Edward Comerford Bargain Books - Irish & General interest, Literature. History etc.

Current Book list

Note: additional copies of new titles may be available, Many are but - please ask

H/B = Hardback format. S/B = Softback format. 251pp = 251 pages. dj = dust jacket.

All prices shown are in both United Kingdom Pounds Sterling £s (left) & EUROs (€) (Right). Exchange rates are somewhat arbitrary - typically, I am quoting £1/ €1.25 Postage extra & at cost but shipping fees for books are quite competitive. Individual books shipped for £1 Trade discount for larger orders.

PAYPAL accepted.

1) 'Irish Diplomacy at the United Nations' 1945-1965' 1997 ed S/B NEW £4 / €6.00

2) 'Tenant Right & Agrarian Society in Ulster 1600-1870' 1999 ed H/B New £5.30 / €8.00

3) 'The Dublin Paper War of 1786-1788' - W.J. McCormack' 1993 ed H/B NEW £5.30 / €8.00

4) The Tories & Ireland 1910-1914 Jeremy Smith (New) 2000 ed 251pp £4 / €6.00

5) Ireland 'The Shipping Murphy's' - The Palgrave Murphy Shipping Line 1850-1926 Cornelius F. Smith 2004 ed 192pp H/B £6 / €9.00

6) 'Letters From Ireland' Harriet Martineau (1850s) 2001 edition. Editor Glenn Hooper. 2001 ed H/B 200 pp NEW £5.30 / €8.00

7) ' Jonathan Swift & The Church of Ireland, 1710-1724' - Christopher J. Fauske. 2002 ed 192pp H/B NEW £4 / €6.00

8) Ireland 'Maverick' A dissident view of Broadcasting Today - Bob Quinn 2001 ed 279pp H/B NEW £3.30 / €5.00

9) Tristam Kennedy & The Revival of Irish Legal Training' 1835-1885 Colum Kenny 1996 ed 269pp H/B NEW £5.30 / €8.00

10) Ireland 'In Search of Thomas Sheehan' Radical Politics in Cork 1824 - 1836 Fintan Lane 2001 slim S/B ed NEW £2.60 / €4.00

11) The Irish Volunteers 1715-1793 A List of Units 1995 Ed 88pp H/B NEW Scarce £10 / €15.00

12) Ireland 'Rebellion in Kildare 1790 - 1803' Liam Chambers 1998 edition. New/Unused 173pp NEW S/B Mint £2.60 / €4.00

13) Ireland 'Townlands of Leinster' & the people who lived there' Flann O'Riain (New) 160pp S/B NEW £3.30 / €5.00

14) Religion, Politics & Violence in 19thC Belfast - The Pound & Sandy Row' Catherine Hirst.2002 223pp H/.B NEW £2.60 / €4.00

15) The Words We Use 3' Diarmaid O'Muirithe (1999 Mint/New) 93pp Slim P/B Mint NEW £1 / €1.00

16) Richard Pococke's Irish Tours (1740s-1760s) - John McVeagh H/B NEW 1995 245pp £4 / €6.00

17) Single Europe, Single Ireland? - James Goodman (Foreword by Liam O'Dowd) 2000 ed 194pp P/B NEW £1 / €1.00

18) United Irishmen, United States' David A.Wilson 1998 222pp H/B NEW £2.60 / €4.00

19) 'Bronwyn Whitlocks 'CHINESE Medicine for Women' (NEW) 138pp 1999 ed NEW slim P/B £1 / €1.00

20) 'Celtic Fury' Sean Kenny (Author of The Hungry Earth) 1998 ed New P/B 299pp £1 / €1.00

Hundreds of New pet books now available, dogs, cats, caged birds etc. Of the dog books there are numerous breeds asvailable from Bulldogs to Rottweillers.

