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The Yeats Country: A Guide to Places in the West of Ireland associated with the Life and Writings of William Butler Yeats

Sheelah Kirby (compiler), Patrick Gallagher (editor), Ruth Brandt (illustrator)

Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1962. 47 pages. Illustrated. Endpaper maps. Hardback.

USED. A very good copy in slightly edgeworn dustjacket which has a small split at base of spine

Price: £ 6.50

The Slaney: From Source to Sea

John Duffy (Foreword by Dick Warner)

Tullow: John Duffy, 2006. 123 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Slaney Bridges and Aspects

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 10.00

Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making

Peter Mulryan

Belfast: Appletree Press, 2009. 192 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 9.95

Monu-mental about Prehistoric Antrim

Tom Fourwinds

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2008. 159 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 7.00

The Murder of Thomas Dawson Bateson, County Monaghan, 1851

Michael McMahon

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 68 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

(Maynooth Studies in Local History)

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 3.40

Edenderry, County Offaly, and the Downshire Estate, 1790-1800

Ciaran Reilly

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 62 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Maynooth Studies in Local History.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 3.75

A Guide to Blennerville and the Dingle Peninsula

Frank Blennerhassett with Sara Hollwey

Dublin: Butler Sims, 1992. 60 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include 'The Blennerhassetts arrive in Kerry', 'Robert Emmet's Final Resting Place?', 'Daniel O'Connell and the Colleen Dhas', 'The Rose of Tralee', etc

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 5.00

Restoration Strabane, 1660-1714: Economy and Society in Provincial Ireland

William J. Roulston

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 64 pages. Paperback.

Maynooth Studies in Local History Number 72.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 4.00

In the Shadow of Giants: A Social History of the Belfast Shipyards

Kevin Johnston

Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2008. xix, 361 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.

USED. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket.

Price: £ 16.00

Dublin 1745-1922: Hospitals, Spectacle and Vice.

BOYD, Gary A.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 224 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.

USED. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket.

Price: £ 9.00

Shee Alms House: The Story of a Restoration

Colm O Cochlainn

Kilkenny: The Author, 1986. 121 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. Slight marking and corner creasing, otherwise a good copy

Price: £ 10.00

A Brief History of Kells, Co. Kilkenny

Albert Smith

Kells: KRETE, 1993. 24 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A little soiling to covers, else a good copy

Price: £ 3.50

Barrow Bridges and Related Aspects.

John Duffy (author and illustrator). Foreword by Dick Warner.

Tullow: John Duffy, 2007. 170 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 15.00

Images of Ireland: Edenderry

Edenderry Historical Society

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2009. 144 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 7.25

Creating Belfast: Technical Education and the Formation of a Great Industrial City, 1801-1921

Professor Don McCloy

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2009. 288 pages Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 6.25

The Rose of Tralee: Fifty Years A-Blooming

T. Ryle Dwyer

Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2009. 128 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 10.00

Quare Days and Fair Days: Memories of Irvinestown

Bernadette Layden (Editor).

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2009. 192 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Memories of Irvinestown, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

USED. A little corner creasing to last few pages and rear cover, otherwise a very good copy.

Price: £ 7.50

Local Government in Nineteenth-Century County Dublin: The Grand Jury (Maynooth Studies in Local History)

David Broderick

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 71 pages. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 2.75

The Diocese of Lismore, 1801-69 (Maynooth Studies in Local History)

Robert B. MacCarthy

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 64 pages. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 3.75

Print Culture in Loughrea, 1850-1900: Reading, Writing and Printing in an Irish Provincial Town (Maynooth Studies in Local History)

Bernadette Lally

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 63 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 3.75

Tallaght, 1835-50: A Rural Place (Maynooth Studies in Local History)

Sean Bagnall

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 64 pages. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 2.95

Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision - Seven Centuries on Skellig Michael

Geoffrey Moorhouse

Dublin: Collins Press, 2009. 241 pages. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 6.50

Armagh: History and Guide

Ian Maxwell

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2009. 160 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 10.00

South Belfast: History and Guide (History & Guides)

Norman L. Weatherall and George Templeton

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2008. 126 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 7.25

Rosslare Harbour

Leo Coy, Brian Cleare, John and Brian Boyce

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2008. 159 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 10.00

Photographs and Photography in Irish Local History

Liam Kelly

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 120 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 8.00

Photographs and Photography in Irish Local History

Liam Kelly

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 120 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.

USED. Small repaired split in dustjacket, else a very good copy

Price: £ 20.00

Grey Abbey.

Dr A Hamlin and M Meek.

