Results for: Ireland & the Irish
Glenties and Inniskeel.
Briody, Liam.
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Ire Donegal Democrat, Ltd., 1986.
Octavo (standard size). SIGNED by the author on p. (i). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Head of spine has some wear as well. Slight scuffing to covers. A few notes in ink to inside back cover, none on pages. 320 p. A survey of this area in nort-east Ireland in the southern part of County Donegal. Includes discussion of many aspect of the community, from Postal service and the Church to dance halls, corn mills, musicians, tweed & knitting, the police, and much more. Uncommon.
Price: $60.00
Sable Wings over the Land : Ennis, County Clare, and Its Wider Community during the Great Famine.
Ciaran O. Murchadha.
Ennis, County Clare: Clasp Press, 1998.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers with a slight tear on upper edge of back cover. 332 pages with endnotes, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index. A detailed study of the impact of the Great Famine on the Town of Ennis.
Price: $35.00
An Age of Innocence : Irish Culture, 1930 - 1960.
Fallon, Brian.
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1998.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Signed by author on title page. 313 pages with references, bibliography, and index. A different interpretation of Irish culture from 1930 to 1960 refuting the idea that the era was culturally sterile.
Price: $35.00
A History of Irish Flags from Earliest Times.
Hayes-McCoy, G. A.
Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1979.
Small folio (oversized). Spine of dj slightly faded. Age toning to edge of dj. Some wear to edges and corners of DJ, less so to edges and corners of boards. Slight spot of soiling to lower edge of textblock. 240 p. w/many color & b&w illustrations, index to terms and index to illustrations. The primary reference for Irish flags foreign and domestic, professional military and other, and a major work of Irish history. The author was an outstanding scholar of Irish military history, and was the chair of University College, Galway for nearly 20 years until his death.
Price: $350.00
History and Memory in Modern Ireland.
McBride, Ian, editor.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Very good octavo hardcover in glossy illustrated boards without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine and minor scuffing to covers. 278 pages with illustrations, footnotes, and index. A collection of essays on how important events in Irish history have been mythologized and remembered.
Price: $30.00
Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption : The Mind of the Easter Rising, 1916.
Moran, Sean Farrell.
Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1994.
Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and sight scuffing to covers. 233 pages with footnotes, appendix, select bibliography, and index.
Price: $35.00
The Irish Question : Federation or Secession.
Oliver, F. S.
New York, NY: The Civil Service Printing Co, 1917 roughly.
Good staplebound pamphlet. Some wear and light creasing to edges and corners with some light scuffing to covers. Few minor tears on upper edge of back cover. 24 pages. Reprint from London Times and Observer.
Price: $20.00
Citizen Lord; The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary.
Tillyard, Stella.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with some scuffing to covers. Few pen notes in margins and marks in text. Few smudges on page edges. 337 pages with illustrations, family trees, list of sources, and index.
Price: $15.00