21) Ireland 'A Lonely Grave' The Life & Death of William Redmond 1995 ed 164pp Scarce £5.30 /  €8.00
22) 'Clear The Way' - A History of the 38th Irish Brigade, British Army 1941-1947 Richard Doherty.1994 ed 336pp P/B Mint NEW £5.30 / €8.00
23) 'The Hamiltons of Ballydown' (Set in late 19thC Ireland) Anne Doughty 2005 ed 408pp (Novel) Mint NEW P/B £1/ €1.00
24) Ireland, 'A Love Present & Other Stories' John Montague (NEW) 1998 ed 159pp P/B Mint NEW £1 / €1.00
25)  'Catholics on Literature'Edited by J.C Whitehouse (NEW) 1997 ed 186pp NEW H/B dj £1/ €1.00
26) 'Faraway Home' Marilyn Taylor (WWII era N Ireland) 2004 221pp P/B NEW Novel £1 / €1.00
27) 'Merlins of The Wicklow Mountains' Ireland (Falcons) 2005 ed 86pp slim H/B dj Scarce £4 / €6.00
28) 'The Haunted Inkwell' Art & Our Future' (Irish) NEW 2001 ed 230pp P/B NEW £1 / €1.00
29) 'The Uncrowned King of Ireland' (Charles Stewart Parnell) His Love Story & Political Life (Softback format) 2005 Reprint of the original edition of 1914.287pp NEW P/B £4 / €6.00
30) 'Women of 1798' (Irish Rebellion) Daire Keogh, Nicholas Furlong editors. 1998 ed P/B NEW £1.50 / €2.00
31) A Makeshift Majority' Irish First Inter Party coalition Govermentt 1948 David McCullagh 1998ed 340pp SCARCE £2.75 / €4.00
32) Justice & Truth' Guildford Four/Maguires 2002 Ed NEW 2002 ed 408pp Large P/B NEW £1.80 / €2.50
33) Ireland, Tales from The Banks of The ERNE' John Cunningham 195pp 2005 ed NEW Scarce £3 / €4.50
34)  Ireland, 'The O 'Callaghan Family of County Cork - A History' - A Superb Book. 265pp Large H/B dj NEW £7 / €10.00
35)'The Bulkies' Police & Crime in Belfast 1800 -1865 An excellent reference work on this forgotten Irish Belfast police force 
 1997 ed 166pp P/B NEW £4 / €6.00
36) 'The Honey Plain' Elizabeth Wassell (novel set in Ireland) 1997 Mint/New Book £1 / €1.00
37) 'Natural Heartlands, The Landscape, People & Wildlife of Britain & Ireland' 145pp Large H/B 1997 ed NEW BARGAIN €2.00
38) 'The Cannon Law of Marriage & The Family' John McAreavy H/B 1997 ed 253pp NEW £1 / €2.00
39) 'The Company I Kept' Phyllis Ryan (Irish Theatre interest) NEW H/B dj 314pp Scarce £4 / €6.00
 40) Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography, by Brian Jenkins. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's Liverpool University Press, 1996 H/B NEW £3 / €4.50
42)  Ireland 'Enniscorthy & Districts 1530-1885' (Co.Wexford) Ger Carty 2005 ed 160pp NEW P/B £4 / €6.00
43)  LIV' Kathleen Coyle (Classic Irish Voices-1928) 2000 ed 176pp NEW P/B £1 / €1.00
44) Studies in Patristic Christology -Thomas Finan/Vincent Twomey 1998 ed 245pp H/B NEW £1.30 /  €2.00
45) The Irish Review' No 21 Autumn/Winter 1997 VGC.   Editors; Kevin Barry, Tom Dunne, Edna Longley, & Brian Walker. Issue No 20 published by The instute of Irish studies Queens University Belfast. Contents include film & the visual arts in Ireland, music education, literary biography. etc. NEW/Unused £1.50 €2.25
46)  'Garvaghy' A Community Under Siege (Orange Order) 171pp 1999 ed NEW P/B £1.30 / €2.00
47) 'Cinderella Man' James J.Braddock (Irish-American) Story 1930s (Boxing) 2005ed NEW P/B £1.80 /  €2.50
48) Ireland 'Uniforms of 1798' (Rebellion) F.Glenn Thompson. MINT Beautifully illustrated throughout. 1998 ed 63pp portrait format S/B £1.80 / €2.50
