback. In
excellent condition. Published by Dolmen Press. First Edition 1970.148pp. George
Fitzmaurice, (1877-1963), playwright; born near Listowel, Co. Kerry, the son of a
Start bid clergyman, and the tenth of Twelve (12) children. After working in a bank he joined the
€5
Land Commission and lived in Dublin in increasingly eccentric isolation. His earliest
works were short stories, collected as The Crows of Mephistopheles in 1970. His first
staged play, The Country Dressmaker, attracted comparisons with Synge and Lady
Gregory when it appeared at the Abbey in 1907.
€ 10
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574
Book - Softcover. "Full Employment and Regional Development" Edited by Diarmaid
ó Cearbhaill paperback in excellent condition. Published by Officina Typographica First
Start Bid edition 1981 177pp A collection of Nine (9) essays and an introduction by the editor
€5
arising from a seminar in March 1979 organised by the Mid Western Regional
Development organisation which debated the challenges to the Irish Economy in the
early 1980’s. The Editor worked in the Department of Finance before returning to UCG.
€ 10
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€ 80
- € 150
576
Book. Hard cover "Irish Bardic Poetry" by Osborn Bergin, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. 1974
Reprint. 320pp.Texts and Translations, together with an introductory lecture. Foreword
by D.A. Binchy. Compiled and Edited by David Greene & Fergus Kelly. First published in
1970. Bergin wrote "By Bardic Poetry I mean the writings of poets trained in the Bardic
Start bid Schools as they existed in Ireland and the Gaelic parts of Scotland down to about the
€30
middle of the seventeenth century. In Scotland, indeed, they lingered on till the
eighteenth century. At what time they were founded we don't know, for the Bardic order
existed in prehistoric times, and their position in society is well established in the earliest
tradition. You will understand that the subject is a vast One (1), but I mean to deal only
with a small portion of it—the poetry of the later Bardic schools from about the thirteenth
century to the close—that is to say, compositions of the period kno
€ 50
- € 100
577
Book, Hard cover "The Begrudgers" by John Cowell, with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by The O'Brien Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 1978.
Start bid 159pp. Novel set in the 1970's in Dublin and Belfast. John Cowell , son of an Irish Doctor
€15
and an English mother came to Ireland as a small boy and grew up in County Sligo
moving to Dublin in the 1930's. He qualified as a Surgeon and then turned to full time
writing.
€ 30
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575
Estimates
Book.Hard cover "The Gift of Gravity" by Wendell Berry, with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by The Gallery Press. Signed Limited First Edition September 1979.
Unpaginated. The Deerfield Press/Gallery Press, 1979. First Edition Illustrations in black
and white by Timothy Engelland. Published simultaneously in Ireland and the United
States. Printed by Harold McGrath in Northampton, Massachusetts and bound by
Museum Bookbindings in Dublin. One of 300 copies signed by Wendell Berry. Berry is a
Start bid
writer and farmer. "In an age when many writers have committed themselves to their
€60
'specialty'—even though doing so can lead to commercialism, preciousness, selfindulgence, social irresponsibility, or even nihilism—Berry has refused to specialize,"
Hudson wrote in the Georgia Review. "He is a novelist, a poet, an essayist, a naturalist,
and a small farmer. He has embraced the commonplace and has ennobled it."
106
€ 40
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578
579
Start Bid Description
Book.Hard cover "Closing Times" by Dan Davin, with Dust Jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Oxford University Press. First Edition 1975. 189pp.
Start bid Recollections of Seven Literary figures, Julian Maclaren-Ross, W.R. Rodgers, Louis
€20
MacNeice, Enid Starkie, Joyce Cary, Dylan Thomas and the Yiddish poet Itzik Manger.
Book. Hard cover "The Young Douglas Hyde" by Dominic Daly, with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Irish University press. First Edition 1974. 232pp.
Foreword by Erskine Childers (President of Ireland) A study of the first President of
Ireland based on his unpublished diaries. Douglas Hyde was born in Castlerea in Co
Roscommon on 17 January 1860. he was the youngest son of the local Church of
Ireland rector of Tibohine, Arthur Hyde. The young Douglas no doubt led an idealistic
Start bid
lifestyle in rural Roscommon, during this time he met and made friends with locals such
€5
as Seamus Hart, Mrs. Connolly and John Lavin who taught him Irish and no doubt
instilled in him a love of Irish culture. It was expected that Douglas would follow his father
into the ministry, but Douglas was more inclined towards academic subjects, and he
attended Trinity College Hyde developed a passion for the Irish language, this passion
led to the formation of the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge), which was an attempt to
save
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€ 40
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€ 60
€ 10
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1,200
Book, Hard cover "THREE THINGS". by W.B.Yeats First edition, published by
580
Faber & Faber, London, 1929. Original thin gilt-lettered blue boards. Yeats's single poem
Start bid is illustrated with Two (2) drawings, One (1) in colour, by Gilbert Spencer. Copy No. 439
€
€800 of only 500 numbered copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, constituting the Large Paper
1,000
Edition printed by the Curwen Press. Near Fine for this fragile piece, increasingly
uncommon. Thin blue boards with gold stamped lettering. Cover edges a little darkened
and tips lightly nicked, otherwise in very good condition.
581
Book, Soft cover "The Aran Islands" by J.M.Synge with Original Photographs by the
Author edited by Robin Skelton. In excellent Condition . Published by Oxford University
Press, Oxford. First Edition Thus 1979 .173pp .The book is illustrated with Synge's
own photographs depicting rope making, kelp collecting, drying, threshing and wool
spinning, the horrors of evictions, and many other aspects of island life. After travelling
Start bid throughout Europe and playing violin for peasants in the Black Forest of Italy, J.M.
€5
Synge gave up music and settled down to become a writer in Paris. It was there, on One
fateful day in Paris, that W.B. Yeats stopped along his travels throughout the Continent
and was promptly advised to visit the 'poor Irish writer staying at the top of the house'.
Thus the Two great writers met. Synge was struggling at the time and in need of artistic
inspiration. Yeats told him to, "Go to the Aran Islands, and find a life that has never been
expressed in literature". Synge took the advice,
€ 10
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€ 20
582
Book, Hardcover. "Treasures of Irish Art 1500 BC to 1500 AD" by G. Frank Mitchell,
Start Bid Peter Harbison, Liam de Paor, Maire de Paor and Roger A. Stalley. In excellent
€10
condition. Published by Alfred A Knopf. First Edition 220 pp. From the Collection of the
National Museum of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin. New York.
€ 20
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583
Book "Register of Theses on Educational Topics in Universities in Ireland" by
John Coolahan and others Soft cover in excellent condition. Published by Officina
Start bid
Typographica First edition 1980 87pp including index. A List of theses from 1911-1979
€5
as held in Trinity College Dublin, Queens Belfast, NUU Coleraine and the Three colleges
of NUI. A useful reference point for any student.
584
Estimates
Book. "Myselves When Young" by Frank Budgen Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Oxford University Press. First Edition 1970. 212pp.
Frank Budgen (1882 – 1971) was an English painter acquainted with the author James
Joyce. Born in Surrey, Budgen spent Six years at sea before moving to Switzerland in
time for World War I. Here he was employed by the British government at the Ministry of
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Information. He returned to London in 1920, where he remained until his death. Joyce
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and Budgen spent much of the war in the same city and similar social circles. According
to Budgen's 1934 memoir James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, Joyce discussed
aesthetic matters with Budgen a number of times, often referring to the content of
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
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Book. "Collected Short Stories" by James Plunkett . Paperback. In very good
condition. Published by Poolbeg Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition 1977.299pp.
This book is One of a series devoted to the modern Irish short story. James Plunkett
Kelly was born on 21 May 1920, at Sandymount in Dublin. He was educated at the
Synge Street Christian Brothers School, and the Municipal School of Music, Camden St.,
Dublin. He became clerk in Dublin Gas Co., 1937, and later a full-time trade union
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official; working under Jim Larkin. April 1946-47. In the mid-1950s he joined Radio
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Eireann as a drama assistant and began his literary career with a series of radio plays.
In 1961 he was appointed One of the first Two directors when the television service
began, some becoming an Executive Producer. His is probably best known as author of
the novel "Strumpet City" .During the 1960s, Plunkett worked as a producer at Telefis
Eireann. He won Two Jacob's Awards, in 1965 and 1969, for his TV productions. His
work includes
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Book. "THE BUILDING OF LIMERICK" by Judith Hill. Hard cover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition As New. Published by The Mercier Press . First Edition 1991.
