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19584. : Belfast Election. A Collection of the Squibs and Songs issued prior to the contest for the representation of the Borough. between Wm. Sharman Crawford, Robert J. Tennent, Lord A. Chichester, and James E. Tennent with their original addresses.

Belfast: Printed by Hugh Clark Pottinger's Entry 1832. 17.5 x 11 cm. 82 pp. half leather and marbled boards. The title page and preface have been removed but replaced by a facsimile copy, loosely inserted, page 5 has a couple of old stains and there is some discolouration to parts of pages scattered throughout, despite these serious faults this is a tight copy. It is a scarce item though in poor/fair condition. The two members who were elected were Sir Arthur Chichester and James Emerson Tennent. £55.00


20719. : The Manor Court Acts collected.

Dublin: His Majesties Printers 1829 15.5 x 10 cm. pp.571-636, in a contemporary leather binding. There is some discolouration on some fourteen pages otherwise a good, tight, clean copy. On the title page is inscribed in ink the name Henry L. Prentice, and underneath this, in a different hand and ink, "Died 8th Oct. 1869." Henry Leslie Prentice c.1794-8.10.69 was Land Agent to the Earl of Caledon for some 41 years. He married Ann Dobbin in 1828 and had some seven children with her. "The Civil Court Bill, Civil Bill Tenantry and Manor Court Acts have been printed so as to form one complete collection" Acts all related to Ireland. £45.00


20693. : Ulster Festival May 5 - May 18 1957 Official Brochure.

Belfast: Ulster Festival Director 1957. 23 x 18 cm. 64 pp. illustrated, card covers in very good condition. £20.00


1842. Chambers, G: Faces of Change. The Belfast and Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1783-1983

Belfast: Century Books 1983. vi+314pp. illustrated, d.w. v.g. The book contains much material about the history of the town as well as the Chamber. £12.00


18400. "I.O." (Street, C.J.C.): The Administration of Ireland, 1920.

London: Philip Allan & Co, (vi) + 468 + (4) pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Portrait frontispiece of The Rt.Hon. Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt., K.C., the last Chief Secretary for Ireland. Gold-blocked green boards, textured and lined. Several official stamps, including Ministy of Home Affairs. Half-title browning. Slight wear to boards. £80.00


19021. Adams, J. R. R.: The Printed Word and the Common Man Popular Culture in Ulster 1700-1900.

Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, 1987. vii + 218 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. 10 illustrations. Bibliograohy. Index. Gold-blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in a v.g. dustwrapper. The book looks at the education of the people, examines the book trade, travelling chapmen, and the wide range of printed material consumed by ordinary people in Ulster in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. £10.00


9858. Akenson, Don: An Irish History of Civilisation Volume 2.

London: Granta Books 2006. Comprising Books 3 and 4. 696 pp. very good in a v.g. dustwrapper. The world's leading scholar of the Irish Diaspora, fuses history and fiction into a remarkable narrative of a people and their influence around the globe. A vast chronicle of civilisation through Irish eyes told as short stories. Very readable £12.50


20223. Allen, Sam: To Ulster's Credit.

Lisburn: Plantation Press n.d. c.1990? 22 x 15 cm. 132 pp. illustrations by Robert J. Irvine, some underlining softcovers, in good condition. Deals with Ulster immigration to the USA. £10.00


13928. Allied Irish Banks: Root and Branch Allied Irish Banks Yesterday Today and Tomorrow.

Dublin: Allied Irish Banks, 1979. 28.5 by 27 cms. 115 pp. illustrated, hardback, green gold blocked boards, no d.w. (as issued?)in good condition. A well illustrated history of this Irish bank. £15.00


19859. Andrews, J. H.: History in the Ordnance Map an introduction for Irish readers

Dublin: Published by the Director at the Ordnance survey Office 1974 24 x18.5 cm. 63 pp. 27 illustrations, pictorial card covers, in very good condition, scrce £20.00


17182. Armstrong, Robert: Through the Ages to Newtownabbey.

Muckamore: Shanway Publications Ltd, 1979. First edition. xiii + 393pp. 28 x 20 cm. Profusely illustrated. Splendid, and very handsome, local history. Map, and folding map. Gold-blocked dark-blue boards with the borough arms on the front board. Integral silk bookmarker. There is a museum's bookplate on the front pastedown, and the accession number "1980 - 250" discreetly written on the title page. The dw is frayed at the top of the spine and that and two edge nicks have been strengthened with peelable tape. There is also a damp stain at the bottom of the dw. This, however, is the very rare first edition of this book . £75.00


11749. Athol Books: The Road to Partition.

Belfast: Athol Books May 1974. 66 pp. paper covers, minor wear otherwise good. This pamphlet traces the development of the Catholic / Protestant political conflict between the outbreak of the World war in 1914 and the General Election of 1919. It is made up of material first published in the Irish Communist between July 1971 and February 1973. £10.00


19521. Baguely, Margaret, editor: World War I and the Question of Ulster The correspondence of Lilian and Wilfred Spender.

Dublin: The Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2009. xxxi + 536 pp. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Based on a collection of some 2,750 letters in PRONI, Belfast, this was a daily wartime correspondence between husband and wife. 15 illustrations, with a dedication on the title page from the editor to her two proof readers. Gold-blocked black boards. In very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. Unpackaged weight 1,700g, so overseas shipping will require extra postage. Important source material at all sorts of levels. £45.00


12887. Bailey, William F. and Sellors, E.M.: The Law and Practice relating to Franchise and Registration in Ireland; with The Representation of the People Act, 1884, The Registration (Ireland) Act, 1885, and Various Sections of Acts Affecting and Amending the Same.

Dublin: John Falconer, 1885. xiii + 231pp. 19 x 13 cm. Gold- and blind-stamped maroon boards. Titlepage carries the impressed blind stamp of RGO Johnston, Notary Public, Newry. The stamp occurs several times in the book, and on page 1 with the signature "RGO Johnston, Solr, Newry". Some foxing. £12.00


18262. Baird, Sir Robert: "Publishing in Ireland".

Belfast: W. & G. Baird, Limited, 1923. 29 pp. 22 x 17.5 cm. A Paper by Sir Robert Baird for the World's Advertising Convention, Atlantic City, June 3-7, 1923. 4 illustrations. Matt-card covers. Covers dusty and detached, otherwise in good condition. Baird was managing director of W.G.Baird Ltd, Belfast, proprieters of the "Belfast Telegraph" and other newspapers. He acknowledged assistance, with this paper, from the famous local historian Francis J. Biggar. £25.00


16817. Baker, Joe, Glenravel Local History Project: Belfast Murders, Volume 1 - Issue No.7.

Belfast: Glenravel Local History Project, c2000. 32 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. Six articles. Sixteen illustrations. Pictorial paper covers. Rusted staples. Slight mark on front cover where price label has been removed. £8.00


13827. Ballymacarrett Think Tank.: Beyond King Billy

Belfast: Island Pamphlets June 1999. 21 by 14.5 cms. 27 pp. card covers, minor wear. An exploration of issues facing the Protestant Working class of East Belfast. £5.00


15068. Bannister, Saxe.: Some Revelations in Irish History; or, Old Elements of Creed and Class Conciliation in Ireland.

Port Washington N.Y: Kennikat Press, 1970. A Kennikat Press Scholarly Reprints reprint of the 1870 edition. lxvii+255 pp. 18.5 x 13 cm. Decorated capitals, head- and tail-pieces. Hardback, light blue boards, no dw, in very good condition. £10.00


19205. Bardon, Dr Jonathan: An Interesting and Honourable History The Belfast Charitable Society, The First 250 Years 1752-2002.

Belfast: The Belfast Charitable Society, 2002. 42 pp. 30.5 x 21.5 cm. 12 illustrations. Map. Pictorial semi-matt card covers, in very good condition. Clifton House is the City's oldest public building, and still serves its original function. £12.00


17931. Bardon, Dr Jonathan: An Interesting and Honourable History The Belfast Charitable Society, The First 250 Years 1752-2002.

Belfast: The Belfast Charitable Society, 2002. 42 pp. 30.5 x 21.5 cm. 12 illustrations. Map. Pictorial semi-matt boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. Clifton House is the City's oldest public building, and still serves its original function. £23.00


19589. Bardon, Jonathan: Belfast A Century.

Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 2001. Reprinted with corrections. xii + 204pp. 31 x 24.5 cm. "Over 340 striking photographs" of twentieth-century Belfast. Gold-blocked black boards. In very good condition, in a very good d.w. Please note: unpackaged weight is 1,500g. £21.00


20121. Barnard, Toby: A Guide to Sources for the History of Material Culture in Ireland 1500-2000.

Dublin: Four Courts Press 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History. 128 pp. 19 illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition. £10.00


14085. Barrington, Sir Jonah: The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation. A full account of the bribery and corruption by which the Union was carried.

Dublin: James Duffy and Co., c.1882. The family histories of the Members who voted away the Irish Parliament; with an extraordinary black list of the Titles, places and Pensions which they recieved for their corrupt votes. xvi+299 pp. green cloth boards, gilt spine title. £35.00


20815. Beale, George and Eamon Phoenix: Stran. Stranmillis College 1922-1998 An Illustrated History.

Belfast: Stranmillis Press1998 26 x 21 cm. 130 pp. illustrated, soft covers. This Teacher Training College was founded in 1922. £15.00


16844. Beckett, J.C. et al.: Belfast The Making of The City.

Belfast: Lagan Books, 2008. 191 pp. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Twelve articles by local historians on the rise and development of Belfast between the end of the eighteenth century and the First World War. Profusely illustrated with photographs, advertisements, caricatures, documents, and maps. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In near mint condition. £10.00


17140. Belfast Museum and Art Gallery: Exhibition of Historic Silver in Ulster. Catalogue of the Exhibits.

Belfast: Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, 1956. Publication No. 154. 36 pp. 21 x 15 cm. The catalogue of an 1956 exhibition. Ten illustrations. Printed card covers. The front cover is stained. One-page Supplement loosely inserted. A useful short survey of the subject. . £15.00


14356. Bell, Jonathan: Ulster Farming Families 1930-1960.

Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation in association with the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 2005. First edition. viii + 132pp. 24.5 x 18 cm. Forty numbered Illustrations, and an Appendix of photographs. Pictorial matt card covers. Near mint condition. £10.00


3744. Bell, Sam Hanna, Robb, Nesca A. and Hewitt, John, editors: The Arts in Ulster A Symposium.

London: George G. Harrup & Co. Ltd, 1951. 173 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Seven essays covering architecture, drama, painting and sculpture, prose, poetry, and music in Ulster. 31 illustrations. Gold-blocked red boards, no dw. Spine faded, but a useful assessment of the arts in Ulster in 1951. Produced as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations. £10.00


13512. Benn, George: The History of the Town of Belfast with an accurate account of its former and present state.

Ballynahinch: Davidson Books, 1979. 298 pp. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. A statistical survey of the Parish of Belfast and a description of some remarkable antiquities in its neighbourhood. A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1823. Illustrated, hardback, in a dustwrapper, two small discreet library stamps in a margin, otherwise in very good condition. A classic account of the early history of Belfast. This was the first reprint of Benn's work. £95.00


20908. Bennett, Douglas: The Company of Goldsmiths of Dublin 1637-1987.

Dublin: The Company of Goldsmiths 1987. 21 x 15 cm. 35 pp. illustrated, card covers, in good condition. £18.00


20543. Best, R.I.: Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts VI MS.23 N 10 ( Formerly Betham 145 in the Library of The Royal Irish Academy. )

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1954. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. 160 pp., in black cloth boards, minor shelf wear otherwise in good condition, no dustwrapper. Apart from the general interest of the text: sagas, gnomic tracts, religious poems and regulae, it is of prime impotance as a source for the contents of the lost Lebar or Cin Dromma Snechta. £100.00


20432. Betts, John: The Story of the Irish society Being a brief Historical Acount of the Foundation and Work of the Honourable the Irish Society of London.

Irish Chamber London 1913 Printed for the Honourable the IrishSociety in celebration of the Tercentenary of the granting of the Society's Charter in 1613. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 90 pp. illustrated, gilt blocked green boards, a little fading to the edges of the boards, otherwise in good condition. £25.00


19879. Biggar, Francis Joseph: The Northern Leaders of '98 ( No. 1 ) William Orr.

Belfast: The United Irishmen Commemoration Society Facsimile Reprint 1998 20 x 16 cm. 80 pp. 25 illustrations, Softcovers, in very good condition almost as new. The original edition is now extremely scarce. "Remember Orr" William Orr was cruelly hanged in Carrickfergus in October 1797. "I am no traitor! I die a persecuted man for a persecuted country." £12.00


20514. Black, Eileen: Paintings, Sculptures and Bronzes in the Collection of The Belfast Harbour Commissioners.

Belfast: The Belfast Harbour Commissioners, 1983. 136pp. 26.5 x 21 cm. Illustrated, paper covers, in good condition. This was the first study of the rich, but little known, catalogue of this institution's collections. £15.00


10290. Blair, May: Hiring Fairs and Market Places

Belfast: Appletree Press 2007. 24 by 17 cms. 208 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. This way of life has died out in the Province, probably much to our general loss. A very nice book, lovely illustrations. £12.00


6379. Blair, S. Alexander: The Golden Years The Story of Ballymoney Drama Festival.

Ballymoney. published by the Committee of Ballymoney Drama Festival to celebrate its Golden Jubilee 1989. 21 by 15 cms. 65 pp. illustrated, paper covers, in very good condition. A splendid history of this very important and ever popular drama festival. £15.00


14377. Blaney, Mary and McGoran, Sheila, compilers: How It Used To Be 'The Clachan Project In Schools'.

Cushendall: Glens of Antrim Historical Society, c2006. iv + 76pp. 24.5 x 18 cm. A survey of clachans in the Glens of Antrim, by local school children, 2002 to 2006. Over one-hundred-and-twenty photographs, almost all in colour, and maps, tables, and documents. The project was sponsored by the National Lottery, and the quality of the production is superb. Pictorial glazed card covers. Near mint condition. £10.00


17788. Bonn, Moritz J: Modern Ireland and Her Agrarian Problem.

Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co., Ltd, and London: John Murray, 1906. Translated from the German by T.W. Rolleston. 168 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Green binding strip, with paper label, on gray boards. Showing a little wear. Some light browning to rear endpapers and to the title page, otherwise good. Scarce £20.00


17803. Bowler, Peter J. and Nicholas Whyte, editors: Science and Society in Ireland The Social Context of Science and Technology in Ireland 1800-1950.

Belfast: The Queen's University Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. ix +170 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Ten essays on various aspects of science and technology on Irish life. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £12.00


10809. Brady, Ciaran. Gillespie, Raymond editors: Natives and Newcomers Essays on the Making of Irish Colonial Society 1534 - 1641.

Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1986. 23 x 15 cm. 259 pp. softback, in very good condition, articles cover, the framework of Government in Tudor Ireland, the Protestant Reformation in Ireland, the Counter Reformation in Ireland, Irish towns 1558-1625, Gaelic economy and society, Native culture and political change, the English presence in seventeenth century Munster, Ulster and the 1641 rising. £12.00


16073. Bremer, Walther, and others: Ireland's Place in Prehistoric and Early Historic Europe, and other papers.

Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co., 1928. 21 x 14 cm. 38pp. +pp 294-345, +pp 143-200, +78pp, with illustrations and a folding plate. This is several items bound together, including: Helmut Bauersfeld, "Die Kriegsaltertumer in Lebor na Huidre" published 1933 (?), George Morrow and R. Lloyd Praeger, "The Antrim Raised Beach: A Contribution to the Neolithic History of the North of Ireland." published 1904 in Royal Irish Academy Proceedings, and Grenville A.J. Cole, "Ireland the Outpost" published Oxford University Press in 1919. The Bauersfeld article has a dedication signed by himself. He was a leading German scholar in Celtic studies, and a committed SS Officer. Bremer, 1887-1926, was briefly Keeper of Irish Antiquities at the National Museum, Dublin. This translation of an essay was published in his memory by the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Both the Cole and Bremer articles have their title pages bound in. An interesting collection, in good condition. £45.00


6564. British and Irish Communist Organisation: Ulster as it Is. A Review of the development of the Catholic / Protestant political Conflict in Belfast between Catholic Emancipation and the Home Rule Bill.

Belfast: August 1973. 23.5 by 17.5 cms. 77 pp. paper covers. A dusty cover otherwise in very good condition. A Communist view of this period. £8.00


17844. British Parliamentary Papers: Census of Ireland 1881 Part 1 Area, Houses, and Population: Vol III Province of Ulster No. 1 County of Antrim and Borough of Belfast.

Dublin: H.M.S.O., 1882. Ages, Civil and Conjugal Condition, Occupations, Birthplaces Religion and Education of the People. 167 pp. 34 x 21.5 cm. Blue paper covers. The cover is worn and edge chipped, and the rear cover is detached, but present. Taken on the night of the 3rd April 1881, the report presents the population and land as it stood at that point. The land, its size and valuation, and the number of people living on it, is broken down by barony, town, and townland, and by Poor Law unions. The baronies for Antrim are Antrim Lower, Antrim Upper, Belfast Lower, Belfast Upper, Cary, Dunluce Lower, Dunluce Upper, Glenarm Lower, Glenarm Upper, Kilconway, Massereene Lower, Massereene Upper, Toome Lower and Toome Upper. The level of detail in the 1881 census surpasses that of all before it, and is only comparable with the 1871 census in terms of anything previous. We are shown figures for hospitals, gaols and workhouses, ages of husbands and wives in relation to each other, people's occupations, army and police figures, numbers of foreigners, numbers of disabled, religious affiliations, education standards reached, literacy levels, levels of Irish and English, and figures for emigration. All of these categories are broken down in detail, and compared with figures from previous censuses. As well as the figures for the county, there are parallel figures and tables for Belfast City. The statistical analysis is all that survives of this Census. The original material was destroyed by the British Government during WWI. £40.00


20885. Broderick, David: The First Toll-Roads Ireland's Turnpike Roads 1729-1859.

Dublin: The Collins Press2002. 24.5 x 16 cm. xi+302 pp. map, gold blocked maroon boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. An important study of a rather neglected subject. £25.00


20525. Brooks, Eric St John ed.: Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow and Kilkenny (13th - 15th Century)

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1950 25 x 15.5 cm. xiv+ 306 pp., in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. A little sunfading to the spine otherwise in very good condition.The text is in English. £55.00


20580. Brooks, Eric St John, editor: The Irish Cartularies of LLanthony Prima & Secunda. Edited from the MSS in the Public Record Office London.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1953. 25 x 15.5 cm. xxx+345 pp.apart from the introduction the text is in Latin. gold blocked red boards. Some sunfading to spine and rear board, some shelfwear, a fair copy. £25.00


12546. Brooks, Sydney: Aspects of the Irish Question.

Dublin and London: 1912. 255 pp. hardback, minor wear otherwise in good condition. A contemporary contribution to the whole Home Rule debate. £30.00


12371. Brooks, Sydney: The New Ireland.

Dublin and London: Maunsel & Co. 1907. 113 pp. soft card covers, with a signature , "To Ethel with the author's love Xmas 1907" on the title page. A series of 12 articles which the author had published in the Daily Mail and Morning Post after a fact finding tour on Home Rule issues. Sinn Fein and the New Nationalism, The Gaelic League, The I.A.O.S. and the Industrial Revival, the Politicians, the Church, The Agrarian & some other problems, Devolution. Front cover partly detached, text partly uncut, in good condition otherwise. £15.00


21046. Brown, Very Rev. Dr. Godfrey, editor: The Journal of William Bisset Auguust 1799.

Cushendall Glens of Antrim Historical Society n.d. (2005) 21 x 14.5 cm. 32 pp. one illustration of a portrait of Bisset. A journal of a holiday trip taken by Rev. William Bisset , Rector of Loughgall, and later Bishop of Raphoe, round the Antrim coast in 1799.He was accompanied by his brother, George. Scarce. £20.00


20888. Browne, Noel Phillips editor: The Horse in Ireland.

London: Pelham Books 1967. 22 x 14 cm. 242 pp. 12 illustrations, gilt blocked green boards, showing a little wear otherwise in good condition, in a in a rather rubbed and worn dustwrapper. £12.00


6698. Buckland, Patrick: Irish Unionism 1885-1923

Belfast: HMSO, 1973 xvi + 511 pp, 25 x 16 cm. "A documentary history". 6 illustrations, tables, etc. Absolutely mint, in mint dw, in its box in which each copy was delivered to the Stationery Office. The standard, and indispensable, work on Unionism. £20.00


10817. Buckley, J. J: Some Irish Altar Plate.

Dublin: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1943. A descriptive list of Chalices and Patens, dating from the Fourteenth to the end of the Seventeenth Century, now preserved in the National Museum and in certain Churches. 226 pp. with lxiv plates, hardback, no dustwrapper, as issued, in very good condition, an excellent copy of a now very scarce title. £100.00


18856. Budd, Declan & Ross Hinds: The Hist and Edmund Burke's Club An Anthology of the College Historical Society, the Student Debating Society of Trinity College Dublin, from its origins in Edmund Burke's Club 1747-1997.

Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1997. xx + 417 pp. 25 x 17 cm. 100 illustrations. Index. Gold-blocked blue boards, in very good condition. No dustwrapper. £15.00


18042. Burke, Edmund: A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord on the attacks made upon him and his pension in The House of Lords by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale.

