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Tracing Your Irish History by Anthony Adolph
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors 3rd ed by John Grenham
How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell
Tracing your Roscommon Ancestors by John Hamrock
Tracing Your Limerick Ancestors by Margaret Franklin
Tracing Your Mayo Ancestors by Brian Smith
Tracing Your Kerry Ancestors by Michael H. O’Connor
Tracing Your Dublin Ancestors by James G. Ryan and Brian Smith
Longford and its People by David Leahy
Irish Church Records 2ed by James G. Ryan
Irish Ancestors: A Pocket Guide by John Grenham
Irish Families: Their Names, Arms & Origins by Edward MacLysaght
Irish Houses and Gardens from the Archives of Country Life by Sean O’Reilly
Wexford: A Town and Its Landscape by Billy Colfer
Dublin by Paul Baker
Wild Dublin: Exploring Nature in the City by Eanna Ni Lamhna
Dublin’s Magical Museums by Muriel Bolger
South Dublin – How to Get By on, Like, 10,000 Euro a Day by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
Favourite Irish Proverbs text by Jo O’Donoghue and Photography and Design by Lily Lenihan
Tactics of the Rich by Paul Overy
Eleven Houses: A Memoir of Childhood by Christopher Fitz-Simon
Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home by Rachel Allen
Souls of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Pepe Charles and Honey Dew II by Damien Tiernan
Are You Ready? by Amanda Hearty
I Never Fancied Him Anyway by Claudia Carroll
Bad Behaviour by Sheila O’Flanagan
The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
A Horse with My Name by Colin Bateman
The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty
Take a Look At Me Now by Anita Notaro
Gilded Shadows by Mary Rochford
Star Gazing by Kate Thompson
Angel at My Back by Mary Stanley
Bullet and the Ark by Peter Sheridan
Lighthouse by Chris Binchy
Three’s a Crowd by Sheila O’Flanagan
The Second Child by John Boyne
The Maeve Binchy Writer’s Club by Maeve Binchy
Modern Irish Poetry 1800-2000 by Justin Quinn
Aran Islands and Connemara by J. M. Synge
The Atlas of the Island of Ireland: Mapping Social and Economic Change by Justin Gleeson et. al.
Saints of the Celtic Church by Martin Wallace
Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic by Lorna Byrne
David Trimble: The Price of Peace by Frank Millar
Eating Scenery: West Cork, The People and the Place by Alannah Hopkin
An Emerald Odyssey: In Search of the Gods of Golf and Ireland by Paul J. Zingg
The Untouchables: Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau and Its War on Organised Crime by Paul Williams
Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers
Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
Keys to the Kingdom by Jack O’Connor
Chief O’Neill’s Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago by Francis O’Neill
The Paper Wall: Newspapers and Propaganda in Ireland, 1919-1921 by Ian Kenneally
Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn by Stephen Walker
Not While I Have Ammo: A History of Captain Connie Mackey, Defender of the Strand by Jim Corbett
Kathleen Clarke: Revolutionary Woman by Kathleen Clarke
Michael Davitt by John Devoy
Dan Donovan: An Everyman’s Life by Vera Ryan
Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-73 by Daithi O Corrain
The Way that I Went by Robert Lloyd Praeger with an introduction by Michael Viney
No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years, 1900-1923 by Sinead McCoole
Rare Old Dublin: Heroes, Hawkers and Hoors by Frank Hopkins
The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty
The Irish Man Who Ran for England by Jim Hogan
Over My Shoulder: A Memoir by Norma McMaster
Brief Encounters: A Memoir by Edith Newman Devlin
There’s Something About Mary by Mary Banotti
St. Patrick: The Real Story As Told In His Own Words translated by Jim McCormack
The National Gallery of Ireland: An Essential Guide by Raymond Keaveney
Images of Cork City: Shared Moments by Crian Lillis
Bumper Book of Simplex Crosswords from the Irish Times by Mary O’Brien
The Irish B& B Cookbook by Ann Mulligan
Taking Pictures by Anne Enright
Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
Orpheus Rising by Colin Bateman
Pusakis at Paros and other Stories by Miriam Gallagher
The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories by Brian J. Showers
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
At a Time Like This by Catherine Dunne
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Poet’s Chair: The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry: John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan, with a foreword by Seamus Heaney
Dublin’s Docklands Reinvented: The Post-Industrial Regeneration of a European City Quarter by Niamh Moore
Exploring Georgian Dublin by Pat Dargan
Redmond: The Parnellite by Dermot Meleady
The Shannon Navigation by Ruth Delaney
The Parish by Alice Taylor
In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway by Eddie Lenihan
Paisley: Demagogue to Democrat? By Ed Moloney
UVF: The Endgame by Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald
Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Ruan O’Donnell
West of Ireland Walks by Kevin Corcoran
Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c.1140-1540 by Dianne Hall
Donkey’s Years: Memories of a Life As Story Told by Aidan Higgins
A Starving People: Life and Death in West Clare, 1845-1851 by Ignatius Murphy
Before the Famine Struck: Life in West Clare, 1834-1845 by Ignatius Murphy
Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War by Eunan O’Halpin
A New History of Ireland by Christine Kinealy
The Irish Voter: The Nature of Electoral Competition in the Republic of Ireland by Michael Marsh et. al.
Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O’Malley
From the Margins to the Centre: A History of the Irish Times by Dermot James
Joseph Walshe: Irish Foreign Policy 1922-1946 by Aengus Nolan
Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith
Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Irish Childhood by Annabel Davis-Goff
Ireland’s Professional Amateurs: A Sports Season at Its Purest by Andy Mendlowitz
Ireland: Land of Celtic Myths and Legend by Simona Tarchetti
The Donegal Woman by John Throne
The Poet’s Chair: The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry by John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan with a forword by Seamus Heaney
Dublin Explorer
Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 by Maria Luddy
The Girl in the Wicker Basket by Anne Kenny
Good Times and Bad:From the Coombe to the Kremlin: A Memoir by Seamus Martin
Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema by Roderick Flynn and Patrick Brereton
Blarney Castle: Its History, Development and Purpost by Mark Samuel and Kate Hamlyn
New Contexts: Re-Framing Nineteenth-Century Irish Women’s Prices edited by Hiedi Hansson
Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland by Charlie McGuire
Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland edited by Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell
Bloodstorm by Sam Millar
Caulfield by Philip Lumley
Somewhere in Between by Ruth Gilligan
It Must Be Love by Sharon Owens
For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
Selected Poems of John Jordan edited by Hugh McFadden
To Ring in Silence: New and Selected Poems by Paddy Bushe
The Big Snow by David Park
The Healing by David Park
Swallowing the Sun by David Park
Oranges from Spain by David Park
The International by Glenn Patterson
Eoin O’Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry
Ireland’s Economic Success: Reasons and Lessons by Paul Sweeney
Words We Use by Diarmaid O Muirithe
Macnas Joyful Abandonment by Terry Dineen
Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals: Drug Regulation in Ireland in a Global Context Edited by Orla O’Donovan and Kathy Glavanis-Grantham
Columbia Jail Journal by James Monaghan
Ireland’s New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922 by Malcolm Campbell
Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945 by Henry Patterson and Eric Kaufmann
Tourism, Landscape and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland by William H.A. Williams
The Biggest Show in Town: Record of the International Exhibition, Dublin 1907 by Ken Finlay
The Bray and Enniskerry Railway by Liam Clare
Irish Walled Towns by John Givens
Haunted Belfast by Joe Baker
Rising Out: Sean Connolly of Longford by Ernie O’Malley
British-Irish Relations and Northern Ireland: From Violent Politics to Conflict Regulation by Brendan O’Duffy
In Belfast by the Sea by Frank Frankfort Moore
Carson’s Army: The Ulster Volunteer Force 1910-22 by Timothy Bowman
Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland edited by Paul Carmichael et. al
Immigration and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland edited by Bryan Fanning
The Great White Fair: The Herbert Park Exhibition of 1907 by Gerard Siggins
Maritime Ireland: An Archaeology of Coastal Communities by Aidan O’Sullivan and Colin Breen
Croke Park: An Illustrated History by Tim Carey
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Gaelic Football and Hurling by Donal Keenan
Journey to Adventure by Pat Falvey
Princes of Pigskin: A Century of Kerry Footballers by Joe O Muircheartaigh and TJ Flynn
White Line Fever: An Illustrated History of Irish Road Racing by Alastair McCook
Giants of Gaelic Football : All Time Greats by Sean Og O’Ceallachain
The Munich Air Disaster by Stephen Morrin
Classic Munster Hurling Finals by Seamus J. King
Staying the Distance by Ronnie Delaney
The Dubs: Dublin GAA Since the 1940s by Sean Og O Ceallachain
