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

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

2) 'Tenant Right & Agrarian Society in Ulster 1600-1870' 1999 ed H/B New €6

3) 'The Dublin Paper War of 1786-1788' - W.J. McCormack' 1993 ed H/B NEW €4.50

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

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

6) 'Letters From Ireland' Harriet Martineau (1850s) 2001 edition. Editor Glenn Hooper. 2001 ed H/B 200 pp NEW €5

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

8) Ireland 'Maverick' A dissident view of Broadcasting Today - Bob Quinn 2001 ed 279pp H/B NEW €4

9) Tristam Kennedy & The Revival of Irish Legal Training' 1835-1885 Colum Kenny 1996 ed 269pp H/B NEW €5

10) Ireland 'In Search of Thomas Sheehan' Radical Politics in Cork 1824 - 1836 Fintan Lane 2001 slim S/B ed NEW €4

11) The Irish Volunteers 1715-1793 A List of Units 1995 Ed 88pp H/B NEW Scarce SOLD OUT

12) Ireland 'Rebellion in Kildare 1790 - 1803' Liam Chambers 1998 edition. New/Unused 173pp NEW S/B Mint €4

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

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

15) The Words We Use 3' Diarmaid O'Muirithe (1999 Mint/New) 93pp Slim P/B Mint NEW €1.50

16) Richard Pococke's Irish Tours (1740s-1760s) - John McVeagh H/B NEW 1995 245pp SOLD OUT

17) Single Europe, Single Ireland? - James Goodman (Foreword by Liam O'Dowd) 2000 ed 194pp P/B NEW €2

18) United Irishmen, United States' David A.Wilson 1998 222pp H/B NEW €4.50

19) 'Bronwyn Whitlocks 'CHINESE Medicine for Women' (NEW) 138pp 1999 ed NEW slim P/B €2.00

20) 'Celtic Fury' Sean Kenny (Author of The Hungry Earth) 1998 ed New P/B 299pp €1.50

Irish History, Local History, Literature, Biographies, Politics, Topographical, Art, Reference etc

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'Old Kilkenny Review'

This is a good listing of issues of the 'Review from 1998 - 2007. @ £5/€5 each + £1 postage. I am also offering the first & second four years in the fascimile reprint issues in H/B @ £8 each (Note: All titles or Mint - New/Unused)

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Or Buy the entire lot of twelve books covering eighteen years in total @ £60 + 5 S/H

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Collectors' Coins GB 2009!

Huge current edition with lots of value adjustments:

144 pages. The best value British coin price guide. Base metals, Silver and Gold from the industrial revolution to now.

Collectors Banknotes 2008,

treasury and Bank of England (15th edition)

In full colour for the first time. Current market

values for all British Treasury notes

1914 - 1928 and Bank of England Bank notes

694 - 2008.

Bargain Coin & Banknote Reference Books Selling @ £4.75 each Free Shipping.

'The Irish Round Tower'

The Irish Round Tower, Origins & Archictecture Brian Lalor

Published by The Collins Press, Wilton, Cork. S/B, 2005 edition.

Seventy-three early medieval Round Towers survive throughout the island of Ireland.. They represent the only form of architecture unique to Ireland.

An Excellent Reference Book.Priced @ £7.95 ISBN 1903464773

'Reflections on The Irish State' Garret FitzGerald

Published by Irish Academic Press, Dublin. H/B with dj in Mint / New condition. - 2003.

Garret FitzGerald is a former Irish prime minister, now eighty three he continues to be an important & respected commentator on many issues.

ISBN 0-7165-2775-8

An Excellent Reference on modern Ireland.Priced @ £6.00

The Trial of William Drennan (1754 - 1820)

Published by Irish Academic Press, Dublin. H/B with dj in Mint / New condition. - 1991.

.William Drennan (1754 - 1820), a physician, poet, educationalist and political radical, was one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen. He is also known as the first to refer in print to Ireland as "the emerald isle".

