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Books and Publications on Beara

Books available from Eyeries Post Office, (which has a fine book selection) Ardgroom Post Office, Murphy's Supervalu, also during the Summer months at Don's Mountain Cabin at the Top of the Healy Pass, Spinning Wheel Glengarriff

Beara Book

Beara

Compiled by Gerdie Harrington

€14 + postage

Ireland 2.10
UK/Europe 4.50
USA/World 5

 

 

     
Beara

Beara

Down Memory Lane

by

Gerdie Harrington

€15 + postage

Ireland 6.50
UK/Europe 7.50
USA/World 10.75

 

 

     
Beara

Beara's Historical Past vol 2

€10 + postage

Ireland 2.10
UK/Europe 4.50
USA/World 5

 

     
Last Chietain  

The Last Chietain

of Gaelic Ireland

The true story of Donal O'Sullivan Bear

€15 + postage

Ireland 2.10
UK/Europe 4.50
USA/World 5

 

     
Beara Way book

The Beara Way Book, the perfect companion for the walker planning on following the famous trail around Beara. To order your copy and have it posted to you please click here. It is also on sale in all the best shops on the Beara Peninsula

€9.95 + postage

   
Kolondike House

Memories of an Irish Country Childhood

book by John Dwyer growing up on a farm near Eyeries

click here to order

   
Iverni

Iverni

A Prehistory of Cork

William O'Brien

Irish prehistory is often written as a single narrative, stitched together from site and artifact information that is often not well understood at local and regional level. There may have been no place named Cork in prehistory but the region did have its own identity and traditions. Today, Cork has one of Ireland’s richest archaeological landscapes, with thousands of recorded monuments and artifacts from the pre-Christian era

Available from The Collins Press

   
Beara Walks

A Walking Guide by Adrian Hendroff

The Dingle, Iveragh and Beara peninsulas dominate the spectacular landscape of southwest Ireland. Their rugged peaks, dramatic ridges, captivating valleys, glittering lakes and stunning Atlantic coastline form a treasure chest of walking options

Available from The Collins Press

   
Local Worlds

Local Worlds

The Beara Peninsula in counties Cork and Kerry is one of the richest archaeological landscapes in Ireland. Hundreds of prehistoric monuments have been recorded in that area, dating from the Bronze Age to medieval times. The hill valleys of the peninsula also contain an important landscape record of early farm settlement, where entire field patterns are preserved under the growth of blanket peat. This book is the first detailed study to be published on pre-bog fields and early farming in Ireland. It contains the results of new archaeological research for anyone interested in prehistoric and early medieval Ireland, and in the story of Irish farming and its impact on the environment over the past 4000 years. This is a story similar to that of the Ceide Fields in Mayo

 

This book is now out of print, but you might find a copy if you visit some of the bookshops listed at the top of the page

 

     
   
Adrigole

Adrigole

..the Jewel on the Ring

Available at:

Ardgroom Post Office

 

     
Beara

Beara

The Unexplored Peninsula

Available in outlets throughout the peninsula

 

     
Berehaven Mines

The Berehaven Copper Mines

 

     
Book on Bere Island

A Social & Economic History of Bere Island 1900-1920

 

     
Dursey

Discover Dursey

by Penelope Durell

 

     
     
The Gaelic Lordship

The Gaelic Lordship

 

     
Edge of Ireland

"Like H.V. Morton before him, Yeadon approaches Ireland with keen eye and ear, and most important, a great big heart.... He's one of the World's most beloved travel writers." - James O'Reilly, editor, Travelers' Tales of Ireland

 

     
Natural History

'The Natural History of Ireland' by Philip O'Sullivan Beare (c1590-1660)

 

     
Bantry Berehaven

Bantry Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept.

 

 

     
Hungry Hill

Hungry Hill

Daphne du Maurier

 

   
Bere Island Booklet "The Bere Island Experience Booklet to your books on Beara tab on your beara tourism website please?
The link to purchase the booklet is http://www.bookdepository.co.uk
   
John Eagle's new book

'Ireland's Lighthouses A Photo Essay by John Eagle'

published in May 2010 by Collins Press covers every lighthouse on the Beara Peninsula and all the others round the Irish coast.

also on sale in Limar on the Quay

or buy online click here

 

   
Doctors War

A Doctor's War
Aidan MacCarthy.

 

Introduction by Pete McCarthy

Researching McCarthy’s Bar Pete McCarthy entered MacCarthy’s Bar in Castletownbere, west Cork. While there Adrienne MacCarthy gave him a copy of her father’s wartime memoir. Pete found it ‘unputdownable’. An RAF medical officer, Aidan served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Far East. In 1944, en route to the Japanese mainland, his ship was torpedoed but a Japanese whaling boat picked him up and he was re-interned on the mainland. In Nagasaki his life was literally saved by the dropping of the atomic bomb and he was an eyewitness to the horror and devastation it caused. Finally, he cruised home on board the Queen Mary.

This book is now out of print, but you might find a copy if you visit some of the bookshops listed at the top of the page

 
An Eagle's View of Irish Lighthouses  

'An Eagle's View of Irish Lighthouses'

John Eagle's first book, covering 50 of the best lighthouses on the Irish coast. This is a first edition, mint condition (still in original box) it is out of print, each one signed by the author and in a short while sold out (If you would rather not have it signed then please say so when ordering)

€45 + postage

Magazine/Newpaper articles
     
Festival of the Sea 2008

'Castletownbere Festival of the Sea'

August 1st to 10th 2008

A variety of events from quizzes to rowing, music in the Square, golf, soccer and workshops, details in the above brochure which is also a local business directory with pictures by John Eagle

     
Go Magazine

Go Magazine did a feature on the Beara Way July 2008. Go is a supplement in the Irish Times

The feature was written by Mary Keaveney and Frank Murphy who spent 6 days on the south side of the peninsula

Newsletters
     
Tuosist

Tuosist Newsletter

Available in Ardea Post Office

€4

     
Eyeries

The Eyeries Newsletter

Available in:

Eyeries Post Office

and online at Beara Crafts