49) Ireland 'The Dublin Metropolitan Police, (1836-1925) A Short History & Genealogical Guide' Jim Herlihy.S/N NEW 264pp
An excellent reference work on this Irish police force with notes on medal awards & casualties, lists of members connected with the London Metropolitan police, the Irish revenue police, The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) & The British Army.The book is nicely illustrated with DMP badges, medals, uniforms & original police photographs £5.30 /  €8.00
50)  Ireland 'Chieftan To Knight' (Theobald Bourke Tibbot-ne-Long, 1567-1629 (Son of the Pirate Queen, Grace O'Malley) 1993 ed 207pp H/B NEW £3/€4.50
51) Ireland 'The Restoration Land Settlement in County Dublin 1660-1688' - L.J.Arnold. 211pp 1993 ed H/B with dj. NEW £5/€7.50
52) 'Drawings from The Irish Archictectural Archive' - David J.Griffin & Simon Lincoln. NEW 1993 ed 79pp New S/B Mint £3.50/€5
53) 'A Double Life' Thomas F O'Higgins. (Former Irish Chief Justice/ EU Court of Justice) 1996 ed 308pp H/B with dj NEW £3.50/€5
54) 'On The Beat' A Woman's Life in The Garda Siochana (Irish Police) Mary T. O'Connor New 2005 ed 205pp S/B New £2/€3.50
55) 'Clear The Way' - A History of the 38th Irish Brigade, British Army 1941-1947 Richard Doherty 1994 ed 336pp S/B NEW £5/€7.50
56) Standards for the development of archive services in Ireland 1997 ed 116 pp EXCELLENT reference slim vol.  NEW £3/€4.50
57) Irish Goverment publication 1972-1992  Richard B Finnegan/James L.Wiles New slim H/B 1995 ed 56pp NEW £2/€3.00
58) Irish Peasant Society' (19thC) including illicit whiskey distillation/ether drink in Ulster etc) - four historical esays. KH Connell 1996 ed NEW S/B 167pp £3/€4.50
59) Lord Kildare's Grand Tour 1766-1769 Elizabeth Fitzgerald. 2000 ed 153pp S/B New £2/€3.00
60) The Lebanon Diaries' Irish Army interest/military life abroad. Martin Malone New, large S/B ed 255pp 2006. £4/€6.00
61) John Hume & the SDLP' Gerard Murray (N.Ireland/interest) 1998 ed H/B with dj 328pp NEW . £4/€6.00
62) Voices of TRIM' Tommy Murray. 2005 ed 125pp NEW  S/B The Co.Meath town  history/interest  £4/€6.00
63) Research Watching' lifting the lid on market research. Giles Lury New S/B ed  2004 138pp  £1/€1.00
64) Blanketmen' IRA hunger strikes (N.Ireland) Richard O'Rawe S/B ed 2005 ed 161pp NEW £2/€3.00
65) The Correspondence of Myles Dillon 1922-1925 (Irish-German Relations. Joachim Fischer & John Dillon. H/B with dj Mint NEW 1999 ed 198pp. £3/€4.50
66) North Dublin' From The liffey to Ballbriggan Dr Derek Stanley. S/B ed 127pp 2006 ed. . £4/€6.00
67) Religious Revival in Britain & Ireland 1859-1905'  Janice Holmes. New H/B with dj 281pp publ - 2000 ed' £4/€6.00
68) Francis Hutcheson in Dublin 1719-1703'  Michael Brown  New H/B with dj. 207pp 2002 £6/€8.50
69) Noble & Joyous Histories' ENGLISH Romances 1375-1650. Eilean Ni Cuilleanain & JD Pheifer. New 292pp 1993 ed. £4/€6.00
70) Politics, Archaeology & The Creation of A National Museum of Ireland' Elizabeth Crooke H/B with dj NEW 2000 ed 211pp.  £4/€6.00
71) Anicent Art' Lloyd & Jennifer Laing 1993 ed 270pp H/B with dj. NEW BEAUTIFULLY illustrated. £6/€8.50
72) 'Edward McGuire' Brian Fallon. Irish Art interest., (Edward McGuire 1932-1986) described as the finest portrait painter of his generation. Beautifully illustrated in colour. Inc irish celebrity portraits. H/B with dj NEW 126pp 1991 ed. HIGHLY Recommended.  £6/€8.50
