51. Ó Snodaigh, Pádraig:

Comhghuaillithe na réabhlóide 1913-1916. Pádraig Ó Snodaigh.

Dara h-eagrán. Binn Éadair, BÁC, Coiscéim, 2016. 22 cm. 204 pages. Illystrated. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Leabhair thaighde ; 14 ú himleabhar].

52. Academy, Royal Irish.

Conspiracy – Irish Political Trials.

Portland, Royal Irish Academy, 2009. Octavo. 357 pages. Original Softcover. Edges with foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

53. 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.

54. Daly, Mary E.

County and Town – One hundred years of local government in Ireland : lectures on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Local Government Ireland Act, 1898.

Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2001. 22 cm. xii, 164 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Thomas Davis lecture series ; Winter 1999].

55. 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 !

56. The National Library.

Daniel O’ Connell. Facsimile Documents.

Dublin, Committee for Educational Services Based on the Institutions of Science and Art. 1978. 23.7 cm x 34.8 cm. 22 Facsimile Documents. With many black and white illustrations. Original Folder. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Folder is slightly worn. Leaf of folder no longer glued. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

57. Gallagher, Michael / Marsh, Michael.

Days of Blue Loyalty – The politics of membership of the Fine Gael party.

Dublin, PSAI Press, 2002. 24 cm. xv, 287 pages, with 32 pages of plates. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes an interesting lengthy newspaper-article (clipping is loosely inserted).

58. Gallivan, G.P.

Decision at Easter. A Play in Three Acts. [With the printed dedication: To the Men of Easter Week]. With a foreword by Ignatius Johns.

Dublin, Progress House, 1960. 8°. 74 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Popular Plays Series].

59. Sheehy, Michael.

Divided we stand – A study of partition. With a foreword by John J. Horgan.

London, Faber & Faber, 1955. 21cm. 104 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

60. Andrews, C.S. (Christopher Stephen).

Dublin Made Me / Man of No Property [Autobiography]

2 Volumes (complete set). Dublin and Cork, Mercier Press, 1979-1982. Octavo. 312, 327 pages. Original Softcover. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

61. O’Halloran, W. (Rev.).

Early Irish History and Antiquities and The History of West Cork.

First Edition. Dublin, Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1916. Octavo (13 cm wide x 19 cm high). (3), 182 pages with a folded Map in colour of “Ireland Before the Anglo-Norman Invasion”, bound behind the Contents-Page. Hardcover / Original cloth with lettering on spine and cover. Very good condition with some minor rubbing to the binding only. Extremely rare publication with an extensive History of West Cork.

62. Townshend, Charles.

Easter 1916 – The Irish Rebellion.

London, Penguin, 2006. 20 cm. xxi, 442 pages with 8 pages of plates. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Allen Lane history.

63. McCoole, Sinead.

Easter Widows – Seven Irish Women who lived in the shadow of the 1916 Rising.

Dublin, Doubleday Ireland, 2015. 24 cm. xvii, 444 pages. With illustrations (black and white, and colour). Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

64. Bourke, Rev. Ulick J.

Easy Lessons: Self-Instruction in Irish.

Seventh Edition. Dublin, M. H. Gill & Son, 1877. 8°. 390 pages. Original Hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering on spine). First layer of pages cleanly detached. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear (some staining to boards).

65. Robinson, Lennox.

Eight Short Stories.

London, G.P.Putnam’s Sons, no year [c.1919]. Small Octavo. 114 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The dustjacket carries a portrait of Lennox Robinson on the cover. The rare dustjacket with some fraying and two corners missing. The Volume itself in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With a private entry of the preowner to the endpaper.

66. Sheehan, Tim.

Execute Hostage Compton-Smith.

First Edition. Cork, Dripsey Press, 1993, 12.7 cm x 18.7 cm. 149 pages. Original paperback. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. This book is rare.

67. 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.

68. 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.

69. Fanning, Ronan.

Fatal Path – British government and Irish Revolution, 1910-1922.

London, Faber and Faber, 2013. 24 cm. xxi, 423 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white). Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

70. [Browne, Frank] O’Donnell, E.E.

Father Browne’s Titanic Album – A Passenger’s Photographs and Personal Memoir. Foreword by Dr. Robert D. Ballard.

Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1997. 29.2cm x 25.8cm. 120 pages. With 111 historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

71. Clifford, Brendan.

Fianna Fáil, ‘The Irish Press’ and the decline of the Free State.

Millstreet, Co. Cork, Aubane Historical Society, 2007. 21 cm. 172 pages. Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely rare !

72. Maye, Brian.

Fine Gael, 1923-1987 – A general history with biographical sketches of leading members.

Tallaght, Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1993. 24 cm. vi, 406 pages with 16 pages of plates with illustrations. Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

73. Boland, Kevin.

Fine Gael: British or Irish ?

Dublin, Mercer, 1984. Octavo. 99 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

74. Golway, Terry.

For the cause of Liberty – A thousand years of Ireland’s heroes.

New York / London / Toronto, Simon & Schuster, 2000. 23 cm. 397 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

75. Cahill, Liam.

Forgotten Revolution – Limerick Soviet 1919; a threat to British power in Ireland. With a foreword [by] Jim Kemmy.

