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Catalogue 122

Spring 2016

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DE BÚRCA RARE BOOKS

CATALOGUE 122 Spring 2016

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1. [AENGUS] Aengus. An All Poetry Journal. Number One, Midsummer, 1919. Number Two, December 1919. Two issues. Dublin: Wood Printing Works, Fleet Street, 1919. Quarto. pp. 8, 8. Printed stapled wrappers. Some mild foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €60

COPAC locates the TCD copies only. With contributions by Richard Rowley, Anna G. Keown, H. [Francis] Stuart, F. R. Higgins, E.R. Dodds, C. O'Leary, H.O. White, D.L. Kelleher, Iris Tree and R.N.D. Wilson.

2. A FISHERMAN [George Rooper] The Autobiography of the Late Salmo Salar Esq. comprising a narrative of the Life, Personal Adventures and Death of a Tweed Salmon. Edited by A Fisherman. London: Day & Son, 1867. pp. viii, 68. Title within a decorative engraved border. Modern green cloth, title in gilt on maroon morocco label along spine. Inscribed on half title 'Francis Francis Esq / with the Author's / best Compliments'. From the library of Dermot [Bourke], Earl of Mayo with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Ticket of W.H. Smith & Son, binder also on front pastedown. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275

COPAC locates 6 copies only. In his preface to A Month in Mayo (London: Hardwicke, 1879) the author George Rooper informs us: "Some time ago I resided, during a portion of each year, in a wild corner of County Mayo [Ballycroy], where I had purchased a tract of five thousand acres, and where I rented, for thirty pounds a year, on a long lease, the shooting over upwards of thirteen thousand acres and more, and which I enjoyed until Irish shootings rose in value, when I was informed that my lessor had not title whatever to the property. During this period I had many opportunities of studying the habits and customs of the 'natives', and I have embodied, in the guise of partly imaginative narrative, not of a few of my personal reminiscences".

3. [AGREEMENT] Agreement Reached in the Multi-Party Negotiations. Dublin: Government Information Services, N.D. (c.1998). pp. [2], 35. White stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €25

The Anglo Irish Agreement. Contents includes: Declaration of Support; Constitutional Issues; Strands One, Two, Three; Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity; Decommissioning; Security; Policing and Justice; Prisoners; Validation, Implementation and Review; Annex: Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Ireland.

4. [AGRICULTURE] Annual Report of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland. For the year 1842. Dublin: Printed for the Society, by Alexander Thom, 86 Abbey Street, 1843. pp. 76. Green printed wrappers. A very good copy. €225


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In this report we are informed that: "In establishing the effects the Society has already produced upon the general state of Husbandry and Agriculture in Ireland, the Council began to direct attention to the proceedings of the different Local Farming Societies in connection with it, during the present year. In these proceedings the strongest testimony is borne to the beneficial effects produced by the Central Society, not only by the Premiums which were awarded to each locality, but by the stimulus and excitement which Agricultural Improvements has received, within the immediate sphere of these particular bodies. A correct and detailed compendium of the views and sentiments of these Local Societies upon the state of Agriculture in the different Districts, has been carefully collected from their Reports and the communications of their Secretaries, and published in the Appendix to this Report for general circulation".

5. ALLGOOD, Sara. Sara Allgood. 1879 - 1950. Original Autographed Photograph of the actress wearing a veil. Signed and dated at Birmingham, 1926. 85 x 135mm. Fine. €125

Sara Allgood (1883-1950), Irish Stage and Film Actress began her acting career with the renowned Abbey Theatre. She was sister of the actress Máire O'Neill. She was born into a working-class family in Dublin. On leaving school, she was apprenticed to an upholsterer, and it was only when she joined Inghínidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland), the militant nationalist organisation founded by Maud Gonne, that she gained her first acting experience. She appeared in many plays for the Abbey all over Ireland and England. According to W.B. Yeats she was one of the greatest of the Abbey actors and she appeared in several of his plays from 1903 to 1912. Allgood featured in early Hitchcock films such as Blackmail (1929), Juno and the Paycock (1930) and Sabotage (1936). She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1941 for her role as Beth Morgan in the 1941 film 'How Green Was My Valley', directed by John Ford. She was married for a short time to British stage actor Gerald Henson. After becoming a United States citizen in 1945, Allgood died of a heart attack in 1950 at the age of 70, in Woodland Hills, California. 6. A LOOKER ON [R. McCULLAM] Sketches of the

Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle, in Farney, taken during the Irish Famine. By a Looker-On. Belfast: J. Reed, Bookseller, 97, Victoria Street, 1856. pp. 316. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to prelims. Repair to spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €385

No copy located on COPAC. 7. AN SEABHAC [Pádraig O Siochfhradha] An Seanchaidhe Muimhneach . i. Meascra de Bhéaloideas Ilchinéal ó "An Lóchrann" (1907-1913). Baile Átha Cliath: Béaloideas, 1932. pp. xvii, 404. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt. Light browning to endpapers. A very good copy. €95 8. AN BUACHAILLÍN BUIDHE [Earnan De Siúnta] Féilire na Gaedhilge 1907. An Buachaillin Buidhe do sgriobh. Baile Atha Cliath: Comradh na Gaedhilge, 1907. pp. 32. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €125

Earnan de Suinta or Ernest Edwin Joynt (1874-1949) was born in Ballina, County Mayo the son of Richard Watson Joynt who was editor and proprietor of The Tyrawly Herald later re-named Ballina Herald. (Richard was the youngest son of seventeen children of Henry Joynt of Crossmolina). Ernest was educated at the Methodist College in Belfast. He qualified as a mechanical engineer and was a member of the Engineering and Scientific Association of Ireland. He was chief draughtsman with Inchicore Southern Railway Company and from late 1919 to 1942 was employed as principal of Bolton Street College of Technology. He began to study the Irish Language in their Gaelic League classes and attained remarkable fluency. He translated the "New Testament" also "Pilgrim's Progress' into the Irish language. He contributed articles under the pseudonym of 'An Buachaillín Buidhe' to Gaelic League publications from


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1st April 1904 until 1911. He also contributed to the Féilire na Gaeilge annual Almanac and Diary. His paternal ancestors were reputed to have arrived in Ireland from France in 1598 after the Edict of Nantes, as the Huguenot "De Joyance".

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 9. ANDREWS, C.S. Dublin Made Me. An Autobiography. Dublin & Cork: Mercier Press: 1979. First edition. pp. 312. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from Todd Andrews, with one date correction by the author (1921 crossed out - should read 21 Nov. 1920). A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a few nicks. €95

In this work Andrews describes the surge of nationalism and the making of a revolutionary. He participates in street fighting against the British, is jailed and escapes from internment. His stance against the Treaty and his experiences of the Civil War make as fine an account of this period of our history as any written to date.

10. [AN EYE-WITNESS] Bishop Stock. A Narrative of what Passed at Killala, in the County of Mayo, and the parts adjacent, during the French Invasion in the Summer of 1798. By an Eye-Witness. Dublin: Printed. London: Re-printed for J. Hatchard and J. Wright, 1800. Printed by T. Bayliss, Hatton Garden. pp. [2], 182, 2 (advertisement). Modern brown buckram, title in gilt along spine. Covers faded. Edges untrimmed. A good copy. Scarce. €375

In August, 1798 one thousand French troops under the command of General Humbert landed near Killala on the west coast of Ireland, to be joined by over three thousand local men eager to strike a blow for their country's freedom. The author's home became the headquarters of the insurgent army. Following a whirlwind campaign the combined force was defeated at Ballinamuck. Joseph Stock (1740-1813), Bishop of Killala became a prisoner of the French under General Humbert. He kept a diary of these momentous events which was first published in 1799.

11. [ANON] Reminiscences of Connemara in 1847-48. [Dublin: Hendrick & Co., 1879]. pp. 9. Disbound. Titlepage in superior facsimile. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare. €295

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. NLI holds the Joly copy. In the opening paragraph the author tells: "Some thirty years ago what was called the 'Conversion Movement' began in the west of Ireland; and its results were speedy and remarkable. Hundreds of the peasantry deserted the communion of Church of Rome, under the influence and teaching of devoted Protestant Missionaries".

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN ENGLISH AND IRISH 12. AN PHILIBÍN [John H. Pollock] Wild Honey. Poems. Drawings by Sean McManus. Dundalk: W. Tempest Dundalgan Press, 1942. First edition. Small quarto. pp. [5], 74. Quarter blue linen on blue papered boards, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy by the author who quotes two lines from W.B. Yeats' Reveries over Childhood and Youth. Signed in Irish and English. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €175


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13. ARMSTRONG, E.C.R. Guide to the Collection of Irish Antiquities. Catalogue of Irish Gold Ornaments in the Collection of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin: Published by the Stationery Office, 1933. Second edition. Folio. pp. [5], 104, 19 (plates). Modern green linen with original wrappers bound in, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €125

LIMITED EDITION OF THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION

14. ARMSTRONG, Robert Bruce. Musical Instruments. Part I. The Irish and Highland Harps. Part II. English and Irish Instruments. Illustrated with facsimiles, music, plates and portraits. Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable, 1904/1908. Quarto. pp. (1) xvi, 199, + errata, (2) 4, viii, 167. Blue cloth, Irish Harp in gilt on upper cover of Part I; English Rose in gilt on upper cover of the second part; title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 180 numbered copies. From the library of Garech Browne, with his armorial bookplate on front pastedowns. A very good set of an exceedingly rare item. €950

The Irish and the Highland Harps by R B Armstrong remains one of the essential works for the study of these instruments and has stood the test of time better than most other contemporary harp related publications.

15. [ARTISTIC ALBUM] Sáorstát Éireann. Irish Free State. Artistic Album - 35 Views. Printed in Germany, n.d. (c.1928). Oblong octavo. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €65

16. [ASHE, Thomas] Memorial Card of Thomas Ashe who died on 25th September, 1917. Containing the last poem of Thomas Ashe 'Let Me Carry Your Cross!' written at Lewes Prison. Printed at O'Hanrahan's N.C.R., Dublin. In Irish and English, with silver border and cross. 67 x 105mm. Together with a photographic postcard. Published by J. J. Walsh. In very good condition. Rare. €295 17. [ASHE, Thomas] Inquest on Thos. Ashe. The Verdict of the Jury. Dublin: Fergus O'Connor, n.d. (c.1917). Single sheet 190 x 130mm. In fine condition. €225

A very good copy of a rare republican item. Issued by the nationalist printer Fergus O'Connor immediately after the verdict of the inquest into the death of Thomas Ashe at Mountjoy Jail in Autumn 1917. This publication was probably organised by Sean O'Casey, who was a friend of Ashe, and had some other works of a similar nature published by O'Connor.

18. [ASHE, Thomas] Memorial Card of Thomas Ashe who died on 25th September, 1917. Illustrated with a medallion portrait and containing the last poem of Thomas Ashe 'Let Me Carry Your Cross!' written at Lewes Prison. Printed at the City Printing Company in Limerick. 6.5 x 10cm. Four pages folded. Slight wear, otherwise very good. Rare. €150


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SEE ITEMS 16 & 19.

19. [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 on 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. 128 x 160mm. In very good condition. Possibly an unique item. €365 20. BAGWELL, Richard. Ireland Under The Tudors. With a succinct account of the earlier history. Three volumes. Illustrated with 7 maps, coloured in outline. London: Longmans, 1885/90. pp. (1) xxiii, 414, (2) xi, 391, (3) xvii, 502, 2 (publisher's list), + erratum. Armorial bookplate of Hopetoun on front pastedown. Volume three rebound in matching cloth with original backstrip laid on. A very set copy. Rare. €575

This work deals at length with: The Celtic Constitution, Tribal System and Celtic Land Law; The Northmen, Turgesius, Danes and Norwegians, Battle of Clontarf; The Reign of Henry II, Ireland given to England by the Popes, Anglo-Normans in Ireland, Strongbow, Henry II in Ireland, Viceroyalty of John; From John's Visit in 1210 to the Bruce Invasion, John Lord and King of Ireland, Leinster Divided after Strongbow's Death, The De Burgos in Connaught, Colony declines under Henry III, The Colonists become Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores, Irish Corporate Towns, Anglo-Norman Families; From 1346 to the Accession of Henry VII, Lionel, Duke of Clarence, The Statute of Kilkenny, Richard II's first visit, His second visit, Henry IV and V neglect Ireland, Richard of York made Lord-Lieutenant; The Irish Parliament, Growth of Representative Institutions, The Sphere of English Law, The Parliament of Kilkenny not representative of Ireland, The Peerage, The Clergy, The Viceroy; The Reign of Henry VII, The Fitzgeralds were Yorkists, The Butlers Lancastrians, Lambert Simnel Crowned in Ireland, The York Yorkists cut to pieces at Stoke, Mission of Sir Richard Edgcombe; The Butlers and the Geraldines, Power of the Kildare family, Battle of Knocktoe; From the Accession of Henry VIII to the year 1534, The Kildare and Ormonde families, O'Donnell and O'Neill, Desmond and the MacCarthies; The Geraldine Rebellion - Skeffington's Administration; The O'Neills, Grey in the West of Ireland, Grey and the O'Connors, The O'Carrolls, The O'Mores, Case of the O'Tooles, Henry VIII made King of Ireland by Act of Parliament; 1541 to the close of the reign of Henry VIII, MacWilliam Burke made Earl of Clanricarde, The MacDonnells in Antrim, The Lord of the Isles in Ireland; The Irish Church under Henry VIII; The Reign of Mary, etc.

21. BAGWELL, Richard. Ireland Under The Stuarts. With a succinct account of the earlier history. Three volumes. London: Holland Press, 1963. pp. (1) xv, 370, (2) xi, 351, (3) xii, 388. Red buckram. A fine set in dust jackets. Very scarce. €365

This work deals at length with: Mountjoy and Carey, 1603-1605; Chichester and the Toleration Question; The Flight of the Earls, 1607; Rebellion of O'Dogherty, 1608; The Settlement of Ulster;


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Chichester's Government; The Parliament of 1613-1615; Early Years of Charles I; The Parliament of 1634; Strafford and the Ulster Scots; Wentworth's Plans of Forfeiture and Settlement; Cases of Mountnorris, Loftus and others; Strafford's Army; The Rebellion of 1641; Munster and Connaught, 1641-1642; The War to the First Cessation 1642-1643; Inchiquin, Ormonde, and Glamorgan; Fighting North and South - Rinuccini; The Ormonde Peace 1646; Rinuccini to Cromwell; Cromwell in Ireland, Ormonde's Last Struggles; Clanricarde and Ireton, 1651; Peace, Settlement, and Transplantation; The Restoration, etc.

22. [BALLADS] Barricade Song Sheet. Price, Two pence. Dublin: J.J. Walsh, n.d. (c.1918). Folio (single folded sheet). pp. 4. Worn, frayed and stained. €65

The contents include: The Croppy Boy; The Men of the West; Easter Week; Step Together; High Upon the Gallows Tree, etc.

23. BALLAGH, Robert. Birth of the Irish Republic by Robert Ballagh. Limited edition print of 300 copies only. Each print is numbered and signed by the artist. 720 x 640mm. €350

24. BALLAGH, Robert. Rossa's Funeral by Robert Ballagh. The Funeral of the Unrepentant Fenian, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa took place in Glasnevin Cemetery on August 1st 1915. This was seen as a show of strength by the Irish Volunteers and a pivotal event in the lead up to the 1916 Rising. Pearse's speech at the graveside is seen today as one of the most significant speeches in Irish history. This limited edition print by Robert Ballagh is limited to 175 copies only. 810 x 410mm. €295 25. BARICELLI, Giulio Cesare. Iulii Caesaris Baricelli, à Sancto Marco, Doctoris Medici, & Philosophi, Hortulus genialis ... Cum Indice locupletissimo. Ad Illustrisimum Dominum Don Michaelem Cabanilium. Genevæ: Apud Philippum Albert, 1620. 16mo. pp. 12, [4], 339, [28], 320. Contemporary full calf, covers ruled with triple blind fillets. From the library of Edward Gwynn with his name on gilt on upper cover. Boards loose, spine in need of rebacking, otherwise a very good copy. €375

Edward Gwynn was a member of Furnivall's Inn. According to the Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, Edward Gwynn was the son of Thomas Gwynn of London, he was admitted to the Middle Temple on 23 Nov. 1610, and called to the Bar 24 June 1631. He died around 1645, when he wrote his will. He was an extensive book collector. In 1934, William A. Jackson identified (but does not seem to have listed in print) more than 70 books deriving from his library,


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including a copy of Andrew Maunsell's Catalogue of English Printed Books (STC 17669), indicating his interest in the book trade, although this copy has not yet been traced. His bindings have been discussed in detail by J. Franklin Mowery, former Eric Weinmann Head of Conservation at the Folger, in an unpublished booklet held at the Library (shelf mark Z270.E5 M69 2011). Images of the bindings are available in the Bindings image collection. There is now a list of 188 books once owned by Edward Gwynn. This list does not include our copy.

THOMAS DAVIS' COPY 26. BARRETT, Bryant. The Code Napoleon, verbally translated from the French, to which is prefixed an introductory discourse, containing a succinct account of the civil regulations, comprised in the Jewish law, the ordinances of Menu, the Ta Tsing Leu Lee, the Zend Avesta, the laws of Solon, the twelve tables of Rome, the laws of the Barbarians, the assizes of Jerusalem, and the Koran. Volume one only. London: Printed for W. Reed 1811. pp. cccxciii, 146. Modern quarter beige linen over blue papered boards. From the library of the Patriot Thomas Davis with his signature on front free endpaper, dated November, 1839, apparently over an earlier signature. €375

Thomas Davis (1814-45), Young Irelander, poet and journalist, was born at Mallow, the son of an English army surgeon and an Irish Protestant mother. Educated at T.C.D. he was later called to the Bar but never practised. Influenced by Thomas Carlyle and other romantic writers, he first enunciated his ideas of Irish Nationalism in his pamphlet read before the Dublin Historical Society in 1840. He was particularly scathing about his old alma mater: "Gentlemen, the Dublin university is the laughing stock of the literary world, and an obstacle to the nation's march; its inaccessible library, 'the mausoleum of literature', and effete system of instruction, render it ridiculous abroad; and its unaccounted funds, and its bigot laws, and you know why it is hated at home". Continuing in a nationalistic vein he goes on to say: "But, Gentlemen, you have a country. The people among whom we were born, with whom we live, if our minds are in health, we have most sympathy, are those over whom we have power - power to make them wise, great, good ... You are Irishmen. She relies on your devotion. She solicits it by her present distraction and misery. No! her past distraction - her present woe ... Perchance 'tis a fanciful thing, yet in the misfortunes of Ireland, in her laurelled martyrs, in those who died 'persecuted men for a persecuted country' in the necessity she was under of bearing the palms to deck her best to the scaffold-foot and a lost battle-field, she has seemed to me chastened for some great future". He travelled on the Continent, and collected a good library, where indeed he may have purchased the present volume. Davis was co-founder with Charles Gavan Duffy of The Nation, he was an influential member of Young Ireland and a supporter of the Repeal Association. His best-known poems included: 'A Nation Once Again'; 'The West's Asleep'; 'Lament for the Death of Owen Roe O'Neill'; 'Fontenoy'; 'Clare's Dragoons'; 'Tone's Grave' and 'My Land'. He was to the fore of Irish nationalist thinking and it has been noted by later nationalist notables, such as Patrick Pearse, that while Wolfe Tone laid out the basic premise that Ireland as a nation must be free, Davis was the one who built this idea up promoting the Irish identity. Arthur Griffith described him as "the prophet I followed throughout my life, the man whose words and teachings I tried to translate into practice in politics".

THE RED PATH TO GLORY 27. BARRY, Tom. With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom, 1919 to the Truce. With location maps. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. pp. 238. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €95

Chapters on: Monaghan Men's Baptism of Fire at the Ballytrain R.I.C. Post; The Ambush at Rineen; The R.I.C. at Ruan; A Tipperary Column Laying for R.I.C. at Thomastown; Lord French was not Destined to Die by an Irish Bullet; Auxiliaries Wiped out at Kilmichael; The Sacking of Cork City; Dromkeen Ambush; Scramogue Ambush; Action by the West Connemara Column; Tourmakeady Ambush, etc.


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RARE LIMITED EDITION 28. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. 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. Two volumes. 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. Full green goatskin, with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins in gilt on upper covers, title in gilt on spine; red and green endbands; gold silk marker. Edition limited to 175 sets, signed by the Publisher, of which 150 are for sale. Includes list of subscribers. Housed in a fine buckram slipcase. €475

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. 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.

29. BECKETT, Samuel. Taibhdhearc Na Gaillimhe. Ag Fanacht Le Godot. Leíru - Alan Simpson. 28ú Samhain - 5ú Nollaig, 1971. Galway: Connacht Tribune, 1971. pp. [12]. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €30

The Cast included: Risteard Ó Broin, Tomás Ó Cionnaith, Micheál Ó hAinnín, Coiril Ó Mathúna, etc. 30. [BELFAST] The Latest Album of Belfast Views. Belfast: Published by S. Charles & Co. The Popular Bazaar, n.d. (c.1895). Folded in pink wrappers. Repair to lower cover. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare. €125 No copy located on COPAC, WorldCat or NLI. Eighteen monochrome views. 31. BENNETT, Douglas. Irish Georgian Silver. With numerous illustrations. Cirencester: The Collector's Book Club, 1972. Square quarto. pp. xiv, 369. Blue cloth, titled in silver. Ex lib. with stamp. A fine copy in dust jacket. Scarce. €475 Goldsmiths and silversmiths were at work in Ireland nearly four thousand years ago but it was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that domestic articles were made. The Company of Goldsmiths of Dublin was incorporated under Royal Charter in 1637. The exceptionally high standard of the craftsmen coupled with a delightful inventiveness in ornament is evident in their works, which though comparatively small, are aesthetically superb. The definitive work, profusely illustrated with all the hall-marks of the Georgian period. An indispensable volume to all collectors.


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32. BENNETT, William. Narrative of a Recent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland, in connection with the Subject of Supplying Small Seed to some of the Remoter Districts: with Current Observations on the Depressed Circumstances of the People and the Means Presented for the Permanent Improvement of their Social Condition. London: Charles Gilpin. Dublin: J. Curry, 1847. pp. xvi, 178, [1]. Publisher's green blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt. Spine evenly faded. Crease to lower cover. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €695

COPAC locates 6 copies only. Manuscript memoranda on rear endpaper: "Alfred Bishop, Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General, was carried off by Fever, caught in the performance of his duty at Belmullet, County Mayo, on the 17th of last month, and a letter just received conveys the same mournful intelligence respecting Charles P. Thomas, one of the Clergymen alluded to in page 129, and writer of the letter Appendix F. Few perhaps in Ireland - the communication continues - would leave so painful an impression by their loss, which neither tongue nor pen can describe". The author was a Quaker who visited Ireland during the great Irish Famine. In a series of letters to his sister "one of the working members of the Ladies' Irish Clothing Committee of London" he describes the wretched scenes and condition of the peasantry during a four week period in the Spring of Black '47'. During this time he visited Ballina, Belmullet, Rossport, Sligo, Dungloe, Arranmore, Gweedore, Dunfanaghy, Cahirciveen, Kenmare, Glengarriff, Cork, Clonmel and Waterford. In the Mullet peninsula he describes the abodes: "Many of the cabins were holes in the bog covered with a layer of turves, and not distinguishable as human habitations from the surrounding moor, until close down upon them ... Doorways, not doors, were usually provided at both sides of the better most - back and front - to take advantage of the way of the wind. Windows and chimneys, I think, had no existence ... furniture, properly so called, I believe may be stated at nil". The contents: London Relief Committee of the Society of Friends; Purchase of seeds; Departure to the West; Degrading employment of the women; Ballina - Belmullet; Simple peasantry of the west; Deaths from Starvation; Soup kitchen; Newest town in Ireland; Belmullet, General locality of the cabins; Famine fever; Observation of the Commissariat; Remarks on early marriages; Belmullet - Rossport, Hardships from the want of stores; Visit to the cottier tenantry; Reduced ability and exertions of the owner; Depression of the peasantry; Rossport - Sligo, Lieutenant's Carey's observations, The single suit and the solitary hat, Safety of green crops, Sad expressions; Sligo - Dungloe, Wise man's tower, Neglected capabilities of Ballyshannon, Progress of destitution, Village of Maghery; Arranmore, General aspects of Annamore, Wretched state of the people, and difficulties in the way of their effective relief, Ready wit, Coast track to Bunbeg; Gweedore - Dunfanaghy, Contrast between former accommodation and the Gweedore Hotel, Share in the present calamity, Promotion of flax sowing, Promotion of female industry; Dunfanaghy - Dublin, Improvement in the aspect of the country, Mortality in Armagh and neighbourhood, Flax Society of Belfast, Extracts on female industrial employment; Dublin - Cahirciveen, Subscriptions from the Slave States, Entrance into County Tipperary, Caves at Mitchelstown, Coast scenery to Cahirciveen; Cahirciveen - Kenmare, Birth-place of Daniel O'Connell, Mildness of Climate, Spanish traces, Distribution of the last of our seeds; Kenmare - Waterford, Wretched scenes in Kenmare, Depreciation of live stock, Results of starvation; Conclusion, Picture of Ireland, Emigration as a remedy, Loans and their consequences, Causes of the depression of Ireland, Principles of a free Government applied to the tenure of land.

33. BENSON, Joseph. The Inspector of Methodism Inspected, and the Christian Observer. By Joseph Benson. Being an Answer to a Pamphlet, entitled, Methodism Inspected, published by William Hayes, D.D. Rector of Killesandra in Ireland: And to the Review thereof in the Christian Observer. London: Printed at the Conference-Office, North-Green, Worship-street, 1803. pp. [1], 4-40. Disbound. Some browning to title and final page. €125

Joseph Benson (1749-1821) was an early English Methodist Minister, one of the leaders of the movement during the time of Methodism's founder John Wesley.

34. BERNERS, Juliana. An Older Form of the Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Attributed to Dame Juliana Barnes. Printed from a MS. in the possession of Alfred Denison, Esq. With preface and glossary by Thomas Satchell. London: W. Satchell & Co., 1823. pp. [iii], viii, [1] 37, [14]. Mauve pebbled cloth, title in gilt on worn red morocco letterpiece on spine. A very good copy. €145

This edition is limited to 400 copies and printed solely for presentation to the Members of the English Dialect Society.


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35. BERQUIN, M. (Arnaud) The Family Book; or, Children's Journal, consisting of Moral and Entertaining Stories With Instructive Conversation on those Subjects which daily occur in Nature and Society. From the French of M. Berquin. Third edition. Dublin: Printed by J. Stockdale, 1799. pp. vii, 240. Contemporary full worn sprinkled calf, wear to corners. Upper joint but very firm. Internally a very clean copy. Exceedingly rare. €375

COPAC locates the TCD copy only. No copy located on WorldCat. Not in NLI. First published in Lausanne, 1793, as Le livre de famille, ou Journal des enfans. Miss Mary R. Stockdale is named as the translator on the titlepage of the contemporary London editions.

SENCHAS MÁR - ANCIENT LAWS OF IRELAND 36. BEST, R.I. & THURNEYSEN, Rudolf. Senchas Már. Facsimiles of the Oldest Fragments. From MS. H.2. 15 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. With descriptive introduction. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1931. Large quarto. pp. xv, 56. Half buckram on linen boards. Edition limited to 360 copies. A very good copy. Rare. €865

The collection of Old-Irish law texts called Senchas Már has unfortunately come down to us only in fragments. The title Senchas Már according to John O'Donovan was inscribed on these folios by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671). The origin of part of the original manuscript was from the Law School of the noted learned family of the MacEgans at Duniry in South-East County Galway. Eugene O'Curry ascribed the date of the early part of the manuscript to 1300, with additional folios from a later period.

37. BEST, R.I. Intro. by. The Commentary on the Psalms with Glosses in Old-Irish preserved in the Ambrosian Library (MS. C 301 inf.). Collotype facsimile. Dublin: Published by the Royal Irish Academy, 1936. Large folio. pp. viii, 39, 146 (plates), 14 (plates), plus erratum. Quarter black arlen blue papered boards. A fine copy. €475

This codex together with other precious Irish Manuscripts, including the Antiphonary of Bangor, passed to the Ambrosian Library from the monastery of Bobbio in the year 1606, as is recorded in an entry inserted by the first prefect of the Ambrosiana, Antonio Olgiato. The ancient library of the monastery founded by St. Columbanus in the year 608 having survived the vicissitudes of the middle ages, was in that year laid under contribution by Pope Paul V for the benefit of the Vatican Library and by Cardinal Borromeo for the Ambrosiana, then in course of formation. The final dispersal of the library took place in 1803, when by order of Napoleon's French Republican Government all that remained of the books and manuscripts, including '21 fragmens d'antiques mss.', were sold by public auction. Some of these were acquired through the Abbate Amadeo Peyron for the University Library of Turin. The Psalter volume was ascribed to Jerome in an Inventory of the Library drawn up in 1461. However Domenico Vallarsi threw out the suggestion that the commentary was certainly not by Jerome, and might well be that of Columbanus. Vallarsi's conjecture was based on the statement of Jonas, the biographer of Columbanus, that the Saint in his youth had written a commentary on the Psalms, and that there was a marked similarity in the latinity to that of Columbanus; that the manuscript was the work of an Irish scribe, and came from Bobbio, and further, that in a ninth-century catalogue of the library of St. Gall such a work was actually recorded, viz. Expositio sancti Columbani super omnes psalmos. The attribution of the commentary to Columbanus, so plausible on the face of it, was accepted without question by Peyron, Zeuss, Nigra, Ascoli, and others though rejected by Bruno Krusch, the editor of Jonas's life of the Saint.

CASTLEHACKET COPY 38. BEWLEY, Sir Edmund Thomas. An Irish Branch of the Fleetwood Family. With pedigrees. Exeter: Pollard, [Reprinted from the Genealogist], 1908. pp. 27. Printed stitched wrappers. Name cut from cover. From the library of Percy Paley with his bookplate on front pastedown. Exceedingly rare. €325

COPAC locates 4 copies only. The author relates: "In the following pages an attempt to made to explain the origin and trace the pedigree of an Irish branch of the Fleetwood family, which was settled in the County Westmeath early in the seventeenth century ... As systematic research was not possible, the information as to the early part of the pedigree has been gradually gathered at long intervals from Equity Pleadings, the Memoranda Rolls of the Exchequer, Hearth Money Rolls, Sir William Petty's Census of Ireland, and other sources".


