101. Goodman More, Alexander / Colgan, Nathaniel / Scully, Reginald W.

Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of Plants in Ireland [Including: “A List of the Principal Books, Papers, MSS. and Herbaria relating to the Flora of Ireland].

Second Edition – Founded on the Papers of the Late Alexander Goodman More. Dublin, Edward Ponsonby, 1898. Large Octavo (16 cm x 22,5 cm). Frontispiece-Map (folded), XCVI, 538 pages. Original Hardcover / Original publisher’s green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Unusual in this condition ! The second edition is the definitive, enlarged and revised version of this book.

102. Gorham, Maurice.

Ireland from Old Photographs.

London, Batsford, 1979. Quarto (18.7 cm x 24.7 cm). 156 unnumbered pages with 206 stunning, historical photographs of 19th century Ireland. Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Small personal inscription (not by the author).

103. Green, Alice Stopford.

The Making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200-1600.

Second Edition. Dublin / London, Maunsel and Company, 1920. Large Octavo. XXIV, 573 pages including a map of Ireland specially drawn to illustrate chapter I of the book. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine (Original blue publisher’s coth). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the private library of Seosamh Laoide (English: Joseph H. Lloyd, 1865–1939), known as “Mac Tíre na Páirce” (″Wolf of the Park”). With his name in gaeilge on the endpaper. Seosamh Laoide was an Irish language scholar was an Irish language scholar.

104. Griffin, Gerald.

The Collegians or The Colleen Bawn – A Tale of Garryowen.

London and Felling-on-Tyne, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no year (c.1890). Octavo. Frontispiece, VII, 369 pages. Original publisher’s cloth / Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Late 19th century edition of this irish classic. [The Evergreen Library]

105. [Griffith, Arthur] Kabdebo, Thomas.

Ireland and Hungary. A study in parallels. With an Arthur Griffith bibliography. With a foreword by Árpád Göncz, President of the Hungarian Republic.

Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2001. 25 cm. 122 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

106. [Griffith, Arthur] Maye, Brian.

Arthur Griffith. [Biography of the founder of Sinn Féin together with a very interesting newspaper-clipping with an article on Griffith’s Role in pursuit of Irish Liberty].

Dublin, Griffith College Publications, 1997. 21cm. x,403 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

107. Guiney, David / Puirseal, Padraig.

Guinness Book of Hurling Records – Complete Roll of All-Ireland Hurling Champions (1887-1964) and National League, Railway Cup, Provincial and Oireachtas Cup Winners.

Dublin, A. Guinness Son & Co., 1964. Duodecimo. 64 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

108. [Haliburton, Thomas Chandler] Anonymous.

The Season-Ticket.

New Edition. London, Richard Bentley, 1861. Octavo (11,5 cm x 17 cm). 330 pages including Advertisement bound in front of the Volume for W.H.Smith & Son’s. Original Hardcover (Printed, paper-covered-boards. The original Volume now housed in a bespoke, recent Solander-Box. The binding a little shaky. The interior in excellent, extremely clean condition. Of utmost rarity. Already in the first chapter, Haliburton uses the technique of literary fiction in order to speak about the ability to travel everywhere (in mid 19th century)….″The Grand Tour now means a voyage round the Globe…” / Haliburton, known to have been “eager to promote immigration to the colonies of British North America” tries to entice to Travel. The Chapter “An Evening in Cork” talks about the narrator to “accompany my old college friend Cary to Monkstown in Ireland…..unlike my gruff and inhospitable countrymen, I advise you, when at Cork, to remain there, till you have ‘done’ the city and its environs and then to sail down the River…”.

109. Hamilton, Padraig [ed.].

Bandon Historical Journal. No. 10. 1994.

First edition. Bandon, Cuman Seanchais na Banndan, 1994. 15.5 cm x 22 cm. 64 pages. With numerous illustrations and photographs. Original Softcover. Brochure. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his markings and annotations in the text.

110. Hammond, Bill.

Soldier of the Rearguard: The Story of Matt Flood and the Active Service Column.

Fermoy, Éigse Na Mainistreach Publications, 1977. 12 cm x 18 cm. 69 pages, 3 illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent, near mint condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare book.

111. [Harding, St. Stephen] Luddy, Rev. Ailbe J.

Centenary Life of St.Stephen Harding – Founder of the Cistercian Order.

Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, 1934. Octavo. 34 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

112. Harrison, Henry.

Ulster and the British Empire, 1939 – Help or hindrance ? – A sequel to “Ireland and the British Empire, 1937”.