Published in October 1991 as a contribution to the Tercentenary Celebrations of the
Treaty of Limerick 194pp with many Illustrations, Drawings and Maps. This work tells of
Start bid the genesis and growth of the city of Limerick. It outlines the transformations which the
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€150 city has undergone in its development. Limerick was an outpost of the Anglo-Norman
empire in the 13th century. The appearance of the city was totally transformed during the
18th century, and it eventually emerged as a Georgian city. The author focuses on the
buildings, street patterns and civic structures, setting them against historical events, thus
providing for the reader, an account of the city at each stage of its development.
- € 250
587
Book. "Death be Not Proud" by John B Keane Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Mercier Publications. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 1976.
Start bid 98pp. A total of eight stories in this volume, including Jonathan, The Change, A Tale of
€60
Two Furs and 4 others. John B gives a hilarious, mischievous and accurate portrait of
the balance of justice in "Youre on next Sunday" and A Tale of Two Furs". The other
stories are equally delightful.
- € 120
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Book. "Where they lived in Dublin" by John Cowell Hardback with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by The O’Brien press. First Edition 1980 160pp with
many photos, portraits, map and indices. The background and residences of 160
illustrious men and women who have lived in Dublin. A fascinating work. John Cowell ,
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son of an Irish Doctor and an English mother came to Ireland as a small boy and grew
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up in County Sligo moving to Dublin in the 1930’s. He qualified as a Surgeon and then
turned to full time writing.
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Book "Sive" by John B Keane. Soft cover. In excellent condition. Published by
Progress House. Signed and Inscribed 1996 Edition. Very Scarce. This Two (2) act
version of Sive Was revised and edited for the Ben Barnes production for The Abbey
Theatre in 1985. Having won first prize with Sive at first All-Ireland Festival, 1959, it
was refused by Ernest Blythe at the Abbey. The play, arguably John B Keane's greatest,
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is an established classic set in Kerry. It tells the story of the young and beautiful Sive
€60
who has been promised in marriage to an old man, and is a classic morality tale about
the consequences of greed and bitterness. John B Keane, who died in 2002 at the age
of 73, is One (1) of Ireland's most celebrated writers, with works including 'The Field' and
'Big Maggie'. Although ignored by the National Theatre for many years, his plays were
finally staged in the Abbey in the 1980s and were a huge success.
€ 80
- € 120
590
Book. "Selected Poems 1956-1968 by Thomas Kinsella Soft cover. In excellent
condition. Published by The Dolmen Press. Signed First Edition 1973. 110pp. He was
born May 4, 1928, in Dublin, son of John Paul (a trade unionist and brewery worker) and
Agnes (Casserly) Kinsella. In a New York Times Book Review article, Calvin Bedient
maintained that Thomas Kinsella "can hardly write a worthless poem." He is "probably
the most accomplished, fluent, and ambitious Irish poet of the younger generation,"
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according to New York Times Book Review critic John Montague, while Dictionary of
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Literary Biography essayist Thomas H. Jackson judged that Kinsella's "technical
virtuosity and the profound originality of his subject matter set him apart from his
contemporaries." He "seems to me to have the most distinctive voice of his generation in
Ireland, though it is also the most versatile and the most sensitive to 'outside' influences,"
M. L. Rosenthal indicated in The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World
War II.
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Book. "The Year of the French" by Thomas Flanagan Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Macmillan . First UK Reprint 1979. 516pp. Mr.
Flanagan taught literature at the University of California at Berkeley in the mid-1970's
when he had the epiphany that led to his first novel, ''The Year of the French'' As he
often told the story, he was in his office staring at a pad of paper, waiting for his wife,
Start bid Jean, to pick him up because he did not drive. ''He just suddenly had a vision of a person
€5
walking down a road, and that is when he became a novelist,'' said Barbara Dupee, a
friend. The fellow on the road was a poet named Owen Ruagh MacCarthy, and the
image turned into the opening chapter of ''The Year of the French,'' a sprawling tale of
Ireland's doomed uprising against the British in 1798.
109
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Book. "WAITING FOR GODOT" by Samuel Beckett. Hardcover with Dust jacket, in
very good condition. (small tear to top of Dust jacket) Published by Faber and Faber
Limited, with article on Beckett from Irish Times December 1989. First Edition in English
Second Impression February 1956. 94pp. Publisher's note referring to the Lord
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Chamberlain's deletions bound in following the title page. The first appearance in English € 100
€75
of Beckett's most famous play originally written in French, this is the author's own
translation. This edition was produced in the same month as the first edition and is the
text of the play as performed at the Criterion Theatre London following its performances
at the Arts Theatre London which opened on 3rd August 1955.
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Book, Soft cover "The Tri coloured Ribbon Rebel Songs of Ireland". In good condition
for year . Published by Walton’s Musical Instrument Galleries, First Edition 1966 64pp.
Words only. A collection of 56 well known and not so well known songs brought out at
Start bid the time of the 50th anniversary of the Easter rising and One (1) of Walton’s collection of
€5
songs and ballads. Includes The Fenians of Caherciveen, The Men of the West and The
Bold Fenian Men.
- € 150
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Book. "In Her Own Image" by Eavan Boland Soft Cover. In excellent condition.
Published by Arlen House. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 38pp. Drawings by
Constance Short. Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944 to diplomat Frederick Boland
and artist Frances Kelly. As a young child she moved, with her parents, firstly to London
and later to New York. She has described the experience of leaving Ireland in terms of a
painful exile. On her return to Ireland as a teenager, she completed her secondary
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education in Dublin and went on to study English and Latin at Trinity College. She
€40
lectured for a time in Trinity but feeling unsuited to an academic career, she devoted
herself in 1967 to writing poetry full-time. She met and had lengthy, inspiring
conversations with poets such as Patrick Kavanagh, Michael Longley and Brendan
Kennelly, but she began to realise that the male voice dominated Irish poetry and that
her own, and other female experiences, were not reflected there. She married novelist
Kevin Casey in 19
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Book. "Unfinished Sequence" by Sean Lucy Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition Published by Wolfhound Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition. 1979. 63pp.
Sean Lucy was born it is believed in India in 1931. His first selection of poems was
published in Five Irish Poets (Cork, Mercier Press, 1970).His solo collection is this
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volume. His critical work includes T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Tradition (1960). He has
€20
edited Irish Poets in English The Thomas Davis Lectures of 1972 (Mercier, 1973); and
Goldsmith, the Gentle Master The Thomas Davis Lecture 1983 (Cork University Press,
1984 & 1995). A former Professor of Modern English at University College Cork, in his
latter years he lived in Chicago, where he died in July 2001.
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596
Book, Soft cover "Kenry" by Mairtin O Corrbui. In excellent condition. Published by
Dundalgan Press. First Edition 1975. 211pp. Dedicated to the people of Kenry. The
Story of a Barony in County Limerick. A detailed local History much referred to in
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histories of North County Limerick. Tells the story of the area around Kildimo and
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Pallaskenry from Pre-history to the twentieth century.
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597
Book. "Of Snails and Skylarks" Poems by Christy Brown Hardcover with Dust jacket.
In excellent condition ( Slight stain on Dust jacket.) Published by Secker and Warburg
London Signed and Inscribed First Edition 1977 , signed on the front endpaper by the
author. Very Scarce . 79pp Books signed by Christy Brown are very rare indeed. This
was his third book of poetry. Brown's poetry is pleasant, containing many a lilting phrase
Start bid and reflecting his keen eye and flair for imagery. Christy Brown (June 5, 1932 € 250
€150 September 6, 1981) was an Irish author, painter and poet, born in Crumlin, Dublin. One
of Thirteen (13) surviving children, he had cerebral palsy and was considered mentally
disabled until he famously snatched a piece of chalk from his sister with his left foot. His
autobiography, My Left Foot, was later expanded into the novel Down All The Days, and
became an international best seller, being translated into Fourteen (14) languages.
There followed other novels including A Shadow on Summer. He also published
- € 350
598
Book. "The First Affair" by Peter Fallon Soft cover with wraps. In excellent condition.
Published by Gallery Book. Signed and Inscribed Limited First Edition 1974. 40pp.
Together with real photograph of author , photograph as used on cover. Scarce. Peter
Fallon was born in Germany in 1951 and grew up on his uncle's farm near Kells in
County Meath. He is an Honours Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where, in 1994, he
was Writer Fellow in the English Department. At the age of eighteen he founded The
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Gallery Press which has published more than Four (4) hundred books of poems and
€50
plays by the country's finest established and emerging authors and which is recognized
as Ireland's pre-eminent literary publishing house which has published books by Paul
Muldoon and Seamus Heaney. The Gallery Press's early accomplishment was
recognized by a Better Ireland Award in 1991. Peter Fallon has been Poet in Residence
at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and, in the Spring of 2000, he was the inaugural
Heimbold Professor o
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599
Book - hardcover with dust jacket. "The Natural History of Ireland" by Philip
O’Sullivan Beare. In excellent condition. Published by Cork University Press.