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39. [BLAKE FAMILY] Letters from the Irish Highlands. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1825. First edition. pp. xviii, [1], 359, [1]. Modern quarter morocco on marbled boards. Previous owner's signature on front free endpapers. Bibliographical note in ink on titlepage. A very good copy. Rare. €575

One of the best contemporary accounts of social life in the West of Ireland by a member of The Tribes of Galway. Henry Blake and his English wife, Martha Louise bought Renvyle House where they farmed and ran a business. This work describes in a series of forty-nine letters: Emigration to the Highlands; Report of the Slate Quarry at Letterguesh; Explanation of Con Acre; Balance of Good and Evil in National Character; Industry of the Female Peasantry; Influence of the Priests; Climate of Cunnemarra; Herring Fishery; General Opposition to the Laws; Unequal Distribution of Justice; Clanship; Modesty of the Female Peasants; Boffin; etc. A feast of descriptive articles on social life in this most beautiful part of Ireland at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY

IN MAGNIFICENT ART NOUVEAU BINDING 40. BOADEN, James. The Life of Mrs. Jordan; including Original Private Correspondences, Numerous Anecdotes of her Contemporaries. Two volumes. London: Edward Bull, 1831. Bound in later full violet crushed levant morocco. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet with elaborate gilt floral ornamentation on front cover of each volume, composed of onlays of light and dark green, brown, blue and citron morocco. Flat spine titled in gilt direct, richly tooled in gilt with an interlaced floral pattern; fore-edges ruled in gilt; doublures of green crushed levant morocco, with rich floral ornamentation containing onlays of red morocco with floral ornaments and small dots in corners of outer border; green moiré silk endpapers; gilt floral decoration on lower covers, blue and white endbands. Brooklyn Public Library bookplate indicating purchase from the Lynde Fund. Prelims loose in volume one. Top edge gilt. A fine set. €2,250


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Extra illustrated copy with more than 120 portraits, scenes, views, and play-bills inserted. Among the portraits (some of which are from the eighteenth century) are: Mrs. Jordan; Tate Wilkinson; Mrs. Abington; Richard Daly (coloured); Mrs. Brown; John Henderson; Mrs. Jordan, as 'The Country Girl', 1786; John Fawcett; Mrs. Siddons; Mrs. Yates; Mrs. Bland; Shakespeare; David Garrick, Emma Murray; Mrs. Bellamy; Mr. King; Thomas Morton, Esq; Samuel Foot Esq.; Mr. Quin; Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan, and others. Engraved by Cook; Adcock; MacKenzie; Drummund, and others. The Play-Bills include: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, January 31, 1791 - 'The Rivals' with Mr. King, Palmer, Kemble, Mrs. Jordan and others; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, April 15, 1795, with Mrs. Jordan in 'The Country Girl'; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, April 14, 1795. Benefit of Mr. Palmer. Mrs. Siddons, Mrs. Booth, Kemble, Barrymore, Palmer; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, November 29, 1790 - 'The Grecian Daughter' with Bensley, Mrs. Siddons and others; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, November 14, 1798 - 'Love for Love', with Mrs. Siddons, Mrs. Booth, Miss Farren, Maddocks, Bannister, Kemble, Suett, and others; Theatre Royal Drury Lane, November 30, 1796 - The London Merchant with Mrs. Siddons, Miss Pope, Kemble, Holland, Palmer and others, etc. Provenance: Sold Christie's New York, May 14, 1985, Lot 435, $300.

41. 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 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. Sm. 4to. 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 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.

WATERFORD PRINTING 42. BONA, John Cardinal. De Sacrificio Missae Tractatus Asceticus. Waterford: John Bull, 1810. First edition. 16mo. pp. xiv, [1], 16-224. Contemporary full calf, title on paper label on spine. Signature of William Collins of the Galway Augustinians dated July 24th 1813 on titlepage. From the library of the Augustinians Ballybodey with their stamp. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 3. Not in NLI. Not in Bradshaw.


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John Bull, Bookseller and Printer had his premises in The Waterford Mirror Office in 1801 and in The Quay in 1824.

43. BONNET, L. Scenes in Bethany: A Course of Lectures, on the Eleventh Chapter of the Gospel according to St. John. Translated by a Lady. Limerick: C. O'Brien, 108 George-Street, 1837. 12mo. pp. iv, 169. Mauve ribbed cloth. Covers lightly faded. A very good copy. €275

COPAC locates 3 copies. WorldCat 2. NLI 1. 44. [BOOKPLATES] A Collection of Five Cuala Press Bookplates: Lily Yeats and John Quinn, both designed by Jack B. Yeats; Roderic Coote designed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats; William Matson Roth and Beatrice Berridge (the latter with tear to lower margin). All in fine condition. Rare. €295

45. [BÓRD NA GAEILGE] Tuarascáil 1947. Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge. Baile Átha Cliath: n.d. (c.1947). Quarto. pp. 24. Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €35 46. BOURKE, Very Rev. U.J. The Aryan Origin of the Gaelic Race and Language...The Round Towers ... The Brehon Laws ... Truth of the Pentateuch ... Irish Gaelic Superior to Sanskrit. London: Longmans, 1875. First edition. pp. xvii, 512, 32 (advertisement and index). Cloth a little worn and faded, otherwise a good copy. €45

Showing the present and past literary position of Irish Gaelic, its phonesis the foundation of classic pronunciation, its Bardic beauties, the source of rhyme, the civilisation of Pagan Ireland, etc.

47. BOYLE, Andrew. The Riddle of Erskine Childers. Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1977. pp. 351. Previous owner's signature on half title. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Spine lightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. €85

Erskine Childers ex-British officer turned Irish revolutionary. Winston Churchill called him "a murderous renegade" ... gun runner extraordinary. The most wanted man of the Irish Civil War. Before being executed by firing party, shook hands with each rifleman in turn: "Come closer, boys, it will be easier for you!". Probably the most extraordinary personality of the fight for Irish freedom.


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48. BOYSE, Samuel. The New Pantheon: or, Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, &c: Explained in a Manner entirely New; And rendered much more useful than any hitherto published: Adorned With Figures from ancient Paintings, Medals, and Gems, for the Use of those who would understand History, Poetry, Painting, Statuary, Coins, Medals &c. By Samuel Boyse, A. M. The fifth edition, revised and corrected, with large additions, and a dissertation on the Theology of the Heathens. By William Cooke, M.A. ... to which is subjoined an appendix. Illustrated. Dublin: By John Exshaw, at the Bible, in Dame-Street, 1769. 12mo. pp. xii, 284, 14 (index). Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Signature of Miss M. Lynch on front free endpaper, inscribed on titlepage 'Miss C Taaffe / this gift of her most / Amiable friend / M: L'. Some browning. Wear to extremities. A good copy. €225

ESTC locates 6 copies. Only 1 copy in Ireland [NLI]. Illustrated with fifteen full page engraved plates of allegorical portraits of gods, four to each plate in oval frames, identified with banners beneath, all within a border decorated with masks. Samuel Boyse (1708-49), Dublin-born poet and translator, spent most of his life in London as a hack writer living in extreme poverty. His translations of Voltaire (1738) and Fenelon (1749) however attracted the attention of Samuel Johnson who was unsuccessful in 1749 in trying to raise money for his funeral. It is ironic that this book, his most popular, was first published posthumously in 1753 and was reprinted many times and became a standard handbook of ancient mythology in the late eighteenth century.

49. BREEN, Dan. My Fight for Irish Freedom. With an introduction by Joseph McGarrity (Philadelphia). Illustrated. Dublin: Talbot, n.d. (c.1924). pp. xii, 258. Green papered boards, title in black on spine. A very good copy. €35

Dan Breen (1894-1969) born near Soloheadbeg County Tipperary, worked as a plasterer and later as a linesman on the Great Southern Railway. Joined the Irish volunteers in 1914, and later Quartermaster Third Tipperary Brigade. He was co-planner of the Soloheadbeg ambush, staged on the first day of Dáil Éireann, 21 January 1919, this was the most significant incident since the Rising of Easter Week for it marked the beginning of the War of Independence. With the price of £10,000 on his head, he quickly established himself as a daring Republican.

50. [BRIGIDINES ABBEYLEIX] Printed fundraising letter sent out on behalf of the Sisters of St. Brigids Convent, Abbeyleix in which is stated that they "respectfully take the liberty of sending you some tickets for their Bazaar and Grand Prize drawing with the hope that you will kindly take them yourself or dispose of them among your friends and thus enable them to raise


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the funds required for their great undertaking viz. First to enlarge their poor schools which are very badly ventilated and much too small for the number of children". The letter continues that for over six years the Sisters were forced to teach several of their lessons in the school yards in the open air and during the winter when the weather was too severe the Sisters "were obliged to teach their little ones on the stairs and passages". In addition to extending and repairing the schools they also had to carry out renovations of their Convent Chapel. The draw of Prizes was to be held in the Rotunda rooms, Dublin, and the letter is signed by the joint honorary secretaries, John Larkin and James Toole. One page foolscap. No date (c.1860). In fine condition. €150

The Brigidine Nuns came to Abbeyleix in 1842. A convent building was constructed adjoining the Catholic Church to house them, and to allow them to run schools for children which they continued to do for over one hundred years. The convent building was extended in 1851 and again in 1863 with the building of the beautiful Nuns' Chapel.

SATIRE ON DOUBLE ENTENDRE WITH AN IRISH SERVANT 51. [BROADSIDE] A Trifling Mistake!! London: T. Tegg, 1807. Oblong folio. Hand coloured by Isaac Cruickshank after Woodward, laid down on stiff card. €265

Not in George, but a copy acquired by the British Library in 1954. A Gentleman has sent an Irish servant to collect a pair of Parasols but the servant returns with a tray upon which are a pair of Soles.

52. BROPHY, Brigid. The Prince and the Wild Geese. A story "based on the drawings in the private collection of William Drummond". Sumptuously illustrated. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. Square octavo. pp. 62, [1]. Blue papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €65

Story of a European Prince and a lady of the Taaffe family of Mayo and Louth.


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"A TREASURED POSSESSION" WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR WON OVERALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WHEN PUBLISHED

53. BROWNE, Patrick. Flowers of Mayo. Dr. Patrick Browne's Fasciculus Plantarum Hiberniae 1788. With sixteen specially commissioned watercolours and other illustrations by Wendy Walsh. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xiv, 275, 4. Limited edition of 150 numbered copies only for sale. Quarter goatskin on handmade paper, title inset on printed label on upper cover and in gilt on spine; red and maroon endbands. This copy is numbered 6 of 10 copies only, with an original watercolour by the late Wendy Walsh, of a White Water-Lily (Bacán Bán). Signed by Wendy Walsh, Charles Nelson and the publisher Éamonn de Búrca. Also inscribed by Wendy Walsh on front decorated endpaper. Loosely inserted is the original prospectus. A superb and most desirable copy in slipcase. €3,750

This treasure contains an authoritative biographical essay by Dr. Nelson about the Mayo Botanist Dr. Patrick Browne (c.1720-1790), and the full text of Browne's hitherto unpublished flora of Ireland accompanied by modern annotations and botanical notes by Dr. Nelson. Fifteen specially commissioned full-colour botanical portraits and other illustrations by Wendy Walsh, of flowers and plants associated with Browne's Mayo studies embellish the book: each illustration has a landscape background depicting Mayo localities, including Ballintubber Abbey, Castle Bourke, Crossboyne Parish Church, Croagh Patrick, etc. Transcriptions and translations of Dr. Patrick Browne's correspondence with the eminent Swedish naturalist, Dr. Carl Linnaeus, and transcriptions of Browne's little-known catalogues of Irish birds and fishes form the appendices. Nothing has been spared in the design and production of this volume, which we can describe with confidence as one of the finest Irish publications for decades.


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"I wish to tell you that I am so delighted with 'Flowers of Mayo' and to thank you for publishing such a completely satisfying and beautiful book. It is on the scale of workmanship seldom seen today, binding, paper, printing all reflect the thought and care that you have put into its production and my copy will be a treasured possession, both to look at and to read" - Wendy Walsh to Éamonn de Búrca, 24th November, 1995.

54. BURGHCLERE, Lady. The Life of James First Duke of Ormonde 1610-1688. With portraits and illustrations. In two volumes. London: Murray, 1912. pp. (1) xv, 534, (2) vii, 458. Reddish brown cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Some minor spotting to edges. A very good set in rare dust jackets. Scarce. €185

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 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.

VICTIM OF THE INVINCIBLES 55. BURKE, Thomas Henry. A signed warrant, one page folio, printed on blue paper with manuscript insertions, issued at the command of the Lord Lieutenant, appointing Sir Charles Lanyon of Whiteabbey to be High Sheriff of the County of Antrim, dated 20 January 1876. Signed by T.H. Burke. Slightly frayed at edges, fragments of gummed paper to rear. €245

Thomas Henry Burke (1829-1882), from Galway, was a career civil servant and since 1869 Undersecretary for Ireland, the head of the permanent Irish administration. The Chief Secretary W.E. Forster described him as 'the most efficient permanent official I ever came across, and my only fear about him is that he will literally work himself to death'. Six years after the issue of this warrant he was assassinated in the Phoenix Park by the 'Invincibles' with the new Chief Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish, apparently because of his association with


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Forster's policy of coercion. Sir Charles Lanyon (1813-1889) was a civil engineer and architect, designer of some of the principal public buildings of Belfast, and President of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland 1862-68.

IN MARCUS WARD BINDING 56. BURNS, Robert. The Cottar's Saturday Night, Inscribed to Robert Aiken, Esq. By Robert Burns. Illustrated. With an introduction, by John Hall. London, Belfast & New York: Marcus Ward, n.d. (c.1893). Small oblong quarto. pp. 22, [2]. Blue cloth, pictorial timber board with title laid on upper cover; gilt floral decoration endpapers. In very good condition. Rare. €125

COPAC locates 3 copies only. Text printed on one side only, monochrome in-text illustrations by Rev. Hall.

57. BUSSY, Frederick Moir. Irish Conspiracies. Recollections of John Mallon and other Reminiscences. Illustrated. London: Everett & Co., 1910. pp. viii, 275, 5 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €125

The chapters include: John Mallon - Policeman; Side-Lights of the Fenian Movement; Conspiracy and Informer; Nipped in the Bud; The Refuge of a Gaol; A Fatal Error; Potential Happenings and Some Humorous Episodes; The Vagaries of Justice; Arraigned for The Third Time; Stretching The Habeas Corpus Act; Sir Robert Anderson Answered; The Impressive Faith of Mr. Forster; Frank Power of Khartoum; Gods Noble Woman; Some Interesting Dublin Characters; Mallon and the Parnell Commission; Saving Seconds, etc. John Mallon was born in 1839 at Meigh, County Armagh, of a Catholic family. He was educated at Newry Model School; began work as an apprentice draper and joined Dublin Metropolitan Police at the age of nineteen. A brilliant police officer he quickly rose through the ranks and was appointed superintendent of G Division in charge of surveillance of Fenian movement and the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was also generally active against Land League; he arrested Charles Stewart Parnell at breakfast at Morrison's Hotel, in October 1881, showing notable respect to the leader of constitutional nationalism. Following the assassinations and murders of Lord Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke in the Phoenix Park Murders in May 1882; he was appointed as investigating officer and arrested twenty-seven suspects; he turned Michael Carey and Michael Kavanagh into Crown witnesses, resulting in five executions and long imprisonments for the other accused. Mallon also investigated the Maamtrasna Murders of August 1882, where five members of the Joyce family were


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massacred by other members of the Joyce family which resulted in the wrongful conviction and hanging of Myles Joyce - the Irish-speaker of James Joyce's Trieste article 'Ireland Before the Bar'. Mallon held post of Exchange Court Clerk, in Dublin Castle, 1892-94; appointed Commissioner of the DMP, 1901, being the first Catholic in the post. Lord Spencer said of him: "without Mallon we have no one worth a row of pins".

58. BUTLER, James. 1st Duke of Ormond. The Loyall Declaration of His Excellency, the Right Honourable, James, Marquesse of Ormond, Earle of Ormond, and Ossary, &c. Lord Lieu. Generall, and Generall Governour of the Kingdome of Ireland. August the 11. 1649. Declaring grounds of his present ingagement, and his resolution to maintaine it, against all powers that shall oppose him. London: Printed in the Yeare, 1649. Quarto. Modern half blue morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. Paper repair to corner of one leaf. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,350

COPAC & WorldCat locates 4 copies only. ESTC R203117. The 1st and only Wing printing - O 453. Ormond "talked" a good war as witness the following extract: "And whereas by credible information I am given to understand that Oliver Cromwell, with a numerous Army, lies now at Milford, intending to make a speedy entrance into this Kingdome, to joyne with those, now in rebellion against His Mayesty; to the dissipation of this Army under my command, and promotion of the Rebels interest here: Wherefore I declare, that I am so farre from being any whit daunted at the noise of their numbers, that my encouragement is swolne to a full measure, not onely with the sense of my ability to encounter them; but my assured confidence, that (by God's assistance) we shall utterly destroy them and their rebellious host. And I doe further declare, that I am fully resolved, and doe hereby command all Officers and Commanders, both in Field and Garrison, not to capitulate with any of them, upon any termes save in the language of the Sword: but upon all occasions to fight it out to the last man". His subsequent actions were hardly in keeping with his bellicose words and he himself safely withdrew from Ireland and went to France in December of the following year. Signed 'From our Rendezvous neer Dublin, / August the 11th. / 1649'.

59. BUTLER, James. 1st Duke of Ormond. Articles of Agreement made concluded and agreed on, at Dublin, the 18 day of June, 1647. By, and between the most Honourable James [Butler] Marquess of Ormond, and Arthur Annesley Esquire, Sir Robert King Knight ... Commissioners from the Parliament of England, on the other part. Published by Authoritie and Command of the Commissioners from the Parliament of England. Dublin: Printed by W. Bladen, 1647, and now by Special Order reprinted by him 1652. pp. [2], 7, [1]. Quarto. Modern half morocco on marbled boards. Top margin of title close shaved, not affecting border. A very good copy. €1,250


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COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only. WorldCat 1. Wing O 437C. Sweeney 773 quoting the first Dublin edition of 1647. Not in NLI. This was negotiated between Ormond and Arthur Annesley, Sir Robert King, Sir Robert Meredith, Colonel John Moore and Colonel Michael Jones, commissioners from the Parliament of England. It provided for the surrender of Dublin and all other places under royal control to the English Parliament. This was a typical instance of the part in the history of 17th-century Ireland played by the Great Duke who in total served no less than six terms as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 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 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.

60. BUTLER, James. 1st Duke of Ormond. The Marquesse of Ormond's Declaration, Proclaiming Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. With his Summons to Colonel Jones for the Surrender of Dublin, and the Answer of Colonell Iones thereunto. Also a perfect relation of their forces, and the present affairs of that kingdom. Together with a true copie of the Articles of Agreement between the said Marquesse, and the Irish. Also a representation of the Province of Vlster concerning the evills and dangers to religion, lawes and liberties, arising from the present practices of the sectarian army in England, &c. Imprimatur. G. Mabbot. London: Printed for Francis Tyton and John Playford, 1649. Quarto. pp. [i], 24. Modern half morocco. A good copy. Very rare in commerce. €965

Wing O 444. Sweeney 782. ESTC R203071. In the wake of the execution of Charles I, Ormond addressed a letter from Carrick to Colonel Jones, the Governor of Dublin, asking him to surrender the city and signing himself "your affectionate friend to serve you", to which the Colonel make a hostile reply noting that Ormond had previously engaged in a treaty with the Irish rebells. "As to that", he wrote "by your lordship menaced us here, of blood and force, if dissenting from those your Lordships ways and designes. For my particular, I shall (my Lord) much rather chuse to suffer in so doing for therein shall I do what is becoming and answerable to my trust".

61. BUTLER, James. 1st Duke of Ormond. & BLAKE, Sir Richard. The Marquesse of Ormonds Proclamation concerning the Peace concluded with the Irish Rebells, by the King's command, at the Generall Assembley at Kilkenney, with a Speech delivered by Sir Richard Blake, Speaker of the Assembly at Kilkenney. Also a Speech by the Marquesse of Ormond in answer to the same. Together with a perfect list of their severall numbers of horse and foot by them raised, amounting to 20000 Foot, and 3500 Horse. Imprimatur. Gilbert Mabbott. London: Printed for Francis Tyton and John Playford, 1649. Quarto. pp. [i], 16. Modern half morocco. A very good copy. €1,350

Wing O 458. Sweeney 791. COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 2. Also includes speeches exchanged between Sir Richard Blake, the speaker of the assembly and the Duke of Ormond together with details of horse and foot jointly raised between them and aggregating 20,000 foot and 3,500 horse. Dated February 27th.

62. BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish tale. London: Printed by T. Davison, for John Murray. 1813. First edition, first issue. pp. [3], 72. Later full calf, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on burgundy morocco labels in the second and third, the remainder lavishly tooled in gilt; fore edges rules in gilt; wide turn-ins lavishly tooled in gilt; dark green endpapers. Light foxing to front and rear free endpapers. Joints a trifle rubbed. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €385

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63. BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale. London: Printed by T. Davison, for John Murray. 1813. First edition, first issue. pp. [5], 41, [1]. With half-title. Later half crushed green levant morocco over marbled boards, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder with gilt ruled borders; marbled endpapers. Light foxing to front and rear free endpapers. A very good copy. €485

Wise p. 38. 64. BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. Lara, A Tale. Jacqueline, A Tale. London: Printed for John Murray. 1814. First edition, first issue. pp. [8], 128. Half-title, two page advert after title, four page publisher's catalogue at end. Original boards, wear to spine. Early owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in quarter blue morocco slipcase. €865

Wise p. 46. 65. BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. The Siege of Corinth. A poem. Parisina. A poem London: Printed for John Murray. 1816. First edition, first issue. pp. [3], 72. Half-title, lacking adverts. Later full calf, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on burgundy morocco labels in the second and third, the remainder lavishly tooled in gilt; fore edges rules in gilt; wide turn-ins lavishly tooled in gilt; burgundy endpapers. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €385

Wise p. 39. 66. BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. Beppo, A Venetian Story. London: John Murray. 1818. First edition, first issue. pp. [4], 49. Half-title, without final blank. Later full calf, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on burgundy morocco labels in the second and third, the remainder lavishly tooled in gilt; fore edges rules in gilt; wide turn-ins lavishly tooled in gilt; marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €885

Randolph p.68; Wise I.125. The first edition of Beppo is scarce; only 500 copies printed.


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67. BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. Mazeppa. London: John Murray. 1819. First edition, later issue. pp. [4], [4], 6-69, [1], with terminal leaf of adverts. Later full calf, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on burgundy morocco labels in the second and third, the remainder lavishly tooled in gilt; fore edges rules in gilt; wide turn-ins lavishly tooled in gilt; burgundy endpapers. All edge gilt. A fine copy. €385 68. BYRON, Right Hon. Lord. The Island, or Christian and His Comrades. Third edition. London: Printed for John Hunt, 1823. pp. 94, [2]. Brown wrappers. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. Some fraying at edges and some leaves dog-eared. A good copy. €65

RARE 15th CENTURY DOCUMENT 69. [CABRAGH LANDS] A Fifteenth Century Vellum Document for the Conveyance of Lands of Cabragh and Pilletston between the families of Kerdiffe and Netterville. With manuscript decorations and signature of notary Robert Skynett, dated 1479. Old hole at fold, not affecting script. In very good condition. Unique. €1,250

Cabra (An Chabrach, meaning "the poor land") is a suburb on the northside of Dublin. It was commonly known as Cabragh until the early twentieth century.

PROSELYTISING IN DINGLE 70. CAMPBELL, W. Graham. 'The Apostle of Kerry' or, The Life of Rev. Charles Graham who had for many years, as his associate on The Irish General Mission the Celebrated Gideon Ouseley. Also Four Appendices containing Mr. Graham's sermons, an Irish hymn, etc. Dublin: Moffat, 1868. pp. xxvii, 324. Modern half purple morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. Paper repair to margin of titlepage. A very good copy. All edges gilt. Extremely rare. €475

COPAC locates the BL copy only. WorldCat 2. Charles Graham, a native of Sligo, was the oldest of the Methodist evangelists who worked for a long time among the Irish peasantry from the beginning of the nineteenth century. Graham's mission, along with the most colourful of Irish evangelists, Gideon Ousley, was to bring to the masses the gospel of personal revival and conversion, at an age when the Irish countryside was distinguished by "blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking and drunkenness ... Party spirit, pitched battles, sanguinary conflicts, nocturnal devastations and private murders".

71. [CARLOW FISHERIES] A Printed Notice issued by the Carlow Fisheries stating that "All persons found offending against the Fishery Laws will be prosecuted, and The Penalties Enforced. Penalty for taking trout or salmon, Ten Pounds, and forfeiture of nets". Printed at the Carlow 'Sentinel' and County Printing Office. 287 x 230mm. In very good condition. Rare. €75


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1600 YEARS OF IRISH ART AND ARCHITECTURE 72. CARPENTER, Andrew. Editor. Art and Architecture of Ireland. Profusely illustrated. Five volumes. United States: Yale University Press for the Royal Irish Academy and the Paul Mellon Centre. Quarto. Over 3000 pages. Black buckram. Pictorial dust jackets. A fine set in presentation slipcase. €350

Art and Architecture of Ireland is an authoritative and fully illustrated account of the art and architecture of Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Each volume has its own expert editor or editorial team and covers a specific area or chronological period. More than 250 scholars from around the world, who represent a broad range of disciplines, contribute texts that range from thematic and general essays to articles on techniques and historical developments, biographical entries, bibliographies, lists of artists, and comprehensive indexes. Historical documentation combines with the best of current scholarship to make this the most comprehensive and ambitious undertaking of its kind. The volumes explore all aspects of Irish art and architecture from high crosses to installation art, from Georgian houses to illuminated manuscripts, from watercolors and sculptures to photographs, oil paintings, video art, and tapestries. This monumental work provides new insight into every facet of the strength, depth, and variety of Ireland's artistic and architectural heritage.

73. CARTE, Thomas. A Collection of Original Letters and Papers, concerning the Affairs of England, from the year 1641 to 1660. Found among the Duke of Ormonde's papers. In two volumes. London: James Bettenham, 1739. pp. (1) viii, 472, (2) [ii], 464. Engraved titlepage vignettes. Contemporary full worn calf. Internally a very good copy. €285

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 to Ireland by his nurse when he was three years of age, and for the rest of his life remembered being carried through Bristol 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.

74. [CARTOON] Heath Cartoon showing The Marquess and Governor of Londonderry dealing with a winter coal crisis. Captioned: 'Parliamentary Sketches / In peace, there's nothing that becomes a man / The Londonderry Labourer / new employment for the Tenth'. 83 x 130mm. Mounted. Circa 1830. In fine condition. €135

Born in Dublin, Charles Stewart (as he then was) was the only son of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, by his second wife Lady Frances, daughter of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, was his half-brother. Charles Stewart was educated at Eton, and at the age of 16 was commissioned into the British Army as a Lieutenant. He saw service in Flanders in 1794, and was Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons by the time he helped put down the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Two years later he was elected to the Irish House of Commons as Tory representative for Thomastown, and after only two months exchanged this seat for that of Londonderry. He sat for the latter constituency until the Act of Union in 1801, and then represented Londonderry in the British House of Commons until 1814. By the time of the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s, Londonderry was one of the ten richest men in the United Kingdom. He owned land across Ulster in addition to property in Britain. While many landlords made efforts to mitigate the worst effects of the famine on their tenants, Londonderry was criticised for meanness: he and his wife gave £30 to the local relief committee but spent £150,000 renovating their Irish pile.


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

76. [CASTLETOWN HOUSE] Castletown House Inventory and Valuation of Household Goods, Personal Effects, Live Stock and Outside Effects. The Property of F. Koenigs Esq. at Castletown House, Castleknock, County Dublin date 31st May 1900. For the purposes of Insurance &c. By William Montgomery & Son, Valuers, Belfast and Dublin. An extensive manuscript account of the contents including books, cutlery, elctro plate, household linen, oil paintings, pictures, silver plate, watercolours, lace curtains, gilt mirrors, furniture and effects. Together with: F. Koenigs private ledger of stocks, shares and accounts. Two volumes quarto. Bound in quarter leather on worn and faded cloth boards. Internally in very good condition. €475

77. [CATHOLIC DUBLIN] Gill's Guide to Catholic Dublin. City and Diocese. With many illustrations and maps specially prepared for this work. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1932. pp. xiv, 80, [40], + illustrations. Printed stiff wrappers. A very good copy. €65 78. [CAVENDISH TRIAL] A Full Report, with Notes, on the Trial of an Action, wherein The Hon. Frederick Cavendish was Plaintiff, and The Hope Assurance Company of London were Defendants; held before The Right Hon. John Lord Norbury, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, and a Special Jury on the 18th, 19th, 20th, 22d and 23d of Feb. 1813. Wherein a Verdict was found for the Defendants. To which is added, a Copy of the Reports of the Inspectors appointed to view the premises immediately subsequent to the fire. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 4, Capel-Street, 1813. pp. [3], 3-249. Later papered boards, some foxing, half of p. 41/42 excised. Owner's signature on titlepage. Extremely rare. €150

COPAC locates the BL copy only. 79. CAVOUR, Count. Thoughts on Ireland: Its Present and its Future. Translated by W.B. Hodgson, LL.D. London and Manchester: Trubner & Ireland, 1868. pp. xi, 110. Recent green buckram with original gilt title on upper cover. A very good copy. Very scarce. €235

This work by Count Cavour first appeared in Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève in January and February, 1844. It was written when the Repeal agitation in Ireland was at its height. On the 10th of September, 1843, at a great Repeal meeting, O'Connell promised he would have his Protection Society of three hundred sitting before Christmas. "I hope", he said, "to be able to give you, as a New Year's Gift a parliament in College Green". On the 7th October, a massive 'monster meeting' was held at Mullaghmast, the Irish government moved swiftly and prohibited a great Repeal meeting which was to be held at Clontarf the following day. In obedience to a proclamation issued, O'Connell complied and the meeting was not held. A week later O'Connell, John O'Connell, and several other Repealers, were arrested on a charge of conspiracy, sedition and unlawfully conspiring, but were held to bail. On 24th May, 1844, the Irish judges, having refused the motion for a new trial, sentenced O'Connell to imprisonment for twelve months, with a fine of £2,000, and bound him in his own recognizance in the


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sum of £5,000, and two sureties of £2,500, to keep the peace for seven years. O'Connell appealed to the House of Lords and on the 4th September, the Law-Lords decided that the judgement of the court ought to be reversed. It was, then, while the case was still pending in the Irish court, that Cavour's Essay appeared. The contents include: Sympathy with Ireland; Oppression of the Celts; The Stuarts and the Commonwealth; The Penal Code; The United Irishmen; Character of Pitt; Provisions of the Union; The Union, a Benefit to Ireland; The Reform Bill; Lord Melbourne's Ministry; Municipal Reform; O'Connell's Consistencies; The Tories and Sir Robert Peel; Ireland Agricultural; The Potato and Population; The Protestant Church; The Sub-letting Act; National Schools; Proposals for a Third Parliament; Alleged Benefits of Repeal; Financial Position of Ireland, etc.