Belfast: Environment and Heritage Service, 1997. 24 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 3.50

A History of Ballinderry Moravian Church, 1750-2000.

Violet Best.

Lower Ballinderry: Ballinderry Moravian Church, 2000. 32 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 3.50

Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Volume 9 Number 1, 2006-2007.

Rosalind Hadden and John Trimble (Editors).

Craigavon: Craigavon Historical Society, 2007. 64 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include: Craigavon Museum Service (Brian Cassells) Early Years of Craigavon Historical Society (Florence Gracey) Craigavon, the early years of the new city (John Trimble) The Shillingtons of Portadown (Anthony Shillington) The townland of Ballyhannon (Elizabeth Lutton) The Crew Hill/Craebh Tulcha (F X McCorry) Lowmills - an unpretentious location (Jack Gilpin) Irish weapons numbers and markings (Colin Baxter) Education in Craigavon (Ian Wilson) Memories of Victorian Portadown (Hannah Moore) The First World War remembered (Brenda Thompson) The Living Linen Project (Dr Kathleen Rankin) Prohibition Week - the Lurgan Mail February 1918 A Hotel/Boat for the Montiaghs? (Brain Cassells).

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 8.00

Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Volume 8 Number 2, 2002-2003.

Jack Kerr (Editor).

Craigavon: Craigavon Historical Society, 2003. 64 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include: Taped memories of Sport and Recreation in Portadown (Brenda Thompson) Corbett's Department Store (Brenda Thompson) Shankill Graveyard, Lurgan (F X McCorry) George William Russell, AE (Eric McElroy) Emigration from the Craigavon District (Dr Patrick Fitzgerald) A Mid-Ulster Murder (Bertie Martin) The Summer of the Factory Horn Strike (Rosalind Hadden) Quaker Education in the Past (Elizabeth Lutton) The Agricultural Revolution (William McGeown) Unforgettable Characters (Mary Jensen) The Ulster Canal (Brian Cassells) Derryhale, some historical notes (John E Galway) A Farming Diary for 1885 (Florence Gracey) Historical References to the Craigavon area (Rosalind Hadden).

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 8.00

Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Volume 8 Number 1, 2000-2001.

Jack Kerr (Editor).

Craigavon: Craigavon Historical Society, 2001. 52 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include: Doctor at Sea (Rosalind Hadden) Memories of William Street, Lurgan (A G Sleator) The Nicholsons - Quakers, Bleachers and Soldiers (Eric McElroy) Childhood Days at the Argory 1903-1916 (Elizabeth Lutton) The Lean Years (William J McGeown) Sesquicentenary of St John the Evangelist, Gilford (Anne Cairns) Global Warming or Historical Repetition? (Frank McCorry) William Thompson Kirkpatrick (Ian Wilson) Lurgan's Talking Statue (Bertie Martin) Little Memories of Country Life (Mary Jensen) Background History of Linen (Samuel C Lutton) Portadown College in the Past (Rosalind Hadden).

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 8.00

Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Volume 7 Number 3, 1998-1999.

Jack Kerr and Rosalind Hadden (Editors).

Craigavon: Craigavon Historical Society, 1999. 48 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include: Lurgan College War Memorial (Ian Wilson) A Journey of Remembrance (A G Sleator) War-time memories of a child (Mary Jensen) Notes from a war-time diary (Bertie Martin) Yeats Country trip Travel and Transport in the North of Ireland (Sauel C Lutton) Seagoe Parish archives (Frank McCorry) Who Dunnit? A Lough Neagh map mystery of 1785 (Jack Redmond) Swift in County Armagh (D R M Weathrup) The development of the English language in Ireland (Dermot Kelly) Talking to the doctor (Rosalind Hadden).

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 8.00

Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Volume 7 Number 1, 1995-1996.

S J W Cooper and D E McElroy (Editors).

Craigavon: Craigavon Historical Society, 1996. 51 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include: Some Aspects of the Great Famine in Lurgan Poor Law Union (Gerard MacAtasney) Tales from Kinnego (Leslie Grayson) The development of the Linen Industry in the Lurgan area (Kieran Clendinning) The Scutch Mill and Associated Poems (Ken McElroy) Memories of Grange House, Portadown (Johnston Redmond) School Days long ago (Emily Hunter) The beautiful and the brave - the story of two Monroes (Eric McElroy) An 18th Century Linen Damask Tablecloth from Ireland (Elizabeth Lewis) A nineteenth century love story (Ian Wilson) An old game - 'Catty' (Eric McElroy) Sandy Small of Markethill - a County Armagh merchant (G B G McConnell) Collecting Postcards (Des Quaill) Letter from Hannah Dawson to her niece Heather An Architectural and Historical occasion (Wilfrid Cooper) The Early Tied Worker (G Robinson).