Translated and Edited by Denis C O’ Sullivan
First Edition 2009. 296pp. The Natural History of Ireland by Philip O’Sullivan Beare
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(c.1590 – 1660) is an important source of the history of Ireland’s natural environment
€10
and its political history. It was originally written in Latin by Don Philip O’Sullivan Beara,
an Irish nobleman living in exile in Spain, and formed part of his Zoilomastix (1625). An
introduction by Denis O’Sullivan gives an overall history of the O’Sullivans and Philip in
particular.
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Book, Hard cover, "The Green Fool " by Patrick Kavanagh, complete with dust jacket,
some small tears to jacket, book itself in excellent condition. First American edition 1939
published by Harper and Brothers, New York. The book is an autobiography, the self told
story of a young man, a cobblers son whose youth and adolescence were spent in a
patriarchal community not far from Dublin. The story captures the essence of Irish rural
life of the period. In this autobiography he referred to a visit to the home of Oliver St.
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€
John Gogarty and there meeting a woman who he took to be either his wife or mistress.
€850
1,200
Gogarty sued and was awarded £100 damages by the court and the book was
withdrawn from circulation
Patrick Kavanagh was born on 21 October 1904, in Mucker townland, Inniskeen parish,
Co. Monaghan, the son of James Kavanagh, a small farmer with sixteen acres who was
also a cobbler, and Bridget Quinn. He attended Kednaminsha National School from 1909
to 1916 and worked on the family farm after leaving school.
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Book Hardcover. "The Painters of Ireland c 1660-1920 by Anne Crookshank and The
Knight of Glin Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Barrie and
Jenkins First Edition 1978 304pp. With many Coloured and Black and White illustrations.
This is the first illustrated book entirely devoted to the history of painting in Ireland.,
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Anne Crookshank is Fellow Emerita, formerly professor of the history of art, at Trinity
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College Dublin. She is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. The Knight of Glin is
Doctor in Letters Honoria Causa of Trinity College Dublin; president of the Irish Georgian
Society; director of the Irish Architectural Archive; and Christie’s representative in
Ireland.
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602
Book. "Redemption" by Francis Stuart Hard cover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Martin Brian & O’Keeffe . First Edition Thus 1974. 249pp. A
novel of extraordinary brilliance and insight into the human condition. The plot centres on
Start bid an Irish soldier who returns to a sleepy Irish town, bringing with him the intimations of the
€10
agony he left behind. Gradually his presence unsettles the pieties of village life and this
leads to havoc, cruelty, and murder. In its beauty and terror...Redemption has given me
at sixty-Six (6) the kind of thrill Dostoevsky used to give me at sixteen."" - Compton
MacKenzie.
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Book. "The Damnable Question" by George Dangerfield. Hardcover with Dust jacket.
In excellent condition. Published by Constable. First Edition 1977. 400pp with many
photographic illustrations.
A history of Ireland from the Act of Union to the signing of the Treaty. The author is
Start bid English by birth and worked for many years in The USA. George Dangerfield (October
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28, 1904 – December 27, 1986) was a journalist, historian, and the literary editor of
Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935. He is known primarily for his book The Strange Death of
Liberal England (1935), a classic study of the rapid decline of the Liberal Party in the
United Kingdom before World War I.
Book - Softcover. "The Cobweb’s Glory" by Bryan Michael O’Connor ( a pseudonym
for Bryan MacMahon). Booklet in excellent condition published by Bookshop
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Publications Listowel Co Kerry First Edition. 1960? 64pp A Comedy in Three Acts with a
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cast of Seven (7). ‘The Cobweb’s Glory’, by Bryan Michael O’Connor. The play is still
performed by amateur groups up to the present day.
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Book. "Reductionist Poem" by Anthony Cronin Paperback. In very good condition.
(Some markings to front cover) Published by Raven Arts. Signed and Inscribed First
Edition. 39pp Born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Anthony Cronin is the author of several
books of verse including the long poems RMS Titanic, Reductionist Poem and The End
of the Modern World, as well as various other collections. He paid tribute to former
friends Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien and others in his memoir of
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literary Dublin and London of the 1950s and '60s, Dead as Doornails (1976), and he has
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written Two compelling biographies, No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann
O'Brien (1989) and Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (1996). Cronin has published
Two novels, The Life of Riley (1964) and Identity Papers (1979), and One play, The
Shame of It, which was produced at the Peacock in Dublin in 1974. A former cultural and
artistic adviser to Taoiseach, Charles J. Haughey, he received the Marten Toonder
Award for his c
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Book. "The Shooting of Michael Collins" by John M Feehan. Paperback. In excellent
condition. (Slight crease to front cover.) Signed and Inscribed First Edition 1981. Was
Start bid Michael Collins killed by an accident of war or was he ruthlessly murdered. In this work
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Feehan attempts to put all the evidence before the discerning reader. Copies of this
edition are not easy to find and this being a signed copy makes it scarce.
Book. "Collected Pruse" by Patrick Kavanagh Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Martin Brian & O’Keeffe. First Edition Thus. 1973 288pp. Pruse
is the name Kavanagh gave this particular collection of his works in prose before he
died. While Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) is regarded by most as a poet, for most of his
life he was a prolific author of critical and autobiographical prose. His work for
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newspapers and magazines was often his main source of income, and provided him with
€50
a necessary outlet for his views writers and past times; on the spiritual function of poetry;
and on his own background and experiences as an isolated genius. He was always
impoverished, at times ostracized, and surrounded, as he saw it, by mediocrity. The
prose complements the poetry, telling us things about Kavanagh that the poems do not
Book. "Cromwellian Ireland" by T.C.Barnard . Hard cover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Oxford University Press. First Edition 1975. 349pp including
index and most comprehensive bibliography. English Government and Reform in Ireland
Start bid 1649-1660. A volume in the Oxford Historical Monographs series. The book is a study of
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the constructive side of English policy in Ireland during a formative period. The results of
these policies are evaluated and reasons suggested for the failures.
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Book. "Yeats, Joyce and Beckett" Edited by Kathleen McGrory and John
Unterecker . Hardcover with Dust jacket. In Excellent Condition. Published by
Associated University Presses, London, First Edition 1976 184 pp. Illustrated with"
hitherto-unpublished portraits of Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett, and with thirty new
Start bid photographs of the Irish landscape commemorated in their work ". A collection of
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materials on these Three (3) famous writers being scholarly and critical essays as well
as interviews with their friends. Both authors born in New York are leading experts in
Irish Literature in the USA.
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Book. "Blood Relations" by Eilis Dillon. Hardcover with Dust jacket .In excellent
condition. Published by Hodder and Staughton. Signed First UK Edition 1978. 479pp. A
novel set during the 1916 Rising and War of Independence. Eilis Dillon (born 7 March
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1920 in Galway, Ireland, died 19 July 1994) was an Irish author of 50 books. Her work
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has been translated into 14 languages . Dillon's family was involved in Irish revolutionary
politics; her uncle Joseph Mary Plunkett was a signatory of the 1916 Proclamation and
was executed after the Easter Rising
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Book. "Virtues and Vices" by Rev Garrett Pierse D.D. Hardcover . In excellent
condition. Published by Browne & Nolan ltd. First Edition 1935 . 403pp. Dedication
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signed by Fr Padraig Ó Fiannachta on flyleaf. The author died before it was sent to the
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printers and the Editor wrote "This work is primarily a study in theology; and as such we
think it likely to become a classic authority in its subject."
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613
Book. "The Renaissance" by Walter Pater. Hardcover. Special binding for St
Columbas College. In excellent condition. Published by Macmillan. Library Edition 1914.
239pp. Scarce Tissue protected frontispiece. Contents include: Pico Della Mirandola,
Sandro Botticelli, Luca Della Robbia, Poetry of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci,
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Giorgione, Joachim Du Bellay, and Winckelmann. St. Columba’s College at
€20
Whitechurch Co Dublin was founded in 1843 by the Rev. William Sewell. This volume
was presented as a prize for Mathematics to F.G.Stewart in December 1914 and so is
unique.