London: Printed for J. Owen... and F.and C, Rivington..,1796. First edition. 80 pp. 21 x 13 cm. No half title page. In a modern binding by the late Sydney Aiken, with marbled boards, and his label. In very good condition. £65.00


18043. Burke, Edmund: A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to his Grace the Duke of Portland on the Conduct of the Minority in Parliament containing Fifty-Four Articles of Impeachment against The Hon. C.J.Fox.

London: Printed for the editor and sold by J. Owen, 1797. First edition. 94 pp. 21 x 13 cm. There are two identical title pages, separated by the half-title page. The final page has a small stamp , "Mercantile Library of New York." In a modern binding by the late Sydney Aiken, with marbled boards, and his label. In very good condition. £75.00


18044. Burke, Edmund: Substance of the Speech of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in The House of Commons on Fri. the 23d day of May 1794 in Answer to certain observations on the Report of the Committee of Managers, representing that Report to have been a Libel on the J

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1794. Second edition. 26 + (6) pp. 21 x 13 cm. In a modern binding by the late Sydney Aiken, with marbled boards, and his label. Page 6/7 has been professionally repaired, otherwise in very good condition. The final six pages are a list of books published for J. Debrett. £40.00


8180. Butler, Herbert: Wolfe Tone and the Common Name of Irishman.

Mullingar: Lilliput Pamphlets 5. 21.5 by 14 cms. 28pp. blue card covers, in very good condition, as new. An important study of the dynamics behind Tone's ideal. £12.00


20739. Butler, Patrick: Turlough Park & The Fitzgeralds.

Westport: Published by the author 2002. 21 x 14.5 cm. 48 pp. illustrated, small fold on lower right bottom front cover otherwise in good condition. £10.00


12686. Byrne, John Ousley: A Compendium of Irish Sanitary Law, containing The Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1874, and the Acts incorporated therewith.

Dublin: William McGee, 1875. Second Edition. Also the Acts relating to Workshops, Common Lodging Houses, Bakehouses, the Adulteration of food, drink and drugs, and the Burial Grounds Acts with explanatory notes, a collection of legal decisions in sanitary cases and an index. xiii + 487 pp. hardback, showing a little wear. Spine restored, and part of spine label missing, otherwise a good tight copy. Scarce. £12.00


12787. Byrne, Ophelia: The Stage in Ulster from the Eighteenth Century Selected from the Theatre Archive of the Linen Hall Library.

Belfast: The Linen Hall Library, 1997. 99 pp. 21 x 15cm. Illustrated. Pictorial card covers, in very good condition. A very useful survey. £10.00


12207. Calwell, H. G. and Craig, D. H: The White Plague in Ulster A Short History of Tuberculosis in Northern Ireland.

Belfast: Ulster Medical Society n.d. c.1984. 56 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good fresh condition. TB once affected one in six of the population of Belfast, and although it hasn't been eradicated is now of very low occurence. This is a comprehensive and valuable study of its history and treatment in the province. An uncommon item. £32.00


3319. Camblin, Gilbert: The Town in Ulster.

Belfast: Wm. Mullan & Son (Publishers), Limited, 1951. First edition. xv + 131 pp. 28.5 x 22 cm. 62 plates and maps from contemporary sources. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked red boards. No dw. Neat signature on ffep, o/w in good condition. An account of the origin and building of the towns of the Province of Ulster, and the development of their rural settings. This was a pioneering study, never reprinted or updated. Ulster, in this instance, is the six counties of Northern Ireland: not the nine counties of the historic province of Ulster. £17.00


10323. Cambray, Phillip G: Irish Affairs and the Home Rule Question.

London: John Murray, Popular and Revised edition Sept. 1911. xii+229 pp. with an introduction by the Marquis of Londonderry, soft covers. The original worn paper covers and spine have been professionally relaid, showing some wear but a tight copy of an ephemeral production, not common. £18.00


20186. Campbell, T.J.: Fifty Years of Ulster 1890-1940.

Belfast: The Irish News 1941. 22x15 cm. 400 p. gold blocked dark green boards, frontispiece portrait of the author. In good condition, spine a bit sun faded. A very useful analysis from a nationalist perspective. £35.00


20513. Carleton, S.T.: Heads & Hearths The Hearth Money Rolls and Poll Tax Returns for County Antrim 1660-69

Belfast: Public Record Office 1991 30 x 21.5 cm. 191 pp. maps, 17 tables, 13 plates. Gold blocked blue boards, in a slightly worn dustwrapper, In good condition. £35.00


20552. Carroll, F.M. editor: The American Commission on Irish Independence 1919 The Diary, Correspondence and Report.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),.1958. 25 x 15.5 cm. vi + 154 pp. in gold blocked red covers In very good condition in a v.g. dustwrapper.. £23.00


1825. Cash, John D: Identity, Ideology and Conflict. The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland

Cambridge: University Press 1996. x+230pp. d.w. v.g. £15.00


18162. Cathcart, Rex: William III & Ireland.

Dublin: Eason & Son Ltd, 1990. The Irish Heritage Series : 67. 24 pp. 25 x 15 cm. 30 illustrations, mostly in colour. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £9.50


13823. Civil Rights Movement: Massacre at Derry.

Derry: Civil Rights Movement Feb. 1972. 21 by 14 cms. 48 pp. illustrated, map, paper covers, in very good condition. We believe this to be the earliest pamphlet to explain the events of what became known as Bloody Sunday when the Army killed demonstators in the City after a Civil Rights demonstration on the Jan. 30th 1972. £32.00


12530. Clancey, John J: The New Land Act A Popular Explanation of its Principal Provisions; with appendices containing the text of the Act, the new rules, and purchase annuity tables.

Dublin: Eason & Son, 1896. 204 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Boards a little dusty, otherwise in very good condition. £12.00


10822. Clark, Wallace: Linen on the Green An Irish Mill Village 1730 - 1982.

Belfast: The Universities Press (Belfast) Ltd., 1983. Second edition. xii + 183 pp. 22 x 14 cm. 18 illustrations, 26 plates, 2 plans, and endpaper maps. Family tree. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked linen-covered boards. No dustwrapper. A previous owner's name has been scribbled over at the top of one of the preliminary pages, o/w in very good condition. An affectionate account of his family's linen business, and the community which grew up around it, in Upperlands, on the Clady River, in Co. Londonderry. £19.50


13831. Clarke, Aidan: The Graces 1625-41.

Dundalk: Published for The Dublin Historical Association by Dundalgan Press 1968. 35pp. soft green card covers, some fading to covers, marginal ink annotation, otherwise in good condition. Irish History Series no 8. £5.00


20546. Clarke, M.V editor andJ.S.A. Macauley and K.M.E. Murray: Register of the Priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tristernagh. Registrum cartarum Monasterii B.V. Mariae de Tristernagh in Commitatu Occidentale midiae fundatia Galfredo de Constantine.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1941. 25 x 15.5 cm. xxv + 141 pp. map, in gold-blocked burgundy and red cloth boards, a wartime binding. In good condition. Apart from the preface and introduction the text is, of course, Latin. The original MSS. is in the Cathedral Library Armagh. £55.00


12706. Clifford, Brendan: The Economics of Partition A Historical Survey of Ireland in terms of her Political Economy.

Belfast: Athol Books 1992. First published by the British and Irish Communist association Jan. 1969. This is the revised and extended fourth edition.108 pp. paper covers in good condition, apart from a little dustiness to the covers, and some light offsetting on a couple of pages. A history of Ireland from the 17th century as seen through the categories of political economy. £25.00


20489. Clougher Historical Society Cumann Seanchais Chlochair: Clougher Record 2000 Journal of the Clougher Historical Society Cumann Seanchais Chlochair.

Monaghan: R. & S. Printers 2000. Vol. XVII No. 1. 20.5 x 15.5 cm. 400 pp.18 illustrations, card covers, in very good condition. Contents are, A Time of Desolation Clones Poor Law Union 1845-50, and The Famine Archive Official Papers. These Relief Commission Papers are continued in the 2001 issue. This is a most valuable resource for the study of The Great Famine, An Gorta Mor, in south Ulster. £25.00


20490. Clougher Historical Society Cumann Seanchais Chlochair: Clougher Record 2001 Journal of the Clougher Historical Society Cumann Seanchais Chlochair.

Monaghan: R. & S. Printers 2001. Vol. XVII No. 2. 20.5 x 15.5 cm. viii+401-688 pp. 9 illustrations, card covers, in very good condition. Contents are, The Famine Archive Official Papers. These Relief Commission Papers are continued from the 2000 issue. This is a most valuable resource for the study of The Great Famine, An Gorta Mor, in south Ulster. £25.00


563. Coe, W.E: The Engineering Industry in the North of Ireland.

Newton Abbot: David and Charles 1969. 224 pp, illustrated, d.w. v.g. A pioneering study, a publication of the Institute of Irish Studies Queen's University Belfast. £10.00


17701. Colles, Ramsay: In Castle and Court House Being Reminiscences of 30 Years in Ireland.

London: T. Werner Laurie, c1911. First edition. 320 pp. 23 x 15 cm. 17 full-page illustrations. Index. Black- and gold-blocked green boards. The spine has been professionally relaid, and the book is showing a little bit of wear, otherwise good. £25.00


13137. Collier, William Francis: History of Ireland for Schools.

London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, c1894 Seventh and revised edition. iii + 280 + iv pp. 18 x 12.5 cm. The endpapers advertise Marcus Ward's School Series. Coloured map. Lots of small illustrations and maps. Some relatively-minor spotting Gold-blocked green boards. The gold is faded, and the book is shook. Ffep has the name "Alan Seaton" - the Irish poet and painter. £15.00


18524. Collins, Brenda, Philip Ollerenshaw, and Trevor Parkhill.: Industry, Trade and People in Ireland 1650-1950 Essays in Honour of W. H. Crawford.

Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005. x + 290 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography of W. H. Crawford's publications. Index. Gold-blocked green boards, in a very good dustwrapper. Signed by Bill Crawford, and several other contributors. In very good condition. £25.00


11999. Collins, M.E: Ireland 1800-1970.

London: Longman 1972. 23 by 20.5 cms. 264 pp. illustrated, softcovers, showing some wear otherwise good. £10.00


19490. Collins, Peter: Pathways to Ulster's Past Sources and resources for local studies.

Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, 1998. xi + 158. 22.5 x 15 cm. 20 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Discusses units of area from townland to province. Records, by century. The Land Question in the nineteenth century. Particularly useful is the chapter on Miscellaneous records. Archives and record offices, museums and libraries, Northern Ireland and the Republic. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.00


20203. Collison Black, R.D.: Economic Thought and the Irish Question.

Cambridge at the University Press 1960. xiv+299 pp. gold blocked orange boards, in a worn edge chipped dustwrapper, some foreedge spotting. Signed and dated by the author on the ffep. Internally in very good condition. £23.00


13236. Comber District Orange Lodge: Comber District Orange Lodge Exhibition of The Orange Institution Comber District Lodges 1798 Rebellion.

Comber: 2-6 Mar. 1998. 18pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. Photographs of the banners of the Comber Lodges with details of their histories £10.00


12434. Commissioners of National Education in Ireland.: Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets chronologically arranged from Chaucer to Burns, with criticisms on their works, selected from the most distinguished writers. Intended for Teachers and the Higher Classes in Schools.

Dublin: Printed by Alex Thom & Sons for H.M.S.O. 1857. Published by direction of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland.18 by 10.5 cms. vi+508 pp. in original drab cloth boards with new black and gilt spine title, minor edgewear, internally tight and clean, unmarked, in good condition. This is a relatively early publication in the National School System, set up by Government in 1831. A scarce survival. £25.00


9372. Common, R. Dr.: A Community Under Seige 1970-77.

Belfast: 1977. 20.5 by 15 cms. 66 pp. illustrations, maps, in black plastic spiral binding, foreword by the Rev. Houston McKelvey. Covers the experiences of the Dunmurry, Seymour hill, Twinbrook, Suffolk, Ladybrook Finaghy community area during these years of the Troubles, and the work of Dunmurry PACE, (Protestant and Catholic Encounter). A local, carefully written, perspective like this of the Troubles as they affected one small area is very useful but not common. £15.00


20299. Connell, Joseph E.A.: Dublin Rising 1916.

Dublin: Wordwell Ltd 2015. 24.5 x 12 cm. 276 pp. illustrated softcovers, in very good condition, almost as new. £12.00


18577. Connolly, Michael C., editor: They Change Their Sky The Irish in Maine.

Orono, Maine: The University of Maine Press, 2004. xix + 414 pp. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. 47 illustrations. Silver-blocked grey boards, in very good condition, in a v.g. dustwrapper. A groundbreaking study. "Important new esays in Maine History". £30.00


17203. Connolly, Sean: Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

Dundalk: Dundalgan Press (W. Tempest) Ltd, 1994. Studies in Irish Economic and Social History 3. The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland. 69 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. First published 1985. £10.00


7258. Conway, Andy: There Are No Evil Men. A Fresh Look at the Irish Question and a suggested way forward.

Dublin: New Ireland Movement July 1972. 21 by 15cms. 30 pp. card covers,in very good condition. £5.00


19657. Cooke, A.B. and A.P.W. Malcomson, compilors: The Ashborne Papers , 1869 - 1913. A Calender of the papers of Edward Gibson, 1st Lord Ashbourne.

Belfast: H.M.S.O. 1974.. 29.5 x 21 cm. xxiv + 221 pp. 22 illustrations, softcovers, minor shelfwear otherwise in good condition. £12.00


21083. Costello, Kevin: The Court of Admiralty of Ireland 1575-1893.

Dublin: Four Courts Press in association with The Irish Legal History Society 2011. 24 x 16 cm. xvii+294 pp. 8 illustrations,gold blocked green boards, in a very good dustwrapper, in very good condition. "An institutional History of this Tribunal over the three centuries of its existence." £30.00


18125. Cousins, Colin: Armagh and The Great War.

Dubllin: The History Press Ireland, 2011. 288 pp. 24 x 16.5 cm. 27 tables. Profusely illustrated, Notes. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. Almost as new. "this is an important book." £12.00


20996. Craig, Irene and Vera George, compilers.: Saintfield W.I. 1938 - 1988.

Newcastle: Mourne Observer Press 1988. 34 pp. 14 illustrations, card covers, in very good condition. 50 years of Saintfield Women's Institute. £15.00


15697. Crawford, W. H. and B. Trainor, editors: Aspects of Irish Social History 1750-1800.

Belfast: HMSO, 1989. A PRONI publication. 199 pp. 24 x 15 cm. Pictorial matt card covers. A fair copy only. £10.00


20948. Crookshank, Anne and The Knight of Glin: The Painters of Ireland c.1660-1920.

London: Barrie & Jenkins second edition 1979. 30 x 21.5 cm. 304 pp. illustrated, gold blocked linen backed boards, in very good condition, in a very good, price clipped, dustwrapper, now considered a standard work. £45.00


14963. Cross, Eric: Cross's Map of Time.

Belfast: The Educational Company of Ireland Ltd, 1965. Set of Four Maps of Time: 400 - 1400, 1400 - 1600, 1600 - 1800, and 1800 - Modern Times. Each eight-panelled Map of Time is 40 x 65 cm, folding into a cover 21.5 x 17 cm. "The main events and personages of Irish history in their time-relation (a) to one another; and (b) to those of other European countries". A date has been scribbled on the folder of each map, and the fore-edges of the folders of two maps are damp-stained, not affecting the maps themselves. £15.00


10485. Crotty, Raymond: The Cattle Crisis and the Small Farmer.

Mullingar: The National Land League 1974. vi+59 pp. card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


3565. Crowe, W.Haughton: New Education for Old.

Belfast: William Mullan 1954. 113pp. Foreword by Helen Waddell. A book on education by the former headmaster of Banbridge Academy £10.00


20561. Curtis, Edmund editor: Calendar of Ormond Deeds Vol IV 1350-1413 A.D.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1934. 25 x 15.5 cm. xli+403 pp. gold blocked burgundy boards. The Butler Earls of Ormond, Kilkenny Castle. Some light spotting to endpapers otherwise in good condition. Scarce. £85.00


20560. Curtis, Edmund editor: Calendar of Ormond Deeds Vol IV 1509-1547 A.D.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1937. 25 x 15.5 cm. xxxiv+432 pp. gold blocked burgundy boards. The Butler Earls of Ormond, Kilkenny Castle. Some wear to boards otherwise in good condition. £65.00


18126. Davison, Stephen, editor: Northern Ireland and Canada A Guide to Northern Ireland Sources for the Study of Canadian History c.1705-1992.

Belfast: Queens University of Belfast and Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1994. 144 pp. 29.5 x 21cm. 10 illustrations. 2 maps. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. £23.00


12555. De Moleyns: The Landlord's and Agent's Practical Guide

Dublin: Hodges, Smith and Co. Second edition revised and enlarged 1860. xiv+344 pp. in red boards with a blind stamped pattern and lettered gilt. Spine professionally relaid. From the library of the Northern Ireland Parliamentary library with a bookplate and barcode on front pastedown and foreedge stamps, internally tight and clean. De Moleyns, (1807-1900), also known as Thomas Mullins was a Barrister, a Q.C. and Co. Court Judge for Co. Kilkenny. He wrote this specifically for use in Ireland. There were later editions in 1862, 1872, 1877 and 1899. Not common. £45.00


20615. Deputy Keeper of the Records: Gov. of Northern Ireland Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Records for the years 1938-1945.

Belfast: H.M.S.O. 1864. 24 x 15.5 cm. xxxvi+75 pp. blue card covers, rusty staples otherwise good. £10.00


17194. Devine, T. M. and David Dickson, editors: Ireland and Scotland 1600-1850 Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development.

Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1983. 283 pp. 23.5 x 16 cm. Twenty essays on Irish and Scottish economic and social development, 1600-1850. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a sunned dustwrapper. £15.00


10862. Dewar, Rev. M. W. Brown, Rev. John and Long, Rev. S.E.: Orangeism A New Historical appreciation.

Belfast: Grand Lodge of Ireland 1967. 201 pp. softcovers, the covers are a little dusty otherwise in very good condition. £10.00


341. Dicey, A. V: A Leap in the Dark - A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as illustrated by the Home Rule Bill of 1893

London: John Murray, 1911 Second edition. xxv +.227 pp. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. £10.00


19541. Dickson, R. J: Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775.

Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1976. Reprint. xiv + 320 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition. An important study. £20.00


16057. Doherty, Richard: Wall of Steel The History of the 9th (Londonderry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (Supplementary Reserve).

Limavady: North-West Books, 1988. 232 pp. 24.5 x 17 cm. The Regiment saw active service in North Africa and Italy. Fifty-three illustrations, and six maps. Gold-blocked blue boards. The dustwrapper has a little light wear with a couple of small closed edge tears, otherwise in very good condition. This is an excellent study, though sadly it has no index. £20.00


17723. Dornan, W. Edward: One Hundred Eventful Years 1850 - 1950 An outline history of the City of Belfast Y.M.C.A.

Belfast: Nicholson & Bass Ltd., 1950. 68 pp. 25 x 18 cm. 43 illustrations. Pictorial semi-matt boards. No dw. In very good condition. £15.00


13822. Dowden, Richard: Northern Ireland and the Catholic Church in Britain.

Abbot's Langely: Infoform n.d. c.1976. A document prepared for the Commission for International Justice and Peace of England and Wales as a contribution to public debate. 21.5 by 14.5 cms. 27 pp. card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


20329. Doyle, David Noel: Ireland, Irishmen and Revolutionary America, 1760-1820.

Dublin and Cork: The Mercier Press, 1981. xix + 257 pp. 19.5 x 16 cm. 33 illustrations. Sources and References. Pictorial semi matt card covers. Signature of RG Morton, Irish historian, on half title. In good condition. £10.00


6070. Dudgeon, Jeffrey: Roger Casement The Black Diaries with a Study of his Background, Sexuality and Irish Political Life.

Belfast: Belfast Press, 2002. xx + 659 pp. 24 x 15.5 cm. For the first time all the Black Diaries are published together, including the erotically charged 1911 diary. This is a rigorous study of Casement, the public and political figure, and his private, personal life, along with usually neglected aspects of his life, and, of course, the authenticity controversies. This is a uniquely fresh and original study of this great Irish humanitarian and patriot, tragically hanged by the English authorities in 1916. 65 illustrations. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, almost as new, in a very good dustwrapper. This is a heavy book - 1,600g - which may incur extra postage for shipping outside the U.K. £35.00


19606. Dudley Edwards, Owen and Fergus Pyle, editors: 1916 The Easter Rising.

London: Macgibbon & Kee 1968. 22 x 14.5 cm. 271 pp. gold blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. £20.00


13122. Duffy, Godfrey F: Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors.

Glenageary: Flyleaf Press 1996. 94 pp, softcovers, there is a little minor ink marking on a few pages otherwise in very good condition. Sets out the records available for Donegal, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect in tracing families there. £12.00


13510. Dunaway, Wayland F.: The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania.

Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1985. first published in 1944. 273 pp. hardback, no dustwrapper, in very good condition. £18.00


21103. Dunton, John: Teague Land or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish. Letters From Ireland edited by Edward Maclysaght.

Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1982. The content of this book was previously published as an appendix to Edward Maclysaght's, "IrishLife in the 17th Century (first edition Cork1939). 21.5 x 14.5 cm. 78 pp. hardback, in very good condition, almost as new. £30.00


6777. Dwane, David, T: Early Life of Eamon de Valera.

Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1927. xii + 236 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Yellow boards, worn, in brown back strip. The front board is printed with a portrait of Dev. Six portraits: Dev's mother; Edmund Coll who brought Dev to Ireland; his step-brother Thomas Wheelright; Patrick Coll who raised Dev; and Dev as a graduate at 22; and at 36 during the 1918 General Election. Paper has some browning. Neat inscription on front ffep. £45.00


16177. E.T. Green, Ltd.: Craft Traditions in Ulster A Challenge.

Belfast: E.T. Green, Ltd, c1965. Eighth Annual Publication. 18 pp. 20.5 x 15 cm. These pamphlets were written each year by Professor E.R.R. Green for distribution at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show. The object was to increase in the men and women of Ulster appreciation of their material culture to a point where, one day, the Province would have its own Folk Museum. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Rusted staples, o/w in vg condition. £35.00


16220. E.T. Green, Ltd.: Old Ulster Farm Implements.

Belfast: E.T. Green, Ltd, 1950. 8 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Catalogue of the twenty exhibits. These pamphlets were written each year by Professor E.R.R. Green for distribution at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show. The object was to increase in the men and women of Ulster appreciation of their material culture to a point where, one day, the Province would have its own Folk Museum. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Rusted staples, o/w in vg condition. £35.00


1296. Elliot, R.S.P. and Hickie, J.: Ulster: A Case Study in Conflict Theory

London: 1971 189 pp. d.w. v.g. £10.00


14575. Ellis, Albert: A Secret History of the N.C.L.C.

Birmingham: Albert Ellis, c1936. Photocopy of a rare pamphlet. 64 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Albert Ellis came to Belfast in 1924 as the first divisional organiser for the National Council of Labour Colleges. He was transferred to Birmingham in 1929, and dismissed by the NCLC in 1936. He was succeeded in Belfast first by JT Dorricott, and in turn by Andrew Boyd, trades unionist and historian. This photocopied pamphlet is from the library of the late Andrew Boyd, and has been extensively high-lighted. The photocopied pamphlet has been roughly guillotined, and the binding strip is worn. In fair condition. £30.00


21020. Ellis, Wm. Edward Ellis: Ellis's Irish Education Directory and Scholastic Guide for 1887.

Dublin: E. Ponsonby Grafton Street, sixth year of issue,1887. 19.5 x13.5 cm. lxi+422+11 pp. hardcover, showing a little weat but overall in good condition. A scarce item £45.00


20711. Empire Marketing board and others.: Belfast British Empire Week 1930 Official Programme.

Portadown: W & G Baird 1930. This was the second such event in Belfast. The first had been in 1927. 26 x 19 cm. n.p.(10) card covers, in very good condition apart from one item on the time table which has been marked wiith ticks fom a pen. Events included, an exhibition, two parades, a Ball at The Plaza Ballroom, etc. A scarce item. "The Ball will be one of exceptional brilliancy and attractiveness. Fancy Dress Optional." £23.00


20570. Eustace, P. Beryl: Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstracts of Wills Vol.I 1708-1745.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1956. 25 x 15.5 cm. xii+430 pp. gold blocked red boards. In very good condition. £60.00


20571. Eustace, P. Beryl: Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstracts of Wills Vol.II 1746-1785.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1954. 25 x 15.5 cm. iv+453 pp. gold blocked red boards. In very good condition. £60.00


20526. Eustace, P.Beryl and Olive C. Goodbody editors: Quaker Records Dublin Abstracts of Wills.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1957. 25 x 15.5 cm. xiv+ 306 pp., in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. Abstracts, List of Quaker Wills Lisburn, List of Miscellaneous Quaker Wills in the historical Library, Eustace street, Idex of names and index of place-names. £25.00


19588. Falls, Cyril: The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division.

Belfast: The Somme Association, 1991. Introduction by Field Marshal The Lord Plumer. This is a modern reprinting of the original edition of this work, to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle. The book was first published in 1922. 359 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. 6 original and 19 modern illustrations. Six folded maps. Gold-blocked burgundy boards. In very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. Near mint. Includes the Honours and Awards Index. A classic study. £45.00


12769. Farrell, Michael: Emergency Legislation The Apparatus of Repression.

Derry: Field Day Theatre Company 1986. 31 pp. card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


21060. Fee, Aidan editor.: The Bell No 1 Journal of Stewartstown and District Local History Society.

Stewartstown 1985-1986. This is a copy of the first issue with a plastic binder. 25 x 35 cm. 87pp. illustrated, maps. in very good condition. Articles include, St Patrick's Bell and Shrine, The Hospital that never was, Stewartstown Rugby Football Club, The Significance of Townland Names, Stewartstown Railway Link, The Stewarts of Castlestewart, The Hermit of Ballyclog, and others. In good condition. £10.00


20744. Fee, Aidan editor.: The Bell No 2 Journal of Stewartstown and District Local History Society.

Stewartstown 1987. 25 x 17.5 cm. 92 pp. illustrated, maps. in very good condition. Articles include, To Hunt---not to Kill, Cratley Coalpits, Stewartstown Pipe Band, Ballyclog Gravestone Inscriptions, Henry Wilson, The Kerry Militia, Halloween Pranks,and others. £10.00


20743. Fee, Aidan editor.: The Bell No 3 Journal of Stewartstown and District Local History Society.

Stewartstown 1991 25 x 17.5 cm. 80 pp. illustrated, maps. in very good condition. Articles include, Sunday night at the Pictures, From Sessiagh to Chicago, The Stewarts of Castlestewart, Ecoes from the Great War, 1901 Census, The County Tyrone Directory for 1902, Donaghhenry Old Graveyard, Irish Coal, United Irish League and others. £10.00


20045. Feeney, Marie: The Cleggan Bay Disaster: An Account of the Savage Storm in October, 1927 That Devastated the Connemara Communities of Inishbofin and Rossadilisk

Co. Donegal: Penumbra Press 2001. 24 x 16.5 cm.111 pp. 40 illustrations, map, soft covers, in very good condition. In the storm many fisherman from these parts lost their lives. £25.00


20437. Feldman, David and William Kane: Handbook of Irish Postal History to 1840.

Dublin: Published by the David Feldman 1975. 22.5 x 15 cm. 131 pp. illustrated, gold blocked blue boards, in very good condition. £12.00


20889. Fell, Alex: The Irish Draught Horse.

London: J.A.Allen 1991. 20.5 x 16 cm. 161pp. illustrated, hardback, in very good condition. £20.00


21086. Ferguson, Stephen: The Post Office in Ireland.

Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2016. xii+448 pp. illustrated, pictorial hardback covers, in very good condition.A very comprehensive history. This is a heavy book and overseas shipping will require extra postage beyond abebooks quoted shipping. £30.00


17310. Fetter, Frank Whitson: The Irish Pound 1797-1826...

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1955. ...A Reprint of the Report of the Committee of 1804 of the British House of Commons on the Condition of the Irish Currency with selections from the Minutes of Evidence presented to the Committee. 136+ (2) pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Two Charts. 5 appendices. Silver-blocked green boards. In good condition, in a good dw. £15.00


21053. Finnegan, Michael: A Centenary First World War Roll of Honour for County Cavan.

Cavan County museum 2018. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. 158 pp. illustrated, hardcovers, in very good condition. A new Roll of honour for the First World War dead built on the County's older, Roll of honour. £45.00


19608. Fitzgerald, Brian: The Geraldines An Experiment in Irish Government 1169-1601.

London: Staples Press first ed. 1951. 22x 14.5 cm. 322 pp. map, four genealogical tables, bibliography, gold blocked green boards, no dustwrapper, owner's bookplate on the ffep, in very good condition. £45.00


19004. Fitzgerald, Patrick and Steve Ickringill, editors: Atlantic Crossroads Historical Connections between Scotland, Ulster and North America.

Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2001. 144 pp. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Eight essays by leading academics. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £23.00


13241. Fitzpatrick, Rory: God's Frontiersmen The Scots-Irish Epic.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1989. 25 by 19 cm. 296 pp. illustrated, hardback, in a dustwrapper. Photography by Kenneth McNally. in very good condition. The dramatic story of the Ulster Scots. £20.00


19605. Fitzpatrick, Thomas: The Bloody Bridge and other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 ( Sir Phelim O'Neill's Rebellion )

Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1903. xl + 296 pp. 23 x 15 cm. t.e.g. Gold-blocked green boards. In good condition. This was a groundbreaking study of the 1641 Depositions which had not then been published. It is still a useful study, but now rather scarce. £100.00


6565. Fitzpatrick, W.J: An Old Timer Talking Reminiscences and Stories narrated by Hugh Marks of Kilkeel.

Newcastle: Mourne Observer second edition revised and enlarged 1963 22 by 14 cms 72 pp. illustrated, card covers. In very good condition, a very good tight copy. £12.00


12963. Furlong, John Smith and Edmund R. Digues La Touche: The Law of Landlord and Tenant, as administered in Ireland.

Dublin: Edward Ponsonby, 1869. "Second Edition, by Edmund R. Digues la Touche, Esq." Volume II only of two volumes. xii+pp736-1270. 26 x 16 cm. Chapters on Distress, Replevin, Actions of Debt and Covenant, Use and Occupation, Payment, Recovery of Possession, Procedure in Ejectment, Ejectment for Non Payment of Rent, Action for Mesne Profits, Acts Against Assigning or Sub-Letting, and Civil Bill Acts. The Index is pages 1169-1270. Recently professionally recased in green cloth boards, new endpapers, with gilt spine title. Internally clean, unmarked, partly un-opened, in very good condition. £25.00


8499. Gaffikin, Thomas: Belfast Fifty Years Ago A Lecture delivered by Thomas Gaffikin, in the Working Men's Institute, Belfast on Thursday evening., April 8th, 1875.

Belfast: James Cleland Third Edition with Map of Belfast in 1819 and notes 1894. James Alex. Henderson Ex-Mayor of Belfast in the chair. 45 pp. folding map, the 3 page appendix lists all streets with the number of houses and male, female numbers in either 1822 or 1823. The original paper covered edition is now cased in new maroon boards with gilt spine title and new endpapers. The map is a folded sheet which is probably missing the bottom 2.5 cm foldover, which loses the Ballymacarret section east of the river, otherwise the plan is complete showing improvements to 1819. Two old tape marks to title and rear pages otherwise in very good condition. A very scarce item. First edition published in 1875, the second expanded edition was published in 1885, and this further expanded edition in 1894. £75.00


14684. Galway, Jean: The Way Things Were.

c1996. i + 96pp. 20.5 x 15 cm. Early-twentieth-century life in County Down described for children. Name of previous owner neatly written inside front cover. Pictorial matt card covers. £20.00


13805. Gardner, Louis: Resurgence of the Majority.

Belfast: 2nd edition February 1971. 44pp. paper covers, minor wear otherwise in good condition. An English right wing analysis of the period to 1970 by a member of the Monday Club. £10.00


15103. Gaskell, Ernest: Ulster Leaders Social and Political.

London: The Queenhithe Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd, 1914. Printed solely for private circulation at three guineas. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. No pagination. Biographies of some 117 men (no women) with photographs of many of them. Nine-two of the subjects are Justices of the Peace, including, and alongside, Lords Lieutenant, Earls, owners of large estates, the Archbishop of Armagh, County Councillors, doctors, James Craig and Edward Carson. Ernest Gaskell seems to have been Carrie Amy Campion, later Mrs North, died 1910. The series of Leaders Social and Political may have run to about twenty-five volumes, published between 1890 and 1920. This volume, which covers the former nine-county Ulster, was probably the only Irish volume published. Half red morocco and red cloth, six panelled spine, gilt shamrock to panels, gilt spine titling, gilt title to front board, a.e.g., and original gold-and-brown decorative endpapers. Original spine professionally relaid. Showing some wear, and some fading to boards. There are small pencilled ticks against some of the names on the contents list. A very scarce item. £200.00


19357. Gibbons, Stephen Randolph: Captain Rock, Knight Errant The Threatening Letters of Pre-Famine Ireland,1801-1845.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. 282 pp. 24 x 16 cm. A remarkable collection of threatening letters, with facsimiles of some of the originals. Index. Silver-blocked black boards. In very good condition. A good fresh copy, in a very good dustwrapper. £70.00


15716. Gibson-Harries, Derrick: Life-Line to Freedom Ulster in the Second World War.

Lurgan: Ulster Society Publications, 1990. 121 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


17196. Gillespie, Raymond and Myrtle Hill, editors: Doing Irish Local History Pursuit and Practice.

Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, 1998. 147 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. Eight essays. 10 illustratons. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £15.00


14405. Gillespie, Raymond and Neely, WG, editors: The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000 to 2000 All Sorts and Conditions.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. xvi + 368pp. 24 x 16 cm. Twelve essays by leading historians. Fifty-two illustrations, twelve plates, and index. The ffep is inscribed by William Neely "To my dear friends Harry and May....". Harry was Harry McConnell of Carryduff, County Down. £45.00


3999. Gillespie, Raymond and O'Sullivan, Harold, editors: The Borderlands Essays on the History of the Ulster-Leinster Border.

Belfast: 1989. ix + 167pp. d.w. v.g. Most of the essays were papers at the first Cuchulainn summer School Carlingford 1988. £15.00


15643. Goldstrom, J. M. and Clarkson, L. A., editors.: Irish Population, Economy and Society. Essays in honour of the late K. H. Connell.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. x+322 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a price-clipped dustwrapper with sun-faded spine. £15.00


345. Good, James Winder: Irish Unionism.

Dublin: Talbot Press 1920 240 pp, in good condition. £10.00


20542. Goodbody, Olive C. and B.G.Hutton: Guide to Irish Quaker Records 1654-1860.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1967. 25 x 15.5 cm. 237 pp., in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards,very good in a v.g. dustwrapper. £25.00


18973. Gowan, Ogle Robert: Murder Without Sin The Rebellion of 1798.

Belfast: Education Committee of The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, 1996. Edited by J.R. Whitten from Gowan's "Orangeism its Origins and History" published in Toronto in 1859. 105 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. 5 illustrations. Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £15.00


5849. Gray, John and McCann, Wesley editors: An Uncommon Bookman Essays in Memory of J.R.R. Adams.

Belfast: The Linenhall Library 1996. 241 pp. paper covers, very good. A multi-disciplinary series of essays opening up new areas of study in relation to the book in Ulster and Ireland £10.00


20792. Greenlee, Graham, Gordon Lucy and William Roulston: Thomas Sinclair Ulster's Most Prominent Citizen.

Belfast: The Ulster-Scots Agency first edition 2016. 24.5 x13.5 cm. 180 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. Great Ulster Scots £10.00


5668. Gribbon, H.D.: The History of Water Power in Ulster.

New York: Augustus M. Kelley 1969. 299 pp. illustrated, almost as new in very good dustwrapper. A publication of the Institute of Irish Studies Queen's University Belfast. This is a regional study of the water power stage in industrial development and was an important early study in Irish industrial archaeology. This was the American edition of the book. £10.00


15869. Gribbon, Sybil: Edwardian Belfast A Social Profile.

Belfast: Appletree Press and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, 1982. Explorations in Irish History Series. 59 pp. 21 x 13.5 cm. Illustrated with twenty-one photographs by AR Hogg, a Belfast photographer of the period. Pictorial matt card covers. Some shelfwear: fair copy rather than good. £20.00


12906. Griffin, Brian: The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800-1865.

Irish Academic Press in association with The Irish Legal History Society x+166 pp. 23.5 x 16. Illustrated softcovers, in very good condition. The Bulkies were a local town Police Force replaced by the RIC. This is an important study. £15.00


17295. Guenot, C.: Le Comte de Tyrone ou L'Irlande et Le Protestantisme au XVI Siecle.

Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils Editeurs, 1867. Nouvelle Edition. 350 pp. 26.5 x 16.5 cm. Four full-page illustrations. Red leather tooled binding, with a six panelled spine with gilt decorative panels and titling. Aeg. The spine extremities are a little rubbed and the corners are a little bumped, and there is some shelfwear and minor discolouration to the boards. The endpapers are watered silk. A bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown, and a former owner has written his name and address on the ffep. Internally a couple of pages are lightly marked where a leaf has been pressed, otherwise in good condition. This is a useful French study of the 17th century in the north of Ireland. Text in French. £50.00


8165. Gwynn, Denis Professor: O'Connell Davis and the Colleges Bill

Cork University Press 1948. Centenary Series No.1. 24.5 cms by 15.5 cms. 88 pp. card covers, light sun fading to top one inch of covers otherwise in very good condition. The six chapters of this study in relations between Daniel O'Connell and the Young Irelanders appeared as articles in Irish Ecclesiastical Record. £20.00


13158. Haddick-Flynn, Kevin: Orangeism The Making of a Tradition.

Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1999. 448pp. illustrated, hardcover, in very good condition with a v.g. dustwrapper. A well researched chronicle , a definitive academic history of the order, including information on the Apprentice Boys, the Royal Black Preceptory and the Royal Arch Purple Order. £15.00


16059. Haines, Keith: To the Ends of the Earth Campbellians at War.

Belfast: Campbell College, 2002. Archive Series no 1. 63 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. The contribution of ex-pupils of Campbell College to war, starting with the Boer War. Thirty plates. Pictorial matt card covers. In very good condition. £20.00


12891. Hamilton, F.A.P.: The Law relating to Charities in Ireland.

Dublin: Robert C. Gerrard, 1879. viii + 204 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Discreet label "Bound by Cavenagh & Son Wicklow St Dublin." The signature at the top of the title page is "R. Diamond". Gold-blocked green boards. Front hinge weakening, o/w good. £20.00


19542. Hanna, John S. Brendan G. Cashell John G. Neill: Queen's Men with a Common Interest in Golf to commemorate the first 50 years of Queen's University Golfing Society 1961-2011.

Belfast: Queen's University Golfing Society 2011. 25 x 17.5 cm. viii+289 pp. extensively illustrated, autographed by Hanna and Neill on the title page, silver blocked blue boards, one of a limited edition of 300 copies, in very good condition, almost as new, in a very good dustwrapper, scarce. £40.00


16028. Hanna, Ronnie: Pardon Me Boy The Americans in Ulster 1942-45 A Pictorial Record.

Belfast: Ulster Society (Publications), 1991. 100 pp. 20.5 x 20 cm. Ninety-eight illustrations. Pictorial glazed-card covers. In very good condition. £10.00


16091. Hanna, W. A: Celtic Migrations.

Belfast: Pretani Press, 1985. 73 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. A scholarly work, with an Introduction by Professor RH Buchanan. Thirty illustrations and six maps. Bibliography, References, Notes, and Index. Pictorial glazed card covers, in v.g. condition £10.00


20221. Harland and Wolff Iron Shipbuilders and Engineers.: Indenture between Harland and Wolff and Hugh Minnis.

Belfast: 25.3. 1872. 32 x 20.5 cm. Two printed and handwritten Indentures for Hugh Minnis to serve seven years as apprentice at Harland and Wolff to become a Wood Shipwright. I copy mounted on a roller signed by him, his mother and Edward Harland and Gustavus Wolff, with seals. A second is a copy of the same, also handwritten and printed. A little fading to the handwritting, closed tear at the bottom of the first. otherwise in good condition. Harland and Wolff was formed in 1861 so this is an interesting item of their early history. £40.00


16071. Harrison, A.T., editor: The Graham Indian Mutiny Papers.

Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1980. lix+167pp. 30 x 22 cm. At the time of the Mutiny the Graham family from Ulster had 7 members in India of whom 2 adults and 2 children perished. These papers give an insight into the reaction of Anglo-India to the Mutiny, and how ordinary life continued. Historiographical essay by T.G.Fraser. Twenty-nine illustrations, and two maps. Glossary. Index. Gold-blocked blue boards. Very good in a good dustwrapper. £15.00


19569. Harrison, John: The Scot in Ulster Sketch of the History of the Scottish Population of Ulster.

Belfast: Ullans Press 2009 A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1888. 21 x 15 cm. 115 pp. pictorial card covers, in very good condition, almost as new. £10.00


13434. Hayes-McCoy, G. A.: Irish Battles A Military History of Ireland.

Belfast: Appletree Press, 1990. 326 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Accounts of fourteen Irish Battles from Clontarf in 1014 to Arklow in 1798, illustrated in colour, with battlefield plans. Pictorial card covers, in very good condition. A pioneering study by a great scholar. £10.00


20181. Heaney, Henry editor.: A Scottish Whig in Ireland, 1835-1838 The Irish Journals of Robert Graham of Redgorton.

Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999. 24 x 16 cm. 367 pp. gold blocked green boards, in a v.g. dustwrapper, in very good condition. £15.00


19001. Heaney, Henry, editor.: A Scottish Whig in Ireland 1835-38 The Irish Journals of Robert Graham of Redgorton

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999. 367 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Map. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked green boards, in a very good dustwrapper. £20.00


20578. Hennessy, W.M. editor and Kelly, D.H. translator.: Reflex Facsimiles II Book of Fenagh, in Irish and English originally compiled by St Caillin, Archbishop, Abbot and Founder of Fenagh alas Dunbally of Moy-Rein Tempore St Patricii.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1939. 25 x 15.5 cm. x+439 pp. text in Latin, translated into English, with the contractions resolved and (as far as possible ), the original text restored. gold blocked red boards. In very good condition. Scarce. £85.00


6183. Hidden, A.E. and Latimer, C.J: Science and Technology Belfast and its Region.

Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies 1987. 24 by15.5 cms. 41 pp. illustrated paperback, very good. A general introduction to ther legacy of scientists and technologists in the region £5.00


18065. Hill, George: An Historical Account of The Macdonnells of Antrim: including Notices of some other Septs, Irish and Scottish.

