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 | O’DWYER, Sir Michael. The History of the O’Dwyers. (Signed first edition from the author) Originally published as The O’Dwyers of Kilnamanagh. The History of an Irish Sept. Preface and biographical profile by Tom O’Dwyer. With illustrations and maps. London: Murray, 1933. First edition. Octavo. pp. vii, 360. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy, inscribed from… €385.00 |
 | ROSS-LEWIN, R.S.S. Poems by a County Clare West Briton. Limerick: George McKern & Sons, 1907. Octavo. pp. 94. Green cloth boards, titled in black. Some toning, otherwise a very good copy. The Ven Richard Sargint Sadler Ross-Lewin (1848-1922) was an Irish Anglican priest and poet. He was Archdeacon of Limerick from 1919 to 1921. Originally from County Clare, Ross-Lewin… €125.00 |
 | O’SULLIVAN, Florence. The History of Kinsale. With illustrations and folding maps. Dublin: James Duffy & Co., 1916. Octavo. pp. [x], 240. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner’s signature in pencil. A very good copy. Scarce first edition. Contents: Early Tribulations – The Building of the Town Walls; The Trade of the Colonists-England’s Jealousy of the Colonists’ Trade – Repression and… €185.00 |
 | LESLIE, Rev. James B. History of Kilsaran Union of Parishes in the County of Louth. Being a history of the parishes of Kilsaran, Gernonstown, Stabannon, Manfieldstown and Dromiskin. With many particulars relating to the parishes of Richardstown, Dromin and Darver. Comprising a large section of mid-Louth. With five maps (two coloured) and forty two illustrations. Dundalk: William Tempest, 1908. First edition. Octavo. pp. xvi, 9-350. Red cloth, titled in gilt. A fine copy of this scarce local history… €285.00 |
 | ORPEN, Goddard Henry. The Orpen Family. Being an account of the life and writings of Richard Orpen of Killowen, County Kerry, together with some researches into his forbears in England and brief notices of the various branches of the Orpen family descended from him. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION With illustrations and genealogical charts. London: Butler & Tanner, 1930. Octavo. pp. 205. Green buckram, titled in gilt. Ex libris Irish Central Library, with neat circular stamps and label. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. Jisc locates 6 copies only. Burke describes the Orpen family as… €325.00 |
 | WOOD-MARTIN, W.G. Sligo and the Enniskilleners from 1688-1691. With folding map of the Town and Fortifications of Sligo, 1689. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co., 104 Grafton Street, 1880. First edition. pp. ix, [1], 188. Green cloth over bevelled boards, titled in gilt. Bookplate of the Library of Governor General’s Horse Guards Officers Mess on front endpaper. Previous owner’s signature. Tape removed from corner of upper cover. All edges red… €275.00 |
 | The Irish Fiants of the Tudor Sovereigns 1521-1603. Four volumes [LIMITED IEITION] Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1994. Large octavo. Bound in full red buckram, titled in gilt on spine. Limited to 300 sets only for sale. In slipcase. In very good condition. The Irish Fiants of the Tudor Sovereigns, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Philip and Mary, Elizabeth… €875.00 |
 | O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland. Edited, appendices etc, by W.K. Sullivan. A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREAT CELTIC SCHOLARS With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, 1996. Demy octavo. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper covers. Head… €275.00 |
 | YOUNG, Amy Isabel: Three Hundred Years in Innishowen. Being more particularly an account of the family of Young of Culdaff. With a foreword by David Dickson. Dublin: De Búrca, November 2018. 412 pages. Green buckram titled in gilt. €75.00 |
 | O’BRENNAN, Martin A. O’Brennan’s Antiquities. Volume I: A Defence of Ireland’s Ancient Enlightenment and Antiquity … Some Rules on the Irish Language … Reviews of Ancient Ireland and Saint Patrick … The Danish and Norman Invasions … The Reformation … The Confiscations by Elizabeth, James I, Cromwell and William III, The Struggles of Desmond, the… €325.00 |
 | O’HART, John. Irish Pedigrees; or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (First edition in fine bindings) Portrait frontispiece of the author. Two volumes. Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, 1887. Fifth edition. Octavo. pp. (1) xxxii, 912 (2) xxiii, 948, 22 [Opinions of the Press]. Bound in contemporary half green morocco over bevelled linen boards, spines with thick raised bands, titled in gilt. All edges gilt. From… €585.00 |
