Coolim Books is a small publishing company based in Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland. It is dedicated to telling the stories of West Cork and to reviving old books of interest.
Please browse our Books page to see our work. Also have a look at our History Blog page where our stories from West Cork are expanded on.
We love to supply local bookstores and if you wish to buy one of our books then we encourage you to always shop local. However, to reach all our customers we have set up an online store on the Sumup platform. We also sell local history journals and a selection of old and new books of West Cork and wider interest. You can make an online purchase by clicking on the link to our Online Store.
On 8th December 2025 Coolim Books launched our latest book, The Fenian Movement: An Account of its Origin, Progress and Temporary Collapse by Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.
This book is based on a series of eleven newspaper articles, first published in 1885, in which Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa recalled his involvement with the early years of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenian Movement) in Ireland, from its inception in 1858 to his arrest in1865. 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 Fenian Movement. The articles contained information not published elsewhere, including poems that he wrote while in jail. Brought together for the first time in one volume, this book also contains a modern Irish language version of O’Donovan Rossa’s poem Éire trasna ’n tSáile, a small number of footnotes added to explain certain events and individuals to the reader and an index was added as a search aid. For more information on the book click here, to purchase it click here.
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