Cushendall: The Glens of Antrim Historical Society, 1976. Reprint. ii + 510 pp. 24.5 x 20 cm. A photolithographic facsimile of the first edition of 1873. Introduction by E.R.R. Green. Gold-blocked green boards, in good condition, in a good dustwrapper. An important study of this great Antrim family, from the time they separated from the senior branch of the Clan Donald, the Lords of the Isles, until 1873. £55.00


20696. Hill, George: Plantation Papers containing a Summary Sketch of The Great Ulster Plantation in the year 1610.

Belfast: Reprinted from the Northern Whig 1889. 18 x 12 cm. 209 pp. card covers. A good tight copy but the covers are a little dusty. Scarce. £100.00


10844. Hill, Myrtle: The Time of the End Millenarian Beliefs in Ulster.

The Belfast Society, Ulster Historical Foundation. 2001. 58 pp. illustrated, softcovers, autographed by the author on the ffep. In very good condition, almost as new. This is No. 3 of the Natural History & Philosophical Society Publications. £15.00


7560. Hill, Myrtle and Barber, Sarah. editors: Aspects of Irish Studies.

Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies Queens University 1990. 153 pp. paperback. A wide range of articles on subjects of Irish interest, political perspectives, perspectives on twentieth century culture,society in Northern Ireland, the computor as a resource for Irish history, place and people. £10.00


12739. Historical Publishing Company: Industries of the North One Hundred Years Ago.

Belfast; The Friar's Bush Press, 1986. iv + iii + 33 to 194 + 1 to 32 pp. 28 x 21 cm. "a reprint of The Industries of Ireland, part 1. Belfast and the North...", with original pagination. Also included are illustrated extracts from The Pictorial World, 1888-1889. Introduction by Dr W.H. Crawford. Pictorial glazed card covers. The Index of Businesses (pages 193-4) makes this a very useful reference book, and it should be noted that "North" in this context takes in Ulster and Connaught, so that Galway and Athlone, for example, are included. Pictorial glazed card covers, in vg condition. £50.00


20532. Hogan, James and N. McNeill O'Farrell editors: The Walsingham Letter-Book or Register of Ireland May 1578 to December 1579.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1959. 25.5 x 16 cm. xix+ 279 pp., in gold-blocked burgundy cloth. In very good condition.Printed from the letter book in Vol IV of the Carew Papers in the P.R.O. London. £75.00


20540. Hogan, James. editor: Letters and Papers Relating to The Irish Rebellion between 1642-46.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1936. 25 x 15.5 cm. xi + 216 pp. in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. These are taken from the Ms. B 507 in the Bodleian Library Oxford. The originals were destroyed in the 1711 fire in Dublin Castle. £50.00


20541. Hogan, James. editor, with Indexes by Lilian Tate.: Negociations de M. Le Comte D'Avaux en Irelande ( 1689-90 ) Supplementary Volume.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1958.. 25 x 15.5 cm. xxxvi + 113 pp. frontispiece, in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. £30.00


20557. Hogan, James. editor.: Negociations de M. Le Comte D'Avaux en Irelande ( 1689-90 )

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1934.. 25 x 15.5 cm. 16 (13) + 756 pp. in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. In very good condition. £85.00


12691. Honohan, Iseult editor: Republicanism in Ireland Confronting Theories and Traditions.

Manchester University Press 2008. ix+181 pp. paperback, owner's inscription otherwise in very good condition. This volume explores the meaning of contemporary republicanism in contemporary Ireland. £15.00


19028. Hood, Susan: Royal Roots Republican Inheritance The Survival of the Office of Arms.

Dublin:The Woodfield Press in association with National Library of Ireland, 2002. 285 pp. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Profusly illustrated, in colour and b&w. Pictorial glazed card covers, in good condition. The Office of Arms - Ireland's Heraldic Authority - is its oldest Office of State, founded in 1552. It was the last Crown office transferred to the Free State, in 1943, to be renamed The Genealogical Office, part of the National Library. Its Chief Herald played a significant role in the design of the EU flag. This is an excellent modern history. £23.00


6887. Horner, A.A, Walsh, J.A .and Williams, J.A.: Agriculture in Ireland - A Census Atlas.

Dublin: Department of Geography University College Dublin, 1984. viii + 68 + 36pp. 30 x 21 cm. The final 36 pages are coloured maps. Very good, in card covers. £12.00


10833. Horner, John: The Linen Trade of Europe during the Spinning Wheel Period.

Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson & Orr 1920. xiv+591 pp. illustrated, linen backed boards, in very good condition. This classic study has now become fairly scarce. Horner gave his spinning wheel collection to the Belfast, now the Ulster Museum, where it was once on display. £105.00


12544. Houston, A: The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868, 31 & 32 Vict. c.49; and the Registration Amendment Act (Ireland) 1868, 31 & 32 Vict. c.112. with an explanatory introduction, and an Index.

Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 1868. vi + 74 + lxxv pp. 19 x 11 cm. Former owner's names on ffep, foreedge, and title page. No other annotation. Handwritten spine label. The printed label on the front board has lost its left hand edge. £10.00


14264. Hudson, David RC: The Ireland That We Made.

Akron, Ohio. University of Akron Press, 2003. xxiv+256 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Hardback, in a v.g. dustwrapper. Examines the origins, ideas and development of the policies designed by Unionist Chief Secretaries of State for Ireland 1887-1905. Construction Unionism. In very good condition £12.00


11370. Hughes, James L. J. editor: Patentee Officers in Ireland 1173-1826 including High Sheriffs, 1661-1684 and 1761-1816.

Dublin: Stationary Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission 1960. vii+142 pp. hardback, in a dustwrapper, in very good condition. It is unusual to get a dustwrapper for IMC publications. This list was compiled from the Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae or The Establishment of Ireland, and from the manuscript lists of patentee officers made by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, 1754-1774, now in the Public Record Office Dublin. A scarce item. £135.00


20555. Hughes, James L. J. editor: Patentee Officers in Ireland 1173-1826 including High Sheriffs, 1661-1684 and 1761-1816.

Dublin: Stationary Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission 1960. vii+142 pp. hardback, in a dustwrapper, in very good condition. It is unusual to get a dustwrapper for IMC publications. This list was compiled from the Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae or The Establishment of Ireland, and from the manuscript lists of patentee officers made by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, 1754-1774, now in the Public Record Office Dublin. A scarce item. £75.00


16010. Hume, David: Far From the Green Fields of Erin Ulster emigrants and their Stories.

Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2005. 128 pp. 26 x 21 cm. 109 illustrations. Notes, bibliography, and indexes. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £12.00


13161. Hume, Dr David editor: Battles beyond the Boyne Orangemen in the ranks 1798-2000.

Shomberg Press Explorations in Religion History and Culture n.d. c.2000. 88 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. An aspect of Orange history not often explored. Scarce. £20.00


12537. Humphreys, Henry: The Licensing Acts, 1872-74, 35 & 36 Vic. Cap. 94, 37& 38 Vic. Cap. 69 as applicable to Ireland with a review of the Licensing laws, Analysis, Explanatory notes, Appendix and Index.

Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and Co., 1874. New edition. xxiv + 95 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Covers a little worn, dusty, some light pencil annotation on a few pages, otherwise a fair copy. £10.00


18760. Hunter, R.J.: Ulster Transformed Essays on Plantation and Print Culture c.1590-1641.

Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012. Prepared for publication and introduced by John Morill. xxii + 490 pp. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. 18 maps, including a folding map in the rear pocket, and lots of illustrations. Index. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a vg dustwrapper. Almost as new. £45.00


18179. Hunter, RJ: The Ulster Plantation in the Counties of Armagh and Cavan 1608-1641.

Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012. xvii + 459 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Extensive footnotes. 10 tables. 8 maps. Appendices. Bibliography, Index. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a very good dw. Almost as new. £95.00


20396. Hunter, Robert J. editor: Strabane Barony during the Ulster Plantation 1607-1641

Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation 2011. 24 x 17 cm. 82 pp. illustrated, in very good condition, near mint. £20.00


20682. Irish Manuscript Commission: Catalogue of Publications issued and in preparation 1928-1957.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission), 1957 24 x 15 cm, 72 pp. card covers, in good condition. Extensive descriptions of all its publications. £15.00


20893. Irish Roads Congress: The Irish Roads Congress Record of Proceedings Dublin 1910

Dublin: Cahill & Co. 1910 24.5 x 16 cm. iii+279 pp. 5 illustrations hardcovers,some light pencil annotations by an attendee, otherwise in very good condition. This was the first Congress meeting. A scarce item. 32 papers presented over 3 days in April with four papers contributed since the close of Congress. Includes a list of members and 21 pages of interesting advertising. £95.00


14579. Irish Transport and General Workers Union: The Attempt to Smash the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. A Reporrt of the Actions in the Law Courts, with an Historical Introduction, and Appendix of Unpublished Documents from 1911 to 1923.

Dublin: Irish Transport and General Workers Union, 1924. Photocopy of a rare book. xxxi + 170 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. This photocopied book is from the library of the late Andrew Boyd, trades unionist and historian, and is very carefully constructed, and case-bound, with the book-plate of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Whether it was prepared by the Library or for it is unclear. £25.00


13828. Johnston, Edith m: Irish History A Select Bibliography.

London: The Historical Association 1968 (Revised 1972). 76pp. card covers, some fading to covers otherwise in very good condition. £15.00


21079. Johnston, Jack: From Annahoe to Fivemiletown Orangeism in the Clougher Valley 1795-1995.

Published for the author (?) no publishing details.1995 21 x 14.5 cm. 52 pp. ilustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. £15.00


18674. Johnston, Joseph: Bishop Berkeley's Querist in Historical Perspective.

Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1970. vii + 220 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked blue boards. No dustwrapper. In good condition. £10.00


1762. Johnston, Joseph: Bishop Berkley's Querist in Historical Perspective.

Dundalk: DunDalgan Press 1970. vii + 220pp. d.w. v.g. A special edition of the Querist preceded by a number of excellent articles putting it into historical and social perspective. The Querist pub. in 1735-1737 was," the reaction of an Irish social idealist to social problems which needed to be understood in order to be remedied". £12.00


10842. Johnston, Roy: Bunting's Messiah.

The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Ulster Historical Foundation. 2003. 143 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition, almost as new. Bunting transcribed the airs of The Belfast Harp Festival. His musical energies culminated in the four day sacred and secular music festival in Belfast, 1813, at which the first near-complete performance of Handel's Messiah was given. This is No. 7 of the Natural History & Philosophical Society Publications. £15.00


20111. Joy, Henry: Historical Collections relative to the Town of Belfast from the Earliest Period to the Union with Great Britain.

Belfast: Printed and sold by John Berwick No 1 North street 1817. 21 x 13.5 cm. xvi+496 pp. in original half back lether and marbled boards. There is a 3 page insert biography attached to the ffep, there are a number of old, mostly pencil annotations giving an impression that this copy may have been owned by a descendent of the Joy family. The boards are detached but held in place by old repairs using cloth tape. This is perfectly removable and a professional bookbinder could restore this to a very presentable condition. This is a very scarce book which needs a rebinding. It is complete but in poor to fair condition as it stands. £100.00


21037. Jupp, Belinda: Heritage Gardens Inventory 1992.

Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Committee Revised Reprint1992. no pagination (96pp) gardens listed by County. This was a major effort to list heritage gardens in these six counties. Softcover in a black metal spiral binding, in very good condition. £20.00


19715. Kelly, James, editor: Proceedings of the Irish House of Lords 1771 - 1800.

Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2008. Three-volume set, 25 x 17.5 cm. Volume 1, 1771 - 1788, lv + 556 pp, Volume 2, 1789 - 1795, xxv + 595 pp, and Volume 3, 1796 - 1800, xxv + 680 pp. Frontispieces. Silk bookmarkers. Gold-blocked brown boards. In almost-new condition, in vg dustwrappers. One of the great publications in Irish history in the twenty-first century. Please note the unpackaged combined weight of these three volumes is 5.4 kilos. This will inevitably incur extra postage costs for overseas shipping. Please contact us for shipping costs before ordering. £135.00


16991. Kelly, Mary Pat: Home Away From Home The Yanks in Ireland.

Belfast: Appletree Press, 1994. 164 pp. 24 x 16.5 cm. Between 1942 and 1945 some 300,000 American troops were stationed in Northern Ireland where they trained for combat. The story is told here in some detail, with fascinating contemporary accounts and photographs. Copiously illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.00


6425. Kelly, Robert McF: The Roots of Rathgael.

Bangor: c1969. 42 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated. A history of an institution which originated in the Irish Reformatory schools, started in a wooden hulled training ship, occupied premises at Malone and Ballysillan, before the move of the modern Borstal to Bangor in the 1960's. A scarce item, it would be difficult without this book to understand the background history of the local care for young offendors. An ex library copy with withdrawn stamps. Hardback. £10.00


13314. Kelly, William and John R. Young, editors.: Ulster and Scotland 1600-2000 History, Language and Identity.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. 189pp. hardback, in a very good dustwrapper. In very good condition. The first of a series planned by the Institute of Ulster Scot Studies. £35.00


15078. Kennedy, Billy: The Scots-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley

Belfast: Ambassador Productions, 1996. 208 pp. 21 x 14 cm. 27 plates, and maps and illustrations in text. Pictorial card covers. Dedicatory dated inscription by the author on the title page. Good condition. £10.00


13165. Kennedy, Billy, editor: A Celebration: 1690-1990 The Orange Institution King William III Prince of Orange.

Belfast: Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland 1995. 29.5 by 21 cm. 96 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. useful illustrations £10.00


18480. Kennedy, Liam, Paul S. Ell, E.M. Crawford & L.A. Clarkson: Mapping The Great Irish Famine A Survey of the Famine Decades.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999. 220 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. 106 maps. 46 figures. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £18.00


5807. Kerr, W. S., Dean of Belfast: Walker of Derry.

Londonderry: Printed for the Author, 1938 144 pp. 19 x 13 cm. A biography and study of the City's Governor during the Seige of 1689. Frontispiece portrait, and one other Plate. Black-blocked red boards, with very slightly foxed yellow backstrip. Good in a rather edgeworn, dusty dustwrapper. £20.00


9503. Killen, John: A History of The Linen Hall Library 1788-1988.

Belfast: The Linen Hall Library, 1990. x + 261. 25 x 16.5 cm. 117 illustrations. in very good condition, almost as new, in vg dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title page. As a loose insert a Benefactor Certificate for Gordon Wheeler. The library is one of the city's most important cultural institutions. £20.00


14997. Killen, W D, editor: Mackenzie's Memorials of the Seige of Derry including his Narrative and its Vindication.

Belfast: C. Aitchison, 1861. With an introduction and notes by W.D. Killen. First edition. xxi+95 pp. 21.5 x 17 cm. The original was first published in London in 1690, as The Narrative and with the Appendix . MacKenzie was the Presbyterian minister at Cookstown. Killen was a professor in Assembly's College, Belfast. Facsimile reproductions of the original title pages of "A narrative of the Siege of Londonderry ... to rectify the Mistakes and supply the Omissions of Mr. Walker's account", and of "Dr. Walker's Invisible Champion Foiled: or, an Appendix to the late Narrative of the Siege of Derry... ". Appendix of 26 contemporary relevant documents. Contemporary leather spine and cloth boards, with gilt spine title. "William Alex Clements Beragh 14th June 1863" written on ffep. Showing some wear, but a very scarce item in its original state. £100.00


18789. Kilpatrick, C.S.: Northern Ireland Forest Service A History.

Belfast: Northern Ireland Forestry Service, 1985. 98 pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. 75 years of the Northern Ireland Forest Service. One illustration, 12 plates, and 3 maps. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £15.00


21073. Kirkpatrick, Percy: The Ancient and Most Benevolent Order of the Friendly Brothers of Saint Patrick Five Histories

Dublin: Friendly Brother Order: Reprint 2012. 24 x 14 pp. A limited numbered edition for members of this Friendly Brotherly Order. This is numbered 468 on the title page. A modern reprint of five Histories published between 1938 - 1947 for members. These are, "A Note on the Marching Knots", (1938) 24 pp. "A Suggested Origin", (1943) 18 pp." Sir John Friendly - Ernest J. Phelps 1867-1944" (1944) "A Hand-List of the Knots" (1945) 56 pp, 1 illustration, "A Note on the Editions of The Green Book" (1947) 23 pp. and a brief biography of the author Percy Kirkpatrick, 1869-1947.Soft covers, in very good condition, almost as new. A scarce itemnot intended for public distribution.The order was founded in the west of Ireland pre-1752 with the aims of promoting social values and suppressing "the barbarous practice of duelling". £50.00


15330. Lansdowne, Marquis of: The Petty Papers Some Unpublished Writings of Sir William Petty.

New York: Augustus M. Kelly, 1967. Reprints of Economic Classics. Edited from the Bowood Papers. 22 by 14.5 cms. Two volumes printed as one. xliii+276+xii+309 pp. Hardcovers, no dustwrapper. In very good condition. This book was first published in 1927. £20.00


15329. Lansdowne, Marquis of: The Petty-Southwell Correspondence 1676-1687.

New York: Augustus M. Kelly, 1967. Reprints of Economic Classics. 22 by 14.5 cms. xxxii+343 pp. hardcovers, no dustwrapper. Apart from a repaired small tear to the vol 2 title page, in very good condition. This book was first published in 1928. £20.00


14705. Latham, Richard: Deadly Beat Inside the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2001. First Edition. 203 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Fifteen illustrations, most in colour. Silver-blocked black boards, in unclipped dw. In almost mint condition. £15.00


20008. Lawless, John: A Compendium of the History of Ireland from the earliest period to the Reign of George 1.

Edinburgh: Printed by Michael Anderson and sold by Richard Griffin, Glasgow; and Joseph Smyth, High street Belfast. Third Edition 1823. In Two Volumes. £0.00


20796. Lawless, John: A Compendium of the History of Ireland from the Earliest Period to the Reign of George I.

Edinburgh Printed by Michael Anderson and sold by Richard Griffith, Glasgow, and Joseph Smyth, High Street, Belfast 3rd Edition 1823 21 x 13.5 cm. Two Volumes. 21 x 14 cm. Vol.I, ix+338 pp. Vol. II 352 pp. contemporary calf bindings. John Lawless, 1773-1837 was born in Dublin but unable to follow a legal career because of his association with Robert Emmet. He became a Journalist in Newry, then Belfast. He was owner and editor of,"The Irishman", published at 2 Pottinger's Entry Belfast, between 1819-1825. He had befriended Shelly and his wife on their visit to Ireland in 1812. Politically Liberal, and a supporter of Catholic Emancipation, his relationship with O'Connell was rocky. £100.00


17440. Leslie, Shane: The Irish Tangle for English Readers

London: Macdonald & Co, (Publishers) Ltd, c1946. 254 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. A sensational book when it was issued, and by a very charming writer. Gold-blocked green boards. Neat signature on ffep. A few pages at the end have been roughly opened, but o/w in good condition. No dw. £10.00


20892. Lewis, Colin A.: Horse Breeding in Ireland and the role of The Royal Dublin Society's Horse Breeding Schemes 1886-1903

London: J.A. Allen & Co. 1980. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. ix+232 pp. illustrated,maps, gold blocked brown boards, ffep removed, otherwise in very good condition. £25.00


13325. Linehan, John C: The Irish Scots and the "Scotch-Irish" An Historical and Ethnological Monograph with some reference to Scotia Major and Scotia Minor.

Heritage Books 2003. 138 pp. softcovers, in very good condition almost as new. Originally published by the American-Irish Historical Society. £10.00


10908. Lisburn Museum: The Huguenots & Ulster 1685 - 1985 Historical Introduction & Exhibition Catalogue 1st October 1985- 30th April 1986.

Lisburn: Lisburn Museum, 1985. Publication No. 2. Unpaginated (88pp). 21 x 29.5 cm. Eight essays by local historians. Profusely illustrated, in colour and b&w, with plates, maps, documents, paintings, and family trees. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Signature of ATQ Stewart, the historian, on the half-title, o/w In very good condition. £12.00


14982. Little, Dr George A.: The Ouzel Galley.

Dublin: Old Dublin Society, 1940. "This Special issue is Vol.III, No 2 of the Dublin Historical Record". 40 pp + 12 pages of advertisements. 26 x 15.5 cm. Speed's map of Dublin on endpapers. Six plates. Thin card wrappers, printed blue on cream. Front wrapper inscribed "With Compliments & Best Wishes for Xmas from James J Halpin". James J Halpin is listed as "Subscriber Dublin Chamber of Commerce". What appears to be a Shelf Number is neatly written on the cover and on the ffep. Wrappers slightly sunned, and occasional foxing. £15.00


17837. Loftus, Belinda, compiler: Mirrors Orange & Green.

Dundrum: Picture Press, 1994. 112pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. 25 coloured and 105 b&w illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. Very good condition.. £25.00


17838. Loftus, Belinda, compiler: Mirrors William III & Mother Ireland.

Dundrum: Picture Press, 1990. 97pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. 27 coloured and 101 b&w illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. Very good condition.. £14.50


11129. London Council of the United Protestant Societies: Official Programme & Souvenir of the Great United Protestant Demonstration on the Religious aspects of Home Rule Royal Albert Hall June 17th 1913.

