1. O’Leary, Daniel.

Kilmeen and Castleventry Parish, (County Cork) – [With a Chapter on The O’Hurleys of Ballinacarriga & Ballinvard / The O’Donovan MacEneslis Clan ]. (This publication was sponsored personally by Jerry Beechinor).

Castlewhite House (Waterfall, near Cork), J.Beechinor, 1975. Quarto. V, 136 pages with map and illustrations throughout the pages. Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of pre-owner on endpaper. Extremely rare / scarce publication. Including an ephemeral advertising leaflet: “Calling all Natives and Friends of Kilmeen and Castleventry Parish at Home and Overseas: You cannot afford to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to read the history of this great Parish”.

2. O’Callaghan, Sean.

The Easter Lily – The Story of the I.R.A. (IRA).

First Edition. London, Allan Wingate, 1956. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Jimmy O’Callaghan and Sean O’Callaghan, 219 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name on endpaper.

3. [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 !

4. [Mac Liammóir, Micheál / Ó Conaire, Pádraic] O’ Neill, Eamonn.

The Woman at the Window and Other Stories. Translated from the Irish of Pádraic Ó Conaire by Eamonn O Neill. New Edition – With Illustrations by Micheál Mac Liammóir.

Dublin and Cork, The Talbot Press, no year [c. 1931]. Octavo (15 cm x 22,5 cm). Frontispiece, 127 pages. Original Hardcover with original, beautifully illustrated dustjacket in protective Collector’s Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Privately inscribed on the endpaper “For Jim – Christmas 1947”. A very unusual condition of this amazzing publication.

5. Smithson, Annie M.P.

Her Irish Heritage [″With the Printed Dedication: Dedicated to the Men who died Easter 1916”].

First Edition of her first book. Dublin, The Talbot Press, [no year (1917)]. Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth-binding with decroative Celtic-Knot-Design. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the best preserved version of this work we have ever seen. With a gift-inscription from the year 1934 (not from Smithson).

6. [Carolan, Turlough] O’Sullivan, Donal [and Arthyur O’Neill].

CAROLAN – The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper. In Two Volumes. Volume I: The Life and Times and The Music / Volume II: The Notes to the Tunes and The Memoirs of Arthur O’Neill.

First Edition. Two Volumes (Complete Set). London, Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, 1958. Quarto (18.7 cm wide x 24.7 cm high). Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Carolan, XV, 285 pages plus the often missing Fold-Out-Map of Ireland bound to the rear / Volume II: Frontispiece-Illustration of Carolan entertaining a small crowd (From the Painting by J.C.Timbrell in 1844), XIII, 200 pages. Volume Two also includes a Portrait of Carolan’s Biographer, Belfast Harpist Arthur O’Neill (this Portrait is cleanly detached and loosely inserted). Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Portrait of Arthur O’Neill cleanly detached but loosely inserted.

7. Shepherd, Ernie.

Cork, Bandon & South Coast Railway.

Hinckley, Midland Publishing, 2005. Quarto (22 cm wide x 29 cm high). 159 pages with many old photographs. Illustrated Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

8. 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).

9. St. John Joyce, Weston.

The Neighbourhood of Dublin – Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Association. With numerous Illustrations from the Author’s Photographs & Sketches.

Fourth Impression of the First Edition. Dublin, M.H.Gill & Son, 1939. Large – Octavo. XX, 512 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. The Volume in firm and excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

10. 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 !

11. [Synge, J.M.] Shaw, Ruth Wills.

J.M.Synge’s Guide to the Aran Islands. Edited by Ruth Wills Shaw. With Photographs and Suggestions for Lodging.

Old Greenwich (Connecticut), The Devin-Adair Company, 1975. 19.7cm x 12.8cm. 123 pages plus Appendix. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition. Unusual and rare publication, using Synge’s Aran Island guide and adding local lodging to the Aran Islands in 1960s Ireland for the american tourist-market.

12. Power, Aidan.

Rock Island, Crookhaven – A coastal Townland’s History since 1800.

Skibbereen, Inspire, 2006. 8°. 234 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition.

13. [Pike, Mary] Groeger, Kieran.

The much-maligned Mary Pike – The Rebel County and ‘98.

Kieran Groeger, 2019. 8°. 193 pages. Illustrated. Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition.

14. De Breffny, Brian / ffolliott, Rosemary.

The Houses of Ireland: Domestic Architecture from the Medieval Castle to the Edwardian Villa. Photographs by George Mott.

First Paperback Edition. London, Thames and Hudson, 1984. Quarto (19 cm wide x 25.5 cm high). 240 pages, with 278 plates, 22 in colour, and 4 maps. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

15. O’Neill Lane, T[imothy].

Larger English-Irish Dictionary (Focloir Beala – Gaedhilge). New Edition – Thoroughly Revised and Greatly Enlarged.

Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1922. Octavo (15 cm wide x 21.5 cm high). XII, 864 pages. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Shaky condition of the binding but still good. Interior clean.

16. Ó Dónaill, Niall.

Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla / (Irish-English Dictionary). Eagarthóir Comhairleach (consulting editor): Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Baile Atha Cliath, 1977. Octavo (17 cm wide x 24 cm high). XII, 1309 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

17. Bhaldraithe, Tomás de.

English-Irish Dictionary. Edited by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Baile Atha Cliath, 1976. Octavo (14.5 cm wide x 21.8 cm high). XII, 864 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

18. [Ring, Christy] Horgan, Tim.

Christy Ring – Hurling’s Greatest.

Cork, Collins Press, 2007. 8°. 374 pages with many images throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition of this rare, out-of-print Hardcover-version of this book.

19. Nolan, Pat.

When we were Young – Life in West Cork.

Ballycastle, Pat Nolan, 1997. 8°. 94 pages. Softcover. Original Softcover in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

20. Daly, Eugene.

Heir Island. Its History and People.

Leap, Heron’s Way Press, 2004. 25.3cm x 18cm. xx, 324 pages. Includes maps, photographs and appendices. Original illustrated hardcover. Rare ! Out-of-Print- Publication ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.