80. [CHALLONER, Richard] The Grounds of The Catholic Doctrine, Contained in The Profession of Faith Published by Pope Pius IVth. And now in use for the Reception of Converts into the Church. By way of Question and Answer. To which are added, Reasons why a Roman Catholic can not conform to the Protestant Religion. Dublin: Stereotyped and Printed by J. Hanvey, For the Irish Catholic Book Society, and Sold at their Depository, 33 Winetavern-street, n.d. pp. 72. Original stitched wrappers. Stain to upper cover. In very good condition. €175 81. [CHAPBOOK] The Two Divine Revelations, As Revealed to St. Augustine, St. Bridget, and St. Anne, by Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Limerick: Printed by S.B. Goggin, 1828. pp. 8, single sheet folded. With woodcut illustration. Frayed at edges. Extremely rare. €950

No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Not in NLI. 82. CHARLEMONT, Earl of. Engraved Portrait of The Right Honble. James Caulfield, 1st Earl of Charlemount of the Kingdom of Ireland, Head of the Volunteers. From an original Portrait by Hogarth in the Possession of Mr. Saml. Ireland etched by Josh. Haynes Pupil to the late Mr. Mortimer. Published as the Act directs March 19th 1782. 205 x 265mm. Light foxing to margin, otherwise in very good condition. €135

James Caulfield, 1st Earl of Charlemont, was born in Dublin in 1728. Although he had a house in London he decided to live in Ireland for patriotic reasons. In 1770 he began to build Charlemont House and in his demesne at Marino he built the Casino, often described as one of the most beautiful of its kind anywhere. He devoted himself to architecture, literature, and the affairs of the Royal Irish Academy of which he was virtual founder and first president. He became Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Volunteers in 1780, and was prominent at the Dungannon Convention two years later, which gave the final impetus to legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament. A great Irishman and strong opponent of the Union he died in August, 1799, before the Union was enacted, and is buried in the family vault in Armagh Cathedral. See portrait below.


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EXTREMELY RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 83. [CHARLES II] The Mischiefs and Unreasonableness of Endeavouring to Deprive His Majesty of the Affections of his Subjects by misrepresenting Him and His Ministers. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Ray at Colledge-Green, for Samuel Helsham Bookseller in Castle-street 1681. Quarto. pp. [2], 12, [2]. Modern half calf on marbled boards. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €1,350

Wing M 2238. Sweeney 3042. COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 2. Authorship attributed to King Charles II in British Library Catalogue. Dated at Dublin, May 24th, the author alleges that there is a further source of danger: "We have truly too many of that restless turbulent spirit still among us who are for the Good Old Cause, and those good days wherein the saints did kill and plunder; They remember what fell to their shares then, and be their designs and hopes which way they will, they have a secret unaccountable inclination to be at the old trade". See illustration on previous page.

84. CHILDERS, Erskine. The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service. With maps. London: Thomas Nelson, n.d. pp. 382. Blue faded cloth, title in blind on upper cover and on spine. From the library of Diarmuid Ó Sútaon with his library stamp. In pencil on titlepage under author's name "(Executed by 'Free State' Government) 1922". A well read copy. €65 85. [CHILDRENS] The Sons of Uisneach. Illustrated. Dublin: The International Trading Company of Ireland, [1923]. Quarto. pp. 12. Stiff pictorial stapled wrappers. Mild foxing to covers. A very good copy. Very rare. €235

No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Date of publication from NLI Catalogue.

86. [CHILDRENS] Fionn and the Fianna. Illustrated. Dublin: The International Trading Company of Ireland, n.d. (c.1923). Quarto. pp. 12. Stiff pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare. €235

No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. 87. [CHRONOLOGY] A Chronology of some Memorable Accidents, From the Creation of the World, to The Year, 1742. With list of subscribers. Dublin: Printed by James Carson, in Coghill's-Court, Dame Street, opposite to the Cattle-Market, 1743. pp. xii, + errata, 112. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib. with stamps. Some foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475

COPAC locates 7 copies only. Only eBook on WorldCat. ESTC T97269 listing 3 copies only in Ireland. Not in Gilbert. Bradshaw 775. The first thirty-four pages of this work is a conventional chronology based on Biblical and classical Greek Sources. With the birth of St. Patrick in 377, an element of Irish history is introduced and this


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increases with the passage of time. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the events include: crimes; executions; fires; duels and accidents. There is also a record of amounts raised by a charity sermon in all Dublin churches for poor weavers, by order of the Government. The total sum exceeded twelve hundred pounds. The list of subscribers runs to ten pages, double column, and many of them bought multiple copies. It includes: John Kearney, Patrick Lynch, John Maddox, Edward Mangan, Patrick Quinn of Tuam, Patrick Lynch, Miss Pilkington, Adam Tate, etc.

88. [CLANN NA POBLACHTA] Clann na Poblachta Árd-Fheis i dTigh an Árd-Mhaoir, Baile Átha Cliath ar an 12-13adh Bealtaine, '51. Clár Oifigiúil. Dublin: Mahon's Printing Works, Yarnhall Street, 1951, pp. [1], 4-22. Cream stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €125

AS MAY SUIT LA TOUCHE'S HOUSE DUBLIN 89. CLANRICARDE, John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl. Autograph letter signed to Messrs. Lechlin & Allen, 10 Feb. 1806, two pages (single sheet), address panel not present, returning two perfected drafts, with apologies for inadvertently not having divided the sum equally, noting that the demands can be paid in London at Drummond's or Puget [Paget?], as may suit La Touche's House, Dublin. The letter does not clarify the nature of the transaction. Edges frayed. €475

The Connaught Rangers, the 'Devil's Own', the 'Gallant Fighting 88th', was raised at Portumna in 1793 by Colonel the Honourable John Thomas de Burgh, later 13th Earl of Clanricarde. The first gathering of recruits was under the Clanricarde standard at Portumna Castle in County Galway. Unique letter as most of the Clanricarde archive was ordered to be burned by the last Earl.

A DEFINITIVE STUDY OF THE MAYO COAST 90. [CLARE ISLAND SURVEY] A Biological Survey of Clare Island in the County of Mayo, Ireland and of the Adjoining District. Parts 1-68 (all published): Introduction, Archaeology, Irish Names, Agriculture, Climatology, Geology, Botany, etc. Three volumes. Dublin: Published by Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd., for the Royal Irish Academy, 1911-1915. Royal octavo. 67 parts in 3 volumes (part 8 was never published). Blue buckram with original green wrappers bound in at end. Over 30 parts supplied in superior facsimile. Fine. Complete sets are exceedingly rare. €575

This extraordinary work was published by a committee under the chairmanship of Robert Lloyd Praeger. The survey of flora, fauna, antiquities, place-names, family names, geology, climatology, agriculture, meteorology, pisces, fungi, &c. of Clare Island and the adjoining mainland in the West of Ireland was carried out by over one hundred specialists from 1909-1911. Its main objective was to furnish a study of a typical area of the west coast, a region which provides some of the most remarkable and interesting faunistic and floristic problems in Europe. In addition to systematic zoology and botany, special attention has been given to questions of geographical distribution, dispersal, and ecology.

91. CLARKE, Michael. The Irish soldier in UNIFIL. A Sketchbook of paintings by M. Clarke. Carlow: Published by the Defence Forces, An Cosantóir, n.d. [1990]. Oblong quarto. pp. [40]. Yellow pictorial wrappers, with spiral binding. A very good copy. €75


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92. [CLARKE, Philip] The Writings of Volunteer Philip Clarke (The Omagh Prisoner). Compiled and edited by Seosamh MacCriostail. Illustrated. S.n., pp. 56. Pictorial wrappers. Owner's bookplate on first page. A very good copy. €65

The contents include: Notices of Tom Clarke, Cathal Brugha, Terence McSwiney, P.H. Pearse, James Connolly, Austin Stack, Roger Casement, Partition, Guerilla Warfare, Republican Movement, etc.

93. 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 lightly frayed 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 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 and with his savings opened a tobacconist's and newsagent's 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.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 94. COGHLAN, Daniel. The Ancient Land Tenures of Ireland. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, n.d. (c.1933). pp. [vii], 311, vii, + errata. Yellow cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Presentation inscription to M. Deegan from the author. A very good copy. Very scarce. €165

With chapters on: Review of the Laws and Institutions of Ancient Ireland; The Beginning of Written Irish Literature; Ancient Territorial Divisions; Influence of Land Laws and Customs on the Topographical Distribution of the Occupiers of Land; Ownership of Land in Ancient Ireland; The Descent of Land; 'Corpus Bescna' or the Customary Law and Fuidirs; On the Taking of Lawful Possession of Land; Bee Judgements; Cain Patrick - The Law of Chief and Tenant; Forfeiture of Land for Crimes; Early Ecclesiastical Law and Its Relation to Land; The Organisation of the Kindred in The Geilfine System, etc.

95. [COIMISIÚN NA GAELTACHTA] Coimisiún na Gaeltachta [Commission of Inquiry into the Preservation of the Gaeltacht]. Report. Dublin: Published by the S.O. for Coimisiún na Gaeltachta, 1926. Folio, pp. iv, 133, [1]. Cream printed frayed wrappers. Scarce. €275

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 3. General Richard James Mulcahy was Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Preservation of the Gaeltacht. Illustrated with one large folding map (600 x 770mm) showing the Irish speaking districts in pink and the partly Irish speaking districts in yellow as defined by the Commission. The report is followed by five appendixes, containing a mass of information under headings including: Special Census of the Gaeltacht, Tables relating to Educational Facilities, Returns of Irish Speakers in the Civil Service and Gárda Síochána and Tables and Graphs relating to Economic Conditions.

96. [COLLINS & GRIFFITH] Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. A Pictorial History. Cover illustration by Harry Clarke. Numerous other illustrations. Dublin: Martin Lester, Ltd., n.d. (1922). Quarto. First edition, first issue. pp. 62. Original illustrated wrapper. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375

Steenson B39.a. Contributions by Beaslai, O'Higgins, A.S. Green, MacNeill. With General Mulcahy's oration at Collins' graveside.

97. [CONG LANDS] Ten Vellum Indentures of Land Agreements between Thomas Elwood of Strand Hill in the County of Mayo, Robert Holmes and Charles Henry Cromie and others. Various dates: 1840, 1841, 1847, 1850s and 1861 pertaining to agreement of Thomas Elwood to purchase lands etc in and around Cong. Also one related item. The documents, to which fiscal stamps totalling approximately £44 (approximately £4400 in modern money) are attached, are lengthy and multiple-paged. Around 1840, Elwood, of Strand Hill House, Cong, agreed to pay the Church of Ireland Authorities £822, plus other subsequent costs, for the lands etc., which consisted of the Town of Cong and some hundreds of acres between Lough Corrib and Lough Mask. €575


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It was through those recently purchased Elwood lands that in the early 1850s, the Board of Works, abortively and famously, attempted to build a canal linking the great lakes of Lough Corrib and Lough Mask. The southern excavations of which commenced between Strand Hill House and the adjacent Ashford House, now the location of Ashford Castle and grounds. But as is well known, the canal through the lands putatively bought by Elwood was never used for navigation, because when the Board attempted to flow water through its excavations between the two lakes, the water quickly disappeared through porous limestone in its bed. Hence, having paid £2000 compensation for 15 plus acres of the requisite lands (1851 Vellum), the Board abandoned the canal project in 1854. To finance his tentative purchase, in the early 1840s, Thomas Elwood had obtained a £1000 mortgage from the Patriotic Assurance Company in Dublin, to which Elwood's liabilities increased substantially over time. The documents indicate multiple Reassignments of Elwood's mortgage and related indebtedness, between representatives of that Company. By 1861 it was clear that Elwood could not or would not settle such indebtedness and in 1861 the Company agreed to pay the Church Authorities the initial purchase price of £822, plus interest and other costs, and the lands thereby became the property of the Company. At the time of Griffith's Valuation in the mid 1850s, the Elwoods held four townlands in the parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine. Most of the Elwood estate of 621 acres was sold to Sir Arthur Guinness in 1871. The Irish Times reported that the sales realised over £21,000. This branch of the Elwood family resided at Strand Hill House, a two storey thatched house on the shore of Lough Corrib and situated opposite Ashford Castle. The house was used as the home of the Widow Tolan in the film 'The Quiet Man' made in 1951 and was knocked down in the 1970s. It is associated with the recorder of Japanese folklore, Lafcadio Hearn, who spent a childhood holiday at Strandhill with his aunt Mrs Elwood. Ashford Castle, originally a shooting lodge, in the style of a French chateaux, built on the shore of Lough Corrib by the Browne family of Castlemagarret and occupied in the late eighteenth century by a branch of that family. Thomas Elwood was agent for the Brownes in the early nineteenth century and is recorded as the occupier in 1814. Sold after the Famine to Benjamin Guinness. His son Arthur Lord Ardilaun expanded the building in the style of a Gothic castle. Sold by the Guinness family in 1939 the castle now functions as a world famous hotel.

UNIQUE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION COPY 98. CONNOLLY, James. Labour in Ireland. Labour in Irish History. The Re-Conquest of Ireland. With an introduction by Robert Lynd. Dublin: Maunsel, 1922. pp. xxxviii, 346. A most attractive copy bound in full morocco, gilt bordered. Spine divided into five compartments by raised bands, with title in gilt in second and fourth, blind tooling in remainder. Inscribed by William O'Brien (Trade Unionist and close friend of James Connolly) to William Norton, T.D. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €850

"James Connolly is Ireland's first Socialist martyr … Of all the leaders in the Insurrection of Easter Monday, 1916, he was most in the tradition of Wolfe Tone … One does not need to accept the point-of-view of the insurgent leaders in order to realise the value of Connolly's work as a Socialist historian and propagandist. Syndicalist, incendiary, agitator - call him what you will: it still remains true that his was the most vital democratic mind in the Ireland of his day" - Robert Lynd.

99. CONNOLLY, Nora. The Unbroken Tradition. Illustrated. With folding map of Dublin at the time of the 1916 Rising. With maps and illustrations. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. pp. 202. Black cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. Unobtrusive library stamps on a few pages. Cloth a little worn, otherwise a very good copy. €75

The author was the daughter of James Connolly, the Irish labour leader who co-signed the Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic in Easter, 1916.

100. CORKERY, Daniel. A Munster Twilight and The Hounds of Banba. Dublin: Talbot Press, n.d. pp. 146. Quarter linen on grey papered boards, title in black on spine. A very good copy. €45 101. [CORK'S FIGHTING STORY] Rebel Cork's Fighting Story from 1916 to the Truce with Britain. Illustrated. Tralee: Kerryman, n.d. (c.1947). pp. 208. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €95 102. COWELL, John. Sligo Land of Yeats' Desire. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: O'Brien, 1989. pp. 192. Blue boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65

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shadows and into the daylight. It is a marvellous book - informative and delightful. Dr. Cowell has an extraordinary subtle way of taking you by the hand - without at all seeming to do so - and revealing the almost hidden Sligo. He nudges you towards that side-road, across that valley, fills you in with a line of history, a short verse" - Dr. Cyril Daly.

103. CRAIG, Maurice. Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size. With photographs and floor plans. London: Architectural Press, 1977. Folio. pp. viii, 170. Cloth, titled in gilt. Owners inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy in dust jacket. €145

An excellent work by Ireland's leading expert in this field. The book deals at length with those 17th, 18th and early 19th-century houses of the middle size - neither the seats of the mighty, nor the simple vernacular buildings of the rural tradition. Stylistically and culturally these houses are extraordinarily interesting.

104. CROKER, Thomas Crofton. Researches in the South of Ireland. Illustrative of the Scenery, Architectural Remains and the Manners and Superstitions of the Peasantry with an Appendix containing a Private Narrative of the Rebellion of 1798. Illustrated with fourteen lithographs, from drawings by Alfred Nicholson and Miss Marianne Nicholson. London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. pp. vi, 393, 17 (plates), + errata. Quarto. Original half black morocco on cloth boards, titled in gilt direct on gilt decorated spine. Light foxing to frontispiece, otherwise a fine copy. €575

NSTC 2C43668. A pioneering work in Irish folklore for, unlike his contemporaries, Crofton Croker recognised that the realities of Irish rural life were equally as important as the old tombstones, decaying castles, and other features of the Irish countryside. Croker in the advertisment tells us: "The pretensions of this little volume are very humble, as it consists of little more than an arrangement of notes made during several excursions in the South of Ireland between the years 1812 and 1822". Dedicated to Alfred Nicholson and his daughter Marianne whom Croker married in 1830. For the students of '1798' history there is by way of appendix, an eye-witness narrative of the Rebellion in Wexford by Jane Adams.


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105. CROMMELIN, Maria Henrietta de la Cherois. Orange Lily. [A novel.] By M. Crommelin author of "Queenie", "My Love She's but a Lassie" "A Jewel of a Girl". London: George Routledge & Sons, New York: 416 Broome Street, 1880. pp. 374, 12. Illustrated green paper boards. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a nice copy. €375

COPAC locates 4 copies only. No copy on WorldCat. Loeber C498. Maria Henrietta de la Cherois Crommelin, known as May de la Cherois Crommelin, (1850-1930), novelist, poet and travel writer born at Carrowdore Castle in County Down. While growing up, she and her family often lived elsewhere because of the political situation at home, and Crommelin was educated by governesses. The family moved to Devon in the 1880s at the height of the Land War, and after the death of her traditionalist father in 1885 she lived independently in her own flat in London. Though her family were "French gentry", descended from the Huguenot linen merchant Louis Crommelin, they were not at all wealthy, and Crommelin earned a living by writing. One of her cousins was the astronomer Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin. She travelled widely, going to the Andes (which she described in her 1896 work Over the Andes From the Argentine to Chile and Peru, the West Indies, North Africa and elsewhere. She wrote 42 novels, which were often based upon her travels. Her first, Queenie, was published in 1874. Orange Lily of 1879 is set in Ulster, where she was born.

106. [CROMWELLIAN CONFISCATIONS] Indenture dated 25 April 1688 whereby Richard

and Henry Titchborne of Dublin grant property in Cork City to Noblet Dunscombe, Thomas Farron and Robert Fletcher of Cork, to hold for sixty-one years at an annual rent of £160. In very good condition. €685

Sir Henry Tichborne (c.1581-1667) was a leading soldier and statesman in seventeenth-century Ireland who held a number of important civil offices and military commands. During the English Civil War he was a Royalist and won praise for his successful defence of Drogheda. Although he later made his peace with Parliament he emerged at the Restoration with his reputation undamaged. English born, his family were a junior branch of the Tichborne Baronets of Tichborne, and he founded his own dynasty, which acquired the title Baron Ferrard. He began the building of the impressive Tichborne mansion at Beaulieu, in County Louth which still exists. Richard and Henry were granted the confiscated property in Cork and Dublin that had been due to him, and in this deed they rent out the Cork property to three prominent citizens. This is a lengthy document, listing the Titchborne property in Cork, house by house and stating in each case the names of the present tenants and the forfeiting owners who had held it in 1641. An important document showing how urban property was appropriated following the Cromwellian confiscations and the Acts of Settlement and Explanation passed by Charles II. Written in English on vellum (two membranes), signed and with three original seals.

107. CRONIN, Sean. Frank Ryan The Search for the Republic. Illustrated. Dublin: Repsol Publishing, 1980. pp. 284. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €75

The story of Frank Ryan, an Irish Republican, historian and veteran of the Spanish Civil War. 108. CURRY, Dr. Charles E. Ed. by. Sir Roger Casement's Diaries. "His Mission to Germany and the Findlay Affair". Edited with Foreword and Preface by Dr. Charles E. Curry. Illustrated. Munich: Arche, 1922. pp. 226. Pictorial green wrappers. Recased. A very good copy. €85


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109. DAWSON, James Esq. Canal Extensions in Ireland: Recommended to the Imperial Legislature, as the best means of Promoting the Agriculture - Draining the Bogs - and Employing the Poor, of Ireland: and also, as the surest means of Supplying the British Markets with Corn, Reducing the Rates of Foreign Exchanges, and facilitating the General Resumption of Cash Payments. With folding map. Dublin: Printed by William Porter, Grafton-street 1819. pp. [8], [1] 2-41, [1]. Wanting [42-48]. Original stitched wrappers. €125 110. DE BRÚN, P. 1916. A collection of four poems: Lacrymae Rerum, To Sean Mac Dermott, Casement in Berlin and Resurrection. Dublin: Cahill, n.d. pp. 8. Inscribed on lower cover 'i gCuimhne Pádraig [de Brún]' by Máiréad & Seán Mac an tSaoi dated 2.1.1917. Printed stapled wrappers. Creased. €35

Máiréad, wife of Seán McEntee, was a sister of [Mons.] Pádraig de Brún.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 111. DE BURCA, Seamus. The Soldier's Song. The story of Peadar Kearney. Illustrated. Dublin: P.J. Bourke, 1958. pp. 255. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. Dublin: P.J. Bourke, 1958. pp. 255. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to Des Flanagan. A very good copy in rare dust jacket. €265

Peadar Kearney (1883-1942), was the author of the Irish national anthem. Born in Dublin, an uncle of Brendan Behan, grew up in Dolphin's Barn and was educated at Model School, Schoolhouse Lane and Marino CBS. He left school at fourteen and worked in a variety of jobs. He joined the Gaelic League in 1901 and became a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1903. In 1907 he wrote the words of The Soldier's Song, and his friend Patrick Heeney, wrote the music. It became the marching song of the Irish Volunteers and in 1926 became our national anthem. He also wrote other popular songs including 'Down by the Glen Side', 'The Three Coloured Ribbon', etc.

112. DE LATOCNAYE, J.L.B. A Frenchman's Walk through Ireland 1796-7. (Promenade d'un Français dans l'Irlande). Translated from the French of De Latocnaye by John Stevenson. With an introduction by John A. Gamble. Belfast: McCaw Stevenson, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1917. pp. xiv, 287. Green papered boards, title in black on upper cover and on spine. A fine copy. €45

The Chevalier De Latocnaye was a Breton, an officer and a Royalist who fled France for England after the Revolution. He arrived in London in December, 1792 and formed a project to travel through England and Scotland, recording his impressions to turn them into a book. After the publication of his first Promenade, he set off for Ireland, armed with letters of introduction to members of the gentry, to tour the country on foot. This volume details that journey.


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113. DERRICKE, John. The Image of Irelande with a Discoverie of Woodkerne. With an introduction, translation and glossary by David B. Quin. Preface by Liam Miller and foreword by John A. Gamble. With twelve folding woodcut illustrations. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1985. Quarto. pp. xxx, 220, 1 (2 plates). Quarter vellum on blue boards. Limited to 286 copies for sale. A fine copy in slipcase. Scarce. €295

The author of this historical poem John Derricke was a follower of Sir Henry Sidney, Elizabeth's Lord Deputy of Ireland. The Image of Irelande was written in 1578 and first published in 1581. The work is acclaimed for the set of twelve rude but curious woodcut illustrations of Irish Woodkerne (Foot soldiers). Depicting the costumes of the Irish at the close of the sixteenth century both civil, ecclesiastical and military. The illustrations included are: An Irish Chieftain; A Body of Kerne Burning a House; The MacSweeney Chiefs at Dinner; A Friar Blessing an Irish Chief; Triumphant return of the English Soldiers; Sir Henry Sidney setting out from Dublin Castle; Sidney delivering a Letter to an Irish Kerne (Donolle Obreane); The English Troops marching through the Countryside; Flight of the Irish with a Piper lying on the ground and his bagpipe beside him; Sidney's Entry into Dublin; Rory Oge O'More in the Wilderness; and the Submission of Turlogh Lynagh O'Neale. Of the original edition only one complete copy is known and is located in the Drummond collection at Edinburgh University.

SIGNED BY ÉAMON DE VALERA 114. 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. Inscribed to 'Rev. Fr. Cullen / Eamón de Valéra / Nodlaig 1926' on titlepage. Minor wear to spine, otherwise a very good copy. €285

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 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


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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".

SIGNED BY EAMON DE VALERA 115. [DE VALERA, Eamon] President De Valera. Recent Speeches and Broadcasts. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1933. pp. 61. Printed green wrappers with French flaps. Some browning. Signed by Eamon de Valera. A good copy. €165

Carefully chosen selection showing De Valera in presidential mode, addressing Eucharistic Congress, Assembly of League of Nations etc.

116. [DE VALERA, Eamon] Taoiseach's Broadcast to the Nation. Reprinted from "The Irish Press", Thursday 17th May 1945. Dublin: 1945. Quarto. pp. 8. Pictorial wrappers, with reproduced photo of De Valera at the microphone on upper cover. Dev's celebrated reply to Churchill's complaint about Irish neutrality during the War - in terms of popular support, perhaps his finest hour. In very good condition. €150 117. [DE VALERA, Eamon] News Review. The First British News magazine. Issue for 3 January 1946, featuring a cover story with colour illustration on 'Eire's De Valera. The Republican became the Uncrowned King'. €65 118. [DE VALERA, Eamon] The Partition of Ireland. Address by Eamon de Valera, T.D. at The Stadium, Liverpool on Sunday, 10th October, 1948. Under the auspices of the Liverpool and Lancashire Area Council Anti-Partition of Ireland League. Souvenir Programme. Belfast: Irish News, 1948. pp. 24. Printed green, white and gold card. A good copy. Scarce. €150

Includes a map of Ireland showing partition boundaries, various articles, and the words of 'The Soldier's Song'.

119. DE VALERA, Sinéad. Teach i n-Áirde. Fronnsa beag i gcomhair buachaillí. Baile Átha Cliath: M.H. MacGuill agus a Mhac, 1936. pp. 20. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €25 120. DE VALERA, Sinéad. An tSean-Bhean a Bhí i n-a Comhnuidhe i mbróig. Baile Átha Cliath: M.H. MacGuill agus a Mhac, 1940. pp. 24. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €25 121. DE VALERA, Sinéad. Bronntanas Nodlag. Baile Átha Cliath: M.H. MacGuill agus a Mhac, 1940. pp. 20. Printed wrappers. Very good. €25

Sinead De Valera (née Flanagan) (1878-1975), was a primary school-teacher before her marriage to Eamon De Valera. She wrote many plays and short-stories for children, mainly in Irish, in addition to translating many folk-tales and legends.

122. DE VALERA, Sinéad. Na Buidéil Draoidheachta. Illustrated. Baile Atha Cliath: MacGuill (M.H. Gill), 1936. pp. 16. Pictorial wrappers. Staples rusted. A very good copy. €25 123. DE VALERA, Sinéad. Dánta do Leanbhaí. Aistrithe ar fhinscéalta de chuid La Fontaine. Máire Éamuinn a Mhaisigh iad. Baile Átha Cliath: n.d. pp. [16]. Printed wrappers. Very good. €25


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124. [DEVOY, John]. "The Greatest of the Fenians". John Devoy. Illustrated. Kildare: 1964. Issued by the John Devoy Memorial Committee. pp. 27. Illustrated wrappers. €25 125. DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece, and twelve engraved plates. London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First edition. pp. vii, [1], 190. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, spine richly gilt, title and author in gilt on maroon morocco labels. Some mild foxing, small surface tear to corner of leather. A very attractive copy. €385

Smith 16; Podeschi, Gimbel Collection A155. Dickens' final, unfinished novel, interrupted by his death on the 9th of June,1870. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone novel. 'What the Sage of Gad's Hill might have accomplished had he lived to create an important fictional detective is a no less intriguing mystery than the unrevealed solution of the story itself, which has occupied so many minds' - Howard Haycraft; 'Murder For Pleasure'. Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and plates by Samuel Luke Fildes.

126. DICKSON, Charles. The Wexford Rising in 1798. Its Causes and its Course. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. (1955). pp. 273, [2] (map). Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45

In this authoritative work the author of the Life of Michael Dwyer completes his account of events in Wexford during the Rebellion of 1798. His research over a long period has disclosed valuable unpublished material and this has provided the key to an understanding of much which has hitherto been obscure. The author has been concerned, not only to detail the actual events of that evocative time but to describe without bias, sectarian or otherwise, the historical background and the motives which impelled the combatants on both sides to act as they did.

TO A DUBLIN BOOKSELLER 127. DILLON, John. Autographed Letter Signed to an unknown Correspondent but obviously to a Bookseller in Dublin, with their receipt stamp (barely visible). On Marine Terrace, Ballybrack headed paper, dated 30th August, 1891. Requesting chess books from the list which he has marked, he also makes reference to Forbes History and some other works. Two pages octavo folded. €275

John Dillon was the last Chairman of the Irish Party, and the last ex- Parnellite active in Irish politics. A supporter of Michael Davitt and the Land League, he supported the Home Rule Bill of 1912, opposed conscription, and condemned the 1916 executions in the strongest terms: "You have let Hell loose in Ireland", he wrote to Lloyd George. He was committed to achieving Home Rule by constitutional means, but found his position undermined by British policy in Ireland. In March 1918 he succeeded John Redmond as Irish Party leader, but in the General Election of that year his party was wiped out by Sinn Féin, and he lost his own seat in Mayo to Eamon de Valera.

128. DILLON, Myles. Ed. by. Lebor na Cert. The Book of Rights. Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1984. Second edition. pp. xxv, [1], 194, [6], viii (advertisements). Green papered boards titled in gilt. Some marginalia. A fine copy. €45

A FIRST ON THE IRISH HORSE 129. DIONYSIUS ALEXANDRIUS. Dionysii Afri De Situ Orbis: opus studiosis necessarium, Græce scriptum / idem in Latinitatē à Rhemnio grammatico translatū, falsò hactenus Prisciano adscriptum. In idem, Cœlij Calcagnini annotatiunculæ, ex libris eiusdem excerptæ. Basil: Apud Val. Curionem, 1522. 12mo. 62 leaves unnumbered (A-G8, H6). Text in Greek and Latin. Woodcuts titlepage, initials, and printer's device. Text in Greek with Latin translation. Bound by Lloyd in nineteenth century full brown morocco. Spines divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands; title and year in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder tooled with a gilt floral tool. From the library of Fairfax Murray with his bookplate on front pastedown. Repair to top margin of engraved titlepage. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250

COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only. Adams, D644. Dionysius Periegetes (Διονύ ιο ὁ Πε ιηγη ή , literally Dionysius the Voyager or Traveller, often Latinized to Dionysius Periegeta) was the author of a description of the then-known world in Greek hexameter verse. He is believed to have been from Alexandria and to have lived around the time of Hadrian, though some date his lifetime as late as the end of the third century.


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The work enjoyed popularity in ancient times as a schoolbook. It was translated into Latin by Rufus Festus Avienus, and by the grammarian Priscian. In translation, it has to be said, it gained as well as lost in that it now contains material of which Dionysius could have had no knowledge. Because of the brevity of some of his entries, notably that dealing with Ireland, the translator made his own additions to the text and thus he writes "Ea longe copiosiores equos parit. atque eos eiusmodi: ut nõ videant nisi quodam suavissimo incessu deambulare a natura didicisse: ac cü quadã quasi modulatione progredi more regio". This can be construed as the first published advertisement for the merits of the Irish horse and was surely certainly prompted by reports of horse purchases of which Beccaria would have heard, as these were made in Ireland in the mid-15th century by the duke of Ferrara's agent. At least it can be said that De situ orbis offers a more acceptable image of Ireland for its medieval audience than that propagated by Strabo and Pomponius Mela who restricted their minuscule coverage of the island to barbarism, cannibalism and incest. Edited by Giovanni Mazzocchi. The translation is still generally ascribed to Priscian. Imprint from colophon, with printer's device (Heitz 102) by Holbein; titlepage has abbreviated imprint: "Apud inclytam Basileam". Title within an illustrated woodcut border incorporating the printer's device (Heitz 106), ascribed to Hans Holbein. Provenance: from the Library of Charles Fairfax Murray.

