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Ireland 'The Dublin Metropolitan Police (1836-1925)
A Short History & Genealogical Guide' Jim Herlihy.
An excellent reference work on this Irish police force with notes on medal awards & casualties, lists of members connected with the London
Metropolitan police, the Irish revenue police, The Royal Irish Constabulary
(RIC) & The British Army.The book is nicely illustrated with DMP badges, medals, uniforms & original police photographs.The book is in softback
format with 264 pages. This is a MINT unused New book.
Appart from its general content, the genealogical worth of this book is in its
no less than seventeen (17) pages of ex members of the DMP, Royal Irish Constabulary, Army etc
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'The Bulkies' The Belfast Borough Police - Police & Crime in Belfast 1800 - 1865.
Scarce Reference work on this force written by Brian Griffin. - Belfast Riots etc.S/B edition published by The Irish Academic Press, in association with The Irish Legal History Society. Dublin. 1998. 166 pp. NEW.Note this force as the author mentions in his introduction has been almost entirely overlooked by historians. Its worth also mentioning the individual items such as uniform parts, buttons, medals etc are never offered & are extremely RARE. An important reference work. Price £6.00 + £1 S/H
Scarce Police Reference Book
Republican Cobh & The East Cork Volunteers since 1913
The title of this book is Republican Cobh & the East Cork Volunteers since 1913 and it was written by Kieran McCarthy. This edition of Republican Cobh & the East Cork Volunteers since 1913 S/B format. published 2008. 416 pages, published by Nonsuch. ISBN is 1845889207 Chapters include The Capture of Cloyne RIC barracks, 'Serving notice on the RIC' etc. Also covers Republicanism up to the 1980s H-Block protests etc., VERY republican but interesting
reference.Price £7.00 + £1 S/H (Worldwide)
The ‘Battle of Tourmakeady’, as it became known, was one of the most famous episodes of the War of Independence, conferring legendary status on the leader of the IRA flying column, the late Commandant Tom Maguire. The incident occurred on May 3rd, 1921, when an RIC/Black and Tan patrol was ambushed by IRA volunteers in the village of Tourmakeady. Four policemen were killed in the attack with the IRA column taking to the nearby Partry Mountains in the aftermath....
Donal Buckley 2008 H/B ed NEW
Price £6.00 + £1 S/H (Worldwide)
Forgotten Soldiers, The Irishmen Shot at Dawn (World War I)
Award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker gives for the first time, a full account of how twenty-eight Irish men serving in British regiments met their deaths. Drawing upon war diaries, court-martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, he explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shellshock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad.
2008 edition, s/b 224pp.
Published by Gill & Macmillan
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The Road To The Somme' Ulster Division
1916 (WWI)
'Men of The Ulster Division Tell Their Story' Philip Orr
The Road to the Somme traces the events that led up to the Somme, from the birth of the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1912 to the Ulster Division’s formation, training and journey to France. When the book was originally published, in 1987, in just ten days at the Somme in September 1916 the16th Division lost over half of its 11,000 men, both protestant & catholic. Note: There are also some R.I.C. references on pages 14, 25, 32 & 39.
2008 edition, s/b 337pp.
Published by Blackstaff Press, Belfast.
Price £8.00 + £1 S/H (Worldwide)
The Planters of Luggacurran, Co Laois (Queens County) 1879 - 1927
By Leigh-Ann Coffey
Published by Four Courts Press, Dublin 2006 edition. 72pp. Well written balanced historical reference on the Irish land wars of the 1880s in what was then Queens county Contains RIC references including descriptions of an eviction which involved 250 members of the force on the huge Lansdowne estate of over 9,000 acres + other police references including the RIC Inspector General's assesment (1918) of the methods used by militant activists in pursuit of land reford/aquisition . The evicted tennants commission, etc. An interesting insight into the difficulties of political land agitation & policing of the community .New slim S/B edition..
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Ireland's Generals in The Second World War'
ByRichard Doherty.
Published for Four Courts Press by MPG Books, Cornwall, 2004 edition. 250pp. This book looks at the wartime careers of nineteen Irishmen who reached general officer rank – from brigadier upward – and assesses their records. As well as the best-known (Alexander, Auchinleck and Montgomery), the author also reminds us about Britain's first successful general of the war, Richard O'Connor, and the commander of the UK's anti-aircraft defences, Tim Pile
H/B edition. with dj Brand new/unused. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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'The Irish Policeman 1822 - 1922 A Life' Elizabeth Malcolm
This book analyzes the working and domestic lives of the 85,000 men who served in the Irish police between 1822 and the disbandment of the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1922. It is constructed as a collective biography, tracing the lives and careers of policemen from birth to death.