Second Impression of the first Edition. London, Robert Hale Limited, 1939. Octavo. Frontispiece map, 231 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Dustjacket slightly frayed. The Volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

113. Hart, Peter.

The I.R.A. & Its Enemies. Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. 24cm x 16cm. xv, 350 (4) pages. With maps to show district towns in Cork, 37 tables and 2 figures. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including several interesting newspaper-clippings related to the topic.

114. Harvey, T.R. / [Bartlett, William Henry].

Panoramic View of and Tourist’s Guide to The County of Wicklow and to The City and Intervening Scenery of the County of Dublin. Embellished by Select Views of the Scenery ; With Plan of the City as it stood in 1610 and Plan of the Modern City as Engraved for the G.P.O. Directory.

[Second Edition with 11 Illustrations and 2 Maps]. Dublin / London, S.B.Oldham / Seeley’s Fleet Street, no year (c.1850). Quarto (22 cm wide x 28 cm high). Pagination: Halftitle (stating: “Tourist Guide”), Frontispiece, Engraved Titlepage, Titlepage (Decorative in Two colours and two Fonts), “A Plan of Dublin in 1610”, IX, “Dublin – Engraved for The General Post Office Directory”, 24 pages interspersed with an additional eight (8) steelengravings of County Wicklow and surroundings. Original, very decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to front and rear boards. New spine furnished in the 19th century. Corners bumped, pastedown a little rough but interior excellent with all engravings and especially the maps in very good condition. Extremely rare publication !

115. Hawthorne, James.

Two Centuries of Irish History. Based on a BBC Radio Series. Edited by James Hawthorne.

London, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1969. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 136 pages, 27 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

116. Hayward, Richard.

Munster and the City of Cork. With pencil drawings by Raymond Piper.

London, Pheonix House, 1964. 18 cm x 26 cm. XIV, 354 pages, 120 half-tone illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Price-clipped dustjacket. Otherwise in unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private gift-inscription (not by author).

117. [Healy, Francis J. (Cobh)].

The Constitution, Rules & Regulations of the General Council of the Bar of Ireland [Francis J, Healy’s personal copy with his name and date in ink on titlepage: “Francis J.Healy, Munster, Cork, 1915”].

[Cork], no year [c.1915]. Duodecimo. 16 pages. Original Softcover. Binding stained. Rusty staples. Very Rare, rather ephemeral pamphlet which usually had perished. The Constitution was adopted in February 1914. Significant provenance of this publication by Terence MacSwiney’s Defense Solicitor.

118. [Healy, Timothy Michael] Callanan, Frank.

T.M. Healy.

Cork, Cork University Press, 1996. 25 cm. xxvii, 754 pages : illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

119. Hezlet, Arthur.

The “B” Specials – A history of the Ulster Special Constabulary.

Belfast, Mourne River Press, 1997. Octavo. 246 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

120. Hickey, Margaret.

Irish Days – Oral histories of the Twentieth Century. Compiled by Margaret Hickey with photographs by Tom Kelly.

London, Kyle Cathie, 2001. 24 cm. 288 pages. With photographs. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

121. Hickey, Patrick.

Famine in West Cork. The Mizen Peninsula, Land and People, 1800-1852. A local study of pre-famine and famine Ireland.

Cork, Mercier Press, 2002. 16 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, 424 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjacket with signs of wear. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely Rare, out-of-print-title. The ultimate copy, signed and with a gift-inscription from Patrick Hickey to Rosscarbery Bookdealer Cal [Hyland] and with two original, very rare and controversial newspaper-clippings which constituted a dispute about facts in the book between Patrick Hickey and irish journalist Eoghan Harris.

122. Hogan, Edmund.

Onomasticon Goedelicum – Locorum et Tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae. An Index, with Identifications, tothe Gaelic Names of Places and Tribes, by Edmund Hogan, S.J. D.Litt. National Library of Ireland; recevtly Professor of Irish Language and History in University College, Dublin, and Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland, sometime Todd Professor of the Celtic Languages, and Member of the Council, Royal Irish Academy; a Commissioner for the Publication of the Ancient Laws of Ireland; a Governor of the School of Irish Learning.

Dublin / London, Hodges, Figgis & Co. Ltd. / Williams & Norgate, 1910. Quarto (20 cm wide x 25.7 cm high x 5 cm deep). Frontispiece – Map, showing the Dioceses and Counties of Ireland AD 1850, XVI, 696 pages. Hardcover / Half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Stunning, unusually excellent condition.

