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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 'That Ireland is now the reverse of tranquil, is a proposition which no person with the slightest regard to veracity will controvert. . Nay, I will go further and affirm, that, considering the dangerous secret "Ribbon" conspiracy which unquestionably exists, and the general and systematic manifestation of maligant feeling, (as developed in the subsequent pages,) Ireland is now in a much worse condition than at any period since the last rebellion." 1838 First Edition. 172 pages, plus tipped-in Errata.

Seller Inventory # 007673

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Eason & Co, the Irish-owned bookseller and stationer which came into being in 1886, purchased their main building at 40 Lower Sackville Street Dublin (now Lower O'Connell Street) in 1887, the site it continues to occupy to this day. While the War of Independence and the Civil War were to cause disruptions to Eason's business, the company had become Ireland's foremost supplier of books by the end of the 1920s. Commencing with book Number 3 through to Number 71, good broken run of thirty-seven issues of the seventy-two publications called for during their time span (1975 - 1992). The Irish House [3: Desmond Guinness]; Irish Glass [5: Mary Boydell]; Irish Bookbindings [6: Maurice Craig]; Irish Silver [7: Douglas Bennett]; Irish Round Towers [8: Lennox Barrow]; St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin [9: Victor Jackson]; Ulster's Heritage [10: John Brooks]; Irish Gardens [11: Edward Malins and the Knight of Glin]; Russborough, Co. Wicklow [13: Sir Alfred Beit]; Irish Music and Musicians [15: Charles Acton]; Irish Wild Flowers [17: Ruth Isabel Ross]; Ulster Folk Ways [20: Alan Gailey]; Malahide Castle [22: Michael Wynne]; Irish Birds [23: Paul Hillis]; Irish Towns and Villages [25: L.M. Cullen]; Irish Theatre [26: Christopher Fitz-Simon]; The American Ambassador's Residence Dublin [28: Elizabeth Shannon]; Irish Illuminated Manuscripts [29: G.O. Simms]; The Burren [30: Maryangela Keane]; Guinness [32: Peter Walsh]; Celtic Ornament [33: Paul Larmour]; Joyce's Dublin [36: David Norris]; Mount Usher [38: Madelaine Jay]; Bunratty Castle [41: Christopher Lynch]; The National Library [42: Noel Kissane]; The Irish Castle [49: D. Newman Johnson]; The Irish Table [50: Sandy O'Byrne]; Irish Family Treasures [51: Henry McDowell]; Lough Derg [54: Laurence J. Flynn]; Holy Cross Abbey [55: Thomas Morris]; Irish Writers [57: Seamus Deane]; Irish Scenery [59: C. H. Holland]; Historic Derry [61: Brian Lacy]; St Eunan's Cathedral, Letterkenny, Co Donegal [62: Graham Harrison]; The Siege of Derry [65: Brian Lacy]; William III in Ireland [67: Rex Cathcart]; Irish Whiskey [71: John Clement Ryan]. Informative publications, generously illustrated with art-quality prints on heavy, glossy paper. Whilst some titles in the collection are scarce and most other volumes to complete the series are available, the challenge might be matching the excellent near fine condition of this particular set.

Seller Inventory # 012235

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A Glossary, incorporating the Collections of H. C. Hart, M.R.I.A. (1847-1908). Hart, educated at Portora Royal began his collection of dialect words about 1880 and read a paper "Notes on Ulster Dialect, chiefly Donegal", which was published in 1899. In his Preface Traynor also acknowledges the works by Sommerfelt 'Dialect of Torr', and Foghraidheacht Ghaedhilge an Tuaiscirt by Séamus Ó Searcaigh. Pages xxiv; 336, a very good clean copy in its dust wrapper.

Seller Inventory # 007085

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The struggle between James and William in Ireland by Ryan, an enthusiastic anti-Papist and supporter of the Orange Order. 335 pages [including List of Subscribers at front, ranging through a great swathe of Irish gentry]; plus xxxi; Appendix. Printed at Maryborough, the then small provincial town, modern Portlaoise. Engraved frontispiece portrait plate; folding engraved map 'Plan of the Battle of the Boyne'. First Edition 1836.