London: London Council of the United Protestant Societies, 1913. 16 pp. 28 x 21.5 cm. Seven illustrations, paper covers, rusted staples, and showing some wear but overall in good condition. A very scarce item. £75.00


20538. Longfield, A. K. editor: The Shapland Carew papers.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1946. 25 x 15.5 cm. x+ 228 pp.,map, in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. These papers came from Castleboro Co. Wexford, sold at auction before the burning of the house in 1922. £40.00


17198. Lough, Thomas, MP: England's Wealth Ireland's Poverty.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. xv+221 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. "With nine diagrams" - some coloured and some folding. Eleven tables. Index. Gold-blocked dark-red-leather boards. Gold ruling to boards, and gold decoration to spine. Red and gold eps. Teg. Otherwise-blank preliminary inscribed "With the Author's Compliments October 11th 1907 Thos. Lough Drom Mullay, Killeshandra". Showing a little shelfwear, otherwise in very good condition. Specially bound for the author? £85.00


20438. Lovegrove, J.W.: Herewith My Frank....

Bournemouth: Published by the author 2nd edition 1990. 25.5 x 16 cm. 131 pp. illustrated, gold blocked red boards, in very good condition, with a v.g. dustwrapper. As looose inserts an Errata /addenda and Supplements no 4,5,6,7. £20.00


20387. Lucy, Gordon editor: The Ulster Covenant A Pictorial History of The Home Rule Crisis .

Lurgan: The Ulster Society 1899. 20 by 20.5 cms. 100 pp. illustrated, paperback. In very good condition. 28th Sept 1912 saw the signing of Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant in opposition to Asquith's Home Rule Bill. It was signed by 218,206 men and 228,991 women and a further 19162 men and 5055 women outside the Province. £15.00


20516. Lynch, John: PII Antistitis Icon or the Life of Francis Kirwan Bishop of Killala by John Lynch Archdeacon of Tuam (MDCLXIX)

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1951. Collotype Facsimiles. 18.5 x 12 cm. no pagination, in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards, gilt title much faded. Othewise in very good condition. Apart from the Foreward the text is in Latin. The original is very rare, Just published copies were largelydestroyed in the Great Fire of London. Only three complete copies are known. This is from the Bodleian Library copy.. £75.00


13833. Lyons, F.S.L.: Parnell.

Dundalk: Published for The Dublin Historical Association by Dundalgan Press 1965. 39pp. soft green card covers, some fading to covers, otherwise in very good condition. Irish History Series no 3. £10.00


16345. Lyons, F.S.L.: The Burden of Our History.

Belfast: The Queen University of Belfast, 1978. The W.B. Rankin Memorial Lecture, 4 December 1978. 27pp. 21 x 15 cm. Gold-blocked green card covers, in very good condition. £5.00


2965. Lyttle, W.G.: Betsy Gray or Hearts of Down A Tale of Ninety-Eight.

Newcastle, Co Down: Mourne Observer, 1968. "A reprint of the original book ... with Other Stories and Pictures of '98 as collected by and published in The Mourne Observer". xv + 191 pp. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Thirty-one iillustrations. A very fresh copy in near fine condition, in a good dustwrapper. This historical novel has always been very popular here in County Down, but never stays in print for very long. £14.00


20579. Macalister, R.A.S.: Book of Fenagh, Supplementary Volume.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1939. 25 x 15.5 cm. 113 pp. in gold blocked red boards. Spotting to the title otherwie in good condition. Scarce. £55.00


18067. MacAmhlaigh, Donall: An Irish Navvy The Diary of an Exile.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971. Translated, by Valentin Iremonger, from the Irish "Dialann Deorai". ix + 182 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Minor wear, otherwise in fair condition. £10.00


8878. Macaulay, Ambrose: William Crolly Archbishop of Armagh 1835-49.

Dublin: Four Courts Press 1994. xii+481 pp. illustrated, map, very good in good dustwrapper though a little lightly creased at top of spine. As Archbishop of Armagh, 1835-1849, Crolly played a major role in Irish ecclesiastical and political life, paricularly over the system of national education, the Charitable Bequests Act and the Colleges (Ireland) Bill. £20.00


7188. MacCarthy, W.G.: A Short History of Cork.

Cork: Kileen Books 1996. 21.5 by 13.5 cms. 64 pp. The text of this short history comprises MacCarthy's History of Cork, first published in 1869 and originally presented as a lecture, and additional material by Pat Cotter. In very good condition. £8.00


20581. MacCuarta SJ , Brian editor: Ulster 1641 Aspects of the Rising.

Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University 1993. 26 x 16.5 cm. 238 pp. contemporary illustrations, gold blocked green boards, owner's name on the ffep otherwise in very good condition in a v.g. dustwrapper. This is an important study of this complex event in Irish history. Scarce. £75.00


16822. MacDonagh, Michael: The Viceroy's Post-Bag Correspondence Hitherto Unpublished of the Earl of Hardwicke First Lord Lieutenant of Ireland After the Union.

London: John Murray, 1904. ix + 466 pp. 22 x 15 cm. Gold-blocked blue boards. T.e.g. Index. Wear to corners and spine extremeties. Foxing to prelims. Decorative bookplate of A. Albert Campbell on the front pastedown, incorporating the words "Tyrone Among the Bushes". £45.00


20876. MacDonagh, Oliver: Ireland The Union and its Aftermath.

London: George Allen and Unwin revised and enlarged 1977. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. 176 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. £10.00


12715. MacGearailt, Gearoid: Celts and Normans.

Dublin: Gill and Macmillan 1969. 22.5 by 18 cms. 183 pp. illustrated, maps, in very good condition. One in the publisher's series A History of Ireland. £13.50


20436. Mackay, James A.: Irish Postmarks since 1840.

Dumfries: Published by the Author 1982. 30 x 21 cm. 221 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. £20.00


18180. Macknight, Thomas: Ulster As It Is or Twenty-Eight Years Experience as an Irish Editor.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. In two volumes. Volume I, xii + 413 pp. Volume II, xi + 426 pp. The author covers the period 1866-1896, and was editor of the Liberal Belfast newspaper, The Northern Whig. Spines and boards of both volumes faded, and slight cockling to front board of Volume II. Slight browning to endpapers. The front endpapers of both volumes have the signature of Michael McLaverty, and record that he gave the two volumes to Jim Grant. Internally clean and tight. £35.00


14363. Macknight, Thomas: Ulster As It Is or Twenty-Eight Years Experience as an Irish Editor.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. In two volumes. Volume I, xii+413 pp. Volume II, xi+426 pp. The author covers the period 1866-1896, and was editor of the Liberal Belfast newspaper, The Northern Whig. Professionally rebound in burgundy cloth, new endpapers, the second volume bears a small stamp for Waterford Free Library and a reference number on the title page but there are no similar features on volume I. In very good condition, with only minor wear. £50.00


20520. MacLysaght, Edward: Seventeenth Century Hearth Money Rolls with Full Transcript for County Sligp

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission), 1967. 24.5 x 15 cm. lxviii+ 89 pp., light card covers. In very good condition. None of the original Rolls survived the destruction of the Public Record Office in Dublin in 1922. First published in Analecta Hibernica no 24. £30.00


20531. MacLysaght, Edward editor: The Kenmare Manuscripts.

Dublin: Irish University Press for the Irish Manuscript Commission, 1970. a facsimile of the first edition of 1942. 22.5 x 14 cm. xiv+ 517 pp., gold blocked burgundy boards In very good condition in a v.g. dustwrapper. This reprint is unabridged. The family papers and manuscripts of the Earl of Kenmare. £60.00


12550. MacManus, M. J: Eamon de Valera A Biography.

Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press first edition 1944. 359 pp. frontispiece portrait, hardback, in good condition. The ffep is signed S.G.D. dated 3/5/1944. There is a pencil inscription , From the library of Gavan Duffy. George Gavan Duffy, Seorsa Ghabhain U'Dhubhthaigh, 1882-1951 was an Irish Barrister and Politician. He defended several of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, and of course most famously, and unsuccessfully, Sir Roger Casement. De Valera appointed him as a representitive in the negotiations of the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921. His reservations about it led to his being the last man to sign it. He was a friend of Erskine Chiilders. In 1946 he was appointed President of the High Court. We have no further information on the provenance of this book. A nice association copy. £110.00


19979. MacManus, M. J.: Irish Cavalcade 1550-1850.

London: Macmillan & Co. 1939. 20 x 13.5 cm. xix+319 pp. gold blocked green boards in fair/good condition. "A jig-saw puzzle sort of history." £10.00


16574. MacNevin, Thomas: The Speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Lalor Shiel with Memoir.

Dublin: James Duffy, 1867. Second edition. xliv+471 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Gold-blocked, elaborately-blind-stamped, green boards. The gold is faded and there is some minor wear, otherwise in good condition. First published in 1847. £10.00


7586. Magee, John: The Linenhall Library and the Cultural Life of Georgian Belfast.

Belfast: Library Association of Ireland, 1982. 20 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Pictorial semi matt card covers. In very good condition. The Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, otherwise the much-respected Linenhall Library, was very much at the heart of the cultural life of Belfast. £5.00


13571. Maguire, W. A.: Captain Cohonny Constantine Maguire of Tempo 1777-1834.

Belfast: Belfast Society in association with The Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002. Belfast Society Publications No 6. 69 pp. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Five illustrations, and four maps. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Author inscription on half title, o/w in very good condition. The Maguires of Tempo were the only Gaelic family to retain their lands in Fermanagh. This is the story of Constantine's struggle to retain his social standing. £15.00


15868. Maguire, W. A., editor: Kings in Conflict The Revolutionary War in Ireland and its Aftermath 1689-1750

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1990. xiv+203 pp. 25 x 18.5 cm. Ten essays by leading historians. 102 b&w plates, 14 colour plates, and 8 maps. Gold-blocked blue boards, very good, in a vg dustwrapper. £15.00


10826. Mahoney, Thomas H. D: Edmund Burke and Ireland.

Harvard University Press 1960. 412 pp. illustrated, hardback, in good condition. An important biography. £25.00


20341. Maitland, W.H.: History of Magherafelt

Moyola Books 1988. A reprint of the first 1916 edition. 24.5 x 17 cm. 111pp. illustrated, £18.00


19656. Malcomson, A. P. W. compiler: Eighteenth Century Irish Official Papers in Great Britain. Private Collections volume Two.

Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 1990. 35 x 12.5 cm. x + 494 pp. 46 illustrations, gold blocked blue boards, in a in a dustwraper whose upper edge is a little worn, otherwise in very good condition. This is a heavy book and will require extra shipping charges for overseas shipping. Overseas customers should check with us about shipping before ordering. The destruction of the Public Record Office in Dublin in 1922 caused major losses. PRONI has been seeking out replacenents in private holdings of possibly lost official papers. This volume is part of that effort. £25.00


1758. Marshall, Robert: Fifty Years on the Grosvenor Road an Account of the rise and Progress of the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast during the Years 1903-1953

Belfast: 1953. xvi + 139pp. illustrated, 25 x 18.5 cm. Worn cloth, faded spine. £10.00


20758. Marshall, Robert. and Kelly, Kathleen.: The Story of the Ulster Hospital.

Belfast, n.d. c. 1973. 11.5 x 16 cm. 115 pp. illustrated. Part 1 covers 1873 - 1952 and Part 2 covers 1952 - 1973. in good condition. £15.00


20962. Marshall, W. F.: Ulster Sails West; The Story of the Great Emigration from Ulster to North America in the 18th Century....

Belfast: Quota Press 1st edition 1943. 18 x 12.5 cm. 78 pp. dedication by author on the ffep.staples rusty, softcovers, showing some wear, a wartime production with its constraints. £15.00


20694. Martin, Rev. F.X.: The McCartan Documents 1916.

Privately published (?) c.1965. 21 x 14 cm. 65 pp. blue card covers, in very good condition. Dr Patrick Mccartan was Dispensary Doctor at Gortin Co. Tyrone He was one of the eleven members of the Supreme Council of the I.R.B.. These letters were sent to Joe McGarrity, 1874-1940, at Philadelphia immediately after the Easter Rising 1916. He was a member of Clan na Gael and author of three books.He was a friend of De Valera, and was fully aware of the plans for the Easter Rising.These papers were given to Prof. Martin in 1963 and this was their first publication. They were also printed in the Clougher Record Vol.6 no.1 in 1966. They include a copy of a confidential Omagh RIC report of May 1916 on "Rebellion in Tyrone etc." £75.00


20973. Masefield, Robin, editor.: 'Twixt Bay and Burn' A History of Helen's Bay & Crawfordsburn.

Belfast: Bayburn Historical Society 2011. 21 x 29.5cm. 152 pp. illustrated, map, softcovers, in very good condition. £20.00


21074. Maxwell, Marion, and Fiona Wright with mmbers of Ballanaleck Local History Group.: Making It Home The Resettlement of WW1 Ex-Servicemen on Cleenish Island in Upper Lough Erne.

Ballanaleck Local History Group 2017. 24.5 x 19 cm. 151 (14) pp. illustrated, softcovers, signed by Marion Maxwell on the title page. In very good condition, almost as new. A splendid local study, never previously recorded like this, as far as we know.. £45.00


10839. McBride, Doreen: When Hunger Stalked the North.

Banbridge: Adare Press 1994. 78 pp. illustrated with woodcuts by Tineke Kroes, softcovers, in very good condition. The days of the Great Famine 1845-1847. £10.00


16930. McCabe, Brian.: From Linenhall to Loopbridge, The Story of McCaw Stevenson & Orr Ltd Printers 1876-1990.

Belfast: McCaw Stevenson & Orr Ltd, 1990. 158pp. 26.5 x 22 cm. An important history of this famous Belfast printing firm. Profusely illustrated, drawing from the company's photographic archive. Laminated pictorial boards. In good condition, in slipcase. £25.00


20068. McCall, Ernest: Tudor's Toughs A Study of the Auxiliary Division Royal Irish Constabulary 1920-1922.

Newtownards: Red Coat Publishing 2nd edition August 2019. 23 x 15.5 cm. 306 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition, almost as new. An important and comprehensive study. It includes the Auxiliary List in the R.I.C. Register. Apparently scarce. £55.00


10843. McCann, Wesley: H. B. Phillips Impresario The Man who brought McCormack, Kreisler and Robeson to Derry.

The Belfast Society, Ulster Historical Foundation 2001. 55 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition, almost as new. Phillips was an impresario, owner of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. This is No. 4 of the Natural History & Philosophical Society Publications. £10.00


7192. McCartney, R.L: Liberty and Authority in Ireland

Derry: Field Day Theatre Company Limited 1985. A Field Day Pamphlet no. 9. 22 by 14 cms. 28 pp. original green wraps, in nearly mint condition. McCartney is a local Barrister and Polititian. £10.00


12727. McClelland, Aiken: History of Saintfield and District.

Saintfield: The Anderson Trust, 1971. iv + 27 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Splendid local history. Front cover illustration of Saintfield House, and plates of Volunteer badge, Volunteer jug (2), and Bishop William Ward - a former Saintfield lad. Pictorial glazed card covers. Good condition. £25.00


20266. McCoy, Jack compiler: An Index to County Down and Lisburn Area in the "Northern Star" 1792-1797

Ballynahinch: S.E.L.B. Library and information Service 1992. 29.5 x 21 cm. no pagination in (68) very good condition. £15.00


20507. McCoy, Jack compiler: An Index to County Down and Lisburn items in the "Northern Star" 1833-1836

Ballynahinch: S.E.L.B. Library and information Service 1992. 29.5 x 21 cm. no pagination in (38pp.) very good condition. £15.00


20510. McCoy, Jack compiler: An Index to the Downpatrick Recorder 1836-1886.

Ballynahinch: S.E.L.B. Library and information Service 1987. 29.5 x 21 cm. no pagination (c376pp ) blue card covers, black plastic binder, in very good condition. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of Down County's oldest surviving newspaper. This also marked a tribute to Jack mcCoy who died in 1987. £20.00


20511. McCoy, Jack compiler: An Index to the Mourne Observer 1949-1980

Ballynahinch: S.E.L.B. Library and information Service 1984. 29.5 x 21 cm. no pagination (c. 118pp ) green card covers, in very good condition. £15.00


19286. McCoy, James compiler.: An Index to Co. Down and Lisburn items in The Northern Star 1792-1797.

Ballynahinch: South Eastern Education and Library Board, 1992. (64pp.) 29.5 x 21 cm. card covers, in very good condition. £15.00


13821. McDonagh, Enda: Violence and Political Change.

Maynooth: Catholic Institute for International Relations February 1978. 21 by 14.5 cms. 19 pp. card covers, in very good condition. The paper is based on a lecture at King's College London under the auspices of the Irish School of Ecumenics Dublin. £10.00


14506. McDonald, Rev. Walter: Some Ethical Questions of Peace and War with special reference to Ireland.

London: Burns & Oates second edition Jan.1920. 220 pp. hardback, no dustwrapper, boards a bit worn and edgerubbed, some light pencil underlining, a poor/fair copy only. £15.00


19920. McDowell, Jim: Beyond The Footlights A History of Belfast Music Halls annd Early Theatre.

Dublin: Nonsuch 2007. 23.5 x 16.5 cm.127 pp. illustrated, in very good condition, almost as new. A great study, lots of memories, great illustrations. £10.00


20778. McGuffin, john: In Praise of Poteen.

Belfast: Appletrr Press1999. 166 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. Many see this as the classic book on the subject. £10.00


20790. McKay, Susan: Northern Protestands An Unsettled People.

Belfast: The Blackstaff Press new edition 2021. 23.5 x15.5 cm. xxiii+388 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. £10.00


20791. McKay, Susan: Northern Protestants On Shifting Ground.

Belfast: The Blackstaff Press first edition 2021. 23.5 x15.5 cm. 346 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. "compelling reading, timely and courageous." £10.00


20537. McNeill, Charles and A.J. Otway-Ruthven editors: Dowdall Deeds.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1960. 25 x 15.5 cm. lxxvi + 416 pp.,map, in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. "Dowdall Pedigrees, List of Deeds, Calendar of Deeds." £75.00


20517. McNeill, Charles editor: Kilkenny City Records Liber Primus Killkenniensis The Earliest of the Books of the Corporation of Kilkenny now extant.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1931. 25.5 x 16 cm. viii+ 173 pp., in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards, gilt titlea little faded. Apart from the preface the text is in Latin. In very good condition. £50.00


20518. McNeill, Charles editor: Registrum de Kilmaimainham Register of Chapter Acts of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Ireland 1326-1339 under the Grand Prior Sir Roger Outlawe.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission), 1932. 25.5 x 16 cm. xvi+ 172 pp., in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. In very good condition. Apart from the preface the text is in Latin. Edited from the Bodleian MS B.501. With additions for the times of his successors Sir John Mareschall, Sir John Larcher and Sir John Fitzrichard Grand Priors of Ireland. £35.00


3948. McNeill, Charles editor: The Tanner Letters - Original Documents and Notices of Irish Affairs in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Extracted from the Collection in the Bodlien Library, Oxford

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1943. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. x + 228pp, in gold-blocked burgundy boards. In good condition. £65.00


5603. McNeilly, N: Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society Selections from 150 Years of Proceedings 1831-1981.

Belfast: 1981. 262 pp, illustrated, paper covers. Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Belfast Museum of Natural History 1st Nov. 1831. Articles cover geology, botany, zoology. engineering, architecture, archaeology etc. Apart from an owners bookplate, and some light wear to covers including a small crease to front cover corner condition is good. £12.00


18202. McReynolds, Alister John: Legacy The Scots Irish in America.

County Antrim: 2009. 227 pp. 21 x 14 cm. 99 illustrations. 5 maps. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Bibliography. Index. NOTE: the title page has been removed. £10.00


16926. Medical Directory: The Medical Directory for Ireland 1852 Uniform with the London & Provincial Directory.

London: John Churchill,1852. xviii + 245 + (21) pp. 18 x 11 cm. Gold-blocked blindstamped brown boards. Several pages have been partly removed, viz a group from page xix to page 6, leaving only a portion behind. However this is only the first few pages of the local list "wherein the names of the Resident Medical Practitioners in Towns and Villages may be at once ascertained", and the information contained in these pages is duplicated and expanded in the full list. The boards are worn and faded. This was the first edition of this, the first full medical directory of Ireland, which was published until 1860 when it was absorbed into the London Directory. It is thus a scarce title. Contents include: Almanac for 1852, Miscellaneous Intelligence, Local List, General List of names, addresses, qualifications, appointments and published works, Supplemental list, Continental Directory with a short account of the Spas of Germany, Universities and Colleges for granting Degrees, Diplomas etc, Public Medical Service, Schools of Medicine in Ireland, Hospitals and Dispensaries in Ireland, Medical and Scientific Socities in Ireland, List of Coroners in Ireland, Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, Obituaries, Memoirs, and Medical Charities Act. £85.00


16582. Meehan, Rev. C. P.: The Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donel, Earl of Tyrconnel; Their Flight from Ireland, and Death in Exile.

Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, 1886. Third edition, enlarged, with notes, etc. xx+450+(3) pp. 22 x 14 cm. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas O'Hagan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Gold-blocked, textured, and elaborately-lined dark-green boards. A portrait of Hugh O'Neill is pasted to the rear of the dedication page, and there is a lengthy ink inscription to the rear of the title page, otherwise in good condition. Copac lists only 9 copies, with no copy in the BL. £75.00


17205. Meenan, James: The Irish Economy since 1922.

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1970. xxxi + 442 pp. 25 x 16 cm. 17 maps and diagrams, 11 charts, and 80 tables. Appendix. Index. Gold-blocked orange boards, in a rather edge-worn dustwrapper. In fair condition. £10.00


17111. Milligan, Cecil Davis: History of the Seige of Londonderry 1689.

H.R. Carter Publications Ltd for The Corporation of the City of Londonderry, 1951. xvii + 404 + 21 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Gold-blocked red boards, showing a little wear. No dw. Six illustrations. Folding map. Bibliography. Index.. Produced for Festival of Britain Year. £20.00


19471. Mitchell, Brian: The Making of Derry An Economic History.

Derry: Genealogy Centre Derry, 1992. 137 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 12 plates. 14 maps. 12 tables. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £15.00


11899. Moody, T. W. and Simms, J. G: The Bishopric of Derry and the Irish Society of London 1602-1705 Vol. II, 1670-1705.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1983. xix+580 pp. map, hardback, very good in a vrery good dustwrapper. Documents taken from The Ellis manuscripts in PRONI and the records of the Honourable The Irish Society in Guildhall Library London. Chronic controversies over fisheries and land. The index covers both volumes. £75.00


20558. Moody, T. W. and Simms, J. G: The Bishopric of Derry and the Irish Society of London Vol. I 1602-70 Vol. 1.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1968. 25 x 15.5 cm. 430 pp. map, gold blocked burgundy boards, hardback, no dustwrapper. Documents taken from The Ellis manuscripts in PRONI and the records of the Honourable The Irish Society in Guildhall Library London. Chronic controversies over fisheries and land. £75.00


20179. Moody, T.W.: Davitt and Revolution 1846-1882.

Oxford: Clarendon Press reprinted 1984. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. xxiv+674 pp. xiii illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition. "Definitive in that most complete sense of that much-used word." £20.00


13015. Moore, John: Motor Makers in Ireland.

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1982. x+165 pp. 23.5 x 18.5 cm. Illustrated with plates, advertisements and diagrams. This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland's contribution to the development of motor making. JB Ferguson's steam vehicle of 1902, the Chamber brothers' series of cars and vans, Belfast Vet. John Dunlop's invention of the pneumatic tyre, Crossle racing cars, the Nobel 200 bubble car, up to the notorious De Lorean episode. The author is Keeper of Transport at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Very good, in a v.g. dustwrapper. £15.00


15134. Moore, John: Motor Makers in Ireland.

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1982, Lagan Books reprint, 1995. x +165 pp.23.5 x 18.5 cm. Illustrated with plates, advertisements and diagrams. This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland's contribution to the development of motor making. JB Ferguson's steam vehicle of 1902, the Chamber brothers' series of cars and vans, Belfast Vet. John Dunlop's invention of the pneumatic tyre, Crossle racing cars, the Nobel 200 bubble car, up to the notorious De Lorean episode. The author was Keeper of Transport at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Rust from a rusted paper-clip on the ffep, o/w very good, in a v.g. dustwrapper. £15.00


10893. Moore, Thomas: The History of Ireland.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans 1840. Volume III of four only. Part of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia series conducted by Dr. Dionysius Lardner. 18 by 11 cms/. xix+327 pp. hardback, original spine label, in very good condition. This volume covers the period of 1198 to 1545 A.D. £25.00


13569. Moreno, Amanda and David Truesdale: Angels and Heroes The Story of a Machine Gunner with the Royal Irish Fusiliers August 1914 to April 1915 as recorded by Sergeant Hugh Wilson (Medaille Militaire)

Armagh: The Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum 2004. 24.5 by 18 cms. 144 pp. illustrated, inscribed by Amanda Moreno on the ffep.hardback, in a very good dustwrapper. in very good condition almost as new. this account is based on the journal of Sergeant Hugh Wilson of the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers. There are extracts from the Battalion's War Diary, and from personal letters and diaries in the Regimental Museum's collection, along with much else, including a Roll of Honour covering this period. £15.00


18181. Morris, William O'Connor: Ireland 1798-1898.

London: A. D. Innes & Company, Ltd, 1898. xxi + 376 pp. 23 x 15 cm. Folded map at rear. Index. Gold-blocked green boards. Slight wear to boards and spine. Slight browning to endpapers. Name neatly tippexed out on half title. Internally clean and tight. £42.00


17679. Murray, Rev. Robert H.: Revolutionary Ireland and Its Settlement .

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911. xxiii + 438 + (2) pp. 23 x 14.5 cm. Introduction by Rev. J.P. Mahaffy. 6 coloured maps, folded. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked dark red boards. Spine darkened from age and corners bruised, otherwise in very good condition. The maps include the Battle of the Boyne and of Aughrim, the seige of Athlone and the seiges of Limerick. £40.00


17330. Murtagh, Harman: Irish Midland Studies Essays in commemoration of N. W. English.

Athlone: The Old Athlone Society, 1980. 255 pp. 25.5 x 19 cm. 21 essays. 41 plates, including 4 in colour. 21 figures, including maps. Gold-blocked purple boards, in good condition, in dustwrapper. Former owner's stamp and signature neatly placed on rear fep, and minor shelfwear, otherwise good. £95.00


14404. Neely, WG: Kilkenny An Urban History, 1391 to 1843.

Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1989. xiii + 306pp. 25 x 16 cm. "One of the first modern histories of an Irish city". Eighteen illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Notes, Index, and endpaper maps. The rear of the front endpaper is inscribed by the author "To my dear friends Harry and May....". Harry was Harry McConnell of Carryduff, County Down. £20.00


17190. Neely, WG: Kilkenny An Urban History, 1391 to 1843.

Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1989. xiii + 306pp. 25 x 16 cm. "One of the first modern histories of an Irish city". Eighteen illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Notes, Index, and endpaper maps. £50.00


18913. Nelson, E. Charles and Evelyn Deane: 'Glory of Donard' A History of the Slieve Donard Nursery, Newcastle, County Down with a catalogue of cultivars.

Belfast: Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Committee, 1993. 126 pp. 24 x 17 cm. Illustrated. Pictorial card covers. Autographed by authors on the half title page. In very good condition. This was one of the best local nurseries and had a seventy-year history. £20.00


20874. Ni Dhuibhne, Aine editor: Rathmullan, Ramelton, & Raphoe Diocese at the time of the Flight of the Earls.

Donegal: Rathmullan & District Local History Society 2997. 64 pp. illustrated, 3 maps, softcovers, signed by the author on thetitle page, in very good condition. scarce £20.00


19189. Nolan, William: Tracing the Past Sources for Local Studies in the Republic of Ireland.

Dublin: Geography Publications, 1982. x + 149 pp. 17 figures. 8 plates. Pictorial semi matt card covers. Signed by author on the title page, o/w in good condition. £10.00


12720. Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Brick by Brick A Short History of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive 1971-1991.

Belfast: Northern Ireland Housing Executive May 1991. 21 by 25 cms. 87 pp. illustrated, softcovers, slight damage to the rear endpaper otherwise in good condition. This publication has become fairly scarce. £15.00


13919. O Boyle: The Battle of The Boyne.

Duleek Historical Society 1990. 48 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


20036. O Ceallaigh, Seamus 1879-1954 ): Gleanings From Ulster History.

Ballinascreen Historical Society 1994. 22 x 15.5 cm. 192 pp. 3 maps, foreword by Donnchadh O Corrain, major contributions from Miamh Whitfield and Nollaig O Muraile, gold blocked green boards, in a very good dustwrapper. This monumental study was first published by Cork University Press in 1951. This enlarged edition has been published to mark the 40th anniversary of the author's death. Scarce. £75.00


16957. O Fearghail, Sean Og: Law (?) and Orders The Story of The Belfast 'Curfew' of 3-5 July 1970.

Belfast: Central Citizens Defence Committee, 1970. 45 pp. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Map. 16 plates. Pictorial semi-matt card covers, printed red and black. The front cover is slightly stained, with old folds to bottom right corner, otherwise in good condition. A scarce publication outlining events over the days of this military operation early in "The Troubles" £30.00


20185. O Nuallain, Labhras: Ireland Finances of Partition.

Dublin:Clonmore & Reynolds 1952. 22 x 14.5 cm. 196 pp gold blocked blue boards in a rather worn dustwrapper, in fair condition. £12.00


19532. O'Byrne, Robert: The Irish Georgian Society A Celebration.

Dublin: Irish Georgian Society 2008 31 x 25.5 cm. xviii+244 pp. illustrated, pictorial endpapers, gold blocked light tan boards, a little light shelfwear to the dustwrapper, otherwise in very good condition. A handsome book. £95.00


12082. O'Callaghan, John Cornelius: The Green Book or Gleanings from the Writing-Desk of a Literary Agitator.

Dublin: James Duffy Second edition 1844. With considerable additions and improvements. xii+349 pp. frontispiece portrait of the author with printed signature, engraved vignette of the Dog of Aughrim on the first of the two title pages, the second title page is dated 1844. Green blind stamped decorative boards, a small gutter tear at top of spine, easily repairable, internally very tight and bright. A series of essays, the first on, the Injustice of the English Church and Tithe system in Ireland....., the second on, Historical Remarks on and proofs of the strength of Anti-Unionism in Ireland...., Comparison of David's Lament on Saul and Jonathan, and Wolfe's lines on the burial of Sir John Moore... and Miscellaneous Poems, Is the Scotch Union an Argument for the Irish Union? In very good condition. The author (1805-1883) was a lawyer and political activist, a supporter of Repeal and O'Connell. This title was first published in 1841. £35.00


490. O'Connell, D.: A Memoir on Ireland, Native and Saxon.

Dublin: James Duffy & Co Ltd, c1850? 5th edition. 256pp. Now bound in blue cloth with manuscript paper label on front cover, but good tight copy. £15.00


17493. O'Connell, J.J.: The Irish Wars A Military History of Ireland from the Norse Invasions to 1798.

Dublin: Martin Lester,Ltd, c1920. First edition. 139 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. 12 Maps. Very fresh gold-blocked blue boards, in dw. The occasional small stains seem to originate from imperfections in the paper. Pencilled inscription on the ffep, dated "June 21st 1920". The dw has been carefully repaired with peelable tape. Overall in good condition. £48.00


8166. O'Connell, William D.: Cork Franciscan Records 1764-1831.

Cork: Cork University Press, 1942. Historical and Archaeological Papers No 3, ed. by Prof. Sean O'Riordan. 42 pp. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. Card covers, in very good condition, almost as new. Scarce. £15.00


15250. O'Connor, G. B.: Elizabethan Ireland Native and English.

Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, n.d., c1907. xvi+294+x pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. A general survey of Elizabethan rule in Ireland and the destruction of the Irish Lordships 1558-1603. Bibliography and Index. Coloured folded map to rear is a copy of John Norden's Map of Ireland of 1609-11, 48 x 80 cm. Ffep is signed A.S.Sloan, with the impress of Ballyworkan House, Portadown. Blue boards with gilt spine titling, no dw. Bottom corners slightly bumped, some light foxing to prelims and to publisher's catalogue pages, otherwise a good copy. £20.00


491. O'Donnell, C.J: The Irish Future and the Lordship of the World

London: 1929, 1st ed. 266 pp, illustrated. £10.00


14993. O'Faolain, Sean, editor: The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone.

London: Thomas Nelson, 1937. First edition thus. xxxi+307 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Faded green-blocked green boards, in a very worn dustwrapper. Some foreedge spotting, fair only. £20.00


16027. O'Hagan, The Right Hon. Thomas, Lord: The O'Connell Centenary Address, 1875.

Dublin: McGlashan and Gill, 1875. 43 pp. 21 x 14 cm. Printed thin matt card covers. Some wear to spine extremities, otherwise good. Lord O'Hagan lived at Glenariffe, Cushendall. £12.00


20896. O'Hanlon, Terence: The Highwaymen in Irish History.

Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son. Ltd. 1932. 19 x 12.5 cm. viii+165 pp. illustrated by George Altendorf. Gold blocked red boards, no dustwrapper, in good condition.The book is from The Little Sisters of the Assumption Dun Laohaire, not a title one might expent from such a source perhaps!? £40.00


20900. O'Keeffe. Peter J.: Alexander Taylor's Roadworks in Ireland, 1780-1827

The Institute of Asphalt Technology Irish Branch 1996. 28.5 x 21 cm. 120 pp. 44 illustrations, maps, signed and dated by the author, softcovers, in very good condition. A major study into this subject. £25.00


20899. O'Keeffe. Peter J.: The Dublin to Navan Road and Kilcarn Bridge.

P.J.O'Keeffe May 1994. 27 x 19 cm. 60 pp. 30 illustrations, 5 maps, softcovers, in very good condition. £15.00


10800. O'Laidhin, Tomas, editor: Sidney State Papers 1565 - 70.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann. Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1962. First edition. xiii + 150 pp. 25.5 x 16 cm. Indexes of Persons, Places, and Subjects. Gold-blocked maroon cloth covered boards, in very good condition. No dustwrapper. These documents are transcribed from a volume of original State Papers preserved in the library of Trinity College. They comprise warrants and instructions sent by the Queen to Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and date from the years 1565 to 1570. £85.00


19487. O'Neill, Charles Patrick: Newspaper Stamps of Ireland.

Enniskillen: Watergate Press, 1978. 57 pp. 19 x 14.5 cm. Thirty illustrations. Gold-blocked burgundy boards. In very good condition, in a v.g. dw. A specialised area of interest where information may be very hard to come by. This work is both erudite and invaluable to the collector/ historian. £20.00


19062. O'Neill, Charles Patrick: Newspaper Stamps of Ireland.

Enniskillen: Watergate Press, 1978 57 pp. 19.5 x 14.5 cm. 25 illustrations. Gold blocked burgandy boards, in very good condition, in a good dustwrapper.. A ground breaking study. £20.00


20551. O'Raithbheartaigh, Toirdhealbhach: Genealogical Tracts 1. comprising; A. The Introduction to the Book of Genealogiesm by Dubhaltsch Mac firbhiaigh, B. The Ancient Tract on the Distribution of the Aithech-thuatha C. The Lecan Miscellany being a collection of Genealogical excerpts......

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission).1932 25 x 15.5 cm. viii + 245 pp. in gold blocked burgundy cloth boards, in good condition. £35.00


12528. O'Sullivan, M: A Key to the Labourers (Ireland) Acts 1883 to 1896.

Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 1902. Consisting of a summary of the provisions of the Acts; the several Acts (Consolidated); the separate Acts fully annotated and explained; together with the Incorporated provisions of other Acts, the regulations made by The Lord Lieutenant in Council, Local Government Board for Ireland, and Irish Land Commission, and a copious index. x + 282 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Gold-blocked red boards. Some pages have ink annotation and marginal trimming. A fair copy. £10.00


12536. O'Sullivan, M: A Key to the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883 and 1885, consisting of a summary of the provisions of these Acts, showing in detail the procedure thereunder...

Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 1886. The Acts themselves fully annotated and explained together with the provisions of other Acts, the regulations made by The Lord Lieutenant in Council, Local Government Board for Ireland, and Irish Land Commission, and a copious index. 18.5 x 13 cm. viii + 157 pp. Gold-blocked red boards. In fair condition. £10.00


20972. Orr, Philip: What More Could I Ask For? From the Cripples Iinstitute to HarmonI....140 Years of History.

Belfast: HarmonI 2019. 20 x 2cm. 76 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. The work of the old Belfast Cripples Institute over 140 years. £20.00


19872. Orr, Phillip: Ballykinlar Camp The First Seven Decades 1900-1969

Downpatrick: Down County Museum 2012. 21 x 29.5 xcm.62 pp. illustrated, pictorial card covers, in very good condition. The Camp was in County Down at Dundrum Bay. £20.00


19978. Paisley, Ian Jr.: Reasonable Doubt The Case for the U D R Four

Dublin: Mercier Press n.d. 1990? 22.5 x 14 cm. Foreword by Robert Kee. 156 pp.illustrated, gold blocked green boards, in a very good dustwrapper £20.00


20566. Pender, Seamus: A Census of Ireland Circa 1659. With Supplementary Material from the Poll Money Ordinances (1660-1661).

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1939. 25 x 15.5 cm. xix+946 pp. gold blocked burgundy boards. In very good condition. Scarce. This is an exceptionally heavy item and will require extra postage outside Ireland and the UK . Please contact us for a shipping quotation. £150.00


20564. Pender, Seamus editor: Council Books of the Corporation of Waterford 1662-1700 together with Nine Documents of 1580-82

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1964 25 x 15.5 cm. xvi+498 pp. gold blocked red boards. In a slightly shelf-worn dustwrapper. In very good condition. £85.00


15920. Pepper, John: D'Ye Mind the Day.

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1976. 108 pp. 18.5 x 21 cm. Great nostalgia! Super photographs. Pictorial light card covers. Good condition. £10.00


20524. Perrot, Sir James, edited by Herbert Wood.: The Chronicle of Ireland 1584-1608.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1933. 25 x 16 cm. viii + 199 pp., in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. In very good condition. The text is in English. £150.00


14469. Phillips, J. J.: A Boke of Ye Olde Ulster Fancie Fayre. In ayde of ye workshoppes for Industyous Blinde.

Belfast: McCaw Stevenson and Orr, 1882. The Fair was held in the Ulster Hall on the 26,27th October 1882. 17.5 by 23 cms. 44+xxvii pp. illustrated and highly decorated printing. The front and rear boards are illustrated by a view of High street Belfast in 1786. Excellent local advertising, historical articles etc. boards are somewhat edgerubbed with a little wear but nonetheless a good tight copy, now very scarce. £75.00


19602. Phillips, W. Alison: The Revolution in Ireland 1906-1923.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923. xvi + 327 pp. 23 x 14.5 cm. Gold-blocked blue boards. No dw. Index. Some neat marginal notes in pencil, and browning to eps, o/w in good condition. £25.00


20632. Phillips, Walter Alison: Lecky A Lecture in celebration of the centenary of Lecky's birth, delivered in the Graduate's Memorioal Hall, Trinity College Dublin on 29 Nov. 1938.

Dublin at the University Press 1939. 20 x 13.5 cm. 27 pp. paper covers, in good condition. £5.00


20965. Plowden, Francis: The history of Ireland from the Union with Great Britain in January 1801 to October 1810

Dublin: Printed and Sold by John Boyce No 9 arran Quay 1811 Vol III only of three volumes.iv+pp543-900+40+31 contemporary calf binding sixpanelled spine with somewhat faded gild decorative elements, the spine extremities have been professionally repaired with new matching leather panels, original spine label.A tight copy, some pages i the appendix are a bit dusty, a fair copy. £25.00


15858. Plunkett, Horace: Ireland in the New Century.

Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1983. xviii+340 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. With a foreword by Trevor West. This book was originally published in 1904 and was a penetrating analysis of the state of the nation, along with a blueprint for its future development. Pictorial matt boards, no d.w. In very good condition. £10.00


12261. Plunkett, Horace: Noblesse Oblige An Irish Rendering.

Dublin: Maunsel & Co. second edition 1908. 38 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. An appeal to landlords, and the gentry, on aspects of the land question and agricultural reform. £20.00


12072. Porter, Frank: Porter's Guide to the Manufacturers and Shippers of Ireland

Belfast: Davidson & McCormack n.d. ( 1909 ). Containing the names and addresses of persons interested in the make or sale of Irish Manufactures or Products throughout the four Provinces of Ireland, and a comprehensive and up-to-date list of the leading importers of Irish Produce in England, Scotland and Wales. 22 by 14.5 cms. 795 pp. dark green boards. The boards show a bit of wear and fading, spine title largely faded away, internally bright, clean, unannotated. Copac only identifies one copy of this title, in the B.L. and dates it to 1909, although there is another copy in the NLI Dublin. In 1911 a Frank Porter issued "Porter's Post Office Guide and Directory of Kingstown, Blackrock, Dalkey, Killiney and Neighbourhood. " No further issues of either title seem to be known. Mr Porter was from Rathmullen Co. Donegal and in his preface notes that the printing of this Guide began in Letterkenny but production delays meant it was transferred to the Belfast Printers. He notes, "that upward of 4000 orders have been obtained." Arranged in Provincial order it is an exhaustive directory of merchants, manufacturers, shippers, shopkeepers etc throughout the country before the first World War and the traumas of the 1920's. Excellent advertisments. Scarce. £150.00


20646. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Statutory Report 1998-99 of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

Belfast: H.M.S.O. 1999. 29.5 cm. x 21 cm. 120 pp.softcovers, in very.good.condition. £10.00


6259. Public Record Office Northern Ireland: Sources for the Study of Local History in Northern Ireland.

Belfast: Public Record Office Northern Ireland, 1968. 102 pp. 22 x 18 cm. A catalogue for an exhibition January to July 1968. The exhibition displayed a wide range of sources available to the local historian in the Public Record Office Northern Ireland. Three folding illustrations. Card covers. Rust from clip on front cover, o/w good . £8.00


21004. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Catholic Emancipation

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The 6th of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 101-120, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


6881. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Ireland after the Glorious Revolution.

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The twelfth of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 221-240, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


19660. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Irish Economic Documents.

Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland n.d. pre 1968. 29.5 x 21 cm. 36 pp. softcovers, in good condition. £10.00


6878. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Irish Elections 1750 - 1832.

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, c1973. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The second of the Education Facsimile Series. A new illustrated edition, of facsimiles of twenty documents with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. Very slight foxing to top front corners of cover. £10.00


17998. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Problems of a Growing City Belfast: 1780-1870.

Belfast: PRONI, 1973. First edition. xviii + 245 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Facsimiles of documents. A few contemporary illustrations, including maps. Matt buff card covers, with a black binding strip. In good bright, fresh, condition. Printed only on the facing side of pages, and no Index. Prepared for the visit to Belfast of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland for the Society's 1973 Annual Conference. £10.00


17806. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Sources for Local History Portaferry.

