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 A History of the Garda Siochana
A Social History of the Force 1922-55 with an Overview of the Years 1952-97
Liam McNiffe
"The Civic Gaurd will succeed not by force of arms, or numbers, but on their moral authority as servants of the people." Thus spoke Michael Staines, the first Garda Commissioner, in September 1922. Staines had been chairman of the...
$29.95
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 A Matter of Minutes
The Legacy of Bloody Sunday
Joanne O’Brien
A Matter of Minutes captures the experiences of thirty-three people whose lives were changed forever by the events of Bloody Sunday. Photojournalist Joanne O’Brien paints a stark and stunning picture of bravery, endurance, and survival—no...
$19.95
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 A Traveller's Companion to Dublin
Edited by Thomas and Valerie Pakenham
Diverse views of Dublin, its glories, tragedy and comedy A Traveller’s Companion to Dublin splendidly brings to life Dublin’s turbulent history, its intensely literary and theatrical character of long literary lineage from Jonath...
$16.95
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 All-Ireland Dream, The
Over 25 Interviews with a GAA Greats
Seamus McRory
Featuring over 25 in-depth interviews with GAA all-stars, The All-Ireland Dream gives a rare insight into many of the people who have made the GAA Ireland's premier sporting organization. From famous footballers and hurlers, suc...
$6.95
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 As Wicked a Woman
The Biography of Eleanor, Countess of Desmond
Anne Chambers
Apart from the occasional or passing reference, historians have ignored or forgotten her. Now in a vigorous, moving biography, Anne Chambers writes about the amazing life and the ambitions of this truly extraordinary woman. A woman of courag...
$17.95
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 Decline of the Big House in Ireland, The
Terence Dooley
Built to inspire awe and deference, the country homes of Irish landlords were traditionally referred to as "big houses." In post-Famine Ireland, these edifices stood as implacable symbols of the economic and social strength of the landed...
$30.00
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 Famous Dubliners
Michael Stanley
First one must raise the question, “What is a Dubliner?” This book attempts to answer, by chronicling the lives of six famous people who lived in Dublin: W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone, Oscar Wilde, and Edward Carson....
$16.95
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 Father Browne
A Life in Pictures
edited by E.E. O’Donnell
As a student with a passion for photography, Fr Browne’s pictures won him fame following the Titanic tragedy. By the time of his death in 1960, he had almost 42,000 negatives, the personal record of 'a master photographer with an unerring e...
$15.95
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 Father Browne’s Cork
People & Places 1912-1954
edited by E.E. O’Donnell
Masterful photographs of the city and county. Images of his home county and city by Ireland's master photographer. In these wonderful pictures, we rediscover the public and private faces of Cork's changing landscape. As a...
$25.00
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 Father Browne’s Dublin
Photographs 1925-1950
edited by E.E. O’Donnell
As a student with a passion for photography, Fr Browne’s pictures won him fame following the Titanic tragedy. By the time of his death in 1960, he had almost 42,000 negatives. A treasure of images, a collection of outstanding photograp...
$25.00
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 Father Browne’s England
edited by E.E. O’Donnell
Discovering England through the decades- remarkable images of people and places, 1912 to 1953. ...
$25.00
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 Fenian Diary
Denis B. Cashman on board the Hougoumont 1867-1868
Denis B Cashman; edited by C. W. Sullivan III
In 1867, Fenianism in Ireland was at its peak. The English, desperate to stem the tide of rebellion, banished convicted Fenians, along with thousands of common criminals, to exile in Australia. The Hougoumont was the last official c...
$13.95
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 Gerard Keegan's Famine Diary
edited by James Mangan
1847...Gerard Keegan, a schoolteacher, and his young bride left County Sligo to travel aboard the now infamous coffin ships to Canada. This book is based on the diary he kept. Gerard Keegan charts the reality of famine and emigration - relat...
$9.95
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How the GAA Survived the Troubles
Desmond Fahy
The GAA can claim members and supporters in every town, village and parish throughout Northern Ireland. Its clubs provide a social and cultural center for the people, and are an integral part of community life. However, for more than thiry y...
$15.00
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 In Search of Ireland’s Holy Wells
Elizabeth Healy
The veneration of water has been an integral part of Irish culture since ancient times. Today, at thousands of holy wells scattered through the land, the tradition continues.
Elizabeth Healy has traveled the length and breadth of Ireland,...
$16.95
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 Ireland's Bridges
Dr. Ronald Cox and Dr. Michael Gould
It is estimated that there are 30,000 bridges in Ireland. Ireland's Bridges seeks to explore the design and construction of these bridges throughout Ireland's history and covers all areas of the Irish landscape. Using over 200 col...
$29.95
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 Irish Rebellions
1798-1916, An Illustrated History
Helen Litton
From the time that Britain first began to take an interest in the country on her western side, the history of the two islands has been one of constant struggle. Each generation of rebels left a speech or a watchword or a martyr, which could be pas...
$12.95
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 Lost Distilleries of Ireland
Brian Townsend; foreword by John Clement Ryan
Scotch may be the most popular whiskey in the world today, but over a century ago, it was Irish whiskey which was most commonly drunk throughout the world. Nowadays only three producing units exist at Midleton, Co Cork; Bushmills, Co Antrim and Coole...
$24.95
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 Northern Ireland 1921–2001
Political Forces and Social Classes
REVISED & UPDATED EDITION
Despite disagreements over arms decommissioning, peace continues to hold in Northern Ireland, and this highly praised study traces the province's history from partition in 1921 to today’s peace process. Widely...
$24.95
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 Oliver Cromwell
An Illustrated History
Helen Litton
Cromwell is one of the most reviled figures of Anglo-Irish history. In popular belief his sacking of Drogheda remains one of the most bloody massacres in our history and his utterance “to Hell or to Connaught” became common usage in the E...
$13.95
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