Between Comrades: James Connolly’s Letters and Correspondence 189-1916 edited by Donal Nevin
Arthur’s Round: The Life and Times of Brewing Legend Arthur Guinness by Patrick Guinness
Lapsed Agnostic by John Waters
Joycean Murmoirs: Fritz Senn on James Joyce edited by Christine O’Neill
A Provisional Dictator: James Stephens and the Fenian Movement by Marta Ramon
All Kinds of Everything by Dana Rosemary Scallon
Radio Man: 40 Years of Broadcasting by Brendan Balfe
Off Screen: A Memoir by Sheamus Smith
Walls of Silence: Robert McCartney by Catherine McCartney
The Insider: The Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn Boyce, 1956-62 edited by Anna Bryson
To The Limits of Endurance: One Irishman’s War by Jack Harte
No Deals: An Addict’s Journey to Freedom by Jackie Burke
Unsolved: Nine Irish Murders Files Still Open by Barry Cummins
Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly
Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems by Julie O’Callaghan
The River Field by John MacKenna
Brandon 25 edited by Steve McDonagh
Dulse by Frank McGuinness
Laugh at Gilded Butterflies: A Selection of Favourite Poems chosen by Ulick O’Connor
Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
Hold & Firm: John Charles McQuaid and the Second Vatican Council by Francis Xavier Carty
Rule 42 and All That by Sean Kelly
Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922 by Caitriona Clear
South Tipperary 1570-1841: Religion, Land and Rivalry by David Butler
Divine Right?: The Parnell Split in Meath by David Lawlor
Stop Howling at the Moon by Eamon O’Donnell
The Suspect: The Story of Rachel O’Reilly’s Murder by Jenny Friel
The Discovery of the Dingle Diamond by C.P.R. May
The Longest Rebellion by Chris Lawlor
Global Ireland by Tom Inglis
Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland by Richard English
Raiders of the Caribbean: Ireland’s Cricket World Cup by Trent Johnston and Gerard Siggins
Tracing Your Irish Family History by Anthony Adolph
Before Sunday: The Life Stories of the Bloody Sunday Victims by Jennifer Faus
Souls of the Sea: The Tragic Story of Seven Lives Lost by Damien Tiernan
Lyn’s Escape by Lyn Madden
Martin Cahill: My Father by Frances Cahill
The High Society: Drugs and the Irish Middle Class by Justine Delaney Wilson
Cre Na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
Temples of Stone: Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland by Carleton Jones
Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter
Dublin An Urban History: The Plan of the City by Niall McCullough
The Insider: The Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn Boyce, 1956-62 edited by Anna Bryson
The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937 by Dermot Keogh and Andrew McCarthy
Achill Voices by Robert Redmond
Follow Me Down to Dublin: The City Through the Voices of Its Peoples by Deirdre Purcell
Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 by S.J. Connolly
Luck and the Irish: A History of Change 1970-200 by R.F. Foster
Dublin: A View from the Ground by Neil Hegarty
The High Crosses of Ireland: Inspirations in Stone by Elinor D.U. Powell
Sean MacBride: A Life by Elizabeth Keane
Ireland’s Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus edited by John Wyse Jackson and Hector McDonnell
Barnacle Soup and other stories from the west of Ireland by Josie Gray, with Tess Gallagher
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Foolish Mortals by Jennifer Johnston
Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories by John McGahern
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
The Fifty Minute Mermaid by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, translated from the Irish by Paul Muldoon
Somewhere the Wave: new poems by Derek Mahon with drawings and watercolours by Bernadette Kiely
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
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