Belfast: PRONI, c1975. 53 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. illustrations, maps, Matt white card covers, printed black, with black binding strip. The covers are a bit dusy, otherwise in good condition. £23.00


21008. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Robert Emmet: the Insurrection of July !803.

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The 6th of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 181-200, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


21006. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Steps to Partition

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The 6th of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 201-220, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


21009. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: The '98 Rebellion.

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1989. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The 5th of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 81-100, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


21007. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: The Great Famine

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The 1st of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 1-20, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


21010. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: The Penal Laws.

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1990. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The 5th of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 101-120, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


21005. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: The United Irishmen

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1974. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The 4th of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 61-80, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


21011. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: The Volunteers 1778-84

Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1990. Wallet size 31 x 22.5 cm. The 8th of the Education Facsimile Series. Facsimiles of twenty documents, numbers 141-160, with transcripts and explanatory text. Clear plastic wallet with unbound papers in cover as published. £10.00


12591. Queen's College, Galway: Queen's College, Galway Calendar for 1902-1903.

Dublin: Printed at the University Press, 1903. xix + 405 pp. 21 x 13 cm. Frontispiece photograph. The boards and spine are a bit dusty and marked, but internally tight and clean. Lists former Professors and Officers, in some cases with c.v. and biography. Lists former Deans of Residences, and Graduates - again, in some cases with c.v. and biography. Copious Appendices. £55.00


12543. Quill, A.W: The Licensing Act (1872) 35 & 36 vic. Ch. 94, as applicable to Ireland

Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and Co., 1874. With an introduction and notes, explanatory of the Act; and an Appendix of Irish Licensing Statutes. xxiv + 95 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Showing little wear. A good copy. £10.00


15730. R.U.C. Historical Society: The Royal Ulster Constabulary Museum A Guide to the Collection.

Belfast: R.U.C. Historical Society, 1995. 40 pp. 29.5 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial matt card covers, in good condition £12.00


19661. Radcliffe, P. C. J.: Northern Ireland in the Second World War A Guide to Official Documents in P.R.O.N.I.

Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland July 1976. 29.5 x 21 cm. 29 pp. softcovers, in good condition. £10.00


20352. Ray, T.M. secretary: Rules for the Establishment of Repeal Reading Rooms unanimously adopted at a Meeting of the Loyal National Repeal Associationheld on Monday 13th January 1845 at....Dublin Thomas Davis Esq. in the Chair.

Dublin: 1845. Held at The Conciliation Hall Corn Exchange Rooms Dublin. 23 x 15 cm. 4pp. in brown paper covers. the front cover has lost part of its top, but the rear cover is complete, in very good condition apart from this front cover. There is enclosed as a loose insert an invoice from John Feehan, bookseller Thurles 6.12.1969. A very scarce piece of ephemera. Thomas Davies, 1814-1845, was a writer and poet, a founding Editor of,"The Nation" the weekly organ of The Young Ireland movement and hugely influential in the emergence of modern Irish Nationalism. He died tragically young, on the 16th Sept. 1845, from Scarlet Fever aged 30. This was less than eight months after he chaired this meeting. One of the great losses of Irish history £95.00


18708. Redmond, The Very Reverend John: Church State Industry 1827-1929 in East Belfast Vivid records of Social and Political Upheavals in the Nineteen-Twenties.

Belfast : John Aiken & Son, 1960. Reprint. vii + 112 pp. 23 x 15 cm. 14 illustrations. Printed semi-matt card covers, in a price-clipped dustwrapper. In very good condition. Redmond was Vicar of Ballymacarrett 1920-1929, and this is a valuable source of local history. Even the reprint is now very scarce. £75.00


17773. Reid: Archie R, editor: The Liberty Tree.

Newtownabbey: Newtownabbey Borough Council, 1998. 80 pp. 29.5 x 21cm. The story of the United Irishmen in and around the Borough of Newtownabbey. 38 illustrations in colour, including maps. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. A handsome production to commemorate the year of liberty. "Remember Orr." £15.00


15216. Rice, John Herman: The Irish Police Guide for the use of the Civic Guard and the Police Forces of Northern Ireland.

Dublin: Alex Thom & Co., 1924. Ninth edition, revised. xv+654 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Green boards, gilt spine title, a little wear to title page but a good unmarked, uninscribed tight copy. At this time the Guide was produced for both jurisdictions before they developed in different directions. Scarce. £55.00


20569. Richardson, H. G. and G.O. Styles editors: Parliaments and Councils of Medieval Ireland Volume I.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1947. 25 x 15.5 cm. xl+251 pp. gold blocked red boards. In very good condition. Scarce £85.00


7104. Riordan, E. J: Modern Irish Trade and Industry.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920. xii + 335 + 8 pp. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Historical introduction by George O'Brien. Reverse of title page has discreet stamp, o/w good tight copy in faded brown boards. £23.00


5867. Robinson, Kenneth compiler: An Index to the Newtownards Chronicle 1873-1900 and the Newtownards Independent 1871-1873.

Ballynahinch: South Eastern Education and Library Board 1990. c108 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. A very useful index to these two local newspapers, the first of which is still going strong as the town and district's local paper. Light card covers, black plastic spiral binding, in very good condition. £15.00


20508. Robinson, Kenneth compiler: An Index to the Newtownards Chronicle 1901-1939.

Ballynahinch: S.E.L.B. Library and information Service 1995. 29.5 x 21 cm. no pagination, (c386pp) in very good condition. £20.00


12404. Robinson, Peter: The Union under Fire United Ireland Framework Revealed.

Belfast: Peter Robinson M.P. 1995. 117 pp. illustrated, autographed by Peter Robinson now First Minister in Northern Ireland. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. £12.00


15861. Robinson, Peter: Their Cry was "No Surrender" An Account of the Seige of Londonderry 1688-1689.

Belfast: Crown Publications, 1988. 231 pp. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Thirty-three illustrations. Foreword by Dr. Ian R.K. Paisley. Gold-blocked red boards, very good in a vg dustwrapper. £15.00


19603. Robinson, The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry A. Robinson: Further Memories of Irish Life.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1914. 261 pp. 22x14 cm. 30 illustrations. Black-blocked green boards. A small epaired tear to one page, and a tiny light ink stain to another, otherwise in good condition. A charming book of his experiences as a Government Inspector in the west of Ireland. £25.00


13871. Rose, Richard: The Dynamics of a Divided Regime.

London: LSE 1970. Reprint from Government and Opposition A Quarterly of comparative politics. Vol. 5 No. 2 Spring 1970. pp. 166-192, paper covers with an old crease on front cover otherwise good. A research project in Northern Ireland. £8.00


18037. Rowe, David, editor: The Irish Chartered Accountant Centenary Essays 1888-1988.

Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1988. 255 pp. 24 x 17 cm. Portrait frontispiece. 16 essays by leading members of the profession. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. Index. Gold-and-white-blocked green boards in a clear glassine dustwrapper. In very good condition. £18.00


13278. Royal Irish Regiment: Northern Ireland Emergency Provisions Act 1991.

Belfast: Royal Irish Regiment, 1993. 32pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. A supplement to the Royal Irish Regiment Liaison Manual (Lesson D). Green card covers, in good condition. £5.00


20388. Royal Ulster Constabulary: Unveiling of Memorial, Dedication of Book of Remembrance.

Belfast: RUC Force Publications, 1979 25 by 21 cms. not paginated c.48 pages. colour illustrations. in a very good dustwrapper in very good condition. Commemorates the dedication of a roll of honour of Royal Ulster Constabulary members who died serving the community. Unveiled by HRH The Princess Alexandra 29th June 1979. £12.00


13074. Royse, George: A Sermon Preached Before King William at Belfast, in Ireland, on the 14th Day of June 1690.

Belfast: Supplement to the "Belfast Weekly News" of 14th June 1890. A single sheet printed on one side, folded, one small edge tear otherwise in very good condition. Royse was a fellow at Oriel College Oxford and Chaplain in ordinary to their Majesties. "The following Sermon, now presented as a Supplement to the "Belfast Weekly News is an exact reprint of the work published in London in 1691. The document has become very rare. Dr Royse was an eminent scholar and divine. The date the 14th is clearly a misprint, as the King arrived in Belfast on that day (Saturday) and the sermon was preached on the day following, the 15th of June 1690." scarce. £45.00


12254. Ryder, Chris: The Fateful Split Catholics and the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

London: Methuen 2004. xxiii+359 pp. illustrated, hardback, in a very good dustwrapper, in very good condition. Drawing on previously unpublished material this is an authorative and revealing new history. £10.00


14986. Saintfield High School: Guide to the Sites associated with The Battle of Saintfield.

Saintfield: Saintfield High School, 1998. 8 pp, including covers. 21 x 15 cm. Ten drawings, two maps. Succinct history. Useful suggested tour. Bibliography. In very good condition. £10.00


5542. Samuels, Arthur Warren: Home Rule: Fenian Home Rule: Home Rule all Round: Devolution: What Do They Mean?

Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. 1911. 122 pp. Foreword by Edward Dowden, The pamphlet explores aspects of the politics and economics of the Home Rule issue. Scarce in very good condition. Samuels 1852-1928 was called to the Irish Bar in 1877, and the English Bar in 1896. He contested Dublin Univ. 1903 and was President of the Social and Statistical Society of Ireland 1906-08. He wrote pamphlets on Irish financial questions, Private Bill procedure, reform, devolution and on the finances of Home Rule. £95.00


7522. Sanderson, Gordon J.: The Luck of the Irish in Canada A History of the Irish Benevolent Society of London and Middlesex.

Canada: March 2000. xxiii+224 pp. illustrated, original green boards, gilt title, no dustwrapper, as issued. Signed by author on ffep. The title refers of course to London and Middlesex in Ontario. Irish emigrants have played an important role in the history and development of Canada and benevolent societies such as this one, founded in 1877, had a major role in terms of aid and support. £23.00


1909. Savory, Professor Sir Douglas: Contemporary History of Ireland.

Belfast: 1958. 54pp. frontispiece. paper covers, v.g. Published by the Ulster Unionist Council. The subject is the Partition of Ireland from the Unionist perspective. £6.00


17902. Scott, William Maddin, editor: A Hundred Years A-Milling, Commemmorating An Ulster Mill Centenary.

Omagh: published for W. & C. Scott, Ltd., by Dundalgan Press, 1956. Second edition. xxi + 317 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. An amazing compilation of material by Sir Dudley McCorkell, Margaret Scott, WF Marshall, Father McCrea, Lydia M. Foster, Harry P Swan, Mat Mulcaghey, etc., etc. Foreward by the Governor of Northern Ireland, and a section on oatmeal cookery. 59 illustrations, and lots of charming and whimsical headpieces and tailpieces. 5 folding maps. Gold-blocked red boards. No dustwrapper. Spine sunfaded, o/w in very good condition. Four-page loose insert written by the author, and signed by him, reprinting an article 'On Doing a Book'. The first edition was published in 1951: a pioneering local history of an Irish business, W. & C. Scotts' Excelsior Mills, Omagh. £45.00


20629. Scoular, Clive: Irish History for the Inquisitive Part 2.

Killyleagh: Clive Scoular 2021. 19 x 19 cm. 180 pp. illustrated, author's signature on the title page, softcovers in good condition. sections on, Hugh O'Flaherty, Lady Mary Heath, John Devoy, Ethna Carbery, Captain Charles Boycott, Jennie Wyse Power, Ernest Blythe, Mary Macswiney, John Charles McQuaid, Charlotte Despard, Blessed Edmund Rice, The Irish and the Boer War, James Larkin. £10.00


17933. Scoular, Clive: Irish History for the Inquisitive. Stories of intrigue, hope, farce and devestating loss.

Killyleagh: Clive Scoular, 2005. 19 x 19 cm. 199 pp. 13 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. Signed by the author on the title page. In very good condition, almost as new. £15.00


10273. Scoular, Clive: James Chichester-Clark Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

Killyleagh: Published by Clive Scoular 2000. iii+175 pp. foreword by Paul Bew, illustrated, paperback, autographed by the author on the title page. In very good condition, almost as new. Chichester Clark was 5th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, from May 1969 to March 1971. This is the only biography and is a useful source for the period of the Troubles as well as its insights into the Unionist Establlishment. £12.00


20439. Seaby, Peter: Coins and Tokens of Ireland Part 3.

London: Seaby Ltd1970. 19.5 x 12.5cm. 167 pp. illustrated, hardback, in very good condition. £10.00


10814. Sharkey, Olive: Old Days Old Ways An Illustrated Folk History of Ireland.

Dublin: The O'Brien Press 1985. 171 pp. drawings by the author, hardback, very good in a v.g. dustwrapper. "A compendium of old bygones" £15.00


6589. Sharkey, Olive: Ways of Old Traditional Life in Ireland.

Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 2000. 169 pp. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Describes the implements of the home, farm, garden, and home-crafts. £12.00


18981. Sheehan, William: Fighting for Dublin The British Battle for Dublin 1919-1921.

Cork: The Collins Press, 2007. 166 pp. 20 x 13 cm. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Index. "Fascinating reading". £10.00


18545. Sheehy, Michael: Divided We Stand A Study of Partition.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1955, 104 pp. 20.5 x 14 cm. Foreword by John J Horgan. Index. Black-blocked yellow boards, in good condition. No dustwrapper, £10.00


19587. Shooter, Lt. Colonel W. A.: 50th Anniversary of The Battle of the Somme Ulster's Part in the Battle of The Somme 1st July to 15th 15th November 1916.

Belfast: northern Whig 1966. 18.5 x 12 cm. 23 pp. map, light card covers, in very good condition. £12.00


13829. Simms, J. G.: The Jacobite Parliament of 1689.

Dundalk: Published for The Dublin Historical Association by Dundalgan Press 1966. 28pp. soft green card covers, some fading to covers, otherwise in very good condition. Irish History Series no 6. £10.00


20849. Simpson, M. Lesley editor: Down on the Farm The Down Counrty Museum Farming Collection.

Downpatrick: Down Survey 2009. 20 x 21 cm. 113 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in good condition. Good photographs. £10.00


492. Simpson, Noel: The Belfast Bank 1827 - 1970.

Belfast: 1975. xiii+361 pp. maps illustrated. in a dustwrapper in very good condition. The definitive history of this Northern Irish Bank. £15.00


7187. Smith, Peter: Why Unionists Say No.

Belfast: Joint Unionist Working Party n.d. c.1985. 21 by 14.5 cms. 40 pp. laminated card covers, in very good condition. Explores Unionist difficulties with the 1985 Anglo Irish Agreement. £6.00


13668. South Eastern Library Board Library Service: Down County Library Books and pamphlets added to the Irish collection during November and December, 1972.

Ballynahinch: South Eastern Library Board Library Service, 1972-1973. 16 pp. 20 x 16.5 cm. Paper covers. Very good condition. We can also supply issues for January and February 1973, No 8 for March and April 1973 (12 pages), and No 12 for November and December 1973 (24 pages). Four issues, at £5 each issue. £5.00


13666. South Eastern Library Board Library Service: Sources for Local History SELB Area.

Ballynahinch: South Eastern Library Board Library Service, c1970. 1 + 5 pp. 21 x 15 cm. White card covers. Very good condition. £10.00


13667. South Eastern Library Board Library Service: Welcome to Ballynahinch Library.

Ballynahinch: South Eastern Library Board Library Service, c1970. One A4 page, folded to 20.5 x 16 cm. Very good condition. £5.00


8918. Springfield Inter-Community Development Project.: Life on the Interface.

Belfast: : Island Publications, 1993 Island Pamphlets 1. Report on a conference held on 8.10.92 and attended by community groups from the Shankill, Falls and Springfield roads in Belfast. 32pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. The conference brought together local groups as part of an ongoing dialogue on issues along these interfaces. £10.00


16581. Staunton, M: Tracts on Ireland, Political and Statistical. To which is added, Mr Scully's Celebrated Statement of the Penal Laws published first in 1812 by H. Fitzpatrick.

Dublin: M. Staunton, editor of the Evening Herald and Weekly Register Newspapers, 1824. 343 pp. 18 x 11 cm. Contents include: List of Absentees formed at different periods; Peculiar causes relating to Ireland which produce Absenteeism; Sketches of the various Insurrections; History of the Treaty of Limerick; and The Famine of 1822. Added to which is the Statement on the Penal Laws. Half-leather and marbled boards. The top corner of p.57 is torn off, but without loss of text, and some minor wear, but generally a clean tight copy, in good condition. £125.00


19519. Stewart, A. T. Q: The Summer Soldiers The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down.

Belfast: The Blackstaff Press reprinted 1996. 294 pp.map, soft covers, in very good condition. An hour by hour account of the seven days in June 1798 in Antrim and Down of the 1798 rising. £10.00


20345. Stewart, A.T.Q.: The Shape of Irish History.

Belfast:: Blackstaff Press 2001. 24 x 16 cm. 209 pp. gilt blocked black boards, in a very good dustwrapper, with a note as a lose insert from the Director of the Publlshers. In very good condition. £25.00


18593. Stewart, A.T.Q.: The Ulster Crisis Resistance to Home Rule 1912-1914.

Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1999. Reprint. 284pp. 22 x 14 cm. 2 maps. A tight, clean copy of an increasingly scarce book. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. £13.50


17793. Stewart, A.T.Q.: The Ulster Crisis.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, reprinted 1979. 284pp. 20 x 13 cm. Two maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Glazed card covers. Owner's name on the ffep. A good copy. £10.00


12102. Stokes, George T: Ireland and the Celtic Church A History of Ireland from St. Patrick to the English Conquest in 1172.

London: Hodder and Stoughton 1886. xv+358 pp. hardback, minor wear to boards but fading to spine and rubbing'wear to spine extremities, internally a little dusty and some spotting on the first few pages otherwise fair to good. £20.00


15788. Stone, Frank Andrews: The Irish In Their Homeland, In America, In Connecticut.

Storrs, Connecticut: The Peoples of Connecticut Multicultural Ethnic Heritage Series Number One, 1975. A Curriculum Guide prepared by Frank Andrews Stone. 113 pp. 21 x 17 cm. Maps and line drawings in text. Black- and green- printed gray matt card covers. In very good condition. £10.00


20187. Strauss, E: Irish Nationalism and British Democracy.

London: Methuen & Co. first ed. 1951. 22 x14.5 cm. +307 pp. gold blocked red boards, no dustwrapper. With an insert letter from dan Nolan, Dublin. Showing a bit of wear, otherwise good. The author was Austrian and thus brings some detatchment to this fraught subject matter. £12.00


12909. Sullivan Brothers: The Clans of Ireland. Their Battles, Chiefs, and Princes. With Territorial Map.

Dublin and Belfast: Sullivan Brothers, Educational Publishers, c1915. iv + 184 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. Folding map: "Ancient Ireland, Shewing the Principal Territorial Divisions before the Anglo-Norman Invasion". Chapters on The Clan System, Customs, Inaugurations, Housekeeping, Standards, Surnames, each of eighteen clans, Territorial Divisions, and "Ancient Celtic Families, with the counties in which they were located". Stained orange-blocked green boards. A rare survival - and a good example of the Irish backlash against the use in schools in Ireland of textbooks produced by Scottish publishing houses in particular. £75.00


16599. Sullivan, A. M.: New Ireland.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. In two volumes. Volume 1, iv+410+24 pp. Volume II, 416 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Black- and gold-blocked dark-green boards. The boards are a little rubbed, and show some wear. The upper spine extremity of Voiume II is heavily rubbed with some damage. Overall a fair copy of an influential book. Sullivan was a leading Nationalist, and proprieter of The Nation from 1855-1874. His book, first published in 1877, reflects the more open-minded attitude he developed while living in London as MP for Louth, 1874-80, and Meath, 1880-82. Unpackaged weight 1,800g. £23.00


20515. Sweeney, Tony: Irish Stuart Silver Catalogue Raisonne.

Dublin: by Eamon de Burca 1995. This edition is strictly limited to 400 numbered & signed copies of which 360 are being offered for sale. Number 233, signed. 32 x 22 cm. 272 pp. 19 illustrations, gold blocked green boards, in an unclipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper spine iis a little sun-faded otherwise in very good condition. "A short descriptive catalogue of surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial, & Domestic Plate dating from the Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III, and Queen Anne. !603-1714." This edition is scarce. £200.00


3180. Sweetnam, Robin and Nimmons, Cecil: Port of Belfast 1785-1985 - An Historical Review.

Belfast: The Belfast Harbour Commissioners, 1985. vii+103pp. 25.5 x 1.5 cm. Illustrated, maps, paper covers. v.g. £18.00


20890. Swinfen, Averil: The Irish Donkey.

Cork: The Mercier Press 1969. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. 113pp. illustrated, hardback, in very good condition. in a price clipped, charming dustwrapper. Preface by Vincent O'Brien. A definitive book on the subject. £12.00


20877. Taylor, George: A History of the Rise Progress and Supression of the Rebellion in the County of Wexford in the year 1798.

Dublin: The Abbey Print Worksreprint of third edition 1907. To which is annexed the Author's Account of his Captivity, and merciful Deliverence. 19.5 x 12.5 cm.167 pp. The ffep has been removed otherwise in good condition. This reprint appears to be scarce. £45.00


10792. Terrorist Victims Human Rights Committee Lurgan: Serial Slaughter An Analysis of IRA Murders in North Armagh 1986-1999.

Terrorist Victims Human Rights Committee Lurgan 1999. 31 pp. illustrated, map, card covers, in very good condition, quite scarce. A detailed analysis of a series of brutal murders in this part of north Armagh. £20.00


20035. The 6th Connaught Rangers Research Project.: The 6th Connaught Rangers Belfast Nationalists and the Great War.

Belfast : 6th Connaught Rangers Research Project 2nd edition updated and enlarged 2011. 21.5 x 15 cm. 103 pp illustrated, soft covers, in very good condition. This publication throws new light on the military record of Belfast nationalists in World War 1. £15.00


20717. The Belfast Associatiion for the Employment of the Industrious Blind.: Centenary of Workshops for the Blind 1871-1971.

Belfast: The Belfast Association for the Employment of the Industrious Blind. 1971. 14 x 22.5 cm. . 20 pp. softcovers,14 illustrations, in very good condition. £12.00


15757. The Irish Unionist Alliance.: Notes From Ireland A record of the sayings and doings of the Home Rule Parties in furtherance of their Separatist policy for Ireland and of facts connected with the country, including, "A Diurnal of Events Relating to Ireland" Volume 3 Second Series

Dublin: London: Belfast, 1896. x+432 pp. 27.5 x 20 cm. "For the Information of the Imperial Parliament, the Press, and the Public Generally." The front pastedown bears the bookplate of Sir Robert Baird, and there is a loose review slip from the Executive Committee. Sir Robert Baird, 1855-1934, was owner and editor of The Belfast Telegraph. Gold-blocked maroon boards. The boards are mildly edgerubbed, otherwise in very good condition. We understand that this Journal ran from 1885-1938. The issues in this volume run from No 1 Vol 3 New Series 5th Jan. 1895 to No. 50, 14th Dec. 1895. This is a very scarce ltem. £150.00


18987. The Talbot Press: Saorstat Eireann Irish Free State Official Handbook.

Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1932. 324 + 150 pp. 25 x 16 cm. 33 Chapters written by leading scholars in their fields. Diplomatic and Consular Representatives at Home and abroad. Index. 45 photo engravings by prominent Irish artists. Specially-produced coloured Ordnance Survey map in rear pocket. Celtic design on black boards, and gold-blocked title on spine. No dw. Very discreet name and date on ffep. This is an official publication, and is arguably the finest production of the Talbot Press. £250.00


9438. The Ulster Society: William Johnston of Ballykilbeg and the Right to March.

Lurgan: n.d. no pagination, 8pp. card covers in very good condition, almost as new. The Orange Order protest of 1867. £6.00


21100. Thompson William C.: The New Irish Setter.

New York:Howell Book House 1968 272 pp. illustrated, hardcovers, a small area of damage to the lower end of the spine, otherwise good. £10.00


10821. Thornton, William T.: A Plea for Peasant Proprietors with the Outlines of a Plan for their Establishment in Ireland.

New York: Augustus M. Kelley 1969. Reprints of Economic lassics. First published by John Murray in London in 1848. xii+256 pp. hardback, in very good condition, almost as new. Chapters on comparative productiveness of large and small farms, social effects of peasant proprietorship, effects of peasant proprietorship in France, moral effects and Ireland, past, present and future. £10.00


17889. Trench, W. Steuart: Realities of Irish Life.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., (1877). viii + 416 + 32 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Gold-blocked green boards, with gilt vignette to front board. Front inner hinge tender, o/w in very good condition. This edition has no plates or map. Includes the publisher's list of books for January 1877. £23.00


20078. Turner, Brian S. editor: A Man Stepped out for Death. Thomas Russell and County Down.

Newtownards: Colourpoint 2003. 95 pp. illustrated, softcovers. There is a small crease to the bottom corner of the front cover, otherwise in very good condition. Russell was executed and buried at Downpatrick for his part in the doomed Robert Emmet rebellion of 1803. He was a seminal figure in the development of the United Irishmen movement. £10.00


17825. Tweedy, Robert N.: Industrial Alcohol.

Dublin.: The Co-Operative Reference Library, 1917. Reprinted from Better Business. 88 pp. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. "only inexhaustible native fuel". Numerous tables, some concerned with ststistics re potatoes. Matt white card covers, printed black. Foxed, o/w in good condition. £20.00


13322. Tymoczko, Maria and Colin Ireland, editors: Language and Tradition in Ireland Continuities and Displacements.

Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. viii+239 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. Eleven essays published in cooperation with the American conference for Irish studies. Pictorial card covers, in very good condition. £15.00


8303. Ulster Covenant Jubilee Committee: Ulster Covenant Jubilee Souvenir 1912 - 1962.

Belfast: 1962 23 by 15cms. 69 pp. illustrated, card covers. Includes articles on the signing of the Covenant, its significance, a proramme of commemorative events, the gun running, some personalities of the first Ulster Parliament, Ulster's leaders in difficult days. In very good condition £8.00


12511. Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: The Tree The Centenary Book of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1836-1936.

Belfast: Graham and Heslip 1936. 25.5 by 20 cms. xi+100 pp. illustrated, hardcover, boards rubbed and a bit worn, spine professionally restored, new endpapers, owner's name and a few annotations to rear of frontispiece, a fair copy only. Articles by amongst others, Cathal O'Bryne, Padraic Gregory, Lynn Doyle, St John Ervine, Elizabeth Shane, Helen Waddell, Thomas Carnduff, etc, £23.00


19878. Ulster-Scots Agency Tha Boord o Ulster-Scotch: The Ulster Drum.

Newtownards: n.d. 23 x 16 cm. no pagination (70 ) illustrated in colour, pictorial boards, in very good condition. A beautifully produced book but the lack of publishing details, pagination, date is a shame. £15.00


13803. Unionist Research Department: Northern Ireland The Hidden Truth.

Belfast: Unionist Research Department, c1972. 24pp. illustrated, softcovers. A defence of the Unionist position. In very good condition. £10.00


19658. University College Dublin: Aspects of Irish Life Exhibition of Documents to mark the occasion of International Archives Week 1979.

Dublin: U.C.D. Nov. 1979. v+119 pp. softcovers, in a black plastic ringbinder, minor wear otherwise in good condition £15.00


13160. Upper Ards District L.O.L. No.11 Tercentenary Committee.: Tercentenary A Short History of Orangeism in No. 11 District 1690-1990.

Wade Publications 1990. no. 11 District covers the Ards Peninsula in County Down.48 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. Now quite scarce. £20.00


18826. Urquart, Diane, editor: The Minutes of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Executive Committee 1911-1940.

Dublin: The Women's History Project in association with Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2001. xxix + 250 pp. 24.5 x 17 cm. 6 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. The UWUC became the largest female political organisation in Ireland. £15.00


18499. Valentine, John: Irish Memories.

Bristol: St Stephen's Press, (1930?) 122 pp. 19 x 12 cm. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author, and 7 other illustrations. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. T.P. O'Cnnor M.P., with a pencil inscription to The Irish News and its editor signed by the author, on the half title page. Gold-blocked green boards. Some foreedge spotting, otherwise in good condition. £45.00


20180. Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella: Portrait of a Revolutionary General Richard Mulcahy and the founding of the Irish Free State.

Dublin: Irish Academic Press Reprinted July 1992. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. xii+289 pp. 22 illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition. "This splendidly researched biography of Mulcahy is a welcome and invaluable contribution to modern Irish Historical Studies." £20.00


20547. Van Hamel, A.G. editor: Lebor Bretnach The Irish Version of the Historia Brittonum ascribed to Nennius

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1941. edited from all the Manuscripts. 25 x 15.5 cm. xxxix + 98 pp. in gold-blocked burgundy boards. In very good condition. Apart from the introduction the text is, of course, Latin. The text of Liber Bretnach survives in five MSS. The present edition is based on the complete material afforded by the MSS. £55.00


21035. Vaughan, W.E. and A.J.Fitzpatrick, editors: Irish Historical Statistics Population 1821-1971.

Dublin: Royal Irish Academy1978. 24 x 16 cm. xxiii~+ 372 pp.gold blocked black boards. The dustwrapper is a bit worn but otherwise in good condition. £15.00


20080. Wagner, Henry R.: Irish Economics 1700-1783 A Bibliography with Notes. (Privately Printed)

New York: Augustus M. Kelly 1969. Reprints of Economic classics. First published in 1907. 23 x 13.5 cm. 94 pp. gold blocked burgundy boards, no dustwrapper, in very good condition.. £10.00


15390. Walker, Brian M.: Sentry Hill An Ulster Farm and Family.

Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1991. Reprint, with corrections and additional photographs. xiv +182 pp. 24 x 18 cm. A portrait of two centuries of life on an Ulster farm. Profusely illustrated. Gold-blocked dark-green boards, in very good condition. In a vg dw. Number 52 of a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by author. £20.00


8956. Walker, George: Highlights of Yesteryear.

Londonderry: Causeway Press 1993. 79 pp. softback, illustrated with drawings, in very good condition. The author's reminiscences of Irish life in times past. £6.00


20411. Walmsley, Senator A.J.: Northern Ireland Its Policies and Record:

Belfast: Ulster Unionist Council 1959. 21.5 x 14 cm. 20 pp. softcovers, in good condition. An address at the National University Debating Society Dublin on the Partition of Ireland. £5.00


14056. Walsh, John E.: Ireland Ninety Years Ago. Being a New and Revised Edition of Ireland Sixty Years Ago.

Dublin: McGlashan & Gill 1876. 17 by 11 cms. vi+172 pp. dark blue boards with a small embossed harp and a gilt spine title. The ffep bears an inscription from the Very Reverend Dean Carmody, Dean of Down Cathedral, dated 1928, and the signature of Allan Seaton, NI Artist and poet.. The boards are a little rubbed, spine professionally restored, internally there are a few traces of light fingering but an otherwise tight copy in fair/good condition. It is quite a scarce title. £45.00


16313. Walsh, Louis J.: "On My Keeping" and in Theirs. A Record of Experiences "on the run", in Derry Gaol, and in Ballykinlar Internment Camp.

Dublin: Talbot Press; London T. Fisher Unwin, 1921. xv+112 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Black-stamped blue boards, showing a little wear. No dw, but overall in good condition. A classic record of the times, including an account of the shooting of two internees by their guards. Walsh was a Draperstown solicitor. £25.00


20548. Walsh, Micheline: Spanish Knights of Irish Origin Documents from Continental Archives. Vol. 1.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1960. 25 x 15.5 cm. xx +193 pp. in gold-blocked burgundy boards, in a slightly worn dustwrapper, In very good condition. Apart from the introduction the text is in Spanish. The first record of an Irishman being admitted to Knighthood in Spain is in 1607. Candidates had to present their genealogy among other material and a report was prepared for the Council of Knights. A scarce vol. £100.00


13191. Wellington, The Duke of, editor: Civil Correspondence and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G. Ireland. 1807-1809.

London: John Murray 1860. xv+648 pp. Ireland from March 30th 1807, to April 12th 1809. This volume came from The Parliamentary Library of Northern Ireland, with a faded fore edge stamp, and a dark circle on the bottom of the spine where a library ref. no. has been. At some point it has been professionally rebound in an attractive dove grey cloth binding with new endpapers. Internally in a very tight, bright and clean condition. This Parliamentary library began in 1922. This was Vol. V, of a series of 15 volumes published between 1858 and 1871. Vols I-IV covered India and Vol V covered Ireland. (we have now only Vol III of the India set). On the spine the binder has placed the title India: Supplement to Wellington Despatches, which is incorrect. Titles in the series varied a little. These original editions do not seem to appear for sale very often. These letters are a fascinating record of events in Ireland during this period when Wellington was Chief Secretary. He was of course born in Ireland, and as Chief Secretary was considered firm but fair-minded, criticizing absentee landlords and prohibiting triumphalist processions. £50.00


19774. White, G. K.: A History of St. Columba's College 1843 - 1974.

Dublin: The Old Columban Society, 1980. First edition. (vii) + 200 pp. 24 x 15.5 cm. Pictorial endpapers. 10 plates. Index. The story of this famous boys' school, near Dublin, founded in 1843. Gold-blocked green boards, in good condition, in a worn, repaired with peelable tape, dustwrapper. A group of miscellaneous relevant papers is loosely inserted. This book has become a scarce item. £25.00


3821. White, Henry: History of Great Britain and Ireland; with An Account of the Present State and Resources of the United Kingdom and its Colonies

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1849 iv + 492 + 36 pp, 18 x 10.5 cm, in worn calf. Folding map. £20.00


20553. White, Newport B.: Irish Monastic and Episcopal Deeds A.D. 1200-1600. transcribed from the Originals Preserved at Kilkenny Castle.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1936. 25 x 15.5 cm.xxxi + 368 pp. in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. In very good condition. Apart from the preface the text is largely Latin with some English. £60.00


20544. White, Newport B. editor: "Registrum Diocesis Dublinensis. A Sixteenth Century Dublin Precedent Book

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1959. 25 x 15.5 cm. viii+101 pp., in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards,very good. Apart from the introduction the text is in Latin.. £45.00


20554. White, Newport B. editor: Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions 1540-1541 From Manuscripts in the Public Record Office London

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1943. 25 x 15.5 cm. xii + 453 pp. in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. In very good condition. The text is in English. Covers Counties, Dublin, Carlow, Cork, Kildare, Kilkenny, Limerick, Louth, Meath & Westmeath, Tipperary, Waterford, and Wexford. Scarce. £100.00


20545. White, Newport B. editor: The Red Book of Ormond.

Dublin: Stationery Office (for the Irish Manuscript Commission),1932. 25 x 15.5 cm. xii + 184 pp. in gold-blocked burgundy cloth boards. In very good condition. Apart from the preface the text is, of course, Latin. "From the Fourteeth -Century original preserved at Kilkenny Castle with missing portions supplied from the Fifteenth-Century Transcript in the Bodleian Library." £55.00


20572. White, Newport B. with introduction by Aubrey Gwynn: The Dignitas Decani' of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin.

Dublin: Coimisiun Laimhscribhinni na hEireann Irish Manuscripts Commission 1954. 25 x 15.5 cm. xxvii+205 pp. light tan card covers. In very good condition. Dignitas Decani' is the name given to a collection of charters and other documents relating to the history of St Patrick's Cathedral and the rights and customs of dean and chapter. Texts largely in Latin. Scarce £70.00


20613. White, Newport J. D.: Four Good Men: Luke Challoner, Jeremy Taylor, Narcissus Marsh, Elias Bouhereau.

Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1927. 18 x 12.5 cm. 97 pp. card covers, there is a small light stain on the front cover otherwise in good condition. Challoner wasa Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 1592, Taylor was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin 1669-67, Marsh was Provost of TCD 1678-83 and Bouhereau was the first Public Librarian in Ireland 1701-1719. The author delivered the first three of these sketches as Memorial Discourses at TCD as an Academic paper. £45.00


20958. Whyte. J. H.: The Tenant League and Irish Politics in the Eighteen-Fifties.

Published for the Dublin Historical Association by Dundalgan Press (W Tempest) Ltd Dundalk.1966. Irish History Series no 4. 21.5 x 14 cm. 24 pp. softcovers in very good condition. £10.00


20765. Widdess, J. D. H.: The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and its Medical School 1784-1966.

Edinburgh & London: E.&S. Livingstone Second Edition 1967. 152 pp. 21 illustrations, gold blocked green boards a little sun fading to the spine, no dustwrapper, in good condition. £12.00


12870. Williams, Jane, editor: Our Lives The Second World War and its Legacy in the Northwest and Causeway Regions.

Coleraine: Causeway Museum Service, 2006. 102 pp., 8 worksheets, and CD. 30 x 21 cm. The roles played by the people of the City of Derry, the Northwest and Causeway regions and the legacy of the war and life after the war. Pictorial card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


12418. Wills, James: Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen from earliest times to the present period arranged in chronological order, and embodying a History of Ireland in the Lives of Irishmen.

Dublin: Macgregor, Poulson, and Company 1839-1847. 12 volumes complete, as issued, in two parts to a vol.. 496+454+472+472+476+478 pp. embellished by a series of highly finished portraits, selected from the most authentic sources, and engraved by eminent artists, all engraved plates present, hardback, in a sea-green cloth with blind stamped decoration to the front board and a decorative spine title gilt with a border of shamrocks and harp. Bearing the name and stamp of J. H. Purdon on ffep of most vols. These are all very tight bright copies, there is minor spotting to some of the engraved plates or tissue guards, and there is some minor difference to the tone of the cloth from being issued over the course of eight years. A handsome set. Individual copies turn up and we have two odds for sale but we rarely see a set as issued. £650.00


7943. Wills, James and Wills, Freeman.: The Irish Nation: Its History & its Biography.

Edinburgh, London, and Dublin, A. Fullarton & Co., 1871, 1873, 1875. Four volumes bound as three. Vol. I, v+684+328pp. Vol II, v. +pp.339-730+498. Vol III, pp. 499-730+viii+709. With 31 plates of which 5 are genealogical plates of the Fitzgeralds, Butlers, O'Neills and Fitzmaurices, the remainder being portraits. (All present.) Half leather, cloth covered beveled boards, all edges marbled (faded), banded spine in six compartments, original labels, some foxing to endpapers and prelims, a little light staining to first few pages vol III. Some professional restoration to spines. They are overall in very good condition, tight copies. Whilst there is historical narrative the cooks are biography focused, political, ecclesiastical, literary etc. £165.00


11082. Wilson, Ian: From Belfast Lough to D-Day.

Bangor: North Down Borough Council, 1994. 64 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Tells the story of Belfast Lough during the war years. Illustrated, in pictorial card covers. Price in Biro on title page, o/w good condition. £10.00


19458. Wilson, Thomas, editor: Ulster Under Home Rule A Study of the Political and Economic Problems of Northern Ireland.

London: Oxford University Press, 1955. xxiv + 229 pp. 22 x 14 cm. 7 essays by leading experts. Index. Gold-blocked green boards. In good condition, in a good dw. There is slight browning to the edges of the print block. £15.00


12684. Witherow, Thomas, DD: Derry and Enniskillen in the Year 1689 - The Story of Some Famous Battle-Fields in Ulster

Belfast: William Mullan & Son, 1873. First edition. xi+ 368pp, 19 x 13cm, recased in new brown boards with new endpapers and gilt spine title. Internally a little dusty and marked in places, owner's signature on title page, magazine cutting pasted on a blank page otherwise a fair-good, tight copy. £35.00


20981. Wm Thompson & Co.: 120 Years of Trading The Success and Development of Wm. Thompson & Co. (Londonderry) Ltd.

Londonderry : Wm Thomson & Co. 1950. 25 x 19 cm. 15 pp.13 illustrations softcovers, in very good condition. "Ryegrass Machiners, Seedsmen, Provender Millers, Importers, Fertilizers, Animal Feeding Stuffs, Cement and Plaster, Sulphate of Copper, Soda Crystals. Distributing Agents for Agricultural Machinery, Dairy Appliances and Sundry goods." A scarce item. £20.00


17391. Woodburn, Rev. James Barkley: The Ulster Scot His History and Religion.

London: H.R.Allenson, Limited, 1915. First edition. 424pp. 20 x 13 cm. 5 full-page maps, of which 2 are coloured. Bibliography. Gold-blocked faded blue boards. Some light foxing. Ffep removed. A scarce title which appeared during the Home Rule Crisis and the outbreak of the Great War, and an important title in understanding the self-perception of this section of the population. £45.00


12699. Woodburn, Rev. James Barkley: The Ulster Scot His History and Religion.

London: H.R.Allenson, Limited, 1915. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 424pp. 20 x 13cm. 5 full-page maps, of which 2 are coloured. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked blue boards, faded. Some light foxing. Showing a little wear, but ortherwise good. A scarce title which appeared during the Home Rule Crisis and the outbreak of the Great War, and an important title in understanding the self-perception of this section of the population. £45.00


17193. Wright, Arnold: Disturbed Dublin The Story of the Great Strike of 1913-14 With a Description of the Industries of the Irish Capital.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1914. xii+337 pp. 23 x 15 cm. Gold-blocked dark-green boards, with wo small black ink marks on the front board. The gilt titling on the spine is now faded, and the prelims and the title page show some light foxing. Bears the Inscription "Bridgeman" on the ffep, and the impressed address 48 North King Street, Dublin. Original copies of this title have become very scarce. £80.00


12848. Wright, Thomas: The History of Ireland from the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals, to the Present Time.

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company - Limited, 1854. Volumes 1 and 2 of three. vi +728 pp. and v + 663 pp. 28 x 19 cm. The frontispiece of volume 1 is a double-page steel-engraved map with outline hand-coloured, drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin, and illustrated by J. Marchant, the illustrations of the map engraved by J. Rapkin. The volumes themselves are "Illustrated with beautiful steel engravings, from original drawings, executed expressly for this work, by H. Warren, Esq., President of The New water Colour Society, London." Volume 1 has eighteen engravings, and volume 2 has twelve. Volume 2 takes the history of Ireland up to 1798. Green half leather and marbled boards, with original red spine labels, blocked gold. Six-compartment spine, with blind and gold-blocked decoration. Volume 1 has a previous owner's signature on the tissue guarding the illustrated half title, and a note on the back of the map that Oliver Madden was born 7th February 1940. Volume 2 has had a name clipped from the top margin of the contents page, and both volumes have Samual Weir's signature and the date 7 February 1869 on the title page. Both volumes are tight and clean, with the leather in very good condition, and the marbled paper showing some shelf wear. A very handsome part set. £95.00


17439. Young, Robert M: Town Book of The Corporation of Belfast 1613 - 1816.

Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2008. Facsimile of 1892 edition. xvi + 352 pp. 24 x 17.5 cm. 52 illustrations, including maps, and a folding bird's-eye view of the city in 1890. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a very good dw. £42.00

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