Coolim Books

09/12/2025

09/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of our new publication, The Fenian Movement by Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. The book is now on sale in the Kenmare Book-shop; Worm Books, Schull; Bridies (An Post), Ballydehob; Bantry Bookshop; the Skibbereen Heritage Centre; O’Donovan’s Bookshop, Skibbereen; Field’s Supervalu, Skibbereen; Kerr’s Bookshop, Clonakilty; Bandon Books Plus; Bookstór, Kinsale; Carrigaline Bookshop; Philips Bookshop, Mallow and at theBookshop.ie. More outlets are to follows and you can always buy it from our online store at https://tinyurl.com/FenianMovement.

07/12/2025

Remember that tomorrow Monday, 8 December, at 5pm in the Tanyard Bar, Skibbereen, I will launch Coolim Books' latest publication, The Fenian Movement by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. All are welcome.

05/12/2025

A big thank you to the Southern Star for featuring the upcoming launch of 'The Fenian Movement' by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, which occurs next Monday, 8 December at 5pm in the Tanyard Bar, Skibbereen

03/12/2025

These local journals have just arrived in the Coolim Books online store: Bandon Historical Journal No. 42 and Castlehaven & Myross History Journal Vol. 6. For all recent arrivals see https://tinyurl.com/CoolimRecent

01/12/2025

On Monday 8 December 2025 in the function room of the Tanyard Bar, Skibbereen at 5pm, Coolim Books is delighted to launch our latest publication: The Fenian Movement: An Account of its Origin, Progress and Temporary Collapse by Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915) was a well-known leader of the Fenian Movement. A prolific writer, in 1885 he penned eleven articles for the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper entitled ‘The Fenian Movement: An Account of its Origin, Progress and Temporary Collapse’. Those articles primarily dealt with his own involvement with the early Fenian Movement from its inception in 1858 to his arrest in 1865. For much of this period he was resident in the town of Skibbereen. It also covers the time he was employed by the Irish People newspaper in Dublin, when he travelled widely in Ireland and Britain promoting the Movement. They contain information not published in his other works, including poems that he wrote while in jail. For the first time ever, this book brings those eleven articles together into one volume, collated and edited by local historian William Casey. A modern Irish language version of O'Donovan's Rossa prison poem, Eire trasna ’n tSáile, is included, as are a small number of footnotes to explain certain events and individuals to the reader. Also, an index was added as a search aid.

Books will be on sale at the launch and all are welcome to attend.

24/11/2025

We are delighted to announce that Catherine Fleming’s book ‘From Rebel County to Ravensbrück Camp’ is now back in stock at https://tinyurl.com/SrKateMcCarthy. Numbers available are limited.

16/10/2025

The local journal article list at Coolim Books has been updated to include recent publications. Also, the publication list has been expanded to include a full run of the Kinsale Record and some volumes of the Canovee Historical Magazine and the Kinsale Historical Journal. That is a total of 3,048 articles for you to search through at https://coolimbooks.com/local-journals/

11/10/2025

We were saddened this week to hear of the death of the author Peter Somerville-Large. His West Cork roots were reflected in many of his books including the classic The Coast of West Cork. May he rest in peace.

05/10/2025

For the month of October, Coolim Books is holding a sale on a range of books. For details see https://tinyurl.com/CoolimBookSale.

26/09/2025

Rachel Finnegan’s books based on the memoirs of Judith Fleming Chavasse, give us a exceptional insight into Anglo-Irish society of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Copies of Rachel’s most recent book, ‘Memories of Gentry Houses in Skibbereen and Douglas, County Cork’, is now available from Coolim Books at

New paperback - 2025 - 209 pages. This book, by Rachel Finnegan, documents life in two gentry houses in County Cork from the 1860s to the early 1900s. It is told through the memoirs, written later in life, of three of the four Fleming sisters of New Court House near Skibbereen in West Cork. Item Wei...