Book, Hard cover "Exiles" by James Joyce, in very good condition, 2nd edition with
green binding. Published by The Egoist Press 1921.The first 500 copies of a print run of
1,000 copies were made using green buckram. The remainder went to publisher
Jonathan Cape who finished their copies using black cloth. 154pp
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish
novelist and poet, considered to be One (1) of the most influential writers in the
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modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922). € 200
€150
Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce was
born to a middle class family in Dublin, where he excelled as a student at the Jesuit
schools Clongowes and Belvedere, then at University College Dublin. In his early
twenties he emigrated permanently to continental Europe, living in Trieste, Paris and
Zurich. Though most of his adult life
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Book. "The Poetry and Song of Ireland" Edited by John Boyle O’Reilly Hardcover. In
fair condition (Well rubbed, spine and front cover loosened .Well worn copy but main
text very good.). Published by Gay Brothers New York 1889 Edition The Poetry and
Song of Ireland: with the Publisher's Supplement to the Second Edition. The Whole
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forming a standard Encyclopaedia of Erin’s Poetry and Song. Inscription " Compliments
€20
Willie Gunning Feb 1898" ( Willie Gunning played for the winning Limerick team in the
first All Ireland Football Final of 1887). 1028pp. With illustrations and a frontispiece
Photograph of John Boyle O’Reilly. A comprehensive collection of 18th and 19th Century
Irish poetry compiled in One volume for primarily American readers.
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Book. "The Irish Song Tradition" by Sean O Boyle Hardback with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by Gilbert Dalton. Signed and inscribed First Edition.
1976. The book is in Two parts. Part One deals with The origins and nature of Irish
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Song. Part Two contains the words and music of twenty Five Irish Songs. Sean O'Boyle
€30
was born in Belfast in 1908. His experience as a musician with an especial interest in
Irish music was recognised by the BBC for whom he made many broadcasts. This work
is widely used as a source and reference book.
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616
Book. "Whale on the Line" by Nuala Archer Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Gallery Books. Signed and Inscribed First edition July 1981.
41pp. Born in Rochester, New York, from Irish parents. Her family moved to Canada,
Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama. She graduated at Wheaton College, Illinois, then at
Start bid the TDC. Nuala's first book of poetry, Whale on the Line, won the Patrick Kavanagh
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Award. The Hour of Pan/ama was published in 1992. Her poetry book, From a Mobile
Home was published in 1995 . She has taught at Yale University. She was also director
of the Cleveland Poetry Centre and associate professor at Cleveland State University.
Nuala lives in Oklahoma where she teaches and edits the Midland Review and the
Cimarron Review.
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Book. "Values" by John B. Keane Paperback. In excellent condition. Published by The
Mercier Press. First Edition 1973 72pp. Three One act plays "The Spraying of John
O'Dorey", "Backwater" and "The Pure of Heart", The Spraying of John Darcy" – a satire
of environmentalists set in the future when humans are put to death for damaging the
environment. "Backwater" – a man returns to his home town to visit his mother after
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many years neglect. He brings Two friends from London. . "The Pure of Heart" Two men
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meet on the roadside One coming from an extramarital encounter, the other proclaiming
it to be a sin. The first man tries to cajole the second into visiting another married woman
for amorous activities.
Book, Soft cover "Sampla" A Selection of New Irish Writing edited by Bernard Share
with wraps. In excellent condition. Published by Cle. Irish Book Publishers' Association.
Limited First Edition (No. 1414 of 3,000 copies.). 1972 unpaginated. A selection of new
Start bid writing under the Imprint of Nine Irish Publishers. A most unusual book in varying
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typefaces and fonts, with interleaving cards. Included is a contribution from The
Geraldine Press 5 Rock Street Tralee, Co. Kerry.
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Book. "The Stories of F, Scott Fitzgerald" Selected by Malcom Cowley Hardcover with
Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons New York. .
No date but copyright refers to 1951, Malcolm not misspelled on spine. Dust jacket refers
to Book Club Edition. Features twenty-eight short stories selected and with an
Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were
Start bid aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. Francis Scott Key
€10
Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and
second cousin Three (3) times removed of the author of the United States National
Anthem. Fitzgerald’s given names indicate his parents’ pride in his father’s ancestry. His
father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values.
Fitzgerald’s mother, Mary (Mollie) McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who
became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Both were Catholics.
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Book, Hard cover "The trembling of the veil" by William Butler Yeats, (1865 1939) .Privately printed by T. Werner Laurie 1922. Signed and numbered limited edition
being No. 238 of only 1,000 copies. The front and back boards together with the spine
and spine label have been professionally restored to original specifications and to a very
high standard.
Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist, author and poet, William Butler Yeats was born on
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13 June 1865 in the seaside village of Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland. His
€ 700
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mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen (1841-1900) was the daughter of a wealthy family from
County Sligo and his father John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) a well known portrait painter.
Yeat’s mother Susan was the first to introduce him and his Two sisters to the Irish folk
tales he would grow to love so much. His younger brother Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957)
like his father would become an accomplished artist. At the age of Two young William’s
father decided to move the family to London, England to stud
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Book Hardcover. "Old Irish and Highland Dress" by H.F.McClintock Hardcover . In
excellent condition. Published by Dundalgan Press (W.Tempest) Ltd. Enlarged and
Second Edition 1950. 241pp. With many illustrations. This is a superb and reliable book.
It traces descriptions and depictions of Irish dress through the 17th century, and Scottish
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Highland dress through the 18th century. Its value is mainly in the many quotations from
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original descriptions and illustrations and pictures of original depictions, although the
interpretation of these is also mainly sound. The inclusion of the original material,
however, allows One to judge for oneself the value of McClintock's interpretations. A
lovely book to own.
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Book. "ONE" Poems by Thomas Kinsella Paperback. Brown patterned paper wraps
.In excellent condition.Published by Peppercanister Signed Limited Edition. One of 750
copies. 1974 Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with Seven drawings by Anne Yeats,
including frontispiece. Thomas Kinsella (b. May 4, 1928) born in Dublin, to a family
traditionally employed at the Guinness Brewery. Educated at the Model School,
Inchicore followed by the O'Connell Schools (Christian Brothers). He abandoned a
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Science Scholarship at UCD and entered the Civil Service, where he stayed for 19
€50
years, reaching post of assistant Principal Officer in the Dept. of Finance. He kept on,
completing an Arts degree at UCD through night-classes. He published "Poems" in 1956
and "Another September" in 1958. Sometime later (1963?) he came to the United
States. After many more papers and poetry collections, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a
Professorship of English at Temple University; he founded Peppercanister to publish his
own verse,
€ 80
- € 120
623
Book. "On the Blanket" by Tim Pat Coogan Hardback with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Ward River Press. First Hardcover Edition 1980 271pp. A
Start bid masterpiece of investigative journalism, this book provides us with the only first-hand
€5
account of the protest. The investigation leads deep into the social, cultural, and
economic maze of Northern Ireland's history to give readers an unmatched analysis of a
troubled place and its sorrowful history
€ 15
-
€ 80
- € 120
€ 15
-
€ 30
€ 15
-
€ 20
624
625
626
Estimates
Book. "Broadsides". Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published by the Irish University
Press First Edition Thus 1971 . Unpaginated. A photolithographic copy of the 1937
edition published by Cuala Press. Songs by W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, F.R.Higgins,
Start bid
Frank O’Connor, Lyn Doyle, Bryan Guinness, Padraic Colum, Oliver Gogarty, Hilaire
€40
Belloc, Edith Sitwell & Walter De La Mare. Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Harry Kernoff,
MacGonagill and Sean O’Sullivan. Music by Arthur Duff, etc. A beautiful Volume.
Book. "The Cornet Player who Betrayed Ireland" by Frank O’Connor Hardcover with
Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Poolbeg Press. First Edition 1981.
238pp. 'Father', I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in a good
humour, 'I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother'. Praised as Ireland's Chekhov,
Start bid Frank O'Connor was a modern master of the short story. Stories include an amateur
€5
brass band divided by partisanship to English soldiers who befriend their Irish captors,
and from a child's comic confession to the end of a small-town friendship, these
humorous and tragic stories refract universal truths through the prism of 20th-century
Ireland.
Book. "A Place Among the Nations" by Patrick Keatinge Hard cover with Dust jacket.
Start bid In excellent condition. Published by Institute of Public Administration. First Edition 1978.
€5
287pp. A comprehensive history and analysis of Ireland's relations with foreign
countries, seen in a broad and persuasive perspective. By an Irish political scientist.
117
€ 20
Lot
627
628
Start Bid Description
Estimates
Book. "Midland Moments" edited by Gearoid O’Brien. Soft cover. In excellent
condition. Published by Kincora Poetry First Edition 1976. Limited edition of 500 copies,
this is No. 406. 46pp. A miscellany of Midland writings in prose and verse. Contributors
include Sir John Betjeman. Gearoid O' Brien is a native of Athlone and has been writing
Start bid
poetry and prose for over thirty-Five (5) years. Born in 1955 he was educated in the
€5
Dean Kelly N.S. and St Aloysius College, Athlone. He has worked in Westmeath County
Library Service for over 35 years and is now Senior Executive Librarian for South and
West Westmeath.
