Dublin: The Black Cat Press, (1992). Hardcover first edition - The first publication of Beckett's first novel, written in Paris in 1932, and unpublished for 60 years (it was originally rejected by several publishers, and would never have been able to get past the Irish Censorship Board.) Introduction by Eoin O'Brien in which he discusses the history of this works, his conversations with Beckett about it, etc. xvii, 241 pp. ISBN: 0-948050098.

New York: The Century Company, (1924). Hardcover first edition - An historical novel by this American-born Irish novelist set in the west of Ireland, and based on the life of the Irish poet Antoine Raftery (1779-1835). The basis of the 1957 BBC television opera. Illustrated by John Richard Flanagan with a frontispiece and 3 interior plates. 175 pp.

New York: Routledge, (1999). SIGNED first edition - From Kirkus Reviews: "A chilling, stomach-turning study of Northern Ireland's infamous Shankill Butchers, a Loyalist gang of murderers who preyed on Belfast's Catholic population" by investigative journalist Dillon. SIGNED on the half title page. Index. xxii, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-415-922313.

New York: Norton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - New York born author's idiosyncratic look at his adopted homeland - illustrated with double page, black and white photographs by Patrick Prendergast. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-393027600.

Dublin: National Library of Ireland, (1986). First edition - The first in a planned series of color booklets, this includes 30 pages of photographs, in both black and white and full color, drawings, and reproductions, accompanied by the text which describes history of representations of the Irish, from ancient stone carving through anti-Irish caricatures and modern paintings and photographs. Bibliography. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-907328121.

Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland: Ardmore Pottery Shop, (2000). SIGNED first edition - A combination of local history, traditions with a dash of humor, by a woman born in Ardmore in 1919 and who lived there all her life. Ardmore is a small seaside village o the south coast of Ireland, with a history going back to at least the 5th century. SIGNED on the title page. Foreword by Fergal Keane. Illustrated with photographs, some in full color. Double page hand-drawn map. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-953890309.

Dublin: The O'Brien Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover - An easily understood version, written for both children and adults, of the most famous Irish legend. Tells of the army of Queen Maeve, of her greed, and of the great battle between the warrior Cuchulainn and his friend, Ferdia. Illustrations by Donald Teskey. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-86278-204-X.

New York: Dial Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this Irish writer and playwright (his first novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), one in which he "returns to the emotionally dense landscape of small-town Ireland to explore the inner lives of two men: a headmaster and a schoolteacher, each man the product of a soul-stifling culture, each battling his own demons of loss and betrayal. " 286 pp. ISBN: 0-385-314205.

New York: Birch Lane Press/Carol Publishing, (1990) dj. Hardcover - Irish author's second book (and first novel) originally published in 1932. 398 pp. ISBN: 1-559720417.

New York: George H. Doran, (1921) dj. Hardcover first edition - A romantic novel by this prolific Irish writer who was one of the founding members. along with Dorothy Sayers and Chesterton, of The Detective Writers Club. An attractive little Irish girl is carried off to a new way of life by a very worldly English gentleman. "The quaint life of an Irish village, the glittering unreality of an unskilled girl alone in London who endures the tyranny of domestic service and the injustice of the courts rather than yield one jot of her integrity, and the true love that she wins out of circumstances which would have ended everything for a less valiant soul." 301 pp.

Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 2002. First edition - Roy, an authority on Irish history, escorts a disparate group of Americans through the backwaters of ancient Ireland.

Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Roy, an authority on Irish history, escorts a disparate group of Americans through the backwaters of ancient Ireland. Illustrated with photographs. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-81333909x.

London: The Folio Society, 1984. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 18 stories from the three original volumes of the Irish R.M. (resident magistrate) tales, originally published in 1899, 1908 and 1915, by these two women writers whose collaboration continued after the death of Violet Martin ("Martin Ross"") through the use of a medium. Selected and with an introduction by John O'Donovan. Over 32 illustrations by Paul Cox. pp. xvii 267 pp.

Dublin: University College, (1998). First edition - A collection of 16 essays, "each and all marked by a vast knowledge of Ireland and its writers, by penetrating insights, and perceptive analysis." They reveal "how Anglo-Irish writers founded modern Irish literature in English, identifying themselves with their native country and its people. Yet they often felt themselves surrounded and watched by an 'Unappeasable Host,' a population that resented them." Among the topics and authors covered are the colonial novel and works by Maria Edgeworth, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, Synge, James Joyce, and Elizabeth Bowen among others. Bibliography, index, 380 pp. ISBN: 1-90062107X.