Seller Inventory # 007657

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Handwritten inscription "To the Revd. - Berwick with the authors best respects." John Dubourdieu was a Huguenot who settled in Lisburn. Pages Vol 1, xx, 352; Vol 2, viii, (353) - 630, 112 [appendix]. Folding map of the County, plus seventeen Engravings, and ten folding tables on 5 sheets of the Weather at Mount Druid from 1801 to 1810. Contemporary half leather, gilt on red lettering pieces, thumb-nail size chip missing from top of backstrip of vol one, invisible repair possible in the right hands. Two Volumes, 1812 First Edition. Signed.

Seller Inventory # 012213

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Handwritten, unpaginated c.194 pages Captain's logbook 1885: record of important events in the management and operation of ships under his control, essential to traditional navigation. Earliest entries start with Scottish built 'SS Clapet X', [Iron Screw Steamer] dating from Sunday August 9th 1885, then Log of the Ship 'Gowanburn' of Greenock [Steel Sailing Vessel 4 Masted Barque] commencing May 19th 1886, ending Sunday June 5th 1887, followed by 'Glenburn' [3 Masted Ship], Monday July 18th 1887 through to Friday 24th Febuary 1888 [all vessels built by the shipyards of Scotland, vessel descriptions Source: Caledonian Maritime Research Trust]. Trade routes including Chittagong; Calcutta; New York. One of the ships called in at Belfast. Alluring history, half leather, marbled boards, original manuscript.

Seller Inventory # 012224

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Documented History of the County Fermanagh from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Peadar Livingstone [1932 - 1987] born in Castleblayney, entered Maynooth College in 1950 edited the journal Irisleabhar Muighe Nuadhat [later Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad] and received his B.A. in Celtic Studies there. He was a renowned scholar in both the Irish language and local history, and a regular visitor to the Donegal Gaeltacht where he taught during the summer seasons in Coláiste Mhuire, Loch An Iúir. Pages viii; 570 plus, numerous plates including folding map; dust wrapper appears to have been internally strengthened professionally as was sometimes the way in the late sixties and as a result still presents very well. First Edition 1969.

Seller Inventory # 007616

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Treating of The Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People. Clean, bright set top edges gilt, bound by Galwey & Co. Eustace St., Dublin. Two Volumes, First Edition 1903.

Seller Inventory # 007659

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Embracing detailed notices of St. John's Point, Killybegs, Sliabh-Laig and Glen Head County Donegal. Interspersed with a rare variety of local legends and historical annotations, by Kinnfaela (pen-name of T.C. McGinley 1830-1887, National Teacher who taught at Croagh, near Dunkineely). In this quality reprint of the 1867 first edition, Éanna Mac Cuinneagáin has compiled a great deal of information about the author. Pages xxiii; 172 plus, section of eight colour plates at rear. One of a small number issued in original quarter leather, marbled boards and marbled endpapers, in matching slipcase, this copy is SIGNED by Éanna Mac Cuinneagáin and dated 26/8/00. Signed.

Seller Inventory # 012375

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression adult novel by Irish playwright and author of children's books. Janet McNeill was born in Dublin in 1907.

Seller Inventory # 012259

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Printed at the Fermanagh Herald Office, Enniskillen. Dromore Parish, in the Barony of East Omagh, and County of Tyrone, contains sixty-two townlands. The surface is very much diversified by hill and dale; and the land, though a heavy cold soil, is generous in its return to the industrious husbandman. 48 pages; illustrated. James Edward McKenna 1868-1931 was parish priest of Dromore from 1909. He was a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and of the Royal Irish Academy.

Seller Inventory # 012218

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Parochial history c.1907, text in double column. 78 pages, plus numerous full-page photographic plates. Contents include Ancient Abbey of Gortmore; Ancient Bells of Omagh; A Song on the Protestant Church, Dromore (c.1850s, preserved among the peasantry of Drumragh residing in the district adjoining Drumragh, it owes its origin to a quarrel regarding pews).

Seller Inventory # 012219

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Handwritten [manuscript] at an important time in Irish history, unpaginated c.151 pages. Initially meetings of the society held at Engineers Hall, College Street, Belfast (building sold) then Artisans Hall, Lower Garfield St., Belfast (from July 1920). Mentions representation made to Joseph Devlin MP [Irish Parliamentary Party and later a Nationalist Party MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland]. Topics covered include payment of both trade and friendly benefits; non-payment of War Bonus; Idle Money due each on account of the strike in The Boyne Spinning & Weaving Company Drogheda; Power Loom Yarn Dressers Society. Textile Federation. Irish Power Loom Manufacturers. Names of individuals, their factory and locality in Ireland.