123. [Hogan, James] Ó Corráin, Donnchadh.

James Hogan – Revolutionary, historian, and political scientist. [including an interesting newspaper-clipping with a review of this book]

Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2001. 25 cm. xi, 249 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Cork studies in history and culture ; 1].

124. Holland, Father – Reverend W.

History of West Cork and the Diocese of Ross [With stunning Ephemera: 1. Original Advertising-Leaflet as well as 2. An original Letter from the Southern Star, informing the recipient: “…the History by Fr. Holland was all sold out long ago and no copies are to be had…Skibbereen, 3/3/59”].

Skibbereen, Southern Star, 1949. 8°. 427, VII pages. With numerous illustrations. Hardcover / Original cloth with lettering on spine and cover. The binding as usual, slightly shaky but in unusually excellent condition. No splitting of Spine (which is often the case with this book). Interior excellent. Name of preowner on front and rear pastedown. Now an extremely rare book, it is hard to find this publication at auction, in bookshops or anyone who lets it go from any private collection. The loosely inserted original Letter by the Southern Star in the year 1959 confirms how rare the book already was after its publication. The presence of the letter and the original advertising pamphlet (2 pages), make this ultimately the rarest copy of the book we ever handled.

125. [Hyde, Douglas]

Collection of two important publications on Douglas Hyde, including five very interesting newspaper-clippings with articles on Douglas Hyde. The two books are: 1.Janet Egleson Dunleavy and Gareth W. Dunleavy – Douglas Hyde – A Maker of Modern Ireland / 2. Brian Murphy – Forgotten Patriot – Douglas Hyde & The Foundation of the Irish Presidency.

Berkeley / Oxford / Cork, University of California Press / Collins, 1991 – 2016. Octavo. XIII, 462, VII, 320 pages. The publication by Dunleavy in original Hardcover with dustjacket / The publication by Murphy in original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The newspaper-clippings neatly folded inside the Dunleavy publication.

126. 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.

127. [Irish Referendum History] Butler, David / Ranney, Austin / American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

Referendums. A comparative study of practice and theory. [This publication includes a chapter on the history of referendums in Ireland by Maurice Manning (For example “The Referendum and Initiative from 1922 to 1936”)]. Edited by David Butler and Austin Ranney.

Washington, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1978. 23 cm. 250 pages. Softcover. The cover of this book in poor condition with stronger sins of rubbing and creasing. Internally in excellent condition. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man, full of the most remarkable newspaper-clippings related to irish politics, constitution and some related to the topic of referendums. [AEI studies ; 216].

128. Irish Republican Association.

The Irish in South Africa 1920-1921.

First Edition. Cape Town, Die Nasionale Pers Beperk, [1921]. Octavo. 183 pages. Original Hardcover (green publisher’s cloth with dark lettering and ornament). Upper and lower spine slightly damaged. Binding slightly stained only. Rare !

129. [Johnson, Thomas] Gaughan, J. Anthony.

Thomas Johnson, 1872-1963 – First leader of the Labour Party in Dáil Éireann.

Mount Merrion, County Dublin, Kingdom Books, 1980. 22 cm. 513 pages with many illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Very rare publication !

130. Johnston, Kevin.

Home or Away – The Great War and the Irish Revolution.

Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 2010. 24 cm. 360 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

131. Jordan, Anthony J.

John A. Costello, 1891-1976 – Compromise Taoiseach.

Dublin, Westport Books, 2007. 21 cm. 200 pages with several illustrations. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including an interesting, loosely inserted newspaper-clipping on Costello.

132. Joy, Sinead.

The IRA in Kerry, 1916 – 1921.

Cork, Collins Press, 2005. Octavo. X, 180 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

133. Kautt, William H.

Ambushes and Armour – The Irish Rebellion 1919-1921. With a Foreword by Keith Jeffery.

Dublin ; Portland, OR, Irish Academic Press, 2010. 24 cm. xviii, 300 pages with numerous illustrations. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

134. [Keene, Martin] / L.E.L. / Charles Darwin / etc.

Irish Union Magazine [Later “The Irish Monthly Magazine]. First [and only] Volume published “March – August 1845”. [With the article and Illustrations to “A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift’s Box” – inlcuding a full page – illustration of the Snuff Box passed down from Dean Jonathan Swift (2 Figures)”].

