Deburca catalogue 110

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A selection of fine, rare and important books and manuscripts

Catalogue 110

Spring

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DE BÚRCA RARE BOOKS

CATALOGUE 110 Spring 2014

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1. ADAMS, Gerry. Politics of Irish Freedom. Dingle: Brandon Book Publishers Ltd., 1986. pp. xv, 176. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €30 2. ADDISON, Henry Robert. Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate, and other Reminiscences of the South of Ireland. London: Ward and Lock 1862. First edition. pp. xii, 305, [1]. Contemporary half tan morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Father Hannon, Nenagh, with his stamp. Some minor wear to binding, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €375

COPAC locates 6 copies only.

3. [AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND] Address from The Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland, to His Excellency John Lord Baron Wodehouse, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland. Address within ornamental foliage border, decorated with stacks of barley and agricultural implements. Beautifully executed in a fine copperplate hand. Broadsheet. 750x600mm. Dublin: 42 Upper Sackville St. 18th Nov. 1864. In superb condition. Exceedingly rare. No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. €465


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The Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland in this address pleaded with the recently appointed Lord Lieutenant for permission to enrol his name as Vice-Patron of the society, an honour which his predecessors in office graciously accepted. They outline the objects of the society and mention that they are about to introduce superior breeds of cattle. The Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland was established in 1841 as the Agricultural Improvement Society. It shared accommodation, and worked closely with the Royal Dublin Society. Inscribed at the bottom of the broadsheet is '27 Dawson St' which was the address of Andrew English, scrivener and stationer.

RARE CORK PRINTING 4. ANCELL, Samuel. A Journal of the Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar : from the twelfth of September, 1779, to the tenth of March 1783. Containing a Minute Detail of the Memorable and Interesting Transactions, Naval and Military Observations; Interspersed with Historical Accounts of the Garrison, Genuine and Entertaining Anecdotes, &c. &c. By Samuel Ancell, Serjeant and Clerk to the 58th Regiment. Written in the garrison. The fourth edition. Cork: Printed for the Author by A. Edwards, and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, 1793. pp. vi, [6], 5-256. Modern full morocco. Signature of Richard Meade on titlepage. A fine copy. Rare. €475

ESTC T97301 gives 8 locations only. Samuel Ancell (c.1760-1802), military writer and soldier. He entered the British Army at an early age, and served with the 58th regiment during the Great Siege of Gibraltar from 1779 to 1783. In 1784 he first published this work, which is in the form of letters to a brother of the author, it passed through five editions. Ancell apparently retired from active service soon after his return home, and opened a military commission agency in Dublin. In October 1801 he produced the first part of a monthly military magazine, called the Monthly Military Companion. The periodical was continued until Ancell's death on 19 October 1802. To it he contributed not only articles on fortifications, military history, and tactics, but songs set to music of his own composition. With a list of subscribers.

5. AN OXONIAN [S. Reynolds Hole] A Little Tour in Ireland. With illustrations by John Leech. New edition. London: Edward Arnold, 1892. pp. xii, 240, 4 (publisher's list). Olive green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Presentation inscription and previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €95

WITH TOWNSEND GENEALOGY 6. ARMSTRONG, John. Miscellanies: by John Armstrong, M.D. Volume one only. Dublin: Printed for Laurence Flin, at the Bible, in Castle-street, 1770. pp. vi, [2], 208 [2]. Contemporary full cats-paw calf, title on red morocco label on spine. Signature of Butler Townsend and Eliza Townsend Stewart on titlepage. Some minor wear to covers, otherwise a very good copy. €175

ESTC T165789. There is a genealogical tree on the front endpaper tracing the descendants of Richard Townsend and his wife Elizabeth Minichin from the early 1700s to the 1900s. Note in ink on front endpaper "This book belonged to / Reverenced Butler Townsend / an uncle of my great-grand- / mother Elizabeth Townsend, / and was given to me by my cousin Nina Westroppe, October 1926 / WR Westroppe Roberts".

HARRY CLARKE'S COPY 7. [ART IRLANDAIS] Brochure for the Irish Art Exhibition. Exposition D'Art Irlandais. Galeries Barbazanges 109, Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, 109. Ouverte du 28 Janvier au 25 Février 1922. Paris: Georgis Petit, 1922. Small quarto. pp. 24. Stapled green printed wrappers. From the library of Harry Clarke. A very good copy. Rare. €285

Provenance: Purchased from the Clarke family. 8. [ARTS & CRAFTS SOCIETY] The Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland and Guild of Irish Art-Workers. Catalogue of the Sixth Exhibition, 1921. Held in conjunction with the Irish Art Competition and Exhibition, organized by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland in Dublin, Belfast, Cork. Dublin: Printed by Maunsel & Roberts, 1921.


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First edition. pp. 65, 8 (Art-Workers' Announcements and Adverts). Illustrated wrappers. Frayed at edges. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250

No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. The catalogue of exhibits included: Lace, Crochet, White Embroidery, Smocking, Embroidery, Bookbinding, Printed Books and Printing, Wood Cuts, Lithography, Decorative Scribe Work, Drawings in Colour for Reproduction, Drawings in Black and White for Reproduction, Posters, Enamelling, Metal Work and Enamelling, Jewellery, Gesso, Carpets, Stained Glass, Mosaic, Designs and Cartoons for Stained Glass and Opus Sectile, Furniture, and Textiles. Colm O Lochlainn had three bookbinding exhibits. Other binders included Margaret J. Maguire, Eva McKee, Sarah Reynolds, William Pender, and Eleanor Kelly. Harry Clarke had twenty-five exhibits.


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A host of men and women in all parts of Ireland came together and formed what was to become known as the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1880s to 1930s. They were active in a variety of minor arts whose diversity and quality of craftsmanship has left an everlasting legacy to the Irish Celtic revival. The President of the society was the Earl of Mayo, the Treasurer was Miss Jane French and the Master of the Guild was Miss Evelyn Gleeson. Members of the Council and Committee included: Thomas Bodkin, Harry Clarke, Evelyn Gleeson, Joseph Hone, Dermod O'Brien, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Rosamund Praeger, etc. Harry Clarke's copy - purchased from descendant.

9. [ASQUITH MEETING] An Invitation and Press Ticket to The Prime Minister's Meeting [on Home Rule] in the Theatre Royal, Dublin, July 19th, 1912. Issued to Mr. John Conway, Irish Industrial Journal. John Redmond, M.P. in the chair for Herbert Asquith's Discussion on Home Rule. Other speakers included Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, The Rt. Hon. The Master of Elibank [Oliphant Murray], and The Rt. Hon. Lord Ashby St. Ledgers. Printed text on ticket reads: 'Theatre Royal, Asquith Meeting, July 19th, 1921. Press Ticket. No. 65. Doors open at 7.15 p.m.'. Cream cards printed in colour on both sides, engraved by M. Fitzpatrick. Handsomely decorated to a Celtic design with a map of the four Provinces and medallion portraits of Gladstone, Asquith, Parnell and Redmond on the invitation card; the old Irish House of Parliament and the arms of the four Provinces on the other. Printed in Dublin by Browne and Nolan. 128x160mm. In very good condition. Possibly an unique item. €435

RARE CORK PRINTING 10. [BAILEY, Nathan] Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books; with the Notes of John Minellius and others, in English. With a prose version of the author. By Nathan Bailey: carefully, revised, improved, and enlarged. Cork: Printed by A. Edwards 1804. pp. xii, 576, [4]. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €485

No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. 11. BALL, Francis Elrington & HAMILTON, E. The Parish of Taney: A History of Dundrum, near Dublin, and its neighbourhood. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1895. pp. xii, 256. Green cloth over bevelled boards. Very scarce. €125

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See items 10 & 13

12. BANIM, John. The Anglo-Irish of The Nineteenth Century. A Novel. Three Volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition. pp. (1) [i], 308, (2) [i], 305, (3) [i], 303, [1]. Publisher's green cloth, titled in gilt on red morocco labels. A fine set. Very rare. €1,250

COPAC locates 6 copies only. Loeber B21. John Banim (1798-1842), novelist and poet and younger brother of Michael, was born in Kilkenny where his father owned a farm. Educated at Kilkenny College. From an early age he was writing poetry and drawing. In 1814 he went to Dublin to study art. After two years he returned to Kilkenny and set up as a drawing master; abandoning that profession he set off for London to pursue a literary career and had some success there. Returning home again in 1822, he got married and began collaborating with his brother Michael in writing the Tales of the O'Hara Family hoping to do for the Irish what Scott had done for the Scots with his Waverley Novels.

13. BANKS, Sir John T. A large quarto album containing numerous newspapers clippings on the death of the prominent Irish doctor, Sir John T. Banks. Each clipping laid on thick card paper and captioned in ink. Also loosely inserted is the order of service for the funeral of Banks at The Chapel of Trinity College Dublin, on Tuesday, July 21st, 1908, and an obituary from the Medical Express. In total there are sixty nine articles/obituaries from various newspapers in Ireland and Britain. Bound in full black diced morocco. Covers framed by a thick and single gilt fillet, spine divided into five compartments by five gilt raised bands. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €375

Sir John T. Banks was Honorary Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty Queen Victoria and later her son, His Majesty King Edward VII, in Ireland. Banks was born in London in 1811. He was a descendant of an old English family that originally settled in County Louth and who in the middle of the eighteenth century migrated to County Clare, where his grandfather Dr. Percival Banks attained eminence as a physician in the town of Ennis. Sir John Banks was educated at Trinity College and graduated in 1837, in due course he took his medical qualifications there and also in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The young doctor's progress was exceptionally rapid. Quite early in his career he was appointed Physician to the House of Industry Hospitals - the Richmond, Whitworth, and Hardwicke. As might be expected, Banks contributed to medical literature many remarkable essays. In Journal of Medical Science for 1868, he wrote a fine paper on the mental condition of the famous Dean


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Swift. He was visiting Physician to the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, and there made his reputation as the most reliable specialist of his time in mental disease. Banks was President of the Royal College of Physicians and also Regius Professor of Physics at Trinity from 1880 until 1898. Sir John married early in his professional life Alice, daughter of Captain Wood Wright, of Golagh, County Monaghan. He was a great admirer and friend of the historian, William Hartpole Lecky. It is said that he was the most perfect example conceivable of the polished Irish gentleman, a charming host, and, above all, of the faithful, devoted friend. His palatial residence in Merrion Square was the resort of the most cultured people in Ireland.

14. BARTON, Richard. Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Designed, To be a foundation, for reasoning pertinently, upon the Petrifications, Gems, Crystals, and Sanative Quality of Loch Neagh in Ireland; And intended to be An Introduction, to the Natural History of Several Counties contiguous to that Lake, Particularly the County of Armagh. Bound with: Some remarks towards a Full Description of Upper and Lower Lough Lene, near Killarny, in the County of Kerry. Bound with: a dialogue, Concerning some Things of Importance to Ireland; Particularly to the County of Armagh. List of subscribers. Dublin: Printed for the Author by A. Reilly, and sold by George and Alexander Ewing, at the Angel and Bible in Dame-street; S. Powell in Crane-lane; Oli. Nelson, at Milton's Head in Skinner-Row, 1751. Quarto. pp. xvi, 8 [subscribers] 185, [3], 14, [1], 27. Contemporary full sprinkled calf. Spine neatly rebacked, title in gilt on new black morocco label. A very good copy. €575

One of the earliest works on Irish Natural History.

15. BARTON, Sir D. Plunket. Bart. Links Between Ireland and Shakespeare. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1920). pp. xii, 271. Quarter vellum parchment on blue paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Scarce. €95


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16. BAYNE, S.G. On An Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Quarto. pp. 138. Pictorial cloth. From the library of J. Henry Meyer with his bookplate. Withdrawn stamp of Stanford University Library. A fine copy. €165

Memoir of the author's trip from New York to Queenstown, travelling to Londonderry, Gweedore, Ballinrobe, the Aran Islands, Limerick, etc. Complemented with photographs of the people and places he visited.

17. [BECKETT, Samuel] The Beckett Country. An exhibition for Samuel Beckett's eightieth birthday. Catalogue by Eoin O'Brien and James Knowlson. Photography by David Davidson. Dublin: Black Cat Press, 1986. pp. xix, 97. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €150 18. BEHAN, Brendan. Hold Your Hour and Have Another. With decorations by Beatrice Behan. London: Hutchinson, 1963. First edition. pp. 192. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket with a few nicks. €25

Before the production of The Quare Fellow in 1956, Behan's writing activities were mainly confined to a weekly column in The Irish Press. These have now been put together in this volume. Consisting of personal anecdotes, reminiscences, etc.

19. BEHAN, Brendan. Confessions of an Irish Rebel. Portrait frontispiece. London: Hutchinson, 1965. First edition. pp. 259. Red paper boards. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €45

THE FINEST PIECE OF HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP 20. BELL, J. Bowyer. The Secret Army. History of the IRA 1916-1970. Profusely illustrated. London: Anthony Blond Ltd., 1970. pp. xiv, 405. Green cloth, titled in red on spine. A very good copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. €65

RARE ARCHITECTURAL ITEM 21. BELL, Thomas. An Essay on the Origin and Progress of Gothic Architecture. With reference to the Ancient History and Present State of the Remains of such Architecture in Ireland. To which was awarded the prize proposed by The Royal Irish Academy, for the best essay on that subject. With seven lithographic illustrations, printed by C. Hullmandel. Dublin: Published by William Frederick Wakeman, D'Olier Street, and Baldwin & Cradock, London, 1829. pp. 264.


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Modern full polished calf, covers framed by a single gilt fillet. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title, author, and place of publication in gilt direct in the second, fourth and sixth compartment. A very good copy. €685

Not in Bradshaw. Gilbert 60. NSTC locates only 4 copies.

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22. BENNETT, George. Esq. The History of Bandon. Cork: Henry and Coghlan, Printers and Publishers, 35 & 36, George's Street, 1862. First edition. pp. xv, 373. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, armorial device in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on rebacked spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375

See items 21 & 22

23. BERESFORD, David. Ten Men Dead. The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. London: Grafton Books, 1987. pp. 432. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €35

In 1981 ten Irish republicans, following a three year 'blanket protest' for political status, starved themselves to death in The Maze. This is their story as told by David Beresford.

24. BIELFELD, Jacob Friedrich, Freiherr von. The Elements of Universal Erudition: Containing an analytical abridgment of the sciences, polite arts, and belles letters. By Baron Bielfeld, Secretary of Legation to the King of Prussia. Preceptor to Prince Ferdinand, and Chancellor of all the Universities in the Dominions of his Prussian Majesty, Author of the Political Institutes, &c. Translated from the last edition printed at Berlin. By W. Hooper, M.D. In three volumes. Dublin: Printed for H. Saunders, J. Potts, D. Chamberlaine, W. Sleater, J. Hoey, Jun. J. Williams, R. Moncrieffe, J. Porter, and T. Walker, 1771. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, titles in gilt on red morocco labels. Signature of John Morrison on titlepages. Some wear to covers, a few joints starting, otherwise a fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €875

ESTC N1409 locates 5 copies. TCD only in Ireland. Referenced by: Alston, III.303. 25. BISHOP, Patrick. & MALLIE, Eamonn. The Provisional IRA. Illustrated with four maps. London: Heinemann, 1987. First edition. pp. x, 374. Second edition. Green paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 26. BOATE, Gerard & MOLYNEUX, Thomas. A Natural History of Ireland in Three Parts. 1: Being a True and Ample Description of its Situation, Greatness, Shape, Woods, Heaths, Bogs ... 2: A Collection of such Papers as were Communicated to the Royal Society, Referring to some


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Curiosities in Ireland ... 3: A Discourse concerning the Danish Mounts, Forts and Towers in Ireland. Three works in one volume. Illustrated with 10 engraved plates (some folding). Dublin: By George Grierson, 1726. Small quarto. pp. [vi], 221 (numbered to 213) each part with separate sub-title. Later full diced morocco. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. €1,350

Gerard Boate (1604-1650) a native of Holland and a physician in London wrote this very interesting account of Ireland to "benefit the Adventurers and Planters there", by providing them with information on the island's basic situation. It was by far the most detailed such record to that date. His brother


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Arnold, the famous Hebrew scholar, supplied most of the information for the Natural History. He was resident in Dublin until the outbreak of the Bloody Rebellion of 1641. Sir William and Sir Richard Parsons also contributed to the work and it was from them that the author obtained much of his information relating to the rocks and minerals of Ireland. The second part of this book, A Collection of such Papers as were Communicated to the Royal Society, Referring to some Curiosities in Ireland, has a separate title-page, dated 1726; six of the articles were by Thomas Molyneux (1661-1733) F.R.S. (1687), brother of the famous philosopher William, and one of the leading men of medicine and science in Dublin. Thomas was several times President of the College of Physicians of Ireland. He founded the Blind Asylum in Peter Street, Dublin in 1711, and was later appointed State Physician and afterwards Surgeon-General to the army. He knew and corresponded with Locke, Boyle, and Petty, and submitted important papers to the Royal Society - including the pioneering study on the Giant's Causeway, in which he was the first to conclude that it was of natural origin. The latter is published in this collection, as is his 'Discourse Concerning the large Horns frequently found under ground in Ireland'. There is also an article 'Of the Salmon Fishing in Ireland' by His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin. The third part of the work A Discourse concerning the Danish Mounts, Forts and Towers in Ireland was entirely written by Molyneux. It also has a separate title-page dated 1725. Molyneux was also interested in Irish history and antiquities, and paid a visit in 1709 to Roderic O'Flaherty in his house at Park, Cois Fhairrge, and he wrote of his trip: "I went to visit old Flaherty, who lives very old, in a miserable condition ... I expected to have seen here some old Irish manuscripts, but his ill-fortune had stripped him of these as well as his other goods, so that he had nothing now left but some few pieces of his own writing and a few old rummish books of history". Boate's Natural History was first published in 1652, re-issued in 1657, and a French edition appeared in 1666. This is the third edition in English.

27. BONNEY, Rev. Henry Kaye. The Life of the Right Reverenced Father in God, Jeremy Taylor, D.D. Chaplin in ordinary to King Charles I, and Lord Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore. London: Cadell and Davies, 1815. pp. xii, 384, x, [4]. Contemporary full polished calf, title and author in gilt on contrasting labels on spine. Bookplate of Estcourt Library on front pastedown, with Goodwyn binders ticket. Upper board starting, wear to head of spine. An attractive copy. €135

REV. BLACKER'S COPY 28. [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER] The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of The Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of The United Church of England and Ireland; together with The Psalter or Psalms of David. Oxford: Collingwood, 1828. Quarto. Bound in contemporary full calf to a panel design. Covers framed by


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a gilt floral roll enclosing a gilt panelled design with outer fleurons. Centre panel with the legend: Taghadoe Church / 1831 / Revd. George Blacker. Rector. / His Grace the Duke of Leinster. / Mr. Philip Grierson. / Church Wardens. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands, title on red morocco letterpiece in the second, the remained tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design. Some wear to lower corner of upper board, otherwise in very good condition. €285

Rev. George Blacker (1791-1871), antiquary, elder son of James Blacker, a Dublin magistrate was elected a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin in 1809, where he took a B.A. and M.A. He was for several years curate of St. Andrew's, Dublin, chaplain of the City Corporation and rector of Taghadoe, County Kildare. In 1840 he became vicar of Maynooth and prebendary in St. Patrick's Cathedral.

29. [BOOKSELLER'S CATALOGUES] Thirteen Catalogues in one volume: Mr. David Nutt's List of Publications and Importations. For the Study of the Language, Literature, History, Archaeology, and Folk-Lore of the Celtic Peoples; Sealy, Bryers & Walker's Publications; Irish Texts Society. Cumann na Sgríbheann Gaedhilge. Annual Report, 1907. Rules. List of Members. List of Publications; Catalogue of Books Relating to Ireland. Its History, Antiquities, Folk-Lore, &c., &c., from the recently dispersed Libraries of the Earl of Cork, Col. La Touche, Rev. W Reynell, and others. Including many rare items. N. Massey, 84, Patrick Street, Cork; Ireland. Books and Pamphlets offered by Francis Edwards, Bookseller, 83, High Street, Marylebone, London, W. March, 1907; Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books, Including a Collection of Books on Ireland and the Irish (Nos. 208-483). On sale by Albert Sutton, 43, Bridge Street, Manchester; Catalogue of Books on Ireland. Including many rare and valuable works on the Art, Archaeology, Architecture, Antiquities,

Biography … and Topography of the Country. Including Purchases from the Libraries of C.S. Parnell, Lord G.A. Hill, Edward Evans, and from other sources. Offered at the net prices affixed by Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd., 104 Grafton Street, Dublin. No. VI, 1902; Catalogue of Books on Ireland. Being a Supplement to 40 Page List issued in June, 1902. Comprising the Irish Library of Maurice Linehan, Historian of Limerick; purchases from the Libraries of the late T. O'Hara, W. Kinchela, and from private sources. Also a selection in General Literature. Offered at the net prices affixed by Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd., 104 Grafton Street, Dublin. No. VII, 1903; Supplementary Catalogue of Books relating to Ireland. Comprising Recent Purchases and New Publications. Also a selection in General Literature. Offered at the net prices affixed by Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd., 104 Grafton Street, Dublin. No. VIII, 1904; Catalogue of Books on Ireland. Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd., 104 Grafton Street, Dublin. No. IX, 1907; Ireland and Irish Families. Catalogue of a Special Collection of Books on Ireland, and a Remarkable Collection of Original Manuscripts and Deeds from 1500 to 1850, relating to the Principal Families of Ireland … offered for sale by Bernard Halliday, Dryden House, Sykefield Avenue, Leicester; David Nutt's Catalogue LXXV of Second-Hand Books containing Selection of Works English and Foreign in All Departments of Folk-Lore viz. Archaeology - Mythology - Comparative Religion … Proverbs, Riddles, etc. and a Collection of Basque Books. On Sale at the net prices affixed. London, 57-59 Long Acre, W.C. €875 30. BOUTCHER, William. A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing, not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto Practised, but a variety of New and Useful Discoveries, the result of many repeated Experiments: As also, Plain Directions for Removing most of the Valuable Kinds


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of Forest-Trees, to the Height of Thirty Feet and upwards, with certain Success; and, On the same Principles, (with equal Success) for Transplanting Hedges of sundry Kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added, Directions for the Disposition, Planting, and Culture of Hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five Years, than they now usually are in ten. By William Boutcher, Nurseryman, At Comely-Garden, Edinburgh. Dublin: Printed for William Wilson, No. 6, and John Exshaw, No. 86, Dame-street, 1776. pp. [iv], xvi, 311, [1]. Publisher's pink cloth, titled in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. From the library of W.R. Meade of Ballymartle, with his printed armorial bookplate. A very good copy.€285

ESTC T114791. 31. BOYLE, Robert. The Theological Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Epitomiz'd. Volume I. Containing the author's life. The Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion. Volume II. The Christian Virtuoso. A Free Enquiry into the Notion of Nature. A disquisition of final causes. Occasional reflections and meditations. Volume III. The Excellency of Theology above Natural Philosophy. The style of the Scriptures. The possibility of the resurrection. The veneration due to God. Of things above reason. The martyrdom of Theodora and Didymus. Seraphic Love. By Richard Boulton late of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford, who Epitomiz'd his Philosophical Works. In three volumes. London: Printed for, and are to be Sold by W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1715. pp. (1) [15], xxv, [1], 432, [8], (2) [xxiv], 440, (3) [8], xxi, [11], 464. Contemporary full panelled calf, title in gilt on black morocco labels on spines. Armorial bookplate of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, on front pastedown. Minor surface wear. A very good set. Rare. €485


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ESTC T80858. Robert Boyle (1627-1691), founder member of the Royal Society, was born at Lismore Castle, the son of Richard, first Earl of Cork. One of the greatest natural philosophers and scientists of his age, Boyle did more for science than any other Irishman. His first experiments on the properties of air were published in 1660, and in answer to criticism he enunciated the celebrated 'Boyle's Law' (on the relation between temperature and pressure in a gas). His favourite study was chemistry; and there is hardly a branch of science which does not owe something to his alert and inquiring mind. A deeply religious man, he preached tolerance in an age of bigotry, wrote numerous theological works, including the first religious romance ever written. He spent large sums to propagate the study of the Bible, and was responsible for the publishing of Bedell's Bible in Irish. Rev. Richard Meade succeeded his uncle John Meade in the Ballymartle Estates. He married Dorothea, daughter of Adam Newman, of Dromore, County Down, and died in 1815.

32. BROWN, M.J. Historical Ballad Poetry of Ireland. Arranged by M.J. Brown. With an introduction by Stephen J. Brown. Illustrated. Dublin: Educational Company, 1912. pp. 256. Decorated green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Cloth faded. A good copy. €75

POEMS FOR THE FALLEN 33. [BROWNE, Monsignor Patrick] Aftermath of Easter Week. [Dublin: Published for the benefit of the Irish National Aid and Volunteers' Dependents Fund, September, 1917]. Quarto. Typescript. pp. [35]. Stapled brown wrappers, title in ink on upper cover. Very good. €475

COPAC gives 4 locations. Monsignor Pádraig de Brún (1889-1960) clergyman, mathematician and classical scholar, was born at Grangemockler, County Tipperary, in 1889, the son of a primary school teacher, Maurice Browne. He was educated locally, at Rockwell College, Cashel, and at Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin (at both he was tutored in mathematics by Eamon De Valera). He was ordained to the priesthood at the Irish College in Paris in 1913, and took his D.Sc. from the Sorbonne for a thesis in mathematics. In 1914, after a period at the University of Göttingen, de Brún was appointed Professor of Mathematics at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. In April the following year he was elected by the Senate of the National University of Ireland to succeed Mgr. John Hynes as President of University College Galway, an office he held until his retirement in 1959. He subsequently became Chairman of the Arts Council of Ireland, a position he held until his death in 1960. He also served as Chairman of the Council of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and was President of University College Galway. De Brún was close friend of the executed 1916 leader Sean Mac Dermott. He was a prolific writer of poetry, including the well-known poem in the Irish language 'Thánaig Long ó Valparaiso'. The French Government awarded him the title of Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in 1949, and in 1956, the order 'Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana' was conferred on him by the President of Italy. The contributors includes: Oliver St. John Gogarty; Seumas O'Kelly; Seumas O'Sullivan; Dora Sigerson Shorter; P. de Brún. Foreword signed P. B. [Patrick Browne - Pádraig de Brún].

34. BUCKLAND, Patrick. Irish Unionism Two. Ulster Unionism and the Origins of Northern Ireland. 1886-1922. With map. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1973. pp. xxvi, 207. White stiff paper wrappers. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. Very scarce. €45 35. BULFIN, William. Rambles in Eirinn. By William Bulfin (Che Buono). With illustrations, and maps especially made under the author's direction. Two parts in one volume. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1908. Second edition. pp. xi, 456. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. €75

The author emigrated to Argentina in 1884 and after some years contributing to The Southern Cross in Buenos Aires became its proprietor and editor. Because of his close links with Arthur Griffith he wrote frequently in The United Irishman, and Sinn Fein. This is an excellent account of his travels in 1902 by cycle throughout the length and breadth of Ireland, nothing escaping his keen observation.

36. BURGHCLERE, Lady. The Life of James First Duke of Ormonde 1610-1688. With portraits and illustrations. Two volumes. London: Murray, 1912. pp. (1) xv, 534, (2) vii, 458. Reddish brown cloth, titled in black and in gilt. A very good set. Scarce. €265

James Butler, 12th Earl and 1st Duke of Ormond, known as the 'Great Earl' was born at Clerkenwell, London, in 1610, in the house of his grandfather, Sir John Poyntz. Shortly after his birth, his parents returned to Ireland; he was brought by his nurse when three years of age, and for the rest of his life


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remembered being carried through Bristol on that occasion to take the ship for Ireland. He succeeded to the earldom in 1633. A royalist, he raised a troop of horse for the king. James was six times Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was one of the most distinguished Irish statesmen and soldiers of his day, a supporter of English rule who was nevertheless a conciliator. He arranged a cease fire with the Irish rebels in 1643, and offered a treaty in 1646 which granted religious tolerance to Catholics. In all those troublesome times he fought for the king in the senate and the field until 1650, when he retired to France. He played an important role in the restoration of Charles II and was afterwards created Marquis and Duke by him. He retired to Dorset and died there in 1688.

37. BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to that event. In a Letter intended to have been sent to a Gentleman in Paris. London: Dodsley, 1790. pp. iv, 356. Recent full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Conner of Manch copy. In very good condition. €285 38. BURKE, Edmund. A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to A Noble Lord, on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords, by The Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the present Sessions of Parliament. London: Printed for J. Owen, 1796. pp. [ii], 80. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. €165 39. BURKE, John & BURKE, John Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of The Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Two volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1846. Royal octavo. pp. (1) [ix], 782, 8 (2) [1] 783-1673 (double column). Modern quarter calf on cloth boards. A very good set. €245 40. CABALL, John. The Singing Swordsman. With a preface by Daniel Corkery. Dublin: Michael F. Moynihan, 1953. pp. 232. Blue cloth, title in gilt on faded spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. Top edge blue. A very good copy. €75

A novel set in County Kerry from Tralee to Mount Brandon to Dingle. It tells the story of Piaras Feiritéar (1600?-1653) was an Irish poet. Feiritéar was a Norman-Irish Lord of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh in Corca Dhuibhne. Although best known as a poet, it was his role as a leader of the Confederate Irish (Norman and Gaelic) which ultimately lead to his execution in 1653. Feiritéar was a harpist as well as a poet and known for his blend of laments, eulogies and satires of the Irish tradition with the love-lyrics. His best known work, Leig díot t'airm, a mhacoimh mná [Lay aside thy arms, maiden], is a poem about a beautiful woman. It is believed that he may have written some poetry in English, but none of this has survived. Critics have argued that his Irish poetry shows the influence of the English Elizabethans. A leader during the Confederate Ireland wars, Feiritéar was wounded during an attack on Tralee Castle in 1641. His forces held the castle until the fall of Ross Castle in Killarney, 1653. Granted safe passage, Feiritéar travelled to arrange surrender terms. However, he was seized at Castlemaine and hanged alongside Bishop Moriarty and a priest at the Hill of Sheep in Killarney. He remains something of a folk hero for the Irish-speaking people of Corca Dhuibhne, and particularly his native Ard na Caithne where the ruins of his castle can still be seen, and his poetry lives on in the oral tradition.

41. [CAMPBELL, Thomas] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. With six copper engraved plates, (2 folding). Dublin: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1777. First edition. pp. xvi, 478. Brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt direct on spine within gilt bands. All edges sprinkled. A fine copy. €475

Kress B.107. Bradshaw 5550. Thomas Campbell (1733-1795) was born in Glack, County Tyrone, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was curate of Clogher until 1772, when he was collated to the prebend of Tyholland, and in 1773 he was made chancellor of St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher. In 1777 he published (anonymously in London) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. (a second edition was published in Dublin in 1778). It recorded the tour of an Englishman in the south of Ireland, and gives a description of the major towns, remarks on the trade of the country are thrown in, and Campbell advocates a political and commercial union with England. A friend of Dr. Johnson, his Survey was regarded by Boswell as "a very entertaining book, which has, however, one fault - that it assumes the fictitious character of an Englishman". In this work Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith appeared for the first time in print.


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The engraved plates includes: Ruins of Kilmallock; Round Tower at Kildare; Abbey of St. John in Kilkenny; Rock of Cashel; The Crown - The Sword - A Tumulus near Tipperary; Collar of Gold.

42. CAMPION, John Thomas. Michael Dwyer or Insurgent Captain of the Wicklow Mountains. A Tale of the Rising in '98. Dublin: M.H. Gill, n.d. (c.1930). pp. 128. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. €45 43. CARLETON, William. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent; or, The Chronicles of Castle Cumber; together with the Pious Aspirations, Permissions, Voucsafements, and other Sanctified Privileges of Solomon M'Slime, a Religious Attorney. With twenty illustrations by Phiz. Dublin: James Duffy, 1847. First edition. pp. xii, 468. Later full polished calf, covers framed by a single gilt fillet and dog-tooth roll. Flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt fillets and dog-tooth bands; title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt with a shamrock. A very good copy. €175

Copac locates 5 copies only of this edition. William Carleton (1794-1869), was born in Prillisk, County Tyrone, one of fourteen children of a tenant farmer. He went to Dublin and besides his novels, he also contributed articles to many journals: the Christian Examiner; the Family Magazine; the Dublin University Magazine, etc. He also wrote for The Nation but as D.J. O'Donoghue said: "Carleton was never a Nationalist, and was quite incapable of adopting the principles of the Young Irelanders". As a race we are reputed to be very severe when appraising each other; a great man referring to this characteristic once said "an honest people, they never speak well of each other"!. The Tyrone-born novelist although reared a Catholic and intended for the priesthood, became a Protestant on marriage. He wrote for hire, writing for anyone that would pay him, Catholic, Protestant, or Dissenter, and suited his material to the current clients needs and outlook.

44. CARLISLE, Nicholas. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland; Exhibiting The Names of the several Cities, Towns, Parishes, and Villages, with the Barony, County and Province to which they respectively belong. The Valuation and Present State of the Ecclesiastical Benefices. The Distance and Bearing of every Place from the nearest Post-Office, and of the Post Offices from the Metropolis. Fairs. Members of Parliament, and Corporations. Charter Schools. And Assizes. To which is added, Miscellaneous Information respecting Monastic Foundations, and other matters of Local History. Collected from the most Authentic Documents, and arranged in Alphabetical Order. Being a Continuation of the Topography of the United Kingdom of Great


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Britain and Ireland. London: Printed for William Miller, 1810. Quarto. Contemporary full calf, titled in gilt on professionally rebacked spine. A very good copy. Rare. €650

Nicholas Carlisle (1771-1847), FRS, MRIA, English antiquary and librarian was born in York. In 1806, he became a candidate for the office of Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, which he obtained the following year. In 1812, he became an Assistant Librarian of the Royal Library; he went on to accompany that collection to the British Museum, which he attended two days each week. He wrote several topographical dictionaries of England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. He also wrote an historical account of Charitable Commissioners, and of Foreign Orders of Knighthood.

45. CARTE, Thomas. The Life of James Duke of Ormonde; containing an account of the most remarkable Affairs of his time, and particularly of Ireland, under his Government: With an Appendix and A Collections of Letters, serving to verify the most material facts in the said history. A new edition carefully compared with the original mss. Six volumes. Oxford: At the University Press, 1851. Original maroon cloth, titles on worn and chipped printed labels on faded spines. Armorial bookplate of Frederick Adolphus Philbrick on pastedowns. Some fading. A very good set. Very scarce €375

COPAC locates 2 copies only. Frederick Adolphus Philbrick (1835-1910) was a lawyer and an early British philatelist. He was one of the founders of the 'Philatelic Society, London', which later became the Royal Philatelic Society. Two pseudonyms used by Philbrick in his philatelic writing were, An Amateur and Damus Petimusque Vicissim (the motto of British Guiana). Born in Colchester, England, he was the son of a lawyer and had a successful legal career, eventually becoming a Judge. He was named as one of the "fathers of philately" on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.

46. [CARTON HOUSE] An Album of Photographs of Carton House, County Kildare, seat of the FitzGeralds, Dukes of Leinster, 1891. Ten silver gelatine prints of views of the house (front and rear), library, drawing room, sitting room, breakfast room, and garden. Oblong quarto album, bound in full green morocco, 'Carton / 1890' in gilt on upper cover. Green marbled endpapers. Name of T. H. Reilly, 24 Grafton Street, Dublin, stamped on lower margin of front pastedown. Images approximately 280 x 220mm. All edges gilt. Some minor wear and fading to spine and corners. All in very good condition. Exceedingly rare. €2,650

Thomas Reilly, with his business in Grafton Street, is listed in Thom's Directory as colourman, frame maker, gilder, picture restorer, album importer, art dealer, and fancy stationer. Carton House one of Ireland's greatest stately homes was the ancestral seat of the Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster. For over two hundred years, the house was situated on eleven hundred acres in Maynooth, County Kildare. Carton House one of Ireland's most historic buildings was sold and controversially turned into a hotel and golf course in the late 1990s. This branch of the Norman FitzGeralds, came to Ireland during the Norman invasion in 1169. The earldom was created in 1316 for John FitzGerald. Two senior FitzGeralds, Garret Mór FitzGerald and his son, Garret Óg FitzGerald served as Lords Deputy of Ireland (the King's representative in Ireland). The tenth Earl, Thomas FitzGerald, known as Silken Thomas, was attainted and his honours were


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forfeit in 1537. In 1554, Thomas's half-brother and only male heir, Gerald FitzGerald, was created Earl of Kildare in the Peerage of Ireland. He was subsequently restored to the original Patent in 1569, as 11th Earl. In 1761 Lord Kildare, Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald (1722-1773) nobleman, soldier and politician was created Earl of Offaly and Marquess of Kildare in the Peerage of Ireland and in 1766 he was further honoured when he was made Duke of Leinster, becoming by this time the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl in the Peerage of Ireland. The Duke married the fifteen year old Lady Emily Lennox, daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and one of the famous Lennox Sisters, in London on 7 February 1747. She was descended from King Charles II and was therefore a cousin of King George III. The couple had nineteen children. The Dukes of Leinster had by the early twentieth century lost all their property and wealth.


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The 'Duke of Leinster' title was first borne by Meinhardt Schomberg, Duke of Schomberg. He was created Duke of Leinster by William III for his part in the Battle of the Boyne. Both of his titles became extinct when he died in 1719. The FitzGerald family were originally located in Maynooth Castle, County Kildare. In later centuries they owned estates in Waterford with their country residence being Carton House, the magnificent Georgian edifice. In Dublin, the Earl built a large townhouse residence on the south side of Dublin called Kildare House. When the Earl was awarded a dukedom and became Duke of Leinster, the house was renamed Leinster House. One of its occupants was the United Irishman, Lord Edward FitzGerald, who became an icon for Irish nationalism through his involvement with the Rebellion of 1798, which ultimately cost him his life.

47. CARTY, Francis. Legion of the Rearguard. London: J.M. Dent, 1936. Second edition. pp. [vii], 272. Blue cloth, titled in black on spine. Owner's signature to front endpaper. Some spotting and fading to spine. A very good copy. Rare. €175

Brown & Clarke 208. An historical novel set in Ireland during the Civil War that followed the signing of the Treaty. When the split came the group of Volunteers took opposite sides, much of the book deals with the adventures of Paul Davin: ambushes, jail-breaks, capture and internment. Other characters include De Valera, Cathal Brugha, Michael Collins, Liam Lynch, Arthur Griffith, etc.

48. [CASEMENT, Roger] Passages Taken from the Manuscript written by Roger Casement in the Condemned Cell at Pentonville Prison. Dublin: Printed for Private Circulation only, 1950. pp. 8. Brown printed wrappers. With preface by Herbert O. Mackey. A very good copy of this very scarce and sought after item. €375

Introduced by Father James McCarroll, the Roman Catholic priest who attended Casement in his cell at Pentonville. Includes Casement's final poem, written for Fr. James McCarroll shortly before his execution. A most moving document.

49. CASTLEREAGH, Viscount. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh. Edited by his brother, Charles Vane, Marquis of Londonderry. The Irish Rebellion; Arrangements for a Union; Completion of the Legislative Union; Concessions to Catholics and Dissenters: Emmett's Insurrection. Portrait frontispiece. Four volumes. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great


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Marlborough Street, 1848/1849. Contemporary full maroon morocco, title in gilt on contrasting labels on gilt decorated spines; fore-edges gilt. Splash-marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Green and gold double endbands. A very good set. €275 50. CAULFIELD, Richard. Annals of St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork. Compiled from Records in the British Museum, the Bodleian, Public Record Office, the Chapter Books of the Cathedral, the Council Books of the Corporation of Cork and other authentic sources. Illustrated. Cork: Purcell, 1871. 16mo. pp. xvi, 127. Blue patterned cloth. Spine expertly rebacked. Some faint foxing. Very good. Scarce. €65 51. CAULFIELD, Richard L.L.D. The Council Book of the Corporation of Youghal, from 1610 to 1659, from 1666 to 1687, and from 1690 to 1800. Illustrated with a map of Youghal, temp. Eliz., the Insignia of the Corporation, etc. Edited from the original, with Annals and Appendices compiled from public and private records. Guilford: Billing, 1878. Sm. Quarto. pp. lxiv, 637. Original brown cloth. Spine neatly rebacked. A very good copy. Rare. €575 52. CAULFIELD, Richard. Ed. by. The Council Book of the Corporation of Kinsale, from 1652 to 1800. Illustrated with a folding map of the 'Haven and River of Kinsale', Seals of the Corporation and other illustrations. Edited from the original, with Annals and Appendices compiled from Public and Private Records. Guildford: Billing, 1879. Quarto. pp. cii, 447. Original brown cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signatures on front endpaper and titlepage. Light discolouration to cloth. Recased. A very good copy. Rare. €475

DEAN SWIFT A SUBSCRIBER 53. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha: Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. By Charles Jarvis, Esq. List of subscribers. With engraved plates [T. Chambers, Scul.]. In four volumes. Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson in Dame-Street, 1747. 12mo. Contemporary full worn calf. Signature of William Purefoy on titlepage of volume three and four. Some wear to corners. A very good set. Rare. €575

ESTC T59499 with 9 locations only. The list of subscribers includes: Captain Thomas Alcock of Waterford; Richard Burleigh; Mr. Abraham Bradley, Bookseller; Hon. Mrs. Bligh; Lady Crofton; Mr. Ben. Clare, Bookseller, Eight Setts; George Disney; George and Alexander Ewing, Booksellers, Nine Setts; Edward and John Exshaw, Booksellers, Sixteen Setts; Mr. William Ferrar, Bookseller in Limerick, Twelve Setts; Elizabeth Gore; Hugh Ramsay, Bookseller in Waterford, Four Setts; George Stevenson, Bookseller in Newry, Eight Setts; Cornelius Sullivan, Bookseller in Cork, Four Setts; Dean Swift, etc.

54. [CHAPBOOK] Paddy and Thomas. First Dialogue. Woodcut illustration on titlepage. Dublin: Printed by R. Napper, 140, Capel-Street, 1820. pp. 12. Stitched blue paper wrappers. A fine copy in binder's folder. Exceedingly rare. €375

COPAC locates only 2 copies (BL and TCD). 55. [CHILDERS, Erskine] Military Rule in Ireland. Reprinted from 'The Daily News', with notes and an additional chapter. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1920. pp. 48. Illustrated wrappers, title printed on upper cover. A very good copy. €175

Carty 1058. The first article in the pamphlet was published in The Daily News on 29 March 1920. This newspaper, owned by the Cadbury family, who were Quakers, and edited by A.G. Gardiner, had constantly supported the cause of Irish freedom. Childers wrote the articles in the context of more forceful attempts by the British administration in Ireland to enforce the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA). His own house had been raided on 9 March 1920 and within a month some sixty Sinn Féiners were on hunger-strike in Mountjoy. Robert Brennan and Frank Gallagher of the Dail Eireann Propaganda Department, with whom Childers had co-operated since April 1919, provided important statistics for the articles by Childers. Military Rule in Ireland was first published on 19 July 1920 and within a month some 4,000 copies had been distributed, many going to America. A version in French, La Terreur Militaire en Irlande, was soon in print. The pamphlet remains a most valuable, if neglected, critique of English rule in Ireland at that time. The illustration on the upper cover is from a photo of a tank raid in Aungier Street, on Feb 20th, 1920.