Book. "The Best of Irish Wit and Wisdom" by John McCarthy. Hardcover with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Dodd, Mead & Company New York. First
Edition 1987 324pp. A generous collection of the best Irish wit and wisdom as expressed
Start bid in the short stories, songs, anecdotes, and essays of Ireland, America and Great Britain.
€5
Includes superb short stories by such classic Irish authors as Joyce, O'Connor, Moore,
O’Faolain, Behan, O'Flaherty, Friel .etc. This volume celebrates the humour, poignancy
and vitality found in the Irish experience.
€ 10
-
€ 20
€ 10
-
€ 20
629
Book. Hard cover " Dead as Doornails" by Anthony Cronin, with Dust jacket. In
Start bid
excellent condition. Published by The Dolmen Press. Signed First Edition Signed by
€30
Author and Jacket Designer Scarce Thus. 1976. 201pp.
€ 50
-
€ 80
630
Book. "The Blasket Islands" by Joan and Ray Stagles Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by O’Brien Press. First Edition 1980. 144pp with 10
Start bid maps, notes, and index and many photographic Illustrations. An illustrated history of the
€10
life, traditions and customs of the people of the Blasket Islands - a community that has
now disappeared. The book traces the fate of the Blasket people and the slow erosion of
their culture until the day in 1952 when the last families were evacuated.
€ 20
-
€ 30
€ 40
-
€ 60
€ 80
- € 120
631
632
Book. Soft cover "POETRY NOW - 1. New Voices in Contemporary Irish Poetry".In
excellent condition. Published by the Goldsmith Press. Signed and Inscribed First Edition
1975. Inscribed signed and dated by Paul Durcan Listowel 28th May 1975. 55 pp. A
Start bid
collection of Poems by Paul Durcan, Michael Davitt, Patrick Galvin and Gabriel
€20
Rosenstock. illustrated (reproducing photographs of the authors). A collection of poems
mostly in English with some in Irish by now established Irish Poets.
Book, "John B The Real Keane a Biography" by Gus Smith and Des Hickey
Hardback with Dust Cover. In excellent condition. Published by The Mercier Press. First
Edition signed by John B Keane 1992 271pp with index and photo illustrations. A copy
Start bid signed by John B and written by Two biographers who since the 1970’s have been
€60
writing biographies. John B co-operated with the authors One (1) of whom, Des Hickey,
died shortly after its completion. The acknowledgements show that the authors consulted
also with a wide range of personalities from the world of theatre, books as well as friends
of John B and his family.
118
Lot
633
Start Bid Description
Estimates
Book ."Riders to the Sea by J.M.Synge. Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition.Published by Dolmen Press, Dublin, First Edition Thus 1969 . 58pp: A fine
press edition by Dolmen of Synge's play, with lino cut illustrations by Tate Adams.
Start bid Published by Dolmen in a LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES. An introductory essay by
€ 120
€50
Robin Skelton at 53pp is almost as long as the play itself. A scarce copy of "One (1) of
the greatest plays to come out of the Irish Dramatic movement". Edited by Robin Skelton
and with 5 lino cuts in colour by Tate Adams. Printed on cartridge paper.
- € 150
634
Book." Ten Irish Poets" Edited by James Simmons. Soft cover with wraps. In
excellent condition. Published by Carcanet Press. First soft cover edition 1974. 92pp.
Anthology of Ten (10) Irish poets, George Buchanan, John Hewitt, Padraic Fiacc, Pearse
Hutchinson, James Simmons, Michael Hartnett, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Michael Foley,
Start bid
Frank Ormsby and Tom Mathews. James Simmons was born in Derry in 1933 and died
€10
in County Donegal in 2001. He taught in universities in Ireland, England and Africa and
was Writer-in-Residence at Queen's University, Belfast. With his wife, Janice Fitzpatrick
Simmons, he founded The Poet's House, first in Islandmagee, County Antrim, and then
in Falcarragh, County Donegal.
€ 20
-
€ 40
635
Book. "The Crows of Mephistopheles" by George Fitzmaurice Hardcover with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Dolmen Press. First Edition 1970.148pp.
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Hogan. George Fitzmaurice was a playwright
before his time. Born in 1877 in the family home, Bedford House, just outside Listowel,
on his father’s death in 1891, the family moved to a farmhouse in Kilcara, outside the
Start bid village of Duagh. George moved to Dublin where he was employed by the Civil Service.
€20
His earliest writings were published in Dublin weeklies between 1900 and 1907. His first
major success came in 1907 with an Abbey production of his comedy The Country
Dressmaker. A selection of short stories The Crows of Mephistopheles was published in
1970 by the Dolmen Press. George fought in World War One. He spent his later years
following monotonous routines in Dublin, with a fear of travelling and people. He died
alone, at 3 Harcourt Street, Dublin, in 1963, at the age of 86.
€ 40
-
€ 80
€ 20
-
€ 30
636
Book."A World of Stone"Edited by Paul O’Sullivan. Hardcover with Dust jacket. In
excellent condition. Published by O’Brien Press. First Edition No date but 1976 ? 248pp.
Life, Folklore and Legends of the Aran islands. Book 1 - A World of Stone (physical
Start bid characteristics and history); Book 2 - Field and Shore (environment, resources, culture);
€10
Book 3 - Island Stories (an anthology of stories, folk tale, drama). Illustrated with black &
white photographs, drawings, maps throughout text. In association with the Curriculum
Development unit. A lovely work on the Aran Islands.
119
Lot
637
Start Bid Description
Estimates
Book, Soft cover "Degrees of Kindred" by Eithne Strong, in excellent condition,
published by Tansy Books from Egotist Inscribed and Signed first Edition 1979 106pp.
Eithne Strong was born in Glensharrold West Limerick in 1925 and wrote poetry both in
Start bid English and Irish, as well as writing novels and short stories in English. In 1991 she won
€20
the Kilkenny Design Award for Flesh - The Greatest Sin. After raising a family of Seven
(7) daughters and Two (2) sons she went on to take a degree at Trinity College
Dublin.She was a member of Aosdana, dying in Monkstown, Dublin in 1999.
€ 30
-
€ 150
- € 180
€ 20
-
€ 30
640
Book. "Integrating Tradition The Achievement of Sean O Riada" Edited by Bernard
Harris and Grattan Freyer. Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published
by Irish Humanities Centre & Keohanes, Terrybaun, Ballina Co Mayo. First Edition 1981.
205pp with illustrations and photographs. A collection of essays comprising tributes and
assessments of O Riada's work. Contributors include Tomas MacAnna, Grainne Yeats,
Start bid
George Morrision and Charles Acton. Includes transcripts of tape recordings of
€10
interviews and the complete score in facsimile MS of O’Riada’s setting for the Táin Bó
Cuailgne. Half tone illustrations and line drawing of instruments. Sean O'Riada was the
founder of the modern school (which is to say, the authentic ancient-style of playing)
Irish folk music and, equally important, a vital nationalistic voice in the orchestral music
of Ireland.
€ 30
-
€ 40
641
Set of Books, hardcovers. "The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid" Two
Volumes. Hardback with Dust jacket. In excellent condition. Published by Martin Brian &
Start Bid O’Keefe. First Edition 1978. Total pages in Two (2) volumes 1485pp. C. M. Grieve, best
€40
known under his pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, is credited with effecting a Scottish
literary revolution which restored an indigenous Scots literature and has been
acknowledged as the greatest poet that his country has produced since Robert Burns.
€ 80
- € 120
book, Hard cover "COLLECTING IRISH SILVER" by Douglas Bennett, with Dust
jacket. Illustrated in black and white and in colour. In excellent condition. Published by
Souvenir Press. First Edition 1984. 228pp. This book has been described as the
Definitive work on the subject and is in itself a collector’s item. An important feature of
Start bid
the book is the lengthy appendix introduced by Captain Ronald Le Bas which lists and
€ 400
€350
illustrates more than 600 makers and their marks, with information about their place and
period of work, for the whole of Ireland. A complete list of hallmarks for the entire period
is also included. Douglas Bennett has worked with silver all his life and published his first
article on the subject at the age of Eleven
- € 500
638
639
641A
Start Bid Book, Hardcover , "Saorstat Eireann, official handbook" - 1st edition, with all maps.
€120 Published by The Talbot Press, Dublin 1932.
Book. "J.M.Synge in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara" essays by George
Gmelch and Ann Saddlemeyer photography by George Gmelch . Hard cover with Dust
jacket. In excellent condition.
