Ulysses Rare Books

Ulysses Rare Books Ulysses Rare Books. Dublin's leading Antiquarian & Rare Bookshop. B.

Stepping into Ulysses Rare Books (formerly known as Cathach Books), an antiquarian bookshop in Dublin, where a friend on a recent trip through the city directed me, gives you a privileged literary perspective. Walking past shelves upon shelves of first editions, which eventually became seminal works, by authors such as W. Yeats, Flann O’Brien, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett, to name a few, is absolutely spellbinding. Ulysses Rare Books specialise in Irish literature, history, Children's classics and original maps, but the collection is not limited to great writers of yore; there are many contemporary works (also first editions) by authors such as Seamus Heaney and Roddy Doyle. It’s a family-run business, and atop the bookshelves is a charming mural running along the perimeter of the shop depicting writers and famous Dublin locales, including McDaids, a famous writers’ haunt and the setting for the opening of James Joyce’s story “Grace.”

From the New Yorker, February 2010

10/09/2026

Sandi's visit to our shop.

With the release of the movie 'Tony' about Anthony Bourdain. I thought our followers would be interested in watching 'T...
03/09/2026

With the release of the movie 'Tony' about Anthony Bourdain. I thought our followers would be interested in watching 'The Lay over Dublin, in which he paid us a visit, enjoy the episode and if you just want to watch his visiting the shop its from 12.40..... This was filmed July 2012...

In this episode of The Layover, Anthony Bourdain touches down in Du...

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02/09/2026

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Celtic Wonder Tales. Re-told by Ella Young. Illustrated and Decorations by Maud Gonne. Dublin: Maunsel, 1910. First Edition. Pp [viii], 201 Pp vii, 202. Dark blue cloth boards, Celtic lettering & design to upper cover in black, title in gilt to spine. Light shelf-wear & scuffing to boards, spine fad...

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02/09/2026

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The Earth Breath and other Poems. New York & London: John Lane, Sign of the Bodley Head, (1897). First Edition. Pp 94, uncut. Grey boards, title and illustration depicting trees in dark green to upper cover and spine. A nice bright copy. A.E.'s second book of verse, dedicated to W.B. Yeats. It was p...

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/uncategorised/51952/ Just Catalogued: The Tain by Thomas Kinsella, illustrated by Louis L...
19/08/2026

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/uncategorised/51952/ Just Catalogued: The Tain by Thomas Kinsella, illustrated by Louis Le Brocquy. Limited Edition, 1969,

The Tain. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish. With Brush Drawings by Louis Le Brocquy. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1969. First Edition, Limited Issue. Bound by P. Kavanagh and C. Moore, Museum Bookbindings, Dublin. Original decorative vellum with a design by Le Brocquy to covers. Light discolour...

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17/08/2026

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Dubliners. London: Grant Richards, 1914. First Edition. Rebound in contemporary maroon cloth & endpapers with title ‘Dubliners’ gilt stamped on spine. Covers lightly scuffed with a few pale stain marks to upper cover. Contents pages in nice clean condition throughout. THE FIRST EDITION OF JOYCE'...

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12/08/2026

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Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. With a Preface by George Saintsbury. London: George Allen, 1894. First Edition, First Issue. Octavo. pp. xxvii, [i], 476. Elegantly bound in the publisher's original sage-green cloth, ornately decorated in gilt to the spine and upper board with a mag...

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08/07/2026

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The Frenzied Prince. Being Heroic Stories of Ancient Ireland. Told by Padraic Colum and Illustrated by W***y Pogany. Philadelphia: McKay, 1943. First Edition. Pp, 196. Green cloth boards decorated in blind, title in gilt to upper cover, pictorial endpapers, in lightly chipped & toned illustrated dus...

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08/07/2026

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A Popular History of Witchcraft. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1937. First Edition. Pp xvi, 276. Yellow cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Boards a little dulled, head of jacket chipper, Ex libris blind stamp to endpaper; otherwise a nice bright copy. An updated, more accessible version of Summer'...

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10 Duke Street
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DUBLIN2

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Monday 10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10am - 5:30pm
Friday 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday 10am - 5:30pm

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