ISBN 0-7165-2457

Irish Historical Reference Priced @ £6.00

St Patrick's Kilkenny GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS'

Published by kilkenny Archaeological Society. S/B edition in Mint / New condition. - foreword by Michael O'Dwyer.

St Patricks's cemetery kilkenny is unique in that it contains sixty six medieval tombstones, the second largest number in Ireland. Very nicely illustrated with excellent drawings & additional local history notes. + Map

An Excellent Reference Book. Priced @ £5.00

'The Storm Passed By' Ireland & The Battle of The Atlantic 1940-1941.

Published by Irish Academic Press. 1991 edition in H/B with dj in Mint / New condition. Neutral Ireland during WWII. Written by Trevor Allen 195 pp. Nicely illustrated with various wartime photographs including German military personnel.

An Excellent Reference Book. ISBN 0-7165-2616-6

Priced @ £6.00

'Purple & Gold' - A Photographic Record of Gaelic Games Wexford 1885-1996 A Wexford Hurling & Gaelic Football History.

Compiled & edited by Sean Courtney , narrative by David McDuff (GAA) Mint NewWellbrook Press. S/B, 1996 Mint/New Book.

An Excellent GAA Reference Book.

Priced @ £6.50

'The Story of Irish Film' Arthur Flynn 2005 edition.

From the first jerky reelers screened in 1896 to the opening of Ardmore Studios in 1958 to Section 481's tax breaks, Arthur Flynn's The Story of Irish Film includes The quiet man, the Lion in winter to O'Toole, filming Ryans Daughter, Michael Collins, Spielberg in County Wexford, Brosnans Irish dreamtime, Oscars for Ireland, Angela's Ashes etc etc. A major work of reference on the subject. H/B with dj, A large volume with 328PP.