ONE OF HURLING'S IMMORTALS 130. [DOYLE, Tommy] A Lifetime in Hurling. By Tommy Doyle as told to Raymond Smith. Foreword by Phil Purcell. Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1955. First edition. pp. 191. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in rare but slightly frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €275 131. [DRAMA LEAGUE] The Dublin Drama League. Programme for: The Family Reunion. A Verse Play in a Contemporary Setting by T.S. Eliot. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 15th, 16th and 17th. Dublin: 1941. Tall octavo, four pages folded, printed on all sides. In fine condition. €65

The Cast included: Marjorie Williams, Shelah Richards, Rita O'Dea, Louise Hutton; James Dunne, Tom Purefoy, Mona Sayers, Robert Mooney, etc. Cover illustration by Harry Clarke.

132. [DRAPERS' ASSISTANT] The Drapers' Assistant. The Official Journal of the Irish Drapers' Assistants' Benefit and Protective Association. Volumes 4, 12, & 14 April 1906 / March 1917. With illustrations and numerous advertisements. Thirty-six parts in three volumes. Dublin: Printed on Irish-Made Paper by An Cló-Chumann, 1906/1917. Quarto. Mauve cloth, titled in gilt by Dollard with their stamp and label. Boards faded and lacking two spines, otherwise in very good condition. €475


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The union was formed in 1901 as the Irish Drapers' Assistants' Benefit and Protective Association, was registered in 1903 and affiliated to the Trade Union Congress 1904/5. It was formed by Michael O'Lehane who was General Secretary from 1901 until 1919. He was one of the many influential contemporaries of Connolly and Larkin. The contents include reports from Dublin and other branches throughout the country: Limerick, Belfast, Cork, Ballinasloe, Clonmel, Galway, Killarney, Carlow, Waterford, Fermoy, Midleton, Derry, Sligo, Wexford, Tipperary, Tralee, Ballina, Enniscorthy, Athlone, Strabane, Bray, Mullingar, Kilkenny, Westport, Kingstown, Listowel, Mitchelstown, Ballyhaunis, Swinford, Fermoy, Ballaghderreen, Skibbereen, Castlebar, Castlerea, Claremorris, etc. There are articles on: The Temperance Cause; The Trades Congress; Workmen's Compensation Bill; Mr. Carnegie on Trade Unions; Medical Aid Fund; Camden Street Holocaust; Disfranchised Shop Assistants; 'Sinn Féin' on the Dispute; Dispute between Buyers and their staff; The Question of 'Instant Dismissals'; Great Public Meeting of Assistance in Dublin; The Industrial Conference; The Irish Trademark; Combining the Drapery Employers' Association and the Merchant Drapers' Association; Uncalled Language by a Police Magistrate; The Waterford Drapery Dispute; Medical Aid Fund; C.J. Kickham Club Whist Drive; The Origin and Cause of the Rebellion; The Wages Question; Our Enemy - Being a Brief Review of the Campaign of Infamy directed against the Trades Union Movement; Technical and Commercial Education; Visit Kilkee, Spanish Point, Lahinch, and Lisdoonvarna; The Female Peril; Members of the Benevolent Fund; Some thoughts on Irish Watering Places; The World of Labour, etc.

133. [DRUID THEATRE] Programme for the Performance of Waiting for Godot. By the Druid Theatre Company in Galway. Directed by Gary Hynes. [March 1987]. Galway: 1987. Broadsheet folded. Illustrated by Brian Bourke. In fine condition. €35

The Cast included: Ray McBride, Seán McGinley, Máirtín Jaimsie, Mick Lally, etc. 134. [DUBLIN] Guide to Dublin and its Vicinity. With illustrations and folding map. Dublin: Hodges Figgis. n.d. (c.1916). pp. [v], 74, 8 (Advertisements). Illustrated wrappers. Spine frayed, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €75

The advertisements include: Hodges Figgis & Co. 104 Grafton Street, Booksellers to the University; The Shelbourne Hotel rated "The Best Hotel in Dublin" by The Queen, June 16th, 1906.

135. [DUBLIN ACCOUNT BOOK 1850s] A small morocco-backed account book with ruled pages, octavo, approximately 200 pages. Label of J. Browne, Nassau-Street, Dublin inside front cover. Containing detailed cash accounts 1852-59, not long after the Great Famine. The accounts are mostly domestic, entered in ink in a neat hand, receipts on left, expenditure on right. Receipts include 'Received from Mary Murphy, six months wages, £3.10.0' [1855, 16 Oct.], 'Received from Mother, 1.10' [1855, 12 May] etc.; spending is mainly on food and domestic items, bread, candles, spices, arrowroot, washing, servants etc. Unsigned; but pinned in at 28 July 1855 is a printed receipt from St. James' Gate Brewery issued to Mr. Matthews for a quantity of DS [Double Strength?] Porter, £1.2.6, with Casks 8 sh., total £1.10.6d. 1855 was the year in which Benjamin Lee Guinness took control of the St. James' Gate company, setting it on a path of rapid expansion. The brewery was then more than 100 years old; it was acquired by Arthur Guinness from a previous owner in 1759. Production of porter, known locally as 'Guinness's black Protestant porter', began there in 1778. A useful document which provides current prices for a wide variety of domestic and food items through the 1850s, not to mention the porter. In very good condition. €375 136. [DUBLIN CASTLE PATRONAGE] Autograph letter signed from Hugh Percy, Earl of Northumberland, then Lord Lieutenant at Dublin Castle, 30 Dec. 1763, to an unnamed recipient, 'thanking you for your two very obliging letters, and for the curious and entertaining details you favoured me with of the Debates in your House ... I have the substance of the whole without the trouble of fourteen hours attendance ... I hope it is unnecessary for me to assure you that I shall always have the greatest satisfaction in promoting your Interests and those of your Friends, I strongly recommended your Brother Sr. John for election to parliament and I shall be very happy to contribute towards obtaining for Mr. Edward some establishment suited to his learning and merit. I find there is likely to be a contest at Cambridge for the office of High Steward in case of Lord Hardwicke's death, may I beg your interest and your brothers vote for Lord Sandwich. You


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cannot oblige me more than by complying with this request, and I know his Lordship will acknowledge the obligation, and you will find him a steady and useful Friend ... The honour you wish for Lord Pollington will easily be settled when any others are granted or when I return, but it would subject me to some inconveniencies if it was done sooner … ' Four pages (single folded sheet), address leaf not present, reinforced at fold, extensively water stained and hence difficult to read in parts, but decipherable. An interesting example of the conduct of Government business at Dublin Castle. Evidently the recipient belonged to one of the Anglo–Irish families which relied on the patronage of the Castle and Crown. €265 137. [DUBLIN CUSTOM HOUSE] Broadside. By Authority. Daily List of Goods Imported and Exported. Issued from the Custom House, Dublin, Monday, Jan. 8th, 1810. Referring to Provisions in and out of Dublin Port to Oporto, St. Ubes, London, Bristol, Glasgow, Chepstow, and Cardiff. Exports to Barbados. Listed are: the names of the importers and details of the materials/provisions imported along with duties on the items. 153 x 190mm. Framed and glazed. Top right hand corner of margin torn off (not affecting text), otherwise in very good condition. €475

The goods included: pipes, port wine, salt, peas, beans, chests of tea, thrown silk, flutes, fifes, looking-glasses, back-gammon boxes, hops, sugar, barrels red earth, baskets of cheese, pig iron, bundles wool hoops, leather gloves, candles etc. Listed are the importers: Robin Walsh, John Crawford, Val. O'Connor Jun., William Berry, Shaw, Turbett & Co., P. Wilkinson, P. Donegan, Thomas Corrigan, Egan & Magee, Robert Purdy, Richard Cullen, Ann Binns, James Ramsey, Folliott Magrath, etc.

138. [DUBLIN] Map of Dublin. Revised, enlarged and coloured with alphabetical index and suggested tours booklet. Showing the principal thoroughfares and places of interest. Based on the Ordnance Survey. Large folding map. With adverts and illustrations on verso. 730 x 490mm. In printed stiff card folding wallet. A very good copy. €65 139. [CITY OF DUBLIN] Large Panoramic Hand-Coloured View of the City of Dublin. Being number 1 of a series of views of the principal capitals in Europe. London: Supplement to The Illustrated London News, June, 6, 1846. Oblong. 380 x 1080mm. A very good copy of a magnificent item. Framed and glazed. Scarce. €1,250


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Founded by Herbet Ingram The Illustrated London News was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine; its inaugural issue appeared on Saturday, 14 May 1842. The publication utilised a wide selection of woodblock engravings to depict important events of the day. The magnitude of the view allows for considerable detail to be shown including ships on the Liffey and even individual figures discernible on the dockside and in the city's parks and gardens. A magnificent birds-eye view of the capital with key to the panorama listing 153 locations. Key to buildings in superior facsimile on verso of frame.

DUBLIN'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM 140. DUBLIN'S FIGHTING STORY Dublin's Fighting Story 1916-1921. Told by the men who made it. With a unique pictorial record of the period. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1947. pp. 226. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €95

PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO W.E. GLADSTONE

141. DUFFERIN, The Rt. Hon. Lord. Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land in Ireland. Illustrated with a coloured map, charts and tables. London: Wills, Sotheran & Co, 1867. First edition. pp. xxii, [ii], 402. Contemporary full green morocco, title and author in gilt direct in the second and third compartments; turn-ins gilt; gold, red and blue endbands. Presentation copy from the author to the Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone. Inscribed on front free endpaper 'The Rt. Hon. / W.E. Gladstone / from the Author / 1865'. Signature of Robert H. Farrell, 1892, on titlepage. Contemporary full green morocco. All edges gilt. A near fine copy. €1,250

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate terms. Gladstone's first ministry saw many reforms including Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting. After his electoral defeat in 1874, Gladstone resigned as leader of the Liberal Party, but from 1876 began a comeback based on opposition to Turkey's Bulgarian atrocities. His Midlothian Campaign of 1879-80 was an early example of many modern political campaigning techniques. After the 1880 election, he formed his second ministry, which saw crises in Egypt (culminating in the death of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885), and in Ireland, where the government passed repressive measures but also improved the legal rights of Irish tenant farmers. The government also passed the Third Reform Act. Back in office in early 1886, Gladstone proposed Irish


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Home Rule but this was defeated in the House of Commons in July. The resulting split in the Liberal Party helped keep them out of office, with one short break, for twenty years. In 1892 Gladstone formed his last government at the age of 82. The Second Irish Home Rule Bill passed the Commons but was defeated in the Lords in 1893. He resigned in March 1894, in opposition to increased naval expenditure. He left Parliament in 1895 and died three years later aged eighty-eight. Gladstone is famous for his oratory, his religiosity, his liberalism, his rivalry with the Conservative Leader Benjamin Disraeli, and for his poor relations with Queen Victoria, who once complained, "He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting". Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as "The People's William" or the "G.O.M." ("Grand Old Man", or, according to Disraeli, "God's Only Mistake"). Gladstone is consistently ranked as one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers An important and significant historical association copy. Gladstone said of Ireland before the Great Famine: "Ireland, Ireland! that cloud in the West, that coming storm, that minister of God's retribution upon cruel and inveterate and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us these great social and great religious questions - God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face and to work through them ". He was a champion of Irish grievances and a year after the publication of this work he brought down Disraeli's Conservative government with his proposal for the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. On forming his first administration he stated: "My mission is to pacify Ireland". Frederick Blackwood (1826-1902), Lord Dufferin, Marquis of Dufferin & Ava, born in Florence, was one of the most distinguished British diplomats and administrators in government and public service. In 1847 he went to Skibbereen to help famine victims. He served, among other important posts as Governor-General of Canada, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, to Turkey to Egypt, to Italy, and to France. He was also the author of the celebrated account of his maritime travels Letters from High Latitudes. A disastrous mining venture and the death of his eldest son in the Boer War clouded his final years at Clandeboye.

142. DUIGENAN, Patrick. L.L.D. A Fair Representation of the Present Political State of Ireland; In a course of Strictures on two Pamphlets, one entitled 'The Case of Ireland Re-Considered'; and the other entitled 'Considerations on the State of Public Affairs in the year 1799, - Ireland'; with Observations on other modern Publications on the Subject of An Incorporating Union of Great Britain and Ireland, particularly on a Pamphlet entitled 'The Speech of Lord Minto in the House of Peers, April 11, 1799'. London: Printed for J. Wright, 1799. pp. [2], 253, 3 (advertisement). Modern quarter calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Rare. €175

ESTC T109722. Not in Gilbert Bradshaw 2600. Patrick Duigenan (1735-1816), Irish politician was a native of County Leitrim. His father intended him for the priesthood but his talents were spotted by a Protestant clergyman who educated him, and eventually made him a tutor in his school. Before long he became a Protestant, entered Trinity College, took a degree, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1767. He opposed the appointment of John Hely Hutchinson as Provost and wrote a series of pamphlets and squibs on that subject collected into a volume entitled Lachrymae Academicae or the present deplorable state of the College. He was an ardent supporter of the Act of Union and opposed all measures of Catholic relief. He did however marry a Catholic lady, Miss Cusack, whom he permitted to keep a Catholic chaplain, and in his will left his vast fortune to his wife's nephew, Sir William Cusack Smith. The present volume is an important work on the political state of Ireland from the 1798 Rebellion to the Act of Union. This edition is headed 'Genuine Edition, corrected by the Author'.

SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST 143. [DUNDALK DRAWINGS] Drawings of Dundalk & District by Micheál McKeown. A collection of sixteen fine monochrome pen and ink sketches. S.n. [1974-1976]. Small oblong quarto. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Signed by the artist with limitation number '70' on inside cover. Some mild foxing to wrappers, drawings in fine condition. €75

Drawings include: The Livery Stables, Crowe St.; No. 1 Park Street, Dundalk, King Bruce's Tavern; Dundalk Club; The Church & Widow's Houses, Castlebellingham; Castlebellingham Mill from the Bridge; The Launching Shed at the Point; Stone Circle at Ravensdale; Pirate Byrne's Castle; Near Essmore Hse, Cooley; Ancient Cross in Dromiskin; A Study of Musicians around Dundalk; The Windmill from Mill Street Corner; Objects seen in Dundalk; Stapleton House before demolition; Derelict Cottage on Ardee Road. Numbered 70 of what was possibly 100 copies only.


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144. DUNRAVEN, Earl of. On an Ancient Chalice and Brooches found at Ardagh, in the County of Limerick. Illustrated with coloured lithographs, folding plate and other illustrations. Dublin: The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1873. Quarto. pp. 433-454, [1], [2 (plates)], iv. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €225

COPAC locates 3 copies only. The Ardagh Chalice, is a two-handled chalice, of an elaborate construction of over two hundred and fifty main components. The bowl and foot are made of beaten, lathe-polished silver, the stem is cast gilt-copper alloy. It is decorated with gold filigree, granulation, multi-coloured enamels, a large rock-crystal, amber, malachite, knitted, cast, stamped and openwork metal objects. It is now on display in the National Museum of Ireland. The chalice ranks with the Book of Kells as one of the finest known works of Insular art, indeed of Celtic art in general, and is thought to have been made in the 8th century. The Chalice was found in 1868 by two boys, Jim Quinn and Paddy Flanagan, digging in a potato field on the south-western side of a rath (ring fort) called Reerasta, beside the village of Ardagh, County Limerick. The chalice held some other precious items and was covered by a slab of stone; the pieces must have been interred in a hurry, probably temporarily, as though the owner probably intended to return for them at a later time. 145. DUNS SCOTUS, JOHANNES Scotus scriptus

primum Oxoniense subtilissimi theologi Joannis duns Scoti ord. minorum super primo sententiarum. doctoris magistri Mauritij de Portu Hybernici ordinis minor[um] Archiepiscopi Tuamensis dignissimi. Parts 1-2 (of 5) in one volume. Venice: Heirs of Octavianus Scotus, 31 October-8 January 1521. Folio. 142; 85, [1] leaves, including final blank. Contemporary full vellum, spine professionally rebacked. Sporadic dense marginalia in first part, monastic inscription, stamp of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and Rev. Luke McCabe on titlepage. Dark stains at end of second part. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,450

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 2. Sweeney 1607 lists the 1506 edition. Maurice O'Fihely (d.1308), a Franciscan, who saw the work through the press was born in Baltimore, County Cork. Hence the name "Mauritius de Portu" by which he was widely known to his contemporaries who also bestowed on him the flattering nickname "Flos Mundi". There is also a school of thought with other writers who see it as deriving from the Augustinian monastery St Maria de Portu Puro in the western diocese of Clonfert. After teaching in Milan and Padua, he became censor of the press in Venice to Octavianus Scoti and thus may also lay claim to being the first Irishman to play a major role in the new world of printing. Appointed Archbishop of Tuam by Pope Julius II in 1506.


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He did not return to Ireland till 1513, in the meantime attending as Archbishop of Tuam the first two sessions of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512). On leaving for Ireland to take formal possession of his See, O'Fihely procured from the Pope an indulgence for all those who would be present at his first Mass in Tuam. However, he was destined not to reach Tuam, for he fell ill in Galway and died there in the Franciscan convent.


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O'Fihely's significance lies primarily in his promotion of the work of the philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus. Though initially regarded by the Franciscans as an important commentator on the standard theological textbook of the middle ages, the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Scotus was later adopted as the basic authority in Franciscan studia. The invention of printing further fuelled this revival of interest in his work, and O'Fihely was responsible for editing a number of his works for the press as well as publishing commentaries on key aspects of his doctrine. His edition of Scotus' Questiones subtilissme Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis (Venice, 1497) has the distinction of being the first work prepared for the printing press by an Irishman. Though his efforts do not seem to have had any direct impact on his contemporary confreres in Ireland, he laid the foundations for the revival of interest in Scotism that was such a feature of Irish Franciscan intellectual activity in the seventeenth century. Friar Luke Wadding and other members of the Irish friary at St Isidore's College, Rome drew extensively on O'Fihely's editions and commentaries in their edition of the Opera omnia of Scotus (12 vols, Lyons, 1639). As for the Irishness or otherwise of Duns Scotus, it is a matter that may never be finally resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Modern scholarship argues against Ireland, and Scotland seems the most likely, but this was certainly not the opinion entertained by early Irish editors who devoted so much effort to producing a definitive edition of the corpus of this late 13th-century Franciscan.

146. [EASON'S TABLE BOOK] Eason's Bilingual Table Book. In English and Irish. Dublin: Printed and Published by Eason & Son, Ltd, n.d. (c.1923). pp. 48. Green stapled printed wrappers. A fine copy. €75

No copy located on COPAC. Published date from NLI Catalogue. 147. [EASTER 1916-1966] Oidhreacht 1916-1966. Illustrated. Dublin: Arna Fhoilsiu Ag Oifig an tSolathair, 1966. Quarto. pp. 21, 12 (illustrations). Pictorial green, white and gold stiff wrappers. €30

Commemorative booklet was issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. It gives the political and military background to the events leading up to the Rising, Patrick Pearse's oration at the grave of O'Donovan Rossa, the Declaration, and a full account of all who died. The words in Irish and English of the national Anthem and there are photographs of all the leading participants. In both English and Irish language.

148. [EASTER PROCLAMATION] The Easter Proclamation. The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic To the People of Ireland. Dublin: Published at The Sign of the Three Candles, 1966. Broadsheet. Printed in red and black with an ornate Celtic border. 350 x 460mm. Framed and glazed. In fine condition. Exceedingly rare. €475

Not in De Búrca. Published by Colm O Lochlainn to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion.

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149. [ESOP] Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists. In three books. With plates. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1760. Bound by Trevor Lloyd in a replica eighteenth-century Irish Binding. Covers lavishly tooled with a wide gilt border made up of flowers, stars, circles, dots and cornucopia. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on blue morocco label on the second compartment, the remainder lavishly tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; board edges and turn-ins gilt tooled in gilt; comb-marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. All edges gilt. Also included is the original gilt tooled upper board. Housed in a magnificent quarter morocco solander box. A superb example by this renowned bookbinder. €2,650

Trevor Lloyd stated that a Baskerville Printing of the Book of Common Prayer was a favourite for many Irish Bindings of the eighteenth-century and of one of his Bindings he states "I bound in a style closely resembling those produced in the large Bindery of George Faulkner, in Dublin in the mid eighteenth-century. As with a lot of these bindings, it is only when you have finished them and taken stock that you realise that this involved over 2250 impressions - all done by hand and eye".

150. FARRELL, James P. History of The County Longford. With numerous illustrations and folding genealogical table of the O'Farrell Clan. Dublin: Dollard, 1891. First edition. pp. 361. Recent half calf on cloth boards, spine with raised bands and contrasting labels. Early owner's signature on titlepage. A fine copy. Very scarce. €475

The territory now comprising County Longford was traditionally known as Annaly (Anghaile in Irish), Tethbae or Teffia (Teabhtha in Irish) and formed the territory of the Farrell or O'Farrell clan. After the Norman invasion of the 12th century, Annaly was granted to Hugh de Lacy as part of the Liberty of Meath. An English settlement was established at Granard, with Norman Cistercian monasteries being established at Abbeylara and Abbeyshrule, and Augustinian monasteries being established at Abbeyderg and at Saints' Island on the shore of Lough Ree. Monastic remains at Ardagh, Abbeylara, Abbeyderg, Abbeyshrule, Inchcleraun Island in Lough Ree, and Inchmore Island in Lough Gowna are reminders of the county's long Christian history. However, by the 14th century, these Normans became more Irish than the Irish themselves. The town of Granard was sacked by Edward Bruce's army in 1315, and the O'Farrells soon recovered complete control over their former territory. The county was officially shired in 1586 in the reign of Elizabeth I, but English control was not fully established until the aftermath of the Nine Years' War. County Longford was added to Leinster by James I in 1608 (it had previously been considered part of Connacht), with the county being divided into six baronies and its boundaries being officially defined. The county was planted by English and Scottish landowners in 1620, with much of the O'Farrell lands being confiscated and granted to new owners. The change in control was completed during the Cromwellian and Williamite plantations of the 1650s and 1690s. The county was a centre of the 1798 rebellion, when the French expeditionary force led by Humbert which had landed at Killala, County Mayo, were defeated outside the village of Ballinamuck on 8 September by a British army led by Cornwallis, who surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown - thus ending the American revolutionary war. Considerable reprisals were inflicted by the British on the civilian inhabitants of the county in the aftermath of the battle in which no quarter was given to the Irishmen who had joined with Humbert.

TWO WORKS IN ONE VOLUME 151. FERRAR, John. An History of the City of Limerick: Containing, I. Some account of its antiquity and present State. II. Annals of the City, and remarkable Occurrences relative to it, for several Centuries, from the most Ancient Writers. III. An History of the Churches and other public Buildings, with exact Copies of the ancient Inscriptions found in them. IV. A List of the Provosts, Mayors, Bailiffs and Sheriffs, from the Reign of Richard the first, to the present Time. The whole carefully transcribed from Manuscripts of impartial Writers, compiled from the most authentic Accounts, and embellished with the arms of the city, and [wanting] an elevation of the new Custom House, neatly engraved on copper. Bound with: The Limerick Directory: Containing Accurate and Complete Lists of all the Persons in Commission, Office, Employment or Business in the City. To which is added A schedule of the City Duties, Tolls and Customs, Water Bailiffs, Fees, &c. The Whole Forming a necessary and useful companion for those who


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have any Knowledge of, or Connexion with the City. Limerick: By Andrew Welsh, for John Ferrar, Bookseller, 1767/69. 12mo. pp. xx, 158, [2], 51, [1]. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Paper repair to last page with partial loss to one side only. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare book. €1,250

ESTC T76219. COPAC locates 5 copies only of the directory and ESTC T40993 with 3 locations.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 152. [FIRST DAIL] First Dail. Faisnéis Neamhspleádhchuis. Declaration of Independence. Scéal ón Dáil chum Saor-Náisiún an Domhain. Message to the Free Nations and Democratic Programme. Adopted by Dail Eireann in the Mansion House, Dublin, Tuesday 21st January 1919. With a list of 26 members present headed by Cathal Brugha [many others were unable to attend due to arrest by the British authorities]. Original printed stapled wrappers. No printer identified. pp. 12. Text in Irish and English. Tiny mark on upper cover, staples a little rusted, otherwise a fine copy of an exceedingly rare item, which was energetically suppressed by the British. €950

Not in Carty. The First Dail was a convocation of Irish representatives elected at the [United Kingdom] general election of November 1918, called to meet in Dublin instead of at the British Parliament at Westminster. In spite of sustained interference by the British authorities, it established a Government and a system of courts and finances that steadily took root among the people, gradually developing a functioning basis for the independence formally achieved in 1922. The Declarations printed in this rare pamphlet are a development of the Proclamation of the Provisional Government of 1916, with this important distinction: that they were voted by an Assembly with a clear democratic mandate, which even the British could not deny. A rare, important and impressive document.

153. FISK, Robert. In Time of War. Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-45. Illustrated. London: Andre Deutsch, 1983. First edition. pp. xvi, 565. Green papered boards. Loosely inserted is a Christmas Card from Bob Fisk dated at Beiruit, Christmas, 1983, to Declan Foreigh Staff, The Times, London. A fine copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €85

One of Churchill's most bitter frustrations was the act of goodwill whereby England handed back the ports of Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swilly to Ireland. To surrender three of the Royal Navy's finest harbours when Europe was about to go to war seem to Churchill an act of lunacy. And, in strategic terms it was. The loss of those safe bases cost hundreds of British lives in the forthcoming U-boat war and Irish intransigence - as the English saw it - led to such bad relations between Dublin and London


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that the British Army was warned it might soon have to invade the south of Ireland. In Time of War is not only an unique and authoritative study of Anglo-Irish relations at a critical period of European history, it is also a lucid and engaging piece of historical writing.

154. FITZHENRY, Edna C. Compiled by. Nineteen-Sixteen: An Anthology. Golden Jubilee Edition. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1966. pp. 112. Blue buckram, covers elaborately decorated in gilt. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Top edge blue. A fine copy. €75

With contributions by Yeats; Casement, Plunkett; MacDonagh; Ledwidge; Pearse; A.E.; Lady Gregory; Eva Gore-Booth, Joseph Campbell. Includes: Sixteen Dead Men by W.B. Yeats.

155. FITZPATRICK, Jim. Iconic two-tone portrait of Che Guevara created in 1968 and based on a photo by Alberto Korda. Colour 115 x 150 postcard photo of the Andy Warhol's silk screen of Fitzpatrick's iconic image of Ché Guevara, affixed to a cream card mount, signed in black ink, 'Jim Fitzpatric 05'. With caption '+ Warhol + Malenga / over Fitzpatrick' and also circling his initials visible in the photo. Creasing to top right corner, otherwise in fine condition. €475

Jim Fitzpatrick is best known for his intricate illustrations of Celtic mythology. It has taken Jim 42 years to seek copyright of his most famous work, the iconic poster of Che Guevara. He made the face that watched over a million fumbling kisses in a million bedsits all over the world. Jim Fitzpatrick's black-on-red silkscreen image of Che Guevara was based on a photograph by Alberto Korda, and when Fitzpatrick created it in 1968 he never sought the copyright. It is such an iconic image that it was carried as a banner in the recent Egyptian protests, and has led the march in demonstrations around the world. It is so famous that art historian Prof Martin Kemp put it at number six in the 10 most iconic images of all time (the Mona Lisa is number one); such is its renown, says Fitzpatrick, "often no one believes it was me".


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Now, the artist is fighting to win the copyright he hadn't wanted more than four decades ago – but it's actually a little more complicated than that. The drive to gain copyright began in 2004, when Fitzpatrick decided that he wanted to give the royalties from one of the world's most reproduced images to Cuba. Initially he wanted to donate to their hospitals, but then he realised that Cuban hospitals are so advanced that they could be teaching the Irish a thing or two. But he still wanted to make the gesture, so instead he will give the money to Guevara's widow, Aleida, and to the Cuban people. "It's not charity, it's solidarity", he says. One little-known fact about Ernesto Guevara ("Che" was a childhood nickname) is that he was of Irish heritage. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1928, the first child of Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna. Ernesto Guevara Lynch's mother, Ana Isabel Lynch, with whom Che's family lived for years and to whom Che grew especially close, was the daughter of immigrants who had sailed to Argentina from County Galway, at around the time of the Irish Famine.

156. 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. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €85

The Irish Citizen Army was founded on 23rd November 1913 by Jim Larkin, James Connolly and Jack White. It consisted of a small group of trained trade union volunteers from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, with their headquarter at Liberty Hall.

157. FRASER, Robert. General View of the Agriculture and Mineralogy, present State and Circumstances of the County of Wicklow, with observations on the means of their improvement; drawn up for the consideration of The Dublin Society. With coloured folding map of the county. Dublin: Graisberry, 1801. pp. [xii], 3, 284, 6 (index). Untrimmed. Original blue paper boards, spine repaired, with original printed title. Early owner's signature on titlepage. Some wear and mild staining to covers. A very good copy. €435

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, etc. These surveys had little or no leavening effect on Irish agriculture unlike their Scottish counterpart, and there is inconsistency in their compilation, invariably marred by the outlook of the ruling ascendancy class, who at best show a benevolent interest in the peasantry and labouring classes. The surveys are still the only complete picture we have of the state of Ireland in regard to its agriculture, industry, and the social conditions prevailing at that time. This is one of the rarest of all the statistical surveys as only 150 copies were published.

158. [FRENCH, Percy] Broadside: Ye Savage Club send off to Percy French & Dr. Collison. Sept. 27th 1910. Cartoon on their departure to Canada after a farewell dinner at the Savage Club. Printed on thick card. 225 x 290mm. In very good condition. €185

Percy French (1854-1920), known as Willy in his youth, was born at Cloonyquin House, near Tulsk, County Roscommon. He studied engineering at Trinity College, Dublin, where he also spent a lot of time writing songs, playing the banjo, performing in dramatic works and painting in watercolours. Whilst at Trinity College he wrote his first successful song "Abdul Abulbul Amir", which he sold for £5 to an unscrupulous publisher. It later became hugely popular and was falsely claimed by other authors. One of his most famous songs was "Are Ye Right There Michael", which ridiculed the state of the rail system in County Clare and led to an unsuccessful claim for libel by the railways. After graduating he was on the verge of emigrating to Canada when he was appointed to a post in a government drainage scheme in Cavan and he spent the next seven years as a self-styled "Inspector of Drains". During this time he continued to paint and write songs in his spare time. He returned to Dublin where he edited a comic magazine called "The Jarvey" and continued to compose music and poetry.


