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 |
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Beara
Compiled by Gerdie Harrington
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Beara
Down Memory Lane
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Gerdie Harrington
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Beara's Historical Past vol 2
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The Last Chietain
of Gaelic Ireland
The true story of Donal O'Sullivan Bear
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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
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Memories of an Irish Country Childhood
book by John Dwyer growing up on a farm near Eyeries
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Adrigole
..the Jewel on the Ring
Available at:
Ardgroom Post Office
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Beara
The Unexplored Peninsula
Available in outlets throughout the peninsula
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The Berehaven Copper Mines
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A Social & Economic History of Bere Island 1900-1920
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Discover Dursey
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The Gaelic Lordship
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"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
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'The Natural History of Ireland' by Philip O'Sullivan Beare (c1590-1660)
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Bantry Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept.
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Hungry Hill
Daphne du Maurier
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"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 |
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'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
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A Doctor's War
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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
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'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
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'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 |
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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 |
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Tuosist Newsletter
Available in Ardea Post Office
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The Eyeries Newsletter
Available in:
Eyeries Post Office
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