The book draws upon a wide range of sources, some never used before. They include the results of the analysis of a random sample of 8,000 officers and men; unpublished police memoirs and other personal documents; and the letters of some 200 descendants of policemen. For over a century the Constabulary was the most powerful arm of British government in Ireland, yet after the Famine its members were overwhelmingly Catholic. The book considers how such men reconciled their Irish nationalism with their work for the British state and how their children and grandchildren dealt with being the descendants of policemen
Nicely illustrated with period photographs & reproduced engravings. 2006 ed, 266pp.
I am pleased to offer this scarce highly regarded volume on the Irish Constabulary. (It is offered on amazon by dealers from £51
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'The Royal Irish Constabulary, A short History & genealogical guide'
1999 edition Jim Herlihy.
I have a very good copy of this sought after book currently listed on ebay (pictured opposite) @ a discounted price of £25 (I have seen these selling elsewhere - when the come up for £40 upwards)
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Other Book Titles
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ocal interest
'Enright' Mark O'Sullivan (RIC)
Period historical novel of The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) set in 1921,the Irish War of Independence is drawing to a close. In a small Tipperary town
S/B edition published by The Blackstaff Press, Belfast 2005. 304 pp.
A Mint New Volume.
Price £4.00 + £1 S/H
Violence & Nationalist Politics in Derry 1920 - 1923 Ronan Gallagher 2003 Edition
Published by Four Courts Press, Dublin.
This is a new book, slim s/b 72 pp.Historical reference - with various mostly minor but interesting RIC entries (Also Ulster Special Constabulary - B Specials mentioned ). Mostly irish republican IRA history but a good insight into the conditions the RIC found themselves in, in their last two years before disbandment.
Price £4.50 + S/H @ £0.50
'Eoin O'Duffy' (1892-1944) - A Self Made Hero. Fearghal McGarry. Oxford University Press 2007.
'Eoin O'Duffy - A Self Made Hero'. Substantial work of reference by Fearghal McGarry, Published by the Oxford University Press. Brand New Book 442pp.
O'Duffy was chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army & second commissioner of the irish police - Garda Siochana from 1922 - 1933.
He became leader of fine gael 1933/4
& was a 1930s fascist
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'An Garda Siochana & The Scott Medal' (Irish Police) (Gerard O'Brien) 2008 Edition
This book details each of the incidents in respect of which members of An Garda Síochána were awarded the Scott Medal, a uniquely Irish gallantry decoration. Based on a range of published and unpublished sources, along with the personal recollections of still-serving Gardaí and including outline career details for each medal recipient, Hardcover edition with dust jacket.
This is a new BARGAIN book, 207 pp.Published by Four Courts Press.
Price £7 + S/H @ £1
'A Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fail'
Stories of Irishmen in WWI. Neil Richardson.
In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and
backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home.
Those that did were scarred for the rest of their lives. Many of these survivors
found themselves abandoned and ostracised by their countrymen, their voices seldom heard. The book includes: The Irish soldier firing the first shot
The first Victoria Cross Leading the way at Gallipoli and the Somme
A Beautiful Book nicely illustrated 363PP.
Price £9 SHIPPING £1.
ISBN-13 978-1-84717-131-3
Edward Comerford Books
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The Tenth (Irish) Division Gallipoli' Bryan Cooper
The 10th (Irish) Division, was one of the first of Kitchener's New Army K1 Army Group divisions (formed from Kitchener's 'first hundred thousand' new volunteers), authorized on 21 August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War. It included battalions from the various provinces of Ireland. It was led by Irish General Bryan Mahon and fought at Gallipoli,
Contains a list of Officers Killed, Wounded and Missing.
Names of Officers, NCOs and ORs Mentioned in Despatches.
Names of Officers, NCOs and ORs Awarded Honours
155 PP 2003 Edition By Irish Academic Press
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ISBN-0-7165-2517-8
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Images of Sarsfield Barracks (Limerick)Dennis Carroll, Michael Deegan, Stephen Kelly & William Sheehan 2008 Edition
Published by Nonsuch (Irish history Press) Dublin.
This is a Brand new book, S/B 116 pp.Beautifully illustrated throughout. Early images include personnel from the British army Manchester Regiment on the square 1894, RAMC medics in the barracks 1915. early plans for the building of the barracks plus later plans from 1868 & 1912. Plus numerous Irish military personnel throughout the early years of the new free state, The war of independence, the emergency period, the 1950s & 1960s etc, up to the present day 12th Battallion of the irish defence forces & much more.. A nice work of reference for those interested in irish military history.
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