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In 1891 his first wife, Ettie, died in childbirth as did their baby daughter, just a year after their marriage. He was at this time jobless. He reacted by touring the country on his bicycle with a box of paints, painting and performing. He developed a one-man show, where he sang the amusing and popular songs he composed and performed comical sketches. In 1910 he and Dr. Collison were given a farewell dinner at the Savage Club in London prior to departing on a successful tour of Canada, the east coast of America and the West Indies. French said, "We unite brains, beauty, brushwork and banjo in one harmonious whole". He wrote stories and verse as well as the libretta of a musical comedy, a comic opera and an opera – all of which were produced in Dublin. His stage career continued until his death in 1920.

159. [FRENCH, Percy] An Exhibition of Watercolours by Percy French (1854-1920). Official Opening by Mr Peter Ustinov. The Oriel Gallery, 17 Clare Street, Dublin 2. With fine illustrations in colour. Dublin: Richmond Press, 1986. Oblong octavo. pp. 32. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers. €35

Paintings include: Gorse on the Bog; Till the Night is Gone; Achill Sound; In the Swiss Alps; Bringing Home the Turf; Reflections - Dublin Bay; Blooming Heather on the Bog; Mayo Landscape; 'O'er Crag and Torrent'; In the West; Near Mulranny - County Mayo; Queen Victoria's Dublin Visit - 1900; Western Skies; Connemara Landscape; Purple Heather on the Bog; 'Morning' - off the Coast of County Donegal; Skiing on the Nursery Slopes; The Boat House - Ballycastle; Swiss Chalet; 'Connemara'; Sails in the Sunset; 'In County Donegal, Ireland'; Celerina - Switzerland; Safely Home; The Shore at Portmarnock; Sunset - County Sligo; 'Morning' - Dublin Bay; Cliff Castle; Springtime in the Bog.

160. [GAELIC PRESS] A unique collection of Republican printed lapel badges, circa 1915-19, comprising eleven complete oblong badges each c. 72 x 20mm, some with traces of gum at rear, with two part-badges. They are mostly printed in colour, many in green, with separate designs to left and right of a central fold. They are attractively and wittily designed, many of them carrying an anti-conscription message. Two of the badges carry the Gaelic Press copyright; the others have no printers' marks but it seems very likely that all are from the same source. All the badges are clean, though some show signs of having been folded and worn. €350

Four of the badges carry anti-conscription messages, e.g. 'Conscription comes from England / Freedom comes from God'; 'We won't have conscription' (repeated, with a Fenian sunrise); 'No Conscription! / Up Griffith' (with a photo); etc. Another says starkly, 'Take England's advice! / Don't argue, shoot!'; another, '14th December 1918/ Sinn Féin asks you to vote for Freedom'; another, 'Pluincead Abu! / Fáilte romhat' [possibly relating to the Roscommon by-election of 1917, when George Noble Plunkett was the Republican candidate]; another has a design of a sailing ship on right, with the words 'Irish Volunteers Gun-Running at Howth July 26th 1914' to left (possibly issued on an anniversary); another, a drawing of James Connolly within a frame of shamrocks to right, and the words 'Born 5th June 1871. Executed 12th May 1916' to left (again, perhaps an anniversary item). Another shows the words 'RAINBOW CHASERS / ROSCOMMON. LONGFORD. CLARE. KILKENNY' over a tricolour rainbow pattern. One of the part-badges shows a Sinn Féin pike puncturing an Irish Party balloon with the legend 'Ten Foot Pikers'. The other two part-badges, both printed in red, probably form a single complete badge. The left hand section shows a workman standing in Ireland while a devil in England says 'Come Over Here'. The right hand section says 'NOT DAMN LIKELY!' The Gaelic Press, was run by Joe Stanley, he printed many important Republican documents during and after the 1916 Rising. Joe Stanley himself was a committed Republican, and was interned in Frongoch after the Rising.

161. GALE, Peter. An Inquiry into the Ancient Corporate System of Ireland, and suggestions for its immediate restoration and general extension. With an appendix, containing numerous original documents. London: Richard Bentley, 1834. pp. 191, cclxvii. Modern half green morocco on


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marbled boards. Name clipped from top of titlepage, occasional light foxing. From Cork Young Mens Society library with their neat stamps. From the library of the historian John Bradley with his bookplate. Top edge gilt. A good copy. €575

COPAC locates 8 copies only. WorldCat 2. The contents include: Origin of Corporations in Ireland, Fixed between 1170 and 1189; Privileged Places; Nature and Extent of the Liberties; Changes in the Original and Constitutional Principles of Corporations; Charters of Naas, Carlingford, Maryborough, &c.; Robert Colley, Borough-Master of Phillipstown; King James I and his persecution of the ancient Corporations; Illegal Proceedings of Lord Mountjoy - Brutality of the Military Presidents - Sir John Davis - his suppression of the Revenue Laws; King James's new Burroughs; King Charles I and his Conduct to the Corporations; Conspiracy of Lord Ormond and Orrery to spoliate the people of Ireland; Conduct of Lords Lieutenants; The Right of the Ancient Corporations existed in the reign of Charles II; Estates attached to Corporations; Town Estates of Leighlin, Clonmel, Rathcool, Lusk, Dundalk, Carlingford, &c.; Cases decided in the reign of Elizabeth - Case of Cashel - Case of Fethart; The Royal Commission of King James I; Dr. Lucas on the Revolution in Corporate Rights, etc. A most valuable appendix containing translations of: The Charter of Dublin (1192); Charter of Drogheda; Charter of the Prior of Inistiogue to the Town of Inistiogue; Charter of the Earl of Pembroke to the Town of Wexford, as receited and confirmed by the Charters of King Henry IV and Queen Elizabeth; Charter of Lord Maurice Fitz-Gerald to the Town of Rathmore; Charter of the Earl of Pembroke to the Burgesses of Kilkenny; Letters from King James I to the Customs and Corporations of Ireland; Charter of New Ross; Charter of the Town of Wexford; Creation of the Corporation of Dundalk; Charter of Murage granted to Dublin in 1316; Corporation of Waterford; Writ of King John issued in 1204, etc. In addition to the Charters there are several translations of reports, remonstrances, finds, compensation, claims, inquisitions, accounts, etc.

162. GALLAGHER, Frank. Days of Fear. A Diary of Hunger Strike. London: John Murray, 1928. First edition. pp. 175. Quarter black morocco on black buckram, title and author in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Rare. €185

Frank Gallagher 1893-1962 [pseud. David Hogan] was a native of Cork. London correspondent of William O'Brien's 'Cork Free Press', and subsequently its final editor. Although he was himself a separatist, he personally admired O'Brien. The paper was suppressed after Gallagher accused the British authorities of lying about the conditions and situation of republican prisoners in the Frongoch internment camp. Gallagher joined the Irish Volunteers; worked with Erskine Childers on Republican publicity staff, and edited the Irish Bulletin, from 1919. Imprisoned in 1920, he later joined the hunger strike from 5th to 15th April 1920. This diary was written during his actual hunger strike "Days of Fear are living, livid days. As full of gentleness as of fear, as full of despair as of faith. And because they are real they are days strange and most poignant".

163. GALLWEY, Father S.J. The Committee on Convents. The Nun's Choice: Newgate Or Newdegate, A Letter to a Barrister. London: Burns, Oates and Company, 1870. pp. 45. Stitched wrappers. A good copy. €65

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164. GARRITY, Devin A. Ed. by. New Irish Poets. With Eleven full page woodcuts by Harry Kernoff and thirty-four photographic portraits of the poets. New York: Devin-Adair, 1948. First edition. pp. 209. Original green-grey cloth, titled and decorated in silver. Loosely inserted is Brown Jacket Broadsheet 1, with a poem 'The Aspen' by Dermot Freyer. Published by the Brown Jacket Library, 133 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. A fine copy in lightly tanned dust jacket. €165

The representative selection includes: G.M. Brady; Eileen Brennan; Brenda Chamberlain; Austin Clarke; Rhoda Coghill; Hugh Connell; Maurice James Craig; Leslie Daiken; Lyle Donaghy; Padraic Fallon; Padraic Fiacc; Monk Gibbon; Robert Greacen; Sam Harrison; John Hewitt; Valentin Iremonger; Donagh McDonagh; Blanaid Salkeld; Eileen Shanahan; Francis Stuart; W.B. Sandford, etc. The Kernoff woodcuts include: An Irish Cailin; Caravans-Dublin; Rowing a Curragh-Connemara; Man with Pint of Porter; Yachts on the Hard; Farm-County Limerick; Turf-Man; Connemara Cailin; A Dublin Worker; "A Bird never Flew on One Wing"; Turf-Girl.

165. GIBBINGS, Robert. Lovely is The Lee. With engravings by the author. London: Dent & Sons, 1949. pp. vi, 199. Yellow cloth, titled in gilt, sailing boat in gilt on upper cover. New front endpapers. A very good copy in dust jacket. €60

Travels in Galway, Connemara, Inishbofin, Lough Carra, Inishmaan, Cork, Carrigrohane, Inchigeela, Ballingeary, Iveleary, Gougane Barra.

RARE ABRIDGED DUBLIN EDITION 166. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In six volumes, abridged in two volumes. Dublin: Printed by William Porter, for H. Chamberlaine, P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. Porter, W. Mc.Kenzie, J. Jones, J. Halpen, and Grueber & Mc. Allister, 1790. pp. x, 441, (2) xii, 457. Bound by William McKenzie of Dublin in contemporary full walnut calf. Covers framed with a single gilt roll. Flat spine divided into six compartments with McKenzie tool nos. 34, 23, 28, R2, R10, R16 (McDonnell and Healy pp. 299-301); title and volume number on contrasting labels of dark red and green. Minor wear to extremities. A good set. Exceedingly rare. €475

COPAC locates 5 copies only. ESTC T78372 with 5 locations. WorldCat 1. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. After his father's death in 1770, Gibbon settled quite comfortably at fashionable Bentinck Street. He took to London society quite easily, joined the better social clubs, including Dr. Johnson's Literary Club. He succeeded Oliver Goldsmith at the Royal Academy as 'professor in ancient history' (honorary but prestigious). In late 1774, he was initiated a freemason of the Premier Grand Lodge of England. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in


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six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The History is known principally for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open denigration of organised religion, though the extent of this is disputed by some critics. Gibbon remarked in his memoirs "From a slender beginning … I have gradually formed a numerous and select library, the foundation and best comfort of life, both at home and abroad … Every volume, before it was deposited on the shelf, was either read or sufficiently examined". William McKenzie (1772-1817), bookbinder, bookseller and printer was the son of Benjamin McKenzie of Manor Street. He was apprenticed to William Gilbert, bookbinder, bookseller, and auctioneer in S. Great George's Street. In 1783 William married Sara Hallhead, widow of William Hallhead (for whom he had also worked), at St. Andrew's Church. He took over the bindery at 63 Dame Street, which had already some fine bindings to its credit. Throughout that year he advertised his business in The Dublin Evening Post and The Volunteers Journal giving his address as "at the College-Arms, No. 63 Dame-street". The advertising had a positive result as he later thanks his clients for their patronage. In 1785 McKenzie's warehouse in Blackamoor Yard, College Green, was destroyed by fire despite the efforts of Sheriff Jenkin and College students. The books were insured for £600, which was paid only after litigation. In the following year he sold Trinity College a 1480 edition of The Nuremburg Chronicle.

167. GIMLETTE, Thomas. The History of the Huguenot Settlers in Ireland, and Other Literary Remains. Bound with: The French Settlers in Ireland. The Settlement in Waterford. The Feuds of the Bishops of Waterford and Lismore, under the Plantagenets. The Synod of Cashel and The Annals of the Danish Church of St. Olaf's (The Ancient Cathedral of Waterford). Illustrated with two coloured folding maps (France and Ireland), A map of the Seat of the Waldenses, a folding chart of Poitou and other illustrations. S.n. [Dunmore East, 1888?]. Printed for private circulation only. Quarto. pp. [vi], 296, xii, xxii, 28, 4, 8. Modern quarter black morocco over black buckram boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €575

COPAC locates 5 copies only. The author was vicar of Dunmore East. Thomas Gimlette's history offers a fascinating insight into the persecution, flight and ultimate survival of one of Europe's minority Protestant faiths. Made infamous by the Edict of Nantes, its Revocation and the subsequent events of the Reformation, the history of Europe's Huguenots preceded these events by some four centuries when small communities of worshipers could be found all over Europe and especially in Provence, southern France, worshipping simply and in their own language, which put them at odds with the established faith. The origin of the appellation 'Huguenot' is unclear, but may have its root in the French work Hugon, a cave-dwelling creature. Gimlette's work, pursued out of interest and contact with the descendants of Huguenot settlers in Waterford where he held his ministry, amply describes the history of the Huguenots from the earliest French Reformers, the doctrines of John Calvin until the Edict of Nantes. The Huguenot settlement of Ireland began after the Reformation of Henry VIII, but continued apace during the reign of his successor, Elizabeth I. It was during this period that Dublin became the home to many Huguenot merchants, traders and artisans chiefly from Rochelle and Bordeaux. These settled in the area around Christchurch and the High Street and many of the street names in these areas still show their influence. Huguenot settlement in Dublin and other enclaves of Ireland reached its zenith with the Victory of William of Orange at the Boyne, when he shortly after inaugurated a number of French Churches, both Calvinistic and Episcopalian. Gimlette pays great attention to the fate of the Huguenot settlers in Dublin and Waterford in the periods immediately following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and details to some extent the roles played by leading Huguenot's in Dublin under the patronage of William III. Among the noted families are Chevenix, Westenra and Nassau.

168. GISBORNE, Thomas. An Inquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain, resulting from their respective stations, professions, and employments. In two volumes. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1824. pp. (1) xii, 430, (2) xii, 511. Contemporary full diced russia, spines elaborately decorated in gilt with double labels; board edges hatched in gilt. From the library of Frederick T. Jessop, Doory Hall, County Longford with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown and library stamp on titlepage. Signed and inscribed on titlepage 'Frederick Thomas Jessop / Doory Hall / From his faithful friend and affectionate Mother / Monday 27th August / 1832'. Ticket of B. Smith, Printer, Bookseller & Stationer on front pastedown. A very attractive set. €225


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169. GOGARTY, Oliver St. John. The Ship and Other Poems. With four illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1918. First edition. 12mo. pp. 24. Sewn pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Not in TCD.

IN FINE KELLIEGRAM BINDING

170. GORE, Mrs. New Year's Day, A Winter's Tale. Illustrated by Geo. Cruikshank. London: Fisher, n.d. (c.1846). pp. [4], 203, [1], 8 (advertisement). Bound by Kelliegram in full olive-green crushed levant morocco, covers framed by gilt fillets and decorative floral border, enclosing on the upper cover the young boy servant, inlaid design in brown, grey, black, tan and white. Spine divided into two compartments by one gilt raised band, title in gilt direct in the first. Fore-edges ruled in gilt; wide gilt doubloures; orange moiré-silk

endpapers; red, blue and gold double endbands; green silk marker. Binder's stamp in gilt on lower turn-in. Bound for Charles E. Lauriat of Boston with his name in gilt on front turn-in. From the library of Micajah Pratt Clough with his bookplate on front free endpaper. Original cloth covers and spine bound in at end. All edges gilt. A superb example from this renowned bindery. A fine copy. €2,250 COPAC locates 8 copies only. WorldCat 1. The front cover onlay is taken from George Cruikshank's illustration on page ninety-two, the young boy serving "Bitterly did the Old Lady complain, of the oversugaring of the gruel". Catherine Grace Frances Gore (née Moody; 1798-1861) novelist and dramatist, daughter of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was born. She is amongst the best known of silver fork writers - authors of the 'long' Regency era depicting the gentility and etiquette of high society. She married Lieutenant Charles Arthur Gore of the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in 1823 at St George's, Hanover Square. He was the son of William Ormsby-Gore of Woodford, County Leitrim. They had ten children, eight of whom died at a young age. They had one surviving son, Captain Augustus Frederick Wentworth Gore, and one daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary, who married Lord Edward Thynne in 1853.

ON CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION 171. [GRATTAN, Henry] A Letter to the Right Hon. Charles Grant, on the Catholic Question: Containing Remarks on the Speech of Mr. Peel on that Subject, on the Motion of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan: the 9th May, 1817. Dublin: Milliken, 1819. pp. [2], ix, [i], 52. Fifth edition. Modern blue wrappers. A fine copy. €225

COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 3. Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg (1778-1866) Scottish politician and colonial administrator. In 1811 he was elected to the British House of Commons as M.P. for Inverness Burghs. He held that seat until 1818, when was returned for Inverness-shire. In 1819 he became Chief Secretary for Ireland.


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172. GRAVES Robert. Poems 1938-1945. London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company, 1946. First edition. pp. vii, 40. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Rare in this condition. €125

SIGNED BY IREMONGER 173. GREACEN, Robert & IREMONGER, Valentin. Ed by. Contemporary Irish Poetry. London: Faber & Faber, 1949. pp. 173. Red cloth, titled in gilt along spine. Signed by Valentin Iremonger on titlepage. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. €125

Includes work by Maurice Craig, Denis Devlin, John Hewitt, Blanaid Salkeld, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Leslie Daiken, Ewart Milne, Austin Clarke and many others.

174. GREER, James. Ed. by. Guide to Londonderry and Highlands of Donegal. Illustrated. Londonderry: William Gailey, 1885. pp. 104. Recent paper wrappers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275

No copy located on COPAC. 175. [GREETING CARD] Greeting Card. An attractive embossed greeting card, apparently hand-decorated with a poem addressed 'to Miss J. Heuston, from J.T. Cullen, 1918', single folded sheet. Together with: A personalised printed card headed 'Buan-Charadas / Continual Friendship', from Seosamh A. Ó Daltúin (Joseph A. Dalton) of Limerick, printed by Guys of Cork, probably also circa 1918. €225 176. GREGO, Joseph. The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow. Being anecdotes of the Camp, Court, Clubs, and Society 1810-1860. With portrait and thirty-two illustrations from contemporary sources. London: John C. Nimmo, 1900. pp. (1) xxviii, 353, (2) xiv, 340. Blue cloth. Coloured armorial shield on

upper covers, title in gilt on spines. Some minor spotting. Top edge gilt. A fine set. €225 Rees Howell Gronow (1794-1865), "Captain Gronow", was a Welsh Grenadier Guards officer, an unsuccessful parliamentarian, a dandy and a writer of celebrated reminiscences. He was the eldest son of William Gronow of Court Herbert, Swansea, Glamorganshire, who died in 1830, by Anne, only daughter of Rees Howell of Gwrrhyd. He was born on 7 May 1794, and was educated at Eton, where he was intimate with Shelley. In 1812 he received a commission as an Ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, and after mounting guard at St. James's Palace for a few months was sent with a detachment of his regiment to Spain. In 1813 he took part in the principal military operations in that country, and in the following year returned with his battalion to London. Here he became one of the dandies of the town, and was among the very few officers who were admitted at Almack's, where he remembered the first introduction of quadrilles and waltzes in place of the old reels and country dances. Wanting money to equip himself for his further services abroad, he obtained an advance of £200 from his agents, Cox & Greenwood, and going with this money to a gambling-house in St. James's Square, he won £600, with which he purchased horses and other necessaries. Apparently without the permission of the war office he then crossed the Channel, was present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, entered Paris on 25 June 1815, and on 28 June became a lieutenant and later a captain in his regiment. From this period until 1821 he continued with his regiment in England, and then retired from the army.

177. GREGORY, Lady. Dúbhairt Sé Dabhairt Sé. Lady Gregory do Cheud-sgríobh as Beurla. An Seabhach d'aith-sgríobh as Gaedhilg. Dublin: Printed by Dollard for An Claidheamh Soluis. 1911. Broadsheet. pp. 6-11 (triple column). Printed frayed wrappers. Scarce. €30 178. GRIBBIN, Eugene & BRANIFF, Patrick. Urban Housing Waterford. A Case Study. Profusely illustrated with plans, maps and photographs of houses. Dublin: 1979. Oblong quarto. pp. 120. Cream pictorial wrappers, a trifle soiled. Inscribed by Eugene Gribbin on titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 179. GRIFFITH, Arthur. The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland. Illustrated. Dublin: James Duffy & Co., M.H. Gill & Son, Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1904. First edition. pp.


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99, 39. Modern quarter morocco on green papered boards with original wrappers bound in. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475

Carty 63. Arthur Griffith (1871-1922), political theorist, and statesman was born in Dublin and educated by the Christian Brothers at Strand Street. He trained as a printer and joined the Gaelic League and I.R.B. before going to South Africa in 1897. On his return the following year he edited The United Irishman and founded Cumann na nGaedheal, a nationalist organisation which eventually became Sinn Féin. He headed the Irish delegation to London in 1921 along with Michael Collins that negotiated the Treaty, and vehemently defended the 'signing' in the Debates that followed. It is stated that he died of a broken heart on the outbreak of the Civil War. The series of articles on the Resurrection of Hungary originally appeared in The United Irishman during the first half of 1904. Griffith's objective was to point out to his fellow-countrymen that the alternative to armed resistance to the foreign government of this country was not acquiescence in usurpation, tyranny, and fraud. It laid the foundations for what became the 'Sinn Féin' policy, made a national figure of Griffith, and indeed may be said to have significantly influenced the course of Irish history.

180. [GRIFFITH, Arthur] Songs Ballads and Recitations by Famous Irishmen - Arthur Griffith. Edited by Piaras Beaslaí. Dublin: Waltons, n.d. pp. 32. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Usual foxing to covers, small tear on upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. €35

RARE UNIQUE INTERLEAVED COPY IN EDITIONS LIMITED TO 30, 60, & 100 COPIES ONLY

181. GRIGGS, William. & BURKE, Henry Farnham. Examples of Armorial Book Plates. From various collections. First Series (Limited to 60 copies only.) and Second Series (limitation not stated). Together with: Examples of Irish Bookplates. From the collections of Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. Privately issued by his son, Henry Farnham Burke, F.S.A., Somerset Herald, Genealogist to the Order of St. Patrick. Limited to 100 copies only. Together


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with: Supplementary Volume of Examples of Irish Bookplates. From the collections of Sir Bernard Burke ... Genealogist to the Order of St. Patrick. Limited to 30 copies only. Three volumes. London: W. Griggs 1884-94. Quarto. Contemporary full vellum parchment over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine; blue, white, black and gold endpapers; red and gold endbands. Interleaved copy with original blue printed wrappers bound in. From the library of Frederick Arthur Crisp with his armorial bookplate on front pastedowns and his painted armorial shield (Per pale argent and or on a chevron invected and plain cotised sable five horseshoes or) on lower covers. Top edge gilt. In fine condition. Exceptionally rare. €1,650

Photographic facsimiles of armorial bookplates; sent out in monthly parts, including index, not numbered to be arranged by subscribers before binding. Includes frontispieces of Sir Nicholas Bacon and Cardinal Wolsey's coloured armorial bookplates. The first volume has 83, the second 147 and the third (Irish volume) 101, examples of armorial book plates. Frederick Arthur Crisp (1851-1922), F.S.A., of Little Wenham in Suffolk and Godalming in Surrey, was the eldest son of Frederick Augustus Crisp of Playford, Suffolk, and Sarah, daughter of John Steedman of Walworth. He was an industrious genealogist and printed many works of Irish and English genealogical interest at his private press at Grove Park. He married, 21 October 1880, Gertrude, daughter of John South, of Ramsay in Essex, and they had six daughters. His library, mainly genealogical, was sold at Sotheby's in London in four parts on the 4 December 1922, 7 February 1923 and 30 January and 4 March 1935. His most important work on Irish families was: Visitation of Ireland published in six volumes in an edition limited to 250 sets only.

182. GWYNN, Stephen. A Holiday in Connemara. With sixteen illustrations. London: Methuen, 1909. First edition. pp. vii, 320, 30. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover within a foliage garland; spine richly decorated in gilt foliage. Neat embossed stamp of Thacker, Booksellers, Bombay on front flyleaf. A very good copy. Scarce. €165

With chapters on: Iar Connacht; Roderic O'Flaherty; The Gate of Connemara; Cois Fhairrge; In Search of Inver; From Ros Muck to Clifden; From Clifden to Leenane; Killary and Lough na Fooey; At Leenane with the Commission; Sunset on Killary; From Leenane to Lough Mask; On the Shores of Lough Mask; Across Joyce Country to Galway; From Galway to Clifden; Iorras Mór; From Clifden to Ros Muck.

183. HAMILTON, Dom ADAM. The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, at St. Monica's in Louvain (now at St Augustine's Priory, Newton Abbot, Devon). A continuation: 1625 to 1644. Edited with Notes and Additions. Edinburgh: Sands & Co., 1906. pp. xx, 219, 36 (leaves of plates). Original red cloth, cream vellum spines, titled in gilt, blind-stamped device on upper cover. From the library of Loreto Hall with their neat stamp. Edges untrimmed, a very good copy. €50 184. 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: Richard Moore Tims, William Curry, and John Robertson; King and County, Cork; Marks, Waterford; Simms and Mairs, Belfast; Campbell, Derry; M'Kerin, Limerick; Wheelock, Wexford; Collins, Drogheda; Dunlap, Coleraine; Purcel, Tralee; Kyte, Cashel; Blackham, Newry; Bole, Castlebar; Devir, Westport; And other Booksellers, 1835. pp. 431. Recent full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on gilt decorated spine. A very handsome copy. €575

THE DEFINITIVE WORK ON HIGH CROSSES 185. HARBISON, Peter. The High Crosses of Ireland. Three volumes Profusely illustrated. Volume one contains the text, volumes two and three the photographs and illustrations of comparative iconography. Bonn: 1992. Folio. Red cloth, titled in black. A fine set. Scarce. €475

The great stone High Crosses of Ireland, often bearing the characteristic 'Celtic' ring, are the most monumental artistic achievement of the old Irish monasteries. For the first time, the crosses, numbering


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over 200, are comprehensively catalogued and described in a single volume, and illustrated in a second volume comprising 411 pages of black and white plates. A third volume places a selection of the Irish figured panels beside relevant parallels in other media from elsewhere in Europe and beyond, placing the crosses in their broader artistic and religious context.

186. HARDIMAN, James. Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland; with English poetical translations. Collected and edited with notes and illustrations. Two volumes. London: Robins, 1831. pp. (1) lxxx, 376, (2) vi, 435, + errata. Original green cloth, title on printed labels on professionally rebacked spines. A very good set. €375

An anthology of Irish bardic poems, together with a selection of Turlough Carolan's poetry. The poems are presented in the original Irish, with English translations and descriptive historical notes. In Ireland Sir Philip Sidney is quoted as saying, "Their poets are held in devout reverence". Hardiman in addition to the anthology gives a short historical account of Ireland's bards or men of poetry, from earliest times up to the decline of the bardic era in the eighteenth century.

RARE FIRST EDITION HAND COLOURED COPY 187. HARDIMAN, James. The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time. Embellished with several hand coloured engravings and maps (many folding). To which is added, a copious index, containing the principal charters and other original documents. Dublin: Folds, 1820. Quarto. pp. xvi, 320, lvi, [4] (index). Later half green calf morocco on green cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second. Previous owner's signatures on title including that of William Daly of Dunsandle, dated 1905. A very attractive copy of the rare first edition. €2,850

James Hardiman (1782-1855) from Drummin, near Westport, County Mayo, was a distinguished Irish historian and lawyer. He was appointed Sub-Commissioner of the Public Record Commission in Ireland and was also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Towards the end of his life he was librarian to the Queen's College, now University College, Galway. His History of the Town of Galway was originally published in Dublin 1820 and is perhaps the most complete book of its kind ever written on an Irish provincial town and county. He also edited and translated A Description of West or Iar-Connacht for the Irish Archaeological Society which was published in 1846. William Daly (1850-1910) of Dunsandle, D.L., J.P. County Galway, High Sheriff was agent to his father Lord Dunsandle. William became a Catholic on his marriage in 1893 to Julia Catherine Anne eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, Bart. of Marble Hill, he was disinherited by his father Lord Dunsandle. William was allowed to remain in Dunsandle until his death and the estate then went to his younger Protestant brother Denis, father of the late Major Bowes Daly of Dunsandle.

188. HAYES, Richard. Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1949. pp. vi, 332. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Scarce. €225

An invaluable reference work, the result of many years diligent research on the Wild Geese and their descendants in France. With an appendix containing unpublished sources from the various French archives and a list of Irish noble families surviving in France.

189. HEAD, Sir Francis B. A Fortnight in Ireland. With folding map. London: Murray, 1852. First edition. pp. [vii], 400, 16 (publisher's list). Original gilt decorated cloth, Shamrock garland in the shape of a heart in gilt on upper cover (love of Ireland), title in gilt on spine. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. €175

Sir Francis Bond Head (1793-1875), 1st Baronet KCH PC, colonial governor and author, was the son of James Roper Mendes Head and Frances Anne Burgess. On the paternal line he was descended from Spanish Jew Fernando Mendes, who was accompanied by Catherine of Braganza in 1662. His grandfather Moses Mendes married Anna Gabriella Head and took on the Head name following the


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death of his wife's father. He was known as "Galloping Head", was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837. Head was a soldier in the British Army from 1811 to 1825, and afterwards attempted to set up a mining company in Argentina. He married Lady Bond Head (the former Julia Valenza Somerville) in 1816, and they had four children. Head boasts that the "Object of my little tour in Ireland was to listen to opinions rather than impart them". His journey was predicated by a host of opinions, most notable among them the assumption that the real character of the country could be captured in a 'little' tour of a week's duration. 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.

190. HEANEY, Seamus. North. London: Faber and Faber, 1975. First edition. pp. 73. Pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt along spine. A fine copy in pale blue dust jacket with an illustration of a Viking ship. €875

Brandes & Durkan A12. This true first edition, first printing (first impression) with no reprint statement to the copyright page as called for to confirm a first printing. Issued in hardback and paperback (see following item).

191. HEANEY, Seamus. North. London: Faber, 1975. First edition. pp. 73. Illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated by Seamus Heaney on the titlepage. With slim green wrap around, notification of the winner of the 1976 W.H. Smith £1,000 Annual Literary Award. A fine copy. €165

Brandes & Durkan A12b.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 192. HEANEY, Seamus. Poems and a Memoir. Selected and illustrated by Henry Pearson with an introduction by Thomas Flanagan and a preface by Seamus Heaney. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. First edition. Imperial octavo. pp. xviii, 153. Limited edition, signed by Seamus Heaney, Henry Pearson, and Thomas Flanagan. Bound in full brown morocco. Upper cover tooled in blind with an Ogham design, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Spine evenly faded. Fine in slipcase. €1,250

A most attractive production, hard to find in spite of the large edition.

SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY

193. HEANEY, Seamus. Extending The Alphabet: On Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander". The Pratt Lecture 1993. Memorial University of Newfoundland: Department of English, 1983. First edition. pp. 18, [2]. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Signed by Seamus Heaney on titlepage. A very good copy. Uncommon and a rare signed copy. €285

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 194. HEANEY, Seamus. The Cure at Troy. A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Derry: Field Day, 1990. First edition. pp. [x], 83. Grey paper boards, title in gilt along spine. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by Seamus Heaney. Original errata bookmark loosely inserted. A fine copy in dust jacket with design by Basil Blackshaw. €575

Brandes and Durkan A49. A modern interpretation with echoes of current events in Ireland, though textually close to the classical Greek.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 195. HEANEY, Seamus. Opened Ground. Poems 1966-1966. London: Faber, 1998. pp. xiii, 478. First edition. Quarter black linen on tan paper boards, title on printed label on spine. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in fine slipcase. €950

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This work concludes with Seamus Heaney's acceptance speech for the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him, in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters, for his 'works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth'.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 196. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. pp. [ix], 113. First edition. Quarter linen on paper boards. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine in fine slipcase. €950

SIGNED FIRST EDITION 197. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First American edition. pp. [xii], 78. Cream papered boards, titled in black along spine. Signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €475

198. HEANEY, Seamus. Beowulf. A Verse Translation. Illustrated by Becca Thorne. London: The Folio Society, 2010. pp. 218. Quarter maroon morocco on dark red cloth with gilt interlacing decorative design, title and author in gilt on spine; maroon endpapers and endbands. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in slipcase. €275 The great relic of English literature is the epic Beowulf. The poem is in West Saxon but was originally composed in a northern or midland dialect. There are many theories as to its origins and composition. It probably developed into a saga in Northumbria in the 7th century and in the 8th it attained its present unity with the central heroic figure of Beowulf. Most of the characters in the events in Beowulf are mentioned in history or folklore, chiefly in the Scandinavian legends. Beowulf himself is reputedly an historical figure, warrior of one of the Kings of Denmark (like our own Fionn and the Fianna who were said to be historical but about whom a band of legends grew up). The main events in the poem occurred in the 6th century. It is a mixture of folk tale, hero legend and the poet's imagination of

a noble character. This new translation by Seamus Heaney was met with great critical acclaim when first published in 1999. One of the Folio Society's most beautiful editions.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 199. HEANEY, Seamus. Human Chain. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. First edition. pp. [8], 85. Quarter black linen on blue papered boards, title on printed label on spine. Limited edition of 325 copies only (twenty-five copies with Roman numerals were issued for the author, not for sale), signed and numbered by the author. A fine copy in slipcase. €975

SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 200. HEANEY, Seamus. Human Chain. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. pp. [8], 85. First edition. Brown papered boards, title in gilt on spine. With an inscribed note to Julian Crosby from Seamus Heaney and signed by the Nobel Laureate, tipped in. Fine copy in dust jacket. €685 201. HEINRICK, Hugh. What is Home Rule? Denvir's Penny Irish Library, n.d. 12mo. pp. 24. Recent quarter green morocco on marbled boards with original illustrated wrappers bound in. A very good copy. €125

COPAC locates 2 copies only. 202. HEWITT, John. No Rebel Word. Poems. With an Introduction by Geoffrey Taylor. London: Frederick Muller, 1948. First edition. pp. 56. Red cloth, title in black on spine. A fine copy in fine suntanned dust jacket. €165

John Hewitt was born in Belfast in 1907. Educated at Queen's University, his verse has appeared in twenty five anthologies. John Montague describes Hewitt as "the first (and probably the last) deliberately Ulster Protestant poet".


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203. [HOBSON, Bulmer] The Handbook for Irish Volunteers. Simple Lectures on Military Subjects. By 'H'. Dublin: Gill, 1914. pp. 100, [2]. Square 16mo, dark green cloth, corners rounded. Cloth faded and frayed at edges. Internally a very good copy. Extremely rare. €575

Carty 373a. No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. With note at rear welcoming Redmond's initiative on the Volunteers. Hobson, a Quaker from Belfast, was a veteran IRB member, founder of Na Fianna in Belfast, and a pioneer of Sinn Féin and the Volunteers. He fell out with his IRB colleagues after welcoming Redmond's approach to the Volunteers, and was cold- shouldered by them thereafter. He was held in Republican custody before the Rising, after alerting Eoin MacNeill to the plans. After 1916 he withdrew from public life.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 204. HOGAN, David [Frank Gallagher]. The Four Glorious Years. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Press, 1953. First edition. pp. [xi], 404. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author with his pseudonym David Hogan on the titlepage. Also signed by the author Frank Gallagher on Irish Press complimentary slip. Tipped on to front flyleaf is a publisher's Christmas card with an inscription from Frank and Anna Fahey to Ken Ryan, who have also inscribed the titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €275

Covering the period 1918-22, 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.

205. HOLINSHED, Raphaell. Holinshed's Irish Chronicle. The Historie of Irelande from the first inhabitation thereof, unto the yeare 1509. Collected by Raphaell Holinshed, & continued till the yeare 1547 by Richarde Stanyhurst. Edited by Liam Miller and Eileen Power with the cancels restored and the woodcut illustrations of the first edition. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1979. Folio. pp. xxiv, 363. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 850 copies. Top edge reddish-brown. A very good copy in dust jacket. With slipcase. €285

Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, first printed in the year 1577, is one of the great historical reference-books of the sixteenth century. Leading historians of the day assisted Holinshed in the massive undertaking of editing, assembling, and expanding existing historical and topographical works. The 'learned Gentleman, Maister Richard Stanyhurst' compiled the Description of Ireland. He was the son of James Stanyhurst, the Recorder of Dublin, and a friend and collaborator of the English Jesuit, Edmund Campion. When the first edition was in preparation, the Privy Council objected to certain passages, and this resulted in a number of cancelled leaves. The original texts have been restored in this edition and are printed as appendices. A unique feature of this publication is the remarkable series of woodcuts throughout the text, and the present volume is further enhanced by the inclusion of two woodcuts from the cancelled leaves.

206. HONE, Nathaniel. Catalogue of Exhibition of Pictures by the late Nathaniel Hone, R.H.A. at The Victor Waddington Galleries, 28 South Anne Street, Dublin. 13th to 20th April 1937. Broadside folded, printed on three pages only. One of the rarest Waddington Catalogues. €85

"AFTER OUR ARRIVAL THE DENUNCIATION FROM THE ALTAR BEGAN" 207. HOUSTON, Mrs. Twenty Years in The Wild West; or, Life in Connaught. London: John Murray, 1879. pp. xii, 288, 32 (publisher's list). Pictorial cloth. Signature of Isaac Latimer, dated Feb. 1880 on half title. A fine copy. Rare. €875

No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. An Englishwoman's recollections of her twenty-two years of residence at Delphi, near Westport, County Mayo. An interesting work, instructive and exciting. She denounces absenteeism, the priests, and the over-population as the causes of the wretchedness, disaffection and discontent of the peasantry. In her preface the author states: "The writer of the following chapters is induced to think that the experiences of an English woman living for twenty years in one of the wildest parts of the West of Ireland, isolated and apart from any society, and surrounded solely by the peasantry, may not be without value and interest. The determination to settle on a large un-reclaimed estate, amidst bogs and moors scarcely reached by roads, was associated with a wish, too romantic and sanguine as it turned out, to benefit the inhabitants of a district where resident landlords are scarce. How these intentions were frustrated by the calamities of Spiritual tyranny and a Reign of terror is explained in the following


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pages, the perusal of which may possibly also be found to throw light on the relations between Landlord and Tenant, Priest and People".

See items 207 & 210.

208. [HUDDART ACADEMY] Certificate of the Academy for General Instruction, 14, Mountjoy-Square, South, Dublin. The Rev. Thomas P. Huddart, Head-Master. Certifying that at a Public Examination held on the 29th & 30th March 1836, Master Owen obtained two Premiums for particularly distinguishing himself in St. Luke's Gospel in Greek and in Sacred History and Catechism. Single sheet octavo, printed and in manuscript with an engraved border. Signed by the Head-Master. 130 x 210mm. In fine condition. €225 209. HUFFUMBOURGHAUSEN, Baron. The Congress of the Beasts, Under the Meditation of the Goat, for negotiating a Peace between the Fox, the Ass wearing a Lion's Skin, the Horse, the Tygress, and other Quadrupedes at War. A Farce of Two Acts, now in Rehearsal at a new grand Theatre in Germany. To which is prefix'd a curious Print of the last Scene of the Drama, being the general Conference. Done by an eminent Hand. Written originally in High Dutch by the Baron Huffumbourgh Hausen; and translated by J.J.H---d---g---r, Esq. Illustrated with one folded engraving. London: Printed for W. Webb, 1748. pp. 61, [1]. Modern full panelled calf. In very good condition. Scarce. €185


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210. HULL, Edward. The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland. With 2 coloured maps and 26 engravings. London: Sandford, 1878. Green cloth, titled in gilt. From the library of Samuel and Annie Figgis with their magnificent bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. €95 211. HUNT, John. Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture 1200 - 1600. A study of Irish tombs with notes on costume and armour. I. Text and Catalogue. II. Plates. With contributions by Peter Harbison. Photographs by David H. Davison. Large folding map. Two vols. Dublin: I.U.P. 1974. pp. (1) x, 297, (2) iv, 256. Folio. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good set in dust jacket. €125

SIGNED BY EAMON DE VALERA 212. HYDE, Douglas. God's Bandit. The Story of Don Orione "Father of the Poor". Dublin: The Sons of Divine Providence, 1973. pp. xvi, 157, [1]. Pictorial wrappers. With the signature of Eamon De Valera on half title. A very good copy. €185

Not by the former President of Ireland, but another Douglas Hyde. 213. [ILLUMINATED LEAF] Illuminated Manuscript on vellum from a French Book of Hours 'The Hours of the Virgin', 1485. 105 x 152mm. Written in Latin in brown ink in a gothic style, large initials in blue and red with white on a ground of burnished gold, foliate border painted in blue, red, yellow, brown and green. Framed and glazed. In fine condition. €285

IN PRAISE OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE 214. [IRELAND] La Conquête d'Irlande. Dialogue en vers. London: Chez R. Baldwin, dans Warwick Lane, à l'Enseigne des Armes d'Oxford 1691. Quarto. pp. 18, 2 (List of Baldwin's Books). Modern half red morocco, title in gilt on spine. Paper repair to margin of spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare seventeenth century verse. €1,250

Wing C 5896. COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 1. ESTC R231634 locates the Cashel Cathedral copy only in Ireland. The interlocuteurs are Ariste - Anglois; Lycidas - Irlandois Refugié; Hypomene - Francois Refugie; Alexis - Hollandois; Theophane - Anglois. The flavour of the work can be gleaned from the following verse relating to the military successes which have attended William of Orange: "Son grand cœur le porte aux hazards, Il veut surpasser les Cezars, Il vient, il voit, il vainc, il conquiert l'Hybernie; Des passages forcez qu'on ne nous parle plus, De l'Hydaspe, du Rhin, des Alpes, du Taurus, La Boyne a leur gloire ternie".

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215. [IRISH BINDING] The Works of Jonathan Swift. Volume I only. With an engraved frontispiece. Dublin: Printed by George Faulkner, in Essex-Street, 1751. pp. [6], ii, 318. Bound in contemporary full calf. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet with gilt flower tool at corners; centre lozenge made up of flame tools, stars, dots, thistles, pointelles and flower tools. Spine in compartments with tooling replicated but with extra shell and circles tools. Title label lacking, volume number label with floral border. Some minor surface wear but generally in very good condition. A rare example of a fine Dublin binding. €675 216. [IRISH BUTTER] M. Davenport Importer and Dealer in Irish Butter, Gunpowder, Shot, &c. &c. Receipt: Bought of Samuel Prince, Wholesale & Retail Grocer and Tea Dealer. No. 7, Market-street-lane, Manchester, Novb. 1, 1808. Oblong octavo. Printed and with manuscript listing of goods purchased. In very good condition. €45 217. [IRISH CONSTITUTION] Bunreacht na hEireann. The Constitution of Ireland. Dublin: Stationery Office, n.d. pp. v, 214. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy. €65

In May, 1935 Eamon De Valera instructed John J. Hearn, the Law Officer of the Department of External Affairs, to prepare the heads of a new constitution to replace that of the 1922 Free State Constitution. In preparing the various drafts, he conferred with the leaders of the various religious denominations. Under the Constitution, the new title of the state became Eire (Article 4). It affirmed the unity of the country, stating that "the national territory consists of the whole island of Ireland, its islands and the territorial seas" (rescinded by the Good Friday Agreement). The Irish Constitution, which was published on 1 May 1937, met with a hostile reaction from the British press, but did not unduly disturb their government. It was approved by the Dail on 14 June and submitted to the people of Ireland in a referendum held on 1 July, the same day as the general election. The result was a massive majority for both the referendum and Fianna Fail.

218. [IRISH FREEDOM] The Voice of Freedom. A Selection from "Irish Freedom" 1910-1913. Dublin: Freedom Office, 1913. pp. 154. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €175

Carty 92a. A selection of editorials by leading members of the I.R.B. With articles on: The Flowing Tide; Men and Arms; The Fenian Movement; Concessions be Damned!; The Language; Robert Emmet; Johnny Bull Crón; The Teaching of History; Not Peace but a Sword; The Irish Volunteers, etc.

219. [IRISH LINEN] Irish Linen. The Fabric of Elegance. Illustrated. New York: Prepared for The Irish Linen Guild, Belfast by Elliott and Nelson, 1945. pp. 40. Printed green stapled wrappers. A very good copy in frayed wrappers. €75 220. [IRISH TRADES CONGRESS] The Irish Trades Congress Annual 1907. Illustrated. Dublin: Printing Works, 1907. pp. ii, 32, 2 (adverts). Printed green wrappers, wear to corners and fraying of edges. A very good copy. Rare. €125 221. [IRISH WAR NEWS] Irish War News. The Irish Republic. Volume 1, No. 1, Dublin, Tuesday April 25, 1916. Newspaper, containing Padraig Pearse's historic first communiqué from the GPO, issued at 9.30am on the morning of 25th April, announcing the setting up of the Provisional Government and naming its seven members, and urging the citizens of Ireland to support the rebellion. Four pages quarto. Professional paper repair to centre fold. Housed in a quarter morocco solander box. In very good condition. €1,250

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"The Republican forces everywhere are fighting with splendid gallantry. The populace of Dublin are plainly with the Republic, and the officers and men are everywhere cheered as they march through the streets. The whole centre of the city is in the hands of the Republic, whose flag flies from the GPO". Immediately the GPO was occupied on Easter Monday Padraig Pearse set about organising the production of a newspaper which would bring news of the rebellion to the people and act as a mouthpiece for the infant Republic. The premises of a printer were commandeered in nearby Halston Street, and a team of workers assembled to produce the Republic's first newspaper. In the event, this was the only edition of Irish War News printed, and it should be noted that, unlike that other great document of the Irish Republic, the Proclamation, this sole edition of Irish War News was actually written and produced while the Rebellion was in progress. Whilst the Proclamation had been produced prior to the occupation of the GPO, Padraig Pearse actually wrote the manuscript draft of his Communiqué under fire, inside the GPO itself. Afterwards, James Connolly's secretary, Winifrid Carney, who had famously entered the GPO with a typewriter in one hand and a Webley revolver in the other, produced the typescript.

222. IRWIN, Thomas P. Benson's Flying Column. A Story of the Anglo-Irish War. Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1942. Third edition. pp. 303. Light green cloth, title in black on spine. Printed Bookplate of D.M. Skelly, on front free endpaper. Small tear to dedication leaf. A very good copy. €45

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WEXFORD IN 1798 223. [JACKSON, Charles] A Narrative of the Sufferings and Escape of Charles Jackson. London: Printed by James Bateson. Sold by the Author, J. Wright, and J. Hatchard, ... And by J. Skirrow. 1799. pp. 53. Lacks title and preface. Modern marbled wrappers. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €135

ESTC T107182 locating 3 copies only of this edition. 224. [JOURNAL] Academy of Christian Art Journal 1938. Acadamh na h-Ealadhan Críostaidhe. Vol. 1 Part 2. Illustrated. Dublin: Published by the Academy of Christian Art, 1938. pp. [8], 101, [3 ]. Tan and black wrappers. A fine good copy. €45

With contributions by G.H. Costigan, Rev. Myles V. Ronan, Rev. J. Ryan, Dr. Ethne Byrne, Rev. S. Brown, etc.

225. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With an new introductory essay on P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Three volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xxxvi, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Green buckram, title in gilt on spines. A fine set in slipcase. Very scarce. €165

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 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.

226. KAVANAGH, Seamus. 'The Dying Rebel'. Music and words. Dublin: Glenside Music Publishing Company, Sold by Walton's, n.d. (1961). Quarto. pp. 4. In very good condition. €45

COPAC locates 2 copies only. Not in NLI. 227. KEATING, Jeoffry. D.D. A General History of Ireland, viz, A full and impartial Account of the original of that Kingdom; With the Lives, and Reigns of an Hundred and Seventy-Four Succeeding Monarchs of the Milesian Race. The Original of the Gadelians, Their Travels into Spain, and from thence into Ireland. The Irish often assist the Scots against their Enemies the Romans and Britons ... An Account of the Courage and Hospitality of the Ancient Irish, their Laws to preserve their Records and Antiquities; With an Account of the Laws and Customs of the Irish, and their Royal Assemblies at Tara. A Relation of the long and bloody Wars of the Irish against the Danes ... Collected by the Learned Jeoffry Keating ... Faithfully translated from the original Irish language, by Desmond O'Connor, Esq. With many improvements taken from the Psalters of Tara and Cashel. Illustrated with above one hundred & sixty Coats of Arms of the ancient Irish, with particular Genealogies of many noble families, curiously engraved upon forty-two Copper Plates. Also, a curious print of Bryan Boiroihe, Monarch of Ireland, in 1027. London: Printed by J. Bettenham for B. Creake, 1723. First edition. pp. [x], vi, xxiv, [xiii], 563, 12, [i], 28 & 12 (plates). Folio. Near contemporary full panelled calf gilt. Spine and corners professionally repaired. Leigh Library bookplate with painted armorial shield. A very good copy. Very rare in commerce. €2,790

Geoffrey Keating was born c.1570 in Burges, County Tipperary, the offspring (as he himself reminds us) of the 'Sean Ghaill', or Old Foreigners (Normans). He was educated at a local bardic school and he takes care to inform us, that he was at an early age sent to be educated for the priesthood at Bordeaux. There in the cloisters of the Seminary his young heart was aching with accounts from his native land of robbery, plunder, and confiscation, as chieftain after chieftain was driven from his home and patrimony. Doubtless this inspired his lovely exile poem 'Beannacht leat a sgríbhinn'. Returning to Ireland around 1610, Keating, now a doctor of divinity, was appointed to a church near to


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his birthplace. He became known as a great orator and his fame as a preacher soon drew great crowds together. Amongst those who arrived one day, unluckily for Keating, was a damsel of dubious morals, intimately known to the President of Munster, and it so happened the subject of the preacher's sermon that very day. All eyes were directed against her, and she, returning aggrieved and furious, instigated the President to at once put the anti-Popery laws in execution against Keating, who had to take refuge in the Glen of Aherlow. It was while in hiding that he began his famous Foras Feasa ar Éirinn - Groundwork of the Knowledge of Ireland, gathering most of his research from manuscript sources which were held by the gentry. He is also 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. In the Northern Half of our Kingdom, he was refused aid by the custodians of documents who feared that a Munsterman would not do justice to 'Leath-Cuinn'. Was this unhappy prejudice one of the fruits of the Contention of the Bards? 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. Our account of Ireland down to the Anglo-Norman Invasion corresponds to the scope of Keating's work. If, the story of the Old and Middle Irish periods never was forgotten by the Gaelic generations, Keating's vivid narrative may be thanked. He gave the story of ancient Ireland the form in which it survived when the schools were overthrown and the tradition like Keating himself, was outlawed and fugitive. He wrote he tells us, lest "so honourable a land as Eire, and kindreds so noble as those who had inherited it, should pass away (dhul i mb thadh) without mention or report of them". Of the prose writers of the seventeenth century Dr. Douglas Hyde states: "of these men, Keating, as a prose writer, was the greatest. 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".

228. KEATING, Geoffrey. Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. The History of Ireland containing the introduction, with the first and second books of the history; the genealogies and synchronisms. Edited with translation and notes by David Comyn and Rev. Patrick S. Dinneen. Four volumes. London: I.T.S., 1987. Quarter green arlen on white marbled papered boards, Celtic shield in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on decorated spine. A very good set in slipcase. €185 229. [KENNEDY & LEMASS] An Original Press Photograph of Sean Lemass visiting John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the Oval Office in the White House on 15th October, 1963. Sitting and in a jovial mood with both men laughing. 231 x 178mm. Stamp of United Press International, Chicago on verso. In fine condition. €375


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Following the tremendous success of his tour of Ireland in June, 1963, President Kennedy invited the Taoiseach Sean Lemass to visit him in Washington D.C. the same year. The Taoiseach arrived in Philadelphia on October 11th, 1963, visited with the mayor and the American Ambassador to Ireland, and continued on to Chicago. Luckily, there was no need to worry about transportation - President Kennedy broke precedent and provided Air Force One (the presidential jet) for Lemass' use. The Taoiseach later remembered Kennedy as an extremely inquisitive, lively man and he was very much put at ease by the President's company in Washington, as Kennedy constantly found the humour in any situation. Lemass shared one instance: "On that occasion we proceeded, I know, along a corridor of the White House from the room where we assembled in solemn processional order down the stairs. But in the middle of the corridor he said, 'By the way, have you seen Lincoln's bedroom?' And everyone stopped. The door to the bedroom was opened, but what he hadn't known was that his sister had been using the bedroom, and her underclothes [Laughter] all were scattered over the floor. To his office, he says, very hastily. But again, this was the type of situation you'd expect. And then the son, young John [John F. Kennedy, Jr.], came rushing out of another room with a lump of bread in his hand, again interrupting the ceremony of the proceedings - escaped from his nurse to be with his father". Scarcely a month after the visit John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

230. [KENNEDY, John F.] A Tribute to President John F. Kennedy. Articles from An Cosantóir, the Irish Defence Journal under the auspices of the Army Authorities. January 1964. Illustrated. Longford: For the Publishers by Turner's Printing Co., n.d. (c.1964). pp. 59, [4] (adverts). Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €35

The tribute to John F. Kennedy runs to thirty-three pages. There are other articles on: The Roots of Russia; NATO after Cuba and Nassau; Italian Courts Martial.

231. [KERRY'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM] Kerry's Fighting Story 1916-1921. Told by the men who made it. Illustrated with a unique pictorial record of the period. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. (c.1948). pp. 197. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €125

With detailed chapters on: The formation of the Volunteers in Kerry; Casement and his arrival at Banna Strand; Easter Week and its aftermath; Kerry's heroes; Election of 1918; Mutiny in Listowel; Sack of Tralee; The Lispole and Headford ambush; In Memory of Thomas Ashe; The Campaign in East, North and West Kerry, etc.

232. KNOTT, Mary John. Two Months at Kilkee, a Watering Place in the County Clare, near the mouth of the Shannon, with an Account of a Voyage down that river from Limerick to Kilrush, and Sketches of objects of interest in the neighbourhood, which will serve as a guide to the coast scenery. Added engraved titlepage, folding map, and one plate. Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Co.; G. Ridings, Cork: C. O'Brien, Z. M. Ledger, G. M'Kern, Limerick, 1836. 12mo. pp. 255. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Upper joint strengthened. Compton armorial bookplate on upper cover. A good copy. €285

COPAC locates 7 copies only.


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233. KOHL, J.G. Ireland. Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork and the Kilkenny Races, the Round Towers, the Lakes of Killarney, the County of Wicklow, O'Connell and the Repeal Association; Belfast, and the Giant's Causeway. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1843. pp. [ii], 248. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Owner's initials on titlepage. All edges marbled. Minor wear to spine and corners. A very good copy. Scarce. €185

Johann Georg Kohl, the German travel writer came to Ireland in September 1842 "without" as he said himself, "any object in view other than to become acquainted with the country, and to see everything that was interesting and remarkable in it". Kohl was an experienced and astute observer and his widespread travels allowed him to compare Irish conditions with the general European experience. His book on Ireland is therefore an unbiased account from a neutral traveller unlike many of his contemporaries and provides a most valuable insight into the conditions of pre-Famine Ireland. Landing in Dublin, he found the houses and buildings there much the same as those in English cities. From there he proceeded to Edgeworthstown, on to Athlone, Shannon, Limerick, Kilrush, Tarbert, Tralee, The Lakes, Bantry, Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, Belfast, Giant's Causeway, Coast of Antrim - the MacQuillans and Macdonnells, Fair Head, etc.

234. [LABOURER'S DWELLINGS] Board of Public Works, Ireland. Dwellings for Labouring Classes (Ireland), (Act 23, Vict. c. 1859). Instructions to persons applying for loans with specification and Act of Parliament. Dublin: Alex. Thorn. 1860. Octavo. pp.10, 20 (Folding plates). Original cloth lettered in gilt. A very good copy. €575

This work was prepared by Richard Griffith. The folding plates show examples of working class housing.

235. 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. €275

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.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 236. LAFFAN, William. Ed. by. Painting Ireland. Topographical Views from Glin Castle. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Tralee: Churchill House Press, 2006. Large quarto. pp. 269. Generous quarter calf on brown buckram boards. Edition limited to 30 numbered copies, signed by the editor and the Knight of Glin. A fine copy in slipcase. €475

Over the last three decades the eminent art historian, the late Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, assembled an important collection of views, largely unpublished, covering almost every aspect of Irish topographical art.

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237. LAWRENCE, William. Types of Irish Life and Character. Twenty-Six Platinatone Pictures of Life in Ireland, by William Lawrence, Photographer & Publisher. Dublin: Published by the Emerald Isle Album Company, n.d. (c.1900). Royal octavo. pp. [24]. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Housed in a binders folder, title in gilt on red morocco label on upper cover. A fine copy. Very scarce. €125 238. LEET, Ambrose. A Directory to the Market Towns, Villages, Gentlemen's Seats and other Noted Places in Ireland, with reference to the Counties, in which they are Situated, The Post-Town to which each is attached, their Description, or if a Seat, the Name of the Resident; to which is added A General Index of Persons Names, referring to the Page where their address is to be found, together with lists of the Post Towns and present Rates of Postage throughout the Empire. Second edition, collected and arranged in alphabetical order. Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith, 46, Mary-Street, 1814. pp. 394, + index, + list of Post Towns, + list of Subscribers. Contemporary full tree calf. Title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on gilt decorated spine. Minor wear to corners and with minute loss of leather to upper cover. From the library of Pat Murray with his bookplate. A fine copy. Very scarce. €475

COPAC locates 3 copies only of this edition. 239. LE FANU, W. R. Seventy Years of Irish Life. Being anecdotes and reminiscences. Third edition. Portrait frontispiece. London: Edward Arnold, 1894. Third edition. pp. xii, 306, 16 (Arnold's List). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine, author's monogram in gilt within a circle on upper cover. From the library of T.R. Baillie Gage with his bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. €75

William Richard Le Fanu was born in Dublin in February 1816. His father Reverend Thomas P. Le Fanu was Chaplain to the Royal Hibernian Military School. His older brother was Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the well-known novelist. William was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he received a B.A. degree in 1839. He became an apprentice to John Benjamin McNeill, the great railway engineer and was employed on railway work including the construction of the Great Southern and Western Railway. Le Fanu and another engineer called Matthew Blakiston were principal assistants to McNeill. He was responsible for the design of the Bagenalstown and Ballywilliam line, including the Borris viaduct around 1860. In 1863, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Public Works. Le Fanu relates that he was "much pressed to do so by (his) friends in the Irish Government". In his memoirs Seventy Years of Irish Life Le Fanu recounts anecdotes and reminiscences from his life as an engineer on the railway between Bagenalstown and Kilkenny which was "a single line". He also mentions two of his friends pioneers of transport in the first half of the nineteenth century William Dargan and Charles Bianconi, who predeceased him. He died at home in Summerhill, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow on September 8th, 1894.

240. LEVENSON, Samuel. James Connolly. A Biography. London: O'Keefe, 1973. First edition. pp. 349. Red papered boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45

LIMERICK PROPERTIES EARLY 18TH CENTURY 241. [LIMERICK LETTER-BOOK] A folio manuscript letter-book roughly bound in ruled vellum, titled on upper cover 'Coppy Book / of Letters 1702', containing 257 numbered pages of copied letters to various named persons, 1702-1711. On good quality laid paper watermarked 'HD', small single wormhole affecting early pages, more widespread worming from about p. 120, generally no serious loss. Upper cover soiled, lower cover with half inch of upper outer edge torn away, otherwise in excellent condition, in a generally clear contemporary hand. €875

The writer of the letters does not give his name. He writes mainly from London, and mentions a recent journey to Ireland (p. 14). The letters are mainly concerned with the letting and management of what is clearly an extensive portfolio of farms and properties, some in England but including a substantial number in County Limerick. His Irish correspondents include Valentine Quin (possibly of the Inchiquin family), whom he thanks for advice about an agent (p. 19, 31), also Mr. George Evans (p. 9), Mr. Robert Nettles (p. 8), 'Mr. Henry Dalway at Ye Inns to be left at ye Post Office house in Dublin' (p. 3), Mr. Joseph Bandon at Newcastle near Limerick (p. 15), Mr. Andrew Meade at Newcastle near Limerick (p. 31, 111, 183), Mr. Christopher Tuthil in Limerick (p. 29, appointing him as agent there on the recommendation of Dr. Newton), and others. The content is mainly concerned with payment of


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rents, terms, tenants and so on, and the level of detail is such that the writer could almost certainly be identified by someone familiar with the context. The tone is mainly friendly, but becomes firmer in cases where prompt payment has not been forthcoming (see for example p. 111). A useful and extensive source from a relatively early date, well worth detailed study.

242. [LIMERICK ORPHANS] Report of the Committee of the Limerick Protestant Orphan Friends' Society. This Seventh Report outlines the previous year's activities of the Society and were grateful that several new subscribers were added including the Earl of Cork, Lord Viscount Gort and the Count De Salis who contributed ten guineas to the funds. They also recorded the Bequest of £50 of the late Mr. Thomas Woodger, Servant of the Earl of Clare and several other donations including one from a Lady in Kerry. There were three new branches formed at Newcastle, Tarbert and Listowel, and almost two hundred orphans under the Society's care. The report concludes with the financial statement and the election of Rev. William Newcombe Willis as Treasurer. Limerick: Goggin, n.d. Quarto. Four pages folded. In very good condition. €675

The Society was set up in 1833 to provide "diet, lodging, clothing and scriptural education" for "destitute orphans of Protestant parents" is to broaden its work to help young Church of Ireland members in need of assistance.

LIMERICK'S FIGHTING STORY 243. [LIMERICK] Limerick's Fighting Story from 1916 to the Truce with Britain. Told by the men who made it. Edited by Col. J.M. MacCarthy. Illustrated. Tralee: Anvil, n.d. (c.1947). pp. 205. Illustrated wrappers. Repair to upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €95

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

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOHN MITCHEL 244. LOSSING, Benson J. Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six, or the War of Independence; a History of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the Union of the Colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the First President of the United States. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings of plans of battles, prominent events, interesting localities, and portraits of distinguished men. New York: Walker, 1847. First edition. Large octavo. pp. 510. Modern half red morocco on original red cloth boards, title and author in gilt direct on spine. Signed presentation copy from John Mitchel to Edward S. O'Brien, Esq., dated at Washington, May 21 1859. A very good copy. €1,250

John Mitchel (1815-75). Young Irelander and journalist, was born in Dungiven, County Derry, the son of a Presbyterian minister. The family moved in 1822 to Newry where he met John Martin, later his associate and brother-in-law. After graduating from Trinity he worked with a legal firm in Banbridge, County Down, where he came into conflict with the local Orange Order. A regular visitor to Dublin he came into contact with Charles Gavan Duffy and Thomas Davis and it was not long before he joined Young Ireland and contributed to The Nation.