Published by O’Brien Press. First Edition 1980. 166pp Illustrated. George Gmelch is
Start bid Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Francisco. He has published 11
€10
books and has also written widely for general audiences. Ann Saddlemyer, born in
1933,scholar; born in Saskatoon, Canada, she became Professor of English and Drama
at the University of Toronto, and served as Chairman of the International Association for
the Study of Irish Literatures.
120
€ 50
Lot
642
Start Bid Description
Estimates
Book." The Making of 1916. Studies in the History of the Rising". edited by, Kevin
B., Nowlan. Hardcover. In excellent condition. Published by Stationery Office, Dublin
First Edition 1969. 338pp. rear double-page map (Dublin), chapter notes, titles. Nine
essays on aspects of the Easter Rising
Start bid
Essayists include Brian O Cuiv, Donal McCartney, John W. Boyle, F.S.L. Lyons, R.
€20
Dudley Edwards, Maureen Wall and G.A. Hayes-McCoy. Professor Kevin B. Nowlan of
University College Dublin is a respected lecturer and authority on Irish History.
€ 40
-
€ 60
643
Book. Soft cover "Islandman a Poem" by Brendan Kennelly. In excellent condition.
Published by Profile Press. 1980 Reprint. 36pp. Kennelly’s poetry can be scabrous,
Start bid
down-to-earth and colloquial. He avoids intellectual pretension and literary posturing,
€5
and his attitude to poetic language could be summed up in the title of One of his epic
poems, "Poetry my Arse".
€ 15
-
€ 30
644
Book "Irish Lives" by Bernard Share and William Bolger Hardcover with Dust jacket.
In excellent condition. Published by Allen Figgis & Co Second Edition 1974 Signed and
Inscribed by Both Authors. Contains 50 biographies under the following categories:
Patriots and Politicians, Scholars and Teachers, Writers, Artists and Musicians,
Scientists and Businessmen and The Irish Abroad, also an historical chronology of
Start bid Ireland. Unusual in that it has been inscribed and signed by both of the co authors. A
€20
well illustrated concise narration. Bernard Share (pseudonym of Bernard Vivian Bolger)
was born in 1930 at Chester and educated at TCD, 1954-57; lived in Australia and
taught at Newcastle University, NSW, He edited Aer Lingus magazine Cara, 1975-99;
established Books Ireland with Jeremy Addis, 1976, serving as editor to 1988. William
Bolger designed the book and indeed is noted as a famous designer of many attractive
and artistic book covers especially for River run Press.
€ 40
-
€ 60
€ 40
-
€ 60
Lot of 3 Austin Clarke Books:
645
"Poems 1917 -1938" by Austin Clarke Soft cover, In excellent condition Published by
The Dolmen Press. First Edition 1974. Volume 1. Austin Clarke (May 9, 1896–March 19,
1974) was born in Dublin. He was One of Four children, whose father was a
corporation official, and was educated in Belvedere College and UCD. He was One (1)
of the leading Irish poets of his generation. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs.
start bid
Clarke's early poetry clearly shows the influence of Yeats. Clarke was a Catholic, and
€20
themes of guilt and repentance run through his early work. Between 1938 and 1955,
Clarke published no new lyric or narrative poetry. Clarke returned to publishing with the
1955 collection Ancient Lights, and he was to continue writing and publishing prolifically
for the rest of his life.
"Poems 1955 -1966" by Austin Clarke Paperback. In excellent condition Published by
The Dolmen Press. First Edition 1974. Volume 2
"Poems 1967 -1974" by Austin Clarke Paperback. In excellent condition
121
Lot
646
Start Bid Description
Estimates
Book. "The Green Fool" by Patrick Kavanagh Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Martin Brian & O’Keeffe, 1973 Reissue of Kavanagh's
autobiography, which was first published in 1938 and withdrawn shortly after publication
start bid owing to a libel suit brought against the publisher by Oliver St John Gogarty who
€20
objected to the remark: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid for his wife - or his
mistress. I expected every poet to have a spare wife." Gogarty won his suit, and was
awarded damages.
€ 50
-
€ 80
647
Book." "The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People" Selected by Bridie
Quinn and Seamus Cashman. Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent condition
Start bid .Published by Wolfhound Press. First Edition 1975 Signed by Seamus Cashman. 192
€20
pages including notes, explanations, biographies and indexes. Drawings by Terence
O'Connell. Born in Conna, Co Cork, Seamus Cashman, is the founder of One of
Ireland's leading literary and cultural publishing houses, Wolfhound Press.
€ 30
-
€ 40
648
Book. "A History of the I.N.T.O. 1868-1968" by T.J.O’Connell. Hardcover in excellent
condition. Published by The Irish National Teachers’ Association. First Edition No date
but 1968 ? 491pp. With many photographic illustrations. A comprehensive History of the
Teachers union. A very scarce work. The author commenced work in the educational
Start bid field as a paid monitor in 1895 and he describes his book as a factual and documented
€100 account of some of the outstanding events which marked the first hundred years of the
INTO. In his preface he states that “My hope is that it may serve as a source book for
others who may later deal with the same subject.” It is a book for any teacher interested
in the history of the Profession in Ireland or any reader with an interest in Trade Union
History. This is a very scarce publication.
€ 200
- € 300
649
start bid
1951 Festival of Britain crown in presentation case
€5
€ 15
-
€ 20
650
start bid Isle of Man set of Four crowns commemorating the bicentenary of manned flight 1783€20
1983
€ 30
-
€ 40
651
start bid Set of Five royal wedding coins, Great Britain, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man and
€20
another Isle of Man
€ 30
-
€ 40
652
start bid Royal mint Guernsey Twenty Five pence coin commemorating Royal visit of 1978 in
€20
original presentation case
€ 30
-
€ 40
653
A 1969 set of Three silver medals commemorating mans first landing on the moon in
start bid
original presentation case complete with cert issued by Bedfordia Associates minted in
€60
999 silver total weight 93 grams
€ 80
- € 120
654
Start Bid
George VI Festival of Britain Crown 1951 in EF Condition
€5
€ 15
-
€ 20
655
start bid
Bag of British pre decimal half pennies
€5
€ 10
-
€ 20
656
start bid
Lot of 20 British pre decimal pennies
€5
€ 15
-
€ 20
122
Lot
Start Bid Description
657
Start Bid
Elizabeth II Silver Wedding Anniversary 25 pence in EF Condition
€5
€ 10
-
€ 15
658
Start Bid
Elizabeth II Churchill Crown 1965 in EF Condition
€5
€ 10
-
€ 15
659
Start Bid
Elizabeth II Silver Wedding Anniversary 25 pence in EF Condition
€5
€ 10
-
€ 15
Bag of british pre decimal shillings
€ 20
-
€ 30
Elizabeth II Crown 1953 in EF condition
€ 10
-
€ 20
1988 Dublin 1000 Cupro Nickel proof fifty pence coin in original presentation case with
cert total mintage 50,000
€ 30
-
€ 40
George V Half Crown 1917 in EF condition
€ 30
-
€ 40
660
661
662
663
start bid
€8
Start Bid
€5
start bid
€20
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€25
Estimates
664
Book. "The Knife" by Peadar O'Donnell. Hardcover with Dust jacket. In excellent
condition. Published by Irish Humanities Centre. Signed 1980 Edition. 288 pp. A novel
set in the Lagan - all the country from the Donegal hills to Lough Neagh - "a fertile district
where a Protestant enclave has for generations been masters of the soil". Set within the
Start bid
Sinn Fein movement in a time after the 1916 Rebellion during the Home Rule conflict.
€ 120
€80
Peadar O'Donnell (1893-1986), the novelist and political activist, is a major figure in the
history of the Irish left. Born in Donegal, he left teaching (and a prominent role in the
Donegal branch of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation) to become a full-time
organiser with the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union in 1918.
- € 150
665
start bid Queen Elizabeth 2nd, Cook Islands Two (2) dollars 1973 in 925 silver 20th anniversary
€30
of the Coronation weighing 26g in original presentation case
€ 80
- € 120
666
1976 Isle of Man solid silver crown commemorating the centenary of the Horse Tram,
start bid
One (1) of a limited edition of 30,000 issued by the pobjoy mint in its original
€20
presentation case
€ 40
-
€ 60
667
Isle of Man 1976 USA bicentenary year Washington crown to commemorate the visit of
start bid Queen Elizabeth 2nd to the USA, Obverse Queen Elizabeth 2nd and reverse side
€30
George Washington sterling .925 silver coin complete with its original presentation box
and certificate, weight 28.28g total mintage 30,000 issued by Pobjoy mint.
