Search Results: Authors starting with O from Coolim Books

Staplebound paperback - 1992 - 50 pages - very good condition. Thirteen articles about the town of Macroom.

Staplebound paperback - 1990 - 60 pages - very good condition. Fifteen articles about the town of Macroom.

Staplebound paperback - 1992 - 24 pages - very good condition. The story of the Penn family of Macroom, Midleton and Pennsylvania.

Used Hardcover - 1971 - 237 pages - ex-Library copy - Fair condition. Dust jacket has edgewear and some tears, but is intact. Cover is very good, gold print on spine is bright. Internal pages show some signs of age and there are a couple of library stamps in the early pages, otherwise free of marks or notes.

Used hardcover - 1946 - 204 pages - fair condition - first edition. Number of tears in dust jacket. Cover intact, but has marks and minor tears. Former owner's signature in ffep. Internally very clean, illustrated throughout with drawings by Brigid Ganly RHA.

Hardcover – 1950 – Mariners Library Edition – Good Condition. Some light spotting on cover, but sound and in overall good condition – no dusk jacket. Internal pages are free of any notes of marks. Irish sailor Conor O'Brien's account of his three yachts; the Kelpie which was used for gun-running, the Saoirse on which he circumnavigated the globe, and the Ilen which was built for use in the Falkland Islands.

Hardback - 1931 - 2nd (Nautilus Library) Edition - 251 pages - some fading on the spine, otherwise cover in good condition, interior is very clean. Conor O'Brien account of his voyage around the world in his yacht Saoirse between 1923 and 1925.

Paperback - Good condition - 1991- 181 pages. In this book the author explores the rich archaeological heritage of the Beara peninsula in West Cork.

Staple bound booklet – 100 pages – very good condition. This history of Bandon in west Cork was published in 1970 as part of the Cork Historical Guides series. It contains a number of black and white images and a section on famous Bandonians. This a small format booklet (11 cm x 17.5 cm).

As new, unread copy, 107 pages, staple bound paperback. This work on the O'Donovan family includes articles on the history of the clan and a number of articles about well-known O'Donovans, such the antiquarian Dr John O'Donovan and the Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa.

Volume 7 of Rosscarbery Past & Present, with numerous articles from Rosscarbery and the wider West Cork region.

Volume 5 of Rosscarbery Past & Present, with 25 articles from Rosscarbery and the wider West Cork region.

Volume 6 of Rosscarbery Past & Present, with numerous articles from Rosscarbery and the wider West Cork region.

Volume 4 of Rosscarbery Past & Present, with 21 articles from Rosscarbery and the wider West Cork region.

Biography of Fr. James Doheny who was Parish Priest of Dunmanway, Co. Cork from 1818 to 1848. This era covered the Tithes War, the growth of the temperance movement, Catholic Emancipation, the setting up of the Poor Law workhouses, and the Great Famine.

Volume 3 of Rosscarbery Past & Present, with 25 articles from Rosscarbery and the wider West Cork region.

Used – Very Good – 2013 – Hardcover - 212 pages – previous owner's signature on front free end paper. Using postcards from private collections this book portrays the city and county of Cork through a century of Irish and European picture postcards (1900 - 2000). In addition to the postcards there are transcriptions of all the written details on the cards. Interspersed among these are extracts from the rich literary heritage of this part of southwest Ireland: William Trevor, Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O'Faolain, Peter Somerville-Large, Mary Leland, and others.

Used – Very Good – 1979 – 22 pages. Short book about Mother Kevin Kearney. She was born Mary Teresa Kearney near Arklow, Co. Wicklow in 1875 and spend most of her life working in Uganda.

Paperback - 2015 - As New, unread condition - 320 pages. This richly illustrated book helps the reader explore and understand the thousands of medieval buildings dotting the Irish landscape.

Clonakilty: Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage, 2017. Paperback. New. Volume 2 (2017) of the Clonakilty Historical & Archaeological Journal. It contains 15 articles on diverse topics, including the churches of Clonakilty, the Fenian John Warren, reflection on the Great War, origins of the local Poor Law Union and much more.