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

Happy May Day! We are open this Sunday 3rd May, 12.00pm - 5.00pmHave a wonderful Bank Holiday.📚📖
01/05/2026

Happy May Day!
We are open this Sunday 3rd May, 12.00pm - 5.00pm
Have a wonderful Bank Holiday.📚📖

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/literature/the-tower-first-edition-1928-3/ Just Catalogued: The Tower by W.B. Yeats. Fir...
30/04/2026

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/literature/the-tower-first-edition-1928-3/ Just Catalogued: The Tower by W.B. Yeats. First Edition, London: Macmillan, 1928.

The Tower. London: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. Pp, 110, uncut & unopened. Olive green cloth, designed in gilt by Sturge Moore, depicting 'The Tower' of Ballylee, Co. Galway. Light shelf-wear to boards, heavy off-setting from paper image of Yeats pasted verso endpaper, otherwise a good copy. Yeat...

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/literature/life-in-the-west-of-ireland-first-edition-1912-2/ Just Catalogued: Life in The...
30/04/2026

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/literature/life-in-the-west-of-ireland-first-edition-1912-2/ Just Catalogued: Life in The West of Ireland. Drawn and Painted by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1912. First Edition.

Life in The West of Ireland. Drawn and Painted by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1912. First Edition. Pp 111. Rebound by Museum Book Bindings, in polished blue morocco, gilt title and illustration to upper board. Covers lightly faded, scattered foxing to the margins of a few of the pages at r...

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/literature/poems-and-a-memoir-limited-signed-edition-1982-2/ just catalogued: Poems and a...
30/04/2026

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/literature/poems-and-a-memoir-limited-signed-edition-1982-2/ just catalogued: Poems and a Memoir by Seamus Heaney, Signed Limited Edition.

Poems And A Memoir. With illustrations by Henry Pearson & Introduction by Thomas Flannagan. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Bound in full dark brown aniline top grain leather with top edge gilt. Spine faded as usual, otherwise a fine bright copy. Housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Limi...

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/history/persecutions-of-irish-catholics-1884/ Just Catalogued:
27/04/2026

https://www.rarebooks.ie/books/history/persecutions-of-irish-catholics-1884/ Just Catalogued:

Historical Sketch of the Persecutions Suffered by the Catholics of Ireland. Under the Rule of Cromwell and the Puritans. By Rev. Patrick Francis Moran. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1884. First Edition. Pp 480. Publisher's buff cloth boards, decorated in gilt with lettering in gilt & black. Light fading to boa...

Just Catalogued:
27/04/2026

Just Catalogued:

The War of the Worlds. London: William Heinemann, 1898. First Edition, First Issue. Pp viii, 303, 16 pages of advertisements to rear; untrimmed edges. Publisher's grey cloth, titles stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, edges untrimmed with white endpapers. A nice br...

Today is the Centenary of J.P Donleavy's birth. 23rd April 1926. We have a first edition of his most famous work, The Gi...
23/04/2026

Today is the Centenary of J.P Donleavy's birth. 23rd April 1926. We have a first edition of his most famous work, The Ginger Man, published in Paris, by The Olympia Press, 1955.

22nd April 1988 - 22nd April 2026. Celebrating 38 years on Duke Street today. Thank you to all our customers who teach u...
22/04/2026

22nd April 1988 - 22nd April 2026. Celebrating 38 years on Duke Street today. Thank you to all our customers who teach us something new everyday and keep us smiling. Hope you keep visiting....🥰

Had the lovely Sandi Tokvig in doing some filming today. It was a real treat to meet and chat with her! Keep an eye out ...
15/04/2026

Had the lovely Sandi Tokvig in doing some filming today. It was a real treat to meet and chat with her! Keep an eye out for her Irish travel series coming out in Autumn on Chanel 4.

04/04/2026

Wishing all our customers a Happy Easter.

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10 Duke Street
Dublin
DUBLIN2

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

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