€ 40
-
€ 50
668
start bid 1979 Isle of Man silver crown marking the Tercentenary (300 years) of manx coinage in
€20
original presentation case complete with cert issued by the Pobjoy mint
€ 40
-
€ 50
669
start bid
1948 South African Five shilling coin in 80% silver total mintage 780,000
€15
€ 20
-
€ 30
€ 40
-
€ 60
€ 30
-
€ 40
670
671
Lot of Five 1978 25th anniversary of the Coronation Crowns, Tristan Da Cunha,
start bid
Ascension Islands, St Helena, Guernsey & Isle of Man, Cupro Nickel in clear plastic
€30
presentation cases.
start bid Isle of Man 925 silver crown commemorating Queen Elizabeth 2nd Silver Jubilee 1977
€20
still in original box weighing 28.6g total mintage 100,000
672
Start Bid
American dollar coin 1971
€10
€ 20
-
€ 30
673
Start Bid St. Lucia 10 Dollars 1982 BATTLE OF THE SAINTS Copper - nickel Commemorative
€15
issue
€ 30
-
€ 50
123
Lot
674
675
Start Bid Description
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Lot of 4 kennedy half dollars 2 1964 7 2 1968
€15
Start Bid
Rare oxford mint hammered half penny
€35
Estimates
€ 30
-
€ 40
€ 50
-
€ 80
676
start bid
Lot of 2 Spanish commemorative coins 2000 ptas uncirculated
€10
€ 20
-
€ 30
678
Start Bid
Victoria Shilling 1888 in EF Condition
€15
€ 25
-
€ 30
679
Start Bid
Mexico 50 Peso 1982 in EF condition (copper - nickel)
€5
€ 10
-
€ 15
680
start bid Irish Golden Jubilee 1916-1966 commemorative Medallion in hall marked Irish Silver 33g
€ 150
€120 in original presentation case
- € 200
681
Start Bid St. Lucia 10 Dollars 1982 BATTLE OF THE SAINTS in EF condition Copper - nickel
€15
Commemorative issue
€ 30
-
€ 40
682
Start Bid
French 5 Francs 1873 in VF condition, mint mark A.
€15
€ 20
-
€ 30
€ 20
-
€ 30
€ 30
-
€ 40
683
684
start bid
Bag of british half crowns
€8
Start bid
Lot of 15 foreign mixed coins
€15
685
Start Bid Gibraltar Elizabeth II Silver Wedding Anniversary 25 pence in EF Condition (Copper €5
Nickel)
€ 10
-
€ 15
686
Start Bid Guernsey 25 pence Silver Wedding Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
€5
1947-1972 in EF Condition (copper-nickel)
€ 10
-
€ 15
687
Start Bid
Elizabeth II Churchill Crown 1965 in EF Condition
€5
€ 10
-
€ 15
688
Start Bid
American Morgan Silver Dollar 1878 S in VF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
689
Start Bid
Silver Jubilee Crown 1977 in EF condition. (Copper - Nickel)
€5
€ 10
-
€ 15
690
Start Bid
George III Crown 1819 LIX in EF Condition but holed
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
691
Start Bid
George III Shilling 1787 in EF Condition, no semee of hearts in Hanoverian shield
€50
€ 60
-
€ 70
692
Start Bid
American Dollar 1972 in EF condition (Copper - Nickel)
€5
€ 10
-
€ 15
693
Start Bid
Spanish 5 Pesetas, Amadio I 1871 in VF condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
694
Start Bid
Victoria Four Pence 1938 in VF Condition
€15
€ 20
-
€ 30
124
Lot
695
696
697
698
699
Start Bid
start bid
€35
Start Bid
€25
Start Bid
€5
start bid
€20
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€5
Description
Estimates
Irish pre decimal set of coins from farthing to halfcrown
€ 45
-
€ 60
Heywood gardens set of irish euro mint coins complete with original presentation sleeve
& outer box year of issue 2005
€ 40
-
€ 50
Elizabeth II Crown 1960 in EF Condition
€ 10
-
€ 15
Irish decimal set of coins including millennium One pound coin and regular One pound
coin
€ 30
-
€ 40
Bermuda Elizabeth II Silver Wedding Anniversary One dollar 1972 in EF condition
€ 10
-
€ 20
700
American Kennedy Half Dollar 1969 in UNC. From 1965 to 1969 US half dollars were
Start Bid
struck in "debased" silver. The outer layer is 80% silver bonded to a core that's mostly
€10
copper, for an overall content of about 40%.
€ 20
-
€ 30
701
Start Bid
Victoria Shilling 1887 in EF Condition
€40
€ 60
-
€ 70
702
Start Bid
Italian 5 Lire Victorio Emmanuele II 1873 in VF condition .900 silver
€30
€ 50
-
€ 60
703
American Silver peace Dollar 1922 S in VF Condition. The Peace dollar is a United
States dollar coin minted from 1921 to 1928, and again in 1934 and 1935. Designed by
Start Bid
Anthony de Francisci, the coin was the result of a competition to find designs emblematic
€20
of peace. Its reverse depicts an eagle at rest clutching an olive branch, with the legend
"Peace". It was the last United States circulating dollar coin to be struck in silver.
€ 30
-
€ 40
704
Start bid
An Irish half penny token dated 1792 " Camac Kyan and camac" in very good condition
€10
€ 20
-
€ 30
705
Start Bid
Victoria Shilling 1891 in EF condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
706
Start bid
Belgium Leopold II 5F in VF condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
707
Start Bid
French 5 Francs 1876 in EF condition, mint mark A
€30
€ 50
-
€ 60
€ 40
-
€ 50
€ 30
-
€ 40
708
709
Start Bid
American Morgan Silver Dollar 1896 O in EF Condition
€25
Liberty
silver
coin A Liberty silver coin One troy ounce of .999 pure silver dated 1983
Start bid
€20
710
Start Bid
South Africa 5 shilling 1952 in EF condition (Silver)
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
711
start bid
Edward 1 silver penny minted in Dublin 1272 - 1307
€40
€ 60
-
€ 80
712
Start Bid
American Morgan Silver Dollar 1882 S in VF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
125
Lot
Start Bid Description
713
Start Bid
James II gun money shilling 1689 in fine condition
€20
714
715
717
Estimates
American silver Peace Dollar 1922 in VF Condition. The Peace dollar is a United States
dollar coin minted from 1921 to 1928, and again in 1934 and 1935. Designed by Anthony
tart Bid
de Francisci, the coin was the result of a competition to find designs emblematic of
€20
peace. Its reverse depicts an eagle at rest clutching an olive branch, with the legend
"Peace". It was the last United States circulating dollar coin to be struck in silver.
start bid
Victoria 1 1/2d 1843 in VF condition
€20
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Bank of Ireland Ten pence Silver Token 1813 in VF condition
€30
€ 25
-
€ 30
€ 30
-
€ 40
€ 25
-
€ 30
€ 40
-
€ 60
718
Start Bid
Victoria Crown 1844 in VF condition but holed
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
719
Start Bid
George V Florin 1914 in EF condition
€15
€ 25
-
€ 30
720
Start Bid
George V Crown 1935 in EF condition
€20
€ 25
-
€ 30
€ 15
-
€ 20
€ 25
-
€ 30
€ 40
-
€ 60
721
722
723
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Victoria Bun head silver Two pence 1838 in VF Condition
€10
Start Bid
George V Half Crown 1918 in EF condition
€15
Start Bid
Bank of Ireland Five (5) pence silver token 1805 in VF condition
€30
724
Start Bid
James II Gun Money Half Crown Aug 1690, in VF Condition
€60
€ 80
-
€ 90
725
Start Bid
Victoria Shilling 1899 in VF condition
€10
€ 20
-
€ 30
€ 20
-
€ 30
€ 25
-
€ 35
€ 150
- € 200
726
727
728
Start Bid
George V Crown 1935 in EF condition
€15
Start Bid
George VI Crown 1937 in EF condition
€15
Start Bid
Japanese Yen Meiji 1903 in EF condition (silver)
€100
729
Start Bid
George V Florin 1914 in EF condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
730
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1889 in VF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
731
Start Bid
Victoria Shilling 1839 in VF condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
732
Start Bid
German Wilhelm Funf Mark mint mark B 1876 in VF Condition
€30
€ 50
-
€ 60
733
start bid
A Morgan silver dollar in extra fine condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
126
Lot
Start Bid Description
734
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1887 in VF Condition
€20
€ 25
-
€ 30
735
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1895 LIX in F condition.