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56. CHILDERS, Major E.S.E., & STEWART, R. The Story of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. Amplified and Republished by Captain R.F. Nation, Royal Fusiliers, Assistant Military Secretary. Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1921. pp. 95. Green cloth, title and badge of the Royal Hospital in gilt on upper cover. A fine copy. €125 57. CLANCY, John J. Ed. by. Short Lessons on the Irish Question; or, The Leaflets of the Irish Press Agency. Vol. 1 (Nos. 1-102). London: Irish Press Agency, 1890. Green paper boards, title on printed label on upper cover. Spine rebacked. Inscribed presentation copy from the editor to Henry Harrison, Esq., dated May, 1890. A very good copy. €285

COPAC locates 4 copies only. An excellent collection of articles on the Land War. The contents includes: Some Irish Eviction Scenes; Irish Landlordism; The Truth about Ulster; The Glenbeigh Atrocities; How Ireland is Governed; Why British Working-men should vote for Home Rule; Gladstone's Home Rule Bill; The Plan of Campaign; Outrages Real and Bogus; The Orange Pretences; The Truth about the National League; An Irish Peasant Martyr: Clanrickard's Tenants - Thomas Larkin; Unionist Tyranny in Ireland; Crimeless Ireland: Judge Waters - Waterford, Cavan, and Leitrim in 1887; Law and Order in Ireland; Why Ireland has hated English Rule; The Irish Police; Irish Prison Atrocities; Parnellism and Crime; Cohesion; Evictions and Crime; The Devil in Ireland; Outrage on Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P.; Parnell's Challenge; Jury-Packing in Ireland; Unionism at its Worst; Chamberlain Calumnies; How Irish Catholics are Slandered; Balfour as a Jailor, etc.

58. CLARKE, Thomas J. Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life. With an introduction by P.S. O'Hegarty. Dublin: Maunsel & Roberts, 1922. pp. xix, 104. Red cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A fine copy in rare dust jacket. Scarce. €165

Thomas J. Clarke (1857-1916), revolutionary, was born of Irish parents in the Isle of Wight. The family emigrated to South Africa, returned to Ireland and settled in Dungannon, when he was ten. He went to America in 1881, joined Clan na Gael, the American wing of the I.R.B. Two years later while on a mission to England, Clarke was arrested and sentenced to penal servitude for life. He served fifteen and a half years under severe conditions and on his release and return to Ireland he was made a freeman of the City of Limerick. Unable to get employment he emigrated to America in 1899, eight years later he returned home to Ireland and with his savings opened a tobacconist's and newsagent's


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shop at 75A Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), where he set about reorganising the I.R.B. He was the first Signatory to the Proclamation of Independence of the Irish Republic, and was shot in Kilmainham Jail on 3rd May, 1916, even though he was wounded.

59. COADY, Michael. Two For A Woman Three For A Man. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1980. pp. 34. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €35 60. COLLINS, Michael. The Path to Freedom. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1922. pp. 153. Grey cloth. Portrait of Collins and title in black on upper cover. Owner's signature and address on front endpaper. A very good copy. €245

Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of a small farmer. Educated locally and at the age of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post Office. He joined the IRB in London, during Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to James Connolly in the GPO. With The O'Rahilly led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916. After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed 'Twelve Apostles'. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation.

61. COLLINS, Michael. The Path to Freedom. Articles and Speeches by Michael Collins. Cork: The Mercier Press, 1968. pp. 127. A very good copy in illustrated green wrappers. €35

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 62. COLLINS, Tom. The Irish Hunger Strike. Dublin: White Island Book Company, 1986. pp. 626. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author. A fine copy. €45

EXTREMELY RARE CORK PRINTING 63. [COMMUNION] A Companion to the Altar: shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation. In order to our worthy Receiving the Holy Communion. Wherein those fears and scruples about eating and drinking unworthily, and of incurring our own damnation thereby ... To which are added, Prayers and Meditations, Preparative to a Sacramental Preparation, according to what the Church Of England requires from her Communicants. Cork: Printed by John Bolster, 7 Patrick-street, 1813. 12mo. pp. 104. Contemporary full tree calf. Wear to spine and corners. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475

No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. 64. CONMEE, Rev. John S. Old Times in the Barony. Illustrated. Dublin: C.T.S., n.d. (c.1910). pp. 36. Illustrated wrappers. Staples rusting. Very good. See illustration on previous page. €25

RARE FIRST EDITION 65. CONNOLLY, James. Labour in Ireland. I Labour in Irish History. II The Re-Conquest of Ireland. With an introduction by Robert Lynd. Dublin: Maunsel, 1917. First edition. pp. xxxviii, 346. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and in blind on upper cover. Some foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy of the rare first edition. €375

No copy located on COPAC. James Connolly (1868-1916), born in Edinburgh of Monaghan parents. Ex British Army, married a Wicklow lass. Came to Ireland in 1896 and founded The Worker's Republic, the first Irish socialist newspaper. Organised, trained and was Commandant of the Irish Citizen Army. When the secret military council of the I.R.B. called for an armed rising in 1916, Connolly was part of the organising team along with Pearse and McDonagh. He commanded the volunteers in the G.P.O. on Easter Monday and he was one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation. During the action in the G.P.O. he was badly wounded. Captured and court-martialled, he was executed by firing squad in Kilmainham, while tied to a chair as he could not stand. His writings are an invaluable source on the labour movement in Ireland.


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66. CONNOLLY, James. The Axe to the Root. New Edition, with Introduction and Old Wine in New Bottles (1914). Dublin: Irish Transport and General Workers Union, 1921. pp. 43. Stapled brown wrappers, titled in black on upper cover. A fine copy in binder's folder. €275

First Irish edition of this collection, first issued in America and republished by ITGWU in 1921. Arguing against sectional craft unions, and in favour of 'one big union'.

67. CONNOLLY, James. Labour Nationality and Religion. Dublin: Published by Cumannacht na hÉireann, 1920. pp. 68, [3]. Green stapled wrappers, printed in blue. A very good copy. Rare. €125 68. COOGAN, Tim Pat. The I.R.A. Illustrated. London: Pall Mall, 1970. First edition. pp. x, 373. Green buckram boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65

The author, a distinguished Irish journalist and historian, in writing this book had hundreds of interviews with the men and women connected with the I.R.A. A carefully researched account of 'the movement', its origins and campaigns.

69. COOGAN, Tim Pat. On The Blanket. The H-Block Story. Dublin: Ward River Press, 1980. pp. xii, 271. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €25 70. COOGAN, Tim Pat. Michael Collins. A Biography. Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1990. pp. xiv, 480. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45

EXTREMELY RARE CORK PRINTING 71. COOKE, Rev. Thomas. Analysis Linguæ. Teneris Puerorum Ingeniis Adaptata. For the use of Schools. By the Late Rev. Thomas Cooke, Master of the Endowed School of Middleton. Cork: Printed and sold by J. Geary, Bookseller, King's-Arms, Exchange, 1818. 12mo. pp. 127, 1 (advertisement). Contemporary full worn calf, author in gilt on green morocco letterpiece on spine. Lower board starting, some wear and scribbling to endpapers. Inscribed on titlepage 'Robert Henry Meade / Newborough, November 24th 1818'. A good copy. Extremely rare. €475

No copy located on COPAC. See illustration above. 72. [CORK ART GALLERIES] Áileir Ealaíon Corcaighe. Cork Art Galleries Catalogue. Crawford Municipal School of Art. Issued by the 'Gibson Bequest' and City of Cork Vocational Educational Committee. Introduction by Soirle M. MacCana, Principal and Director. Illustrated.


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Cork: 1953. pp. 54. Illustrated stiff wrappers. In very good condition. Rare. €125

The Bequest included some of the finest oil paintings by our Irish artists: Sean Keating, Leo Whelan, Sir William Orpen, Sir John Lavery, Jack B. Yeats, Sean O'Sullivan, Charles Lamb, J. Humbert Craig, Frank McEvilly, Walter Osborne, Paul Henry, Maurice McGonigal, etc. Also included are biographical notes on the artists.

RARE UNION PAMPHLETS PRINTED IN CORK 73. [CORK PRINTED PAMPHLETS] 1. An Answer to the Pamphlet, entitled Arguments for and Against an Union, &c. &c. in a Letter addressed to Edward Cooke, Esq. Secretary at War. By Pemberton Rudd. Cork: Connor, Haly, & M. Harris, 1798. pp. 20. Signature of Wm Baylor Hartland, Mallow, on page three. Repair to titlepage. ESTC N29369 gives 4 locations only. 2. Letter to Joshua Spencer, Esq. occasioned by the Thoughts of an Union. By a Barrister [William Johnson]. Cork: Printed by J. Haly, M. Harris, and J. Connor, Booksellers, 1798. pp. 18. Contemporary signature on titlepage. COPAC locates the York copy only. Not in NLI. 3. Cease Your Funning; or, the Rebel Detected [By Charles Kendal Bushe]. The fifth edition. Dublin: Printed and Cork re-printed by Edwards, Harris, and Connor, Booksellers, 1799. pp. 24. Name torn from top of titlepage. ESTC T194729 gives 3 locations only. 4. No Union! being an Appeal to Irishmen. By Matthew Weld, Esq. Barrister at Law. Cork: Printed by J. Haly, M. Harris, and J. Connor, 1798. pp. 23. ESTC T120848 gives 5 locations only. 5. Detached Thoughts on an Union, offered with all due respect, to the Irish Nation. By a Citizen of Cork. Cork: Printed by M. Harris, No. 6, Castle-Street, 1799. pp. 18. ESTC T164858 gives 2 locations only. 6. On the Causes, Cure, and Prevention of Fever. No titlepage. pp. 22. Not located on COPAC. 7. A Full and Accurate Report on the Debates in Parliament on the Catholic Claims in the House of Commons on Monday, May 3, 1819. In which the Eloquent Speeches of Mr. Grattan, Mr. Croker, Mr. Rixon Becher, Lord Normanby, &c. &c. are given at considerable length. Cork: Printed by John Connor, Grand-Parade, (1819). pp. [ii], 33. No copy located on COPAC. 8. Letters, &c. to Lord Grenville and Lord Howick. By a Protestant. pp. 46 (incomplete).


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9. The British Critic, for November, 1812. Being reviews of various journals. With the stamp of 'Dalys Club' on several pages. pp. 433-528. 10. An Exposé‚ of Grand Jury Affairs and City Rates of Cork, at Spring Assizes, 1819; containing much useful information & advice for the Inhabitants of the City, Suburbs, and Liberties. By John Reynolds, Esq. Cork: Printed by John Connor, Grand-Parade, 1819. pp. 19. No copy located on COPAC. 11. Supplement to the Trials of the Rev. Robert Morritt, A.M. Prebendary of Ross, Rector and Vicar of Castlehaven, and Domestic Chaplin to Field Marshal Lord Beresford, Duke of Elvas. By an Anti-Conspirator. Cork: Printed by John Connor, Grand-Parade, 1819. pp. 36. COPAC locates the BL copy only. Not in NLI. 12. Trial of Roger O'Connor, Esq. at the Assizes for the County of Meath, commenced at Trim, on Monday, August 4. Mr. Justice Daly presiding. S.n. pp. 18 (incomplete). 13. Report on the Trial in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, on the 22nd May, 1820, before the Rt. Hon. Lord Norbury, and a Special Jury, wherein Sir John Milley Doyle, K.C.B. was Plaintiff; and George Peter Browne, Esq. was Defendant, for Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife. The damages were laid at £30,000. Cork: Printed by J. Connor, (1820). pp. 30. No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. 14.The Matrimonial Miscellany, and Mirror of Human Nature. S.n. pp. 48. 15. 15. Sacred Oratorio. A Grand Selection of Sacred Music will be performed at Christ-Church, Cork, on Monday the 30th of March, 1818, for the Benefit of the Fever Hospitals. Under the patronage of the Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross, and a number of persons of the first distinction. Musical Committee: Major Woodward, Rev. Mr. Berkeley, Mr. W.E. Penrose, Mr. Hayes St. Leger, Mr. Waggett. Leader of the Band - Mr. Bowden; Organ - Mr. Gillespie; Piano Forte - Mr. J. Gillespie. The Band and Choruses will be completed on the grandest scale. Cork: Printed by John Connor, Grand-Parade, (1818). pp. 11. No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. The fifteen pamphlets are bound together in recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Occasional light water staining, a few ink stains and thumbing. Exceedingly rare. €2,250

74. CORKERY, Daniel. The Hidden Ireland. A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1967. pp. 285. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €15

Daniel Corkery's study of Irish poetry and culture in eighteenth century Munster is widely acknowledged as having had a profound influence on the shaping of modern Anglo-Irish literature. The author traces the origins of the Bardic Schools, with chapters on the Poets, Aodhagan O'Rathaille, Eoghan Ruadh O'Suilleabháin, Brian Merriman and other minor poets.

75. [CORK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION] Cork Industrial Exhibition, 1883. Report of executive committee, awards of jurors, and statement of accounts. Cork: Purcell and Company, Publishers, Patrick Street, 1886. pp. [6], [1] 2-446, [8]. Cloth with elaborate Celtic design in gilt on upper cover. Recased. Some fading, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €385

COPAC locates only 2 copies. "Before our paper reaches the hands of our readers, this Exhibition will have been opened in due form by the Lord-Lieutenant, and the good citizens of the "beautiful city," as it is called par excellence, with many a stranger from the surrounding districts will be crowding its hills; upwards of 4,000 season tickets having been sold within four days … The Exhibition Building, filled with the various objects of art and industry, now presents a brilliant coup d'oeil. The splendid arch of the dome, with its moulded cornice, adorned with shields and banners, supported on retiring columns backed with crimson drapery, overshadows a lengthened perspective of beautiful statuary, gems of art, gushing fountains, and gorgeous fabrics, whose converging lines from floor, wall, and ceiling meet and concentrate on a magnificent organ. At the rear of the Exhibition Buildings, and adjoining the southern street, are the Banquet-hall, the reception-room, &c. The Banquet-hall, which is capable of entertaining five hundred persons, is 90 feet by 70 feet, and 40 feet high, beautifully decorated, and having nine splendid glass lustres to be lighted with gas … Cork is like a bee-hive-full of life, expectation, energy, bustle, and business; a great impetus has been given to trade; human industry is awake and active". [I.L.N.]


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76. COSGRAVE, Dillon. North Dublin City and Environs. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society, 1909. pp. [v], 157. Green cloth, title and emblem of C.T.S. in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €65

With descriptions of the inner city, Drumcondra, Ballybough, Fairview, Santry, Clontarf, Marino etc. 77. COSTELLO, Mrs. Amhrain Mhuighe Seola. Traditional folk songs from Galway and Mayo. Collected and edited by Mrs. Costello. Dublin: Talbot, 1923. Quarto. pp. xvii, 150. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. Scarce. €165

There are eighty songs in all collected by Mrs. Costello, with the words, music and historical background. Edward Martyn is acknowledged in the introduction.

78. COSTELLO, Nuala. Ed. by. Two Diaries of the French Expedition, 1798. Dublin: Stationery Office for The Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1941 (Analecta Hibernica No. 11). pp. 174. Ex. lib. with stamps. Very good in stiff printed wrappers. €95 79. CRAIG, Maurice. The Elephant and the Polish Question. Dublin: Liliput Press, 1990. First edition. pp. viii, 278. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €35 80. [CRANFORD, James. / PARTINGTON, Thomas] The Teares of Ireland. Wherein is lively presented as in a Map, a List of the unheard off Cruelties and perfidious Treacheries of bloud-thirsty Jesuits and the Popish Faction. As a warning piece to her Sister Nations to prevent the like miseries, as are now acted on the Stage of this fresh bleeding Nation. Reported by Gentlemen of good Credit living there, but forced to flie for their lives, as Jobs Messengers, to tell us what they have heard and seene with their eyes, illustrated by Pictures. Fit to be reserved by all true Protestants as a Monument of their perpetual reproach and ignominy and to animate the Spirits of Protestants against such bloudy Villians. London: Printed by A.N. for John Rothwell, and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Sun, 1642.Octavo. pp. [xvii], 80 (including 24 woodcuts). Bound by Bedford in mid to late nineteenth-century maroon morocco. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets, four-edges and turn-ins gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and place of publication in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral design with a shamrock in the centre; comb-marbled endpapers, green red and cream endbands. Expert paper restoration to margins of A4, A5 and F2. Lower cover lightly sun-tanned along top. All edges gilt. A fine copy of an exceedingly rare book and remarkable find. €8,750


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Wing C 6824. Sweeney 1242. ESTC R32373 with 9 locations only. One of the most horrific accounts relating to the history of Ireland, with 24 graphic illustrations, attributed to Wenceslas Hollar, the majority showing gruesome scenes of torture and rape, that would match any piece of modern sado-masochistic literature. These were cut out by the colonists as a warning and by the natives as a libel. This is the rarest of all the contemporary books or tracts which relate to the momentous and savage acts of this period of Irish history. Cranford's lachrymosity was produced by the Rebellion of 1641. It was the first time that the 'Irish Question' had begun to flood the press in England and from that time onwards many hundreds of propagandist pamphlets were published. Its rarity is demonstrated in that despite its notoriety, Harvard and the Washington Folger Shakespeare remain the only American Libraries reporting copies. Of those that have been examined, a proportion, unlike our copy have been found lacking two leaves marked * and beginning "to confirme the truth of these ensuing tragick stories". The explanation for this additional material seem simple - to bolster the horrific stories and pictures in the book itself. According to this statement it was "read the fourteenth of December, in the Honourable House of Commons … It was also read in a publike Congregation in London, by an eminent Minister of the Fast day for Ireland to stir up the bowels of pity towards them"; and afterwards "entered into the journals of both Houses". Shane Leslie tells us that it is so rare that collectors have to content themselves with the Dutch translation. Indeed few collectors or institutions can boast a copy of this almost unique item. Consisting of eighty pages of text, twenty-four illustrations and eighteen pages of preliminary matter: (1) a Letter by Thos. Partington 'read in a publike Congregation in London to stir up bowels of pitty towards them' - the Irish Protestants; (2) an address by Cranford to the reader; (3) Ireland's warning to England advising her to beware of "them that I have too long trusted and harboured in my bosome, I meane bloudy Papists". Usually attributed to Cranford, whose signature appears only at the end of the preface.

81. [CRESWICK, Thomas] Picturesque Scenery in Ireland. Drawn by Thomas Creswick, R.A. Engraved on Steel. With descriptive jottings by A Tourist. London: Virtue, n.d. (c.1880). Small quarto. pp. x, 126. Green cloth over bevelled boards, decorated in gilt to a panel design on upper cover. Occasional light foxing. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €235


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82. CRONIN, Sean. & ROCHE, Richard. Freedom the Wolfe Tone Way. With an introduction by Jack Bennett. Tralee: Anvil Books Ltd., 1973. pp. 242. Fine in illustrated wrappers. €10 83. CRONIN, Sean. The McGarrity Papers. Revelations of the Irish Revolutionary Movement in Ireland and America 1900-1940. Tralee: Anvil Books Ltd., 1972. pp. 214. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €15 84. CRONIN, Sean. Frank Ryan The Search for the Republic. Illustrated. Dublin: Repsol Publishing, 1980. pp. 284. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Fine in dust jacket. €75

The story of Frank Ryan, an Irish Republican, historian and veteran of the Spanish Civil War. 85. CRONIN, Sean. Irish Nationalism. A History of its Roots and Ideology. Dublin: The Academy Press, 1980. pp. 391. Green paper boards, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 86. CRONIN, Seán. Wolfe Tone. Dublin: Published by The Dublin Directory Wolfe Tone-Bi-Centenary, June, 1963. pp. 52. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €25

Includes a glossary with biographical details of the main protagonists. 87. CROZIER, F.P., Brigadier-General. Ireland For Ever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. Second impression. pp. 301. Orange cloth, title in green on spine. A very good copy. €75

Crozier, Frank Percy (1879–1937), soldier and RIC officer, was born in India, only son of Maj. Burrard R. Crozier, Royal Scots Fusiliers, and his wife Rebecca Frances, daughter of J. W. Percy, RM. He spent his early years at Oatlands, Castleknock which he referred to as those "happy years". Major Percy served in the 9th Regiment of Foot in the Crimea, and was later Resident Magistrate at Portumna, County Galway, and was under constant protection of the RIC owing to the Clanricarde clearances. Samuel Murray Hussey his great-great-uncle, the well-known land agent in Kerry and one of the best hated men in Ireland at that time who was being constantly blown up or shot at; Col. Richard Malone of Baronston, County Westmeath, an uncle; and Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, a cousin. Crozier was educated at Wellington, spent much of his youth at his aunt's house in Castleknock, in Kerry, Westmeath, and Limerick. He was appointed in August 1920 (and enrolled on 4 August under RIC service number 72229) to command the new force later known as 'Auxiliary Division, RIC', a name he may have coined. His task was to form, train, equip, and deploy units; but he did not control operations, and his power of dismissal – the main disciplinary weapon – was curtailed in early November. By the time of 'Bloody Sunday' Crozier was aware of lawless action among Auxiliaries, some of which he ascribed to the malign influence of an 'inner crew', a shadowy group of officials, politicians, and others. On 23 November, after investigating incidents of this type, he was injured in a car crash and incapacitated for several weeks, during which K Company of the Division burned parts of Cork city. Among many other incidents, a store in Trim, County Meath, was looted and burned by the same company members. When Crozier summarily dismissed twenty-one men, Gen. H. H. Tudor, chief of police, reinstated them pending a full inquiry, and Crozier - asserting that this had been done for fear of what they might reveal – resigned (19 February) amid public controversy. He later asserted that Tudor ('too nice a man') and Gen. Sir Nevill Macready, military commander-in-chief, had been dominated by 'a small, silent, powerful, unscrupulous, and vicious gang of men'. He never held another official post, and died in August 1937. He wrote several books of memoirs and A word to Gandhi: the lesson of Ireland (1931) and worked for the League of Nations Union and Peace Pledge Union. Crozier married (1904) Ethel, daughter of Col. R. Cobb of the Indian Medical Service; after her death (1921), he married Grace Catherine, daughter of Dr Croker Roberts of County Leitrim.

LORD ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR'S COPY 88. CUFFE, Otway Wheeler. Records of the Waterford Militia, 1584 to 1885: Waterford Artillery Militia now the 6th Brigade, South Irish Division, Royal Artillery. Illustrated. [Waterford: S.n.], circa 1885. pp. [11], xi, [3], 148, [1], xvi, [34]. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Ticket of Andrews Binders, Waterford, on front pastedown. Signed by the author. Inscribed on half title in pencil "Field Marshal / Lord Roberts / of Kandahar and Waterford / The Rt. Hon. Frederick Sleigh / First Baron. V.C. / Hon. Lt. Colonel 1896 / of the / Waterford Artillery / (Southern Division R.A.) / 22 August '96". Lord Roberts' copy with two autographed letters signed by him to the author, discussing the history of the regiment in the


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American wars. In the second letter Lord Roberts thanks Major Cuffe for sending on the Waterford Militia book. All edges red. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,250

COPAC locates the BL copy only. Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914), 1st Earl Roberts, also Baron Roberts of Kandahar, was born in Cawnpore, India. British field Marshal, he was an outstanding military commander. Roberts first distinguished himself during the suppression of the Indian Mutiny (1857-58). In the Second Afghan War (1878-80) he defeated Ayub Khan and his army near Qandahār. In the South African War (1899-1902), he ended a succession of British defeats; captured Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State Republic and annexed that Boer state as the Orange River Colony. Later he was the last commander in chief of the British Army, an office that was later abolished. Foreseeing World War I, he was one of the earliest advocates of compulsory military service. Bound in at end are three brochures: Waterford Artillery Militia, 1893, Presentation to Major Otway Wheeler Cuffe, Late Adjutant Waterford Artillery Militia, by The Staff Sergeants of the Regiment; Testimonials and Services of Major Otway Wheeler Cuffe, Adjutant 6th Brigade, South Irish Division, Royal Artillery, late Waterford Artillery Militia. The regimental song of the Waterford Militia was 'for our Queen and for our Country'.


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89. CUNNINGHAM, Janet. A fine photograph of Janet Cunningham with walking cane, dressed in a tweed suit, standing on rocks with a good view of the mountains of West Donegal in the background. 15.5x 20.5cms. In fine condition. €165 Janet Cunningham made her career in England where she had a great gift in dealing with young people, preparing them for life, as well as educating them. She was in charge of the boarding house at St. Paul's Girls' School. When she retired, she went to live in her native county Donegal (National Library of Ireland manuscripts Department note). A committed supporter of Irish Arts & Crafts, Cunningham subscribed to Cuala Press and bought material produced by Jack B. Yeats. Her portrait was painted by Mrs. Margaret Clarke, wife of Harry Clarke. 90. [CURRY, John] Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion, In the Year 1641; Extracted from Parliamentary Journals, State-Acts, And the most Eminent Protestant Historians, (Together with an

Appendix, containing Several authentic Papers relating to this Rebellion, not referred to in these Memoirs.) In a Letter to Walter Harris, Esq; occasioned by His Answer to a late Dialogue on the Causes, Motives, and Mischiefs of this Rebellion. London: Printed in the Year 1758. 12mo. xxix, [1], 32-316. Recent full calf. Early owner's signatures on dedication leaf, errata and contents. Water staining to first gathering, repair to titlepage. A good copy. Rare. €250

ESTC T146947. Not in Gilbert. Bradshaw 5637 lists the 1767 edition. Anonymous. By John Curry. In answer to W. Harris' 'Fiction unasked; or an answer to a dialogue, lately published by a Popish physician', Dublin, 1752, which was probably a criticism of Curry's Brief account from the most authentic Protestant writers &c., of the Irish rebellion 1641, London, 1747. John Curry, a descendant of the ancient family of O'Corra of Cavan, was a medical doctor and historian of note. His grandfather commanded a troop of horse at the battle of Aughrim for the Jacobites, after which the family's fortunes changed for the worse. Losing their lands in Cavan, the author's father took to commerce thus enabling young John to have a decent education. Due to his religion he was disqualified from attending the university at Dublin. He therefore studied medicine at Paris and obtained a diploma for the practice of physic at Rheims. Returning to Dublin he rose to prominence as a physician and in his spare time concentrated on the history of his native land. To counteract the prejudices against his fellow Catholics caused by the sermons preached annually at Christ Church on the memorial day of the bloody Irish rebellion of 1641, he published a Dialogue in 1747. Its publication created a great sensation, and was attacked in a pamphlet by Walter Harris ["a gentleman unversed in the philosophy of history, and flagrantly abusive ..." - C. O'Conor]. Curry responded with his Historical Memoirs which was well received.

91. CUSACK, M.F. A History of The Irish Nation. Social, ecclesiastical, biographical, industrial and antiquarian. Illustrated. London, Murdoch, 1876. Quarto. pp. xvi, 956. Bound in contemporary full morocco, elaborately blocked in gilt with the harp of Erin, surmounted by a crown, surrounded by a cluster of shamrocks with the legend 'Erin Go Brath' in a scroll crossed with battleaxes and spears; underneath a Celtic scene of a warrior, harpist, bishop, boy soldier


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with hounds; in the distance a monastery, round tower and castle. Spine divided into five compartments by four raised bands, title in gilt in the second, the remainder tooled to a centre-and-corner design. A.e.g. Head and tail bands. Edges of boards with brass surround and clasps. Spine expertly rebacked preserving original. Ex libris Christian Brothers O'Brien Institute. Very good. Scarce. €475


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92. [D 83222] I Did Penal Servitude. By D. 83222. With a preface by Sean O Faolain. Dublin: Metropolitan Publishing, 1945. First edition. pp. xiv, [1], 243. Quarter yellow cloth on cream boards, title in purple on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €65 93. D'ALTON, John. Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List (1689). Second edition, enlarged. Two volumes. Dublin: Published by the Author for the Subscribers, n.d. (1860). pp. (1) xxiii, 462, (2) [ii], 808. Titles printed in red and black. Signature of Lt. Colonel O'Donevan, Royal Artillery on front endpaper. Spines rebacked. A very good set. Very scarce. €345

After the fall of Limerick countless thousands of Irishmen left their native soil to fight on foreign fields and were known to posterity as "The Wild Geese". Sadly it was the start of Irish emigration which has cursed this island for centuries. This work along with O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades in the Service of France is the most authoritative source and a mine of information for the students of Irish military history. With copious historical and genealogists notes.

94. [DAVIES, Sir John] A Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued, nor brought under Obedience of the Crowne of England, untill the beginning of his Maiesties happie raine, James 1st. Printed exactly from the edition of 1612. With the addition of the author's life; and a compleat index to the work. Dublin: Printed for Richard Watts in Skinner-Row, and Laurence Flin, in Castle-Street, 1761. pp. [2], xii, 196, 12. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt and blind. Titlepage soiled, lacking six leaves of index at end. Early owner's signature on front endpapers. Inscription on dedication leaf to L. Conner. Scarce. €135

ESTC T134675. Referenced by: Higgs, 2609. Referenced by: Goldsmiths' 9651. This is a superb analysis in which Davies points out the various problems which had delayed the conquest. Sir John Davies (1569-1626), political writer and historian, was born in Wiltshire and educated at Winchester and Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1595 but was disbarred in 1598 for beating a fellow-student in the public hall. He was author of a well-known poem Nosce Teipsum, and other writings flattering to the vanity of Queen Elizabeth, which restored him to favour. He was an active member of the English Parliament of 1601, and James I, in testimony of his admiration of Nosce Teipsum, appointed him Solicitor-General of Ireland in 1603, and Attorney General in 1606, in which capacity he was one of the first judges who administered the English law in Ulster. He spent his leisure in studying the history and institutions of Ireland, and thereby acquired the knowledge of the country and interest in her affairs that distinguish his writings. The conclusion he arrives at in the present work are: "First, the armies for the most part are too weak for a conquest; secondly, when they were of competent strength they were too soon broken up and dissolved; thirdly, they were ill paid; and fourthly, they were ill governed, which is always the consequent of ill-payment … The clock of the civil government is now well set; the strings of the Irish harp … are all in tune, and make a good harmony in the commonwealth; so we may well conceive a hope that Ireland … will from henceforth prove a land of peace and concord". It affords the most candid, graphic, and able summary of the vicissitudes of Ireland at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was speaker of the Irish Parliament of 1615 that repealed the Statute of Kilkenny. He died in London in 1626 shortly after being appointed Lord Chief Justice of England. Allibone says "In versatility of talent, brilliancy of imagination, political wisdom, and literary taste, few Englishmen have equalled Sir John Davies".

95. DE BLACAM, Aodh. The Life Story of Wolfe Tone. Set in a Picture of his Times. With portrait frontispiece. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1935. First edition. pp. 225. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Some minor wear to cover, otherwise a very good copy. €30 96. DE BLÁCAM, Aodh. Gaelic Literature Surveyed. Second and revised edition. Frontispiece. Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, n.d. Second edition. pp. xvi, 390. Title printed in green and black. Quarter brown arlin on green cloth boards, title in green on spine. Owner's signature and bookplate on front pastedown. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. €65

The author seeks: "to describe Gaelic literature, its interest and its charm, as they appear to the Irishman of today, and to supply a sort of chart of the literature surveyed, so that the reader will be able to distinguish the different schools and movements of Irish letters". The contents include: The Gaelic Language and its Genius; Old and Middle Irish Literature; The Fenian Cycle; Bardic Schools and Prosody; Bardic Poetry: Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century; Bardic


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Poetry: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Other Syllabic Poetry; Early Modern Prose; The Stress Metres; The Seventeenth Century Prose Writers; The Seventeenth Century Verse; Writers of the Penal Age; Scots Gaelic and Manx Literature; A Century of Revival.

97. DE MANDAT-GRANCEY, The Baron. Paddy at Home. ("Chez Paddy"). Translated by A.P. Morton. Second edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. pp. xvi, 307. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Minor wear to head and tail of spine, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €165

A Frenchman's account of Ireland, its socio-economic and political problems at the close of the nineteenth century. The chapters include notices of: The Land League; Castle Connell; The Shannon; Limerick; Mallow; Killarney; A Dinner in Kerry; Advice to tourists on the art of kissing Englishwomen; Captain Moonlight; Boycotting; Anglers on the Shannon; How we travel in Kerry; The distress of tax-payers at Kenmare; Meeting the Irish Constabulary; The Cork Defence Union; Pretty Miss M'Carthy and her leg of mutton; Christmas Night 1880 at Shaunganeen, etc. The author in the preface states: "The Irish attribute their misery to England's tyranny; the English, indignant at the accusation, reply that the laws that rule Ireland are the same which render the English people rich and prosperous; they assert the Irish have only themselves to blame for their misery ... It was in order to verify this theory that I determined last year to go and pass some weeks in Ireland. The notes which I now ask you to read have been collected from day to day. As far as possible, I have named the persons who have given me information, and designated by their right names the localities through which I passed".

HIS GENIUS WAS RECOGNISED

BY PATRONS OF LITERATURE 98. DERMODY, Thomas. The Harp of Erin, containing the Poetical Works of the late Thomas Dermody. Two volumes. London: Printed for Richard Phillips by T. Gillet, 1807. First collected edition. pp. (1) xvi, 287, (2) vii, 312. Recent quarter calf with decorated spines. A very nice set. Very rare. €385

Thomas Dermody (1775-1802), poet, born at Ennis where his father, Nicholas, was a schoolmaster. Educated by his father, a brilliant pupil, who afterwards taught classics in his father's school, where it is said he was classical assistant at the age of nine. When he was about fifteen he ran away to Dublin, where he met several people of distinction. Rev. Gilbert Austin, rector of Maynooth, arranged for the publication of his first poems in 1789. He was employed for a time in Matthias Lynch's second-hand bookshop in Stephen Street. Following this he was adopted and patronised by the Dowager Countess of Moira. She placed him with a Mr. Boyd at Killeagh, where Dermody acquired a complete knowledge of French and Italian. When he was only sixteen years old, he was introduced to Henry Grattan to whom he sent a poem on the Whig Club. Grattan quoted from this poem in one of his speeches. Dermody enlisted in the 108th Regiment in the British army as a private soldier, was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and served abroad with distinction. He was wounded, returned to England on half pay. Like his father alcoholism wrecked his health and career, and he died in destitute circumstances in a hovel at Sydenham, Kent, on 15th July, 1802. He is buried in Lewisham Churchyard where there is a monument to his memory. His collected poems were published posthumously by his biographer, James Grant Raymond in 1806.

99. DE TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis. Journeys to England and Ireland. Translated by George Lawrence and K.P. Mayer. Edited by J.P. Mayer. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, n.d. (c.1958). pp. 243. Blue cloth, titled in yellow on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. € 65 100. DE VALERA, Eamon. Ireland's Case Against Conscription. Dublin and London: Maunsell, 1918. pp. iv, 46. Green paper wrappers, title printed in black on upper cover. Very good. €225

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 stemmed from a move by the Government of the United Kingdom to impose conscription in Ireland, and contributed to pivotal events in early 20th century politics in Ireland, galvanising popular support for parties favouring separation from the United Kingdom. From early 1918, the British Army were dangerously short of troops for the Western Front. In the German Spring Offensive of 1918, German troops broke through the Allied lines in several sectors of the front in France, with a local advantage in numbers of four to one, putting severe strain on the Allied armies. The British Army, in one day, suffered a stunning setback, with the enemy overrunning ninety-eight square miles of territory, and penetrating, at the furthest point, to a depth of four and a half miles. In addressing this grave military situation, the British Government decided to extend conscription to


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Ireland, (conscription in Britain started in January 1916), as an untapped reservoir of manpower for the front through a new Military Service Bill, as well as proposing a new Home Rule Bill. This had the effect of alienating both nationalists and unionists in Ireland. Despite opposition from the entire Irish Parliamentary Party, conscription for Ireland was voted through at Westminster. The nine Anti-Conscription Committee members Griffith, de Valera, Dillon, Devlin, O'Brien, Johnson, Egan, Healy, O'Brien on 18 April 1918, acting on a resolution of Dublin Corporation, the Lord Mayor of Dublin (Lawrence O'Neill) held a conference at the Mansion House, Dublin. The Irish Anti-Conscription Committee was convened to devise plans to resist conscription, and represented different sections of nationalist opinion: John Dillon and Joseph Devlin for the Irish Parliamentary Party, Eamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith for Sinn Féin, William O'Brien and Timothy Michael Healy for the All-for-Ireland Party and Michael Egan, Thomas Johnson and W X O'Brien representing Labour and the Trade Unions. From both assemblies came an anti-conscription pledge to be taken at the church door of every parish the next Sunday, 21 April, which read: "Denying the right of the British government to enforce compulsory service in this country, we pledge ourselves solemnly to one another to resist conscription by the most effective means at our disposal".

101. DEVLIN, Paddy. Yes We Have No Bananas. Outdoor Relief in Belfast 1920-39. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1981. pp. ix, 195. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €15 102. DILLON, Martin & LEHANE, Denis. Political Murder in Northern Ireland. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1973. First edition. pp. 318. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €15 103. DINNEEN, Rev. Patrick. & O'DONOGHUE, Tadhg. Ed. by. Dánta Aodhagáin Uí Rathaille. The Poems of Egan O'Rahilly. With introduction, translation, notes and indexes together with Original Illustrative Documents. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Frontispiece. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society. 1911. First edition. pp. lxii, 360. Light fading to cover and spine, otherwise a very good copy. €45 104. DOHERTY, William James. Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of Antiquities and Writers of the County of Donegal. Second series. Illustrated. Dublin: Traynor, 1895. pp. [xii], 609. Brown cloth. Title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 105. DONAGHY, Lyle. Into the Light, and Other Poems. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934. Title device printed in red and also one page of text in red. Quarter linen on brown paper boards, title printed in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Edition limited to 200 copies [for the author]. A fine copy. €375

Miller p. 130. Privately published item from the collection of Lily Yeats, elder sister of the Cuala proprietor Elizabeth Corbet Yeats.

MAC SWINE OF THE BATTLE AXE 106. [DONEGAL] Illustrated Handbook of the Scenery and Antiquities of South-Western Donegal, comprising sketches of its mountains, its cliffs and its passes, its holy wells, its old castles and abbeys, its ancient stone crosses, giants' graves, and other remarkable cyclopean remains; with historical notes on that once famous clan in Tír-Connell, Mac Swine of the Battle Axe, and its warrior chieftain, Niall-Mor: to which is added, notices of that far-famed place of pilgrimage, Lough Derg, and of Tory Island, blessed by the labours of the great St. Columb-Cill. With notes of the road for tourists to the wilds. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1872. pp. ii, 128. Previous owner's bookplate and signature. Original worn green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Very rare. €275

COPAC lists the BL copy only. The National Library of Ireland Catalogue ascribes the authorship to Monsignor James Stephens.

SIGNED BY TONY DONOHOE 107. DONOHOE, Tony. Local Songs, Poems and Ballads from the Shadow of Nephin. Illustrated. Ballina: 1996. First edition. pp. 67. Illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author. A fine copy. Rare. €45

Included in this excellent collection compiled by one of Mayo's finest historians: Castle Hill Evicted Tenants; The Crossmolina Conspiracy; Ballad on the Death of Archbishop John McHale; Coolnabinna;


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Daisy in the Glen; The Immigrants Return; Flow Gentle Moy; God be With Mayo, etc. 108. DONOVAN, Patrick. Cuimhnighimíd 1798-1948. Military Tattoo Commemorating the Battle of Ross by the Ross Battalion, F.C.A. in Barrett's Park, New Ross. Sat. & Sun. 5th & 6th June, 1948 at 10 p.m. Souvenir Programme containing Special Study of Contemporary Ross and of the Battle. New Ross: Printed by "The New Ross Standard", 1948. pp. 32. Illustrated frayed wrappers. Very good. €65 109. [DUBLIN '98] Dublin '98 Programme 1798 - 1998. Introduction by Tommy Graham. Dublin: Printech, pp. 28. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €10 110. [DUBLIN DRAMA LEAGUE] A Collection of 12 Programmes for productions by The Dublin Drama League (1919-1929). Dublin: Printed by Corrigan and Wilson, 1919/1929. Royal octavo folded sheet. In very good condition. Rare collection. €375

Founded by Lennox Robinson and W. B. Yeats and with an administrative address at Yeats' home, 82, Merrion Square in October 1918, the aim of the Dublin Drama League was to introduce European and American experimental drama to Dublin audiences. The League regularly used the Abbey Theatre stage on Sunday and Monday evenings. The first season opened with Srgjan Tucic's 'The Liberators' on 17 February, 1919. The programme for this initial production is present in this collection. Dublin Drama League programmes carry impressive cover designs initially by George Atkinson, typographer, printmaker and graphic artist and subsequently by Harry Clarke, renowned for his book illustration and stained glass work. [Steenson B61 and B65] Clarke's first design (reference by Steenson B61) was first used for Arthur Shield's production of Part I of August Strindberg's Dance of Death on November 29 and 30, 1925. That design: was abandoned after objections were raised to the bizarre company depicted. The new design (reference by Steenson B65) was first used for Lennox Robinson's production of Luigi Pirandello's The Games as he Played It on November 27 and 28, 1927 - "a light-hearted piece showing a vampish lady manipulating a row of marionettes, one of which is W.B. Yeats as a gangster shooting another of the puppet figures in the leg" - (Nicola Gordon Bowe). The actors during this period included such greats as: Eileen Crowe, Grattan Esmonde, Maureen Delaney, Paul Ruttledge, Rutherford Mayne, Michael Scott, Shelah Richards, Arthur Shields and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald, etc.

111. [DUBLIN DRAMA LEAGUE] Invitation Card to a Garden Party and Fete under the auspices of Dublin Drama League to be held on Saturday, June 20th, 1936 in the grounds of Corbawn, Shankill (by kind invitation of Mrs. W.R. Nolan). 123 x 90mm. In fine condition. €65

The committee included: Mrs. W.B. Yeats, Mrs. F.B. Craig, Lord Longford and Lennox Robinson. 112. [DUBLIN GUIDE] Baile Átha Cliath. Dublin Official Guide. Illustrated. Dublin: The Irish Tourist Association, n.d. (c.1931). pp. 160. Green cloth embossed in gilt on upper cover. A fine copy. €35


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113. DUPIN, Charles. Narratives of Two Excursions to the Ports of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in 1816, 1817, and 1818; together with a description of the Breakwater at Plymouth, and also of the Caledonian Canal. Translated from the French of Charles Dupin, Captain in the Corps of Naval Engineers, and member of the Institute of France; and illustrated by notes, critical and explanatory, By the Translator. London: Printed for Richard Phillips; by G. Sidney, Northumberland-Street, Strand, n.d. (c.1819). First edition. pp. viii, 96. Publishers purple cloth, author in gilt on spine. Bookplate of Lionel H. Shore on front pastedown. A very good copy. Rare. €375

COPAC locates 4 copies only. Illustrated with a chart of Plymouth Sound and coloured engraved plate of the Breakwater.