Dublin, O’Brien Press, 1990. 24cm. 168 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

76. [Ryan, Frank] Cronin, Seán.

Frank Ryan – The search for the Republic.

Dublin, Repsol, 1980. 23 cm. 284 pages with 16 pages of plates with illustrations. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Rare !

77. Corcoran, Donal P.

Freedom to achieve Freedom – The Irish Free State 1922-1932.

Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, [2013]. 24 cm. 296 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by the author !

78. Blácam, Aodh De.

From A Gaelic Outpost. With the printed dedication: “Respectfully inscribed to the Coarb of S. Eunan”. [And with the wonderful introductory sentence: “What ! – You were never in the Gaeltacht ? – never in the still Irish-speaking territory that fringes the Atlantic Coast ? – Then for you this book is written.”]

First Edition. Dublin, Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1921. Small Octavo. XII, 106 pages. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Beautiful publication with charming frontcover illustration. No stamps, no names, very clean.

79. [O’Reilly, John Boyle] Kenneally, Ian.

From the earth, a cry – The story of John Boyle O’Reilly.

Cork, Collins Press, 2011. 22 cm. VI, 374 pages. With 16 pages of plates. Original Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out-of-Print. Very Rare now !

80. de Blacam, Hugh [Canon Sheehan / Daniel Corkery].

Gentle Ireland – An Account of a Christian Culture in History and Modern Life.

Second Printing of the First Edition. Milwaukee, The Bruce Publishing Company, 1935. Octavo. XI,181, [2] pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

81. [Plant, George]

George Plant – Irish Republican Army [IRA] – Executed by firing squad in Portlaoise Prison, March 5th, 1942. 50th Anniversary commemoration in St.Johnstown churchyard, Fethard, Co.Tipperary, Easter Sunday, April 19th, 1992 [together with two interesting newspaper-clippings with articles on the case of George Plant].

Dublin, AP / RN Print, [1992]. Octavo. 16 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

82. Finden, E. [Engraver] / Westall, William [Artist / After a Painting from William Westall].

Glenmire Bridge – Near Cork [Glanmire].

Original, 19th century Steel Engraving. London, Charles Tilt in Fleet Street, [1829]. 21 cm x 12 cm. Good condition with minor signs of wear to outer margins.

83. Lysaght, Charles.

Great Irish lives. [a unique collection of obituaries of Ireland’s most distinguished individuals from the last two centuries]. Edited by Charles Lysaght. With a Foreword by Garret FitzGerald.

London, Times Books, 2009. 20 cm. xxi, 362 pages. Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

84. McLoughlin, Michael.

Great Irish speeches of the twentieth century. [compiled by] Michael McLoughlin.

Dublin, Poolbeg, 1996. 22 cm. 430 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

85. Aldous, Richard.

Great Irish Speeches. [Includes CD of Ireland’s greatest speakers]. With a Foreword by Colm Tóibín.

London, Quercus, 2007. Quarto. 223 pages with many illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

86. Twohig, Patrick J.

Green Tears For Hecuba. Ireland’s Fight for Freedom.

Cork, Tower Books, 1994. 12,5 x 20,5 cm. 422 pages with many illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of wear.

87. Brady, Conor.

Guardians of the Peace. [Birth of Special Branch / Special Branch versus IRA 1925-32]

First Edition Dublin, Gill and Macmillan Ltd., 1974. 21cm x 14cm. XVI, 254 pages. With 8 historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition. Rare publication ! Name of preowner on endpaper.

88. 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.

89. Scott, Michael (editor).

Hall’s Ireland: Mr & Mrs Hall’s Tour of 1840.

2 Volumes. London and Sydney, Sphere Books Limited. 1984. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. XIX, 480 pages. Original softcover with original slipcase. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

90. 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).

91. [Lackareigh]

History of Lackareigh National School 1865 – 1988.

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

92. 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.

93. 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.

94. 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.

95. Cusack, George / Goss, Sarah Judith.

Hungry words – Images of Famine in the Irish Canon. Edited by George Cusack, Sarah Goss.

Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006. 24 cm. ix, 342 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

96. Fanning, Ronan.

Independent Ireland.

Walkinstown, Dublin, Helicon : Distributed by The Educational Co. of Ireland, 1983. 21 cm. viii, 230 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. [Helicon History of Ireland].

97. 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

98. Maguire, John.

IRA internments and the Irish government – Subversives and the state, 1939-1962. Foreword by Ruán O’Donnell.

Dublin / Portland (Oregon), Irish Academic Press, 2008. 24 cm. XIV, 274 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

99. Finnegan, Richard B.

Ireland – Historical echoes, contemporary politics.

Boulder, Westview Press, 2000. 24 cm. xviii, 452 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Nations of the modern world].

100. Byrne, Donn.

Ireland – The Rock whence I was Heaven. Foreword by the Right Hon. T.P.O’Connor.

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1929. Octavo. Frontispiece Map of Ireland, 104 pages plus several historical photographs of Irelandand a section with advertising to the rear. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed on endpaper: “A Small Souvenir – In remembrance of your visit to Park Villas from G. McMahon”.