Seller Inventory # 012217

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Recounts the history of the Boyd family from Donegal, Ireland to Marlborough Province, New Zealand [Kaikoura, coastal town located on the northeast of the South Island]. Much on Loughros Point, Ardara, and Carrickfinn, County Donegal. Also related families Adair; Billingsley; and Walker. Large format, heavy book 448 pages; profusely illustrated using numerous [named] old family photographs.

Seller Inventory # 012693

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Tourist Trophy Motor Race over the Dundonald, Newtownards, Comber Course 1928. A coloured Map of the Course, Scale about four inches to a mile. Gradients shewn rising in direction of Arrow Points. Reference Key: the Course, the Start, Cross Roads, Barricades, Supply and Repair Pits, Scoring Board and Railway. Full Distance of Race 410 miles; Length of Course 13 & two third miles; Number of Laps 30; Width of Course 35 ft. (ave.). August 18-1929. Regulations Summarised on inside of rear cover. An attractive item of early motor racing history in Ireland. Rare in this condition, near fine.

Seller Inventory # 001168

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Printed by Milner and Company Limited, Halifax West Yorkshire. Frontispiece by R.E. McEune (who also illustrated the scarce 1907 Milner edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). 208 pages. "One awful rending of the soul from the body, one moment of agony beyond all agonies, and the body was there, there on earth with weeping relatives making their earthly moan. The soul - in one flash I saw a marvellous sight, a stairway of shining mortals, arms held out to receive me; I felt myself caught in these arms and passed upward". WorldCat locates only two copies. Theology; Religious fiction. Rare.

Seller Inventory # 011031

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Barony of Lower Ormond: Parish of Cloughprior [1982]; Kilruane, Ballygibbon, Rathurles [1982]; Borrisokane, Finnoe, Uskane [1983]; Ardcroney, Congar [1984]. Barony of Upper Ormond: Parish of Kilkeary [1981]; Ballinaclough, Dolla, Kilboy [1982]; Latteragh, Kilnaneave [1983]; Ballymackey [1984]; Templederry, Curreeney [1986]; Barony of Owney & Arra: Parish of Castletownarra, Portroe. [1982]. ex-lib but possibly unissued. Ten uniformly bound hardback volumes A4 size, comprehensive set each with introductory graveyard history and location.

Seller Inventory # 012228

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition (Limited). The edition, printed by Ray Lynn, Dublin, bound and slipcased in a red Classic Avon buckram cloth, consists of seventy-six numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Numbers 1 to 50 are offered for sale to subscribers; numbers 51-76 are hors commerce. This is number 16; fine in slipcase. Signed by the Author.

Seller Inventory # 005725

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The development of Emmets Gaelic Athletic Club from its inception in 1953, a record of the club's fortunes on the sports-field and a portrait of the people of Slaughtneil and neighbouring townlands in Co. Derry. Contents include Emmets Fortunes in Gaelic Games; Camogie; Surnames of the area; Tirkane, Tirgarvil, Fallagloon, and Corlecky Schools. Pages vi; 169 including photographs, plus large fold-out townland map at rear.

Seller Inventory # 003238

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The purpose of the Ulster Museum Exhibition was to display the printed maps of Ireland and its Provinces in such a way that the viewer is able to trace the development of successive cartographical conceptions of the Irish land mass, as a small misshapen profile lying to the west of Britain from the Portoland (manuscript) charts of the fourteenth - sixteenth century, to the shape that we know today. Ptolemy; Ruscelli's 'Geographia' based on Lily; 'Lafreri maps'; Mercator; Boazio/Ortelius; Speed's maps; Bleau, Jansson, Goos; et al. The landmark in the development of the map of Ireland was Petty's survey, published in an atlas form in 1685, following the Act of Satisfaction. Introduction; Index followed by comprehensive Catalogue, oblong format 32 pages plus four-page illustrated centrefold: Hibernia Sive Irelanda [Bertelli/Camocio]; A New Mapp of The Kingdome of Ireland [Christopher Brown]; Regni Hiberniae [Christopher Weigler]; A Map of Ireland [George Bickham, 1754]. Prepared for and published by Queen's University Festival, Belfast 9 - 20 February 1972.