114. [DWYER, Philip] A Hand Book to Lisdoonvarna and its Vicinity. With map and woodcuts. Giving a detailed account of its curative waters, and tours to the principal places of interest in the County Clare. Ennis: Clasp Press, 1998. pp. [vi], xv, 118. Black paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €35

A fine reprint of a rare book first published in Dublin by Hodges Foster & Co. in 1878. 115. DWYER, T. Ryle. Michael Collins and the Treaty. His Differences with de Valera. Dublin: Mercier Press, 1981. pp. 172, 8 (publisher's list). Fine in illustrated wrappers. €35

To the 'Big Fella' the signing of the Treaty between Ireland and Britain in 1921 was a "Stepping Stone". The 'Long Fella' called it Treason.

116. EGAN, Pierce. Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the Chase, the Ring, and the Stage. Interspersed with Original Memoirs of Sporting Men, etc. Dedicated to George Osbaldeston, Esq. In twenty five parts. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes. London: T.T. and J. Tegg, 1832. First edition. Printed by J. Haddon, Castle Street, Finsbury. pp. 414. (with index). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title and author in gilt on contrasting labels on gilt decorated spine. Armorial bookplate of C. Beaufort Hunt on front pastedown. First gathering damp stained. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. €265


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117. ELMES, Rosalind M. Catalogue of Engraved Irish Portraits mainly in the Joly Collection and of original drawings. Dublin: Stationery Office, n.d. (c.1937). First edition. pp. [vii], 279, [1]. Green buckram, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. Some minor fading to lower part of upper board. A very good copy. €65

INTELLECTUAL, SUBTLE, ALLEGORICAL, MYSTICAL ERIGENA. 118. ERIGENA [Johannes Scotus] Joannis Scoti Erigenae De Divisione Naturae. Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1681. Folio. pp. [xiv], 63, 66-98, 97-98, 101-104, 103-312, [iv], 88. Complete in spite of erratic pagination. The appendix with separate divisional titlepage with Latin and Greek text in parallel columns. Two parts in one volume. Contemporary full English calf, spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. €6,750

Wing J 747 Sweeney 1808. ESTC R24414. Exceedingly rare first edition of Erigena's magnum opus: "The one important philosophical thinker to appear in Latin Christendom between Augustine in the fifth century and Anselm in the eleventh". John Scotus Erigena was born in Ireland about 810 and educated there. The greatest Irishman abroad of the ninth century, famous as linguist, philosopher and Greek scholar. Around 845 he was head of the Palace School at the court of Charles the Bald in France. His translation of the Pseudo-Dionysius from the Greek astonished the Papal librarian. While all around him, his contemporaries were content to try to understand their faith and to grasp the rudiments of knowledge, John ventured on new paths. Where his fellows hardly looked beyond the elementary questions of theology, contained in the writings of the Fathers, and kept within the bounds of the 'trivium', John constructed an entire system largely under the influence of Greek thought. At a time when the world around him limited itself to Latin culture, he took in that of Greece as well. The immediate consequence of this contact was the composition between 864 and 866 of Erigena's work, the De Divisione Naturae, in which the Western and Eastern forms of Neo-Platonism are synthesized within a Christian context. It is accompanied here by his translation of the 'Scholia Maximi' in 'Gregorium Theologium' which also appears in print for the first time. Professor John O'Meara writing on 'Impassioned Intellectualism: or, The Irish and Neo-Platonism' in Long Room 1992 states: "Although his writing is in Latin and his material is for the most part dictated by the great Master Augustine, its real inspiration and effective character comes from the Greek". He goes on to say that his speculation: "was intellectual, subtle, allegorical, mystical". He has been described as: "One of the most striking personalities in the world of culture and learning in the early Middle Ages". For an Oxford imprint of the second half of the seventeenth century this is a surprisingly rare book. New Wing, J747, records only the William A. Clark, Harvard, Minnesota University, and Cushing Library (Yale) copies in the U.S.A.

119. ESPINASSE, Isaac. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius : in the Courts of King's Bench, and Common Pleas, from Easter term 33 George III. 1793, to Hilary term 36 George III. 1796. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. J. Exshaw, P. Byrne, J. Moore, W. Jones, and J. Rice, 1797. pp. [1], viii, 500. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate of James Fitz Gerald on front pastedown. Wear to spine ends and corners, inoffensive water stain to prelims. A good fresh copy. Very rare. €235

ESTC N61529 locates 7 copies only, all in North America. 120. FENNING, Hugh. The Undoing of the Friars of Ireland: A study of the novitiate question in the eighteenth century. Louvain: U.P., 1972. pp. xxii, 410. White stiff printed wrappers. Top edge uncut. A fine copy. €65 121. FERRAR, John. A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A Tour of Bellevue in the County of Wicklow, the seat of Peter La Touche, Esq; Knight of the Shire for the County of Leitrim. Embellished with numerous engravings. Bound with: A Tour from Dublin to London, in 1795, through the Isle of Anglesea, Bangor, Conway, Llangollen, Shrewsbury, Stratford on Avon, Blenheim, Oxford, Windsor, Hampton Court, Twickenham and Kensington. List of subscribers. Two volumes in one. Dublin: 1796. pp. [iv], viii, 140, iv, 136, 8 (plates). Modern half calf on cloth boards, title in gilt on double black morocco labels on spine. With neat stamp of Trinity College Dublin History Society on a few pages. A very good copy. Very scarce. €650

Captain William Ferrar, a descendant of Nicholas, came to Ireland in the army of King William, and


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settling in Limerick after the siege, he married Marie, the daughter of Richard Lloyd, of Drumsallagh, in that county. William Ferrar, a son of this marriage, took to the family trade of bookselling and bookbinding, and his son John was Limerick's most famous printer and first historian. Ferrar started the Limerick Chronicle, which he owned, edited and printed from 1768 till 1781, when it was taken over by Andrew Watson, who married his daughter. He was author of the History of Limerick, which appeared in two editions in1767, and in a much enlarged edition in 1787. Strange to relate, Ferrar himself printed none of these editions. He was also the compiler of the first provincial Directory to appear in Ireland. This was published in 1769 by himself, The Limerick Directory. When Ferrar retired from the printing business he lived as an insurance agent on Sir Harry's Mall for a short while, but soon after removed to Dublin. He was a historian by birth and, although living in retirement in Dublin, he published while here A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin, as well as the description of A Tour of London. When only twenty-two, he wrote the usual volume of poems, and although these are by no means works of great genius, it can be truthfully said that they avoided most of the coarseness of their times. His history is an excellent one, well arranged, moderately well indexed, and with plenty of original material. Nothing is known of the date or place of Ferrar 's death, or of the whereabouts of his burial; and the only record we have of his appearance is in the Reminiscences of John O'Keeffe, the Irish actor and dramatist: —" I knew Mr. Ferrar of Limerick, a printer, bookseller and author; he wrote an excellent history of Limerick, which, a few years ago, I heard read with pleasure. His little shop was at the corner of Quay Lane. Ferrar was very deaf, yet had a cheerful animated countenance; thin; and of the middle size." A catalogue of Ferrar's book-selling wares in 1774 lists 214 plays for sale at 6|d. each. One would search many provincial cities to-day before finding such a selection to choose from. Included in the list of subscribers are: Lord Cloncurry; John Exshaw; Rev. Edward Ledwich; The Earl and Countess of Moira; Dr. Troy; J.T. Westropp, etc.

122. FIELD, William. M.P. Governments in Ireland. With coloured folding map. Dublin: Duffy, n.d. (c.1890). pp. x, 162. Green pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Light fraying to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Rare. €185

COPAC locates 5 copies only. With chapters on: Governmental Growth; The Early Milesians; Celtic Government and Social Customs; Druidical Government and Influence; Pagan Council Government; The Leinster Tribute or Borumha; Causes of Anarchy During the Pagan Period; The Introduction of Christianity; Governments under Ancient Laws of Ireland, and Early Christian Conventions; The Senchus Mór; The Book of Aicill and Selected Brehon Law Tracts; St. Columcill, Iona, and the Irish Colony in Scotland; The Dromceat Convention; Synods of Leighlin and Tarah - Evil Effects of discontinuing the Feis Tamrach - Hostage System Introduced; The Schools of Armagh and Kildare - The Minor Schools of the Fifth


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Century - And the Early Schools in the West of Ireland; Irish Schools of the Sixth Century - Arran, Clonard, Clonfert, Moville, Clonmacnoise; The Schools of Bangor, Clonenagh, and Glendalough, Lismore, Desmond and Thomond; Danish Invasion; Malachy II and Brian Boru, etc.

123. FIELDING, Rev. James K. The Resurrection of a Nation. Illustrated. Chicago: Mayer & Miller, [1934]. First edition. pp. xii, 139. Green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Loosely inserted is an address label to the recipient Rev. P. Holland with compliments of Rev. J.K. Fielding. A very good copy. Scarce. €135 124. FIGGIS, Darrell. The Historic Case for Irish Independence. Dublin and London: Maunsel, 1918. pp. 78. Printed wrappers. Staples a little rusty. Previous owner's signature on preface. Some mild staining to upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. €225

Edward Darrell Figgis (1882-1925) was an Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician. He was born at Rathmines in Dublin but spent some of his childhood in India. As a young man he worked in London as a tea importer. He joined the Irish Volunteers in Dublin in 1913 and was deeply implicated in the Kilcoole gun-running of 1914 by Irish Republicans. Although he did not participate in the 1916 Easter Rising, he was arrested and interned by the British authorities between 1916 and 1917 in Reading Gaol. After his release, he returned to Ireland and was elected an honorary secretary of Sinn Féin. Figgis was arrested and imprisoned in mid May 1918, as part of a sweep of the Sinn Féin leadership, following the discovery of a plot linking that organisation with the German war effort. This publication examines the case for Irish Independence from the creation of the Irish Nation in the third century to the awakening of the resurgent Nation, 1891-1913.

125. [FINNEY, Patrick] A Report of the Trial of Patrick Finney, upon an indictment for High Treason: Before the Hon. Judge Chamberlain, and the Hon. Baron Smith. By William Ridgeway, Esq. barrister-at-law. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, No. 98, Grafton-Street, 1798. pp. [2],159, [1]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €575

ESTC T17617 gives 3 locations only. William Tankerville Chamberlain (1751-1802) an Irish judge, was born in Dublin, son of Michael Chamberlain. He attended St.Bee's School and matriculated from the University of Dublin in 1769 and took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1774. He entered Middle Temple the following year and was called to the Bar in 1779. To advance his career Chamberlain joined the political club, the Order of St. Patrick or the Screw, whose members called themselves The Monks of the Screw. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Clonmines, but though noted for wit and talent did not have much reputation as a politician. He was appointed a justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1793 and was transferred to the Court of King's Bench the following year. He sat on the Special Commission to deal with the Rebellion of 1798. As an able and conscientious judge, it was inevitable that Chamberlain would play a large part in the political trials of the mid-1790s, which culminated in the Rebellion of 1798. He was highly praised by contemporaries for his ability and integrity, but his reputation suffered from being a judge at the trial for treason of William Orr, widely regarded as a grave miscarriage of justice. Another state trial, that of Patrick Finney in 1798, shows Chamberlain at his best. Finney, a Dublin tobacconist, was charged with treason, largely on the word of one James O'Brien. He was defended by John Philpot Curran, who in one of his most famous speeches destroyed O'Brien's credit. Chamberlain conducted the trial with notable fairness, and in his summing up cast doubt on the evidence of O'Brien, and virtually directed an acquittal. The jury found Finney not guilty. Chamberlain's health was poor, he called himself "a martyr to the gout" and died in 1802, aged fifty. He was buried in St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street. He was to married Lucy Boyd of Rosslare House, Rosslare Harbour: their children included Michael, an army officer, and Sophia, who married Henry Archer. He lived mainly at Churchtown, Dublin.

126. FITZGERALD, Brian. The Geraldines. An Experiment in Irish Government 1169-1601. With genealogical charts, and map on front flyleaf. London: Staples, 1951. First edition. pp. 322. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45

The FitzGeralds of Ireland trace their descent from the famous Maurice, son of Gerald, who accompanied Strongbow to Ireland during the Anglo-Norman invasion in 1169. The family formed two main branches one in Kildare (headed by the Earls of Kildare) and the other in Munster. The latter who were headed by the Earls of Desmond were crushed and deprived of their lands during the Elizabethan


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conquest of Munster. The author in this work traces the fortunes of the family from their coming into Ireland to the Battle of Kinsale.

127. FITZPATRICK, William J. History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries. With map and numerous illustrations. Dublin: Published at the Offices, 1900. pp. xiv, 236, xx. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. Rare in this condition. €95

This work was continued and edited by W.J. Fitzpatrick's son, under the direction of a sub-committee of the Board.

128. FLANAGAN, Thomas. The Year of the French. A novel. Maps on endpapers. London: Macmillan, 1979. pp. [viii], 516. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in illustrated repaired dust jacket. €45 129. FORBES, John. M.D. Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852. With map and illustrations. Two volumes. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1853. pp. (1) xv, 308, 16 (publishers list), (2) xv, 414. Green blind-stamped cloth with arms of Ireland in gilt on upper covers, titled in gilt on spine. Map in colour facsimile. Slight foxing. Spine faded, otherwise very good. Scarce. €185

Dr. Forbes strives to dispel prejudices against Ireland and the Irish in this work. Travelling through the southern, western and northern parts of the country he gives an accurate and impartial account of the condition of the people both moral and physical; the state of trade and commerce in Ireland, etc.

130. FORREST, Rev. M.D. Atrocities in Ireland. What an Australian has seen. Sydney: Published by The Irish National Association of New South Wales, December 27th, 1920. pp. 14. Stapled pink wrappers, title printed in black on upper cover. A very good copy. €95

See items 125 & 130

131. FORSTER, The Rev. Charles. The Life of John Jebb, D.D., F.R.S. Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. With a selection from his letters. Two volumes. Frontispieces. London: James Duncan, 37, Paternoster-Row; and John Cochran, 108, Strand, 1836. pp. (1) xiv, 492, (2) [vi], 500. With the armorial bookplate of Robert Reid and the printed bookplate of Percy Paley of Castle Hacket. Contemporary full diced russia. Spine elaborately tooled in gilt. Splash marbled endpapers. All edges sprinkled. A very good set. Exceedingly rare. €1,250


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John Jebb (1775-1833) churchman and writer, was born in Drogheda and educated at the Free Grammar School, Derry. He received his early education at Celbridge and Londonderry, and entered Trinity College, where he distinguished himself. After he was ordained in 1799, he became curate of Swanlinbar, County Cavan, and later curate in Mogorbane, County Tipperary, and archdeacon of Emly in 1801. For his services in maintaining order in the parish during the disturbances that followed the outbreak of famine in the west of Ireland in 1822, he was made Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in that year. In 1827 he had a stroke and afterwards spent his time in various places in England, devoting himself to writing. He favoured the high church approach to ritual and is regarded as a forerunner of the Oxford movement. He died at East Hill, near Wandsworth, Surrey.

132. FOX, R.M. The History of the Irish Citizen Army. Frontispiece. Dublin: Duffy, 1943. First edition. pp. ix, 241. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €85 133. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Philosophical and Miscellaneous Papers. Illustrated with four folding plates. London: Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1787. pp. [6], 186. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Compartments divided by gilt chain-link bands, with gilt vases and flowers in centre. Armorial bookplate of Daniel Connor on front pastedown. Signature of Jonathan Henry Christie, Balliol College, Oxford, on front endpaper. Correction in ink on page 30. Name cut from top of titlepage, not affecting text. €750

ESTC T59394. The contents includes: Franklin's letter to Dr. Ingenhausz on the draught of chimneys, with additional notes added by Franklin at a later date; Franklin's description of his new stove; Notes on Meteorology frost at high altitudes; A letter to Mr. Nairne on hygrophy & humidity; Maritime observations; Information to those who would remove to America; Remarks concerning the Savages of North America; The Internal State of America; Letter concerning Privateering. Jonathan Henry Christie (1793-1876) Educated at Marischal College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn; after slaying John Scott in the famous duel at Chalk Farm he was acquitted of murder and afterwards practiced law as a conveyancer in London. He was the lifelong friend of John Gibson Lockhart and an acquaintance of John Keats.

134. FRIEL, Brian. A Man's World. Paintings by Basil Blackshaw. Loughcrew: Gallery Press, 2010. Light brown cloth, title blind-stamped on upper cover. Edition limited to four copies, signed by Brian Friel. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €175 135. FROST, Stella. Ed. by. A Tribute to Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett. Edited by Stella Frost. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1957. First edition. Cloth, title in black on upper cover. A fine copy. €150

This work pays tribute to Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett, to their unique characters, their rare conception of Life and Art. In this book of short articles an attempt has been made to give some idea of what Ireland brought to birth, what was brought to Ireland, and the great legacy which has been left to the world.

136. GALLAGHER, Frank. The Four Glorious Years 1918-1921. Dublin: Blackwater Press, 2005. pp. xxii, [2], 404. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €15

Covering the period 1918-21, the most formative years in modern Irish history. The author, who participated in what he describes covers the long chain of events in great detail without bitterness and with much humour. This work is unique, containing many hitherto unpublished facts and the Spirit of the insurgent Ireland.

137. GALLWEY, Thomas. Lays of Killarney Lakes, Descriptive Sonnets, and Occasional Poems. Photograph frontispiece. Dublin: Hodges Foster, 1871. 16mo. pp. ix, 129. Gilt decorated cloth. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125

COPAC locates only the BL copy of this edition.

IN FINE M'KENZIE BINDING 138. GAST, John. D.D. The History of Greece, Properly so Called. Vol. I, to the Accession of Alexander of Macedon. Vol. II from the Accession of Alexander of Macedon to the Present Time. Portrait frontispiece. Large folding map in volume one. With a list and additional list of subscribers. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, 1793. pp. (1) lx, 585, (2) [iv], 636. Bound by


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William M'Kenzie of Dublin in contemporary walnut calf. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet; flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets and chain-link roll, title and volume number in gilt on contrasting burgundy and olive-green letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remaining compartments elaborately tooled in gilt; fore-edge ruled with a single gilt fillet. Tools include McKenzie no. R1, R16, R19, and 32 (McDonnell and Healy pp 299-301 - Gold Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century). There are four other tools which are not identified by McDonnell and Healy. The present bindings represent the typical style of McKenzie, who favoured walnut calf with green, yellow, pink, red, white and black splash-marbled endpapers. Some minor rubbing, a few joints starting and minute loss of calf to one board, minute worm hole to eight leaves of volume one. Armorial bookplate of Johnstown Kennedy Library. All edges yellow. A very fresh and attractive copy. Very rare. €575

ESTC T154476 gives 7 locations only. John Gast, D.D. author and cleric, was born in Dublin, 29th July 1715, the son of a Huguenot refugee. Educated at Trinity College, after serving as chaplain to the French congregation at Portarlington, he became Archdeacon of Glendalough, and held several preferments. He died in 1788, aged about 73. Gast was the author of a History of Greece and other works. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon


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him by the University of Dublin, in appreciation of his services to literature and his high character as a divine. F. Elrington Ball states in his A History of the County Dublin (1902): 'Of the subsequent Archdeacons of Glendalough it is only necessary to mention Dr. Gast, a man of great literary attainments, whose virtues as a clergyman are commemorated on a tablet in the church (The following is the inscription: "In the adjoining church lie the remains of John Gast, D.D., late Archdeacon of Glendalough and Curate of St. Nicholas Without, who departed this life the 25th day of February, 1788. For 23 years and upwards this parish was happy in the fruits of his ministerial labours affable, cheerful, learned, zealous, charitable - he conciliated the affections of all, and his life presented an engaging example of that Christian practice which with persuasive energy he recommended as a minister of the Gospel. In grateful remembrance of his services his parishioners have placed this stone, a memorial to posterity desirous that their children may venerate the beauty of religion exemplified in a good life, and aspire after the attainment of those virtues which are acceptable with God and cause the dead to be remembered with affection and respect".). Johnstown Kennedy House, Rathcoole (now part of Beechpark Golf Club), more commonly known as Major Yates' residence in the 'Irish RM' (since demolished). The estate was bought by or granted to Sir John Charles Kennedy around 1750. It comprised 382 acres on which he built a three-storey Georgian house. The estate had 60 acres in timber and a three-acre walled garden producing large amounts of fruit and vegetables for the household. The house had three large bay windows, five reception rooms, seven large bedrooms, a library and six additional rooms. The Kennedy Baronetcy, of Johnstown Kennedy in the County of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 18 July 1836 for John Kennedy. Francis William Kennedy (1862-1939), son of Robert Kennedy, fifth son of the first Baronet, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. The family seat is Johnstown Kennedy, Rathcoole, County Dublin. The present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession to the baronetcy and is not therefore on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. However, the case is under review by the Registrar of the Baronetage

139. GILBERT, J.T. Ed. by. Historic and Municipal Documents of Ireland, A.D. 1172-1320. From the archives of the City of Dublin, etc. London: Longmans, 1870. Roy. 8vo. pp. lxxxviii, 560, 31, + errata. Title in red and black. Modern quarter roan on black paper boards. Spine rebacked preserving original letterpiece. A very good copy. €235

The contents includes: Dublin Charter from Henry II; Dublin Roll of Names; Prince John's Dublin Charter; Erection of Castle and Fortifications at Dublin. - Establishments of Fairs at Donnybrook, Waterford and Limerick; Magna Charta for Ireland; Royal and Municipal Accounts; Dublin Guild Merchant; Drogheda Bridge and Trade; Revolt of Earl Richard Marechal; Alteration of Dublin Streets; Gallies of Dublin, Waterford, Drogheda, Cork, and Limerick; Liffey Fishery; Supplies from Ireland for Wars in Scotland and Wales; Exchequer; Charter for Drogheda towards Meath; Money Dealing with Florentines; Sammon granted to Hospital; Custody of City Seal by Wife of Dublin Mayor; Regulations - Rights - Laws and Usages of the City of Dublin; Bristol Traders in Ireland; Grievances of the Common Folk of Dublin; Robert de Bree, etc.

140. GLEESON, Evelyn. Evelyn Gleeson manuscript royalty note on sales of In the Seven Woods : Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age by W.B. Yeats, the first book issued by the Dun Emer Press, 1903. €325

The Dun Emer enterprise was founded in 1902 with the wish 'to find work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things', as a collaboration between the Yeats sisters, Elizabeth and Lily (responsible for a printing press and embroidery workshop) and Evelyn Gleeson (whose field was craftwork). In 1907 a dispute between the Yeats sisters and Evelyn Gleeson led to a separation, and works from 1908 onwards were published under the sisters Cuala Press imprint. Advised by the distinguished printer/engraver Emery Walker, Elizabeth Yeats acquired an old hand-printing press and 'a good 18th century fount of [Caslon] type, which is not eccentric in form or difficult to read', and established a simple and elegant format for small limited editions of literature, which remained unchanged through more than 40 years. Selling partly by advance subscription, the new enterprise established a distinguished international clientele. Dun Emer's Day-Book shows that the first book from the Press, In The Seven Woods, (finished on 16 July, 1903 and published in August at 10s.6d.) sold out within a month of publication; the purchasers included Lady Gregory, Oliver Gogarty (6 copies), W.G. Fay, Countess Plunkett, Pamela Coleman Smith, Rene Francis (Cairo), T.W. Rolleston, Clement Shorter, Mrs. Hinkson (Katherine Tynan), Richard Garnett, Thomas Mosher of Portland (5 copies), John Quinn of New York


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(5 copies), Sir Thornley Stoker (brother of Bram), Ella Young, W.R. Wilde, Thomas Wise, Mrs. (Phoebe) Traquair of Edinburgh, Elkin Mathews of London (13 copies), Grant Richards, Emery Walker, Prof. York Powell, James Cousins, various Yeatses and Pollexfens, and Lady Gregory again, who took the last 3 copies on September 23. October 14 1903, WBY receives royalty from Evelyn Gleeson of the Dun Emer Press Dundrum, on sales of In the Seven Woods : Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age amounting to £32-10-0.

141. GOGARTY, Oliver St. John. Etching of Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1939, by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, RA RE (1890-1978). Signature signed in the plate in mirror image upper left. 14 x 18cm. Trial proof, before the projected edition of 100. Commissioned as a frontispiece for Gogarty's book, Elbow Room, by the Cuala Press, Dublin, but never used. In fine condition. Rare. €385

Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (1878-1957), surgeon, wit, and writer was born in Rutland Square (Parnell Square), Dublin, in 1878 and educated at Clongowes Wood and TCD. He graduated in medicine in 1907. He was a close friend of James Joyce for a while and is described in Ulysses as 'stately plump Buck Mulligan'. Gogarty twice won the Vice-Chancellor's Prize for English verse and went to Oxford for two terms in a vain attempt to emulate Oscar Wilde by winning the Newdigate Prize. His enthusiasm for the classics won him the favour of the Trinity dons Mahaffy and Tyrrell. He quickly built up a large practice as a nose and throat surgeon. His reputation for irreverent wit was established at sessions in the Bailey restaurant in Duke Street, where he forgathered with Arthur


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Griffith, Seumas O'Sullivan, Sir William Orpen, and James Montgomery. In the Civil War his sympathy was with the Free State side, this led to his capture by Republicans. He escaped by swimming the Liffey, and presented two swans to the river in gratitude. He was nominated to the first Seanad, organised the Tailteann Games, and won a gold medal for his book of verse An Offering of Swans (1924). His house at Renvyle in Connemara was burned down in the Civil War but he rebuilt it as a hotel, run on rather eccentric lines, where he invited his friends, who now included Augustus John and W.B. Yeats. He developed an obsessive hatred of De Valera and an increasing dislike for the conservative Ireland of the thirties, ill-suited to his flamboyant personality. In 1937 he lost a libel action arising from his reminiscences As I Was Going down Sackville Street, and moved to London and then to America in 1939. There he continued to write, publishing some further volumes of reminiscences, several novels, and his Collected Poems (1951). He died in New York.

142. GOGARTY, Oliver. An Offering of Swans and Other Poems. With portrait frontispiece by Augustus John and a preface by W.B. Yeats. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d. First edition. pp. 57. Blue buckram boards, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. From the library of Becher Somerville-Large with his armorial and engraved bookplate on front pastedown. Neat stamp of Fred Hannas. Spine faded, otherwise a very good copy. €175

Miller 34 refers to the Dublin edition. The title refers to Gogarty's flamboyant gesture of releasing a pair of swans on the Liffey, after he had escaped an attacker by diving into the river and swimming to safety. Bookplate designed by Margaret Stokes.

SIGNED BY ARTHUR O'CONNOR - UNITED IRISHMAN 143. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature: by Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. Dublin: Printed by James Williams, [No.21] Skinner-Row, 1776-77. Contemporary full calf, title and author in gilt on red morocco label on spines with gilt floral decoration in compartments. From the library of Nicholas Dunscombe with his bookplate and signature dated 1777 on titlepage. Also with the signature of Arthur O'Connor dated 1780. Inscription in ink on front endpaper: "N. Dunscombe born 1741 / near Mount Desert / Cork, High Sheriff - 1765 / married Mary Parker of Inchigagin 1764 / grandson of Catherine Meade / sister of Sir Robert Meade". A very nice set with a superb provenance. €1,350

ESTC N8422. Oliver Goldsmith was born in 1728 in Pallas, County Longford, the son of a clergyman. In 1744 Goldsmith went up to Trinity College, Dublin. His tutor was Theaker Wilder. Neglecting his studies in theology and law, he fell to the bottom of his class. In 1747, along with four other undergraduates, he was expelled for a riot in which they attempted to storm the Marshalsea Prison. He graduated in 1749 as a Bachelor of Arts, but without the discipline or distinction that might have gained him entry to a profession in the church or the law; his education seemed to have given him mainly a taste for fine clothes, playing cards, singing Irish airs and playing the flute. He lived for a short time with his mother, tried various professions without success, studied medicine desultorily at the University of Edinburgh from 1752 to 1755, and set out on a walking tour of Flanders, France, Switzerland and Northern Italy,


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living by his wits (busking with his flute). After that period of wandering, Goldsmith settled in London where he became a famous poet, dramatist, novelist and occasional writer. He was a constant companion of Dr. Johnson who greatly admired Goldsmith's most famous poems, The Deserted Village and The Traveller. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes".

The Dunscombe family had its origins in Devon. In 1703 William "Duncomb" purchased the lands of Currikippane East and West, in the South Liberties of Cork city, from the trustees for the sale of forfeited estates. In 1764 Nicholas Dunscombe of Mount Desert, barony of Cork, married Mary Parker of Inchigagin, County Cork and had seven sons. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Nicholas Dunscombe held land in the parishes of Inishcarra, barony of East Muskerry and Currykippane, barony of Cork. In 1858 Nicholas Dunscombe, son of Parker Dunscombe and his wife Jane Waggett, bought the Scully part of the Kingwilliamstown's estate in the parish of Nohavaldaly, barony of Duhallow, County Cork and went to live at Kingwilliamstown House. Arthur O'Connor, (1763-1852), prominent United Irishman, General in the French service, was born at Mitchels, near Bandon. Educated at T.C.D. he was called to the Bar in 1788, but, inheriting a fortune of about £1,500

a year, never practised. Edited The Press, organ of the Society of the United Irishmen. He was arrested and tried for high treason at Maidstone, acquitted, arrested again on another warrant before he could leave the dock. O'Connor and other state prisoners entered into a compact with the government that by revealing, without implicating individuals, the plans and workings of the Society, their lives would be spared and they would be permitted to leave the country. Most of the plates are signed: De Seve del. Jn. Lodge sculp; many of the plates are copies from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. With a list of subscribers in volume one and advertisement for James Williams publications. Included in the list of subscribers are: William Espanesse, Esq.; William Hallhead, twenty sets; William Henn of Ennis; Rev. E. Ledwich; Mrs. Lynch, Booksellers, twelve sets; John and Peter La Touche; Cornelius O'Callaghan; Barbara Ormsby; Rev. Richard Sheridan; Rev. Charles Tuckey; William Tighe, Esq.; Lady Hester Westeana; P. Wogan; Luke White; Samuel Whyte, etc.

IN FINE M'KENZIE BINDING 144. GOLDSMITH, Dr. The Roman History, from the foundation of the City of Rome, to the destruction of the Western Empire. A new edition. Two volumes. London: Printed for Bathurst, L. Davis … and Sotheby, 1786. pp. (1) [4], x, 487, [12], (2) [2], 501, [11]. Bound by William M'Kenzie of Dublin in contemporary walnut calf. Covers framed by double gilt fillet enclosing R19 roll; flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets and chain-link roll, title in gilt on burgundy letterpiece in the second; volume number in gilt on red morocco oval label in centre of olive green label; author in gilt on black morocco label at heel, the remaining compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with trumpets, stars etc. Tools include McKenzie no. 32 R1 R10 R16 and R19 (McDonnell and Healy pp 299-301 - Gold Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century). There are eight other tools which are not identified by McDonnell and Healy. The present bindings represent the typical


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style of McKenzie, who favoured walnut calf with green, yellow, pink, red, white and black splash-marbled endpapers. Blue and gold endbands. All edges yellow. Some faint old water staining. A fine fresh set in a fine M'Kenzie binding. Very rare. €575


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ESTC N21794. 145. GRAVES, Rev. James & PRIM, J.G.A. The History, Architecture, and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny. With fifty six plates (some coloured) and woodcuts. Dublin: Hodges Smith, 1857. Quarto. pp. xii, 360. Brown blinded-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Recased. A very good copy. Very scarce. €475

BOUND AT ST. PATRICK'S REFORMATORY SCHOOL

146. GRAY, Maxwell. [Mary Gleed Tuttiett] The Silence of Dean Maitland. A Novel. By Maxwell Gray. Copyright edition. Two volumes in one. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1887. pp. 288, 287. Bound at St. Patrick's Reformatory School, Upton, Co. Cork, in contemporary worn half black morocco over marbled boards, with their ticket on front pastedown. Signature of Conner of Manch on front endpaper. A good and rare example from this provincial Irish binder. €285

COPAC locates the Oxford copy only. Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz edition. Volumes 2455, 2456.

147. GREGORY, Lady. A Book of Saints and Wonders, put down here according to the old writings and the memory of the people of Ireland. Dundrum: Dun Emer, 1906. pp. [viii], 100. Quarter linen on boards. Edition limited to 200 copies. Fine. Very scarce. €475 148. GRENVILLE, William Wyndham, Baron. Speech of Lord Grenville in the House of Peers, on the motion of the Duke of Bedford for the Dismissal of Ministers, Thursday, March 22, 1798. Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street, 1798. pp. 31, [1]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. €175

ESTC T88473. William Wyndham Grenville 1st Baron Grenville was the son of George Grenville, an earlier Prime Minister. Entering the Commons in 1782, Lord Grenville became a close ally of Prime Minister William Pitt 'the Younger'. He served in Pitt's government as Home Secretary, Leader of the House of Lords as Baron Grenville, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. As Foreign Secretary, he oversaw the tumultuous Wars of the French Revolution, focusing on fighting on the continent as the key to victory, rather than war at sea and in the colonies. In 1801 he left office at the same time as Pitt, over the issue of Catholic Emancipation. He became close to Opposition leader Charles James Fox in his years out of office, and when Pitt returned to office in 1804, he did not take part.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 149. GRIFFITH, Sir John P. The Twin Scherzer Bridges on the North Wall Quay, Dublin across the Entrance to the Royal Canal and Spencer Docks. Read before the Institution of Civil


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Engineers of Ireland, 1st May, 1912. Dublin: Printed for the author by John Falconer, 53 Upper Sackville Street, 1912. pp. 176-204, 11 (large folding maps & plans). Stapled printed grey wrappers. Inscribed and signed by the author. A very good copy in binder's folder. €375

Built to allow water-based traffic to access the Royal Canal and Spencer Docks, these unusual 'Scherzer' lifting bridges are also designed to keep sea-water out of the docks. These were constructed to a design patented by William Scherzer of Chicago and installed in 1912. No longer operational due to the removal of their diesel engines and their roadway surfaces, they could stop traffic, allow a ship through and close again in four and a half minutes. Now they serve as a reminder of the industrial past of the area.

EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY 150. GRIMBLE, Augustus. The Salmon Rivers of Ireland. With seventy-eight illustrations from photographs and two folding maps. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1903. First edition. Quarto. pp. xvi, 296. Quarter vellum on grey paper boards, title printed on paper labels on spine. Some scuffing to labels, corners lightly bumped. A very good copy. Rare limited edition of 250 copies only. €875

COPAC locates only 5 copies. Hampton's Angling Bibliography 2008 p.125. Prepared with the benefit of a professional surveyor's eye Augustus Grimble's Salmon Rivers of Ireland is of seminal importance to the study of both the nature and extent of the Irish inland salmon fisheries. Proprietors, historical catches, ghillies, tackle makers, and the extent of the major fisheries are all discussed and given in order of province, together with opening seasons and the best methods of fishing. An important work issued at a time when the Irish salmon fisheries were at their zenith and before the decline subsequent to the introduction of hydro-electric schemes. Augustus Grimble (1840-1925), was the proprietor of a shooting and estate agency.

MR. CONNORS PREMIUM 151. GUTHRIE, William. A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar : and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World. ... By William Guthrie, Esq. Illustrated with a New and Correct Set of Maps, Engraved by Mr. Kitchin. Dublin: Printed for James Williams, and John Exshaw, 1780. pp. 766, [2]. Contemporary full worn calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Premium prize awarded to Robert Meade. In gilt on upper cover: 'Revd. Mr. Connors Premium / Robert Meade'. Signature of Robert Meade on titlepage. Lacking five of seven maps. Exceedingly rare. €675

ESTC T212578 locates the RIA and TCD copies only. Inscribed in a contemporary hand on front flyleaf: "Advice to the Ladies / A little learning is a dangerous thing / drink deep or taste not the Persian spring".

152. GWYNN, Stephen. Henry Grattan and his Times. With portrait frontispiece and other illustrations. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1939. pp. viii, 402. Contemporary half red goatskin. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. €75


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153. HALL, Anna Maria. Lights and Shadows of Irish life. Three volumes. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1838. pp. (1) viii, [1], 335, (2) [3], 341, (3) [3], 346, 2 (advertisements). Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Early owner's signature on titlepages. Spines rebacked. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250

Loeber H18. Anna Maria Hall (Mrs. Samuel Carter Hall - née Anna Maria Fielding) was born in Anne Street, Dublin in 1800. A prolific and popular writer, editor and philanthropist, she was of Huguenot descent on her mother's side of the family. Her father died shortly after her birth and she was brought to Graige House, Bannow, County Wexford, the estate of George Carr, her mother's stepfather. Here Anna Maria lived and mixed with the local country people, and that environment provided much material for her later stories. In 1815 she and her mother went to live in London, where in 1824 she married Samuel Carter Hall who was born at Geneva Barracks in Waterford, the son of Robert Hall, a British army officer then serving in Ireland. He was Parliamentary reporter for the House of Lords, a prolific writer, editor and publisher who collaborated with her on many of her works. She wrote plays, sketches, short stories and novels and her works were immensely popular both in England and Ireland. The first volume of this work consists entirely of 'The Groves of Blarney', later adapted into a play of the same name which was performed in London in 1838. This story of kidnapping and revenge was based on a real incident that happened in Blarney, County Cork about 1812, and she acknowledges her debt to Thomas Crofton Croker for "the history and character of the place". The tales in the second volume are collectively entitled 'Sketches on Irish highways during the autumn of 1834'. The tales in the third volume 'Illustrations of Irish pride' consist of 'Harry O'Reardon', 'The Bocher of Red-Gap Lane', 'The dispensation' and 'Old Granny'.

154. HANLEY, Brian. The IRA, 1926-1936. Illustrated. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. pp. 286. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author. Launch invitation card loosely inserted. A fine copy. €45 155. HANSBROW, Rev. G. An Improved Topographical and Historical Hibernian Gazetteer; including the various Boroughs, Baronies, Buildings, Cities, Counties, Collieries, Castles, Churches, Curiosities, Fisheries, Glens, Harbours, Lakes, Mines, Mountains, Provinces, Parishes, Rivers, Spas, Seats, Towers, Towns, Villages, Waterfalls, &c. &c. Scientifically arranged, with an appendix of ancient names, to which is added, an introduction to the ancient and modern History of Ireland. Dublin: Tims & Curry, 1835. pp. 431. Recent full calf. A fine copy. €575

WITH PETRIE ILLUSTRATIONS 156. HARDY, Philip Dixon. The Northern Tourist, or Stranger's Guide to the North and Northwest of Ireland: Including a particular description of Belfast, The Giant's Causeway, and every object of picturesque interest in the district referred to. With a map and eight views engraved by Miller after Petrie. Dublin: Curry, 1830. 12mo. pp. x, [viii], 304, 2 (publisher's works). Contemporary full green morocco, title in gilt on spine. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €385

COPAC locates the TCD copy only. Not in NLI. The scenes depicted are: Longbridge and Cave-Hill, Belfast; Narrow-Water Castle; Rostrevor; Belfast from Turf-Lodge; Giant's Causeway; Dunluce Castle; Londonderry; Lough Gill near Sligo. The map of Belfast is engraved by Kirkwood. Dedicated to Leonard Gillespie.

157. HARKIN, William. Scenery & Antiquities of North-West Donegal. With folding map showing roads, railways, towns, villages and steamer courses. Illustrated Londonderry: Printed by David Irvine, Old Post Office, Castle Street, 1893. pp. viii, 120, 32 (adverts). Green cloth, titled in gilt. Presentation inscription on front endpaper. Previous owner's blind-stamp bookplate. A very good copy. €375 158. HARRIS, Joseph. The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery. To which is prefix'd, By Way of Introduction, A brief Account of the Solar System. The Ninth Edition. Illustrated with high quality engravings. London: Printed for B. Cole, at the Orrery, near the Globe Tavern in Fleet-Street, 1763. pp. viii, 220, [4] (Directions to the Binder and advertisements). Recent full calf. A fine copy. €365

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LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST 159. HARTNETT, Michael. Collected Poems. Portrait of Hartnett by John Shinnors. Loughcrew: Gallery Press, 2001. First edition. pp. 255. Quarter black cloth on paper boards. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by John Shinnors. A fine copy in fine slipcase. Rare. €265 160. HAYWARD, John. Ed. by. Silver Tongue. Famous Speeches from Burke to Baldwin. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1937. pp. 384. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's inscription on front endpaper. Cloth lightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. €30 161. HAYWARD, Richard. In Praise of Ulster. With forty-eight drawings by J. Humbert Craig. London: Arthur Barker, 1938. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. viii, 371. Modern half green morocco on green cloth boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece on spine. From the library of Robert B. Wilson with his bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. €150

RARE PUTNAM'S LIBRARY EDITION 162. HEAD, Sir Francis B. A Fortnight in Ireland. New York: Putnam, 1853. pp. [vii], 216. Original pink stiff illustrated wrappers. Owner's signature on title. A very good copy. Rare. €150

COPAC locates 2 copies only of this edition. With chapters on Dublin, National Education, The Royal Irish Constabulary, College of Maynooth, Tour of Mayo, Connemara, Degraded condition of the People, Tactics of the Irish Priesthood, etc.

163. HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island. London Boston: Faber and Faber, 1984. First edition. pp. 123. Grey linen, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine illustrated dust jacket. €285

An impressive collection which added to his stature as a poet. 164. HEANEY, Seamus. Crediting Poetry. The Nobel Lecture 1995. Loughcrew: The Gallery Press, 1995. First edition. pp. 29. Illustrated stiff wrappers. A fine copy. €65

Edited by the publisher, Peter Fallon. 165. HEANEY, Seamus. Spelling It Out. Loughcrew: The Gallery Press, 2009. First Edition. pp. [20]. Brown stitched wrappers, title printed on upper cover. A fine copy. €45

Essay in honour of Brian Friel on his eightieth birthday. Drawing by basil Blackshaw. 166. HEARN, William Edward. The Cassell Prize Essay on the Condition of Ireland. London & Dublin: Sold by all Booksellers, 1851. First edition. pp. vi, [1], 125, 2 (Advertisement). Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt surrounding a harp and shamrocks on upper cover. Some browning to cover, wear to spine ends. Bookplate and signature of Rev. John Dodd, Newry, dated 1852. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Very rare. €375


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COPAC locates 6 copies only. William Edward Hearn (1826-1888) was an Irish university professor and politician. He was one of the four original professors at the University of Melbourne and became the first Dean of the University's Law School. Hearn was born in Belturbet, County Cavan, the son of Reverend William Edward Hearn (a curate and later a vicar) and Henrietta Hearn, née Reynolds. He was educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, and later studied at Trinity College. There he was highly successful in his study of classics, logic and ethics, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1847. Following his studies in arts, Hearn also studied law, at Trinity College and later at King's Inns in Dublin and Lincoln's Inn in London, and was admitted to the Irish Bar in 1853. Hearn's teaching career began in 1849, when he was selected as a professor of Ancient Greek at the Queen's College, Galway, which had been established a few years earlier. In 1854, a London based committee of the newly established University of Melbourne selected Hearn as one of four original professors of the University. Hearn was to teach subjects including modern history, modern literature and political science in the Faculty of Arts in Melbourne, where he moved to Melbourne in 1855. He took up residence in the rooms provided on the university campus. Hearn's students at Melbourne included Alfred Deakin, H.B. Higgins, Isaac Isaacs, Alexander Sutherland, Samuel Alexander and Thomas Webb. In January 1859, Hearn stood as a candidate for the Parliament of Victoria, in a by-election for a seat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, he was embarrassingly unsuccessful. The university's Chancellor, Redmond Barry (of Cork), was not pleased with Hearn's attempts to enter parliament, and as a result the university council passed a rule prohibiting professors from standing for election, and even from joining any political group, a rule that would last more than a century. In 1878 however he was finally elected to the Victorian Legislative Council, for Central Province. Regarded as a good politician, who held conservative views but was less concerned with party politics than he was with the technical business of making legislation, and by 1882 he was regarded as a leader in the Council. In May 1886, Hearn was elected as Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. He died in 1888. He was survived by his son and three of his daughters.

167. HENRY, Robert Mitchell. The Evolution of Sinn Féin. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1920. pp. iv, 284. Olive-green cloth, blind-stamped on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine, with minor wear to head. A very good copy. €85

The contents includes: Irish Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century; Sinn Fein; The Early years of Sinn Fein; The Volunteer Movement; Sinn Féin and the Republicans; Ulster and Nationalist Ireland; Sinn Fein, 1914-1916; After the Rising, etc.

168. HEYLYN, Peter. Cyprianus Anglicus : or, the history of the life and death, of the most reverend and renowned prelate William [Laud], by divine providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, Chancellor of the Universities of Oxon and Dublin, and one of the Lords of the Privy Council to His late most Sacred Majesty. King Charles, I. Second Monarch of Great Britain. Containing also The Ecclesiastical History of the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from His first Rising till His Death. By P. Heylyn, D. D. and Chaplain to Charles the First, and Charles the Second, Monarchs of Great Britain. In this edition is added, several marginal notes, and a compleat index to the whole: never before printed. List of subscribers. Dublin: Printed by James Carson, for John Hyde in Dame-Street, and Robert Owen at the Dolphin in Skinner-Row, Booksellers, 1719. Folio. pp. [viii], 156, 126, 59, 5. Contemporary full panelled calf. pp. 155 and iv misnumbered 156 and v respectively. In three parts, the second with separate titlepage, pagination and register, and the third with separate pagination but with asterisked signatures. Conner of Manch copy. Surface wear to binding, corners worn, otherwise a very good copy. Rare. €875

COPAC locates 10 copies only. Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1599-1662) ecclesiastic and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts. He incorporated his political concepts into his geographical books Microcosmus in 1621 and Cosmographie (1657). Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, he was awarded BA in 1617 and was elected a fellow in 1618. He later lectured on historical geography at Magdalen. At college, where he was dubbed 'the perpetual dictator', Heylin had been an outspoken controversialist.


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He subsequently became an outspoken preacher and one of Charles I's clerical followers. He suffered for his loyalty to the king when, under the Commonwealth, he was deprived of his preferments. He subsequently settled at Lacies Court in Abingdon. At the Restoration, he was made sub-Dean of Westminster, but poor health prevented further advancement. He married Letitia Highgate and had a large family. His monument is in Westminster Abbey. In this work Heylyn dwells upon the irregularities and disorders as a justification of Laud's attempt to restore ecclesiastical order. Cyprianus Anglicus, is the chief authority for Laud's personal character and private life. Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. He pursued a High Church course and opposed radical forms of Puritanism. This and his support for King Charles I resulted in his beheading in the midst of the English Civil War.

169. HEZLET, Sir Arthur. The 'B' Specials. A History of the Ulster Special Constabulary. Illustrated. London: Pan Books, 1973. Second edition. pp. [x], 246. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €25

The Ulster Special Constabulary (USC; commonly called the "B-Specials" or "B Men'") was a reserve police force in Northern Ireland. It was set up in October 1920, shortly before the founding of Northern Ireland. It was an armed corps, organised partially on military lines and called out in times of emergency, such as war or insurgency. It performed this role in 1920–22 during the Irish War of Independence and in the 1950s, during the IRA Border Campaign. The force was almost exclusively Protestant and Unionist and as a result was viewed with great mistrust by Catholics and nationalists. During the 1920s, it carried out revenge killings and reprisals against Catholic civilians in the 1920-22 conflict. Unionists generally supported the USC as contributing to the defence of the Northern Ireland policy from subversion and outside aggression. The Special Constabulary was disbanded in May 1970, after the Hunt Report, which advised re-shaping Northern Ireland's security forces in a less partisan manner and disarming the police.

170. HICKSON, Mary. Ireland in the Seventeenth Century or The Irish Massacres of 1641-2, their causes and results. Illustrated by extracts from the unpublished State Papers, the unpublished Mss in the Bodleian Library, Lambeth Library, and the Library of the Royal Dublin Society relating to the Plantations of 1610-39; a selection from the unpublished Depositions relating to the Massacres, with facsimiles; and the Reports of the Trials in the High Court of Justice in 1652-4, from the unpublished Mss in Trinity College, Dublin. With a preface by J.A. Froude. Two volumes. London: Longmans, Green: 1884. pp. (1) xiv, 399, 24, (2) vii, 407. Recent half calf on marbled boards. From the library of Queen Mary College, with embossed stamp. A very good set. Very scarce. €375

Not in Bradshaw Gilbert 368 NSTC locates only 2 copies.

CUALA PRESS LIMITED EDITION SINGED BY THE AUTHOR 171. HIGGINS, F.R. Arable Holdings: Poems. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1933. pp. [viii], 43. Edition limited to 300 copies. Quarter cream linen on blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. A fine copy. Very scarce. €375 172. HOGAN, David. Dark Mountain and Other Stories. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1931). pp. vii, 278. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €20 173. HOGAN, Robert & O'NEILL, Michael J. Ed. by. Joseph Holloway's Abbey Theatre. A Selection from his unpublished Journal Impressions of a Dublin Playgoer. Preface by Harry T. Moore. Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. First edition. pp. xxiii, 296. Quarter brown cloth on purple paper boards, publisher device on upper cover, title in blue on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €35 174. HOGAN, Robert. & Michael J. O'Neill. Ed. by. Joseph Holloway's Irish Theatre: Volume one and two only. California: Proscenium Press, 1970. First edition. pp. (1) 88 (2) 85. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. €45 175. HOLLAND, Rev. W. History of West Cork and The Diocese of Ross. Illustrated. Skibbereen: Southern Star Ltd. 1949. pp. 427, vii (index). Recent green buckram. A very good copy. Very scarce. €285

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Normans. Detailed accounts of: The O Mahonys and the Planter families; The McCarthys of Kilbrittain, Glenachroim and Skibbereen; The O'Sullivans; The O'Donovans; The O'Driscolls; The Crowleys, the O'Hurleys and the O'Heas; The Barrys; The De Courceys. Concluding chapters on ecclesiastical history.

A FLASH OF GENIUS 176. [HONE, Evie] Evie Hone 1894-1955. A Catalogue for the Evie Hone Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London, 2 Jan.-15 Feb. 1959. Compiled with an introduction by James White. Designed by Liam Miller. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed at the Dolmen Press, 1959. pp. xxvi, 12 (illustrations). Stapled off-white wrappers, 'Evie Hone' printed in red on upper cover. A very good copy. €125 177. HOPKINSON, Michael. The Irish War of Independence. With map and illustrations. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2002. pp. xv, 274. Black paper boards, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 178. HOUGHTON, Claude. The Beast. Illustrations by Alfred E. Kerr. Belfast: Quota Press, 1936. First edition, first printing. Quarto. pp. 44. Deckled edges. Original blue buckram titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author and artist. Top edges gilt. A fine copy in repaired dust jacket. €285

Short fantasy novel of a mythical kingdom and a great beast; superbly illustrated by Kerr, with ten stunning phantasmagorical plates.


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179. HOWARD, John Eliot. The Island of Saints; or, Ireland in 1855. Illustrated with eleven tented lithographs, and three woodcuts. London: Seeleys, 1855. pp. xxiv, 276. Faded brown cloth. Owner's signature on verso of frontispiece. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375

COPAC locates 7 copies only. John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) was a writer and chemist of the nineteenth century, who conducted pioneering work with the development of quinine. He was born in Plaistow, London, the son of Luke Howard, a noted meteorologist, chemist and Quaker. He worked at the family pharmaceutical manufacturing business of Howards and Sons. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1874. He was the author of scientific works, religious works including a commentary on the book of Hebrews and histories including the present work about the Reformation in Ireland. The contents include: Travels to Maynooth College; Galway Nunneries; Shrule; Cong; Kilconly; Lough Mask and Lough Corrib; Clifden; Connemara; The Killaries; Leenane; Croagh Patrick; Clare Island; Achill; Castlebar; Lough Conn and Lough Cullen; Ballina; Knock na Rea; Country about Sligo; Manor Hamilton. There are notices of: burning converts' houses; Irish poverty; the massacre at Shrule; the shamrock; Ladies' Irish Association; Romish Relics and Missions; pious Irishwomen; worship of a virgin; a sea eagle; Irish converts; dress of the peasantry; cases of destitution; belief in ghosts, etc.


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180. HUTCHESON, Francis. An Enquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; in two treatises. I. Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design. II. Concerning Moral Good and Evil. The second edition, corrected and enlarg'd. London: Printed for J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, J. Hooke, F. Clay, J. Batley, and E. Symon, 1726. pp. xvi, [2], 304. Contemporary full panelled calf. Armorial bookplate of Patrick Comerford, with his signature on titlepage. Annotated throughout. Imprint cut from titlepage. Minor wear to boards and corners, inoffensive water stain, otherwise good. Exceedingly rare. €1,250

COPAC locates 1 copy only. The Rev. Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was an Irish philosopher born at Drumalig, County Down to a family of Scottish Presbyterians, who became one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Hutcheson was an important influence on the works of several significant Enlightenment thinkers, including David Hume and Adam Smith. He was a major exponent of the theory of the existence of a moral sense through which man can achieve right action. Facing suspicions about his "Irish" roots and his association with New Licht theologian John Simson (then under investigation by Scottish ecclesiastical courts), a ministry in Scotland was unlikely to be a success, so he left the church, returning to Ireland to pursue a career in academia. He started an academy in Dublin, where he taught for ten years. In Dublin his literary attainments gained him the friendship of many prominent inhabitants. Among these was Dr William King, the Church of Ireland Lord Archbishop of Dublin, who refused to prosecute Hutcheson in the Archbishop's Court for keeping a school without the episcopal licence. Hutcheson's relations with the clergy of the Established Church, especially with Archbishop King and with Most Rev. Dr Hugh Boulter, Lord Archbishop of Armagh, seem to have been cordial. In 1725 Hutcheson married his cousin Mary, daughter of Francis Wilson of Longford. Her dowry included extensive property holdings including the townlands of Drumnacross, Garrinch, and Knockeagh, in County Longford. They had seven children; only one survived, also called Francis. While in Dublin, Hutcheson published anonymously the four essays he is best known by: the Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design, the Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil, in 1725, the Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections and Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, in 1728. The alterations and additions made in the second edition of these Essays were published in a separate form in 1726. In 1729 he returned to Glasgow as professor of moral philosophy, a position he held until his death.

181. HYDE, Douglas. Ed. by. The Conquests of Charlemagne. Edited from The Book of Lismore and Three other Vellum Mss. London: Irish Texts Society, 1917. First edition. pp. xv, [1], 128, iv, 22. Green ribbed cloth, Celtic shield decoration on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €45 182. HYDE, Douglas & O'DONOGHUE, D.J. Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts Comprising the Library of the late Sir John T. Gilbert. Dublin: Browne and Nolan Limited, 1918. pp. xxiii, 962. Modern half green morocco on green cloth boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Original printed wrapper bound in. Bookplate of Robert B. Wilson on front pastedown. A fine copy. €225 183. INGLIS, Henry D. A Journey Throughout Ireland, during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn of 1834. With folding maps. London: Whittaker, 1836. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 396. Recent quarter green morocco on green cloth boards. Owner's signature on titlepage. Slight browning to corners of a few leaves at end. A very good copy. €165 184. [IRISH ART] Irish Art - A volume of articles and illustrations. Dublin: The Parkside Press Limited, Dublin, 1944. pp. 172. Beige cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Rare. €75

The contents include: What is a Portrait?; Pictures for the Home; Art in the Home; A Setting for Music; Stained Glass Achievement; Art and Reality; The Relation of Art and Philosophy; 'The Artist and Society; Modern Art, etc. With contributions by Sean O'Sullivan, Joseph O'Neill, James White, A.J. Leventhal, Rev. Edward Leen, Basil Rákózi, Gaetanno de Gennaro, Leo Whelan, Sean Keating, etc.


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185. [IRISH HIGHLANDS] Hand-Book to Galway, Connemara, and the Irish Highlands. Profusely illustrated by Jas. Mahony, Esq. With map of the district. London & Dublin: Routledge & M'Glashan, 1854. pp. 125, + adverts. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt within gilt scrolls on upper cover, gilt harp in centre of lower cover. Some thumbing, small tear to map, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. See illustration below. €235


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186. [IRISH WIT] The Spirit of Irish Wit, or Post-Chaise Companion: being an Eccentric Miscellany of Hibernian Wit, Fun, and Humour. Much of the greater Part never before seen in print, with a Selection of such as may have appeared; circulated for the Meridian of the United Kingdoms; and consisting of bon-mots, repartees, smart puns, high jokes, queer hoaxes, humorous anecdotes, laughable bulls, devilish good things. And various other articles of Intellectual Confectionary, adapted to the risible muscles, and designed to dispel care, purge melancholy, cure the spleen, and raise the dropping spirits in these gloomy times. Coloured frontispiece. London: Tegg, 1812. 12mo. pp. 360. Original printed paper boards. Spine expertly rebacked. A good copy. See illustration on previous page. €375

COPAC locates only 1 copy. "Dean Swift was one day in company, when the conversation fell upon the antiquity of the family. The lady of the house expatiated a little too freely on her descent, observing, that her ancestors' names began with De, and, of course, of ancient French extraction. When she had finished:- 'And now', said the Dean, 'will you be so kind as to help me to a piece of that D'umpling'".

187. IRWIN, Thomas P. Benson's Flying Column. A Story of the Anglo-Irish War. Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1935. First edition. pp. 303. Light green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Some fading and minor water staining to cover, otherwise a very good copy. €45 188. [IRWIN, Wilmot] Betrayal in Ireland. Belfast: Printed by The Northern Whig, n.d. pp. 156. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. €125

A eye-witness record of the tragic and terrible years of Revolution and Civil War in Ireland 1916-1924. 189. [JACKSON, Rev. William] A Full Report of all the Proceedings on the Trial of the Rev. William Jackson, at the bar of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench, Ireland, on an indictment for High Treason. Collected from the notes of William Ridgeway, William Lapp, and John Schoales, Esqrs. barristers-at-law. Dublin: Printed by J. Exshaw, No. 98, Grafton-Street, 1795. pp. [2], 142. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. €385

ESTC T78283. 190. JAMES, G. P. R. [George Payne Rainsford] Mary of Burgundy, or, The Revolt of Ghent. Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1837. pp. viii, 334. Contemporary half maroon morocco on marbled boards, author, title and publisher in gilt on black morocco labels on spine. Signature of T.A. O'Gorman, dated May 14th 1843 on page one. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €150 191. [JAMES, Admiral Sir William] The Code Breakers of Room 40. The Story of Admiral Sir William Hall, Genius of British Counter-Intelligence. New York: St Martin's Press, 1956. pp. xxv, 212. Black cloth, titled in gilt. Top edge blue. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €30

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192. JELLETT, Mainie. Mainie Jellett The Artist's Vision: Lectures and Essays on Art. With an introduction by Albert Gleizes. Edited by Eileen MacCarvill. Illustrated with colour and black and white plates. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press Limited, 1958. First edition. Quarto. pp. 120. Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Signed complimentary copy from the editor Eileen MacCarvill on label on front pastedown. A fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket with minor tear. €275

This work contains a selection of Mainie Jellett's writings, lectures, and essays - illustrated with reproductions of her work. It is a valuable contribution to the history of Cubism and of the revolution which that movement brought about in all the arts. See illustration on previous page.

193. [JOHNSON, Thomas. Compiler by.] A Handbook for Rebels. A Guide to Successful Defiance of the British Government. Being Extracts from the Speeches of Sir E. Carson; Mr. A. Bonar Law; Sir F.E. Smith, and other Organisers of Rebellion in Ulster. Dublin: I.L.P. and T. U. C., 1918. First edition. pp. 32. Later black paper wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €165

A compilation of treasonable statements by the loyal supporters of the Union. Thomas Johnson (1872-1963) was born in Liverpool and came to Ireland as a young boy, later finding employment in Belfast. He was an active Trade Unionist and a founder member of the Irish Labour Party in 1912. He was a member of the Mansion House Conference (April 1918) to oppose Conscription. This pamphlet was written for the purpose of resisting Conscription and, by using Unionist voices that had opposed the Government over Home Rule, he attempted to justify resistance to the measure. The format of the pamphlet was a clever way of evading the restrictions of the censor who found it hard to ban statements, already published, by Cabinet Ministers. The same format was used by John J. Horgan in his pamphlet, The Complete Grammar of Anarchy. As a result of the publication, and a call for a strike, Johnson was dismissed from his job in Belfast and moved to Dublin where he played a distinguished role in the development of the Labour Party, eventually becoming its leader.

194. JORTIN, John. Sermons on Different Subjects: by the late Reverend John Jortin ... In four volumes. The third edition. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Sleater, Wilson, Hallhead, ... and Parker, 1778. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, titled in gilt on red morocco labels on spines, volume numbers in gilt on gilt decorated red morocco circular labels. From the library of Richard Meade of Ballymartle, with his armorial bookplate and signature on titlepage. A very good set. Extremely rare. €685

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195. [JOYCE, James] St. Stephen's. A Record of University Life. December, 1901. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker and Eason & Sons, 1901. Quarto. pp. 41-60, + adverts. Original printed wrappers. Lower part of cover damp stained. Rare €225

In his editorial Hugh Kennedy states: "We have been favoured with a copy of a pamphlet containing two essays written by students of this college. Mr. Skeffington discusses A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question, and is a vigorous advocate on behalf of University Women ... The second of the essays entitled The Day of the Rabblement, by James A. Joyce. The opening sentence describes his attitude towards the subject which he treats, the Irish Literary Theatre ... if Mr. Joyce thinks that the artist must stand apart from the multitude, and means that he must also sever himself from the moral and religious teachings which have, under Divine guidance moulded its spiritual character, we join issue with him, and we prophesy but ill-success for any school which offers an Irish public art based upon such a principle". Joyce's career at University College, Dublin, began in the autumn of 1898, it was marked by his break with his Catholic background and his emergence as a writer. In May 1899, he refused to join a protest against the heresy of Yeats' Countess Cathleen. On 20 January 1900 he read a paper on 'Drama and Life' before the Literary and Historical Society; his essay on 'Ibsen's New Drama' (When We Dead Awaken) was published in the Fortnightly Review for April 1900. A pamphlet, The Day of the Rabblement, attacking the parochialism of the Irish Literary Theatre was written on 15 October 1901. Hugh Kennedy refused to publish it and used the occasion to attack Joyce's ideas in this edition.

196. JOYCE, James. Dubliners. With fifteen drawings by Robin Jacques. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. pp. 256. Green paper boards, street lamp in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Top edge green. A fine copy in price-clipped and nicked dust jacket. €125 197. [JOYCE, James] Ricordo di Joyce a Trieste, con una lettera di James Joyce. Milan: 1966. pp. 67. 12mo. White paper wrappers with printed dust jacket. Scarce. €125

DOLMEN PRESS 198. [JOYCE, James] James Joyce and the Mullingar Connection. By Leo Daly. With an introduction by Bernard Share. Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1975. Quarto. pp. 60. Brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Limited edition of 750 copies. A fine copy in fine dust jacket, with small repair. €125 Miller 231. The author argues that Joyce's two sojourns in the town of Mullingar were of far greater significance than the handful of incidental references in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake might suggest. This work is the fruit of four years of research into the Joyce

connection. This book was given the 'Institute for Creative Advertising and Design' award for book design in 1975.

199. JOYCE Joe & MURTAGH Peter. The Boss. Charles J. Haughey in Government. Illustrated. Dublin: Poolbeg Press, 1983. pp. 400. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €15 200. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. Three volumes. Dublin: Phoenix, n.d. (c.1913). pp. (1) xiv, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Green cloth, title in gilt on spines. A very good set. €275

This is the first work ever written on the subject, and is a marvel of industry, patience and accuracy. In the preface to the third volume, Dr. P.W. Joyce says: "Indeed my notes on this subject from all sources would be enough to astonish any person looking through them - enough indeed to alarm one at the idea of classifying and using them. The great name system, begun thousands of years ago by the first wave of population that reached our


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island, was continued unceasingly from age to age until it embraced the minutest features of the country in its intricate network; and, such as it sprang from the minds of our ancestors, it exists almost unchanged to this day". Dr. Joyce further states: "These volumes comprise what I have to say concerning Irish Local Names; for I have noticed all the principal circumstances that were taken advantage of by the people of this country to designate places; and I have explained and illustrated, as far as lay in my power, the various laws of name-formation, and all the important root-words used in building up the structure". Still the standard work, the third volume which is usually wanting, contains an alphabetical list of placenames with their Irish forms and translation, running to almost 600 pages.

201. JOYCE, P.W. Ed. by. Ballads of Irish Chivalry. By Robert Dwyer Joyce. Edited with annotations, by his brother P.W. Joyce. Illustrated. Dublin: Talbot Press, n.d. (c. 1930). pp. x, 212. Olive-green cloth, blind-stamped on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. Minor foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. €65

RARE CORK PRINTING 202. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. Justini historiarum ex Trogo Pompeio libri XII : Ad optimum exemplarium fidem recensiti. Editio novissima, ab innumeris erroribus emendata. Huic editioni accessere Jacobi Bongarsii excerptiones chronologicæ, ad justini historias accomodatæ. Una cum indice copiosa rerum memorabilium per Michaelem Maitaire. Corcagiae: Impensis Antonii Edwards, 1800. 12mo. pp. [20], 93, [17]. Contemporary full worn calf. Signature of John Meade, dated November 29th, Cork, on titlepage. Contemporary full calf, spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €875

ESTC T188647 locates 1 copy only. 203. KEATING, Geoffrey. Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. The History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D. Volume I containing the Introduction and the First Book of the history edited with translation and notes by David Comyn. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society, 1902. pp. [6], xviii, 237. Green ribbed cloth, with Celtic design on upper cover, and title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature and stamp of the Educational Company of Ireland on front pastedown. A fine copy. €45

Geoffrey Keating was born c.1570 in Burges, Co. Tipperary. He is known to have gone about Ireland in disguise collecting his materials, and apparently he met Michael O'Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, on his travels. The history, begun in 1629, was completed in 1634 by which time he was parish priest in Cappoquin. It was not published however for almost a century and O'Connor's translation was not well received at the time. Of the prose writers of the seventeenth century Dr. Douglas Hyde states: "He was a man of literature, a poet, professor, theologian, and historian, in one. He brought the art of writing limpid Irish to its highest perfection".

204. KEATING, Geoffrey. Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. The History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D. Volume II containing the First Book of the history from Sect. XV to the end edited with translation and notes by Rev. Patrick S. Dinneen, M.A. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society, 1908. First edition. pp. [8], xxxv, [1], 425. Green ribbed cloth, with Celtic design on upper cover, and title in gilt on spine. Stamp of the Educational Company of Ireland on front pastedown. A fine copy. €45 205. KEATING, Geoffrey. Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. The History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D. Volume III containing the Second Book of the History. Edited with translation and notes by Rev. Patrick S. Dinneen, M.A. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society, 1908. First edition. pp. [viii], 387, [1]. Green ribbed cloth, with Celtic design on upper cover, and title in gilt on spine. Stamp of the Educational Co. of Ireland on front pastedown. A fine copy. €45

IN FINE M'KENZIE WALNUT CALF 206. KEILL, John. An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures; read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford. The seventh edition corrected. Illustrated by twenty-six folding plates. Dublin: Printed at the Academic Press, by Wm. M'Kenzie, 1793. pp. [6], xiv, [4], 386, [12]. (a-a8, b-b4, B-S8, U-2D7, [1] - there is no signature T). Bound in contemporary full walnut calf. Title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on flat spine, divided into


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compartments by McDonnell and Healy tool. R19. Armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Chapman on front pastedown. Pencil inscription of a member of the family on rear endpaper. Minor wear to extremities. Two small holes in the last plate which is slightly cropped. Very rare. €675

ESTC T167472 locates 6 copies only. The seventh, and last edition (and the first to be published in Dublin), of a popular work on astronomy, which remained in print for over seventy years. The original Latin version, Introductio ad Veram Astronomiam, was issued in 1718, and was soon followed by the English translation in 1721. Six other editions appeared (between 1730 and 1778), before this Dublin one, based on last London edition. John Keill, mathematician and natural philosopher (1671-1721) was educated at the University of Edinburgh and Balliol College, Oxford, later transferring to Christ Church. He was appointed to the chair of Astronomy, in which post he delivered these lectures, in 1712: "By now Keill was one of the most influential natural astronomers in Britain, helping to establish and disseminate Newtonian principles" (DNB). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1701 (being a frequent contributor to the Philosophical Transactions) and later became involved in a dispute over the invention of calculus, between Newton and Leibnitz. Provenance: From the library of Sir Thomas Chapman, the 2nd baronet (1756-1837) of Killua Castle, Co. Westmeath. He was the great grandfather of T.E. Lawrence, whose natural father was Sir Thomas Chapman, the seventh baronet (1846-1919).

207. KELLEHER, D.L. The Glamour of the West. Bantry Bay to Lough Foyle. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1929. Second edition. pp. 123. Light brown cloth, titled in blue on upper cover and spine. Colour illustrated dust jacket featuring an oil painting of an Aran fisherman and his wife. A very good copy. Scarce. €45

208. KELLEHER, D.L. The Glamour of Dublin. With eight etchings by Estella F. Solomons. Dublin & Cork: Talbot Press, 1929. pp. 108. Quarter linen on grey paper boards, title in blue on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in rare repaired dust jacket. €85 209. KELLEHER, D.L. The Glamour of the South. Illustrated. Dublin & Cork: Talbot Press, 1929. First edition. pp. 124. Quarter linen on grey paper boards, title in blue on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in rare repaired dust jacket. €45

The author describes the Treaty Stone as being "unique … the only monument ever erected to the memory of a scrap of paper".

210. KENNEDY, Fred. Three Stories Up. Tales of Dublin Tenement Life. Dublin: Marino Books, 1997. pp. 96. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €25

RARE DOLMEN EDITION 211. KENNEDY, Maurice. Freebooters. A story with pictures cut by Michael Morrow. Dublin: Printed & Published at the Dolmen Press, 1952. First edition. Small Quarto. pp. [viii], 24. Title in red and black. Quarter buckram on illustrated boards. Edition limited to 225 copies on Irish


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Vellum, signed by the author. Covers suntanned. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €950

Miller 5. "This was our first experiment in setting prose and 'justification', in the narrow measure of our small page, proved devilish. The charming linocuts made by Michael Morrow were very inexpertly printed in most copies. However, the name of the press began to be known and manuscripts and proposals for books began to gather" - Liam Miller.

212. [KEPPEL, Augustus Keppel, Viscount] The Proceedings at large of the Court-Martial, on the Trial of the Honourable Augustus Keppel: Admiral of the Blue. Held on Board his Majesty's Ship the Britannia, On Thursday, January 7th, 1779. And adjourned to the House of the Governor of Portsmouth, and held there till Thursday, February 11th, when the Admiral was Honourably Acquitted. Taken in short hand, by W. Blanchard, for the Admiral, and Published by his Permission. By Edmund Burke and John Lee. Dublin: Printed for the Company of Booksellers, 1779. pp. 588. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate and signature of Daniel Conner of Manch. Some surface wear to covers, otherwise a very good copy. €675

ESTC N11992 locates 2 copies in Ireland, 1 in the UK and 4 in North America. Not in NLI. Todd 30g. A reprint of the London folio edition with the second version of Keppel's defence, written by Edmund Burke and John Lee. Burke's Irish Family Records indicates that the Conners first settled in the town of Bandon in the late seventeenth century and married into the Splaine family. MacLysaght, in his preface to the 1944 report on the Connor papers, recorded the belief that this family were descended from the O'Conner Kerry. Daniel Connor of Manch, Ballineen, owned over 4000 acres in County Cork in the 1870s. In 1851, he was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Fanlobbus and Kilmichael, barony of East Carbery. In July 1852, over 4200 acres of his property was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. According to Burke the family are associated with the Ballineen area since the late seventeenth century and occupied a house named Connorville in the eighteenth century. In the 1870s Daniel Conner of Manch House owned 4,194 acres in County Cork. In 1783 Taylor & Skinner had indicated Connorsville as a seat of the Connor family as had Wilson's Post Chaise in 1786. Samuel Lewis describes it as "an elegant villa four miles from the town, situated on a terrace, and surrounded with a highly cultivated demesne" [1837]. Bence Jones notes that the house was gutted by fire in 1963 but afterwards rebuilt. Still in the possession of the Conner family.

213. KING, Jeremiah. County Kerry Past and Present. A Handbook to the Local and Family History of the County. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co., 1931. First edition. Contemporary half morocco on cloth boards, title and author in gilt direct on spine. Castle Hacket copy with


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bookplate on front pastedown. Interleaved. Top edge gilt. Minor foxing to endpapers, otherwise a fine copy. Very scarce. €675

Incorporates King's Irish-English Dictionary. It is an excellent reference work on Kerry families and local history.

214. KING, William. The State of the Protestants of Ireland Under the late King James's Government; in which Their Carriage towards him is justified, and the absolute Necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his Government, and of submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated. Cork: Printed by Phineas Bagnell and Comp. in Castle-Street, 1768. pp. xxvi, [2], 500. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on blue morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate of Richard Meade, Ballymartle on front pastedown. Minor surface wear to heel of spine. A very good fresh copy. Rare. €575

ESTC T133424. King argues: "the absolute necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his Government, and of submitting to their present Majesties" in a book, a copy of which was found in virtually every 18th century house library throughout the length and breadth of Ireland. Bishop Gilbert Burnet provided a glowing testimonial: "Not only the best book that hath been written for the service of the Government but, without any figure, it is worth all the rest put together". When Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, he had been imprisoned in Dublin Castle in 1689. Included in the list of subscribers are: Rev. George Berkley, Mathew Bunbury of Kilfeakle, Broderick Chinnery of Middleton, Moore Disney, Bartholomew Gibbings of Gibbings-Grove, Benjamin Grubb, Captain Andrew Kirwan of Galway, Luke Kelly, Rev. John Meade, Cornelius O'Callaghan of Banteer, Richard Plummer, Rev. Horatio Townshend, Mr. Grove White, etc.

215. KINGSTON, Rev. John. The Parish of Fairview. Including the present parishes of Corpus Christi, Glasnevin, Larkhill, Marino and Donnycarney. Illustrated. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1953. pp. [vi], 122. Light blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Covers lightly faded. A very good copy. €30

WIDGERY'S BETRAYAL OF THE BOGSIDE 216. KINSELLA, Thomas. Butcher's Dozen: A Lesson for the Octave of Widgery. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1972. pp. 8. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €45 217. KNOTT, Mary John. Two Months at Kilkee. Ennis: Clasp Press, 1997. pp. [vi], xv, 118. Black paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 218. KNOX, Alexander. & DUIGENAN, Patrick. Essays on the Political Circumstances of Ireland: written during the Administration of Earl Camden; with An Appendix, containing Thoughts on the Will of the People. And a postscript, now first published. By Alexander Knox, Esq. The second edition. [ESTC N8403 locates 9 copies only]. Bound with: DUIGENAN, Patrick. An Answer to the Address of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan, ex-representative of the City of Dublin in Parliament, to the Fellow Citizens of Dublin.[ESTC citation no.: T160331]. Bound with: An Address of the Catholics of Dublin, to the Right Honourable Henry Grattan, Presented to him by the Gentlemen appointed for that purpose, at the meeting in Francis-Street, on the twenty-seventh of February, 1790. With His Answer. [ESTC T202986 - Gives TCD (imperfect) and Huntington only]. Three works in one volume. Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street, 1798/99. pp. xviii, [2], 234, [xi], 196, 42. With an errata leaf. Armorial bookplate and signature of Richard Meade, Ballymartle. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Wear to extremities. Very rare. €765

The author of the first work Alexander Knox (1757-1831), theological writer, was born at Derry and descended from the family of John Knox, the Scottish reformer. Knox's alarm at the proceedings of the United Irishmen convinced him that: "any degree of popular reform would infallibly lead to complete democracy", and he finally became 'an unqualified supporter of the existing constitution'. A close friend of John Wesley and John Jebb, he was private secretary to Lord Castlereagh during the rebellion of 1798 and afterwards. After the Union, Castlereagh urged him to represent his native city, Knox, however retired from public life and devoted himself to theology and writing. The present work is merely a collection of papers intended in almost every instance for publication in newspapers or for circulation in the form of handbills. They were written at intervals between 1795 and


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1797, in a bright, lively and popular style. This edition incorporates extra material. A primary source for the rise of the United Irishmen and the political transactions of that time. Patrick Duigenan (1735-1816), lawyer and politician, was the son of a Leitrim Catholic farmer. Through the tuition of the local Protestant clergyman, who showed an interest in the boy, he got a scholarship in 1756 at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently became a fellow. He was called to the Irish bar in 1767 and obtained a rich practice, mainly in the area of law relating to tithes. At that time tithes were levied off the majority Catholic population for the benefit of the minority Church of Ireland, and were consequently unpopular. While Duigenan thought that Catholics should not have political rights, he provided his Catholic wife with a chapel at their home and arranged for a priest to say mass for her on Sundays. A noted Anti-Catholic be opposed the Roman Catholic Maynooth College and he opposed the Maynooth Grant. He is remembered, however, mainly as a politician, on account of his opposition to Grattan, his support of the Union, and his violent antagonism to Catholic emancipation, both in the Irish House of Commons and in his pamphlets. As a Member of Parliament, he represented Old Leighlin one of the Bishop's boroughs of the Irish Parliament between 1791 and 1798 and subsequently Armagh Borough until 1801. He sat then for Armagh City in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was a well-known character at Westminster until he died on 11 April 1816. Curran said that his speeches were "like the unrolling of a mummy - nothing but old bones and rotten rags ... The nation to whom he owed his birth he slandered; the common people from whom he sprung, he vituperated; and the religion of his wife he persecuted; he abused the people; he abused the Catholics; he abused his country; and the more he calumniated his country, the more he raised himself."

THE DACENT LACY 219. LACY, Thomas. Home Sketches, on both sides of the Channel. Being a Diary. London: Hamilton, & Dublin: M'Glashan: 1852. pp. xi, 300. Recent brown cloth with original back strip laid on. Occasional light browning. A very good copy. Very scarce. €285

Thomas Lacy of Wexford, sometimes styled 'the dacent Lacy' was employed as assistant to the solicitor responsible for negotiating the acquisition of land for the extension of the Dublin to Wexford railway. This volume deals with south and eastern Ireland and also included chapters on Bristol, Liverpool and London. It is of particular interest because of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway project with which he was engaged. That line was projected by Mr. Brunel and it was promoted by the Earl of Courtown and Sir Thomas Esmonde.

220. LACY, Thomas. Sights and Scenes in our Fatherland. With engraved frontispiece and vignettes. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, 1863. pp. viii, 720, + errata. Blind-stamped cloth with a Celtic design in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Recent endpapers. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €325


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SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 221. LAMONT, Bishop Donal. Speech from the Dock. Essex: Kevin Mayhew, 1977. pp. 143. Printed wrappers. Signed presentation copy from Bishop Lamont. Very good. Rare. €65

This is the story of the Bishop who was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment by the Rhodesian government. On his own admission Bishop Lamont was guilty of failing to report the presence of terrorists at a mission hospital. Why did he do it? In Speech from the Dock Bishop Lamont gives his reasons. The Bishop, who was deported from Rhodesia at that time, is admired as one of the most courageous of modern churchmen, speaking out uncompromisingly against a racist and totalitarian regime.

222. [LAND OWNERS IN IRELAND] Return of Owners of Land of one acre and upwards, in the several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns in Ireland ... Showing the owners alphabetically in each county, their addresses, acres, valuation etc. To which is added a summary for each province and for all Ireland. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom, 1876. Quarto. pp. [viii], 325. Large quarto. Contemporary half red morocco on marbled boards, titled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Slight wear to spine otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €475

Listed are the names of owners, addresses and acreage with valuations in each of the counties for the year 1876.

223. LANDRETH, Helen. Dear Dark Head. An Intimate Story of Ireland. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1936. Sixth edition. pp. xiv, 385. Red cloth, title in blue on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. €25

The chapters include: Nuada of the Silver Hand; Macha of the Red Hair; Conor Mac Nessa, King of Ulster; Finn Mac Cool and the Fianna; The Coming of Patrick; Dove of the Church; Quiet Gardens; And Then the Vikings Came; "We Have Found a Golden Cup"; "Trembling Sod"; "Warme Neste"; Nemesis; The Flight of the Earls; Poverty and Potatoes; "The Ragged Coat", and Seeds of Fire.

WITH NOTE SIGNED BY HUGH LANE 224. [LANE, Sir Hugh] Sir Hugh Lane's French Pictures. Mansion House Meeting. Notice of meeting to be held at the Mansion House, on Tuesday, 29th Jan., at 8.15p.m. Single page quarto, with facsimile autograph of George Atkinson. Printed on one side only. With paper note pasted to notice signed by Lane: "With affectionate regards / From Hugh Lane / July 04". Fine. €245

Rare circular letter from George Atkinson RHA, Honorary Secretary of the committee formed to appeal for the return of the Lane pictures, notifying of a public meeting to be held in Dublin.

225. LANE, Thomas. The Student's Guide Through Lincoln's Inn: Containing An Account Of That Honourable Society, The Forms of Admission, Keeping Terms, Performing Exercises, Call to The Bar, And other useful Information. With engraved frontispiece and folding plate. London: Printed For T. Lane, By Ellerton And Henderson, 1814. Third edition. pp. [14], 217, [10]. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. Some wear to corners and spine, otherwise a very good copy. €185 226. LAVIN, Mary. Mary O'Grady. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1950. First edition. pp. 382. Black cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A good copy. €45

Mary Lavin (1912-1996), was born of Irish parents in Massachusetts. The family returned to Ireland when she was ten. Lord Dunsany was first to recognise her talent and wrote the foreword to Tales from Bective Bridge her first book. She was awarded several honours including the Katherine Mansfield Award 1961, the Eire Society Medal, 1975, and the following year the Gregory Medal, which Yeats described as the supreme literary award of the Irish nation. She was President of the Irish Academy of Letters, 1972-74.


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FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOLID LEARNING 227. LEDWICH, Edward. Antiquities of Ireland. Dublin: Printed for Arthur Grueber, 1790. First edition. Quarto. pp. v, [3], 473, 12 (index, directions for the binder, and errata). Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine expertly rebacked. Signature of Isabella Digges La Touche, 18 Fitzwilliam Square South, on titlepage. Comment in Latin on final text leaf. A very good copy. Very scarce. €850

ESTC T129756. Bradshaw 2447. Gilbert 467. "Thus we have endeavoured to give our readers a view of a performance in which we find much to commend and little to disapprove. If in an instance or two we might hesitate or be inclined to object, our intention is overcome by the good sense, the learning, the judgement, the diligence, the accuracy and the liberality which pervade the whole. We consider the public as indebted to this author for so instructive and useful a production, which we trust, will have its effect, in concurrence with other aids, towards the destruction of bigotry, superstition, and false science, with all their idle fancies, and childish chimaeras, and thus contribute to the advancement of solid learning, rational religion and virtue. The value of the volume is still greatly enhanced by the engravings, exact and beautiful". - Monthly Review for May and June, 1793.

228. LELAND, John. D.D. The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation : shewn from the State of Religion in the Antient Heathen World: ... To which is prefixed, a preliminary discourse on natural and revealed religion. The second edition, revised and corrected by the author. In two volumes. Dublin: Printed by and for S. Cotter; and for J. Sheppard, in Skinner-Row, 1766. pp. (1) xii, [8], 382, [34], (2) xi, [9], 359, [30]. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on contrasting red and green morocco labels on spines. Premium label awarded to Richard Meade on front pastedowns, also with his armorial bookplate. Badge of Trinity College in gilt on covers. Wear to surface, corners and gilding of badges very worn. All edges green. Internally fine. A good set. Exceedingly rare. €375 ESTC N2680 locates 5 sets only. 229. LEVENSON, Samuel. James Connolly. A Biography. Portrait frontispiece. London: O'Keefe, 1973. First edition. pp. 349. Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45

LIMERICK'S FIGHTING STORY 230. [LIMERICK] Limerick's Fighting Story 1916-21. Told by the men who made it. With a Unique Pictorial Record of the Period. Introduction by Ruán O'Donnell. Illustrated. Cork: Mercier Press, 2009. pp. 383. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €35

The story of three brigades, west, mid and east and their fight against the Occupation Forces in the county and city of Limerick.

231. LITTLE, Peter Stanislaus. Memoriam Card. Pray for the soul of Peter Stanislaus Little, who departed this life at Clongowes Wood College, on 10 December, 1890, aged 16 years. With head and shoulders photograph of Little within a black border. On verso a photograph and prayer to the Sacred Heart. In very good condition. Very rare. €265

Peter Stanislaus Little (1874-1890) was the son of Phillip Francis Little (1824-1897), first Premier of Newfounland Colony, Canada (1855-58) and a brother of Irish Fianna Fáil politician, Patrick J. Little, founder-member of the party and most notably the country's longest-serving Minister for Posts and Telegraphs. Peter died while a student at Clongowes of rheumatic fever and pneumonia after being caught in a downpour of rain on the Bog of Allen. He is buried in the College cemetery. James Joyce wrote: "That was the infirmary. He was sick then. Had they written home to tell his mother and father? But it would be quicker for one of the priests to go himself to tell them. Or he


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would write a letter for the priest to bring ... How far away they were! There was cold sunlight outside the window. He wondered if he would die. You could die just the same on a sunny day. He might die before his mother came. Then he would have a dead mass in the chapel like the way the fellows had told him it was when Little had died. All the fellows would be at the mass, dressed in black, all with sad faces. Wells too would be there but no fellow would look at him. The rector would be there in a cope of black and gold and there would be tall yellow candles on the altar and round the catafalque. And they would carry the coffin out of the chapel slowly and he would be buried in the little graveyard of the community off the main avenue of limes. And Wells would be sorry then for what he had done. And the bell would toll slowly. He could hear the tolling. He said over to himself the song that Brigid had taught him" - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. James Joyce studied at Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare from 1888 until 1892. Due to ill health and the devolution of his family's financial state, Joyce had to leave the school. After a brief time with the Christian Brothers, Joyce was enrolled at Belvedere College, Dublin in 1893.

232. LONGFIELD, Mountifort. Three Lectures on Commerce, and one on Absenteeism, delivered in Michaelmas Term, 1834, before the University of Dublin. Dublin: Milliken and Son, Grafton Street, Booksellers to the University; B. Fellowes, London, 1835. pp. [11], 111, [1]. Faded purple ribbed cloth, title in gilt on spine. Presentation copy signed on front endpaper 'From the Author'. Armorial bookplate of Horace T.N. Meade (son of Richard Meade) on front pastedown. Small tear to heel. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375

COPAC locates the Edinburgh copy only. Samuel Mountifort Longfield (1802-1884) lawyer and economist, was the first Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin.