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 8.00

Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Volume 6 Number 3, 1992-1993.

S J W Cooper and G E McElroy (Editors).

Craigavon: Craigavon Historical Society, 1993. 54 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include: Parish of Drumcree (John A Pickering) Lynastown - A Seventeenth Century Quaker Burial Ground (Philip B Wilson) These I have loved (Emily Hunter) Preview of Lurgan Town Trail Keeping in touch with the Family (Eric McElroy) Farm Life and Farming before the Second World War (G Robinson) The Brackagh Moss Accident (Des Fitzgerald) Childhood Memories of Portadown in the Mid 1920s (S C Lutton) Lurgan College Register 1873-99 (Ian Wilson) Wartime Memories (P Smyth) Churchill - Home of the Verners (John Kerr).

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 8.00

Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Volume 6 Number 2, 1990-1991.

S J W Cooper and K Clendinning (Editors).

Craigavon: Craigavon Historical Society, 1991. 40 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include: Portadown Port (George Robinson) Robbing the Wild Bees' Nests (Alfie Tallon) Industry in the Upper Bann Valley (Samuel C Lutton) Problems for Railway Transport 60 years ago (A G Sleator) The Royal Organ of Windsor (Elaine McClure) Tullylish - Its Celtic Origins (M P Campbell) Fairs and Markets in Portadown in the 1850s (Joe Canning) History of Seagoe Parish (David Riley) Some People from Seagoe (Joan Duquette and Joan McKay) County Armagh Travels of a Methodist Preacher (Kieran Clendenning) A Layman defends John Rocque (Jack Redmond).

USED. Telephone number written on edge of front cover, else a very good copy

Price: £ 7.00

Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Volume 6 Number 1, 1988-1989.

S J W Cooper and K Clendinning (Editors).

Craigavon: Craigavon Historical Society, 1989. 52 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Contents include: The Newry Navigation - A Brief History The Hen's Bucket Cockhill, Parish of Tartaghan Lurgan Workhouse Memories of the Railway Steam Age Portadown Station Irish Connections Lurgan Free Library before Carnegie Lurgan 1693 Lurgan High School Register 1923.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 7.00

Armagh County Guide.

ANON.

Belfast: Nicholson and Bass, no date. 80 pages. Illustrated. Map. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 5.00

An Old Ulster House: Springhill and the People who lived in it.

Mina Lenox-Conyngham.

Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005. 249 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.

USED. A very good copy very good dustjacket

Price: £ 18.00

A History of Dunluce.

Hector McDonnell.

Belfast: Environment and Heritage Service, 2004. 84 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 10.00

Belfast: The Making of the City.

BECKETT, J. C. et al.

Belfast: Lagan Books, 2003. 191 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.

USED. Address stamp on flyleaf, else a very good copy in a very good dustjacket.

Price: £ 9.00

The Argory, County Armagh.

SHURMER, James (designed by).

London: The National Trust, 1984. 39 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

The Argory lies 9 miles west of Portadown off the B128, and approximately 4 miles east of Moy on the Derrycaw Road.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 3.00

Wonders of the Boyne Valley.

Kenneth MacGowan.

Dublin: Kamac Publications, 1971. Fourth Edition. 64 pages. Illustrated. Wraps.

Fourth Edition

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 3.00

A Rough Field: The Story of Garvaghy Parish, County Down.

MUSGRAVE, George & THOMPSON, Paul.

Select Vestry of Garvaghy Parish, no date. 98 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 6.00

Place-names of Northern Ireland, Volume 5, County Derry I, The Moyola Valley.

TONER, Gregory (Editor).

Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1996. xix, 283 pages. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 12.50

The Planters of Luggacurran, County Laois: A Protestant Community, 1879-1927.

COFFEY, Leigh-Ann.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 72 pages. Paperback.

(Maynooth Studies in Local History Number 68)

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 4.00

Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh: Life on a west Ulster estate, 1750-1800.

BUSTEED, Mervyn.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 64 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

(Maynooth Studies in Local History Number 69)

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 4.00

Tales of the Anvil: The Forges and Blacksmiths of Wexford

DOYLE, Eamon

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2008. 160 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 7.25

The Diocese of Meath under Bishop John Cantwell,1830-1866.

CONNELL, Paul.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. xii, 285 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.

USED. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket.

Price: £ 16.00

My Wexford.

Nicky Rossiter

Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2007. 156 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

USED. A very good copy

Price: £ 5.00

 

 

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