First Edition. Two Volumes bound in one. Dublin, Martin Keene and Son, [1845]. Octavo. Frontispiece-Engraving “The ruins of Leix Castle (Queens Co.) – From a Sketch by Chidley Coote Esq.”, engraved titlepage, 468 pages (including Index) / Followed by Volume II, now titled “The Irish Monthly Magazine” – September – February (Dublin 1846): 494 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering and original spinelabel. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. An extraordinay Volume, very rare with the Literary Notices on Charles Darwin’s “Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyages of H.M.S.Beagle round the world, second edition.

135. Kenmare, Valentine Edward Charles Browne / The Irish Manuscripts Commission.

The Kenmare Manuscripts. Edited by Edward MacLysaght.

Dublin, Stationery Office, 1942. Slim Quarto (17 cm x 25 cm). XIV pages, 1 leaf, 517 pages, 1 leaf. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. An extremely scarce publication.

136. Kennedy, J.P. [Secretary John Pitt Kennedy] / [House of Commons].

Instructions to Committees of Relief Districts – Extracted from Minutes of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed in reference to the apprehended Scarcity.

[Dublin Castle], 28th February, 1846. Octavo. 4 Pages. Softcover / Original Pamphlet. Historical publication of great scarcity and importance. With manuscript notification to front and one annotation within the text. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: From the private collection of Irish cardiologist and clinical scientist, Eoin O’Brien

137. Kenny, Kevin.

The American Irish – A History.

Harlow / London, Longman, 2000. Octavo. XIX, 328 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

138. Keogh, Dermot.

Ireland and Europe, 1919-1948 – A Diplomatic and Political History.

Dublin, Gill and Macmillan [u.a.], 1988. Octavo. 256 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

139. Keogh, Dermot.

Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland. Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.

Cork, Ireland, Cork University Press, 1998. 24 cm. XV, 336 pages. Map and table illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. With several newspaper-clippings related to the topic.

140. Keogh, Dermot / McCarthy, Andrew.

Limerick Boycott 1904 – Anti-Semitism in Ireland.

Cork, Mercier Press, 2005. 24 cm. xvi, 163 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! Including a related newspaper-clipping. Very Rare !

141. Keogh, Dermot / O’Driscoll, Mervyn.

Ireland in World War Two – Diplomacy and survival.

Douglas Village, Cork, Mercier Press, 2004. 22 cm. 352 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. An important book ! Rare and out-of-print !

142. Keohane, Frank.

The Buildings of Ireland: Cork City and County.

New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 2020. Slim Octavo. XIX, 681 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only very minor signs of wear.

143. Keohane, Jerome.

My Barryroe Childhood.

[Co. Cork], Nora Keohane Hickey, 2005. 15 cm x 21,5 cm. VI, 157 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Softcover. Creasing covers, otherwise in Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

144. Kiberd, Declan.

1916 Rebellion Handbook.

Dublin, Mourne River Press, 1998. 25 cm. vii, 306 pages with illustrations, maps. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

145. King, Linda / Sisson, Elaine.

Ireland, Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity, 1922-1992. Edited by Linda King and Elaine Sassoon.

First Edition. Cork, Cork University Press / School of Creative Arts IADT, 2011. Octavo (17 cm wide x 24 cm high). 312 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Unusually excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the most remarkable and one of the rarest books on Irish Design and Visual Culture.

146. Kissane, Bill.

Explaining Irish Democracy.

Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2002. 24 cm. xiii, 287 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

147. [Lackareigh]

History of Lackareigh National School 1865 – 1988.

Lackareigh, 1988. Octavo. 160 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

148. Laffan, William.

Ancestral Interiors – Photographs of the Irish Country House by Patrick Prendergast. With a Foreword by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin / Essay by William Laffan: “Ancestral Interiors” / Rural Ireland.

Dublin, The Irish Architectural Archive, 2010. Quarto (21.5 cm x 24 cm). 135 pages with illustrations throughout. Original, illustrated Softcover. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely Rare !

149. Lalor, James Fintan.

James Fintan Lalor: Patriot and Political Essayist, 1807-1849 – [Collected writings, edited with an introduction and biographical note by L. Fogarty].

Revised edition. Dublin, Talbot Press, 1947. 8º. XLIX, 147 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

150. Larkin, Emmet J.

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Fall of Parnell 1888-1891.

Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1979. 24cm. xxi,316 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !