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Cork: Mercier Press, 2013. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear corners. 192 pp. This book charts the story of Dublin and its people during a decade of upheaval (1913 - 1923). The focus is on the ordinary men and women who were involved in these revolutionary events, sometimes at huge personal cost to themselves. These pictures give a fascinating insight into the events that shaped a nation.

London: Little, Brown & Co., 1996. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (light foxing reverse side, few small edges tears), edges faintly foxed, small dent top edge rear cover, pages faintly toned. 241 pp. First edition. Tony Gray examines Ireland in its new capacity as a sophisticated, highly technological, committed member of the European Union. The book embraces also the Ulster settlers (Protestants), who however British they feel, are recognised straight away as Irish as soon as they set foot outside their own tiny statelet. The author has written a lively, informative and authoritative exploration of Ireland and the Irish.

East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press / European Ethnological Research Centre / National Museums of Scotland, 2004. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, minimal edgewear. 95 pp. Margaret Bochel reports on the fisher folk of Nairn in the 1920s and 1930s. They had a distinctive way of life, being to some extent detached from the rest of the townspeople by the nature of their exacting trade. They lived like a large family, observing a code of behaviour and customs and values prescribed by their seagoing forebears and handed down through generations. The author belongs to a well-known Fishertown of Nairn family.

San Francisco: Irish Literary and Historical Society, 1979. 2nd ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket, very good condition, mid-green boards, gilt title cover & spine, gilt decorative logo front cover, black & white text- photos, pages lightly toned, light foxing edges & pastedowns, autograph (editor's written & dated dedication reverse side front flyleaf). 150 pp. These essays, edited by James Walsh, are the story of the Irish who immigrated to San Francisco in 1850 to 1976. The essays are not written as conclusive findings. The essays are of interest regarding an important part of Irish history. This collection was made possible with a grant provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Irish Literary and Historical Society.

Melbourne, Carlton South: Bridin Books, 2014. 2nd ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, few black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minimal creasing & dents front cover, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear, autograph (author's written dedication title page). 250 pp. Regina Lane tells the story of a 150-year-old church at the top of a hill in south-west Victoria which was built and paid for by the children of Irish potato-famine survivors. St Brigid's is a symbol of faith and hope in an ancient land, by a cold, wild sea. A unique story of a small Australian rural community who, in the spirit of their Irish rebel ancestors, stood up for what they believed in when, in 2009, the Catholic Church put the church up for sale. The author, of Irish heritage, has put together a lyrical narrative of song and story.

London: Continuum, 2006. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), figures, small mark bottom edge. 200 pp. Ten of Scotland's most prominent writers and commentators present bold and positive ideas to take Scotland forward, with regard to devolution (greater independence from London).

East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press / European Ethnological Research Centre / National Museums of Scotland, 2003. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, minimal edgewear. 135 pp. This book is about Robert Pairman, son of a grocer and wine merchant in Biggar, Lanarkshire, who graduated in medicine at Edinburgh University and returned to Biggar to practice as a country doctor for the rest of his working life.

Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2002. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, corner tip creased front cover, minor edgewear. 463 pp. Sinn Fein is one of the oldest and most controversial parties in Irish politics. The fascinating story of a party which has repeatedly reshaped its identity over 100 years. From Arthur Griffith to Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein boasts a roll-call of major personalities from 20th-century Irish history including de Valera, Markievicz, Collins, O Bradaigh, Goulding, MacGiolla, and McGuinness. Traces Sinn Fein’s zigzag path towards constitutional politics and presents a critical analysis of its personalities and policies. It has arrived at last in government in the north with hopes of a future role in coalition in the republic, and confidently predicting a united Ireland.

Wexford: County Wexford Heritage Committee, 1989. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, maps, bottom corners last few pages & rear cover slightly creased, faint foxing top edge, tiny mark front cover, minor edgewear. 59 pp. Richard Roche tells the story of the Wexford migrants who braved shipwreck, pestilence, Indian attacks and war to form the colony of Refugio in Texas. They left their native Ireland in 1833 - 1834 to seek a better life in the New World. The publication of this small book is one way in which, it is hoped, new interest may be aroused in the links between the two regions. SCARCE.

London: Faber & Faber, 2012. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few tables, corner tips covers little creased, tiny bump base spine, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 227 pp. In this provocative book, some of Ireland's leading scholars, writers and journalists - Fintan O'Toole, Elaine Byrne, Dearbhail McDonald, Fred Powell, Theo Dorgan, Tom Hickey, Iseult Honohan and Philip Pettit, suggest answers to the questions about Ireland being a republic or not. They suggest that the idea of a republic can be taken back from those who have abused it - and that it can give hope to a society struggling to move on from cynicism and anger.