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In 1847 he broke with 'The Nation' and founded The United Irishman, it became the principal organ for advanced republican views and despite its price of two shillings it sold 5,000 copies on its first day of issue. Between February and March 1848 he advocated that the starving peasantry should withhold the harvest, not pay rents or rates, resist distraint and eviction, ostracise all who would not co-operate, and arm themselves. His paper also provided advice on the organisation of barricades and noted that railway tracks could be used as pikes. He also advocated that vitriol could be used against soldiers. The tone of his paper led to his arrest in May. Details of his arrest and trial and also that of William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher appear in the May issues. The paper was suppressed and he became the first man tried under the new Treason-Felony Act, before a packed jury, which found him guilty. This act was rushed through parliament in order to give the Irish Executive power to apprehend prominent members of Young Ireland. Mitchel wrote in his Jail Journal for May 28th 1848: "Found the United Irishman of yesterday in my cabin. The sixtieth and last number. Read all the articles. Good Martin! Brave Reilly!". The penalty for those found guilty was transportation. So it was for John Mitchel, who was sentenced to fourteen years in Van Diemens' Land. William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864), nationalist, was born at Dromoland Castle, son of Sir Lucius O'Brien. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge. In 1825 he was Conservative M.P. for Ennis and ten years later for Co. Limerick. Dissatisfied with Parliament, by 1844 he was a convinced Repealer. With Gavan Duffy he became a leading member of the Young Irelanders, broke away from O'Connell, founded the Irish Confederation and promoted the formation of a National Guard. Most of their leaders were arrested in 1848, and those Confederates still at large decided on an armed rising. A small party under O'Brien clashed with forty-six policemen, who retreated to Widow McCormack's house at Boulah Common, Ballingarry. This skirmish brought the rising to an inglorious end. O'Brien was arrested shortly afterwards, tried at Clonmel, and found guilty of High Treason and sentenced to death. This was later commuted to penal servitude for life, for which he served five years in Tasmania. In the weary years of his exile, there was the social disgrace and hostile rejection of polite society. Before his revolt, however, Smith O'Brien had taken the precaution to sign his land and property over to his wife and family to prevent legal confiscation. His eldest son, Edward Smith O'Brien, headed the family in 1856 when his father was allowed to return to Ireland. In 1863, Edward married Mary Spring Rice of Mount Trenchard, Foynes, County Limerick, and installed her as mistress of the family home at Cahirmoyle. Father and son seldom spoke to each other. Charlotte Grace O'Brien endeavoured to act as peacemaker and also nursed her ailing father. The man who had led the Young lreland Party had no home. He travelled from hotel to hotel, growing weaker, and often travelling abroad. Charlotte Grace O'Brien continued to live in Cahirmoyle, with her brother Edward and his wife Mary. In 1864, a child was born to Mary, but her husband Edward had to hurry away after a mere glimpse of his young daughter to catch a boat for Wales and kneel at his father's deathbed. Four years later, tragedy struck again when Mary died, leaving three young children. Charlotte Grace O'Brien became "mother" to the children.

245. [LYNCH, John D.D.] Cambrensis Eversus, seu potius Historica Fides in Rebus Hibernicis Giraldo Cambrensi Abrogata; in quo Plerasque Justi Historici Dotes Desiderari, Plerosque Naevos Inesse, ostendit Gratianus Lucius, Hibernus, qui etiam aliquot res memorabiles hibernicas veteris et novae memoriae passim e re nata huic operi inseruit. Edited by Matthew Kelly. Three volumes. Dublin: For The Celtic Society, 1848-1852. pp. (1) xvi, 515, 1 [plate], (2) 793, (3) 575, [1]. Original olive-green cloth, new green buckram spines, titled in gilt. Some light browning to covers. A very good set. €385

John Lynch (1599-1673), a scion of one of the Tribes of Galway, was educated at the Irish College at Rouen and at the Sorbonne. The son of Alexander Lynch, a famous Galway Schoolmaster who was forbidden by the Establishment to teach without conforming, and without special licence of the Lord Deputy. After his ordination in 1622, John returned to Ireland, and like his father taught school in Galway where he acquired a wide reputation for classical learning. A Royalist, he took no part in the Civil War, was bitterly opposed to the policies adopted by the Nuncio, Rinuccini, referring to it as: "that ill-omened, insensible, fatal war". During the war he lived most of the time secluded in an old castle that had once belonged to Roderic O'Conor. On the surrender of Galway to the Cromwellians in 1662 he fled to France. Residing at St. Malo he wrote some of the most sought after of all the 17th century Irish books. Top of the list was this great historical work on Ireland, and his eloquent defence against the calumnies of Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald Barry, the Welsh monk). Love of country, a desire to clear the way "for treading with more secure step the almost trackless field


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of Irish history", and to check the pernicious influence of Cambrensis on other writers, were the motives which impelled him to write. His plan involved examination of his adversary's character and credentials, a refutation of slanders against Ireland's soil and climate, its kings and people, prelates and clergy, and a presentment of the main features of Ireland's history as a set-off to the garbled version of the slanderer. Lynch is at his best when he takes up this, the positive and constructive side of his work, and with the ease and ability of a master, summarises the story of centuries. He was indebted to his contemporaries, those other great western scholars, Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh and Roderick O'Flaherty who supplied him with several manuscripts including Leabhar Breac and Triallau timcheall na Fodhla. Its enormous value however lies in the extensive number of sources consulted embracing a great variety of well-digested and accurate information on every period of Irish history. Lynch dedicated his 'magnum opus' to Charles II.

246. LYONS, Rev. J. P. Report of the Trial of an Action for Libel, had before Baron Sir Wm. Cusack Smith, Baronet, at Nisi Prius, in the Court of Exchequer, in the sittings after Michaelmas Term, on Wednesday, the 11th of December, 1833, wherein The Rev. J. P. Lyons, Parish Priest of Kilmore, Barony of Erris, and County Mayo, was Plaintiff, and Major Bingham, William Bingham, Esq. and Patrick Lavelle, were Defendants, With the Evidence and Speeches of Counsel, and the Charge of the learned Judge; Taken down by Walter Glascock, Esq. A.M. Dublin: Printed by George Folds, and Sold by Thomas Webb, 1834. pp. 102, [1]. Reddish-brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Inscribed on titlepage 'Christian Schools / Nth. Richmond Street / Dublin' with shelf number. A very good copy of an extremely rare book. €850

COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 1. 247. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Muiredach Abbot of Monasterboice 890-923 A.D. His Life and Surroundings. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1914. Quarto. pp. xii, 85. Modern half green linen on pictorial boards. A very good copy. €165

BOOK OF INVASIONS 248. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Lebor Gabhála Éirenn. The Book of the taking of Ireland. Edited and translated with notes. Six volumes. Dublin: I.T.S. 1993/2009. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine with Celtic decoration. A fine set. €275

This work is associated with the great learned family of Ó Mhaoil Chonaire (Conry or Conroys. The Leabhar Gabhála, i.e. The Book of the Taking (of Ireland), is more often referred to as the Book of Invasions. It relates the history of Ireland in prehistoric times, when successive colonists were said to have come from the east and settled here. These included the Fir Bholg, the Tuatha Dé Danann, the followers of Neimheadh and Partholón, and the Milesians who came via Spain, conquered Ireland and founded the early Irish clans.

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249. 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. London: Corgi Books, 1968. pp. 989, 1. Colour illustrated wrappers. Signed by Eamon de Valera on half title. A very good copy. €225

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.

250. McCALL, P.J. Songs of Erinn. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1899. pp. xv, 17-158. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. From the library of Sean T Ó Ceallaigh, Uachtarán na hÉireann with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Top edge uncut. A fine copy. €125

COPAC locates 5 copies only. Patrick Joseph McCall (1861-1919) songwriter and poet, was born in Dublin, the son of John McCall, a publican, grocer and folklorist from Clonmore near Hacketstown in County Carlow. He attended St. Joseph's Monastery, Harold's Cross, a Catholic University School. He spent his summer holidays in Rathangan, County Wexford with his mother's people, where he spent time with local musicians and ballad singers. His aunt Ellen Newport provided much of the raw material for the songs and tunes meticulously recorded by him. He also collected many old Irish airs, but is probably best remembered for his patriotic ballads. He contributed to the Dublin Historical Record, The Irish Monthly, The Shamrock and Old Moore's Almanac (under the pseudonym Cavellus). He was a member of the group in Dublin which founded the National Literary Society and became its first honorary secretary. In 1902 he was elected as a Dublin City Councillor (defeating James Connolly) and served three terms. As a Councillor he concerned himself with local affairs, particularly projects to alleviate poverty. He married Margaret Furlong, a sister of the poet Alice Furlong, in 1901. They lived in the suburb of Sutton, near Howth.

251. Mac CANA, S. Irish Craftsmanship. Text and drawings by S. Mac Cana. Dublin: Irish Hospitals' Trust, 1940. pp. 40. Illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author. A fine copy €65

A brief history drawn from a series of advertisements for the Hospital Trust that appeared in Irish newspapers during 1947. Six essays were added for this booklet. Topics are: illumination and writing; architecture; painting; sculpture; weaving; wrought iron; stained glass; leather craft; enamels; gold and silver; musical instruments; lace and crochet; pottery and porcelain; glass; metalwork, and furniture.

252. [MacDEVITT, James. Bishop of Raphoe] The Donegal Highlands. Folding map with route for tours and excursions in outline colouring. Dublin: Murray, n.d. (c.1865). pp. xx, 248. Faded mauve cloth. Title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Re-cased, with new endpapers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €225


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A descriptive narrative of the historic and scenic county of Donegal. The author gives us an historical summary prior to his excursions throughout the county starting at Belleek onto Ballyshannon, to Donegal, to Killybegs, to Kilcar, to Carrick, to Ardara, to Glenties, To Dungloe, to Gweedore, to Dunfanaghy and Letterkenny, to Rathmelton, to Buncrana, and from Moville to Derry.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 253. MacDONAGH, Donagh. Veterans and Other Poems. Dublin: Cuala, 1941. pp. 35. Quarter cream linen on blue papered boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label along spine. Signed on titlepage 'Donagh McDonagh / Easter Week 1916 - 1941'. Edition limited to 270 numbered copies. Top edge uncut. Printed label worn, corners rubbed. A very good copy. €285

This book was printed by Esther Ryan and Maire (Mollie) Gill at the Cuala Press.

INSCRIBED BY THE IRISH PATRIOT 254. MacDONAGH, Thomas. Thomas Campion and the Art of English Poetry. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis. London: Simpkin Marshall, 1913. pp. ix, 128, [1]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from Thomas MacDonagh to T. P. Gill: "With the author's respects and compliments", dated 14.2.1913. A fine copy. €1,450

Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916), poet, dramatist and patriot, born at Cloughjordan, County Tipperary and educated at Rockwell College. In 1902 he joined the Gaelic League, moving to Dublin in 1908 became the first staff member and assistant head to Patrick Pearse at St. Enda's College at Rathfarnham. Later he became disillusioned with the Gaelic League, as Yeats recorded in his diary. He studied part-time at U.C.D. and wrote the present work as an M.A. thesis, in which he claimed Campion as an author of Irish extraction. A signatory to the 'Proclamation of the Irish Republic', he took part in the Easter Rising as commander of the Volunteers in Jacob's factory. With the other leaders he was condemned to death by a British court-martial, and executed by firing squad on 3 May 1916. A fine association from MacDonagh. T. P. Gill was a journalist, later an influential civil servant.

255. [MacDONAGH, Thomas] Last and Inspiring Address of Thomas MacDonagh. No printer, no date, but 1916. Single quarto sheet printed one side only. Laid down on a backing page. Together with: An original Christmas card quoting a verse by William Rooney 'The Dead who Fell for Freedom', 'Grave, grave, their names on high'. Together with: A postcard of Thomas MacDonagh, Executed May 3rd, 1916. €295

"Gentlemen. I accept your sentence with joy and pride since it is for Ireland I am to die .. Take me away, and let my blood bedew the sacred soil of Ireland. I die in the certainty that once more the seed will fructify". The authenticity of this document has been questioned, but the tone and sentiments seem


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to us entirely consistent with MacDonagh's. Typescript copies were in RIC hands very soon after MacDonagh's court-martial, so it can hardly be a Republican invention, and it is inconceivable that any British source would have forged a document containing such dignified, unpalatable and prophetic sentiments.

256. McDONNELL, Joseph & HEALY, Patrick. Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century. With illustrated catalogue of 102 bindings and reproductions of 560 of the tools used by the binders. Leixlip: Irish Georgian Society, 1987. Folio. pp. xviii, 340. Modern full red burgundy. Covers lavishly tooled in gilt with onlays and centre lozenge replicating an eighteenth century Irish binding. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on black morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design with floral tools and broken diagonal lines; splash-marbled endpapers. All edges yellow. A fine copy. €375 This is the first book in almost forty years on the subject of Irish bookbinding. Most of the previous works relied mainly on the material evidence of the books themselves. The research for this book however, encompassed not only the previously closed archives of Trinity College, but also the Records of the Guild of St. Luke, the Dublin

newspapers of the time, and from pamphlets and literary sources. Thus it forms the most complete reference for this period of Irish bookbinding when the work being produced vied with that of Paris as the most exquisite bookbinding in the world.

THE BATAK MASSACRE 257. MacGAHAN, J. A. (Januarius Aloysius) The Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria. Letters of the Special Commissioner of the "Daily News". With an Introduction and Mr. Schuyler's Preliminary Report. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1876. pp. vii, [1], 10-94. Stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €195

The April Uprising was an Insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876, which indirectly resulted in the re-establishment of Bulgaria in 1878. Тhe regular Ottoman Army and irregular bashi-bazouk units brutally suppressed the rebels, leading to a public outcry in Europe and the United States, with many famous intellectuals condemning the Ottoman atrocities and supporting the oppressed Bulgarian population. The 1876 uprising involved only those parts of the Ottoman territories populated predominantly by Bulgarians. The emergence of Bulgarian national sentiments was closely related to the re-establishment of the independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church in 1870. Together with notions of romantic nationalism, the rise of national awareness became known as the Bulgarian National Revival. Januarius MacGahan, a journalist of the 'New York Herald' and the 'London Daily News' wrote of the terrible happenings after his visitation to Batak with Eugene Schuyler. They describe the burned and destroyed city with the stench of the rotting of thousands of piled dismembered corpses and skeletons of the innocent victims including young women, children and unborn babies torn out from the wombs of their pregnant mothers.

258. McHUGH, Roger J. Ed. by. Carlow in '98. The Autobiography of William Farrell of Carlow. Frontispiece. facsimile page of original handwritten manuscript. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1949. pp. ix, 235. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed pictorial dust jacket. €45

The author of this remarkable autobiographical record was a tradesman of Carlow and in his twenty-sixth year when the Rebellion broke out in 1798. He was a member of the society of the 'United Irishmen', but was only a half-hearted participant in its activities, which he secretly regarded as folly. When the Rising was about to break out in Carlow he left the organisation, but his membership was


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sufficient to effect his arrest and imprisonment, and it was by a hair's breadth that he escaped being hanged. He wrote these memoirs in his twilight years recalling in graphic detail all that he witnessed and encountered as a young man.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 259. MACKEY, Herbert O. The Life of Thomas Moore, Ireland's National Poet. Illustrated frontispiece. Dublin: Apollo Press, n.d. (c.1951). pp. 39. Green faded stapled wrappers. Presentation inscription from the author dated 30/9/51 on front endpaper. A very good copy. €30

SIGNED BY DE VALERA 260. MacMANUS, M.J. Eamon de Valera. A Biography. Portrait frontispiece of Eamon de Valera. Dublin and Cork: Talbot Press, 1947. pp. 371. Quarter linen on green papered boards. New illustrated edition, with additional chapter on the de Valera - Churchill controversy. Signed by Eamon de Valera on titlepage. Owner's signature on dedication leaf. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. €375

SIGNED BY MacNEICE

261. MacNEICE, Louis. Holes in the Sky. Poems 1944-1947. London: Faber, 1948. First Edition. First impression. pp. 72. Signed and dated 19.9.1948 by MacNeice on titlepage. Portrait of the author on front pastedown. A very good copy in darkened repaired dust jacket. €265 262. MacNEILL, Eoin MURPHY, Gerard. Duanaire Finn. The Book of the Lays of Fionn. Irish text, with translations into English Eoin MacNeill and Gerard Murphy. Three volumes. Dublin: Reprinted for the Irish Text Society, 1986/1996. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine with Celtic decoration. A fine set. €135 263. M'PARLAN, James. M.D. Statistical Survey of the County of Mayo, with Observations on The Means of Improvement; drawn up in the year 1801, for the consideration of, and under the direction of the Dublin Society. Illustrated with a folding map of the County of Mayo engraved by I. Taylor at Donnybrook. Dublin: Graisberry & Campbell, 1802. pp. xvi, 168. Later half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. From the library of J.J. Clarke with his stamp and signature. A very good copy. Rare. €850 264. M'PARLAN, James. M.D. Statistical Survey of the County of Sligo, with Observations on The Means of Improvement; drawn up in the year 1801, for the consideration of, and under the direction of the Dublin Society. Illustrated with a folding map of the county of Sligo engraved by I. Taylor at Donnybrook. Dublin: Graisberry & Campbell, 1802. pp. xix, 122. Later quarter maroon morocco on marbled boards. A fine copy. Rare. €765 265. McPARLAND, Edward. James Gandon, Vitruvius Hibernicus. With photographs by David Davison and numerous illustrations. London: Zwemmer, 1985. Quarto. pp. xv, 222. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Fine in dust jacket. Very scarce. €175

Eighteenth-century Dublin was a great European city. The best of its architecture reflects this, in scale, quality and sophistication. James Gandon, an Englishman of Huguenot descent and William Chambers' greatest pupil, was Dublin's most distinguished neo-classical architect. This is the first illustrated study of Gandon's life and buildings.

266. MacSWINEY, Terence. An Original Photograph of Terence MacSwiney, his wife Muriel and daughter Máire aged perhaps 9-12 months, probably April or May 1919. Terence is standing while his wife is seated with baby on her lap. Mounted on card. Fine. A most attractive photograph, apparently unpublished. Photographs showing MacSwiney with his family are very rare. He was in jail when his daughter was born in June 1918, and was released on humanitarian


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grounds only in March 1919, to support Muriel through a severe attack of influenza. Probably this photograph was taken as soon as she was well enough to be up and about. After his release MacSwiney spent much of his time travelling on Volunteer business and to collect money for the Dáil Loan; for security reasons he rarely slept at home, and Muriel told friends she hardly ever saw him. €365

Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork and Officer Commanding Cork No. 1 Brigade I.R.A. died in 1920 on the 74th day of hunger strike in protest at his imprisonment by the British Authorities. He was a full-time organiser for the Irish Volunteers and a close friend of Michael Collins. His long martyrdom was a turning point in the struggle for independence.

267. MacSWINEY, Terence. Principles of Freedom. Portrait frontispiece of MacSwiney. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1921. Second Irish edition. pp. xi, 244, 31,[1]. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, spine faded. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Spine evenly faded. A very good copy. €45

Originally published serially in Irish Freedom in 1912, MacSwiney had intended to revise these articles before publishing in book form but died before this could be done. The preface in which he mentions this was partly written and partly dictated on his death-bed in Brixton Gaol at different times during September 1920.

SIGNED BY EAMON DE VALERA 268. MacSWINEY, Terence Despite Fools' Laughter. Poems by Terence MacSwiney. Edited by B. G. MacCarthy. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: M. H. Gill, 1944. pp. xvi, [ii], 74. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, signed by Eamon de Valera on titlepage. A very good copy. €265


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SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 269. McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: The Light of Bygone Days. Two volumes. Volume I: Houses of Sligo & Associated Families. Volume II: Sligo Families. Chronicles of Sixty Families Past and Present. Lavishly illustrated with photography by John McTernan and Kieran Regan. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. Quarto. pp. (1) xiv, 504, [10 (index)], (2) xix, 409. Black papered boards, titled in silver. Signed limited edition limited of 1,000 copies. Fine in fine pictorial dust jackets. €100 270. MacTHORMAID, Brendan Mary. Deathless Glory. Illustrated. Dublin: Massey, 1966. pp. 59. Green, white and gold stiff wrappers, with medallion portrait of P.H. Pearse in centre of upper cover. Small stain on cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €65

Humbly and reverentially dedicated to the Teachers of 1916. Scholarly account of the leaders and events of the Easter Rebellion.

271. MAGUIRE, William J. Irish Literary Figures. Biographies in Miniature. Vol. I. (all published). Dublin: Metropolitan, 1945. First edition. pp. 221. Green papered boards, title in black along spine. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. €65

Includes the short biographies of: James Ware, William Petty, Turlough O'Carolan, Laurence Sterne, Charles Lucas, Edmund Burke, William Stokes, James Clarence Mangan, William Haliday, Charles J. Kickham, Robert Dwyer Joyce, Oliver Goldsmith, Jonathan Swift, George Moore, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and others.

LIMERICK ELECTION 272. [MAHONY, Pierce Esq.] Documents, Speeches, Reports of Meetings and other Proceedings, Connected with the Canvass of Peirce Mahony, Esq. As a Candidate for the Representation of the City of Limerick in the Imperial Parliament, During the Election of December 1832. Collected by a Friend. Limerick: Printed by Cornelius O'Brien, Bookseller, 108 George-street, 1833. pp. [v], 59. Original brown wrappers. A little creased. Titlepage a trifle dusty, otherwise in very good condition. €765

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Not in NLI. The contents includes: Mr. Mahony's Address to the Electors of the City of Limerick; His visit to Monaleen; His visit to Loughmore; Proceedings of the Limerick Political Union; Mr. O'Connell's Address to the Electors, opposing the return of Mr. Mahony; Remarks of the editor of the Herald; Remarks of the editor of the Dublin Evening Post; Remarks of the editor of the Liverpool Albion, on Mr. Mahony's pretentions to represent Limerick; Mr. Mahony's letter to the Electors; Charge of Bribery, made by Rev. Mr. Enraght, C.C. against Mr. Mahony, repelled; Complete Refutation of this charge; Resignation of Mr. Mahony; Reconciliation between Mr. Mahony and Mr. O'Connell, etc.

273. MAHR, Adolf. Ancient Irish Handicraft. Illustrated. Limerick: The Limerick leader, 1939. Quarto. pp. 24, 24 (plates). Modern green cloth, titled in gilt along spine, original wrappers bound in. A very good copy. Scarce. €65

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"GOD SAVE IRELAND" 274. [MANCHESTER MARTYRS] Manchester Martyrs' Commemoration Concert, Mansion House, Sunday, 23rd November, 1952. Dublin: Printed by Ardiff for the National Graves Association, 1951. Quarto. pp. [16]. Pictorial light green stapled wrappers. Previous owner's presentation inscription on upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €85

Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, the three Manchester Martyrs, were hanged "on the scaffold high" outside Salford Gaol on November 23, 1867, for the murder of Sergeant Brett, an English policeman.

275. [MANCHESTER MARTYRS] The Manchester Martyrs. The Rescue of Kelly and Deasey, Hyde Road, Manchester. Preliminary Sketch ... By Lowden Macartney. With a contribution by Michael Davitt on Partisan Judges and Packed Juries. Glasgow: n.d. (c.1867). Quarto. pp. 27 (double column), plus adverts. Illustrated restored wrappers. €475

No copy located on COPAC. The three Fenians, William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien, who have gone down in history as the three Manchester Martyrs, were hanged on the scaffold high outside Salford Gaol on November 21, 1867, for the alleged murder of Sergeant Brett, an English policeman. In September of that year, two leading members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Colonel Kelly (afterwards leader of the Fenians in America) and Captain Deasy crossed over to Manchester after the abortive Fenian uprising in Ireland. They were arrested, and as they were being taken under guard to Belle Vue Gaol in a prison horse-drawn van, a daring and successful rescue was organised in the course of which a bullet was fired to break a lock and Sergeant Brett, who happened to be looking through the keyhole, was shot through the eye. After the round-up that followed, three Irishmen were to pay the ultimate penalty for their part in the rescue and the Sergeant's death. The Chief Secretary's message to the Fenians was: "You have released two lrishmen cleverly. Very well, we shall murder three Irishmen. If you care to release twenty lrish prisoners, we shall murder thirty lrishmen!". The execution was denounced as an act of brutal political reprisal against Ireland and its people. This alienated Irish nationalist opinion from any belief in British justice and helped to increase recruitment into the Irish Republican Brotherhood. "God rest the dead of Ireland Who sleep in Irish clay! God rest the dead of lreland Whose graves are far away God rest the noble Martyred Three Whose names like a beacon shine To lead us on till the goal is won - Allen, Larkin and O'Brien God save lreland, said the heroes God save lreland, said they all Whether on the scaffold high or on the battlefield we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall"

276. MARCHETTI, Giovanni. Official Memoirs of the Juridical Examination into the Authenticity of the Miraculous Events, which happened at Rome, in 1796-7... : with an Account of Similar Prodigies which occurred about the same time at Ancona and other places in Italy. Translated from the French. Compared with the original Italian of Sig. Gio. Marchetti, Apostolic Examinator of the Clergy and President del Gesu. By the Rev. B. Rayment. With engraved plates. London: Printed and published by Keating & Co., 1801. 12mo. pp. 227, 7 (27 engravings on 7 pages). List of subscribers. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Some surface wear to binding, corners a little bumped; old worming to lower margin. A very good copy. €225

COPAC locates 7 copies only. The list of subscribers includes: Lady Arundel, Richard Bourke, Dr. Bray, Archbishop of Cashel, Dr. Coppinger, Bishop of Cloyne, Dr. Caulfield, Bishop of Ferns, Dr. Dillon Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. Delaney, Bishop of Kildare, Rev. S. Dupont, Rev. James Haydock, Dr. Lanigan Bishop of Ossory, Dr. Sughrue Bishop of Ardfert, Dr. Troy Archbishop of Dublin and several other clerics.

RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 277. MARSH, Narcissus. The Charge given by Narcissus Lord Arch-bishop of Dublin to the Clergy of the Province of Leinster at his Primary Triennial Visitation, Anno Dom. 1694. Together with his Articles of Visitation. Whereunto are annext Three Acts of Parliament, which are to be read in every Parish-Church yearly. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Ray,1694. Quarto. pp. [vi], 47. Mild water staining. Modern quarter calf. Very good. Extremely rare. €2,750


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No copy of the printed book on COPAC or WorldCat. NLI copy with variant titlepage. Wing M 735A. Sweeney 2982. Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh, was born at Hannington in Wiltshire, in 1638. Educated at Oxford, he became Doctor of Divinity in 1671; and seven years afterwards, through the influence of his friend the Duke of Ormond, was appointed Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. In 1682 he was consecrated Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns; in 1690 was translated to Cashel; in 1694 he was promoted to the archbishopric of Dublin; and in 1702 became Archbishop of Armagh. He is remembered for his bequests to the See of Armagh, for the foundation of widows' alms-houses at Drogheda, and above all by the foundation, in 1707, of a free public library contiguous to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin — probably the first of its kind in Ireland. He laid out £4,000 on the building, which at his death contained 10,000 volumes. Forty years afterwards it received an important addition in a bequest of books and MSS. from Dr. Stearne. The salary of a librarian was provided for by a charge of £250 per annum on church lands in Meath. An Act of the Irish Parliament exempted Marsh's Library from taxes. This venerable foundation, which, although somewhat restricted in its scope, contains many valuable works, is still open to the public. Designed by Sir William Robinson (d.1712) the Surveyor General of Ireland, it is one of the very few eighteenth century buildings left in Dublin that is still being used for its original purpose. Archbishop Marsh died in 1713, aged 75, and was buried in a vault in the churchyard of St. Patrick's, adjoining the library. A stately monument was erected to his memory in St. Patrick's Cathedral. He at one period occupied a house at Leixlip, still known as the Archbishop's palace. No relationship appears to have existed between him and Francis Marsh, his predecessor in the see of Dublin. In this work he deals at some length with the question of preaching, when, where and what, but perhaps the most entertaining and delicately worded subtext is to be found when he deals with funeral sermons. He frames his advice as follows namely: "That you take care not to be over lavish in your praises of the dead: least others think themselves secure in following their examples".


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THE POETS REBELLION 278. MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising: Dublin 1916. London: Methuen, 1967. First edition. pp. xii, 276. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €85

The Easter Rising was planned and led by a secret council of seven men - Pearse, Clarke, Plunkett, Ceannt, MacDonagh, MacDermott and Connolly, most of them were poets and writers. With little or no prospect of military success the rebellion was brutally crushed within a week and the leaders executed. This reaction shocked the Irish people and kindled the flame of freedom and nationality which eventually led to independence and the first break-up of the British Empire. The Easter Rising will always be associated with University College, Dublin. Pearse served for a period as deputy lecturer, and Thomas MacDonagh was a lecturer in English in the College at the time of the Rising, both were signatories of the Proclamation, and both were executed. The O'Rahilly, one of the most heroic participants in the action of Easter Week was a student there as well as Eamon de Valera. Eoin MacNeill who founded the Irish Volunteers was a professor there, and he has gone down in history as the one who countermanded the order for the Rising. Never has such a young institution given so much of permanent value to a nation.

279. MASON, Thomas H. The Islands of Ireland. Their Scenery, People, Life and Antiquities. Illustrated from Photographs by the Author. Third edition. London: Batsford, 1938. Second edition. pp. viii, 135, 32 (publishers list and index). Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Maps on endpapers. Top edge green. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. €75

In "The Islands of Ireland" the author demonstrates his great love for those isolated parts of Ireland. His keen eye for the unusual in nature, the ancient in man's handywork and his intense feeling for island people emerges strongly from every chapter.

AUTHOR OF MELMOTH THE WANDERER 280. [MATURIN, Rev. Charles] An interesting collection of original manuscript letters concerning the writer and his family, and their connections in the Church of Ireland. €1,250 [a] Two original manuscript letters to Maturin from a person signing himself G.S.S., with an associate L.B.L.letter). It is clear from the second letter that Maturin replied to the first, and did not discourage the plan. The first letter is undated, the second dated Nov. 9th 1816. The date indicates that G.S.S.'s pleasure was occasioned probably by Maturin's third novel The Milesian Chief (1812), or perhaps his drama Bertram, produced in 1816 with Edmund Kean in the title role, but not by the book for which he is best known, the classic Gothic novel Melmoth The Wanderer (1820), which was his next publication. The fact that Maturin kept the letters indicates that he must at least have given serious consideration to G.S.S.'s proposal. £30 or £50 were substantial sums in 1816, which should have sufficed to arrange publication. [b] An autograph signed letter to a son of Charles Maturin, probably Rev. William (1803-1887), from James Wills (poet and biographer, vicar of Suirville, Co. Kilkenny), undated. 'On receiving your note I immediately took the necessary steps to put a stop to all further design upon your father's biography, and have obtained a promise that it shall not be further thought of ... I should never have acceded to the proposal, did I not feel that I could do justice to yr father's literary life & character, without in any way entering into family or domestic details. And that the possibility of any fact being misinterpreted or maliciously interpreted, would have been with me a reason for its omission ...' James Wills (1790-1868) was the compiler of Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen (1839-1847); his poem The Universe was published by C. Maturin, whom he evidently knew.