 | GALLWEY, Hubert. The Wall Family in Ireland 1170 – 1970 With maps, coloured armorial frontispiece, numerous illustrations and genealogical charts. Kildare: Leinster Leader, 1970. Royal octavo. pp. xxiv, 317. Blue papered cloth, titled in gilt. Fine copy in frayed dust jacket. In this work the Wall family is traced from a fief in Normandy. One of the first knightly families… €275.00 |
 | DONOVAN, Tom. The Knights of Glin. Seven Centuries of Change. Profusely illustrated. Glin: Historical Society, 2009. Royal quarto. pp. 463. Brown cloth, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy of this scholarly work in fine dust jacket. This lavishly illustrated chronicle of the FitzGerald family traces their origins from the Norman invasion to the present day. The Knights of Glin gained… €285.00 |
 | HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index. New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Royal octavo. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. The important Annals of Ulster compiled by Cathal Og Mac Maghnusa at Seanaidh Mac Maghnusa, now Belle Isle in Lough Erne, were so named by the noted ecclesiastic, Ussher, on account of their containing many chronicles relating… €295.00 |
 | HAYES-McCOY, Gerard A. Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland (1565-1603). An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. A CLASSIC OF THE GALLOGLAS FAMILIES With maps, illustrations and genealogies of the MacSweeneys, Clan Donald and the O’Neills of Tír Eoghain. With an introduction by Professor Eoin MacNeill. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Demy octavo. pp. xxi, 391. Superb facsimile reprint, bound in full… €45.00 |
 | KING, Jeremiah. County Kerry Past and Present. A Handbook to the Local and Family History of the County. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co., 1931. First edition. Contemporary half morocco on cloth boards, title and author in gilt direct on spine. Castle Hacket copy with bookplate on front pastedown. Interleaved. Top edge gilt. Minor foxing to endpapers, otherwise a fine copy. Very scarce. Incorporates King’s Irish-English Dictionary. It is… €175.00 |
 | KAVANAGH, Art. The Kavanaghs Kings of Leinster. Illustrated. Bunclody: Irish Family Names, 2003. pp. x, 308. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. Scarce. It is generally accepted that most of the Kavanaghs of modern times descended from Donal the illegitimate son of Diarmuid McMurrough. Donal was described as Caomhanach… €65.00 |
 | MacDERMOT, Betty. O Ruairc of Breifne. Photographs by Conor Mac Dermot. Illustrated with maps and genealogical charts. Leitrim: Drumlin Publications, 1990. Octavo. pp. viii, 224, xviii. Dark red arlen, title and armorial shield in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner’s signature on front endpaper. Slight fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. The Kingdom of West Breifne (Irish: Breifne Ua Ruairc) or Breifne O’Rourke was… €150.00 |
 | O’BRIEN, Ivar. O’Brien of Thomond. The O’Briens in Irish History 1500-1865. Illustrated. With map and genealogical charts. Chichester: Phillimore, 1986. Quarto. pp. xx, 266. Brown paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. With double page map, and 19 illustrations on 8 glossy paper stock plates. Six pages of O’Brien family tree genealogical charts. Contents: Struggle with… €85.00 |
 | IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. A remarkable album of 108 original topographical drawings in a bespoke volume of 29 folios, with all but three of the leaves at the back carrying one or two drawings; these have been stuck to each page or to a fly-sheet attached to the page, executed during an extended tour of Ireland in 1840. Forming an unpublished and highly important visual record of the country immediately prior to the Great Famine. Oblong quarto. Half purple morocco on green linen boards, titled in gilt on matching morocco label to upper cover ‘SKETCHES / IN IRELAND / 1840’. The artist, likely connected to the Bourke family… €2,750.00 |
 | Mac CONAMHNA, Breandán. The Belderrig Curragh and its People. Curach Dhún Chaocháin agus a Muintir. Illustrated. First edition. [County Mayo]: published by the author, 2010. Large square quarto. pp. [i–viii], 139. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions and diagrams. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine; in the original green pictorial dust jacket. A fine, clean copy. The Belderrig currach was… €125.00 |