233. MACALISTER, R.A. Stewart. Ed. by. Eachtra an Mhadra Mhaoil - The Story of the Crop-Eared Dog, Eachtra Mhacaoimh-an-Iolair - The Story of Eagle-Boy. Two Irish Arthurian Romances. Edited and translated by R.A.S. Macalister. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society, 1908. pp. ix, [1], 207, [4], xiv-xxxiii. Green ribbed cloth, gilt Celtic shield on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €45 234. MACARDLE, Dorothy. The Irish Republic. A documented chronicle of the Anglo-Irish conflict and the partitioning of Ireland, with a detailed account of the period 1916-1923. Preface by Eamon de Valera. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: Irish Press, 1951. Fourth edition. pp. 1045. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65

In the preface Eamon de Valera says: "No matter what the future may hold for the Irish Nation, the seven years - 1916 to 1923 - must ever remain a period of absorbing interest. Not for over two hundred years has there been such a period of intense and sustained effort to regain the national sovereignty and independence. Over the greater part of the period it was the effort of, one might say, the entire nation". The author bequeathed the royalties from this work to Eamon de Valera.

235. MACARDLE, Dorothy. Tragedies of Kerry 1922-1923. Eleventh edition. Dublin: Irish Book Bureau, n.d. (c.1960). pp. 60, + adverts. A very good copy in stapled illustrated wraps. €25 236. [MacBRAYNE, David] Summer tours in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland by the Royal Mail Steamers, "Columba", "Iona". Official guide. New edition. With folding map and numerous illustrations (some in colour). Glasgow: n.d. (c.1907). pp. 156, 32 (adverts). Gilt illustrated red cloth. 'Hotel Copy' printed in black on lower cover. Covers lightly faded. A very good copy. Scarce. €125


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237. McBRIEN, Peter. Poems. Dublin: Printed by Colm O Lochlainn at The Candle Press, 1918. 210 x 160mm., pp. 23. Blue stitched paper wrappers, title in silver on upper cover. Edition limited to 450 copies. From the library of the Dominican College, Eccles Street with their bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. €125

De Burca 12. A remarkable young poet whose work was well known to readers of the foremost Irish reviews and magazines of the period.

238. MacCALL, Seamus. And So Began The Irish Nation. With more than five hundred illustrations by the author. London: The Talbot Press, 1931. pp. xvii, 475. Titlepage printed in green and black. Quarter brown arlin on green cloth boards, title in green on spine. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. See illustration. €65 239. MacCALL, Seamus. Irish Mitchel. A Biography. Portrait frontispiece. London: Thomas Nelson, 1938. First edition. pp. 391. Green cloth, titled in silver. Minor spotting. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Top edge green. Fine. Scarce. See €45 240. MacCARTHY, David J. Notes on History of Ireland 1760-1916. Tipperary: Published by D. J. MacCarthy, 1959. Second ed. pp. 75, [3]. Green stiff stapled wrappers, title printed in black on upper cover. A very good copy. €35 241. McCARTHY, Justin. Maid of Athens. Illustrated. Three volumes. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. pp. (1) [iv], 319, (2) [iv], 309 (3) [iv], 287. Contemporary half red morocco on marbled boards. Some wear to spine heads. A very good set. Exceedingly rare. €675

Loeber M39. Not in Brown. COPAC locates 5 copies only. Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), novelist, anthologist and nationalist politician was born at Dunmanway,


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County Cork, the son of Michael McCarthy and Ellen Fitzgerald. At seventeen he started work with the Cork Examiner and he covered the trials of Young Ireland leaders, William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher, whose cause he espoused. Later he moved to England, becoming editor of The Morning Star in 1864 and leader-writer for the Daily News in 1871. His best known work History of Our Own Times, which established him as a popular historian was published in 1879, the same year as he was elected M.P. for County Longford. After this he became vice-chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party and one of Parnell's closest allies. When the party split following the O'Shea divorce case, McCarthy was informed by Gladstone that Parnell was no longer acceptable to the Liberal Party as leader of the Irish party. He proved unable to convince Parnell of this and when Gladstone's publication of his position precipitated a split in the Irish party, McCarthy became leader of the anti-Parnellites. Ill health and failing eyesight led to his resignation from the party in 1896 when he was succeeded by John Dillon.

242. McCLEAN, Raymond. The Road to Bloody Sunday. Dublin: Ward River Press, 1983. pp. 189. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €65

The author Raymond McClean, a doctor from Derry, studied medicine in Dublin and served as a doctor in the R.A.F. Returning to practice medicine in his native town he took part in the newborn Civil Rights movement, and became professionally concerned with the medical effects of C.S. gas used against marchers. This work is a heartfelt chronicle of the tragedy of violence, and a human reaction to the Troubles.

243. MacDONAGH, Thomas. The Poetical Works of Thomas MacDonagh. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1916. First edition, second issue. pp. xii, 168. Quarter buckram on grey paper boards, title printed in red on upper cover. A very good copy. €65 244. McDONALD, Walter, D.D. Reminiscences of a Maynooth Professor. By Walter McDonald, D.D. (Prefect of the Dunboyne Establishment, 1888-1920). Edited by Denis Gwynn. Portrait frontispiece. London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. pp. 416. Original worn cloth. Good. €45 245. MacDOWELL, Vincent. Michael Collins and The Irish Republican Brotherhood. Dublin: Ashfield Press, 1997. pp. xi, 192. Signed by the author. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €45

This is the fascinating story of a secret revolutionary society which succeeded after sixty-five years in wresting most of Ireland from the British Empire. It is also a story of the main leader in the revolution - Michael Collins.

246. MacEOIN, Uinseann. The IRA in the Twilight Years 1923 - 1948. Illustrated. Dublin: By the Author, 1997. pp. x, 980. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €65

247. McGREEVY, Thomas. Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1934. Sole edition. pp. 60. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, publisher's logo blind-stamped on lower cover. Constantinus Curran's copy with his bookplate designed by Jack B. Yeats on front pastedown. A fine copy. €145 Thomas MacGreevy (1894-1967) was director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963. He was a friend to Joyce, Jack B Yeats, Beckett and Wallace Stevens. His poetry and criticism appeared frequently in literary magazines. Of Thomas MacGreevy, Samuel Beckett wrote: "Mr MacGreevy is an existentialist in verse, the Titchener of the modern lyric. It is in virtue of this quality of inevitable unveiling that his poems may be called elucidations, the vision without the dip, and probably the most important contribution to post-War Irish poetry". 248. McGUIRE, Maria. To Take Arms. A Year in the Provisional IRA. London: Published by Quartet Books, Limited, 1973. pp. 154. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €45


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249. McHUGH, Roger J. Henry Grattan. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1936. pp. 192. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €15 250. MacKAY, Donald. Flight from Famine. The Coming of the Irish to Canada. Canada: Dundurn Press, 1990. pp. 367. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €25

One of Canada's founder peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as 17th century. In the following century, there were established farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. This work is the moving account of a Victorian-era tragedy and the famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black '47.

251. MacMANUS, Francis. After the Flight. Eye-Witness Sketches from Irish History from 1607-1916. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1938. First edition. pp. 214. Orange cloth, titled in black. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Top edge brown. A very good copy in rare dust jacket. Scarce. €60 252. M'MANUS, Rev. Henry. Sketches of The Irish Highlands: Descriptive, Social and Religious. With special reference to Irish Missions in West Connacht since 1840. London: Hamilton, 1863. pp. xi, 241, + appendix with list of subscribers. Mauve floral blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt within a cluster of shamrocks on upper cover and spine. Spine rebacked preserving original. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475

COPAC locates 2 copies only. With chapters on: Physical Features of Connemara and its Natural History; Its People - Their Manners, Customs, and Language; Their Religion; Conversions and Discussions with Roman Catholics; Conversions and Discussions Continued; Irish Preaching in West Connaught in 1841.

253. MacMANUS, M. J. Irish Cavalcade 1550-1850. London: Macmillan, 1939. First edition. pp. xix, [1], 320. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45

"A patchwork version of three hundred years of Ireland's History". This work is the story of Ireland through three centuries. The reader will find in it all sorts of curiosities that the serious historian has overlooked. How an English Act of Parliament regulated the length of an Irish shirt; What happened to the survivors of the Armada in Ireland; What Cromwell did, as told by himself, at Drogheda; How Dean Swift went mad; How a Highway Man walked into a Cork playhouse a few hours after he had been hanged; How the Major rode the salmon (the best fishing story ever); How during a visit to Ireland Queen Victoria 'was' amused; How the Bucks set fire to the 'Hell-Fire Club'; Shelley's mission to Dublin; Three thousand pounds for a poem (Tom Moore's 'Lalla Rookh'); Colonel Giles Eyre and the 'Letter'; Humphrey O'Sullivan goes A-Courting; The O'Gorman Mahon creates a sensation; The Catholic Peasantry of County Longford exact a bloody vengeance on Lord Lorton, etc.

254. MacNAMARA, Brinsley. The Valley of the Squinting Windows. London: Samson, n.d. (c.1920). Second impression. pp. [v], 296, [16]. Black cloth, titled in gilt on rebacked spine. Some spotting to fore-edge. Very good in rare repaired dust jacket. €125

Brinsley MacNamara (pseudonym of John Weldon), novelist and playwright, was born in Delvin, County Westmeath the son of the local schoolmaster. This, his first novel, was written in reaction to the false idealisation of Irish rural life. It caused an immediate furore, resulting in a boycott of his father's school and ensuing litigation.

RARE FIRST EDITION 255. MacNEILL, Eoin. Phases of Irish History. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1919. First edition. pp. [viii], 364. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Light browning to endpapers. A very good copy. €65

This edition not in NLI. Classic statement of MacNeill's interpretation of early Irish history. The contents includes: The Ancient Irish a Celtic People; The Celtic Colonisation of Ireland and Britain; The Pre-Celtic Inhabitants of Ireland; The Five Fifths of Irelands; Greek and Latin Writers on Pre-Christian Ireland; Instruction of Christianity and Letters; The Irish Kingdom in Scotland; Ireland's Golden Age; The Struggle with the Norsemen; Medieval Irish Institutions; The Norman Conquest; The Irish Rally.

256. MacSTIOFÁIN, Seán. Memoirs of a Revolutionary. Illustrated. Edinburgh: Gordon Cremonesi, 1975. First edition. pp. x, 372. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good


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copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 The author describes Gerry Adams as "a young Belfast man with a broad outlook and a good overall thinker".

257. MacSWEENEY, Patrick M. Caithréim Conghail Cláiringhnigh Martial Career of Conghal Cláiringhneach. Edited for the first time, with translation, introduction, notes, and glossary. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society by David Nutt, 1904. pp. lxvii, 233, 15. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine, with gilt Celtic design. A very good copy. €45 258. MacSWINEY, Terence. Principles of Freedom. Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1936. Third Irish edition. pp. 202. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Top edge red. A very good copy of the rare O'Higgins edition. €65 259. MacTHOMAÍS, Éamonn. Gur Cake & Coal Blocks. Illustrated by Liam Delaney and Michael O'Brien. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1976. pp. 160. Green paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 260. MacTHOMÁIS, Eamonn. Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black. Illustrated by Jeanette Dunne. Dublin: The O'Brien Press Ltd., 1982. pp. 159. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 261. MADDEN, Richard R. The United Irishmen. Their Lives and Times. With several additional memoirs, & authentic documents, heretofore unpublished; the whole matter newly arranged and revised. With a memoir of William James MacNevin at end of volume three. Edited by James J. O'Neill. With numerous illustrations. In three volumes. Dublin: Martin Lester, n.d. pp. (1) 240, (2) [i], 247, (3) [i], 192, 62. Blue cloth, publisher's device in blind on upper covers, title in gilt on spines. Occasional light foxing. A fine set. Scarce. €475

One day in 1841 the neighbours of a poor old washerwoman, Mrs. Campbell, who was in a stable yard off Saint John's Lane, Dublin, were surprised to find a well-dressed gentleman desiring to be directed to her. He was writing a book, he explained about the "Troubles" of 1798 and 1803 and he had been


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told that Mrs. Campbell could tell him something about Robert Emmet. It was not alone the story at first hand of the tragic ending of the Emmet Rising Dr. Richard Robert Madden learned that day, but the heroic story of Anne Devlin. For the crippled washerwoman was no other than the heroine whose fidelity to Robert Emmet had withstood torture and imprisonment, the loss of home and kindred, of worldly goods and health, and whom an ungrateful country a few years later was to let die of hunger and be buried in a pauper's grave. It was during Dr. Madden's absence abroad that Anne Devlin Campbell died. He had done all he could both out of his own modest resources, and through an appeal in 'The Nation', to secure some provision for her. But, except for Father Charles Meehan and a brother of Miles Byrne, there was none to stretch a helping hand to her. When, in 1851 the doctor, on his return to Ireland, traced her to a garret in the Coombe, he found she had died a few days previously of starvation and cold. The first edition of Madden's The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times ran into seven volumes, covering three series, of which the first appeared 1n 1842, the second in 1843, and the third in 1846. The second edition appeared in between 1858 and 1861 in four volumes, in the preface to the last of which the author tells of the labours which went to the accomplishment of the gigantic task: "Four and twenty years have elapsed since the collection of materials for this work was commenced in America where several of the leaders of the United Irishmen were then living. Similar materials were afterwards secured on the Continent and from the surviving friends and relatives abroad and at home came a vast amount of original information and a collection of documents, the most important that have ever been obtained. The materials for the biographies have been placed in the author's hands, either by their immediate relatives or by friends who had been intimately connected with them in private life or in their political purposes". Only very modestly and delicately does the writer allude to the great sacrifices demanded of him by this task. The present edition has several additional memoirs and authentic documents not previously published.

"A NAME WHICH IRELAND OUGHT TO HONOUR" - JOHNSON 262. [MADDEN, Samuel] Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, As to their Conduct for the Service of their Country, As Landlords, As Masters of Families, As Protestants, As descended from British Ancestors, As Country Gentlemen and Farmers, As Justices of the Peace, As Merchants, As Members of Parliament. Dublin: Printed by R. Reilly, for George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible in Dame-street, re-printed 1816. pp. xxii, [7], [1], 2-224. Modern full calf. From the library of Herbert A. Hore with his armorial bookplate and signature on titlepage. With manuscript notes by Hore on two inserted leaves at front. A very good copy. Very rare. €275

COPAC locates 6 copies only. In this remarkable work the sorry state of the country is ascribed to the extravagance and idle disposition of the people. Madden recommended that criminals, instead of being executed or transported should be employed in workhouses, and that itinerant husbandmen should be employed to travel throughout the country for the purpose of instructing farmers in the best use of their land. Samuel Madden D.D. (1686-1765), a distinguished writer and one of the founders of the Royal Dublin Society was born in Dublin and educated at T.C.D. Following his ordination he became rector of Galloon and subsequently of Drummully. In September 1730, Madden submitted to Trinity College, through its parliamentary representative Marmaduke Coghill, a scheme for the encouragement of learning by the establishment of premiums. He proposed to raise a fund by taxing undergraduates and voluntary subscription, and Madden himself contributed £600. It was from this that he got his cognomen 'Premium Madden'. Having spent a life of exemplary piety and charity devoted to the better improvement of his fellow countrymen, he died at Manor Waterhouse, County Fermanagh in 1765. He bequeathed a large and valuable collection of books to Trinity, and several paintings which are now in the Provost's house. Originally published anonymously in 1738. Preface signed: R.E.M.

263. MAGHTOCHAIR [Michael Harkin] Inishowen: Its History, Traditions, and Antiquities. Containing a number of original documents hitherto unpublished, procured from the State Paper Office, continental libraries, and private collections, with numerous notes from the Annals of the Four Masters, and other sources. Carndonagh: Harkin, 1935. pp. viii, 3-227. Green cloth, title in blue on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's library stamp on front endpaper. A very good copy. €75


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264. MAHON, Derek. Somewhere the Wave. Drawings and watercolours by Bernadette Kiely. Loughcrew: Gallery Press, 2007. Blue cloth, title blind-stamped on upper cover. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author. A fine copy in dust jacket. €195 265. MALONE, Tom. Alias Seán Forde. The Story of Commandant Tomás Malone, Vice O.C. East Limerick Flying Column, Irish Republican Army. Illustrated. Dublin: Danesfort, 2000. Quarto. pp. 118. Blue arlin, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 266. MANGAN, James Clarence. Poets and Poetry of Munster 1885. Washington: Woodstock Books, 1997. pp. [28], lx, 355. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45

W.B. Yeats described Mangan as "Our one poet raised to the first rank by intensity" and James Joyce praised him as "The most magnificent poet of the modern Celtic world, and one of the most inspired lyric singers that ever used the Lyric form in any country". Poets and Poetry of Munster is his major collection of verse, and contains some of the best of his poems, and his finest and most famous renderings from the Gaelic.

267. MARLEY, Laurence. Michael Davitt: Freelance Radical and Frondeur. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. pp. 314. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €45

JACK B. YEATS PICTORIAL AND DRAMATIC ART 268. MARRIOTT, Ernest. Jack B. Yeats: Being a True Impartial View of his Pictorial & Dramatic Art. Wherein is Discovered the Author's sense of the Unusual Excellence of the Astonishing Handiwork of this Singular Artist; How he became possessed of a Quick and Eager understanding of the same; And his Sudden Purpose to publish his Knowledge Thereof Abroad, as likewise to exhibit his Diligent Study of it and his surpassing Wonder thereat. Wherein also is Animadverted Excogitated & Per pended the Truth and Quality of this Unparalleled Artist's Pictorial Observations; The Rare Valour and Solemn Intent of his Plays for the Toy Stage and his Divers Inventions for the Delight of all those who keep Youth ever in their hearts. The discourse adorned with a Painting of the Artist when a Child, by his Father and a surprising Chart of Pirate Island drawn by the cunning and subtle Master hand of Jack B. Yeats Ex-Pirate and Re-Discoverer of the Land of Romance. London: Printed for Elkin Mathews, 1911. First edition. pp. 23, [3]. Blue pictorial wrappers, printed in black. A superb copy. Rare in this state. €575

This monograph on Jack B. Yeats was read at a meeting to the Manchester Literary Club, and printed in The Manchester Quarterly for July, 1911. The present work was published shortly afterwards with some alterations and additions to the text and illustrated as set forth on the titlepage.

269. MARSHALL, William. The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties : including the management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its environs: together with Minutes on Agriculture and Planting in the district of the Midland station. By Mr. Marshall. Two volumes in one. Dublin: Printed for J. Moore, No. 45, College-Green, 1793. pp. (1) [viii], 280 (2) [viii], 287, 8. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine professionally rebacked. A fine copy. Very rare. €475

ESTC T207325 locates the NLI and TCD copies only in Ireland.


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"FOR GET ME NOT / BUT TIME WILL TELL" 270. MASON, John. Self-Knowledge: A Treatise; shewing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science, and the Way to attain it. Intermixed with various Reflections and Observations on Human Nature. The eighth edition. Dublin: Printed by William Sleater, on Cork-Hill, 1767. pp. xx, 243, 1 (books printed by W. Sleater). Contemporary full worn calf, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. Inscribed on front endpaper and on final leaf by John Andrews, Castlewarden with the inscription "For get me Not / But time will tell". Also with the signature of Eliza: Weld on titlepage. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475

ESTC T175431 locates 2 copies only. 271. MASON, William. Poems : By William Mason, M. A. Containing, Odes, Elegies, Dramatic Pieces, &c. To this Dublin edition are added, I. Isis: An Elegy. II. An Ode performed at the Senate-House at Cambridge, at the installation of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University. By the same author. Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson, and James Potts, Booksellers, in Dame-Street, 1764. 12mo. pp. [8], 252, 4 (Books Printed by Peter Wilson). Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on maroon letterpiece on spine. Some wear to leather on spine, otherwise a good copy. Very rare. €375

ESTC T59223 locates 5 copies only. 272. MASON, W. The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings. Volume one only. Dublin: Printed for D. Chamberlaine, J. Potts ... J. Colles, M. Mills, 1776. Contemporary full calf. Badge of Trinity College in gilt on covers, framed by a slim gilt floral roll. Spine lacking labels, elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments. Premium label awarded to Horatio Townsend Newman, Hilary term 1801, Tutor, Mr. Elrington. Inscribed on front free endpaper "The gift of Horace Newman / to his Aunt J. Meade / 1803". Some wear to binding, otherwise a very good copy. €125

273. MAXWELL, Constantia. The Stranger in Ireland. From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Great Famine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition. pp. 340. Full green morocco, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €95

This is a unique and valuable commentary on the history of Ireland from the Elizabethan to Victorian times. The author has assembled the impressions of visitors to Ireland throughout four centuries, including such eminent people as Edmund Spencer, Arthur Young, William Makepeace Thackeray and Walter Scott.

274. MAXWELL, W.H. Wild Sports of The West. With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches. New edition, revised and corrected. Illustrated. Two volumes. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Successor to Henry Colburn)1833. pp. (1) xvi, 306, (2) ix, [1], 323, [1]. Later


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half calf on cloth boards by Horrell of London. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number on contrasting morocco labels in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner floral design. Splash marbled endpapers; red, yellow and mauve endpapers; green silk markers. All edges yellow. A fine and very attractive set. Very rare. €485

COPAC locates 3 copies only of this edition. Acknowledged as the finest book ever written on the West of Ireland. A truly remarkable work by a remarkable author, treating the wild sport, folklore and traditions of that romantic and untouched Erris peninsula. Maxwell was a lively and gifted story-teller with a genuine interest in the ordinary people and how they lived. Born at Newry in 1792, he was educated locally and later went to Trinity. He took holy orders and was transferred to the prebendary of Balla, Co. Mayo, an area which afforded good shooting and fishing. Having befriended the Marquis of Sligo, he was given the use of his shooting box, Croy Lodge, at Ballycroy. It was here he spent most of his time fishing, shooting and pursuing his literary career. It was in the Officers' Mess at Castlebar Barracks, that he heard all the army gossip. Being a good listener and with an excellent memory he put pen to paper and wrote Stories of Waterloo. He wrote a total of twenty books in all. He died near Edinburgh in destitute circumstances in 1850. 275. MAXWELL, W.H. Esq. History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803. With numerous illustrations drawn and engraved by George Cruikshank. London: George Bell,

1891. pp. vii, [1], 477. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine, with gilt harp. A very good copy. €145 Maxwell's History of the Rebellion is considered pro-establishment, but nevertheless it is an important work with twenty-seven fine illustrations, mostly by Cruikshank, depicting the scenes of battles, massacres, executions, etc. He wrote a total of twenty books in all.


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276. MEADE, Arthur. M.D. Dissertatio chemica inauguralis : de aquis mineralibus, quam, Annuente Summo Numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; Necnon Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Meade, Hibernus, Societ. Reg. Phys. Edin. Praes. Ann. Societ. Chirurg. Obstet. Praes. Nec non, Societat. American. Phys. Soc. Ad diem 24. Junii, hora locoque solitis. Edinburgh: apud Balfour et Smellie, Academiae Typographos, 1790. pp. [8], 40. With a half-title. Contemporary full tree calf, covers framed by a wide gilt Greek-key roll. Fore-edges hatched in gilt, flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets and floral roll, title and author in gilt on red morocco letterpiece in the second compartment, the remainder with gilt decorations. All edges gilt and gauffered. Richard Meade's copy with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Surface wear to binding, with small loss of gilding. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €675

ESTC T151306 locates 6 copies only. None in Ireland.

277. MERRIMAN, Bryan. The Midnight Court. A Rhythmical Bacchanalia from the Irish of Bryan Merriman translated by Frank O'Connor. With decorations by Hugh Stevenson. London and Dublin: Fridberg, 1945. pp. 61. First edition. Quarter buckram on green paper boards. A very good copy in dust jacket. €45

Full of humour and sarcasm, the Midnight Court is written in Rhyming Couplets and directed at the desire of women to get married young. The poet in a dream is forced by a fairy woman to visit the Court of Queen Aeval. Here he must listen to serious charges being made against the male sex including the clergy. "Another thing I'd like to mention, That's beyond my comprehension – Whatever made the Church create A clergy that is celibate?" Allegations are also made against men who wed old hags because of money while ignoring girls who are finely bred. The poet awakes as he is about to be beaten by the women in judgement.

278. MERRIMAN, Brian. Cúirt an Mheán Oíche. Cortha in eagar ag Dáithí Ó hUaithne. Réamhrá ag Seán Ó Tuama. Baile Átha Cliath: do Chumann Merriman ag Preas Dolmen, 1974. pp. 56. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €30 279. MILLER, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles. Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. First edition. Quarter green cloth and paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €30

From the 1600's to the early 1900's almost seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. Miller chronicles the momentous causes of the Irish emigration and its far-reaching impact on the people themselves, on the land they left behind and on the new one they came to.

280. MITCHEL, John. Jail Journal. Commenced on board the "Shearwater" steamer in Dublin Bay, continued at Spike Island - on board the "Scourge" war steamer - on board the "Dromedary" hulk, Bermuda - on board the "Neptune" convict ship - at Pernambuco - at the Cape of Good Hope (during the anti-convict rebellion) - at Van Diemen's Land - at Sydney - at Tahiti - at San Francisco - at Greytown and concluding at No. 3 Pier, North River, New York. With an introductory narrative of transactions in Ireland. Original edition with a continuation of the journal in New York and Paris, a preface [by Arthur Griffith], appendices, and illustrations. Dublin: Gill, 1914. pp. xlvii, 464. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €75

John Mitchel's Jail Journal, which for the style and emotional force of its writing is regarded as a classic of Anglo-Irish Literature. It is one of the most traditionally popular of Irish books. It captures something of the quintessence of the Irish political experience and critics of as widely divergent views as Pádraic Pearse and Owen Dudley Edwards have given it the highest praise. Arthur Griffith said of it: "In the political literature of Ireland it has no peer outside Swift". First published in The Citizen, Mitchel's first New York newspaper, the journal commences on May 27th, 1848 with his departure from Dublin and concludes with his arrival in New York on August 29th, 1854.


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281. MOLONEY, Michael F. Irish Ethno-Botany and the Evolution of Medicine in Ireland. Luibh-Sheanchus, maille le Gearr-chunntas ar shaothar Lucht Leighis, i n-Éirinn. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1919. pp. 96. Green faded cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Rare. €125

WHAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE VISUAL WORLD CAN A BLIND MAN HAVE? 282. MOLYNEUX, William. The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated. To which is added the Case of Tenures upon the commission of Defective Titles, argued by all the Judges of Ireland. With their Resolutions, and the Reasons of their Resolutions. Dublin, Printed by Joseph Ray, and are to be Sold at his Shop in Skinner-Row, 1698. 12mo. pp. [16], 174, [2]. Recent full panelled calf in seventeenth century style. Signature of George Meares Maunsell, dated 11th May, 1809, at Merrion Square South, Dublin, on dedication leaf. With six pages on manuscript notes by Maunsell, when at Oriel College, Oxford. A fine fresh copy. Rare. €1,250

Wing M2402. ESTC R30063. William Molyneux (1656-1698), Patriot and Philosopher, was born at his father's house in New Row, Dublin, educated at Trinity College where he graduated B.A. He went to London to study law at the Middle Temple in 1675, not all that interested in the subject, he spent most of his time at philosophy and applied mathematics. William returned to Ireland three years later and soon afterwards married Lucy Domville, daughter of the Irish Attorney-General. Along with Sir William Petty he formed the Dublin Philosophical Society, the forerunner of the Royal Irish Academy. He posed the famous question: "What knowledge of the visual world can a blind man have?" which baffled and fascinated many 18th century philosophers, including Bishop Berkeley. The severe laws and restrictions passed for the destruction of Irish trade and commerce moved Molyneux to write this work, which has since rendered his name immortal in our history: The Case of Ireland Stated, was first published in 1698. In it he maintained that Ireland and England were separate and independent kingdoms under the same sovereign - that Ireland was annexed, not conquered - "If the religion, lives, liberties, fortunes, and estates of the clergy, nobility, and gentry of Ireland may be disposed of without their privacy or consent, what benefit have they of any laws, liberties, or privileges granted unto them by the crown of England ... I have no other notion of slavery but being bound by a law to which I do not consent?". The work was deemed seditious, and so infuriated the English Parliament that they ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman. George Meares Maunsell (1785-1871) of Ballywilliam, County Limerick, was the son of Daniel Maunsell and Sarah Meares. He married, firstly in 1817, Catherine Lloyd, daughter of Thomas Lloyd and Catherine Evans. He married, secondly in 1833, Mary Josepha Anne Stopford, daughter of Reverend William Stopford. Maunsell graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1807 with a Bachelor


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of Arts. He held the office of High Sheriff of County Limerick in 1835, and he was also Justice of the Peace for County Limerick.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 283. MONTAGUE, John. The Rough Field. Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1972. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. 80. Quarter brown morocco on illustrated paper boards. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by the author. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Rare. €575

Miller 197. The illustrations are adapted from woodcuts by John Derricke in The Image of Irelande with A Discoverie of Woodkarne.

284. MOORE, Thomas. The Loves of the Angels, A Poem. London: Printed for Longman ... and Brown, 1823. First edition. pp. x, 148. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt direct on spine, with blind tooling in compartments. Signature of Daniel Connor on front endpaper, with some additions by him in ink. Minor wear to covers. Very good copy. Rare. €225 285. MOORE, Thomas. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map. Two volumes. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 39, Paternoster-Row, 1831. First edition. pp. (1) xi, [1], 308, (2) [1], 305, [1]. Half calf over marbled boards, title on maroon morocco labels on spines. From the library of Daniel Conner of Manch with his armorial bookplate. A very good set. €185

Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798), United Irishman, was born at Carton House, County Kildare. He joined the Sussex Militia and saw active service in America. Returning to Ireland in 1781 he sat in the Irish Parliament as member for Athy, voting with Grattan and Curran. In 1796 he accompanied Arthur O'Connor to Basle to negotiate with General Hoche for French help but the Directory would not deal with him because of his French wife's royalist connections. In May 1798 Fitzgerald was seized by Major Sirr in his room in Thomas Street. In the struggle that ensued he killed one of his attackers and was himself shot in the arm. He died of his wounds in Newgate Prison on 4 June.

286. MORAN, Most. Rev. Patrick Francis. Historical Sketch of the Persecutions suffered by the Catholics of Ireland under the Rule of Cromwell and the Puritans. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1884. pp. 480. Gilt pictorial cloth. New endpapers. A very good copy. €65 287. MOULD, Daphne D.C. Pochin. Captain Roberts of The Sirius. Engine Power across the Atlantic. Illustrated. Cork: Printed by Tower Books for Sirius Commemoration Committee, 1988. pp. xvi, 223. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. €65

Lt. Richard Roberts, R.N. declared on his arrival in New York with the 'Sirius' in April 1838 "I am the proudest man in the world". That was the first scheduled, passenger carrying, steamer to arrive in the port of New York from the Old World. It was the beginning of engine power on the long trans-ocean voyages, of our own era of rapid travel. New Yorker's as they feted Captain Roberts realised that the arrival of the Sirius meant a revolution in transportation.

SIGNED BT THE AUTHOR 288. MULDOON, Paul. Wayside Shrines. Paintings and drawings by Keith Wilson. Loughcrew: Gallery Press, 2009. Maroon cloth, title blind-stamped on upper cover. Edition limited to four hundred numbered copies, signed by Paul Muldoon. A fine copy. €175

JONES' CLASSICAL FAMILY LIBRARY 289. [MURPHY, Arthur] The Works of Cornelius Tacitus with an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements &c by Arthur Murphy. New edition, with author's last corrections. Engraved frontispiece and half-title. London: Published by Jones & Co., 1831. pp. [3], xviii , 742 (double column) pages including index. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. A very good copy. €185


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Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), author and actor, the son of Richard Murphy, a Dublin merchant, and his wife Jane French, was born at Clonquin, County Roscommon, the house of his maternal uncle, Arthur French. Educated at the English College at St. Omer where he was known as 'Arthur French', it being necessary for Irish boys to assume false names to avoid the penalties incurred by being educated abroad. After completing his studies he returned to his relatives, then residing in London. After a spell in various posts he turned his attention to literature and after a few unsuccessful attempts he wrote The Apprentice, a farce, which brought him in nearly £800, which enabled him to pay his debts and complete his legal studies. Murphy's mature life was passed as a barrister, dramatic author, and a classical translator, and in all walks alike he excelled. Jane French was related to Percy French.

See items 285 & 289

290. MURPHY, James. The Forge of Clohogue: A Story of the Rebellion of '98. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, Ltd., 1912. pp. [iv], 332. Green cloth. Some fading, otherwise a good copy. €15 291. [MURRAY'S HANDBOOK] Handbook for Travellers in Ireland. Fourth Edition, Revised. With maps and plans. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1878. pp. 56, 389, 52. Red cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine faded. Very good. Scarce. €135

Contents include: Enniskillen to Sligo by Coach; Coleraine to Belfast, by Portrush, the Giant's Causeway and Ballycastle; Dublin to Mullingar, Athlone, Ballinasloe, and Galway; Galway, Aran Islands, Lough Corrib; Galway to Clifden; Clifden to Leenane, Westport and Sligo; Dublin to Wexford through Wicklow, Arklow and Enniscorthy; Cork to Kenmare, via Bandon, Bantry, and Glengarriff; Limerick to Waterford; etc., etc. The author gives us some advice before making a journey by car: "Ascertain which way the wind is blowing, if the weather is cold or likely to be bad, and choose your side accordingly, as the tourist will find it no slight comfort to hear the rain beating on the other side".

292. NATIONAL LITERARY SOCIETY] Programme of the National Literary Society for "The Sword of Dermot", a Romantic Irish Play in Three Scenes. By Seumas O'Cuisin. Original Night ... Monday, 20th April, 1903. Small folded card, printed in red with a quote from Oscar Wilde on title. In fine condition. See illustration on next page. €125 293. NATIONAL LITERARY SOCIETY] National Literary Society Annual Ceilidh, Monday Evening, November 22nd, 1915, in The Rooms, 6 St. Stephen's Green. Programme arranged by Mr. W. O'Leary Curtis. Tea at 8 o'clock. Irish Dancing. Singled octavo sheet folded. Printed in green on cream paper by Corrigan & Wilson. A fine copy. €125

Included readings and songs by Máire Nic Siubhlaigh, Betty King, Gerard Crofts, Mrs. Fay Sargeant, Kerry Reddin, and Florrie Ryan. With announcement on final leaf for the John Mitchel Centenary Celebrations Lecture by Rev. Professor T. A. Finlay, SJ, MA.


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294. NEESON, Eoin. The Civil War 1922-23. Illustrated. Cork: The Mercier Press, 1966. pp. 237. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in fine dust jacket. €45

The author has left no stone unturned in his effort to outline the facts of the first complete chronicle of this tragic period in Irish history. It vividly depicts the agonies, aspirations and glories of a period in our history that is acknowledged by all with mixed and emotional pride.

WITH GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF THE CONNERS OF MANCH 295. NORTON [née Freke], Frances. The Applause of Virtue. In Four Parts. Consisting of several Divine and Moral Essays Towards the Obtaining of True Virtue. Engraved frontispiece. London: Printed for John Graves at the Bible in Salisbury-Street in the Strand, 1705. First edition. Small quarto. pp. [xxii], 262. Contemporary full red morocco tooled in gilt to a panel design. Flat spine elaborately tooled in gilt. With eleven pages of genealogical notes (births, deaths and marriages) of the Conner family of Pallace, Ballyprevane, Cork, Mishills (near Bandon), and Manch, covering almost two centuries from 1721 to 1917. A very good copy in a fine early eighteenth century binding. €1,675

Frances Norton, Lady Norton (1644-1731) was an English religious poet and prose writer who primarily wrote about grief. She was born Frances Freke, in Oxford, and married Sir George Norton in 1672. This George Norton was the son of the Sir George Norton who hid Charles II at the time of the


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regicide of Charles I. The couple had three children, but only one, Grace, survived infancy. Grace Norton died in 1697 at the age of twenty-one, and Frances Norton went into a deep state of grief. She published a collection of Grace's own writings, Reliquae Gethinianae, in 1699, and in 1705 she wrote two tracts on grieving and consolation. These were The Applause of Virtue and Memento mori, or, Meditations on Death, which were usually sold together in a quarto. She dedicated the work on offer here to her cousin, Madam Freke, of Shroten, who had helped Lady Norton in her grief. In 1715, her husband died. She married his cousin, Colonel Ambrose Norton, in 1718, and, when he died, she married William Jones in 1724. She outlived her third husband by a few years and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

296. NOYES, Alfred. The Accusing Ghost or Justice for Casement. Illustrated. London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. First edition. pp. 191. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €75

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 297. Ó BRÁDAIGH, Ruairí. Dílseacht. The story of Comdt. Gen. Tom Maguire and the Second (All-Ireland) Dáil. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Freedom Press, 1997. pp. vi, 89. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Signed by the author. €75

Tom Maguire of Cross, County Mayo was a remarkable man. As General Officer Commanding the Second Western Division of the Irish Republican Army he was a guerrilla leader in the 1919-1923 phase of the War of Independence. In 1921 he was elected a member of the Second Dáil Éireann for South Mayo - South Roscommon. He was steadfast in the allegiance to the Republic proclaimed in 1916 and established by the will of the people of all Ireland in 1919. He died in 1993 at the age of 101 years. His life story is the story of the struggle for Irish freedom and democracy during almost all of the twentieth century.

298. Ó BRIAIN, Liam. Cuimhní Cinn. Cuid 1: Cuimhní An Éirí Amach. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1951. An chéad chló. pp. 208. Green cloth, image of Cuchulainn in silver on upper cover, title in silver on spine. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. €20 299. O'BRIEN, Conor Cruise. To Katanga and Back. A U.N. Case History. With maps and illustrations. London: Hutchinson, 1962. First edition. pp. [xvi], 371. Black cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 300. O'BRIEN, Eoin. Ed. by. A.J. Leventhal 1896-1979. Dublin scholar, wit and man of letters. Illustrated. Dublin: Published by The Con Leventhal Scholarship Committee, 1984. pp. 44. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Signature of the actor Malcolm Alexander on upper cover, with his signature also opposite the items he purchased. A fine copy. €275

Included in this work is a catalogue of the Leventhal auction of one hundred pictures, books and memorabilia. The total proceeds of the sale realised £13,600 and Mrs. Marion Leigh Leventhal said on the night "It's a most extraordinary expression of affection for a most extraordinary man ... And I am touched to the bottom of my heart". The highest price paid was for a small scarlet Miro engraving (£2,700); the Beckettiana section realised £4,000 which included four manuscripts. The actor Malcolm Alexander paid an astonishing price of £200 for Bulmer Hobson's The Gate Theatre, Dublin which saw fierce bidding from the Gate's artistic director, Michael Colgan and his colleague, Pat Laffan.

A COMIC GENIUS 301. O'BRIEN, Flann. The Hard Life. An exegesis of squalor. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973. Second edition. pp. 156, [1]. Black paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65

"Had I never heard of the author, and were this the first book of Flann O'Brien's I had read, I would say we had among us a comic genius who would give Ireland her Tristram Shandy. He could do so. I hope he will" - Terence de Vere White.

302. O'BRIEN, Flann. The Dalkey Archive. London: Picador, 1976. pp. 204, 3 (publisher's list). Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €15 303. O'BRIEN, Flann. [Na gCOPALEEN, Myles] An Béal Bocht nó An Milleánach. Droch-sgéal ar an droch-shaoghal. Curtha i n-eagar le Myles Na gCopaleen. Baile Átha Cliath: Cló Dolmen, 1964. Third edition. pp. 111. Titlepage printed in red and black. Red paper boards, titled in gilt. With map of 'An Domhan Mór' on endpapers. A very good copy. €65

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304. O'BRIEN, Flann. The Best of Myles. A selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn'. Edited and with a Preface by Kevin O Nolan. Illustrated. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. First edition. pp. 400. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine illustrated dust jacket. €35 305. [O'BRIEN, Flann] Myles. Portraits of Brian O'Nolan. Edited by Timothy O'Keeffe. Illustrated. London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1973. First edition. pp. 134. Olive green paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45

Contributions by: John Montague; J.C.C. Mays; Niall Sheridan; Kevin O'Nolan; John Garvin; and Jack White.

306. O'BRIEN, Jack. British Brutality in Ireland. Dublin: The Mercier Press, 1989. pp. viii, [2], 178. Illustrated wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author. €65

Based mainly on British and Anglo-Irish historical sources, Spenser, Petty, Lecky, Curtis, Crozier and Gough, among others - the brutal tactics employed by the Crown to secure its aims in Ireland are cited here, from the days of the Norman Conquest, starting in 1171, to Gibraltar 1988.

307. O'BRIEN, William. The Irish Revolution and How it Came About. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1923). pp. vi, 462. Title printed in green and black. Quarter brown arlin on green cloth boards, title in green on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper and pastedown. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 308. Ó BROIN, Leon. The Unfortunate Mr. Robert Emmet. Illustrated. With map of Dublin in 1803. Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds Ltd., London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1958. pp. 198. Very good in illustrated wrappers. Scarce. €50

Robert Emmet the patriot, was born in Dublin in 1778. Educated at T.C.D. where he took a prominent part in the Historical Society's debates, he was a friend of Thomas Moore. He travelled to the continent, where he interviewed Napoleon, and on returning home he prepared plans for an insurrection which broke out on the 23rd July, 1803, taking the authorities by surprise. Disappointed of promised help, and horrified at the action of his followers in killing Lord Kilwarden, he retired to Rathfarnham where he was protected by his housekeeper, Anne Devlin. He would not leave Dublin until he had met his fiancée, Sarah Curran, whose father, John Philpot Curran, detested Emmet. He was captured at Harold's Cross and was tried before Lord Norbury. Emmet's speech from the dock became one of the most celebrated patriotic orations of all time, eloquently delivered on the day before his execution which took on the 20th September, 1803.

309. [O'BYRNE, M. L.] The Pale and the Septs: or, the Baron of Belgard and the Chiefs of Glenmalure. An Irish romance of the sixteenth century. By Emelobie de Celtis, etc. Volume two only of two. Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 1876. pp. 450. Publisher's green pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €95

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310. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Cré na Cille. Líníocht le Charles Lamb. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal & Dill, 1949. An chéad chló. pp. 364. Black pebbled cloth, title and design in silver on spine. Advertisement leaf loosely inserted. A fine copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. €165

Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-1970) was probably the most outstanding Irish writer of the twentieth century. Nobody, as yet, fully understands Cré na Cille (The Clay of the Graveyard) in which the author chooses death, in the form of a cemetery, as the vehicle for his account of the living. The substance of the novel revolves around Caitríona Pháidín, a recently deceased Irish matriarch whose history is revealed through conversations with various others lying in the graveyard. It emerges that her life was consumed with the besting of her sister Nell. Depicted is the unpleasant side of Irish rural life, the petty jealousies and feuds concerning land, religion, and politics; of people's inflated opinions of themselves, etc. An Seabhac (Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha), teacher, writer and Irish language storyteller was born near Dingle in 1883. His most famous book, written under the pen name 'An Seabhac' (The Hawk), is the a semi-autographical comedy Jimín Mháire Thaidhg, first published in 1919, which follows his childhood under the control of his powerful mother, Maire. He became an active organiser of the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and was imprisoned on numerous occasions for his activities. He was a member of Seanad Éireann at various times from 1946 to 1964, being nominated by the Taoiseach on each occasion. He was also secretary to the Irish Manuscripts Commission from October 1928 to October 1932.

311. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Cois Caolaire. Portrait frontispiece by Sean O'Sullivan. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1953. An chéad cló. pp. 208, [2] + errata slip. Black buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €35 312. O'CALLAGHAN, John Cornelius. History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, from the Revolution in Great Britain and Ireland under James II to the Revolution in France under Louis XVI. Glasgow: Cameron and Ferguson, 1886. pp. xiii, 649, [6]. Modern quarter maroon morocco on cloth boards. A very good copy. €95

Prime historical and genealogical reference work on the 'Wild Geese' families who formed the Irish Brigades that served the French crown for most of the eighteenth century. Colonel P.J. Halley in his introduction states: "no modern historian has attempted such a complete history of the Irish Brigades in the service of France" and O'Callaghan's is still "the standard work".

ARTHUR SHIELDS' COPY 313. O'CASEY, Sean. The Plough and the Stars. A Tragedy in Four Acts. With portrait frontispiece. London: Macmillan, 1926. First edition, second printing. pp. viii, 137, 4 (advertisements). Quarter linen on blue boards, title on printed label on spine and also inset on upper cover. Arthur Shields' copy with his bookplate on front pastedown. Two pin holes to spine. A very good copy. €125

Arthur Shields (1896-1970) Irish stage and film actor. He was born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, and he started acting in the Abbey Theatre when still a young man. He was the younger brother of Oscar-winning actor Barry Fitzgerald. An Irish nationalist, he fought in the Easter Rising of 1916. He was captured and was interned in Frongoch, North Wales. He afterwards returned to the Abbey theatre. In 1936 John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of The Plough and the Stars. He later returned to the U.S. and for health reasons, he decided to reside in California. He died at his home in Santa Barbara, California, aged 74. Some of his memorable roles were in John Ford films. Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford's The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald. He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford's Long Voyage Home. His other films include: Little Nellie Kelly, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fabulous Dorseys, Gallant Journey, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Drums Along the Mohawk, Lady Godiva, National Velvet and The River. He also made television appearances including a 1958 role on Perry Mason as Dr. George Barnes in "The Case of the Screaming Woman."

314. [O'CONNOR, Arthur] Trial of Arthur O'Connor: Esq. James O'Coigly, John Binns, John Allen, and Jeremiah Leary, at Maidstone, On Monday, May 21, 1798, for high-treason. Taken in short-hand by an eminent English barrister. Cork: Printed by J. Connor, Circulating-Library,


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Grand-Parade, near Parliament-Bridge, n.d. [1798]. pp. [2], 66. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A fine copy. Rare. €575

ESTC T892 locates 9 copies only.

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315. O'CONNOR, Arthur. State of Ireland. With: Trial of Feargus O'Connor. Engraved portrait. London: John Cleave, 1843. ii, 59, x, 446, [7]. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475

COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition. Arthur O'Connor, (1763-1852), prominent United Irishman, General in the French service, was born at Mitchels, near Bandon. Educated at T.C.D. he was called to the Bar in 1788, but, inheriting a fortune of about £1,500 a year, never practised. He edited The Press, organ of the Society of the United Irishmen. He was arrested and tried for high treason at Maidstone, acquitted, arrested again on another warrant before he could leave the dock. O'Connor and other state prisoners entered into a compact with the government that by revealing, without implicating individuals, the plans and workings of the Society, their lives would be spared and they would be permitted to leave the country.

"THIS PATRIOTIC AND VENERABLE GENTLEMAN" 316. O'CONOR, C. Dissertations on the History of Ireland, in which an account is given of the Origin, Government, Letters, Sciences, Religion, Manners and Customs, of the Ancient Inhabitants. To which are added, a Dissertation on the Irish Colonies established in Britain, with some remarks on Mr. Macpherson's translation of Fingal and Temora. By the late C. O'Conor, of Balenagar. With Ptolomey's folding map of Ireland. List of subscribers. Dublin: Printed by J. Christie, 16 Ross Lane, 1812. Third edition. pp. l, 12 (list of subscribers), 344, 20 (index). Contemporary full diced calf, spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Scarce. €375

The author, a member of the Belanagare family, was a distinguished Irish scholar and antiquary. He was born in 1710 at Kilmactranny, Sligo; taught to read and write by a Franciscan friar, who knew no English. A great collector of Irish manuscripts, he wrote many treatises on history and on the politics of his day. He corresponded with Dr. Johnson, assisted O'Curry, Vallancey, and Brooke. John O'Donovan


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styled him: "this patriotic and venerable gentleman ... who understood the Irish language well". In 1796 his grandson published the first and only volume of his Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Charles O'Conor of Belanagare. This work was first issued in Dublin in 1753, and enlarged Dublin 1766. The subscribers list amounted to almost one thousand subscribers and is largely made up of the emerging Catholic middle class.

317. O'CONNOR, Frank. An Only Child. Illustrated. London: Macmillan and Co., 1964. pp. [ix], 276. Red paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €75

"The intensely moving story of O'Connor's early years and his part in the Irish rebellion ... a volume of autobiography rich with the spirit of an era and the essence of youth everywhere".

318. O'CONNOR, Major G.B. Stuart Ireland. Dublin: Hanna & Neale, 1910. pp. xv, [3], 236, [1]. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some fading to covers. A very good copy. Very rare. €145

COPAC locates 5 copies only. The chapters include: The Crucible and its Contents; The Flight of the Earls; Plantations and Settlements; Parliaments; New Men and New Measures; Lord Wentworth (Strafford); The State and the Church; The Irish Army; Gathering Clouds; Stocktaking.


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319. O'CONNOR, John. The Story of the 1916 Proclamation. Dublin: Printed by the Central Remedial Clinic, n.d. pp. 28. Illustrated wrappers. Name clipped from titlepage. A very good copy. €25

UTMOST RARITY 320. O'CONNOR, Roger. O'Connor's Letters to Earl Camden. Cork: Printed, 1798. Octavo. pp. 17, [1], 26. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A fine copy. Unrecorded, possibly unique. €765

No copy of the Cork edition located anywhere. There are only 7 copies of the London edition [1797] located on ESTC N10063. In these letters O'Connor protests his imprisonment. Roger O'Connor (1762-1834), Irish nationalist, born at Connorville, County Cork, in 1762, was son of Roger Connor of Connorville by Anne, daughter of Robert Longfield, M.P. (1688-1765), and sister of Richard Longfield, created Viscount Longueville in 1800. The Connor family was descended from a rich London merchant, but claimed descent to ancient O'Connor Kerry family. Arthur O'Connor was his brother. Roger entered the university of Dublin in 1777, and joined the English bar in 1784. His early bias was in favour of the old Tory regime; as a young man he entered the Muskerry yeomanry, and helped to hunt down 'Whiteboys'. He soon, however, changed his views, and joined the United Irishmen. In 1797 a warrant left Dublin Castle for his arrest, at the instance of his own brother Robert. He was imprisoned at Cork, was tried and acquitted. On his liberation in April 1798 he went to London, with the intention, as he says, of 'residing there and avoiding any interference in politics'; but his brother Arthur had just been arrested at Margate, and the Home Office decided on again securing Roger. He was sent from place to place in the custody of king's messengers, and on 2 June 1798 was finally committed to Newgate in Dublin. In April 1799, with his fellow-prisoners, T. A. Emmet, Chambers, his brother Arthur, and others, he was removed to Fort George in Scotland. In the same year he managed to publish Letters to the People of Great Britain. After some years' imprisonment he obtained his release. His affairs had been ruined meanwhile, but he had fortune enough to rent Dangan Castle, Trim, County Meath. The house was burnt down shortly after he had effected an insurance on it for 5,000l. He then eloped with a married lady, and in 1817 was arrested at Trim for having headed a band of his retainers in robbing the Galway coach. The son of O'Connor's agent asserted that this raid was made by O'Connor not for money, but in quest of a packet of love-letters, written by his friend Sir Francis Burdett, and which were likely to be used in evidence against Burdett at the suit of a peer who suspected him of criminal intimacy with his wife. Sir Francis Burdett hurried to Ireland as a witness on O'Connor's behalf at his trial at Trim, and Roger was acquitted. O'Connor is described as a man of fascinating manners and conversation, but Dr. Madden considers that his wits were always more or less disordered. Through life he professed to be a sceptic in religion, and declared that Voltaire was his God. He died at Kilcrea, County Cork, on 27 January 1834. His will, a strange document, beginning: 'I, O'Connor and O'Connor Cier-rige, called by the English Roger O'Connor, late of Connorville and Dangan Castle,' is dated 1 July 1831. Feargus O'Connor the chartist, was his son.

321. O'CONNOR, Roger. Chronicles of Eri; being the history of the Gael Scot Iber: or, The Irish People. Translated from the original manuscripts in the Phoenician dialect of Scythian language. Two volumes. London: Phillips, 1822. pp. (1) xiv, [ii], ccclxii, [ii], 91 (2) [ii], 509, 3. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Minor wear to head of spine in volume one, otherwise a very good set. Very scarce. €435

In 1822 O'Connor published The Chronicles of Eri, being the History of the Gael, Sciot Iber, or Irish People: translated from the Original Manuscripts in the Phoenician dialect of the Scythian Language. The book is mainly, if not entirely, the fruit of O'Connor's imagination. Roger's portrait is prefixed, described as "O'Connor Cier-rige, head of his race, and O'Connor, chief of the prostrated people of this Nation. Soumis, pas vaincus". O'Connor is described as a man of fascinating manners and conversation, but Dr. Madden considers that his wits were always more or less disordered. Through life he professed to be a sceptic in religion, and declared that Voltaire was his God. He died at Kilcrea, County Cork, on 27 Jan. 1834. His will, a strange document, beginning: 'I, O'Connor and O'Connor Cier-rige, called by the English Roger O'Connor, late of Connorville and Dangan Castle', is dated 1 July 1831. Feargus O'Connor, the


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chartist, was his son. With engraved titlepage, portrait frontispiece, five folding maps and two folding plates (one coloured).

322. Ó CRIOMHTHAIN, Tomás. An t-Oileánach. An dara clóbhualadh. Portrait frontispiece and map. Baile Átha Cliath: Clólucht an Talbóidigh, n.d. (1934). An Dara Clóbhualadh. pp. 266. Red faded cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Inscribed on front endpaper. A good copy. €45

MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREAT CELTIC SCHOLARS 323. O'CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O'Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland ... Edited with an introduction, appendices, etc. by W.K. Sullivan. Three volumes. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1873. pp. (1) 644, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Modern half green morocco on marbled boards titled in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt. A very good set. €475

Gilbert 595. Not in Bradshaw. Dr. Nollaig Ó Muraíle states: "The single most substantial work produced by one of the great pioneering figures who laid the foundations of modern Irish scholarship in the fields of Gaelic language and literature, medieval history and archaeology". O'Curry's works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars.

NO MORE LONELY SCAFFOLDS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, TIM PAT COOGAN & SEAN O MAHONY

324. O'DONOVAN, Donal. Kevin Barry and his Time. Illustrated. Dublin: Glendale, 1989. First edition. pp. 244. Illustrated wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author, also inscribed by Tim Pat Coogan and Sean O Mahony. A fine copy. €165

See items 322, 324 & 326

325. O'DWYER, Sir Michael. The O'Dwyers of Kilnamanagh. The history of an Irish Sept. With map and folding genealogical chart. London: Murray, 1933. First edition. pp. vii, 360. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Cover faded, some mild foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. Scarce. €275

This work described the economic history of a typical Irish sept or clan settled in the heart of Tipperary from the seventh to the seventeenth century. It throws new light on the Civil War in Munster; the Treaty of Cahir in 1652 with Colonel Sankey (representing Cromwell), by which Colonel Edmund O'Dwyer transferred his brigade to the Spanish service, the O'Dwyers in the Irish Brigades of France and Spain; the transplantation of the remnants of the sept beyond the Shannon; the distribution of Kilnamanagh under the Cromwellian and Restoration settlements; and the Land War of two centuries, ending in the recent recovery by some of the sept of a portion of their lost possessions. Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer, GCIE, KCSI (1864-1940) was Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in


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India from 1912 until 1919. He endorsed General Reginald Dyer's action regarding the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and termed it a "correct action". O'Dwyer, at the age of seventy-five, was shot dead at a joint meeting of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society (now Royal Society for Asian Affairs) in Caxton Hall, London on 13 March 1940, by a Sikh revolutionary, Udham Singh, in retaliation for the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.

326. O'FAOLAIN, Sean. An Irish Journey. The Narrative by Sean O'Faolain. The Pictures by Paul Henry. With an itinerary map and colour plates. London: Readers Union with Longmans Green, 1941. pp. x, 280. Purple cloth, title in white on spine. A very good copy. €45 327. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. The Black Soul. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. Third edition. pp. 256, 22 (Florin Books Catalogue). Beige cloth, title printed on upper cover and spine. A good copy. €20

The story of a man shattered mentally and physically by war and despairing life. 328. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. Dúil. Dublin: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1953. An chead chló. pp. 206. Brown cloth, title in black on spine. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. €35 329. O'HANLON, Very Rev. J. Canon. Ed. by. Legends and Poems by John Keegan, now first collected. With a memoir by D.J. O'Donoghue. Dublin: Sealy, 1907. pp. xxxiv, 552. Title in red and black. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Cloth frayed, otherwise a good copy. Rare. €45 330. O'HEGARTY, P. S. John Mitchel an Appreciation, with some account of Young Ireland. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1917. pp. vii, [1], 136, 18 (Maunsel Announcements). Brown cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Some minor spotting to fore-edge, otherwise a fine copy. Rare. €65

COPAC locates 7 copies only. The author in his prefatory note states: "It is impossible to touch at all on Mitchel's life and work without touching also upon the Young Ireland movement ... The writer has been more concerned to put Mitchel in what he considers to be his proper place, as the greatest and wisest of the Young Irelanders after Davis". The contents includes: Young Ireland and O'Connell; The Death of Davis; The Starvation; The Irish Federation; Mitchel leaves the "Nation"; Mitchel driven out of the Confederation; The Breakup of Constitutionalism; The "United Irishman" - Political Principles, - Land and Landlords - Mitchel and the North; Arrest and Trial of Mitchel; Mitchel in Exile - Tipperary Death; The Writings of Mitchel; The Policy of Mitchel.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 331. O'HICKEY, Ben. From Prison Cells. A Collection of Songs and Poems. Portrait frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by the author. Dublin: The Elo Press, n.d. (c.1935). pp. 64. Illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author on the frontispiece. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 The collection of verses includes: Easter Week; The Irish Volunteer; A Rebel's Letter; The Saxon Must Go; Galtee More; A Call to Arms; etc. 332. O'KEEFFE, J.G. Ed. by. Buile Suibhne (The Frenzy of Suibhne) being The Adventures of Suibhne Geilt. A Middle-Irish Romance. With translation, introduction, notes and glossary. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society by David Nutt, 1913. pp. xxxviii, 198, 32. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine, with gilt Celtic design. A very good copy. €45 333. O'KELLY, Seamus The Bold Fenian Men. Dublin: Irish News Service & Publicity, 1967. pp. 98. Illustrated wrappers. €35


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334. Ó LABHRA, Colm. Trodairi na Treas Briogáide. Illustrated. Aonach Urmhumhan: Uí Mheára, 1955. An chéad chló. pp. 345. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €60 335. O'LEARY, Daniel. Ed. by. Message to Erin. An Anthology of Irish-Canadian Writing 1852-1918. The Moosehead Anthology XII. Canada: Printed by Groupe Transcontinental, 2009. pp. [5], 182. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €20 336. Ó LÚING, Seán. Fremantle Mission. Tralee: Anvil Books, 1965. pp. [viii], 183, 1 (publisher's list). Very good in illustrated wrappers. €45

The dramatic story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners in the American whaler, 'Catalpa'.

See items 337, 340 & 341

337. Ó LÚING, Seán. Art Ó Gríofa. Beathaisnéis. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1953. An chéad chló. pp. 428, [2]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in illustrated frayed dust jacket. €45 338. Ó MAILLE, Tomás. Ed. by. Amhrain Chearbhallain. The Poems of Carolan together with other N. Connacht and S. Ulster lyrics edited with introduction, notes, and vocabulary. London: Irish Texts Society, 1916. pp. xvi, [3], 423. Green ribbed cloth, gilt Celtic shield decoration on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Some annotations on the O'Reillys in ink. Very good copy. €75 339. O'MALLEY, Ernie. On Another Man's Wound. London: Four Square Books Ltd, 1961. pp. 320. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €15

The title is taken from the Gaelic proverb "It is easy to sleep on another man's wound". Written in autobiographical form it provides an insight of life in Ireland from 1916 to 1920. It is stark, truthful and dispassionate in its statement of facts. It tells of shootings and reprisals, jailings and escapes; and introduces well-known figures of the day including De Valera, Michael Collins, Count Plunkett and Countess Markievicz.

340. O'MALLEY, Ernie. The Singing Flame. Tralee: Anvil, 1978. First edition. pp. [vi], 312. Green paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Rare. €145

This is a continuation of On Another Man's Wound and the first detailed account of the civil war by a leading Republican.

341. O'MALLEY, Ernie. On Another Man's Wound. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1979. pp. 343. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €75

"Many things have been written round the war between the English forces and the Irish Republican Army, the best of them being, I think, On Another Man's Wound" - Sean O'Casey.

SIGNED COPY 342. O'NEILL, Marie. Grace Gifford Plunkett and Irish Freedom. Tragic Bride of 1916. Illustrated. Dublin and Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 2000. First edition. pp. xx, 117. Illustrated wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author. A fine copy. €135


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Grace Gifford Plunkett, one of a family of talented sisters, married Joseph Mary Plunkett in Kilmainham Jail a few hours before his execution for his part in the Easter Rising of 1916. She was a well-known and successful artist with a very distinctive style. This work is richly illustrated with her cartoons and caricatures showing her strong views of both political and cultural events of the time.

343. O'RAHILLY, Alfred. Electromagnetics: A Discussion of the Fundamentals. Foreword by Prof. A.W. Conway. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Cork: University Press, 1938. First edition. pp. xii, 884. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €175

This work is an attempt to give a clear logical re-statement of the current theory of electrical phenomena. This involves a fresh examination of the history of the science and an attempt to do justice to workers whom Maxwell's fame has overshadowed. In particular the author draws attention to the work of the Swiss physicist Ritz and shows that his neglected theory is a formidable rival to the views not only of Maxwell but of Einstein.

344. O'REGAN, William. Esq. Memoirs of the Legal, Literary, and Political Life of the Late the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, once Master of the Rolls in Ireland: comprising copious anecdotes of his wit and humour; and a selection of his poetry. Interspersed with occasional biography of his distinguished contemporaries in the Senate and at the Bar. London & Dublin: Harper and Milliken, 1817. pp. xvi, 315, 1 (Publisher's list). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Bookplate of Fasque on front pastedown. Occasional light foxing. A fine fresh copy. €275 345. Ó TUAMA, Sean. Ed. by. An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed. With translations into English verse by Thomas Kinsella. Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1981. pp. xxxix, 382. Printed stiff wrappers. A fine copy. €45

The author demonstrates in this anthology the nature and quality of the Irish poetic traditions during the troubled centuries from the collapse of the Gaelic order to the emergence of English as the dominant vernacular of the Irish people.

346. OWEN-MADDEN, D. Esq. Revelations of Ireland in the Past Generation. Dublin: James M'Glashan, 1848. pp. xvii, 310. Publisher's brown cloth, title in gilt direct on spine. Spine faded, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €485

COPAC locates 4 copies only. Daniel Owen-Madden (1815-59), writer, was born in Mallow, County Cork, the only son of Owen Madden, a Cork merchant, and Margaret Madden (née Quain). He was educated in Cork and worked for a time as a merchant before enrolling in King's Inns in 1838. Over the next four years he remained in Dublin, residing in William Street, but he does not appear to have been called to the Irish bar. His interests were literary and political and he was an active member of the College Historical Society at TCD, where he met Thomas Davis. Their friendship survived their differences. Madden was moderately patriotic; his hero was Henry Grattan and he contributed articles to the Citizen as well as finding Davis a motto for the Nation: 'To create and foster public opinion, and make it racy of the soil', which he took from the catholic lawyer Stephen Woulfe; he was willing to assist Davis in his efforts for the literary and moral education of the Irish people but did not agree with Davis' fervent nationalism. He opposed repeal, rather admired British imperialism, and was a pacifist. In the early 1840s, influenced by German metaphysics he converted from Catholicism to a form of philosophical Protestantism and in 1842 emigrated to London, where he lived comfortably for the next fifteen years, ignoring Davis's frequent appeals in the years 1842-44 to return to Ireland and take up the editorship of political journals. He countered with appeals of his own that Davis exercise more caution. In 1857 he returned to Dublin as Irish correspondent for the Daily News and with an undertaking to his publisher, Mr Skeet, to devote himself to biography and history. He died in Dublin 6 August 1859 and his remains were brought to Cork, where he was buried in the family plot in Upper Shandon. In spite (or perhaps because) of his making a living as a biographer, he was unusually secretive, and his dying request was that no Irish paper should publish an obituary of him.

347. PATTERSON, Robert Lloyd. The Birds, Fishes and Cetacea of Belfast Lough. London: Bogue & Belfast: Marcus Ward, 1881. Second edition. pp. [3], 267. Publisher's red gilt decorated cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine. New endpapers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275

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BARTON COPY 348. PEARSE, P.H. The Separatist Idea. Tracts for the Times, no. 11. Dublin: Whelan 1916. pp. 20. With owner's details in pencil on upper cover: "D. Barton. / Teach Gleanndaloch". Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy in binder's folder. €175

O'Hegarty (11). Carty 476. Detailed examination of Tone's separatist philosophy. Preface dated 1 February 1916.

349. PEARSE, P.H. The Spiritual Nation. Tracts for the Times, No. 12. Dublin: Whelan, 1916. pp. 20. Stapled printed wrappers. A very good in binder's folder. €125

O'Hegarty (12) Carty 477. Examination of Davis' writings on nationality. Preface dated 13 Feb. 1916.

350. PEARSE, Padraic H. Collected Works of Pádraic H. Pearse: Plays, Stories, Poems; Songs of the Irish Rebels and Specimens from an Irish Anthology; Political Writings and Speeches; Scríbhinní Phádraig Mhic Phiarais; The Story of a Success; The Man Called Pearse by Desmond Ryan; and The Life of Pearse by Le Roux. Illustrated. Six volumes. Dublin: Phoenix, 1924. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good set. €325

Songs of the Irish Rebels are translated from Pearse's Irish title 'Dánta Gríosuighthe Gaedhael' and Specimens from an Irish Anthology from 'Sliocht Duanaire Gaedhilge'.


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DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL 351. PETRIE, G., OTWAY, C., O'DONOVAN, John. & HARDY, P.D. Ed. by. The Dublin Penny Journal 1832-1836. Royal octavo. Four volumes. Illustrated. Dublin: Folds & Hardy, 1832/36. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco labels on spines. Wear to spine ends of two volumes. A very good set. Rare. €575

COPAC locates 3 only sets. George Petrie along with Caesar Otway edited the fifty-six issues of the Dublin Penny Journal, in which Petrie wrote many of the antiquarian articles himself. The editors carefully chose the subjects which in their opinion would attract the attention of Irish people - namely, the history, biography, poetry, antiquities, natural history, legends and traditions of the country - subjects which can never fail to interest the feelings of an intelligent race. It was in an article in this journal that Ferguson later wrote, in 1840, about its significance as a contribution to "disinterring and bringing back to the light of intellectual day, the already recorded 'facts', by the which the people of Ireland will be able to 'live back', in the land they live in".


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Illustrated with beautiful engravings (after Nicholl, Hill and Clayton) of ancient monuments, castles, artefacts and places of interest. An important journal with a feast of articles by such noted scholars as James Clarence Mangan, John O'Donovan, George Petrie, P.D. Hardy, Caesar Otway, Mrs. S.C. Hall, Terence O'Toole, Denis O'Donoghue, &c.

352. PETRIE, George. Ed. by. The Irish Penny Journal containing Original Contributions by several of the most eminent Irish writers 1840-41. Dublin: Gunn and Cameron, 1841. Small folio. pp. [1], iii, 416. Quarto. Blind-stamped ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on new matching cloth spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €285

COPAC locates 2 copies only. The complete run of the Irish Penny Journal published in 52 issues from July 4, 1840 to June 26, 184, when it ceased publication. A weekly paper edited by George Petrie, containing original contributions by William Carleton, James Clarence Mangan, John O'Donovan, Edward Walsh, James Hardiman, Anna Maria Hall. With several illustrations by William F. Wakeman "After a lull, in Penny Journals, 1836-1840, appeared the last of the great [ones], the Irish Penny Journal, high-minded, non-denominational, apolitical, founded by Petrie, O'Donovan, Wills, and friends; wholly national and untinctured by the slightest admixture of prejudices either political or sectarian; the want of a cheap literary publication for the great body of the people of the country, suited to their tastes and habits, combining instruction with amusement, avoiding the exciting and profitless discussion of political and polemical questions, and placed within reach of their humble means" - Barbara Hayley's Irish Periodicals.

353. [PICTORIAL GUIDE] Ireland. Where to go and what to see. A pictorial guide. With folding maps and numerous illustrations. Manchester: The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, n.d. (c.1900). pp. [iv], 250. Modern quarter morocco on original pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €245

"The wide range of interests offered by the Sister Island will be gathered from the following pages and their illustrations. They are, broadly speaking, scenic and picturesque, civic and industrial, archaeological, historical and architectural, sporting and (let us add) humorous".


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354. PINDAR, Peter. Subjects for Painters. [ESTC N24328, 9 copies]. Bound with: Pathetic Odes. The Duke of Richmond's Dog Thunder, And The Widow's Pigs - A Tale. [ESTC N20007, 8 copies]. Bound with: Nil Admirari: or, A Smile at a Bishop; Occasioned by an hyperbolical eulogy on Miss Hannah More, by Dr Porteus, in his late charge to the clergy ... Also, Expostulation; or, An Address to Miss Hannah More ... Likewise, Duplicity, or the Bishop, and Simplicity, or the Curate: A Pair of Tales. Moreover, An Ode to the Blue-Stocking-Club. And, finally An Ode to Some Robin Red-Breast in a Country Cathedral. [COPAC locates the York copy only]. Bound with: The Present State of the Manners, Arts, and Politics of France and Italy in a Series of Poetical Epistles, from Paris, Rome, and Naples, in 1792 and 1793; Addressed to Robert Jephson, Esq. by the Right Hon. John Courtenay, M.P. [ESTC N21063 10 copies]. Bound with: Prison Pindarics; or, A New Year's Gift from Newgate, Humbly Presented to the Students of the University, by T.S. Esq. With Notes and illustrations by the Author [Theophilus Swift]. [ESTC T70944]. Five works in one volume. Dublin: Printed by William Porter, For P. Byrne, Grueber and McAlister, J. Jones, J. More, and W. Jones, 1789/1795. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt direct on spine. Armorial bookplate of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, label of Edwards & Savage, Booksellers on front pastedown. Signature of Richard Meade on titlepage of first volume. Corner of one titlepage dusted and torn (without loss). Minor wear to spine and corners. A very good set. €1,250

John Wolcot (1738-1819) was an English satirist, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Peter Pindar". He was born in Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge, Devon. Educated by an uncle, Wolcot received his M.D. from Aberdeen University. In 1767 he went as physician to Sir William Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica, who he persuaded to present him to a church in the island then vacant. He was ordained in 1769. Sir William died in 1772, when Wolcot came home and, abandoning the Church, resumed his medical career. He settled in practice at Truro. In 1780, Wolcot went to London and began writing satires. The first objects of his attentions were the members of the Royal Academy. These attempts being well received, he soon began to fly at higher game, the King and Queen being the most frequent marks for his satirical shafts. Other objects of his attack were Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson, James Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, Hannah More, former bluestocking and playwright, and Bishop Porteus. Wolcot had a remarkable vein of humour and wit, which, while intensely comic to persons not involved, stung its subjects to the quick. He died at his home in Latham Place, London, and was buried in a vault in the churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden.

355. POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. With the illustrations of Harry Clarke. Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. pp. 304, [1]. Gilt decorated maroon cloth. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €65


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Not in Steenson. This is a collection of twenty-nine spine-chilling tales by the master of mystery and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. It includes such classics as 'The Fall of The House of Usher' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'. These tales illustrated by the renowned Irish artist, Harry Clarke, transport the reader into a world of morbid fascination, fantasy and fear. Nicely presented in a custom-made illustrated box.

356. POSTLETHWAYT, Malachy. Britain's Commercial Interest Explained and Improved : in a series of Dissertations on several important Branches of her Trade and Police. Also the great advantages which would accrue to this Kingdom from an Union with Ireland. Volume two only. Dublin: Printed for John Mitchell, 1767. pp. iv, [2], 384. Contemporary full worn calf. Water stain to first six leaves. €145

ESTC N15684. 357. POWER, Rev. P. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, (Edited from MS. in the Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels), and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, (Edited from MS. in Library of Royal Irish Academy). With introduction, translation, and notes. Illustrated with folding map and frontispiece facsimile of a manuscript in the handwriting of Brother Michael O'Clery. Frontispiece. London: I.T.S., 1914. pp. xxxi, 202, 28. Green buckram, gilt shield of the Society on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €95 358. [PRISONER'S FUND] Fete in Aid of Irish Republican Prisoners' Dependents' Fund. September 29th-October 9th, 1921. Souvenir Programme. Illustrated. Dublin: O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland, n.d. (1921). pp. [32], including adverts. Illustrated wrappers, with portrait of Éamon de Valera. Staple rusted, some foxing. Very rare. €275

In the foreword President De Valera states: "The dependence of our soldier dead, and of our prisoners, are a sacred charge ... Fears for what might become of their dear ones were the only fears that troubled our heroes' souls as they faced the sacrifice". Mrs. Margaret Pearse headed the committee. There were numerous stalls each with the name of the republican fallen. The event included a ceilidh, brass and reed bands, fife and drums and pipers. There was also sports events including girls and boys races, tug-o-war, trotting, a donkey derby and pony races. The numerous names of committee members and participants enhanced the historical value of this rare pamphlet.


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359. REDLICH, Anna. The Dogs of Ireland. Illustrated. Dundalk: Tempest, 1949. First edition. pp. [x], 189. Green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. €135

Redlich "takes the famous dogs of Ireland, tracing them from the earliest days until today when the Irish Kennel Club looks after their interests. Then she takes each of the nine Irish breeds, and . tells us all about each, history, breeders, champions, points and the rest".

WITH NOTE SIGNED BY THE REDMOND BROTHERS 360. REDMOND-HOWARD, L.G. John Redmond's the Man and Demand. A biographical study in Irish politics. With nine illustrations including a photogravure plate. London: Everett, 1912. pp. 256. Red blind stamped cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Signature of Willie Redmond and John Redmond dated 1915 on House of Commons card loosely inserted. Owner's signature on half title. A fine copy in rare frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €285

John Redmond (1856-1918) politician, was born at Ballytrant, Co. Wexford and educated at Clongowes Wood and Trinity College, Dublin. He was M.P. for New Ross in 1881. Redmond was the leader of the minority which supported Parnell during the split of 1890. As M.P. for Waterford he led the Parnellite remnant of the party. With the reunification of the Irish Party in 1900 Redmond was accepted as leader, but was unable to retain the support of some of the old anti-Parnellites. He continued to press for concessions for Ireland until the time came to raise the Home Rule question. Asquith and the Liberals needed Irish support to secure the Parliament Act of 1911 (which removed the power from the House of Lords to defeat a Bill outright) in return for the (third) Home Rule Bill introduced in 1912. Unionist opposition to Home Rule constituted a serious threat. Redmond rejected partition as did the Unionists, who were finally prepared to accept a measure of permanent exclusion from Home Rule, but Redmond would concede nothing more than temporary exclusion.

361. RENEHAN, V. Rev. L.F Collections of Irish Church History. Edited by the Rev. D. McCarthy. Volume one, all published. Dublin: C.M. Warren, 1861. pp. xiii, 522. Original half calf on cloth boards, badge of Maynooth College in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. €65

. 362. [REPUBLICAN POSTCARDS] A Collection of Twenty Republican Postcards of Irish Patriots: Erskine Childers; James Connolly; Sean Connolly; E. Daly; President De Valera; Desmond Fitzgerald; Arthur Griffith (photographic); J.J. Heuston; Thomas R. Kent; An tAthair Fó-oirmhidneach Domhnall Ua Mainchín; John MacDermott; Eoin MacNeill; Daniel O'Connell (coloured); Michael O'Hanrahan; The O'Rahilly; George Noble Count Plunkett; Francis Sheehy Skeffington; John Redmond, M.P. (photographic); J.J. Walsh T.C., and Michael Collins. €475


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363. RIDGEWAY, William Esq. A Report of the Proceedings in Cases of High Treason, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held at the new Sessions House under a Special Commission, in the Month of August and September, 1803. A Report of the Trial of John Begg, upon an Indictment for High Treason. No. V. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, Grafton-Street, 1803. pp. [3], 51. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €275

No copy located on COPAC. 364. [RIVERS, Elizabeth] Elizabeth Rivers Memorial Exhibition. Illustrated. Dublin: Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 1966. pp. 52. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €65

LIMITED EDITION PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS 365. ROBERTS, W. Printers' Marks. A Chapter in the History of Typography by W. Roberts. Editor of The Bookworm. London: George Bell & Sons, Covent Garden, & New York, 1893. pp. xv, [1], 261, [2]. Title and frontispiece printed in red and black. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in contemporary half red morocco on red cloth boards, titled in gilt on spine. Edition limited to seventy-five copies, printed on Japanese vellum [Copy No. 1]. Very good. €385

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTHERFORD MAYNE

366. ROBINSON, Lennox. The Dreamers. A play in three acts. London & Dublin: Maunsel and Company, 1915. First edition. pp. [x], 69. Quarter linen on brown paper boards, title printed on paper label on spine. Signed presentation copy from Lennox Robinson to Rutherford Mayne. A fine copy. €245

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HARRY CLARKE

367. ROBINSON, Lennox. Crabbed Youth & Age. A Little Comedy. London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. Second edition. pp. 39. Illustrated wrappers with repaired spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to Harry Clarke: "Harry Clarke / with grateful thanks for the / beautiful cover / from Lennox / 1924". A very good copy. €275

Harry Clarke illustrated the cover for Lennox Robinson. There is also a postcard from Robinson to Harry apologising to him: "The bloody Talbots didn't put in the little note I gave them saying the cover was by you and thanking you for it". The book is dedicated to Sarah Purser: "Her friends will know why".

368. ROBINSON, Lennox. Ireland's Abbey Theatre. A History 1899-1951. With numerous illustrations. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951. First edition. pp. xv, 224. Brown cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45

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369. ROBINSON, Tim. Stones of Aran. Labyrinth. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1995. First edition. pp. vi, 497. Grey paper boards, silver device on upper cover, title in gilt on spine A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €50

In Stones of Aran Robinson takes us on a journey around the coast of Arainn, or Inishmore, the largest and most varied of the Aran Islands. That 'Man of Aran', Breandán Ó hEithir, spoke at the launch in the Peacock Theatre: His love for the islands has been augmented by the evocative prose of Tim Robinson "Arainn is more than a place, it is an experience and Tim captures the very essence of it".

370. RUSSELL, William. The History of Modern Europe. With an account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; and a view of the Progress of Society, from the fifth to the eighteenth century. In a series of letters from a nobleman to his son. Two volumes. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. S. Price, W. Whitestone, R. Cross, E. Lynch, T. Walker, C. Jenkin, E. Cross, P. Higly, R. Moncrieffe, W. Spotswood, W. Hallhead, J. Exshaw, J. Beatty, L. White, and P. Byrne, 1779. pp. [2], iv, 616, 606. Contemporary full calf, title and volume number on contrasting labels on spine. Armorial bookplate and signature of Richard Meade of Ballymartle. Some surface wear to lower cover of volume two, otherwise a very good set. €375

ESTC T6390 locates 9 copies. William Russell (1741-1793) was a Scottish historical and miscellaneous writer. He achieved his chief reputation as an historian. The first of his works to meet with any success was The History of America, from the first Discovery by Columbus to the Conclusion of the late War, 1779. In the same year Russell issued, anonymously, the first two volumes of his History of Modern Europe, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son. Three further volumes, with the author's name, appeared in 1784, and the whole work was published in five volumes in 1786. It deals with the rise of the modern kingdoms of Europe down to the peace of Westphalia (1763). 371. RUTTY, John. An Essay Towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin, Accommodated to the Noble Designs of the Dublin Society; Affording a summary View I. Of its Vegetables ... II Of its Animals. III. Of its Soil ... IV. Of the nature of the climate … Two volumes. Folding map of Dublin, four folding plates of birds, seven folding tables. Dublin: Printed for the Author, and Sold by W. Sleater in Castle-street, 1772. First. pp. (1) xiv, 1 (Advertisement), 392, (2) v, [i], 488. Later cream buckram. Occasional mild foxing. A very good set. Very rare. ESTC T77170. €1,500


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John Rutty (1698-1775) Physician, pupil of Boerhave, was born in Wiltshire, of Quaker stock. After medical education at Leyden, where he graduated M.D. in 1723, he settled in Dublin as a physician in 1724, where, while extremely active in Dublin intellectual life, he practised medicine for most of his life. He initiated two long-term projects: a detailed study of materia medica and a systematic record of the weather of Dublin. He lived sparely, sometimes dined on nettles, practised various forms of abstinence, drank very little alcohol, and often gave his services to the poor. His pioneering Natural History, the first real county natural history in Ireland, has a particular emphasis on the practical uses, medicinal or culinary, of the flora and fauna. Notably it includes the earliest notice of the brown rat (Rattus Norvegicus) coming to Ireland. The first engraved plates of birds were the first serious attempt to provide natural history illustrations in an Irish book. His repetitive cataloguing of his faults, he was a fervent Quaker, mostly 'swinishness in eating and doggedness of temper', is principally remembered as a subject for the wit of Samuel Johnson. John Wesley (Journal, iv. 40) records that he "visited that venerable man Dr. Rutty". Rutty then lived in rooms, for which he paid an annual rent of 10l., at the eastern corner of Boot Lane and Mary's Lane in Dublin. He died on 27 April 1775, and was buried in a Quaker burial-ground which occupied the site of the present College of Surgeons in Stephen's Green, Dublin.

372. RYAN, Richard. A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time. Two volumes. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely & Jones; Mahon, Milliken and Hodges M'Arthur, 1821/1822. pp. (1) viii, 486, [2], (2) [iii], 649, [3]. Modern quarter green morocco on marbled boards, titled in gilt on double red morocco labels on spines. Some light foxing, otherwise a very good set. €375

COPAC Locates 1 copy only. Richard Ryan (1796-1849), writer, was the son of Richard Ryan a bookseller in Camden Town. Apart from the present work he also wrote stories, poems and songs which were set to music by eminent composers of the period. His most noted work is the present work Biographia Hibernica, a biographical dictionary of noted Irishmen. With much biographical notes, not found elsewhere.

373. [SATIRES] The Universal Passion, In Seven Satires Compleat. Satire I. and II. To His Grace the Duke of Dorset. Satire III. To the Right Honourable Mr. Dodington. Satire IV. To Sir Spencer Compton. Satire V. On Women. Satire VI. To the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Germain. Satire VII. To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, For George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible in Dame's-Street, 1728. Contemporary full panelled calf. All edges sprinkled. Signature of John Meade and Helena Meade on titlepage. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €1,250 No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. 374. SCOTT, Sir Walter. Sir Walter Scott's Tour in Ireland in 1825. Now first fully described. Edited by D.J. O'Donoghue. Frontispiece of Scott kissing the Blarney Stone. Glasgow: Gowans & Gray. Dublin: O'Donoghue and M.H. Gill, 1905. pp. 96, [4 (publisher's list)]. Modern quarter morocco on cloth boards. Title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €195 In a letter to Maria Edgeworth written in early 1825 Scott wrote: "I do most certainly intend to be at Dublin in the summer or autumn … one of my earliest objects will be to visit my kind friends at Edgeworthstown".

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SIGNED BY SEAN SCULLY 375. SCULLY, Sean. Sean Scully Paintings 1971-1981. Exhibition. [Ikon Gallery, Birmingham September 5 - 30, 1981and Touring - Sunderland, Dublin, Belfast and London]. Plates in colour and black and white. Birmingham & London: Ikon Gallery Birmingham / Arts Council of Great Britain, 1981. First edition. Large quarto. pp. 39. Colour illustrated stapled wrappers. Signed and dated by Sean Scully. A fine copy. €65

With acknowledgement by Antonia Payne, Director Ikon Gallery. Essay on Sean Scully's Paintings by Joseph Masheck.

376. [SECRET COMMITTEE] The Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, with an appendix. Printed by authority. With folding facsimile letter and folding plate of Returns, &c. found in the House of Edward Rattigan, in Bridgefoot-Street, in the City of Dublin. Bound with: Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Lords, with an appendix. Printed by authority. Dublin: Printed by James King and A.B. King, (His Majesty's Stationer) - No. 72, Dame-Street, 1798, & W. Sleator, Printer to the House of Lords: pp. 208, 217-334, [2], 67. Near contemporary full calf, title on red morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, on front pastedown, signature of Arthur Meade on titlepage. Surface wear to covers. A fine copy. Rare. €775

The near 300 pages of appendices of this report are the fundamental primary source for the rebellion of 1798. It also contains a report from the Secret Committee of the House of Lords; the original Design of that Association known as The Society of United Irishmen; A Plan of an equal Representation of the people of Ireland in the House of Commons; The Society of United Irishmen of Dublin to the People of Ireland; A Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland; Mr. Pelham's letter to General Lake; Reports from various County Committee Meetings; Statements of Informers; The Declaration, Resolutions and Constitution of the Societies of United Irishmen etc. John Armstrong, a Militia Captain, frequented Patrick Byrne's bookshop in Grafton Street. Openly avowing republicanism he was in the habit of purchasing anti-monarchical material. Having led Byrne, also a United Irishman, to believe that he was on their side, Armstrong was introduced to the brothers Sheares. After worming himself into their confidence and dining and wining with them, he was informed that the Rising was imminent. On Sunday, May 20 he paid his last visit to the Sheares' residence, and betrayed his hosts to the Government that very evening. They were promptly arrested and arraigned for high treason. Armstrong appeared against them in the witness box, and they were executed after an appalling trial. Byrne was also arrested by his neighbour and colleague, Alderman Exshaw, but after examination at the Castle, he was permitted to retire to America, whence he never returned to his native land. This branch of the Meade family were related to the Meades, Earls of Clanwilliam. In 1787 the Reverend John Meade, Rector of Ballymartle, near Kinsale, County Cork, bought the estates of Ballymartle and Ballintober from his cousin John, 1st Earl of Clanwilliam. His nephew, Reverend Richard Meade, succeeded to the Ballymartle estate and another nephew, John, succeeded to the Ballintober estate. Reverend John Meade held townlands in the parish of Templemichael, barony of Kinalea, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. William R. Meade was among the principal lessors in the parish of Ballymartle at the same time. He was the proprietor of over 1100 acres in the 1870s while John Meade of Ballintober owned 982 acres.

