1. Murray, Laurence P.

History of the Parish of Creggan in the 17th and 18th centuries. With numerous Ancient Maps and Illustrations.

Dundalk, The Dundalgan Press, 1940. 92 pages. Original Softcover. Repaired and frayed but overall still in good condition with signs of external wear. Several annotations in the maps and within the text.

2. [Stafford, Thomas] Carew, Sir George / O’Grady, Standish.

Pacata Hibernia. Or A History of the Wars in Ireland during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Especially within the Province of Munster under the Government of Sir George Carew and compiled by his Direction and Appointment. Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Standish O’Grady. With Portraits, Maps and Plans. [This late 19th century version of the Pacata Hibernia is the so-called Fourth Edition, with a new impression of the titlepage of the first edition from 1633 and excellent reproductions of the original plates].

Limited Edition: No.252 of only five hundred copies printed. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Downey & Co. Limited, 1896. Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece – Portrait of Sir George Carew, XXII, 302 pages with 14 illustrations (maps etc.) / Volume II – Volume II: Frontispiece – Portrait of Donnell O’Sulevan Beare [O’Sullivan Bere], XI, 357 pages with 8 illustrations (maps etc.). Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Both Volumes in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Both bindings firm and all illustrations in excellent condition.

3. Irish Book Bureau.

The Tri-Colour Song Book. [Including two pages with “Great 1916 Picture – showing the last stand of the heroes of Easter Week in the GPO just before evacuation with Padraig Pearse, Tom Clarke and Joseph Plunkett].

Dublin, Irish Book Bureau, no year [c.1930]. Small Octavo. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Fragile with some minor damages only. Overall in good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. [Emmet] Bodkin, M.McD.

True Man and Traitor or The Rising of Emmet.

First Edition. Dublin / London, The Talbot Press / Fisher Unwin, 1921. Small Octavo. VII, 315 pages. Original Hardcover with illustration and ornament to cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Paper fragile as usual with this publication. But this copy intact and without any damage to the bookblock !

5. Devane, James.

Isle of Destiny – The Clash of Cultures [With a chapter: The Three Societies: The Irish / The Anglo-Irish / The Scots-Irish].

First Edition. Clonskeagh, Browne & Nolan, no year [c.1920]. Small Octavo. 256 pages with a printed map to pastedowns and endpaper, titled “Imperium Celticum – Circa 350 B.C.” (with Ireland shown as “Hibernia”, The Irish Sea as “Oceanus Hibernicus” and the River Shannon as “Senus”). Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Henley, Pauline.

Spenser in Ireland. [Presentation copy]

First Edition. Cork, Cork University Press / Educational Co. of Ireland, 1928. Octavo. Frontispiece-Fold-Out-Map of Ireland, 231 pages. Original Hardcover. Some minor signs of foxing only. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Pauline Henley on the endpaper: “With every good wish to a devoted lover of Ireland, Mlle. Etiennette Beuque. Pauline Henley – July 21st, 1928”. In his book: A ‘Manly Study’?: Irish Women Historians 1868-1949, N. Smith writes that Pauline Henley had previously corresponded with Etienne Beuque in the same year when Mlle. Beuque, a french writer on contemporary irish history, had asked her about Terence MacSwiney. This book must have travelled with her response to France. Excellent association copy !

7. Somerville-Large, Peter.

Irish Eccentrics – A Selection.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975. Octavo. VIII, 286 pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

8. Meigs, Samantha A.:

Tradition and confessionalism, 1400-1690.

Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997. 23 cm. XI, 209 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. A fantastic, exceptional publication on this topic. [Early modern history series].

9. Leslie, Shane.

The Irish Tangle for English Readers.

First Edition. London, MacDonald & Co., [1946]. Octavo. 254 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. Robins, Joseph.

Custom House people.

Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1993. 22cm. xiii,206 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare publication !

11. McGuire, James; Ford, Alan; Milne, Kenneth:

As by the Law established – The Church of Ireland Since the Reformation.

Dublin, Lilliput Press, 1995. x,288 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

12. Tyrrell, John.

Weather and Warfare – A Climatic History of the 1798 Rebellion.

Cork, Collins Press, 2001. 23 cm. viii, 208 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Few markings but otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. Thackeray, William Makepeace.

The Irish Sketchbook of 1842.

Dublin, Nonsuch, 2005. 23 cm. 319 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

14. [Russell, Thomas] Carroll, Denis.

The Man from God knows where – Thomas Russell 1767 – 1803.

Dublin, Tartan, 1995. 14 x 22 cm. 256 pages including an index. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

15. McCracken, John Leslie.

The Irish parliament in the eighteenth century.

Dundalk, Dundalgan for the Irish historical association, 1971. Octavo. 27 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Irish history series, 9].

16. Donnelly, James S.

Captain Rock – The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824.

Wilton, Cork, Collins press, 2009. 23 cm. XIV,508 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

17. Uí Chatháin, Bláthnaid.

Éigse Chairbre. Filíocht ó Chairbreacha i gCo. Chorcaí agus ón gceantar máguaird, 1750-1850. [edited by] Bláthnaid Uí Chatháin.

Baile Átha Cliath, Clóchomhar Tta, 2006. 23 cm. xii, 533 pages with illustrations, maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

18. Lane, Fintan.

In Search of Thomas Sheahan. Radical Politics in Cork 1824-1836.

Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2001. 14 x 21 cm. 69 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear only. [Maynooth Studies in Irish Local History, No. 37]

19. Berleth, Richard.

The Twilight Lords – An irish Chronicle. [The Fierce Doomed Struggle of the Last Great Feudal Lords of Ireland Against the England of Elizabeth I].

New York, Barnes & Noble, 1978. Octavo. XV, 316 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. O’Farrell, Patrick.

Ireland’s English Question – Anglo-Irish Relations 1534-1970.

London, B.T.Batsford, 1971. Octavo. 336 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.