 | GUINNESS, Jonathan. Requiem for a Family Business London: Macmillan Publishers, 1997. First edition. .pp. vii, 390. Publisher’s black cloth boards, gilt title to spine, in original illustrated dust-jacket with harp device. A very good copy. A revealing insider account of the transformation—and ultimate loss of control—of the historic Guinness brewing empire by a member of the founding… €45.00 |
 | Guinness, Michele. The Guinness Legend: The Changing Fortunes of a Great Family. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989. First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the original illustrated dust jacket featuring a portrait of Arthur Guinness. Illustrated with photographic plates and genealogical tables. pp. xvi, 329. Index and family trees. Very good in very good dust jacket. An engaging… €75.00 |
 | FAIRALL, Nick & HUGHES, David. The Guide to Guinness Collectables (Signed by the Author) Dublin: Liberties Press, 2008. First edition. Oblong 4to. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour. Publisher’s pictorial laminated boards. A fine copy. Inscribed by the co-author. This copy is warmly inscribed by David Hughes on the front free endpaper: “Best regards – David Hughes, 2022.” A comprehensive and highly illustrated reference work… €195.00 |
 | YENNE, Bill. Guinness: The 250-Year Quest for the Perfect Pint. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. First edition. .pp xiii, 241. Illustrated. Publisher’s black cloth boards, gilt title to spine, in original illustrated dust-jacket depicting a pint of Guinness with harp device. A fine copy. A lively and well-illustrated history of the famous Dublin brewery founded by Arthur… €25.00 |
 | FENTON, James [Séamus Dubh]. Amhráin Thomáis Ruaidh .i. The Songs of Tomás Ruadh O’Sullivan. The Iveragh Poet (1785-1848). Collected and edited by Séamus Dubh (James Fenton). Dublin: M.H. Gill, n.d. [1914]. Crown octavo. pp. 112. First edition. Green buckram, lettered in gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce. Jisc Library Hub locates 5 copies only. “The editor and collector of these poems is to be congratulated on his rescue of another Kerry poet from oblivion. His… €225.00 |
 | MacGIVNEY, Rev. Joseph. Place-Names of the County Longford. Collected from various sources. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English. With notes and illustrations. Dublin: Duffy, 1908. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. xxvii, 224. Green pictorial cloth. Title printed in red. Some margins cut along foredge (not affecting text). Very good. Rare. Rev. Joseph McGivney (1863-1958) was born in the townland of Cornee, near Mohill in County Leitrim. He entered… €285.00 |
 | HICKSON, Mary Agnes. Selections from Old Kerry Records, Historical and Genealogical. With introductory memoir, notes, and appendix. London, Watson, 1872. Crown octavo. pp. viii, 337. Professionally rebound in buckram with original cloth laid on. Previous owners’ signature on title. A very good copy. Extremely rare. JISC locates 3 copies only. Mary Agnes Hickson (1826-99), antiquarian, was born in County Kerry, possibly… €585.00 |
 | JOYCE, P.W. Irish Local Names Explained. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill; London, Whittaker; Simpkin, Marshall; Edinburgh, John Menzies, [1884]. Third edition. pp. [iii], 107. Original green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt surrounding a gilt motif of a Celtic scene. Ex libris with neat stamp. All edges red. A near fine rebacked copy. Scarce. [CAT 163] €75.00 |
 | O’FLANAGAN, J.R. The Blackwater in Munster. With illustrations and maps (one large folding). List of subscribers. London: Jeremiah How, 1844. First edition. Medium octavo. pp. viii, 176. Contemporary half green morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco label on gilt decorated spine. From the library of William Caulfield. Inoffensive old water stain. A good copy. Very scarce. [CAT 163] €175.00 |
 | CROSS, Eric. The Tailor and Ansty (CROSS FAMILY COPY OF BANNED BOOK) With an introduction by Frank O’Connor. Frontispiece. London: Chapman & Hall, 1942. Demy octavo. First edition, first printing. pp. 203. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Occasional spotting and light handling internally. In original unclipped dust jacket, somewhat age-toned with minor wear. An exceptional associative copy, enhanced with unique… €1,250.00 |