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
736
Start Bid
Victoria Bun Head Shilling 1885 in VF condition
€15
€ 25
-
€ 30
737
Start Bid
Victoria Florin 1897 (old head) in EF condition
€30
€ 50
-
€ 60
€ 25
-
€ 30
€ 50
-
€ 60
€ 30
-
€ 40
738
739
740
Estimates
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Victoria Bun Head Shilling 1873 in VF condition
€15
Start Bid
George III Emergency issue 3 shilling 1811 in VF Condition
€40
Start Bid
William and Mary Halfpenny 1693 in F condition
€20
741
Start Bid
Victoria Half Crown 1887 in EF condition
€60
€ 80
- € 100
742
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1889 in VF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
743
Start Bid
Victorian Crown 1889 in VF condition.
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
744
Start Bid
Morgan Dollar 1921 in EF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
€ 30
-
€ 40
€ 170
- € 180
745
746
Start Bid
William IV sixpence 1834 in VF Condition
€20
Start Bid
Henry VI Groat 1422-61 in EF Condition
€150
747
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1889 in VF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
748
Start Bid
Victoria double florin 1887 in EF condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
749
Start Bid
Victoria Shilling 1877 in VF condition
€15
€ 25
-
€ 30
750
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1887 in VF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
751
Start Bid
Bank of Ireland Six Shilling Silver Token 1804 in VF condition
€120
€ 150
- € 180
752
Start Bid
Elizabeth I Sixpence 1575 in VF Condition
€130
€ 140
- € 150
753
Start Bid
Bank of Ireland thirty pence silver token 1808 in VF condition
€60
€ 80
-
127
€ 90
Lot
754
Start Bid Description
Start Bid
Victoria Half Crown 1887 in EF condition
€20
Estimates
€ 25
-
€ 30
755
Start Bid
Morgan Dollar 1921 in EF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
756
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1889 in VF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
757
Start Bid
Victorian Crown 1888 in VF condition.
€25
€ 30
-
€ 40
758
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1893 LVI in very fine condition.
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
759
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1896 LX in VF condition.
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
760
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1894 LVIII in F condition.
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
761
Start Bid
Victorian Crown 1890 in E/F condition.
€25
€ 35
-
€ 50
762
Start Bid
Victoria Bun head Half Farthing 1844 in VF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 60
763
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (young head) 1845 in fine condition
€35
€ 50
-
€ 60
764
Start bid
William IV fourpence 1836 in EF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
765
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1899 LXII in Extra Fine condition.
€25
€ 35
-
€ 45
766
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1898 LXII in Extra Fine condition.
€25
€ 35
-
€ 45
767
Start Bid
Victoria Half Crown 1897 in EF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
768
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1887 in EF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
769
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1890 in VF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
770
Start Bid
Victorian Crown 1892 in Extra Fine condition.
€25
€ 35
-
€ 40
771
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1900 LXIV in Extra Fine condition.
€25
€ 35
-
€ 45
772
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1890 in VF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
128
Lot
773
Start Bid Description
Start Bid
Victoria Half Crown 1874 in F condition
€20
Estimates
€ 30
-
€ 40
774
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1887 in VF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
775
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1894 LVII in VF condition.
€35
€ 50
-
€ 60
776
Start Bid
Victorian Crown (old head) 1897 LXI in VF condition.
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
777
Start Bid
Victoria Florin 1849 in VF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
778
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1889 in VF Condition
€20
€ 30
-
€ 40
779
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1887 in EF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
780
Start Bid
Victorian Crown 1887 in EF condition.
€35
€ 50
-
€ 60
781
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1890 in VF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
782
Start Bid
Victorian Crown 1887 in EF condition.
€35.00
€ 50
-
€ 60
783
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1887 in EF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
784
Start Bid
Edward VII Crown 1902 in VF Condition
€40
€ 50
-
€ 60
785
Start Bid
Rare Victoria Double Florin (Second I in Victoria is an inverted 1) 1888 in VF Condition
€40
€ 50
-
€ 60
786
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1890 in VF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
787
Start Bid
George III Crown 1820 LX in VF condition
€50
€ 70
-
€ 80
788
Start Bid
George IIII Crown 1822 SECUNDO in VF condition
€50
€ 70
-
€ 80
789
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1890 in VF Condition
€30
€ 40
-
€ 50
790
Start Bid
Victoria Double Florin 1888 in Extra Fine Condition
€60
€ 70
-
€ 90
129
Lot
Start Bid Description
791
Start Bid
George III Crown 1818 LVIII in VF condition
€50
€ 70
-
€ 80
792
Start Bid
George IIII Crown 1822 TERTIO in VF condition
€50
€ 70
-
€ 80
793
Start Bid
George IIII Crown 1820 TERTIO in VF condition
€50
€ 70
-
€ 80
794
Start Bid
George III half crown 1819 in EF Condition
€120
€ 150
- € 170
795
Maria Theresa Silver Thaler Restrike Trade Coin dated 1780
These coins were not struck in 1780, but have been issued ever since, as an official
Start bid
restrike by the Austrian Mint. Similar thalers were issued during the Empress' lifetime,
€20
but these are all dated before 1780. Diameter 39.5 mm ,SilverContent 833.3 /
1000,Copper Content 166.6 / 1000. Total Weight 28.0668 grams
€ 30
-
796
1915 One Ducat gold Austrian coin 0.9860 Gold. Weight 2.70g. The last regular issue of
Start Bid
ducats was in 1914. All the ducats dated 1915 are restrikes, of which there were 996,721 € 150
€100
struck between 1920 and 1936
- € 200
797
Start Bid
Victoria Gothic Florin 1867 in EF Condition
€200
€ 250
- € 300
798
Start Bid
Victoria Gothic Crown Undicimo edge 1847 in EF Condition
€900
€
1,000
-
€
1,200
799
Start bid George III Third Guinea 1804 in F condition due to punch mark which obscures part of
€50
date on reverse. weight 2.78g
€ 60
-
€ 80
800
start bid
A 1913 English half soverign coin in extra fine condition 3.96g
€100
€ 120
- € 150
801
start bid
A George 3rd Spade Guinea 1792 8.33g in extra fine condition
€400
€ 500
- € 600
€ 300
- € 350
€ 180
- € 250
€ 600
- € 700
€ 250
- € 300
€ 250
- € 300
€ 700
- € 800
802
803
804
805
806
807
Estimates
Queen
Juliana
Coin Netherlands Queen Juliana Jubilee gold coin 1959 weighing 7.8g in mint condition
start bid
€250
start bid
Rare South African 22ct gold half pond coin 1894 in extra finne condition weighing 3.9g
€150
start bid Unite States of America Ten (10) dollar gold coin with motto 1901 in extra fine condition
€500 weight 16.69g
start bid
English 1910 gold soverign in extra fine condition 7.97g
€200
start bid
English 1898 gold soverign in extra fine condition 7.97g
€200
start bid Royal Canadian mint $100 dollar 22 karat gold coin 91.66% gold 8.34% silver. Elizabeth
€500 2nd 1978 in original presentation case with certificate of authenticity 16.965g
130
€ 50
Lot
808
809
810
811
812
813
814
815
816
817
Start Bid Description
Film poster "The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants 2" 2009, British Quad size 30x40"
Start bid Starring America Ferrera and Alexis Bledel
€7
Start bid
€10
Start bid
€10
start bid
€20
start bid
€5
start bid
€5
Original film poster 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' British Quad 30'' x40'' 2008
mint condition starring Brad pitt & Cate Blanchett.
Original film poster 'Alvin and the Chimonks' advanced British Quad 30'' x 40'' 2007
(Excellent Condition) starring Jason Lee.
Original film poster 'Sense & Sensibility' British Quad 1995 (folded) starring Kate Winslet
& Hugh Grant. 30'' x 40''
Original film poster 'Star trek Nemesis' British Quad 30'' x 40'' 2002 (folded) starring
Patrick Stewart
Film poster 'Ironman' 2008 advanced British Quad 30'' x 40'' staring Robert Downey Jr
start bid Film Poster "Nim's Island" 2008 British Quad size 30x40" Starring Jodie Foster
€7
Film Poster "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix" 2008 staring Daniel Radcliffe.
start bid British Quad 30x40"
€5
start bid Film poster 'Lions for Lambs' 2007 starring Robert Redford & Meryl Streep British Quad
€5
30'' x 40''
Film Poster "Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown" 2006 ,Advance British Quad 30"x40"
Start bid
€15
131
Estimates
€ 15
-
€ 25
€ 20
-
€ 40
€ 20
-
€ 40
€ 30
-
€ 50
€ 10
-
€ 20
€ 20
-
€ 30
€ 15
-
€ 20
€ 10
-
€ 20
€ 10
-
€ 20
€ 25
-
€ 35