This book is Brand New & in MINT Condition

An excellen gift idea for Cinema lovers

Priced @ £12.00 ISBN 1-85607-914-7

21) Ireland 'A Lonely Grave' The Life & Death of William Redmond 1995 ed 164pp Scarce SOLD OUT
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23) 'The Hamiltons of Ballydown' (Set in late 19thC Ireland) Anne Doughty 2005 ed 408pp (Novel) Mint NEW P/B  €1.00
24) Ireland, 'A Love Present & Other Stories' John Montague (NEW) 1998 ed 159pp P/B Mint NEW  €1.50
25)  'Catholics on Literature'Edited by J.C Whitehouse (NEW) 1997 ed 186pp NEW H/B dj  €3.00
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27) 'Merlins of The Wicklow Mountains' Ireland (Falcons) 2005 ed 86pp slim H/B dj Scarce €6.00
28) 'The Haunted Inkwell' Art & Our Future' (Irish) NEW 2001 ed 230pp P/B NEW  €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/€6.00
30) 'Women of 1798' (Irish Rebellion) Daire Keogh, Nicholas Furlong editors. 1998 ed P/B NEW  €3.00
31) A Makeshift Majority' Irish First Inter Party coalition Govermentt 1948 David McCullagh 1998ed 340pp SCARCE  €4.00
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36) 'The Honey Plain' Elizabeth Wassell (novel set in Ireland) 1997 Mint/New Book  €1.00
37) 'Natural Heartlands, The Landscape, People & Wildlife of Britain & Ireland' 145pp Large H/B 1997 ed NEW BARGAIN €3.00
38) 'The Cannon Law of Marriage & The Family' John McAreavy H/B 1997 ed 253pp NEW  €3.00
39) 'The Company I Kept' Phyllis Ryan (Irish Theatre interest) NEW H/B dj 314pp Scarce  €4.00
 40) Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography, by Brian Jenkins. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's Liverpool University Press, 1996 H/B NEW  €5
42)  Ireland 'Enniscorthy & Districts 1530-1885' (Co.Wexford) Ger Carty 2005 ed 160pp NEW P/B  €5.00
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44) Studies in Patristic Christology -Thomas Finan/Vincent Twomey 1998 ed 245pp H/B NEW €2.00
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46)  'Garvaghy' A Community Under Siege (Orange Order) 171pp 1999 ed NEW P/B  €2.00
47) 'Cinderella Man' James J.Braddock (Irish-American) Story 1930s (Boxing) 2005ed NEW P/B €2.50
48) Ireland 'Uniforms of 1798' (Rebellion) F.Glenn Thompson. MINT Beautifully illustrated throughout. 1998 ed 63pp portrait format S/B €5
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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 €4
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52) 'Drawings from The Irish Archictectural Archive' - David J.Griffin & Simon Lincoln. NEW 1993 ed 79pp New S/B Mint €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 €5
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56) Standards for the development of archive services in Ireland 1997 ed 116 pp EXCELLENT reference slim vol.  NEW €3
57) Irish Goverment publication 1972-1992  Richard B Finnegan/James L.Wiles New slim H/B 1995 ed 56pp NEW €2
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 €2
59) Lord Kildare's Grand Tour 1766-1769 Elizabeth Fitzgerald. 2000 ed 153pp S/B New €3.00
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61) John Hume & the SDLP' Gerard Murray (N.Ireland/interest) 1998 ed H/B with dj 328pp NEW .€6.00
62) Voices of TRIM' Tommy Murray. 2005 ed 125pp NEW  S/B The Co.Meath town  history/interest €6.00
63) Research Watching' lifting the lid on market research. Giles Lury New S/B ed  2004 138pp €2.00
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65) The Correspondence of Myles Dillon 1922-1925 (Irish-German Relations. Joachim Fischer & John Dillon. H/B with dj Mint NEW 1999 ed 198pp. €4.50
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69) Noble & Joyous Histories' ENGLISH Romances 1375-1650. Eilean Ni Cuilleanain & JD Pheifer. New 292pp 1993 ed.€4.00
70) Politics, Archaeology & The Creation of A National Museum of Ireland' Elizabeth Crooke H/B with dj NEW 2000 ed 211pp.  €6.00
71) Anicent Art' Lloyd & Jennifer Laing 1993 ed 270pp H/B with dj. NEW BEAUTIFULLY illustrated. €5
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
73) Tertullian The Puritan & His Influence' Cathal B.Daly. H/B ed with dj 1993 ed 221pp. NEW €3.00
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75) Wetlands of Ireland' Distribution, ecology, uses & economic value' Edited by Marinus L.Otte 2003 ed S/B 256pp NEW €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 €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
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79) The Storm Passed By' Ireland & the Battle of The Atlantic 1940-41 (WWII) Trevor Allen 197pp  1996 ed ILLUSTRATED. NEW €6
80) Fearful Realities' New perspectives on the Famine. Chris Morash & Richard Hayes editors. NEW S/B ed, pub 2000, 180pp  €4
81)  A Dimplmatic History of Ireland 1948-1949' the Repubic, the Commonwealth & NATO. Ian McCabe. NEW H/B ed with dj 1991 211pp. €6
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83) 'A Memoir' Terry DeValera. 361pp 3004 edition large P/B  NEW  €4
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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 €3
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87) David Ervine 'Uncharted Waters' Henry Sinnerton (David Ervine 1953-2007 Northern Ireland Unionist political figure) 2003 ed 255pp S/B NEW €3.50
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91) Memoirs of Senator Joseph Connolly' A founder of Modern Ireland. Edited by J.Anthony Gaughan. LARGE H/B ed 481pp 1998ed. SCARCE
(Joseph Connolly 1885-1961) Belfast born Irish Republican.€8
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
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94) PRESS DELETE' The Decline & Fall of the Irish Press. Ray Burke. Large S/B ed 2005 published. 437pp SCARCE €6  
95) The Yeats Sisters (WB Yeats) & The Cula (Press) Gifford Lewis. 199pp 1994 ed.€6  
96) GERMANY Calling A personal biography of William Joyce Lord Haw-Haw' H/B with dj 300pp 2003 ed. Mary Kenny. SCARCE €8