![IRISH GENEALOGY. THE GREAT BOOK OF IRISH GENEALOGIES. [GENERAL EDITION] €635 (New Price with 15% Podcast Discount is €540)](https://www.deburcararebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Genealogies-Ordinary-web-1.jpg "THE GREAT BOOK OF IRISH GENEALOGIES. [GENERAL EDITION]") | THE GREAT BOOK OF IRISH GENEALOGIES. [GENERAL EDITION] MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach. – Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. Quarto. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. In presentation box. The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo, compiled his monumental Great Book… €635.00 |
 | DEVELIN, Joseph Chubb. The O’Develins of Tyrone. The Story of an Irish Sept. Now represented by the families of Devlin, Develin, Develyn, Develon and Devellen. With coloured armorial frontispiece, and maps on endpapers. Vermont: Tuttle, 1938. Octavo. First edition. pp. 137. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Label of Greene’s Booksellers on front pastedown. A very good copy. The… €375.00 |
 | DONOVAN, Daniel. Sketches in Carbery, County Cork. Its Antiquities, History, Legends, and Topography. Cork: Tower Books, 1979. Crown octavo. Foolscap octavo. pp. ix, [5], 244. Green papered boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. Very scarce. With chapters on: Carbery, its Ancient History; The Old Milesian Families – Mac Carthy Reagh; Baltimore – Migration of the O’Driscolls… €225.00 |
 | GAUGHAN, J. Anthony. The Synan Family. Illustrated. Dublin: Kamac Publications, 1972. First edition. Octavo. pp. 71. Stiff pictorial wrappers. From the library of Callaghan O’Callaghan with his decorative bookplate. A very good copy. The Synan’s were castle builders in the South of Ireland, between Cork City and Limerick City. The Synan family was known to have… €125.00 |
 | MacCARTHY, Samuel Trant. A MacCarthys Miscellany. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1928. Demy octavo. pp. 64. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Scarce Contents: The Blessed Thaddeus MacCarthy; Segerson or Sigerson; Cahirciveen Races in 1829; Murder of a Kerry Magistrate, 1812; List of Kerry Magistrates, 1796; MacCarthy Wills; The Slught Cormacs of Dunguil; St. Germain-en-Laye… €175.00 |
 | JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Three volumes. 158 Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Octavo. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Green gilt decorated cloth. A fine set in slipcase. This scholarly edition is enhanced with a new introductory essay on the life of that noted scholar from County Limerick, P.W. Joyce by… €285.00 |
 | CROMORE HOUSE VALUATION. Inventory & Valuation of Furniture, Linen, Silver, Sheffield Plate, Plated Items, Ornamental Items, Books, Decorative China, Pictures, Jewellery, Sporting and Household Equipment at Cromore, Portstewart, Co. Londonderry. The property of R.A.C. Montagu Esq., J.P. Taken for the purposes of Insurance. London: Waring & Gillow Ltd., October 1913 – January 1914. Folio. pp. 81. Typed on one side only. Bound in contemporary full straight-grained green morocco, title lettered in gilt on upper cover. All edges gilt. Gillows Valuers… €1,650.00 |
 | COLE, Rev. Richard Lee. The Cole Family of West Carbery. With map, genealogies and typescript addenda. Belfast: Bell & Logan, 1943. Royal octavo. pp. 24. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt. Newspaper clipping on rear endpaper. A very good copy. Very rare. JISC locates 3 copies only – BL, TCD & Society of Genealogists. A long-established Church of Ireland family resident across the barony during the eighteenth… €275.00 |
 | SWANZY, Henry Biddall. The Family of Nixon, of Nixon Hall, County Fermanagh, and Nixon Lodge, County Cavan. By A Descendant, H.B. Swanzy. Dublin: Published for Private Circulation only by Alex Thom, 1898. Quarto. pp. 28. Stiff printed wrappers. Light foxing to covers, otherwise a fine copy. Extremely rare. No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. The contents includes notices of: The Mullaghduff, Nixon Hall, Nixon Lodge, Brinsley and Eccles Nixon branches of… €375.00 |
