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There was some discussion on IBN-L recently following the discovery that "Birds of Ireland" by Ussher & Warren (1900) is available as a download in Word format on the Waterford County Library site (8.4 MB). This prompted others to enquire about the availability of "Migration of Birds as Observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships" by Barrington also in 1900. While it appears that this is unavailable online and nearly so in the flesh (There were only 300/350 [I can't remember which is correct] copies produced and many of them were torn up for loo paper in some of the lighthouses [or so legend has it] - Eric Dempsey), it was an incentive to put this rough "work-in-progress" list of the principle Irish birding books on line - B.G. 03.2004

Irish Birding Books 1850 - 1990
The Natural History of the Birds of Ireland	John J. Watters	1852	Dublin & London
The Natural History of Ireland (vol 1-3)	William Thompson	1859	London
A list of Irish Birds	A.G.More	1885	Nat. Museum
A list of Irish Birds	A.G.More	1890	Nat. Museum
Birds of Ireland	R.J.Ussher & R.Warren	1900	London	€2956
Migration of Birds as Observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships	R.M.Barrington	1900	Dublin & London
A list of Irish Birds	R.J.Ussher	1908	Nat. Museum
A list of Irish Birds	A.R.Nichols	1924	Nat. Museum
A list of the Birds showing the species contained in the National Collection	G.R.Humphreys	1937	Nat. Museum
The way that I went	R.L.Praeger	1937	Methuen	€1901
Some Irish Naturalists	R.L.Praeger	1949	Dundalk
Natural History of Ireland	R.L.Praeger	1950	London	€228
An Irish Santuary - birds of the North Bull	P.G.Kennedy	1953	Dublin	$852
The Birds of Ireland	Kennedy, Ruttledge & C.F.Scroope	1954	London & Edinburgh
A list of the Birds of Ireland	P.G.Kennedy	1961	Nat. Museum	IR£253
Ireland's Birds. Their Distribution & Migrations	R.F.Ruttledge	1966	London	IR£1255
A Guide to Irish Birds	C. Moriarty	1967	Mercier Press
The Natural History of Cape Clear Island	J.T.R.Sharrock (ed)	1973
Breeding Birds of Britain & Ireland	J.Parslow	1973	Poyser
A list of the Birds of Ireland	R.F.Ruttledge	1975	Nat. Museum	€109
The Birds of Dublin & Wicklow	C.D.Hutchinson	1975	Dublin
Saltee Islands of Birds and Legends	R.Roche & O.Merne	1976	Dublin
The Atlas of the Breeding Birds in Britain & Ireland	J.T.R.Sharrock	1976		€277
Ireland's Wetlands & their Birds	C.D.Hutchinson	1979	Dublin
A list of the Birds of Ireland	R.F.Ruttledge	1980	Nat. Museum
The Guide to the Birds of Ireland	G.D'Arcy	1981	Dublin	€254
The Birds of Ireland	G.D'Arcy	1986	Belfast
The Irish Dipper	K.W.Perry	1986	Derry
The Atlas of the Wintering Birds in Britain & Ireland	P.Lack	1986	Poyser	UK£13-257
Watching Birds in Ireland	C.D.Hutchinson	1986	Dublin
Birds in Ireland	C.D.Hutchinson	1989	Poyser
Birds in counties Galway and Mayo	R.F.Ruttledge	1994	IWC

Prices where shown are indicative only:
¹ 1st ed; 2nd ed Hodges Figgis 1939 $65 2004; €45 poor condition Dublin 2004
² biblio.com 2004; €125 signed 2004; €35 Ex.Library 2005
³ Dublin Bookbrowsers 2001
⁴ 2003
⁵ Dublin Bookbrowsers 2001 incl. letters; €80 fair Dublin 2004
⁶ Dublin Bookbrowsers 2004 1st ed
⁷ 2004
⁸ €22 Reprint 1972 Ex.Library 2005
⁹ 2007

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