RARE CORK PRINTING 377. SELLON, William. An Abridgement of the Holy Scriptures. Cork: Printed by Edwards & Savage, Booksellers, 6, Castle-Street, 1810. Second edition. pp. xii, 156. Contemporary full worn calf. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475

No copy located on COPAC. 378. SHACKLETON, E.H. The Heart of The Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Illustrations with photogravure frontispieces, plates, some colour, folding panorama and three folding maps in pocket at end of volume two. London: Heinemann, 1909. First edition. pp. (1) xlviii, 372, (2) xvi, 419, + errata. Blue illustrated cloth, titled in silver. Spines professionally rebacked. Some fading. A very good set. €575

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (1874-1922) polar explorer, was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, 1901-04, from


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which he was sent home early on health grounds. Determined to make amends for this perceived personal failure, he returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88° 23′ S, 97 geographical miles (114 statute miles, 190 km) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.

379. SHANNON, Martin. Ed. by. Ballads from the Jails and Streets of Ireland. Compiled and edited by Martin Shannon. Dublin: Cahill, 1966. pp. 100. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €25 380. SHARKEY, P.A. The Heart of Ireland. With map, coloured and mono illustrations. Boyle: Ward, n.d. (c.1927). pp. vi, 490, [22] (adverts). Blue cloth, Celtic cross in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €275

With historical notices on Cruachan, Boyle, Kilronan, Dromahaire, Sligo, Coolavin, Athleague, Lanesborough, Moylurg, Kilglass, Athlone, Castlerea, Loughglynn, Roscommon, Road to Castlebar, Foxford, Mayo, Ballymote, etc.


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381. [SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON, Hanna] British Militarism as I Have Known It. Portrait frontispiece. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1946 (fifth printing). pp. 24. White paper wrappers, title printed in green on upper cover. Some fraying to edges, otherwise a very good copy. €125

This pamphlet made a dramatic impact in America when it was published during Hanna Sheehy Skeffington's visit to the States in 1917. It was banned in England and Ireland at that time but was reprinted twice in the United States in 1918. Hanna toured the country speaking in favour of the Easter Rising and the graphic description of the death of her husband made a deep impression. Colour was added to her words by the opinion of Tim Healy, expressed in the pamphlet in relation to the court martial of her husband, that "never since the trial of Christ was there a greater travesty of justice". Hanna was even granted a personal interview with President Wilson in January 1918.

PARLIAMENTARY PAMPHLETS 382. [SHERIDAN, Charles Francis & TICKNELL, Richard] Observations on the doctrine laid down by Sir William Blackstone, Respecting the extent of the Power of the British Parliament, Particularly with relation to Ireland. In a letter to Sir William Blackstone, with a Postscript addressed to Lord North, Upon the Affairs of that Country. Second edition. ESTC T41787. Bound with: Common-Place arguments against administration, with obvious answers, (intended for the use of the new Parliament.) Fourth edition. By Richard Tickell. ESTC N27052 [NLI in Ireland only]. Bound with: A review of the three great national questions relative to a declaration of right, Poynings' law, and the mutiny bill. By Charles Francis Sheridan. ESTC T9694 [No copy in Ireland]. Three works in one volume. London: Almon & Faulder, 1779 & 1780. Dublin: Mills, 1781. pp. (1) [4], 85, [3]; (2) viii, 10-101, 1; (3) 128. Later quarter calf on marbled boards. Some light foxing to endpapers and prelims., otherwise a very good copy. €475 383. SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Two volumes. London: Murray, 1821. pp. (1) xiii, 398, (2) 408. Contemporary full maroon morocco, covers framed by a single gilt fillet, fore-edges and turn-ins gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and fourth, remainder tooled in gilt to a centre and corner design. Top edge gilt, others yellow. A fine set. €275 384. SIGERSON, George. Bards of the Gael and Gall. With a preface by Dr. Douglas Hyde. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. pp. xxviii, 432. Titlepage printed in green and black. Quarter brown arlin on green cloth boards, title in green on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. All edges sprinkled. A fine copy. €65

"As an Irish scholar he was the last link that connected us with the era of O'Donovan and O'Curry, and one of the last that connected us with the men of '48, with Kickham and with Mitchel. He had known them all, shared their counsels and aspirations, befriended and sheltered many of them, and could tell of them from the intimacy of close association in a way that was the privilege of no other living person. He was not the child of any one province; he was all-Ireland, and one might even say cosmopolitan. Born and reared near Strabane, but with a Kerry ancestry, educated partly in Galway, partly in Cork, and later on in Paris, he typified all the best and broadest and sanest in our race" - Douglas Hyde. The chapters include: Lays of Milesian Invaders; The Cuchulainn Period; The Fionn Period; Ossianic Age of Laminations; The Christian Dawn; Gael and Norse; Gael and Norman; Seventeenth Century; Eighteenth Century - Patriotic; Eighteenth Century - Songs of the Emotions; Folk-Songs, Lullabies, Occupation-Chance, and Mariner's Songs, etc.

385. [SINN FEIN REBELLION] Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook. Easter 1916. A complete and connected narrative of the Rising, with detailed accounts of the fighting at all points in Dublin and in the country ... Rebel Proclamations and Manifestoes ... Casualties ... R.I.C. ... Names of


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persons interred ... Official Lists of Prisoners ... Casement Trial and Sentence ... Who's Who, etc. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Times, 1916. Royal octavo. First edition. pp. xvi, 248. Later cloth with original wrappers bound in. Note pasted on front free endpaper and lower pastedown: "The property of F.J. Holden, / 5 Percy Place, Dublin 4. / Rebound May 1966 by The Sign of the Three Candles". Some fading to upper cover. A very good copy. €375 386. [SINN FÉIN LEADERS] The Sinn Féin Leaders of 1916. With Fourteen Illustrations and Complete Lists of Deportees, Casualties, etc. Dublin: Cahill, 1917. pp 32. Pictorial wrappers, with the flag of Ireland in colour. Newspaper clipping of Roger Casement's Historic Letter taped on page three. Staple rusting, some minor wear, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €375

Carty 595a. Includes full lists of deportees, with biographical sketches of the leaders. Portraits of Eoin MacNeill, Michael O'Hanrahan, Arthur Griffith, F. Sheehy-Skeffington, and Count Plunkett. Also listed are the executed of 1916; Those killed while fighting for Ireland during Easter week; The men in jail in Ireland; Men jailed in Arbour Hill; Prisoners sent to Nutsford - Stafford - Wakefield - Wandsworth - Lewes - Glasgow and Perth.

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387. SMITH, Charles. The Ancient and Present State of The County of Kerry. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. Embellished with a portrait frontispiece of the author; a large folding map of the County; a panoramic view of the Lakes of Killarney taken from the North; Inny Bridge; Scelig; Plan of Traly and Galerus near Smeriwick. Dublin: Printed for the Author, n.d. [1756]. First edition. pp. xxi, [1], 23-419, 5 (index). Armorial bookplate of Henry Longfield Conner on front pastedown. Contemporary full calf, spine neatly rebacked, repair to corners. A very good copy. €1,250

In 1744 Smith, a Dungarvan apothecary, with the collaboration of Walter Harris published a history of County Down. That work, the first extended Irish county history ever published, proposed in its preface a series of similar histories, and so led to the establishment of the Physico-Historical Society for the gathering of materials for such a topographical series. Smith undertook his native Waterford as well as Cork and Kerry, and several other works either appeared under their auspices or as a result of their efforts (e.g. Barton's book on Lough Neagh).


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Smith explains in his preface how it was hoped that a greater knowledge of the natural resources of the country would promote a greater exploitation of them and so encourage the growth in population. "The strength of a state is not to be computed by the extent of a country, but by the number and labour of the inhabitants". Ireland he felt could easily support eight times its contemporary population. With detailed descriptions of the county, topography, history and antiquities.

388. SMITH, Charles. The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. The second edition with additions. Two volumes. Dublin: Printed for W. Wilson, No. 6, Dame-Street, 1774. pp. (1) iv, x (v misplaced), x, xiv, [1], 16-429, [3], (2) viii, 9-437, 6 (index), + errata and directions for bindings. Armorial bookplate of Sir Benjamin Morris of Waterford on front pastedowns, with his signature on verso of titlepage. Recent half calf on marbled boards. Paper repair to corner of a few leaves. A very good set. €1,250

Embellished with portrait frontispiece of the author; a large folding map of the county; the Castle of Kanturk; folding panoramic view of Youghal; folding panoramic view of Kinsale; the Castle of Loghort; Buttevant Abbey; New Plan of the City of Cork; folding panoramic view of the City of Cork; The Exchange; Cork Antiquities; Labacally or the Hag's Bed; Clark's Skeleton. The maps in Smith's county histories are the first printed maps of their respective counties since Petty's in the seventeenth century, and for them, Smith claims to have made his own triangulations.

389. SMITH, William. Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime. Translated from the Greek, with Notes and Observations; and Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author. Dublin: Printed for W. Sleater, E. Smith, and W. Hallhead, 1777. 12mo. pp. [12], 13-224, [2]. Contemporary full worn calf, title on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Signature of William Livingston Webb, Middle Temple, on titlepage. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375

COPAC locates 1 copy only. Not in NLI. 390. SMYTH, P.J., M.P. The Priest in Politics. Dublin: William McGee. London: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1885. Fifth edition. pp. 15. Green stitched wrappers, title printed in black on upper cover. A fine copy. €35 391. SOMERVILLE, Edith Oenone. An unpublished original sketch by Edith Somerville. Illustration for her classic work 'Some Adventures of an Irish R.M.', pencil on paper mounted on card, signed with initials, showing the cook (Mrs. Cadogan) holding forth, with inscription in the artist's hand, "A horse! a horse! Is that my darlin' Major Yeates', said the cook". Also signed, addressed and captioned on verso. 285x 190mm. Small tear to margin, otherwise in very good condition. €1,250

Not found in the published work, 1899, where there appears to be no portrait of Mrs. Cadogan, though it may have been used in the Badminton Magazine, where the stories first appeared. An attractive item from an underrated and influential work, which portrays the lives of the minor Anglo-Irish gentry with 'a smile and a tear'.

392. STAFFORD, Thomas. Pacata Hibernia; or, a History of the Wars in Ireland, during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Taken from original Chronicles. Two engraved portraits (with explanatory slip of verses to that of Queen Elizabeth), eighteen engraved maps and plates, all but one folding. Three parts in three volumes. Dublin: Reprinted by the Hibernia-Press Company, No. 1, Temple-Lane, 1810. pp. [xii], 1-220, 221-508, 509-708, [7], + errata. Continuous pagination, including reprint of original 1633 edition titlepage. A very good copy. €850

This is one of the great books dealing with Irish history and in particular the final stage of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland (Nine Years War), even if the perspective is that of the winning side. After the death in 1629 of the Earl of Totnes, formerly Sir George Carew, President of Munster, it was put together from the papers by his bastard son, Sir Thomas Stafford. Carew himself played a leading role in the events involved and especially in the decisive battle of Kinsale. One of the great set-pieces in the book concerns the siege of the castle of Glin. Carew had taken the Knight of the Valley's six-year-old heir as hostage and he had the child placed on top of the fortifications sending word to the defenders that they would now have a fair mark at which to direct their fire: "The constable returned answer that the fear of his life should not make them to forbear to direct their volleys of shot for he said in indecent terms not fit for me to write: The place is open where he was born and the knight may have many more sons".


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393. STEPHAN, Enno. Spies in Ireland. Translated from the German by Arthur Davidson. With illustrations and map. London: MacDonald, 1963. pp. xiii, 311. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce. €50

A thorough and well documented study of the German espionage effort in Ireland during World War II, is based on conversations which the author has had with the surviving protagonists, both Irish and German; on official sources, such as the telegrams between the German Foreign Minister and the German Ambassador in Ireland; and on the entries in the logbook of the German Abwehr (Military Espionage).


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394. STEPHENS, James. The Adventures of Seumas Beg. The Rocky Road to Dublin. London: Macmillan, 1916. Second edition. pp. vii, 86, [1 (author's works)]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. Scarce. €125

James Stephens (1880-1950), poet and storyteller, was born in Dublin. He went to Paris in 1912 and returned three years later to become Registrar of the National Gallery until 1924 when he moved to London. He was a founder member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and received a civil list pension in 1942. In his later years he was a frequent broadcaster for the B.B.C.

395. STEPHENS, James. The Demi-Gods. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922. Second edition. pp. vii, 280, 4. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. €35 396. STEPHENS, James. Deirdre. London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. Second edition. pp. 286. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €35 397. STEPHENS, James. In The Land of Youth. London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. Second edition. pp. 304. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Fading to binding, otherwise a very good copy. €45 398. STEPHENS, James. Reincarnations. London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. Second edition. pp. viii, 66. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Very good. Scarce. €65 399. STEPHENS, James. The Crock of Gold. London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. pp. 312. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €30

A novel by James Stephens mixing realism, fairy tale, and fantasy. The Crock of Gold concerns the separate quests undertaken by the Philosopher, the Thin Woman of lnis Magrath (his wife), and Caitilin Ní Murrachu (a peasant girl), during which they meet with the gods Pan and Angus Óg.

400. STEPHENS, James. Songs from the Clay. London: Macmillan and Co., 1925. Third edition. pp. vi, 105, 6. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €75 401. STEPHENS, James. The Hill of Vision. Dublin: Macmillan and Co., 1925. Second edition. pp. 124. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. €35

RARE KILLARNEY ITEM 402. STEWART, Rev. J. The Killarney Poor Scholar. Comprising the most remarkable features of the enchanting scenery of the Irish Lakes; interspersed with sketches of real character. Illustrated with four steel engravings and woodcuts. London: Graham, 1846. 16mo. Third Edition. pp. iv, 164. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover within decorative border, floral gilt design to spine that has been neatly rebacked, preserving original. Occasional foxing to plates. Very good. Rare. €225

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403. STOCK, Bishop. Bishop Stock's 'Narrative' of the Year of the French: 1798. Edited by Grattan Freyer. Foreword by Michael Garvey. Ballina: Irish Humanities Centre, 1982. pp. xxiv, 118. Fine in illustrated wrappers. €25 404. STUBBS, W. & TALMASH, G. The Crown Circuit Companion: Containing the Practice of the Assizes on the Crown Side, and of the Courts of General and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace: Wherein (among other things incident to the practice of the Crown Law) is included. A Collection of Useful and Modern Precedents of Indictments in Criminal Cases; as well at Common Law, as those created by Statute. Under all Which Precedents, so much of the Common and Statute Laws is set forth, as to shew the several Offences; the Offenders Punishment; and in what Cases Felons are to have, or not to have the Benefit of Clergy. With references to the printed authorities. By W. Stubbs, and G. Talmash, of Staples-Inn, gentlemen. The fourth edition, to which is added, The clerk of Assise's Circuit Companion, and tables of fees of the officers and servants belonging to the judges on the circuit, usually taken by them; also many new precedents of indictments, and the laws continued down to the present time. Dublin: Printed by and for Sarah Cotter, under Dick's Coffee-House in Skinner-Row, 1766. pp. [8], 452, [22]. Contemporary full calf. Some wear to covers and spine. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €750

ESTC N3028 locates 6 copies only. 405. SULLIVAN, A.M. The Story of Ireland. New edition. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1909. pp. 622. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Inscription on front endpaper. A very good copy. €25

"GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY" 406. SULLIVAN, T.D. A.M., & D.B. Speeches from the Dock, or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. With introductory sketches and biographical notices. New edition re-edited and extended to cover the period up to the signing of the Treaty of 1921 by Seán Ua Ceallaigh. Illustrated. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 1945. pp. lvi, 488. Quarter green cloth on green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €65 407. SWIFT, Mr. Meade. A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in Unity, and Unity in Trinity. Together with some authentick proofs of the eternal filiation or generation of the son of God. With a letter prefixed, To the Right Reverend .... in Support of the Creed, commonly called, The Athanasian Creed. By Mr. Meade Swift. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for the Author, 1758. 12mo. pp 166. Contemporary worn half calf, lacking label on spine. Inscribed on titlepage by the Franciscan Anthony Garrihan. Wear to binding. €475

ESTC T178818 with 4 locations only. Reverend Meade Swift (1753-1837) the son of Thomas Swift and Frances Dennis. He married Delia Sophia Saunders, daughter of Reverend Morley Pendred Saunders and Lady Martha Stratford, in June 1780. Swift was the Vicar Choral between 1796 and 1809 at Cork and Rector at Lynn, County Westmeath between 1809 and 1837. He changed his name to Meade Dennis, in accordance with his uncle Lord Tracton's bequest, and as a consequence inherited some property in County Kerry. He is buried at Lynn Churchyard, County Westmeath.

408. SYNGE, John M. In Wicklow West Kerry and Connemara. With eight drawings by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Maunsel, 1911. First edition. pp. viii, 245. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Label removed from front endpaper. Slight foxing to prelims. A very good copy. €175

Synge and Yeats were kindred spirits, with a shared interest in the life of the common people, and Yeats' illustrations for Synge's work are among his most successful. The drawings for this work are present in this edition only and have not been reprinted.

409. TAYLOR, Peter. Beating the Terrorists? Interrogation in Omagh, Gough and Castlereagh. Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd., 1980. pp. 347. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €35 410. TAYLOR, G. & SKINNER, A. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed in 1777. With large folding map of Ireland and 289 road maps. List of subscribers. London: Published for the authors as the Act directs 14 Nov. 1778. Sold by G. Nichol, Strand; I. Murray, Fleet-Street, and by W. Wilson, No. 6, Dame-Street, Dublin. Royal octavo. pp. xvi, 288, 16 (List of Subscribers). Contemporary full tree calf, spine expertly rebacked preserving original. Armorial bookplate of John Roberts and with his signature on titlepage. Small mark to upper


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cover. A fine copy. €2,250 Taylor & Skinner produced the only strip road maps of Scotland and Ireland generally available. Their maps were well engraved and included a wealth of detail. Their Maps of the Roads of Ireland was published in 1778 at a price of £1 4s. Both men afterwards served with the army in America, in their capacity as surveyors.

411. TEELING, Charles Hamilton. Personal Narrative of the "Irish Rebellion" of 1798. London: Printed for the Author, 1828. First edition. pp. xv, [1], 285, [1]. Publisher's green cloth, title in gilt on green morocco letterpiece on spine. Early owner's signature on front endpaper. Name clipped from top of titlepage. Some wear, fading and marks to binding. A good copy. €175

Charles Hamilton Teeling like his brother Bartholomew, a leading United Irishman and journalist, was born at Lisburn in 1778 of an old Catholic family. On 16 Sept. 1796, while still a young man, he was arrested with his father by Lord Castlereagh on suspicion of treason. He had previously been offered a commission in the British army, but had declined as it was incompatible with his nationalistic sentiments. In 1802 he settled in Dundalk as a linen-bleacher. Subsequently he became proprietor of the Belfast Northern Herald, later moving to Newry, where he established the Newry Examiner. His Narrative is of considerable historical value, throwing much light on the state of feeling among the Roman Catholics of Ulster prior to the Rebellion, and upon the later stages of the United Irish movement, as well as the progress of the Rebellion in that province.

412. TELFAIR, Robert. A Key to Gough's Practical Arithmetic : in which all the Examples necessary for a learner are wrought at large; and also solutions given of all the questions for exercise. By Robert Telfair of the Belfast Academy. Dublin: Printed by John Cumming, 1830. pp. [2] 303. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. Minor wear to surface of lower board and corners. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475

No copy located on COPAC. This edition not in NLI. Advertisement at front with list of Cumming's English School Books.

413. TEMPLE, Sir John, Kt. The Irish Rebellion: or, an History of the beginnings and first progress of the General Rebellion, raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October, 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. Publish'd in the year 1646. by Sir John Temple, Kt. Master of the Rolls, and one of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council within the Kingdom of Ireland.


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The sixth edition, reprinted from the best London-Edition, 1679. Wherein several entire Sentences, omitted in all the Irish-Editions, are truly inserted; many other Omissions, Errors and Mistakes carefully supplied, corrected, and amended. To which is also prefix'd, The late Act of Parliament, made the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of King Charles II. for Keeping and Celebrating the Twenty Third of October, as an Anniversary Thanksgiving in this Kingdom. To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne's History of the siege of Drogheda, in the year 1641. As also, the whole tryal of Connor Lord Mac-Guire, with the perfect Copies of the Indictment, and all the Evidences against him. Together with the Pope's Bull to the Confederate Catholicks in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by and for Aaron Rhames, 1724. Quarto. xvi, 245. Titlepage in red and black. In three parts, the second, 'A letter of Sir Henry Tichborne to his lady', and the third, 'The whole tryal of Connor Lord Mac-Guire', with separate titlepages; pagination and register are continuous. Recent full calf in seventeenth century style. Paper repair to lightly soiled titlepage, occasional browning. Signature of H. Longfield Conner on front endpaper. A very good copy. Rare. €675

ESTC T136591 John Temple (1600-77), Master of the Rolls in Ireland, first published this work in 1646. The book caused a great sensation, supposedly written by an eye-witness to the events, and did much to inflame hatred and bigotry in England against the Irish, and thereby justifying Cromwell's later harsh treatment of them. When the 1679 edition appeared, it infuriated the Irish so much, that it was condemned by their Parliament to be burnt by the Common Hangman in Dublin. This partisan work, written in the Parliamentarian interest, for the purpose of holding up the native Irish to execration for attempting to regain their lands, of which they had been dispossessed by force, forms the standard authority of most of the English writers on those times, and frequently reprinted with the object of exciting, through a sectarian medium, political and religious animosities. "The falsehoods it contains", says Dr. John Curry, "are so glaring and numerous, that even the Government, in the year 1674, seems to have been offended at, and the author himself ashamed of the republication of it".

414. [THEATRICAL] Theatrical biography: or, Memoirs of the principal performers of the three Theatres Royal : Drury-Lane, Mr. Garrick, Mr. Barry, Mr. Reddish, Mr. Aickin, Mrs. Barry, Mrs Abington, Miss Younge, Mr. King, Mr. Moody, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, Miss Hayward, Mrs. Baddely, Miss Pope, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Baddely, Mrs. Egerton, Mrs. W. Barry, Mrs. Jefferies, Covent-Garden. Mr. Ross, Mr. Smith, Mr. Savigny, Mr. Woodward, Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Mattocks, Mr. Yates, Mr. Shuter, Mr. Dyer, Miss Macklin, Mrs. Bulkley, Mr. Bensly, Mr. Mattocks, Mr. Clark, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Thompson, Hay-Market. Mr. Foote, Mr. Weston, Mrs. Gardner, Mr. J. Aickin, Mr. Didier, Mrs. Jewel, Mr. Davies, Mrs. Didier. Together with critical and impartial remarks on their respective professional merits. Two volumes in one. [Dublin]: London printed; and Dublin re-printed for H. Saunders, E. Lynch, ... T. Walker, L. Flin, and C. Jenkin, 1772. 12mo. pp. viii, [4], 106, 122. First six leaves bound before titlepage of volume two. Contemporary worn full calf, title in gilt on blue morocco label on spine. Signature of James Lysaght dated 1773 on front pastedown. Minor wear to spine and covers, otherwise a very good copy. €375

ESTC T143320. 415. THOMAS, Bartholomew. Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis, de Peste: quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, ... Eruditorum examini subjicit Bartholomeus Thomas, Hibernicus. Edinburgi: Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1775. pp. [4], 66. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by a single gilt fillet and dog-tooth roll, with a wide gilt tooled border made up of flowers and birds. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Some minor wear to head and tail of spine, corners and minor surface wear to lower cover. Armorial bookplate of Daniel Conner. All edges gilt. €675

ESTC T8595. 416. THOMPSON, H.S. Ireland in 1839 and 1869. London: Dorrell, 1870. pp. [iv], 115. Blue cloth, title in gilt within a garland of flowers on upper cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on titlepage. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce. €235


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The contents includes: Tests of National Progress ... Increase of Wealth; Agricultural Improvement; Rent and Farmers' Profits; Land Tenure ... Fixity of Tenure; Compulsory Leases; Tenancy-at-Will; Long Leases; Ulster Tenant-Right, etc.

417. TIERNEY, Michael. Eoin MacNeill, Scholar and Man of Action 1867-1945. Edited by F.X. Martin. Illustrated. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. pp. xxii, 409. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Very good in frayed dust jacket. €85

Eoin MacNeill has the distinction in modern Irish history of being the only man who successfully launched three revolutions: the establishing of the Gaelic League in 1893; the revolution in Irish historical studies which became evident in his lectures in 1904 and the revolution which began with the founding of the Irish Volunteers in 1913.

"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VIEW I EVER SAW IN THE WORLD" 418. TITMARSH, Mr. M.A. [William M. Thackeray] The Irish Sketch-Book. With numerous engravings on wood, drawn by the author. Two volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. First edition. pp. (1) [ii], vi, 311, (2) vi, 327, [i]. Contemporary full polished calf, spines richly gilt, titled in gilt on double maroon morocco labels. Comb-marbled endpapers. Occasional light foxing. Spines evenly faded and professionally rebacked. All edges marbled. Fine set. €475 William Makepeace Thackeray, the celebrated author, was born in India of English parents. His wife Isabella Shaw, whom he met in Paris was from Doneraile in County Cork, and a relative, Elias Thackeray was Vicar of Dundalk. A master of irony and wit, he began his tour of Ireland in 1842. The book is a masterpiece, cleverly written and gives a straightforward account of Ireland as it appeared to the observing intelligent traveller before the Great Famine. He contrasts the great divide between the wealthier landed gentry and the appalling poverty of the peasantry,


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criticising both the government and absentee landlords. His description of a part of the country so dear to my heart is awe inspiring: "And presently, from an eminence, I caught sight not only of a fine view, but of the most beautiful view I ever saw in the world, I think; and to enjoy the splendour of which I would travel a hundred miles in that car with that very horse and driver. The sun was just about to set, and the country round about and to the east was almost in twilight. The mountains were tumbled about in a thousand fantastic ways, and swarming with people. Trees, corn-fields, cottages, made the scene indescribably cheerful ... but the [Clew] bay, and the Reek, which sweeps down to the sea, and a hundred islands in it, were dressed up in gold and purple, and crimson, with the whole cloudy west in a flame. Wonderful, wonderful!".

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419. TOBIN, Sean & Lois. Editors. Lady Gregory Autumn Gatherings : Reflections at Coole. Illustrated. Galway: Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering, 2000. Quarto. pp. xv, 200. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €35 420. TODD, James Henthorn. Ed. by. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill [Cogadh gaedhil re Gaillaibh] or The Invasions of Ireland by the Danes and Other Norsemen. From the original text. With translation and introduction. With two coloured plates, specimens from the Book of Leinster and Dublin Manuscript. London: Longman, 1867. pp. ccvii, 348, [17], + errata. Modern quarter buckram on black paper boards, with original letterpiece. Signature of E. O'Brien, Cahermoyle, dated 1868 on half-title. A very good copy. €275 421. TOWNSEND, Rev. Horatio. Statistical Survey of the County of Cork, with Observations on the Means of Improvement; drawn up for the consideration, and by direction of the Royal Dublin Society. With large coloured folding map of the county. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 10 Back-Lane, 1810. First edition. pp. xxi, 749, [1], 102 (appendix). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title and author in gilt on maroon morocco labels on gilt decorated spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce.€675


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The Royal Dublin Society was founded in 1731 for "improving Husbandry, Manufactures, and other useful Arts and Sciences". One of its greatest achievements was the publication of the statistical surveys for each of the counties of Ireland. The work thoroughly surveys the topography of the county, its geology, mines, quarries; its rivers, navigations, fish and fisheries; bogs and their reclamation; its agriculture ... markets, farming methods ... tenure and rents, population, towns and their developments ... use of spirits; the schools, manufacturing industry, roads and bridges.

422. TULL, Jethro. The Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. Wherein is shewn a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields. In order to increase their product, and diminish the common expense. By the use of instruments described in cuts. By Iethro Tull. Approved of and recommended by the Dublin Society. Illustrated by six folding plates and a wood cut depicting a ploughman at beginning of preface. Dublin: Printed by A. Rhames, for R. Gunne, G. Risk, G. Ewing, W. Smith, & Smith and Bruce, Booksellers, 1733. pp. xvii, [1],417,[5], (A-A4, B-314). Bound in modern half calf over comb-marbled papers. Title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece in the second compartment of spine. Occasional light staining. A very fine crisp copy of the rare Dublin pirated edition. €685

COPAC locates only 5 copies. ESTC T117019. The first Dublin printing of the full, expanded version of Jethro Tull's famous work. It first appeared in London and Dublin, as a 'specimen' or summary version, under the title, The New Horse-Houghing Husbandry in 1731. Whereas the London editions were quarto (1731) or folio (1733), both the Dublin versions were printed in octavo format. This was the first book ordered to be printed, probably without


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authorisation, by the recently founded Dublin Society. The six plates, illustrating ploughs, details of the drill-box, the wheat and turnip drills and the hoe plough, are described in detail in the second half of the work, with Tull's discussion of tillage and of individual crops. Jethro Tull (1674-1741) was born at Bradfield in Berkshire and educated at Oxford, before attending Gray's Inn and being called to the bar in 1699. That same year, however, he began farming his father's land at Howberry, Crowmarsh, near Wallingford. By about 1701, he had perfected his seed drills in order to plant in rows. About 1709 Tull moved to Prosperous Farm, Shalbourne, near Hungerford, where he developed his horse hoe, necessary to destroy weeds, between the rows. Although influential in stimulating debate at home and abroad. Tull's methods were too advanced to be widely adopted in England and another century was to pass before seed drills became widely available with the introduction mass produced machinery in the nineteenth century. The agricultural revolution although widely attributed to the pioneering efforts of a few heroic figures like Tull, Townshead, Coke, Bakewell and Young, was the result of economic forces and the advancement of factory mass production of equipment. Nevertheless Tull's book, with its compelling combination of theory and practice, was the first in its field by advocating a mechanical alternative to traditional methods of tillage, and it remains one of the most influential books on agriculture published in English.

423. TYNER, George. The Traveller's Guide Through Ireland; being an Accurate and Complete Companion to Captain Alexander Taylor's Map of Ireland, giving the distance by the great roads from Dublin to every town in the Kingdom, the cross-roads, and description of the gentlemen's seats near the roads. Ornamented with a map of the roads. To which are added, the roads from London to Chester, Holyhead, &c. Dublin: Byrne, 1794. pp. [ix], 99 (double column). Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. A fine copy. Very rare. €685

ESTC N22243. Bradshaw 2354. Not in Gilbert.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 424. UA CEALLAIGH, Seán. i. Sceilg. Cathal Brugha. Do Chumann Buan-Chosanta na Gaedhilge. Portrait frontispiece. Baile Átha Cliath: M. H. Mac an Ghoill agus a Mhac Teór, 1942. pp. [v], 348. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy. Fine. €95

Cathal Brugha (1874-1922), revolutionary. Born Charles William St John Burgess, educated at Belvedere College; had to leave there at sixteen when his father's business failed. He joined the Gaelic League in 1899 and became lieutenant in the Irish Volunteers in 1913. During the Rising he was second in command at South Dublin Union, where he was severely wounded and lamed. He took a leading role in the War of Independence, became Chief of Staff of the I.R.A., vehemently opposed the Treaty and voted against it. Fought in O'Connell Street, on the Republican side and died from wounds received there.

425. [UNIVERSITY CALENDAR] The National University of Ireland. Calendar for the year 1913. Dublin: Alex Thom. London: Longmans, 1913. pp. vi, 480. Green cloth, title and badge of University in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €35

LAST BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE CUALA PRESS 426. USSHER, Arland. From a Dark Lantern. A Journal, edited and arranged by Roger Nyle Parisious. With woodcut devices. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1978. First edition. pp. [iv], 79. Quarter linen on blue boards. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies (out of series copy). With the signatures of Anne Yeats and her brother Michael Yeats on front endpaper. A fine copy in dust jacket. €175

"Only the man of the world can have a private life; the hermit is always at home".


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427. WALKER, J. Crampton. Irish Life & Landscape. Illustrated. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press. n.d. (c.1917). Quarto. pp. 148, [28], (adverts). Silver pictorial cloth. A very good copy in frayed and torn dust jacket. €195

Included in the sixty-seven plates (many coloured) are works by: Percy French, Harry Kernoff, Paul Henry, Sir John Lavery, John Keating, Estella Solomons, Nathaniel Hone, Letitia Hamilton, Harry Clarke, Sarah Purser, George Russell (AE), Mary Swansey and Sir William Orpen.

IN DERRY & BALLYKINLAR 428. WALSH, Louis J. On My Keeping and in Theirs. A record of experiences 'On the run,' in Derry Gaol, and in Ballykinlar Internment Camp. Foreword by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1921. First edition, second issue. pp. xv, 112. Blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 429. WALSH, Fr. Paul. The Four Masters and Their Work. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1944. pp. [vi], 41, 2 (index). Stiff brown paper wrappers. Title printed on paper label on upper cover, light spotting to label. A very good copy. Scarce. €125

Father Paul Walsh's name on the titlepage of an historical treatise is a guarantee of excellence. A brief but complete account of the principle facts relating to the Four Masters. The arrangement, final chapters and index are by Colm Ó Lochlainn.

430. WEBB, D.A. An Irish Flora. With drawings by Hilda Parkes and Pearl Boatman. Fourth revised edition. Dundalk: W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press, 1963. pp. xxxiv, [12], 261. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €25 431. WEBSTER, William Bullock. Ireland Considered as a Field for Investment or Residence. With coloured folding geological map. Second edition. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton-Street, 1853. pp. xi, 125. Publisher's faded red cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy. Scarce. €235


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432. WEST, Mrs. Frederic. A Summer Visit to Ireland in 1846. Illustrated with aquatints and woodcuts. London: Bentley, 1847. pp. x, 302. Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, title and author in gilt on double morocco labels on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €675

The author states that the purpose of her visit to Ireland during the Irish famine was "The public sympathies are at last awakened towards Ireland. My object in travelling through it was to satisfy myself of its actual condition ... and to exhort my English countrymen to go and do likewise". During her three week visit, partly conducted by rail, she visits Wicklow, Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Cork, and Limerick, returning via Offaly and Kildare. She shows a favourable disposition towards the native Irish, gives a detailed description of the national schools, comments freely on hotels and quotes extensively from Duffy's Ballad Poetry of Ireland, also with references to Bartlett, Hall, Petrie and Moore.

433. [WHATELY, Thomas] Observations on Modern Gardening, illustrated by descriptions. The fourth edition. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son, at the Mews-Gate, 1777. pp. [8], 257, [1]. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on elaborately gilt tooled spine; letter 'F' and 'M' in gilt in first and last compartment. Armorial bookplate of John Rogers on front pastedown. Minor surface wear to covers and spine, otherwise a very good copy. €435


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ESTC T79315. "Gardening, in the perfection to which it has been lately brought in England, is entitled to a place of considerable rank among the liberal arts. It is as superior to landskip [sic] painting, as a reality to a representation: it is an exertion of fancy: a subject for taste; and being released now from the restraints of regularity, and enlarged beyond the purposes of domestic convenience, the most beautiful, the most simple, the most noble scenes of nature are all within its province". An influential and popular book, the "most comprehensive work on the theory of landscape design developed by the natural school before the time of Humphrey Repton" according to Blanche Henrey (British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800).

434. WHITE, John. An Essay on Indigenous Grasses of Ireland. Illustrated with two large coloured folding plates. Dublin: Graisberry, 1808. pp. xxix, 146, + errata. Contemporary full tree calf. Early owner's signature on title on marbled boards, a trifle worn. Very rare. €765

The author was one of the gardeners to the Dublin Society. He gives the Latin, English and Irish version of the names of plants. In a font specially cut.

435. WHITELOCKE, John. Trial of Lieutenant General John Whitelocke, Commander in Chief of the Expedition against Buenos Ayres. By court-martial, held in Chelsea College, on Thursday, the 28th January, 1808, and succeeding days / Taken verbatim in short hand, by a student of Middle Temple. Frontispiece map of "the attack of Buenos Ayres". London: Printed for Samuel Tipper, B. Crosby ... T. Gillet, 1808. pp. [2], 228, [2]. Recent full morocco. Signature of Richard Meade on titlepage. A fine copy. €265

COPAC locates 9 copies only. John Whitelocke (1757-1833) British Army officer. Educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Lewis Lochée's military academy in Chelsea, Whitelocke entered the army in 1778 and served in Jamaica and in San Domingo. In 1805 he was made a Lieutenant-General and Inspector-General of recruiting, and in 1807 was appointed to command an expedition to seize Buenos Aires from the Spanish Empire, which was in disarray due to events in Europe. The attack failed and the British surrendered after suffering heavy losses. Whitelocke undertook negotiations with the opposing general, Santiago de Liniers, and having decided that the British position was untenable, signed the surrender and ordered the British forces to abandon Montevideo and return home later that year. This proceeding was regarded with great disfavour by many under his command and the British army and public. Whitelocke was brought before a court-martial convened at The Royal Hospital in London in 1808. On all the charges, except one, he was found guilty and he was dismissed from the service. He lived in retirement until his death in 1883 at Hall Barn Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

436. WHITTON, William. Stamp Duty Guide: being a compilation of all the stamp duties including Chancery and Law Fund now payable in Ireland ... and nearly seven hundred cases ... the whole being a complete treatise on the Stamp Laws. Dublin: Walsh, 1843. pp. vii, [1], 342. Bound by Galwey of Dublin in half calf over cloth boards. Owner's signature on front endpaper and signature of John Martin, City Quay, on titlepage. Some minor wear and fading, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €385

No copy located on COPAC. In Henry Shaw's Dublin City Directory, 1850, John Martin lived at 26 City Quay.

437. [WILDE, Oscar] Nothing ... Except My Genius. A celebration of his wit and wisdom. Compiled by Alastair Rolfe. With an introductory essay, 'Playing Oscar', by Stephen Fry. London: Penguin Books, 1997. pp. xxvi, 81. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. €20


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438. WILDE, William R. The Beauties of The Boyne, and Its Tributary, The Blackwater. Second edition, enlarged. With illustrations, plan of the Battle of the Boyne and large folding map. Dublin: James McGlashan, 1850. pp. [ii], [i], xxix, 324. Blue ribbed cloth, ancient font of Clonard Church in gilt on upper cover, Boyne Obelisk in gilt on spine, titled in gilt. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Rare. See illustration on previous page. €295 439. WILSON, Florence M. The Coming of the Earls. Dublin: Printed by Colm O Lochlainn at The Candle Press, 1918. 210x155mm. pp. 24. Grey stitched paper wrappers, title and Three Candles logo printed on upper cover. Edition limited to 450 copies. A very good copy. €125

De Burca 19. This work contains the ballad 'The Man from God Knows Where' (William Russell), one of the greatest ballads of Irish history, set in county Down during the 1798 Rebellion and telling the story of the United Irishman, William Russell. Florence Mary Wilson was born in Lisburn, but spent most of her time in Bangor. She wrote on Ulster history and was committed to the revival of the Irish language. Her work was influenced by Irish archaeology and legend. She died in 1946.

440. WILSON, T.G. A Hitherto Undescribed Death-Mask of Dean Swift. Dublin: Reprinted from The Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries, 1951. pp. 107-114. Blue paper wrappers, title printed on upper cover. Complimentary copy signed by the author. Small tea stain to front cover, otherwise a very good copy. €45

WISEMAN'S TOUR IN IRELAND 441. WISEMAN, Cardinal. The Sermons, Lectures, and Speeches delivered by His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster, during his Tour in Ireland in August and September, 1858, with his lecture delivered in London on the "impressions" of his tour. Revised by His Eminence. With a connecting narrative. Dublin: James Duffy, 7, Wellington-Quay, 1859. pp. vii, 416. Brown pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. White stain to upper cover. A very good copy. €235 442. WOODHAM-SMITH, Cecil. The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-9. With illustrations and large folding map. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. First edition. pp. 385. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45

The Great Hunger was one of the greatest disasters that was visited upon the Irish nation. In the space of five years more than a million Irish died of starvation and another million sailed for the United States, Canada and Britain. The author details the chief causes: the failure of the potato crop through blight (for one third of the population it was their sole diet); the Irish Landlords; and Trevelyan's harsh


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and unsympathetic administration. At the height of the Famine, it was ironic that millions of pounds worth of food produce left Irish ports, often passing ships bringing in the hated Indian corn which was distributed for relief.

443. WRIGHT, Rev. G.N. An Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin illustrated by engravings, after drawings by George Petrie, Esq. To which is annexed a large folding plan of the city. London: Baldwin, 1821. pp. viii, 442, 24 (publisher's list). Original paper boards, original printed title on new matching spine. Plates with tissue guards. Tims Bookseller label on upper cover. Occasional light spotting. An unusually clean and very good copy. €285

George Newenham Wright, (c.1794-1877), Irish writer and Anglican clergyman, was born in Dublin, the son of John Thomas Wright, a medical doctor. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1814 and M.A. in 1817. He held several curacies in Ireland before moving to St. Mary Woolnoth in London. By 1851, he was a teacher of classics, resident in Windsor. In 1863 he was master of Tewkesbury Grammar School. From the 1820s to the 1840s Wright published some topographical works and schoolbooks on subjects ranging from the Greek language to biography and philosophy. There were several books on Ireland, some of which were illustrated by George Petrie.

444. WRIGHT, Rev. G.N. A Guide to the Lakes of Killarney. Illustrated by engravings, after the design of George Petrie. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. 12mo. pp. viii, 97, [2] (index). Original paper boards. Spine neatly rebacked. Very good. Scarce. €125


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445. WRIGHT, Rev. G.N. Guide to the County of Wicklow. Illustrated with five engravings, and a large map of the county. New edition, corrected and enlarged. After the designs of George Petrie, Esq. Dublin: William Curry, Jun., 1835. pp. xi, 203, 5 (place names and index). Original ribbed cloth, title on worn printed label on upper cover and spine. Label of J.B. Powell pasted over date on titlepage. Armorial bookplate of Samuel Vance on front pastedown. A very good

copy. €285 The superbly executed engravings are after the designs of George Petrie.

446. WYMBERRY, Eddie. Well! Well! Memories of Waterford in the 1950s. With illustrations. Waterford: Intacta Print, n.d. (c.1958). pp. 108. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €45

The contents include: Waterford Ferrybank Ferry; Skinny Fanning; Vanishing Lanes; Homemade Stew; Tramore Races; Johnny Hearne the Builder; Those who Went Away; Fishing in Skibbereen; Pigeons; Bolickie's Bull; Mickie Moore; Poems & Rhymes, etc.

