On this page you will browse throught the 21 titles we have on Ireland, and Irish related subjects as of November 6, 2007. Enjoy browsing, and feel free to place an order at any time with Ray Boas, Bookseller in Walpole, New Hampshire.
1. Crosbie, Jane E. M., A TOUR OF THE ARDES 1910-35, Friar's Bush Press, Belfast, Ireland, (1990), B&W illustrations, 91pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0946872309 Historic photographs of the Ards and North-east Down from the W. A. Green Collection at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum., (Order No: 49760 ), $10.00
2. Dangerfield, George, THE DAMNABLE QUESTION - A STUDY IN ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1976) 1st ed, 400pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316172006 A humane, masterful exploration of the political and social relations between Ireland and England during the period 1800-1922., (Order No: 49137 ), $4.00
3. Darby, John (edited by), NORTHERN IRELAND: THE BACKGROUND TO THE CONFLICT, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, (1983) 3rd ptg, 272pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0815624174, (Order No: 48943 ), $6.00
4. Eagle, Dorothy and Carnell, Hilary (compiled and edited by) (revised by Dorothy Eagle), THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED LITERARY GUIDE TO GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Crescent Books, New York, (1985), B&W and color ill., maps, 316pp, maps, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), THE TOWNS, VILLAGES AND LANDMARKS ASSOCIATED WITH GREAT WRITERS AND THEIR WORKS. Altogether there are over 1,200 entries on places associated with 913 authors., (Order No: 21384 ), $7.50
5. FitzGerald, Brian, THE ANGLO-IRISH: THREE REPRESENTATIVE TYPES, CORK, ORMONDE, SWIFT, 1602-1745, Staples Press, London, (1952), B&W illustrations, 369pp, good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), These three figures illustrate three phases of the rise of the Anglo-Irish and, taken together, they compose the man of the Ascendancy., (Order No: 45063 ), $15.00
6. Forkner, Ben (edited by) and Burgess, Anthony (preface by), MODERN IRISH SHORT STORIES, The Viking Press, NY, (1980), 557pp, good w/good dustjacket, The twenty-six short stories in this first-rate collection provide a sample of the best in modern Irish prose., (Order No: 19491 ), $14.50
7. Frost, James, THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTY OF CLARE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 18TH CENTURY, The Mercier Press, Dublin, Cork, Ireland, (1978), 654pp, append., good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), First published in 1893., (Order No: 44238 ), $285.00
8. Girouard, Mark, TOWN AND COUNTRY, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1992, 200 B&W ill., 50 colorplates, 274pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300051859 Author writes of places he has visited in town and country. Mixing erudition with anecdote, he offers fascinating insights into both buildings and their inhabitants., (Order No: 8070 ), $12.50
9. Jingle, Jerry, IRISH FOLKLORE POEMS AND HISTORICAL ITEMS, The Christopher Pub. House, Boston, MA, (1952), 259pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Selected poems and historical happenings with more modern interesting prose stories and legends of the "Little Folk" in their fanciful capers told in dialect and embellished as conversational tales of the participants or their friends., (Order No: 45589 ), $40.00
10. Kiernan, Thomas J. (newly told and with commentaries by), THE WHITE HOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN; AND OTHER IRISH FOLK TALES, The Devin-Adair Company, New York, 1962, ill. by Elizabeth Rivers, 172pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 10373 ), $15.00
11. Kinealy, Christine, THIS GREAT CALAMITY: THE IRISH FAMINE 1845-52, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Boulder, CO, (1995), 450pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1570980349 The Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. With fascinating insight, Dr. Kinealy unravels fact from opinion, confronts the role of ethnic stereotypes, and examines the ruling Anglo-Irish government's response to the disaster while analyzing its motives., (Order No: 9517 ), $12.50
12. MacLysaght, Edward, MORE IRISH FAMILIES, Irish Academic Press, Portland, OR, (1996), 254pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0716526042 A new revised and enlarged of More Irish Families, incorporating Supplement to Irish Families, with an essay on Irish chieftainries., (Order No: 52675 ), $65.00
13. Mahoney, Rosemary, WHOREDOM IN KIMMAGE: IRISH WOMEN COMING OF AGE, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, (1993) 2nd ptg, 307pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0395602017, (Order No: 25260 ), $2.00
14. Maxwell, Constantia, DUBLIN: UNDER THE GEORGES, 1714-1830, Faber and Faber Limited, London, (1956) 2nd ed, B&W ill., B&W map, 350pp, map, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Originally published in 1936. In this edition the text has been brought up to date, and further and fuller notes have been added. This book is written from the standpoint of an admirer of the Age of Reason, and in defence of the Anglo-Irish gentry who stood for the culture of the eighteenth century in Ireland., (Order No: 23336 ), $12.00
15. McNally, Kenneth (text and photographs by), THE ISLANDS OF IRELAND, B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, (1978), B&W and color illustrations, 168pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0713412488 The authors' introductory text sketches in the historical background and in addition to factual picture captions there is a detailed account of each of the 34 islands which the book covers., (Order No: 32644 ), $17.50
16. Menendez, Albert J., THE BITTER HARVEST - CHURCH AND STATE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Robert B. Luce, Inc., Washington, NY, (1973), 228pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0883310651, (Order No: 50592 ), $5.00
17. Moody, T. W., and Martin, F. X. (edited by), THE COURSE OF IRISH HISTORY - REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, The Mercier Press, Cork, (1989), B&W illustrations, 479pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) - previous owner's name, ISBN 0853427100 First published in 1967., (Order No: 46497 ), $6.00
18. O'Hart John, IRISH PEDIGREES; OR, THE ORIGIN AND STEM OF THE IRISH NATION - FIFTH EDITION - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, (1989), fine, green cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0806307374 Quality reprint of the Fifth Edition originally published in Dublin in 1892. Volume I, 896pp; and Volume II, 948pp., (Order No: 50798 ), $150.00
19. Porter, Arthur Kingsley, THE CROSSES AND CULTURE OF IRELAND, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1931, 276 B&W plates follow text, 143pp of text, good, green cloth w/edgewear (EX-LIB w/usual markings), Five Lectures Delivered at the Metroplitan Museum of Art, February and March 1930. "The mysterious and enigmatic Irish crosses form the subject of this fascinating volume by Arthur Kingsley Porter. With the aid of nearly three hundred illustrations he discusses the problems presented by the crosses, and shows the extraordinary and almost embarrassing wealth of material which they present. He brings out the fact that the Irish are perhaps the oldest of all European races, still racially what they have been since the La Tene period, and that what really separates the history of Ireland into two periods is not any foreign conquest by the arrival of Christianity.", (Order No: 28378 ), $150.00
20. Slattery, Tom (edited by), IRISH WISDOM: A BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, (2004) 1st ptg, 88pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0760761086 This little volume gathers together more than 250 quotations--there are age-old proverbs, selections of poetry and verse, quotations about Irish history, Irish- Americans, Irish music and dance, and of course, a wee bit of the Irish wit as well., (Order No: 48569 ), $15.00
21. Stephens, James (with an introduction and afterword by John A. Murphy), THE INSURRECTION IN DUBLIN, Colin Smythe Ltd., Buckinghamshire, UK, 1978, 116pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0901072850, (Order No: 46127 ), $7.50