Barry, Patrick.

By Bride and Blackwater ! – Poems, Stories and Historical Articles: The Guerilla War / Gaelic Athletics / Fermoy and the Upper Blackwater Basin / Pedigree of the Earls of Desmond / The Munster Geraldines by the Blackwater and the Bride / Lisgoold Footballers / Matches with Carrig and Little Island / The Glenville Tournament / Ballyhooley Tournament / Great Cork Priest in the Opening Years of the GAA (Fr. E. Barry from Rathcormac and Bartlemy) / A Veteran Hurler’s Reverie / Lismore Castle etc. etc.

First Edition. Cork, Lee Press, 1944. Octavo. 168, [8] pages with historical advertising. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and very few dogears. A very scarce book in unusually excellent condition !

Bolster, Evelyn.

A History of the Diocese of Cork: Volume I- From the Earliest Times to the Reformation.

Shannon, Ireland, Irish University Press, 1972. 16 cm x 24.7 cm. Frontispiece, XLVIII, 548 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar. Pastedowns and endpapers illustrated with map of the Diocese of Cork with parishes shown also. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to top edge. Interior bright and clean. Binding is strong and firm and bookblock is tight, square with sharp-corners.

Bolster, John / [Callanan, Jeremiah Joseph] / Letitia Elizabeth Landon [L.E.L.]/ Sloane, Hans.

Bolster’s Quarterly Magazine. Volume I. No. I (February, 1826) – Volume I. No. IV (November, 1826).

Cork, John Bolster, Patrick Street, 1826. Octavo. VIII, 394 pages. Hardcover / Original Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some minor rubbing to the boards and corners. Interior very good with only occasional signs of foxing. A very rare Cork publication with some extremely scarce, often anonymously published essays on local history, poetry etc. The publications signed with J.J.C. are by Corkonian Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. Name of 19th century preowner on endpaper: “Michael Higgins”.

Bolster, Sister M. Angela.

The Lough Parish and its Historic Associations.

Cork, c.1975. Octavo. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Cork – West Cork / Diocese of Ross] Coombes, James.

A Bishop Of Penal Times: The Life and Times of John O’Brien Bishop of Cloyne and Ross 1701-1769.

First Edition. Cork, Tower Books, 1981. 14.5cm x 21.5cm. 135 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition other than some fading to dustjacket spine. Stamped on title page by previous owner (Presentation Brothers Cork).

Cronin, Tom.

Cork Then and Now.

Dublin, The History Press Ireland, 2012. 17 cm x 24.5 cm. 95 pages. Several black and white, sepia and colour photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New.

Crowley, John / Devoy, Robert / Linehan, Denis / O’Flanagan, Patrick [ed].

Atlas of Cork City. Cartography by Michael Murphy.

Cork, Cork University Press, 2005. 24 cm x 30 cm. XIII, 465 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition.

d’Alton, Ian.

Protestant Society and Politics in Cork: 1812-1844.

Cork, Cork University Press, 1980. 15.5 cm x 22 cm. XIV, 264 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. The dustjacket with some stronger wear and some fraying but otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Extremely important and scarce book !

[Dillon, Brian] McGrath, Walter.

A Cork Felon [The Life and Death of Brian Dillon]. By Walter McGrath.

Cork, Brian Dillon Commemoration Committee, 1952. Small Octavo. 55 pages. Original Softcover. Some pages dogeared. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

Dwyer, James A.

The Dominicans of Cork City and County.

Illustrated. Cork, Guy and Company Limited, 1896. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 199 pages. 21 illustrations. Missing frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt embossment to front board also. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Fading to spine. Staining to front board. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Gutter between endpaper and titlepage cracked with exposed cloth. Binding still firm and strong. Some foxing to front endpapers. Interior bright and clean. Front pastedown carries presentation bookplate of Presentation College, Mardyke, Cork detailing prize awarded to “Master A Swanton” for “maintaining second place in English” signed by “M J O’Connor”.