447. YEATS, Elizabeth Corbet. An interesting autograph letter signed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats to Miss Wilson. One page quarto on Cuala (Yeats) industries headed paper with rare variant logo, dated July 10 1931. In the letter she informs Miss Wilson that Senator Gogarty was enquiring about printing and publishing costs for her poems. She encloses the estimate and a list of publications that Gogarty had asked her to forward on. Also news of "Our new book ... 'Coole' by Lady Gregory - 10/6. Would you like to have a copy of it? as we have a few for sale". Some tear marks at fold, otherwise in very good condition. €375

Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868-1940) worked as an art teacher in London before later establishing the Cuala Press with her brother W.B. Yeats. Along with her sister Lily, long over-shadowed by their more famous brothers, made a significant contribution to the cultural life of Ireland through their involvement with 'Cuala'. Elizabeth ran the printing department with her brother William as editor to the Press, while Lily ran the embroidery department. It became the most famous literary press in Ireland, and by the time its book production ended in 1946, it had published seventy-seven volumes, of which more than a third were by W.B. Yeats. It numbered amongst its authors some of the great literary geniuses of Ireland: J.M. Synge; Lord Dunsany; Oliver St. John Gogarty; John B. Yeats and his two sons William and Jack B.; Lennox Robinson; Lady Gregory; F.R. Higgins; Patrick Kavanagh; Elizabeth Bowen, to mention but a few.

448. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland by Jack B. Yeats. R.H.A. Exhibited at the Stephen's Green Gallery, 7 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin April 25th until May 8th, 11 to 5.30 daily. Dublin: Printed at the Tower Press, n.d. [1912]. Single octavo brown sheet folded. With an illustration by Jack B. Yeats. Repair to spine. Part of one corner missing, not affecting text. A fine copy. €275 Rare early catalogue. 449. YEATS, Jack B. Life in the West of Ireland. Drawn and painted by Jack B. Yeats. A new edition. Dublin and London: Maunsel, 1915. Quarto. pp. [vi], 111. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover with Talbot Press logo also in gilt. Loosely inserted is a print of the Stage Irishman by Jack B. Yeats. A very good to fine copy. Rare in this condition. €850


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Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), undoubtedly Ireland's most famous painter, a committed nationalist and brother of one of Ireland's greatest poets, W.B. Yeats, was born in London and at the age of eight returned to Sligo where he was brought up by his grandparents, the Pollexfens. In his paintings the love of the common people shines through. It was the everyday life of Ireland which sparked his genius - the fairs, circuses, race meetings, sailors and farmers, tramps and beggars, trams and city streets, shop keepers, coachmen, boxers and ballad singers, etc., all feature in his work, in which he expresses an intense sympathy for the underdog, the outcast and the outsider. The present volume illustrates all those scenes in his beloved West of Ireland. With 8 colour prints tipped in, 77 line drawings, and 16 reproductions from paintings of Jack B. Yeats.

450. YEATS, Jack B. Apparitions. Three plays. Apparitions, The Old Sea Road, Rattle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. First edition. Blue cloth, titled in blue on spine. From the library of Denis Johnson with his bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy in rare illustrated frayed dust jacket. €245

With numerous illustrations including five full page by Jack B. Yeats.

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INSCRIBED ABBEY THEATRE PRODUCTION COPY 451. YEATS, Jack B. La La Noo. With woodcut by Elizabeth C. Yeats, of a lone tree in landscape. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1943. First edition. pp. viii, 52, 6. Quarter linen on yellow paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label on spine. Edition limited to 240 copies. Inscribed presentation copy. A fine copy. €275

The play La La Noo was published by the Cuala Press in 1943. In May 1942 Ria Mooney produced Jack B. Yeats's two-act play La La Noo at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the cast included Maureen O'Sullivan and Brian O'Higgins. Its fusion of a realist setting, in a pub in a remote area of the western seaboard, and a fatalistic, almost symbolic, treatment of death, owes something to Synge and something to W.B. Yeats, but it is more playful than either.

452. YEATS, Jack B. Broadside Characters: Drawings by Jack B. Yeats. Introduction by Anne Yeats. With eight hand-coloured drawings. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1971. Quarto. Dark blue cloth, with hand-coloured illustration and title inset on front cover. Limited edition, one of 300 copies (No. 154). Uncut. A superb copy. €575

Contains eight hand-coloured plates, a coloured titlepage vignette, repeated on upper cover. These illustrations were printed from the original blocks on heavy cartridge and hand-coloured under the supervision of Anne Yeats. Each illustration is presented on a single sheet, verso blank: a superb production, entirely worthy of the original Cuala tradition.

BETHEL & GERTRUDE SOLOMONS COPY 453. YEATS, John Butler. Essays Irish and American. With an Appreciation by AE. Frontispiece. Dublin: The Talbot Press Ltd.; London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1918. First edition. pp. [v], 95, 4 (Publisher's list). Original blue cloth, paper title labels lettered in black and bordered in red to upper cover and spine. From the library of Bethel & Gertrude Solomons with their decorative bookplate. A fine copy. €135

Contents includes: Recollections of Samuel Butler; Back to the Home; Why the Englishman is Happy; Synge & the Irish; The Modern Woman; and Watts and the Method of Art. Engraved frontispiece portrait of G.W. Russell by Yeats. With an appreciation by journalist, poet, agricultural economist, fellow Irishman and friend, George W. Russell writing under the pseudonym A.E.

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MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL'S COPY 454. YEATS, W.B. Stories of Red Hanrahan. With woodcut by Robert Gregory. Dundrum: Dun Emer, 1904. First edition. pp. [v], 57. Edition limited to 500 copies. Blue paper boards with buff linen spine, title printed in black on paper label on upper cover and spine. Mrs. Patrick


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Campbell's copy with her signature dated September 1909, on front endpaper. Partial tanning to free endpaper. Small ink stain to upper cover. A very good copy. Very scarce. €285

Wade 59 Miller 4. This edition was printed on paper made in Ireland and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, Dundrum. Finished on Lady Day in August 1904. In John Quinn's copy Yeats wrote: "Red Hanrahan is an imaginary name - I saw it over a shop, or rather part of it over a shop in a Galway village - but there were many poets like him in the eighteenth century in Ireland. I wrote these stories first in literary English but I could not get any sense on the village life with the words. Now, however, Lady Gregory has helped me, & I think the stories have the emotion of folklore. They are but half mine now, & often her beautiful idiom is the better half. W.B. Yeats, June 1905".

455. [YEATS, W.B.] Some Passages from the Letters of AE to W.B. Yeats. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1936. First edition. pp. iv, 63. Limited to three hundred copies. Quarter linen on blue paper boards, title printed in black on upper cover and on white paper label on spine. Bookplate of Seumas O'Sullivan on front pastedown. A fine copy. €325

Not in Wade. Miller 56. George Russell (AE), one of Yeats' earliest friends and collaborators in the Irish literary movement.

456. [YEATS, W.B.] The Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. Edited by Liam Miller with a Preface by Jon Stallworthy. With seventy-one illustrations. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1968. pp. xvi, 523. Orange buckram, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 850 copies, signed by the editor, Liam Miller, of which 400 were for sale in the United States. Fine in fine dust jacket, with slipcase. Rare in this condition. €225

A fine collection of modern Yeats scholarship, handsomely illustrated. The contents includes: I. Yeats and Innisfree by Russell K. Alspach. II. Beulah to Byzantium: a study of parallels in the works of W.B.Yeats, William Blake, Samuel Palmer and Edward Calvert by Raymond Lister. III. Yeats and Innisfree by Russell K. Alspach. IV. Yeats's idea of the Gael by Giles W.L.Telfer. V. Yeats and the Irish eighteenth century by Peter Faulkner. VI. Yeats and the Noh by Hiro Ishibashi. VII. In . . . luminous wind by Brandon Saul. VIII. Yeats's Last Poems again by Curtis Beadford. IX. Yeats's quest for Eden by George Mills Harper. X. Yeats and Patrick McCartan a Fenian friendship by Patrick McCartan. XI. Yeats and Joyce by Richard Ellmann. XII. Yeats and music by Edward Malins.

457. YEATS, W.B. A fine black and white photograph of W.B. Yeats. Together with the Nobel Laureate's autograph. Framed display 237x325mm. Surrounded by a dark green mount in a silver frame. In fine condition. See illustration on inside lower cover. €350 458. [YELVERTON & OTHER TRIALS] The Yelverton Marriage Case, Thelwall v. Yelverton. Comprising an Authentic and Unabridged Account of the Most Extraordinary Trial of Modern Times. Illustrated. Bound with: A complete report of the trial of Miss Madeleine Smith, for the alleged poisoning of Pierre Emile L'Angelier, at Glasgow. Special verbatim report, with portraits and plans. Bound with: Trial of James Spollen, for The Murder of Mr. George Samuel Little, At the Broadstone Terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway, Ireland, August 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 1857. Three works in one volume. London, Edinburgh, Dublin & Belfast: George Vickers, D. Mathers, Edward Milliken, and James Johnston 1857/1861. pp. 191, [1], 126, 140, 12. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards, titled in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Some minor wear, upper joint starting. A very good copy. €365

The Yelverton Marriage Case was the most sensational Irish trial of the 1860s, which eventually resulted in a change to the law on mixed religion marriages in Ireland. Under a Statute of King George II, any marriage between a Catholic (Popish) and a Protestant or a marriage between two Protestants celebrated by a Catholic priest was null and void. Theresa Longworth, an English Catholic, and Major The Hon. William Charles Yelverton (who later became, in 1870, The 4th Viscount Avonmore), an Irish Protestant, met in 1852. They became involved, but Charles insisted that he could not marry Theresa publicly because he had promised his family he would not marry and thus, their relationship had to be kept secret. Their relationship continued, with Charles refusing a public ceremony and Theresa refusing to co-habit with Charles without a Catholic marriage ceremony. In 1857 they were "married" by a Catholic priest, in a ceremony which consisted of a renewal of their marital consent previously declared privately to each other. Charles continued to insist that the "marriage" be kept secret.


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In 1858, after a miscarriage was suffered by Theresa, Charles met another woman, Emily Forbes, who he now intended to marry. He demanded that Theresa renounce her status as his wife and offered her money to relocate to New Zealand. Charles married Emily (née Ashworth) despite Theresa's refusal to renounce her status as his wife. Theresa then instituted an action to receive a wife's maintenance, which Charles resisted, filing his own claim to have him declared free of any marriage with her. The initial case was heard in the Four Courts in Dublin. The jury's verdict went in favour of the validity of the marriage. Maurice Healy wrote that "the cross-examination of Yelverton by Theresa's counsel Sir Edward Sullivan, was perhaps the finest in Irish legal history". After numerous appeals, ultimately to the House of Lords, the Lords ruled in Charles' favour and his first (Catholic) marriage was declared invalid. His marriage to Emily Forbes was declared lawful. The case and its perceived unfair consequences, led to the enactment of the Marriage Causes and Marriage Law Amendment Act of 1870, under which a mixed marriage before a Catholic priest became valid and lawful, subject to the normal provisos of civil law. Madeleine Hamilton Smith (1835-1928) was a 19th-century Glasgow socialite who was the defendant in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857. Smith was the first child of an upper-middle-class family in Glasgow; her father James Smith was a wealthy architect. The family lived at Blythswood Square, Glasgow, and also had a country property, "Rowaleyn", near Helensburgh. Smith broke the strict Victorian conventions of the time when, as a young woman in early 1855, she began a secret love affair with Pierre Emile L'Angelier, an apprentice nurseryman who originally came from the Channel Islands. The two met late at night at Smith's bedroom window and also engaged in voluminous correspondence. Smith's parents, unaware of the affair with L'Angelier (whom Smith had promised to marry) found a suitable fiancé for her within the Glasgow upper-middle class - William Harper Minnoch. Smith attempted to break her connection with L'Angelier and, in February 1857, asked him to return the letters she had written to him. Instead, L'Angelier threatened to use the letters to expose her and force her to marry him. Early in the morning of 23 March 1857, L'Angelier died from arsenic poisoning. After Smith's numerous letters were found in his lodging house, she was arrested and charged with murder. George Little, a cashier for the Midland Railway, was murdered on November 13, 1856. James Spollen, who lived nearby, was charged and tried for the crime. He was found 'Not Guilty' and acquitted.


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459. YOUNG, Arthur. A Six Month Tour Through the North of England. Containing an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, in Several Counties of the Kingdom. Three volumes. Dublin: P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, 1770. pp. (1) xvi, 395, [1], + six folding and two single page plates, (2) vi, 390, + seven folding and seven single page plates, (3) vii, [1], 403, + five folding tables. Contemporary full calf, titles in gilt on maroon morocco labels, volume number in gilt direct. With the armorial bookplate of Daniel Conner of Manch on pastedowns. A very good set of the first Dublin edition. Extremely rare. €675

No copy located on COPAC. Young's account of urban and rural life, of farming practice, industry, and the political atmosphere of the country remains one of the chief authorities for economic conditions in the late eighteenth century.

CONNER OF MANCH COPY 460. YOUNG, Arthur. A Tour in Ireland; with general observations on the Present State of that Kingdom: made in the years 1776, 1777, & 1778. Brought down to the end of 1779. Two vols. Dublin: Printed by George Bonham, 1780. pp. (1) xxxii, 416, (2) [ii], 287, 237. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on contrasting labels on spines. Armorial bookplate of Daniel Conner on front pastedown. Minor wear to spine ends and surface. A very good fresh set. Scarce. €395

ESTC T78931. Arthur Young toured Ireland in 1776, 1777 and 1778, observing all classes, from titled lords to casual labourers, and all areas, from the semi-industrial North to the dairy country of Wexford and Waterford. As an agriculturalist of European repute, he had no difficulty in securing introductions to the most prominent members of the Irish aristocracy and gentry, giving him a framework for his astonishingly comprehensive tour of the island. Unlike most travellers of his time, Young's attitude was that of scientific observer rather than sentimental tourist, and his accounts of Irish life are thus more detailed and more vivid than the descriptions of his contemporaries. He was particularly interested in the conditions of the peasantry, believing with Dr. Johnson that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation", and condemned the management of the 'lower classes', who "are much worse treated than the poor in England, are talked to in more opprobrious terms, and otherwise very much oppressed".


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A SELECTION OF FINE BOOKS FROM OUR PUBLISHING HOUSE

B1. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction houses. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328. The limited edition in full green goatskin gilt with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins also in gilt. Housed in a fine slipcase. It includes the list of subscribers. Last few copies. €475

The general edition is limited to 1,000 sets superbly bound in green buckram, with a medallion portrait embossed in gilt on the upper covers, and in slipcase. €95

Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of a small farmer. Educated locally, and at the age of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post Office. He joined the I.R.B. in London. During Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to James Connolly in the GPO. With The O’Rahilly he led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916.

After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed Twelve Apostles. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation.

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Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PETER HARBISON B2. BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland. Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 coloured plates), and 4 coloured folding maps. Three volumes. Full buckram decorated in gilt to a Celtic design. With slipcase. Edition limited to 300 sets, with 'List of Subscribers'. €295.

The first comprehensive survey of each of the counties of Ireland. With sketches by the author from drawings by Petrie, Westropp, Miss Stokes, Windele, Wood-Martin, Wakeman, etc. The third volume contains an index and the material from folklore, legend, and tradition. A most attractive set of books and a must for the discerning collector.


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B3. BOURKE [de Búrca], Éamonn. Burke People and Places. With clan location maps, illustrations and 50 pages of genealogies. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher and Whitegate, Ballinakella Press, 2001. Fourth. pp. 173. Fine in stiff illustrated wraps. Enlarged with an extra 35 pages of genealogies. €20

B4. CHANDLER, Edward. Photography in Ireland. The Nineteenth Century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. Folio. pp. xii, 44 (plates), 134. Fine in fine d.j. €20

LIMITED EDITION ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL IRISH BOOKS

B5. COLGAN, John. Triadis Thaumaturgae, seu Divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae, trium veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae, Communium Patronorum Acta, a Variis, iisque pervetustis, ac Sanctis authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in Conventu FF Minor, Hibernor. strictior. observ. Louanii, S. Theologiae Lectorius Jubilati. Ex variis Bibliothecis collecta, Scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus Appendicibus aucta: complectitur Tomus Secundus Sacrarum ejusdem insulae Antiquitatum - Louvain 1647. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, 1997. We have republished ‘one of the rarest of all Irish books’, with a new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain. The edition is limited to 300 copies, and handsomely bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase. €190

Lecky described this volume: “as one of the most interesting collections of Lives of the saints in the world. It is very shameful that it has not been reprinted”. The new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain, contains the first published account of Colgan’s recently discovered manuscript notes to the Triadis. This reprint should stimulate further the growing interest in the history of the Irish saints.


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B6. COSTELLO, Willie. A Connacht Man’s Ramble. Recollections of growing up in rural Ireland of the thirties and forties. With an introduction by Dr. Tom Mitchell. Illustrated by Gerry O’Donovan and front cover watercolour by James MacIntyre. Map on end-papers. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 211. Fine in French flaps. €15

A deeply personal collection of memories and a valuable account of Irish history including cattle fairs, threshing, rural electrification, interspersed with stories of the matchmaker, the town crier, the chimney sweep and the blacksmith. Over two thousand copies sold in the first week of publication.


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B7. COSTELLO, Willie. The Rambling House. Tales from the West of Ireland. Illustrated by Gerry O Donovan and front cover water-colour by James McIntyre. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. x, 111. Fine in French flaps. €15

B8. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xvi, 453, 6 (extra maps), lxxxiii. Fine in full buckram, with illustrated coloured dustjacket depicting Jobson’s manuscript map of Kerry 1598. €45

Margaret Cusack’s History of the Kingdom of Kerry is an excellent work treating of the history, topography, antiquities and genealogy of the county. There is an excellent account of the families of: The O’Sullivans and MacCarthys; Geraldine Genealogies; The Knights of Kerry and Glyn; Population and Religion; Agricultural Information; St. Brendan; Dingle in the Sixteenth Century; Ardfert; The Geology and Botany of Kerry; Deep Sea Fisheries; Kerry Rivers and Fishing etc.

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B9. DALTON, Charles Ed. by. King Charles The Second’s Irish Army Lists, 1661 - 1685. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Second. pp. xxxiv, 176. Fine facsimile limited edition in quarter morocco gilt, head and tail bands, in slipcase. Signed and numbered by the publisher. €90

The original edition was published for private circulation and was limited to twenty copies only. The editor states that he made extensive use of the manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, preserved at Kilkenny Castle, the calendared and uncalendared Irish State papers, the King’s Letter Books and Entry Books at the Public Record Office for the names of Officers serving on the Irish Establishment, 1661-1685. In December 1660, Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor, Roger, Earl of Orrery, and Charles, Earl of Mountrath were appointed Lord Justices. Under the able rule of Orrery and Mountrath the Army in Ireland was reduced and remodelled. King Charles’s new army dates from 11th February, 1661 and when the Irish parliament met in May the Lord Chancellor informed the House that “there were twenty months” arrears due to the army. The patrons of military history while glancing at the list of officers appointed to command this army, will recognise the names of many Cromwellian field officers who had served in Ireland during the Commonwealth. One may wonder how these ‘renegades’ found their way into the new Royalist levies. The answer is that these same officers not only supported the Restoration but were eager in the King’s service afterwards. It transpired that many Cromwellians were retained in the Army of Ireland and had equal rights with those Royalists who had fought for Charles I and had shared the long exile of Charles II. From a purely military point of view they had learned the art of war under the most successful soldier of his time.


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B10. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2001. First edition. pp. xiv, 184. Limited edition of 50 copies, signed by the author and publisher. Bound in full maroon levant morocco, covers with a gilt anchor and sailing ship. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands. T.e.g. A fine binding from the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. €500

Dun Laoghaire harbour, recognised as one of the most picturesque in Europe, was built early in the 19th century as the consequence of an explosion of popular anger at the continuous deaths from shipwreck in Dublin Bay. The most competent and experienced navigators at that time described the port of Dublin as the most perilous in the whole world for a ship to leave or approach in certain circumstances. Thanks largely to the efficiency and foresight of Captain Hutchison, the first Harbour Master, the port built as an ‘Asylum’ harbour or port of refuge, became with the introduction of steam-driven passenger and mail carrying ships the busiest port on the eastern shore of the Irish Sea, also a leading fishing port and popular yachting centre.

B11. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2002. Second edition. pp. xiv, 184. Fine in fine d.j. €20

B12. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy 8vo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in d.j. Very scarce. €90

The author Tony Donohoe, farmer and keen local historian has chronicled in great detail the history his ancestral parish from the early Christian period to the present. This authoritative work is the result of thirty years of meticulous research and is a most welcome contribution to the history of County Mayo. In the foreword Thomas Gildea Cannon states “Tony Donohoe has brought it all vividly to light in his impressive history. Using his treasure trove of published and unpublished materials, patiently accumulated over the decades, he has told the story of an ancient parish with a scholar’s eye for the telling detail ... has made effective use of the unpublished Palmer and Pratt estate papers to help


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bridge the dark gap between seventeenth-century documents detailing the changeover in land ownership from native to settler, and nineteenth-century sources”.

B13. [FAMINE IN IRELAND] Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the famine in Ireland, 1846 and 1847. With an index by Rob Goodbody. Dublin: De Búrca, 1996. pp. xliii, 529. Fine in buckram gilt. €35

It is difficult to read unmoved some of the detailed testimony contained in this volume of the reports of the envoys sent out by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, who found out for themselves what was really going on during the Famine in remote country areas.

B14. GLEESON, Rev. John. Cashel of the Kings. A History of the Ancient Capital of Munster from the date of its foundation until the present day. Including historical notices of the Kings of Cashel from the 4th century to the 12th century. The succession of bishops and archbishops from St. Ailbe to the present day. Notices of the principal abbeys belonging to the territory around Cashel, together with items of local history down to the 19th century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. pp. [ii], xix, 312. Fine in fine d.j. €40

Cover design by courtesy of Mr. Patrick Meaney, Cashel, County Tipperary. An important and scholarly work on one of the most celebrated places of historic interest in Ireland. In medieval times it was the ecclesiastical capital of Munster. Conquered by the Eoghanacht tribe (MacCarthys) led by Conall Corc in the fifth century who set up a fortress on St. Patrick’s Rock. They ruled over the fertile plains of Munster unchallenged and their title King of Cashel remained synonymous with that of King of Munster. In law and tradition the kings of Cashel knew no superior and did not acknowledge the overlordship of Tara for five hundred years. Fr. John Gleeson (1855-1927), historian, was born near Nenagh, County Tipperary into a wealthy farming family. Educated locally and at Maynooth. Appointed curate of Lorrha and Templederry, later parish priest of Lorrha and Knock in 1893 and Lorrha in 1908. A prolific writer and meticulous researcher, he also wrote History of the Ely O’Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond.


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B15. HARRISON, Alan. The Dean’s Friend. Anthony Raymond (1675-1726), Jonathan Swift and the Irish Language. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1999. pp. xv, 175. Fine in fine illustrated d.j. €35

The book introduces us to 17th and 18th century Ireland and to the interface between the two languages and the two cultures. It is a fascinating study of the troubled period after the Battle of the Boyne, encompassing historiography and antiquarianism; contemporary linguistic study and the sociolinguistics of the two languages in contact; Swift and his friends in that context; and the printing and publishing of books in Stuart and early-Georgian Ireland.

A CLASSIC OF THE GALLOGLAS FAMILIES

B16. HAYES-McCOY, Gerard A. Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland (1565-1603). An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. With maps, illustrations and genealogies of the MacSweeneys, Clan Donald and the O’Neills of Tír Eoghain. With an introduction by Professor Eoin MacNeill. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. pp. xxi, 391. Superb facsimile reprint, bound in full buckram, with head and tail bands. In coloured dustjacket depicting three galloglasses and an Irish Foot Soldier of the 16th century. €45

They were a force to be reckoned with. An English writer of the period described them as follows: “The galloglasses are picked and selected men of great and mighty bodies, cruel, without compassion. The greatest force of the battle consisteth in their choosing rather to die than to yield, so that when it cometh to handy blows, they are quickly slain or win the field. They are armed with a shirt of mail, a skull, and a skeine. The weapon they most use is a battle-axe, or halberd, six foot long, the blade wherof is somewhat like a shoemaker’s knife, and without pike; the stroke wherof is deadly”.

ANNALS OF ULSTER

B17. HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index. New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. €285

Also available in a special limited edition of 50 sets, bound in full brown morocco gilt, signed by the publisher. €850

The important Annals of Ulster compiled by Cathal Og Mac Maghnusa at Seanaidh Mac Maghnusa, now Belle Isle in Lough Erne, were so named by the noted ecclesiastic, Ussher, on account of their containing many chronicles relating to that province. They contain more detail on ecclesiastical history than the Annals of the Four Masters, and were consulted by Br. Michael O’Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, for his masterpiece.


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B18. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Bound in half green morocco on splash marbled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title and volume in second and fourth, third and fifth tooled in gilt to a centre Celtic design. Green and gold head and tail bands. T.e.g. Superb in presentation slipcase. €450

These Annals were compiled under the patronage of Brian MacDermott, Chief of Moylurg, who resided in his castle on an island in Lough Key, near Boyle, County Roscommon. They begin with the Battle of Clontarf and continue up to 1636 treating on the whole with Irish affairs, but have many entries of English, Scottish and continental events. They are a primary source for the history of North Connaught. The compilers were of that noted learned family of O’Duignans. The only original copy of these Annals known to exist is a small vellum manuscript which was presented to Trinity by Dr. Leland in 1766.

B19. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase. €110

HIS NEVER-FORGOTTEN COUNTRYSIDE ABOUT GLENOSHEEN

B20. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Three volumes. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Fine. €165


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This scholarly edition is enhanced with a new introductory essay on the life of that noted scholar from County Limerick, P.W. Joyce by the late Mainchín Seoighe, who states: “P.W. Joyce followed in the footsteps of Bunting and Petrie, of O’Donovan and O’Curry, reaching, however, a larger public than any of these four had reached, for the fields he laboured in were more numerous and, as well as that, he principally wrote not for scholars but for the ordinary people of Ireland, people such as he had known in that lovely and never-forgotten countryside round about Glenosheen”.

B21. KILROY, Patricia. Fall of the Gaelic Lords. 1534-1616. Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. x, 192. Illustrated. Fine in illustrated d.j. €29.50

No period in Irish history is quite so full of drama, heroism and tragedy as the eighty-odd years from the mid 16th to the early 17th centuries: the age of the fall of the Gaelic lords. This intriguing and moving narrative recounts the passing of Gaelic Ireland when the Tudor Crown sought to subdue the island and the Irish chiefs defended their ancient territories and way of life. Beginning in 1534 with young Silken Thomas’ defiant stand at the gates of Dublin Castle, it tells the story of Red Hugh O’Donnell’s capture and escape, the rise of the Great Hugh O’Neill and the bloody Nine Years War culminating in the Battle of Kinsale, and finally, the Flight of the Earls. Animated with details from The Annals Of The Four Masters and other contemporary accounts, Fall Of The Gaelic Lords is a lively intelligent book aimed at both the historian and general reader. Patricia Kilroy was born in Ireland in 1925. As one of the daughters of Seán Lester, who would become the last Secretary-General of the League Of Nations, she spent most of her childhood in The Free City Of Danzig and in Geneva. She studied Modern History and Political Science in Trinity College Dublin. She then worked with the Irish Red Cross, settling refugees from Eastern Europe who had been displaced during World War II. After marrying and while raising her four children, her interest in history continued to grow. Family holidays in Connemara sparked her interest in local history, and talking with the people of the area, as well as academic research, led to the publication in 1989 of The Story Of Connemara. That book focused on a small part of Ireland, and covered from the Ice-Age to the present day; after which she felt she would like to cover the whole of Ireland, whilst focusing on one period in time. And so Fall Of The Gaelic Lords was researched and written. Patricia lives in Dublin.

B22. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebourke: De Búrca, 2000. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 451. Fine in fine d.j. €45

Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O’Connor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke Mac William Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.


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B23. LOEBER, Rolf & Magda. Ed. by. Irish Poets and their Pseudonyms in Early Periodicals. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 2007. pp. xxii, 168. Fine in illustrated d.j. €65

Many Irish poems remain hidden in the periodicals and were published under pseudonyms. Therefore, the identity of hundred of Irish poets often is elusive. The discovery of a manuscript of pseudonyms of Irish poets made this volume possible. It lists over 1,200 pseudonyms for 504 Irish poets whose work appeared in over 500 early periodicals published in Ireland, England, North America, and Australia. Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber are researchers at the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh. They have both extensively published on Irish history and literature. Their most recent book is A Guide to Irish Fiction (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).

B24. LOHAN, Máire. An ‘Antiquarian Craze’. The life, times and work in archaeology of Patrick Lyons R.I.C. (1861-1954). Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. xiv, 192. Illustrated. Fine in coloured illustrated stiff wraps. €19.50

Born in 1861, Sgt. Patrick Lyons, ‘The Antiquarian Policeman’, served with the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1886 - 1920. While stationed in the West of Ireland, he developed a keen interest in documenting the field-monuments he noticed on his patrols. His discovery of four ogham stones led to a correspondence with Hubert Knox, a renowned Mayo Antiquarian; Lyons provided Knox with important descriptions of field monuments, contributing to 19 published papers. Out of modesty, and fear that the R.I.C. would frown on his ‘antiquarian craze’, he preferred not to be acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for his fine mind and dedicated antiquarian ‘policework’ by those few with whom he shared his interest. To bring to light his remarkable work, this book draws on Lyons’ own notes and photographs (preserved by N.U.I. Galway and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland), archived local newspapers and an overview of the social and political history of his times. A quiet, unassuming man, Lyons died in 1954 and lies buried in an unmarked grave in his native Clonmel. His major contribution to Irish archaeology deserves to be acknowledged in print at last. Máire Lohan (née Carroll) was born in Belmullet, County Mayo and now lives in Galway city. While researching for an

M.A. in Archaeology at U.C.G. she became aware of the Lyons Photographic Collection there and also of the Knox/Lyons Collection at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, around which this book is based. She has worked with the O.P.W. in the Archaeological Survey of County Galway, lectured in archaeology at R.T.C. Galway and excavated in Galway city. She has published articles in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society and Cathair na Mart. This is her first book.

B25. MacEVILLY, Michael. A Splendid Resistance. A Life of IRA Chief of Staff Dr. Andy Cooney. Foreword by Sean O Mahony. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2011. pp. xix, 427. Paperback in coloured illustrated French flaps. €20

Hardback in coloured illustrated dustjacket. €50

Limited edition of 50 copies in full green morocco gilt, in slipcase. €225 The appointment of Andy (Andrew) Cooney as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) while still a medical student was the highpoint of a military career which began in 1917 and was not to end until 1944. Prior to this he had served as a Volunteer, GHQ Officer, Brigade Commander and Divisional Commander before being appointed to the IRA General Staff with the rank of Quartermaster-General in 1924 and Chief of Staff in 1925, at which time he was elected as Chairman of the IRA Executive. Cooney was to retain this post until 1927. Afterwards, he remained close to the IRA General Staff until he emigrated to the USA.


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Michael MacEvilly’s meticulously researched life of Dr. Andy Cooney sheds valuable light on a chapter of Irish republicanism which has hitherto been seriously neglected. No student of Irish republican history can afford to ignore this book, which is also to be commended for its selection of many hitherto unpublished photographs. - Tim Pat Coogan.

Michael MacEvilly narrates the life story of Andy Cooney in compelling fashion. Readers will be fascinated by the manner in which a young man combined his studies to be a doctor with his duties as an IRA Volunteer from 1917 onwards. In terms of the wider historical narrative of the period, the book, using much original source material, makes an important new contribution. It makes clear the command structure of the IRA, at both a national and local level, during the War of Independence, the Civil War and beyond. The strengths and weaknesses of individuals are also delineated with remarkable clarity. In particular new information is provided on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ November 1920; the role of the IRB and Michael Collins at the time of the Treaty; and the differences between the IRA and de Valera when Fianna Fail was founded. Above all the book is extremely well researched and eminently readable. - Brian Murphy OSB.

Michael MacEvilly was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. He was educated at St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway and subsequently studied Arts and Commerce at University College, Galway. He worked as an accountant and auditor in his own firm located in Dublin, and had a long association with an interest in the Irish Judo Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland. Irish history and the Irish language were Michael’s major interests. This primarily stemmed from his detailed research of the history of the MacEvilly family, especially their involvement in the War of Independence of which he was particularly proud. Irish republican history was an enduring passion and he became a keen scholar and book-collector on the area. He was an active member of the Committee of the 1916-21 Club and was President from 2000 to 2001. Michael passed away in 2009. He is sadly missed by his family and friends.


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EDITION LIMITED TO 10 SIGNED SETS

B26. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach. The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. 4to. Bound in qtr green morocco on cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design. White endbands. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to ten sets only, signed by the Publisher and Editor. €1,650

The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo, compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at the height of the Cromwellian Wars in the mid-seventeenth century. The work has long been recognised as the most important source for the study of Irish family history, and it is also of great importance to historians of pre-17th century Ireland since it details the ancestry of many significant figures in Irish history - including: Brian Boroimhe (d.1014); Ulick Burke, Marquis of Clanricarde (d.1657); James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (d.1688); Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell (d.1589); Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim (d.1683); Garrett Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (d.1536); Diarmuid Mac Murchadha (d.1171); Myler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel (d.1622), Murrough O’Brien, Baron of Inchiquin (d.1674); Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne (d.1597); Rory O’Conor.(d.1198); Red Hugh O’Donnell (d.1602); Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (d.1616); Owen Roe O’Neill (d.1649), and many, many more.

Both in terms of size and significance the Great Book of Genealogies is on a par with that other great seventeenth century compilation, the Annals of the Four Masters; and O’Donovan did edit a thirty-page extract from the book, making it the centrepiece of his second greatest work, The Genealogies, Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach (1844). But while quite a few other (almost invariably brief) extracts from the work have appeared in print over the past century and a half, some 90% of the Book of Genealogies has never hitherto been translated or published.

B27. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. 4to. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. Full buckram gilt, in presentation box. €635


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The original text, both prose and poetry, of both works is accompanied by a painstaking English translation. But, perhaps most important of all, the edition includes, in addition to several valuable appendices, a comprehensive series of indices which provide a key to the tens of thousands of personal names, surnames, tribal names and place-names that the work contains. In fact, the portion relating to personal names is the largest Irish language names index that has ever been compiled.

B28. MARTIN, Edward A. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors. With short biographies. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in d.j. €36


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B29. MELVIN, Patrick. Estates and Landed Society in Galway. With a foreword by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, December, 2012. pp. 512. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €75 Limited edition €255

This work is based on a Trinity College Dublin Ph.D. thesis prepared under the direction of Professor L.M. Cullen. It investigates and describes the varied origins and foundation of estates and proprietors in Galway and how that process was affected by the political turmoils and transplantations of the 17th century. The aftermath of these turmoils in England and Ireland saw the establishment of a core number of successful estates founded largely by ambitious families able to trim their sails to changing times and opportunities. Alongside these estates there remained at the same time a fluctuating mass of smaller proprietors whose lands frequently fell to more able or business-like landowners. Penal laws and poor land quality resulted in exile – sometimes temporary - for many of the older Catholic landowners.

The book describes how, by the 19th century, the variously rooted strands of proprietors became bound together by the common interest of property, security and class and survived with their social if not political influence largely intact through the 19th century. The role of this large and diverse gentry class in local administration, politics, social life and as landlords is described in some detail. The size of the county and complexity of changing estate history prevents the book from being exhaustive or a complete history of all estates and gentry families. These Anglo-Irish families (the term is unsatisfactory) became largely sidelined, irrelevant and forgotten by the modern nationalist Irish state. Their numbers and variety in Galway is made clear through a large range of house illustrations.

Many of the old landed class and nobility embodied values worthwhile in society. The wealthiest were patrons of much of the culture and art of old Europe. They stood for continuity, tradition, a sense of public duty, standards and refinement in manners. Many of them fostered the pursuit of outdoor sports and horseracing. They linked their frequently remote places to the wider world and they were at the same time cosmopolitan and local without being parochial. Although a declining social force they frequently held liberal attitudes against the power and dominance of


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state, church, and the ever expanding bureaucracy in modem society and government. Some, of course, did not always live up to ideals. - Knight of Glin.

The contents include: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Origins and Establishments of Estates; Estates and Estate Management; The Social Life of the Gentry; Marriage, Family and Careers; The Gentry as Landlords; The County and Local Roll of the Gentry; The Gentry and Politics; Ideas of Class and Historical Identity; Review and Retrospect.

B30. NELSON, E. Charles & WALSH, Wendy F. An Irish Flower Garden Replanted. The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants. With coloured and Chinese ink illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Second edition revised and enlarged. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. pp. x, 276. €65

“This book has been out of print for almost a decade, and in the intervening years many things have happened both in my own life and in the interwoven lives of my friends and colleagues, and gardens and their plants. I have also learnt more about the garden plants that we cultivate in Ireland. A new edition was required, and I have taken the opportunity to augment the original text. I have added a chapter on roses, based on my address to the ninth World Rose Convention held in Belfast during 1991, and I have drawn into this book, in edited form, a scattering of essays that were published elsewhere and the unpublished scripts for talks which I gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann. I have also made corrections, and altered a few names to bring them up-to-date. In a few instances, the previously published history has been revised in the light of my more recent research” - Dr. E.C. Nelson. The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including ten new watercolours for this edition), eighteen figures in Chinese inks and nine vignettes in pencil.

A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREAT CELTIC SCHOLARS

B31. O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland. Edited, appendices etc, by W.K. Sullivan. With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper

covers. Head and tail bands. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Fine. €235

O’Curry’s twenty-one Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, delivered at the College during the terms 1855 and 1856 were published with an appendix in one volume. They are a mine of information on the subject of our Irish manuscripts and are illustrated with numerous facsimile specimens.

His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, delivered at the University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first volume), appendices and other material by Dr. W.K. Sullivan. O’Curry’s works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars.

Dr. Nollaig Ó Muraíle states: “This, the single most substantial work produced by one of the great pioneering figures who laid the foundations of modern Irish scholarship in the fields of Gaelic language and literature,


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medieval history and archaeology, has been exceedingly difficult to come by (even in some reputable libraries) for the best part of a century. It is therefore greatly to be welcomed that it is now being made available again, by De Búrca Books - not just for the sake of present day scholars but also for the general reader who will derive from its pages much enjoyment and enlightenment about the lifestyle and general culture of our ancient forebears”.

B32. O’DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. Annála Ríoghachta Éireann - Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters. From the earliest times to the year 1616. Edited from the manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin, with copious historical, topographical and genealogical notes and with special emphasis on place-names. Seven large vols. With a new introduction by Kenneth Nicholls. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Over 4,000 pages. Large 4to. Superb set in gilt and blind stamped green buckram, in presentation box. €865

This is the third and best edition as it contains the missing years [1334-1416] of the now lost Annals of Lecan from Roderic O’Flaherty’s transcript. To enhance the value of this masterpiece a colour reproduction of Baptista Boazio’s map of Ireland 1609 is included in a matching folder.

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Annála Ríoghachta Éireann or the Annals of the Four Masters to give them their best known title are the great masterpieces of Irish history from the earliest times to 1616 A.D. The work was compiled between 1632 and 1636 by a small team of historians headed by Br. Michael O’Clery, a Franciscan lay brother. He himself records: “there was collected by me all the best and most copious books of Annals that I could find throughout all Ireland, though it was difficult for me to collect them in one place”.

The great work remained, for the most part, unpublished and untranslated until John O’Donovan prepared his edition between 1847 and 1856. The crowning achievement of John O’Donovan’s edition is the copious historical, topographical and genealogical material in the footnotes which have been universally acclaimed by scholars. Douglas Hyde wrote that the O’Donovan edition represented: “the greatest work that any modern Irish scholar ever accomplished”.

More recently Kenneth Nicholls says: “O’Donovan’s enormous scholarship breathtaking in its extent when one considers the state of historical scholarship and the almost total lack of published source material in his day, still amazes one, as does the extent to which it has been depended on by others


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down to the present. His translations are still superior in reliability to those of Hennessy, MacCarthy or Freeman to name three editor-translators of other Irish Annals ... his footnotes are a mine of information”.

A superb set of this monumental source for the history of Ireland.

B33. SWEENEY, Tony. Catalogue Raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial & Domestic Plate dating from the Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. In a fine buckram binding by Museum Bookbinding and printed in Dublin by Betaprint. Signed and numbered limited edition of 400 copies, 360 of which are for sale. Fine in illustrated d.j. €135

Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.

DE-LUXE LIMITED EDITION

B34. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Edition limited to 25 numbered copies only, signed by the partners, publisher and binder. Bound in full green niger oasis by Des Breen. Upper cover tooled in gilt with a horseshoe enclosing a trefoil with the heads of ‘Sadler’s Wells’, ‘Arkle’ and ‘Nijinsky’, above lake waters (SWAN-LAKE). Splash-marbled end-papers; green and cream head and tail bands. All edges gilt. With inset CD carrying the full text of the work making it possible for subscribers to enter results subsequent to 2001. In this fashion it becomes a living document. This is the only copy remaining of the Limited Edition. €1,650

Apart from racing enthusiasts, this is a most valuable work for students of local history as it includes extensive county by county records of race courses and stud farms, with hitherto unfindable details. The late Dr. Tony Sweeney, Anglo-Irish racing journalist and commentator, was Irish correspondent of the Daily Mirror for 42 years. He shared RTE television commentary with Michael and Tony O’Hehir


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over a period of thirty-five years. Dr. Sweeney was also a form analyst with the Irish Times, and author of two previous books Irish Stuart Silver, a Catalogue Raisonné (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland.

His late wife Annie, a former French stage and screen ballet dancer whose film credits included L’Homme au Parapluie Vert starring Fernanded and Chanteur de Mexico with Luis Mariano. For over a quarter of a century, in her role as turf statistician, she supplied the Irish Times with course facts and figures.

Francis Hyland a former stockbroker turned bookmaker is currently chairman of the Irish National Bookmakers Association. A passionate racing researcher, he co-authored with Guy St. John Williams, histories of the ‘Irish Derby’ and the ‘Jameson Irish Grand National’.

B35. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Bound in full buckram gilt. €95 B36. TALBOT, Hayden. Michael Collins’ Own Story. Told to Hayden Talbot. With an introduction by Éamonn de Búrca. Dublin: De Búrca, November, 2012. pp. 256, plus index. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €45

Limited edition €375

The American journalist Hayden Talbot first met Michael Collins at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, shortly after the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty in December 1921. In the course of his working career Talbot had met many important people, but he soon realised that Collins was one of the most remarkable. He admits he had underestimated Collins before he got to know him, but Collins quickly earned his respect - not least by his habit of treating everyone, from Arthur Griffith to the “lowliest of his supporters”, with equal consideration and politeness. Talbot made it his business to meet Collins as often as possible and during months of close association Collins impressed him as “the finest character it had ever been my


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good fortune to know”. He valued their friendship more than any other. This work contains an invaluable insight into Collins’ thinking and actions during this epic period of Irish history. It deals at length with Easter Week, The Black and Tans, The Murder of Francis Sheehy Skeffington, the Treaty negotiations and his vision for the resurgent nation which, unfortunately he was given too little time to develop in practice. Rare interviews with Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill further enhance this book, which has long been out of print and hard to find in the antiquarian book market. Originally published in 1922, our edition has a new introduction and an index which was not in the first edition.

B37. WALDRON, Jarlath. Maamtrasna. The Murders and The Mystery. With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De Búrca, 2004. Fifth edition. pp. 335. Mint in illustrated wrappers with folding flaps. €20

“This is a wonderful book, full of honour, contrast and explanation … driven with translucent compassion … The author has done something more than resurrect the ghosts of the misjudged. He has projected lantern slides of a past culture, the last of Europe’s Iron Age, the cottage poor of the west of Ireland”.

Frank Delaney, The Sunday Times.

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