Seller Inventory # 007155

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. For Those Who Died "The Forgotten Many" A Tribute to Ulster's Wartime Bomber Command Aircrew. SIGNED on Title page by John [Quinn] and dated 29.5.93. First chapter dedicated to the Hampden crews who with the Wellingtons and Whitleys carried the war to Germany and the occupied countries. While covering men who served in 78, 144, 166 and 218 Squadrons, book centres mainly on six men from N Ireland who served in 44, 76, 101, 144, 218 and 582 Squadrons. Large format 75 pages, plus further ten page Appendix. Also loosely inserted is a two-page typed letter on World War II Irish Wreckology Group headed paper from the author stating that only 200 copies of this book were printed. Signed by the Author.

Seller Inventory # 007292

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed on [blank] front endpaper by Seán MacEntee. Loosely inserted embossed card from his daughter Máire Mhac an tSaoi [diplomatic posting or academic appointment Permanent Representation of Ireland to the Council of Europe based in Strasbourg], and comes with original 1966 newspaper cutting, critical review of the book by Ernest Blythe [former Finance Minister in the Dáil prior to MacEntee]. SIGNED by Seán MacEntee.

Seller Inventory # 000498

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A collection of writings and photographs of the past. 113 pages (Volume 1); 148 pages (Volume 2); 151 pages (Volume 3). Contents include Vol. 1: Drumquin Barracks Raided; Irish in Langfield; Fifty Years Gaelic Football in Drumquin. Vol. 2: Townland Names of Langfield Parish; Lisky Graveyard; pictures of named pupils and schools of the area; Drumquin (Droim Caoin). Vol. 3: Presbyterian Church and Graveyard; List of Headstones (Upper Langfield Church of Ireland); Extracts from The Omagh Almanac and Co. Tyrone Directory for 1881; 19th Century Disturbances in the Drumquin Area; Gaelic Football in Drumquin Pre-1950. Three volumes housed in original blue slipcase limited issue. Rare.

Seller Inventory # 001154

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First novel in the Chief Inspector Barnaby series, it was adapted as the pilot of Midsomer Murders, a popular ITV television series based on Caroline Graham's books. Unique copy, this stated U.S. First Edition was previously owned and SIGNED by ROBERT BARNARD mystery writer, critic and lecturer, awarded in 2003 by the Crime Writers Association for a lifetime of achievement. Loosely inserted comprehensive newspaper Obituary of Robert Barnard dated September 2013. On the rear of the dust jacket under 'Advance Praise for The Killings At Badger's Drift', Barnard writes "A brilliant debut. [Graham] captures the true atmosphere of the English village: chilly, adulterous and nasty.".

Seller Inventory # 010326

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. c.1921 produced during a key year in Irish history. Pages 145 including Index and Errata, plus at rear ten pages local Advertisements relating to Flax growing in Ireland.

Seller Inventory # 012214

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. collection of twelve original leaflets produced in opposition to 1985 treaty the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Loyalists Act Now; Boycott Éire Goods; Traitors One and All; Ulster Patriot etc etc.

Seller Inventory # 012885

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Born in 1924 in the tenements of Upper Abbey Street, Dublin, Christy Roche joined the Army then the Navy, and a lifetime spent between seafaring and Ballyfermot before retiring from Irish Ferries. 255 pages; illustrated with many plates of ships. SIGNED by the author and dated 29/03/03. Uncommon. Signed by the Author.

Seller Inventory # 006145

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. n.d.(c.1955). The attractive cover painting of a golf scene carries the title 'Golfing in Northern Ireland'. 100 pages; illustrated with photographs, a few neat ticks in the margins after the name of a course presumably indicating where a previous owner had played, otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 001112

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. c.1990. In each decade from 1930 to 1980, one or other of Creggan football, hurling or camogie teams was numbered in the top echelons of Gaelic sport in Antrim. Sporting activity apart, includes material which will be of general interest to the loughshore community from Randalstown to Toome. Ann Marrion produced the Camogie section. 230 pages; illustrated with photographs.

Seller Inventory # 003234

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Decision made in 1951 to acquire initially 1,000 acres of derelict bog in east Galway between Ballyforan and Ahascragh, the primary object being to produce there as much beet for Tuam sugar factory as a sound rotation will permit [with long term aim to win peat for fuel]. Large original Irish Press photographs plus typescript reports on Gowla Bog, including Keane & Fitzsimons; Tuam Laboratory Analysis; Cómhlucht Siúicre Éireann M. J. Costello. Michael Joseph Costello (1904 - 1986) was an Irish rebel and military leader during the Irish War of Independence. Seán MacBride, in a tribute, said "It could be truly said of him that for his country he lived". Museum quality manuscript research items.

Seller Inventory # 012886