73) Tertullian The Puritan & His Influence' Cathal B.Daly. H/B ed with dj 1993 ed 221pp. NEW £2/€3.00
74) Home Fires' A Survivors Story. Shivaun Woolfson. (Dublin/Jewish 1960s era interest) 264pp S/B (Large) 264pp NEW £2/€2
75) Wetlands of Ireland' Distribution, ecology, uses & economic value' Edited by Marinus L.Otte 2003 ed S/B 256pp NEW £4/€6.00
76) Francis Knowles Porter 'From Belfast to Peking' A young Irishman in China 1866-1869 Edited with an introductionJL McCracken. H/B ed with dj 1996 ed 160pp NEW  £4/€6.00
77) 'Convicts & Colonies' A study of penal transportation from Great Britain & Ireland to Australia & other parts of the British Empire. AGL Shaw. LARGE S/B ed 399pp 1998 ed.NEW SCARCE  £6/€8.50
78) Aftermath Post Rebellion insurgency in WICKLOW 1799-1803.- Ruan O'Donnell.  Large S/B ed NEW 2000 272pp  £6/€8.50
79) The Storm Passed By' Ireland & the Battle of The Atlantic 1940-41 (WWII) Trevor Allen 197pp  1996 ed ILLUSTRATED. NEW £6/€8.50
80) Fearful Realities' New perspectives on the Famine. Chris Morash & Richard Hayes editors. NEW S/B ed, pub 2000, 180pp   £3/€4.50
81)  A Dimplmatic History of Ireland 1948-1949' the Repubic, the Commonwealth & NATO. Ian McCabe. NEW H/B ed with dj 1991 211pp. £4/€6.00
82) John Blake Dillon 'Young Irelander' Brendan O'Chthaoir. H/B ed with dj, 211pp 1990 ed with photographic illustrations. SCARCE £6/€8.50
83) 'A Memoir' Terry DeValera. 361pp 3004 edition large P/B  NEW  £3/€4.50
84) CHARADES' Adrienne McGlinchey & The Donegal Gardai. Karen McGlinchey. S/B 2005 ed 269pp with colour photographic illustrations NEW  £2/€3.00
85) The Critical Grip' JG Farrell. Ralph J Crane Editor. 217pp (JG Farrell 1935-1979) Irish literary figure & winner of the 1973 Booker prize.H/B with dj 1999 ed NEW £2/€3.00
86) Reading The Past' Essays on Medieval & Renaissance Literature' John Scattergood. 1996 ed H/B 310pp NEW £2/€3.00
87) David Ervine 'Uncharted Waters' Henry Sinnerton (David Ervine 1953-2007 Northern Ireland Unionist political figure) 2003 ed 255pp S/B NEW £2.25/€3.50
88) Explorations in Law & History' WN Osborough Editor. 191pp 1995 ed H/B with dj. Irish Legal History interest. NEW £3/€4.50
89) John Fitzgibbon Earl of Clare. A study of personality & politics. . Ann C.Kavanagh. NEW H/B with dj 44pp SCARCE  1997 Ed £8 / /€12
90) Exploring Dublin Wildlife - Parks - Waterways. Christopher Moriarty. 1997 ed 218pp S/B NEW ILLUSTRATED  £3/€4.50
91) Memoirs of Senator Joseph Connolly' A founder of Modern Ireland. Edited by J.Anthony Gaughan. LARGE S/B ed 481pp 1998ed. SCARCE
(Joseph Connolly 1885-1961) Belfast born Irish Republican. £6/€8.50
92) King's Inns & The Kingdom of Ireland. The Irish 'Inns of Court' 1541-1800 Colum Kenny NEW H/B with dj 352pp 1992 ed SCARCE £8/€10.00
93) Never make a primise you can't break' How to succeed in Irish politics' Gene Kerrigan. Humour. Slim S/B ed 2002 183pp. NEW £1/€1.00
94) PRESS DELETE' The Decline & Fall of the Irish Press. Ray Burke. Large S/B ed 2005 published. 437pp SCARCE  £4/€6  
95) The Yeats Sisters (WB Yeats) & The Cula (Press) Gifford Lewis. 199pp 1994 ed.£4/€6  
96) GERMANY Calling A personal biography of William Joyce Lord Haw-Haw' H/B with dj 300pp 2003 ed. Mary Kenny. SCARCE £6/€8.50