 | LUCKOMBE, Philip. A Tour through Ireland; wherein the Present State of the Kingdom is considered; and the most noted Cities, Towns, Seats, Buildings, Loughs, &c. described. Interspersed with Observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Curiosities, and Natural History of that Country. To which is prefixed a General Description of the Kingdom; with the distances between the ports, &c. on the coast of Great-Britain, and those on that of Ireland. Dublin: Printed by J. and R. Byrn, Sycamore-Alley, For Messrs. Whitestone, Sleater, Sheppard, Wilson, Spotswood, Beatty, White, Wogan, Perrin, and Byrne, 1780. 12mo. pp. xxiv, 362, 17 (index). Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Paper repair to titlepage. Previous owners’ signatures… €675.00 |
 | ORPEN, Goddard Henry. Ireland Under the Normans, 1169-1216. Four volumes. With maps and genealogical tables of the De Burghs (Burkes/Bourkes), FitzGeralds of Desmond, Fitzmaurice of Lixnaw, Carews, Somerled, MacCarthys. AT THE CREEK OF BAGINBUN IRELAND WAS LOST AND WON Oxford: Clarendon, 1911/20. Green cloth, title in gilt. Previous owners signatures and stamp on front free endpapers and half… €675.00 |
 | GRUBB, Sarah. Some Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb. With an Appendix containing an Account of Ackworth School, Observations on Christian Discipline, and Extracts from many of her Letters. Dublin: R. Jackson, No. 20, Meath-Street, 1792. 12mo. pp. 435. Modern full sprinkled calf gilt. Signature of John Gardner on front endpaper, dated 1793, with later signature of Geo. D. Parrish. A very good copy. Rare. Edited by and sometimes attributed to Lindley Murray. Sarah Grubb, 1756-1790, was born at… €265.00 |
 | HILL, Rev. George. An Historical Account of the MacDonnells of Antrim: including Notices of some other Septs, Irish and Scottish. Introduction by E.R.R. Green. Ballycastle: Impact Amergin, 1978. Second edition. Quarto. pp. [vii], [2], ii, [1], 510. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. This is a comprehensive history of the MacDonnells of Antrim tracing their descent from the Scottish clan of Argyle, whose chief was known as ‘Lord of the Isles’… €125.00 |
 | RONAYNE, Charles O’L. History of the Earls of Desmond and Earl of Cork and Sir Walter Raleigh in Munster and a History and Guide to the Religious and Collegiate Foundations in Youghal. London and Belfast: M’Caw, Stevenson & Orr, 1929. pp.144. Green cloth. Title in gilt within gilt ruled border on upper cover and gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce [] €375.00 |
 | SIMINGTON, Robert C. Books of Survey and Distribution, County of Clare. Being abstracts of various surveys and instruments of title 1636-1703. With map. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1962. Oblong quarto. pp. xii, xlviii, 609. Recent red buckram, titled in gilt. A fine copy. [L3 Over Arch] €275.00 |
 | SIMINGTON, Robert C. Books of Survey and Distribution, County of Galway. Being Abstracts of Various Surveys and Instruments of Title, 1636-1703. With maps. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1962. Oblong quarto. pp. lxvii, 357. Red buckram, title in gilt. A fine copy. [L3 Over Arch] €225.00 |
 | SIMINGTON, Robert C. Books of Survey and Distribution, County of Roscommon. Being Abstracts of Various Surveys and Instruments of Title, 1636-1703. With maps. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1949. Oblong quarto. pp. lix, 181. Red cloth, titled in gilt. A fine copy. The Books of Survey and Distribution were compiled around 1680 as the result of the wars of the mid-seventeenth century after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, when the English government… €225.00 |
 | Burke’s Irish Family Records. With a preface by the editor, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd. London: Burke’s Peerage, 1976. Royal octavo. pp. xxxii, 1237. Red buckram gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. Though by necessity the title has been changed, this volume is a worthy successor to the past four editions of Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland, which first appeared in 1899. This was followed… €425.00 |
 | STERLING FAMILY. The Sterlings of Stirlingshire, Ireland and London 1500-1935. With the relative tables of the Coninghams of Co. Derry and of the Bartons of Co. Fermanagh and Bordeaux. To which are appended some Portraits and Biographical Notes, and Genealogies. Edited by W.H.W. LIMITED TO 20 NUMBERED COPIES ONLY London: Privately printed at The Curwen Press, 1935. Quarto. pp. 77. Green buckram, titled in gilt. Edition limited to twenty copies [No. 3]. For Miss Susan Sterling in red ink on limitation page. Some wear to extremities. A very good copy. Extremely rare. The portraits are actual photographs tipped in… €585.00 |