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[c] A collection of three various manuscript signed letters from Church of Ireland clergy (one with a report of a meeting), two addressed to 'Maturin' (probably Rev. William, who appears to have been editor of a Church of Ireland Journal), discussing various points of Church policy, including remarriage to a deceased wife's sister, restoration of suppressed Irish Bishoprics, etc., 1840s. The entire collection throws an interesting light on the narrowly constrained lives of the minor Church of Ireland clergy in the early to mid 1800s, a world which was shaken, indeed shocked to its core by the Gothic drama, Satanic terror and wild imagination of Melmoth The Wanderer. Maturin's great novel quickly attained a European reputation; Baudelaire proposed at one time to translate it, and Balzac wrote a sequel entitled Melmoth Reconcilié. Later still, Oscar Wilde adopted the name of 'Sebastian Melmoth' on his release from prison. It is interesting, and a little sad, that as late as the 1840s, Maturin's son was sufficiently nervous about his father's life and writings to discourage even a friendly offer to write his biography. 281. MEEHAN, C.P. The Rise and Fall of the Irish Franciscan Monasteries, and Memoirs of the Irish Hierarchy, in the seventeenth century. With appendices containing original documents. Dublin: James Duffy, 1869. 16mo. First edition. pp. xii, 252. Green blind-stamped cloth, harp and shamrock in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature in pencil on titlepage. Minor repair to head of spine. A very good copy. €165

COPAC locates three copies only of the first edition. 282. MILNE, Ewart. Jubilo. Poems. London: Muller, 1944. pp. vi, 48. First edition. Printed on handmade paper. Burgundy cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in lightly sun-tanned dust jacket. €65

PARTISANS OF THE ANTIENT & INVETERATE ENEMY OF THEIR COUNTRY 283. MINTO, Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of. The Speech of Lord Minto, in the House of Peers, April 11, 1799, on a Motion for and Address to His Majesty, to communicate the Resolutions of the Two Houses of Parliament, respecting An Union between Great Britain and Ireland. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1799. First edition. pp. 155, 5 (advertisement). Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175

ESTC T2847. Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto (1751-1814), Governor-General of India, was an outspoken advocate for a union between Great Britain and Ireland as is evidenced in this speech: " that I should condescend to treat as an exception, worthy of notice, the opinions of those who call themselves United Irishmen ... these men they call themselves by what names they please ...They are merely partisans of the antient and inveterate enemy of their country ... They are confederates in every desperate and wicked project of a foreign state, for the subjugation and ruin of their native land ". This bigoted outburst elicited two replies, one from Patrick Duigenan and the other from Earl Farnham.

284. MOODY, T.W. The Londonderry Plantation 1609-41. The city of London and the Plantation of Ulster. With sixteen folding maps and plans. Belfast: Mullan, 1939. pp. 487. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,250

This book is a detailed account of the city of London's share in the Ulster plantation, based on exhaustive research among original sources, including the records of the London livery companies. Besides giving a picture of the colonisation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century, it describes the foundation and early history of the county and city of Londonderry, the town of Coleraine, and the Irish Society of London. There is also a detailed study of the early Stuart policy towards Ireland. The major part of this edition was destroyed by a German bombing raid.

285. [MOORE, Dr.] Strange and Wonderful News from the County of Wicklow, or, A Full and True Relations of What Happened to One Dr. Moore, (Late Schoolmaster in London). How he was taken Invisibly from his Friends, what happened to him in his Absence. And How, And by what means he was found, and brought back to the same place. London: Printed for T.R., 1678. Small quarto. pp. [i], 6. Nineteenth century half calf on marbled boards. Wear to spine and corners. Paper restoration to margins. Mainsforth Library bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,475

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This is believed to be the earliest writing-down of an original Irish folk story, preceding all others, whether they be manuscript or printed versions. The story of how Moore was spirited away to the top of a hill by the fairies, what befell him there and how he subsequently persuaded his friends of the truth of his tale by showing them trampled on grass was still being re-told in 'Ireland's Own' some years ago. Robert Surtees (1779-1834) was a celebrated English historian and antiquary of his native County Durham. He was born in Durham, and educated at Kepier School, Houghton-le-Spring, and later at Christ Church, Oxford. Although a student of law he never practised as a lawyer. From 1802 he spent most of his life at Mainsforth Hall. By 1804, Surtees had begun collecting material for what was to become his monumental county history, The History of Durham. Guests at Mainsforth Hall included Sir Walter Scott, with whom Surtees frequently corresponded. In the National Union Catalogue, authorship is credited to John Cother. Provenance: The Mainsforth Library copy, leaves mounted as was their custom.

286. MOORE, Sidney O. The Family of Glencarra; A Tale of the Irish Rebellion. Illustrated. Bound with Trevor Tracts. No.1 - No. 12. Bath: Binns and Goodwin & Dublin: Robertson, n.d. (c.1858). pp. xi, 154, + publisher's list. Contemporary half brown morocco, covers blind stamped to a panel design. Titles and legend in gilt on upper cover, gilt crosses in corners and in spine compartments. In gilt on upper cover 'In Memoriam / of / A.C.L'E. / She being Dead / Yet Speaketh'. Owner's signatures on front endpaper. With stamp of Webb Booksellers. Minor wear to extremities of binding, otherwise a fine copy. All edges gilt. Exceedingly rare. €475

COPAC locates 3 copies only. Loeber M529. With engraved frontispiece, half-title and two other plates. The story is set in County Mayo at the time of Humbert's Invasion, from the standpoint of the 'Irish Society' (a proselytising organisation). The author highlights the "ignorance and degradation peculiar to the Romish districts of Ireland", and tells


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how Aileen who was engaged to one of the rebels (a murderer) is converted, and endeavours to convert others, with some degree of success. A grotesque misrepresentation of the Catholic Church. The engraved titlepage depicts Moyne Abbey, which founded by Richard Bourke, Chieftain of the Mayo Bourkes in 1460.

WITH THOMAS MOORE'S ICONIC POEMS 'THE MEETING OF THE WATERS' AND 'RICH AND

RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE' IN HIS OWN HAND 287. [MOORE, Thomas] Album containing a range of manuscript epigrams and quotations from popular authors some evidently copied by the compiler, others in various hands. Including two original poems in Thomas Moore's own hand, 'Rich and Rare were the gems she wore', and 'The Meetings of the Waters' both on a separate sheet laid down, signed 'T.M'. There are also mounted Victorian engravings, some hand coloured, a few drawings, a manuscript receipt signed Thos. Clarke dated 1747, and so on. A very fine dark green morocco-bound quarto album in a Relivio binding by De La Rue of London. Covers elaborately blind stamped to a floral pattern, with a central oval cartouche of a child carrying an urn of flowers; framed by four raised gilt corner-pieces. Flat spine decorated in relief with a goddess, urns, swags etc., titled in gilt 'Album', signed at base of spine, 'De La Rue, Cornish & Rock'; board edges and turn-ins gilt; white glossy pastedowns and endpapers with gilt floral borders, titled in manuscript 'Dorothea Garnons / 1830' and 'All Contributions Thankfully Received'. All edges gilt. A fine binding in excellent condition. €1,250

Thomas Moore (1789-1852), 'The Bard of Erin', poet, composer and prose writer was born in Dublin. His father was from Kerry and his mother was from Wexford. Educated at Samuel White's Academy and T.C.D., from which he graduated B.A. in 1798. While at T.C.D. he formed a close friendship with Robert Emmet on whose execution in 1803 he wrote: "Oh! Breathe Not His Name". He was a friend of Lord Byron, a strong advocate of Catholic Emancipation and supporter of Daniel O'Connell.


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Sloperton Cottage near Devizes, Wiltshsire, was Moore's home from 1817 till his death in 1852: "That dear home, that saving ark, where love's true light at last I've found, cheering within when all grows dark, and comfortless, and stormy around".

In 1835 Thomas Moore travelled to Ireland to see his sister Ellen, the visit became a triumphal progress. In Dublin, when he visited the theatre the whole house rose to greet him, the people hurrahing and throwing up their hats, the pressure of dinners and receptions was so great that he collapsed for two days from exhaustion. From Dublin he set out on a tour of Wicklow and Wexford. They rested at the Vale of Avoca. It was here where the two rivers, the Avonmore (Abhainn Mhór -"Big River") and the Avonbeg (Abhainn Bheag - "Small River") joined together at a spot called 'The Meeting of the Waters', which is considered a local beauty spot, that the celebrated and iconic poem was written. Moore reflects on the good times he spent there with friends. "There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As the vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh, the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart". The ballad 'Rich and Rare were the gems she wore' is founded upon the following anecdote: "The people who inspired with such a spirit of honour, virtue, and religion, by the great example of Brian, and by his excellent administration that, as proof of it, we are informed that a young lady of great beauty, adorned with jewels and a costly dress, undertook a journey alone from one end of the kingdom to the other, with a wand only in her hand, at the top of which was a ring of exceeding great value; and such an impression had the laws and government of this monarch made on the minds of all the people, that no attempt was made upon her honour, nor was she robbed of her clothes or jewels" – Warner's History of Ireland. Poems in Thomas Moore's hand are surprisingly a great rarity, in spite of his great popularity and voluminous correspondence. Dorothea Jones Garnons (d. 1853) was the wife of Richard Garnons of Colomendy Hall, Flintshire in Wales, where she was a celebrated nineteenth century gardener.

WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTING THE BARD OF IRELAND AND THE TSARINA OF RUSSIA

288. MOORE, Thomas. Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance. First edition. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Quarto. First edition. pp. [iv], 405, [1]. Later full green morocco. Covers framed by double gilt fillets with floral stems and gilt dots in corners. Spine divided into five compartments by four raises bands; title, author and year in gilt direct in


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the second third and fourth, the remainder elaborately tooled in gilt to a floral pattern with gilt dots, stars and circles; red and green endbands; Splash marbled endpapers. Ornate fore-edge painting of lovers seated on a bench. With the armorial bookplate of Daniel Hunter Gaskell on front pastedown. A fine copy. €765

We did not know of any connection between Thomas Moore and the Tsars of Russia until we had an enquiry some years ago for a first edition of Lalla Rookh. Our customer informed us that it was going to the Summer Palace of the once mighty Romanoffs. Seemingly Tsarina Alexandra, Consort of Tsar Nicholas I, loved Thomas Moore's work and her favourite book in all the world was this classic oriental romance. It took pride of place in the Summer Palace Library at Peterhoff. The Tsarina Alexandra is still venerated and her birthday is celebrated each year on the 12th of July in St. Petersburg. The streets are strewn with white roses and parts of Lalla Rookh are re-enacted. This work was a bestseller in the early nineteenth century. In six months it ran into six editions, and into as many European translations. Its appearance in Persian inspired the playful verse: 'I'm told, dear Moore, that your lays are sung Can it be true, you lucky man! By moonlight in the Persian tongue Along the streets of Ispahan'.

289. MORGAN, Lady. A Mezzotint Portrait of Lady Morgan. Seated by a window with her elbow resting on a pedestal and her index finger touching her forehead. In elegant dress with a fashionable belt. 130 x 180mm. Marginal spotting and a little dusty, otherwise in very good condition. €65 290. MORLEY, George. A Sermon Preached at the Magnificent Coronation of the Most High and Mighty King Charles the II. King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. At the Collegiate Church of S. Peter Westminster, The 23d of April, (being S. George's Day) 1661. Published by His Majesty's Special Command. London: Printed by R. Norton for T. Garthwait, at the Little North Door of S. Paul's, 1661. Quarto. pp. [8], 62, [2] plates. Modern half maroon morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Vary rare in commerce. €375

Wing M 2794. Sweeney 3114. WorldCat 1. With a most handsome engraved frontispiece portrait of an enthroned Charles II.

291. MORROW, Jack. An original cartoon by the cartoonist, Jack Morrow (1872-1926) featuring a conversation between the Lion and the Unicorn on the British royal crest, with caption in Irish and English concerning a change of name by 'the Boss', pen and ink, stamped 'PASSED / PRESS CENSOR / IRELAND', mounted, probably circa 1918. €365

Jack Morrow was one of eight Belfast brothers all with artistic talents, a number of whom came to live and work in Dublin. He contributed cartoons to 'New Ireland' and other magazines of the day.

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292. [MUNSTER COAL-FIELD] Coloured Map of the Munster Coal-Field. Produced by - The Commission of Inquiry into the Resources and Industries of Ireland. Dublin, 1920. (Based on Information obtained from the Geological Survey and other sources). Inset. Key to the Kanturk Area. Linen backed. 760 x 595mm. In fine condition. €125

Label pasted to top left hand margin: "This Map, originally produced by O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland, Ltd., Dublin, for the Commission of Inquiry into the Resources and Industries of Ireland [appointed by Dáil Eireann in 1919], to accompany their Report on 'The Coalfields of Ireland', is distributed free to Schools, by permission of the Chairman, Col. Maurice Moore".

293. MURPHY, Seamus. Stone Mad. Illustrated by Fergus O'Ryan. Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, n.d. (c.1949). First edition. pp. x, [1], 168. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. €75 294. NIMROD [Charles James Apperley] Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop and Merioneth, and Major of the North Shopshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits. With twenty illustrations by Henry Alken. With a Memoir of Nimrod by R.S. Surtees. London: Downey, 1899. pp. xxi, [1], 238, [1]. Red cloth, gilt decoration on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. €95

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES ONLY 295. O'BRIEN, Eoin & CROOKSHANK, Anne. A Portrait of Irish Medicine. An Illustrated History of Medicine in Ireland. With Sir Gordon Wolstenholme. Photography by David H. Davison. Essays by J.B. Lyons, Peter Froggatt, J.D.H. Widdess and Noreen Casey, with a Foreword by Eoin O'Malley, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Published for the Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Dublin: Ward River Press, 1984. Small folio. pp. [xviii], 307. Bound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts in full dark red morocco. Coat of arms of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in gilt on upper cover; the flean or lancet used by surgeons in blood-letting in gilt on lower cover. Spine embossed with off-white bars on the red morocco background symbolising the barber's pole, the emblem of the Barber-Surgeons Guild in which surgeons were once incorporated together with barbers. Red and white endbands, water-silk endpapers. Limited edition of 250 copies only. Limitation leaf signed by the President R.C.S.I., Eoin O'Brien, Anne Crookshank, Liam Miller, Joe Kelly, Des Breen and Gordon Wolstenholme. All edges gilt. A fine copy in fine leather slipcase with water-silk sides. €750

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LIMITED TO 160 COPIES ONLY 296. O'BRIEN, Eoin. Ed. by. The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street. A Farewell Tribute. Illustrated. With list of subscribers. Dublin: Anniversary Press, 1987. pp. xxiii, 279. Edition limited to 160 numbered copies. Inscribed by Dr. O'Brien. Contemporary full black morocco with the Charitable Infirmary on Inns Quays blind stamped on upper cover. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Rare. €475 297. 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. Printed in red and black. Red paper boards, titled in gilt. With map of 'An Domhan Mór' on endpapers. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65

Since 1571, when Queen Elizabeth's printer first attempted to give a typographical expression to the Irish language, over twenty Gaelic typefaces have been made. Political and religious differences have been major influences in attempting to be 'different' in drawing inspiration for various fonts. In this country within the language movement itself, there are two major schools of thought about the printing of the language, one adhering to the so-called tradition of Cló Gaelach and the other to Cló Rómhánach, or the use of the ordinary printers repertoire of so-called 'Roman' typefaces. The typeface used in this book is Times New Roman, a twentieth-century design by Stanley Morison, cast from Monotype Matrices. Two of the characters, T and F, have been specifically cut in Gaelic style. Dust jacket illustrated by Sean O Sullivan.

298. O'BRIEN, Marie Cruise. The Two Languages. Baile Átha Cliath: Clódhanna Teo., n.d. (c.1970). Large quarto. pp. 10 (double column). Green and white stiff stapled wrappers. Creased from folding, otherwise in very good condition. €25

Reprint from 'Conor Cruise O'Brien Introduces Ireland', published by Andre Deutsch by permission of the publishers and Mrs Maire Cruise O'Brien.

299. O'BRIEN, William M.P. Grattan's Home Rule, Gladstone's, and Asquith's. An Answer to a Boast. Cork: Free Press, 1915. pp. 32. Recent quarter goatskin on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine, with original wrappers bound in. A very good copy. Scarce. €135

A spirited attack on Redmond's contention that Asquith's Home Rule Bill was better than Grattan's Constitution.

300. Ó CADHLA, Seán. Cathair Phortláirge agus na Déise. A Gael's Guide to Waterford and the Déise Country. Reprinted from 'The Waterford News'. Illustrated. Waterford: Printed by The Waterford News Ltd., 1917. pp. [iv], 189, [8 (adverts)]. Ex lib. With faded stamps. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €185

301. [O'CALLAGHAN, Michael] The Limerick Curfew Murders of March 7th 1921. The Case of Michael O'Callaghan (Councillor and ex-Mayor of Limerick). Presented by his widow. S.n. [Limerick, 1921]. pp. 32. Wrappers. A very good copy. Scare. Carty 1282. €275 'The drawing up of this statement has been indescribably painful, but I was urged to it by the thought of others. My husband's murder is a clear case of the use of assassination for political reasons by the British Government in Ireland. A government that sinks to this last dreadful and futile means of rule stands self-condemned'.

AMHRÁIN AN DREOILÍN 302. O'CASEY, Sean. Songs of the Wren - Humorous and Sentimental - New Series No I. Dublin: Fergus O'Connor, circa 1918. 8 pp. Original printed wrappers. Some browning to


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extremities but otherwise a very good unopened copy of this scarce early work by a leading Irish dramatist of the 20th Century. €185

Sean O'Casey (1880-1964), playwright, born in Dublin into a working class family and christened John Casey. His father's death in 1886 plunged the family into poverty. Self-educated, he was deeply involved in the Labour Movement and took part in the 'Lock-Out' strike of 1913. He was secretary of the Irish Citizen Army under James Connolly, but left when it moved closer to a Republican position. Encouraged by Lady Gregory, he began to submit plays to the Abbey Theatre; and after some years success came with the production of The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), which marked him as the new great voice of Irish theatre. In 1926 he left for London to become a full time writer. His next play The Silver Tassie was rejected by the Abbey. This was a bitter blow to O'Casey and estranged him from the directors.

AMHRÁIN AN DREOILÍN 303. Ó CATHASAIGH, Sean [Sean O'Casey]. Songs of the Wren - Humorous and Sentimental - New Series No 2. Dublin: O'Connor, n.d. (c.1918). pp. 8. Original printed wrappers. Neat stamp of E. Gannon, Tobacconist on p. 5. Some browning to extremities but otherwise a very good unopened copy of this scarce early work by a leading dramatist of the 20th Century. €185

Ayling A5. This is the second of two issues of this song book published months apart in 1918. It is on this variant that the author uses the Irish version of his name, Sean Ó Cathasaigh, for the first time on a separate publication.

304. Ó CLÉRIGH, Gearóid. Ál Fiaich. Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta, 1975. First edition. pp. 127. Red papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. €45 305. O'CONNOR, T.P. M.P. The Parnell Movement. London: Kegan Paul Trench, 1886. pp. [v], 574. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.R. Baillie Gage with his bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. €125

Parnell led the Irish Parliamentary Party as Member of Parliament through the period of Parliamentary nationalism in Ireland between 1875 and his death in 1891. Future Liberal Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in one hundred and fifty years. The Irish Parliamentary Party split during 1890, following revelations of Parnell's private life intruding on his political career. He is nevertheless revered by subsequent Irish parliamentary republicans and nationalists. The contents include: The Fall of O'Connell; The Famine; Great Clearances; The Great Betrayal; Revolution; Isaac Butt; Famine Again!; The Land League; The Coercion Struggle; Irish Nemesis, etc.

"I WAS AN IRISHMAN SINCE I WAS BORN" 306. [O'DONOVAN ROSSA] Cuimhneacháin do Dhiarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa. Cumann Cuimhneacháin Uí Dhonnabháin Rosa. Dublin Branch. n.d. Illustrated. Single page, folded. A very good copy. €25

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was born at Rosscarbery, County Cork, in 1831. He became a shopkeeper in Skibbereen, where, in 1856, he established the Phoenix National and Literary Society, the aim of which was "the liberation of Ireland by force of arms". This organisation would later merge with the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), founded two years later in Dublin. In December 1858, he was arrested and jailed without trial until July 1859. O'Donovan Rossa was accused of plotting a Fenian Rising in 1865, tried for High-Treason and sentenced to penal servitude for life. He was imprisoned in Pentonville, Portland and Chatham Prisons in England where, for eight years, he suffered inhumane and cruel treatment at the hands of the prison authorities. In 1869 he was elected to Parliament for Tipperary but his election was declared void because he was imprisoned. O'Donovan Rossa was released in 1871 and exiled to America where he edited the New York edition of United Irishman and published Prison Life (1874); Irish Rebels in English Prisons (1882) and Recollection. 1838-1898. O'Donovan Rossa raised £40,000 for the Fenian movement and funded the Holland submarine project. He died in New York in 1915 and his body was returned to Ireland for a hero's burial with Pádraic Pearse reciting his famous oration at the graveside. With a quote by Pearse under portrait of Rossa on front cover "That unconquered and unconquerable man".


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307. [O'DONOVAN ROSSA] Souvenir Booklet issued by O'Donovan Rossa Memorial Committee, Dublin, on the occasion of the unveiling of the Memorial to O'Donovan Rossa by the President of Ireland (Mr. Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh) in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, on Sunday 6th June, 1954. Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1954. 24 pp. Quarto. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €175

Includes the text of Pearse's celebrated panegyric delivered at Rossa's grave in 1915. When Pearse gave this oration on 1st August, he gave notice of the nationalist unrest: "Life springs from death - and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. The Defenders of this Realm have worked well in secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace".

308. [O'DONOVAN ROSSA] "The Hawk o' The Hill-Top". O'Donovan Rossa Memorial Committee. Skibbereen: Star Printing Work, n.d. (c.1945). pp. 22. Illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €45

With notes on: Rossa in Skibbereen, Birth of Fenianism, His Trial, The New York Contest, Pearse's Oration, Prison Life, Working with Convicts, On Bread and Water, Fenian Plot in England, etc.

309. O'DUFFY, Michael. The Old House. Words & Music by Frederick O'Connor. Sung by Michael O'Duffy (The Eminent Irish Tenor). London: Cramer, 1937. Folio. pp. 8. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €30

COPAC locates 3 copies only.

ADDRESSED TO DANIEL O'CONNELL 310. O'DWYER, Carew. Belgium in 1828 - Ireland in 1851. London: Dolman, 1851. First edition. pp. vi, 46, [2]. With terminal advertisement leaf. Blue morocco, with gilt Papal device on upper board. Worn, with extensive rubbing. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €295

COPAC locates 4 copies only. No copy located on WorldCat. An uncommon work, reprinting a letter by Andrew Carew O'Dwyer, the Drogheda Repeal Association AND Liberal MP (1832-5), to his fellow Irish independence campaigner Daniel O'Connell comparing the situation of Irish Catholics in 1851 to Belgian Catholics in 1828. Carew O'Dwyer, the son of a merchant in Cork and Waterford, was called to the bar in 1830. He was a close, personal friend of Daniel O'Connell, and one of the earliest and most active members of the Reform Club. He was elected MP for Drogheda in 1832 and again in 1834, but was unseated on a petition in 1835 due to a clerical error - his address had been given as in the City of Dublin when it was in the County of Dublin.

THE OGYGIA AND OGYGIA VINDICATED BY ONE OF THE MOST LEARNED MEN OF EUROPE

311. O'FLAHERTY, Roderic. Esq. Ogygia, or, A Chronological Account of Irish Events: Collected from very ancient documents, faithfully compared with each other, and supported by the genealogical and chronological aid of the sacred and prophane writings of the first nations of the globe. Written originally in Latin and now translated by Rev. James Hely. With list of subscribers. Together with: The Ogygia Vindicated: Against the Objections of Sir George MacKenzie, King's Advocate for Scotland in the Reign of King James II ... To which is annexed An Epistle from John Lynch, D.D. to M. Boileau ... With A Dissertation on the Origin and Antiquities of the ancient Scots, and Notes, critical and explanatory, on Mr. O'Flaherty's Text, by C. O'Conor, Esq. Three volumes in two. Dublin: Printed by W. M'Kenzie, No. 33, College-Green, & G. Faulkner, in Parliament-Street, 1775/1793. pp. (1) lxxxiii, 8 (Subscribers and errata), 292; [3], 419, [1]; (2) [1], 4 (Subscribers), lxxxii, [2], 299, [1]. Contemporary half and full calf, titled in gilt on morocco letterpieces on spines. Some minor wear to spine of the 'Ogygia Vindicated' volume, with one joint starting, but very firm. A very good set. Very rare. €1,250

Bradshaw 2394 Gilbert 602. Roderick O'Flaherty, the noted historian and antiquarian of west Connaught was one of the most learned men of Europe during the seventeenth century. He was born at Moycullen Castle, County Galway, in 1629. His father Hugh, the last chief of that proud race, married Elizabeth Darcy, who was


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of the family of the celebrated lawyer of that name. At that time there was the most renowned school in Ireland near O'Flaherty's home - the Free School of Galway founded by Dominic Lynch, where gathered twelve hundred students from all over Ireland. The fame of Galway students and their erudition made it the intellectual capital of the country, as Mrs Green tells us in her work 'The Making of Ireland and its Undoing' - "Here Mac Fhirbhisigh, Lynch, Francis Browne, Patrick Darcy, the celebrated lawyer; Sir Richard Blake, Dr. Kirwan, Edmund de Burg, Peter French, John O'Heyne, and others of distinction frequently assembled, and here were planned, and partly executed, some of those learned works which have ever since ranked among the most valuable Irish history". He devoted his life to the study of Irish history and antiquities and was a contemporary of Dr. John Lynch, Bishop Kirwan of Killala, and studied Irish literature and history under Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh of Lecan, then resident in the college of St. Nicholas in Galway. In 1652 without having taken part in rebellion, he was included in the general Cromwellian proscription. He appealed to the Commissioners at Athlone, and was allowed a portion of his family's estate in Iar Connaught. Afterwards he wrote: "I live a banished man within the bounds of my native soil; a spectator of others enriched by my birth-right; an object of condoling to my relatives and friends, and a condoler of their miseries". His first important work was a reply to Dr. Borlace's History of the Rebellion. He also wrote A Description of West or hIar Connaught which was first published by the Irish Archaeological Society in 1846. His magnum opus however was the present work on offer here, the Ogygia, which according to Hardiman "remains a lasting monument of our author's learning and genius. Immediately on its appearance it excited the curiosity and attracted the attention of the learned of Europe, many of whom testified their approbation of the work in the most flattering terms. Our ablest antiquaries since that time have admitted that in it he has given secure anchorage to Irish history". Edward Lloyd of Oxford, who visited O'Flaherty in 1700, described him as "affable and learned", but added the revolutions in Ireland had "reduced him to great poverty, and destroyed his books and papers". In 1709, Sir Thomas Molyneux visited Roderick O'Flaherty in his castle at Moycullen in Connemara, 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, printed". He died in 1718 in his 89th year, leaving an only son Michael, to whom, in 1736, a portion of the family estates were restored. The 'List of Subscribers' includes the bookseller Pat Byrne who ordered 25 copies; George Faulkner, 21 copies; Jones Booksellers 37 copies; Lord Charlemont; Lord Clonmell; Lord Cloncurry; Lord Clonbrock; Lord Donoughmore who ordered 20 copies; Rev. Mervyn Archdale, John Foster; John Ferrar of Limerick who ordered 49 copies; Henry Grattan; numerous members of the Hely Hutchinson family; John Kelly of Carraroe; John Bodkin, The Duke of Leinster; David Latouche; Hugh M'Dermot of Culavin; William M'Kenzie bookseller; Charles O'Conor of Belenagar; Patrick Concanen, The Early of Ormond; Chevalier O'Gorman; Sylvester O'Halloran; Viscount Powerscourt; Sir Lawrence Parsons; Dominick Trant; Col. Vallancey; Rev. Mr. Wade; numerous members of the Brady, Daly, Dillon, Kelly, Kirwan, Lynch, O'Callaghan, O'Conor, and O'Flaherty families; Archbishop Troy; Barry Yelverton, etc.

312. O'FLAHERTY, Tom. Aranmen All. Illustrated. Endpapers illustrated with map of the Aran Islands. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1934. First edition. pp. [xi], 9-192. Bound in homespun linen 'stamped with a currach passant'. A fine copy in rare dust jacket. €225 Thomas O'Flaherty (1891-1936), brother of the celebrated novelist Liam, was born at Gort na gCapall, in the Aran Islands. He emigrated to America in 1911 where he had a varied career. Returning to Ireland in the 1930s he spent some time in Dublin, writing for the press. Of the twenty illustrations, twelve were from the film 'Man of Aran', which was a tremendous success on its release in 1934. 313. O'FLANAGAN, J. Roderick. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland. From the earliest times to the reign of Queen Victoria. Two volumes. New York: Kelley, 1971. Second edition. pp. (1) xxix, 555, 24, (2)


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xxii, 621, 2. Tan buckram, title in gilt on upper covers and on contrasting panels on spine. A fine set. Very good. Rare. €175

COPAC locates 1 copy only. 314. O'HALLORAN, Sylvester. A New Treatise on the different disorders arising from external injuries of the head: illustrated by eighty-five (selected from above fifteen hundred) practical cases. By Mr. O'Halloran, M. R. I. A. Honorary Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, in Ireland; and of the Physico Chirurgical Society, and Surgeon to the County of Limerick Hospital. Dublin: Printed by Zachariah Jackson, for W. Gilbert, No. 26, Great George's-Street, 1793. pp. [2], 8, 37, [3], 335, [1], iv. Quarter buckram on papered boards. Repair to p. 7 of contents page, with partial loss to text. Modern library quarter buckram over papered boards. From the RCSI library with their neat stamp. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475

ESTC N10214 citing 6 locations, 2 only in Ireland. 315. Ó HANNRACHÁIN, Peadar. Machtnamh Cime. Baile Átha Cliath: 1933. pp. 215, [1]. Cloth, title in red on upper cover and on spine. Connradh na Gaedhilge School Prize with label on front free endpaper. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise a good copy. €65 316. [OIREACHTAS NA GAEILGE] An tOireachtas. 29-31 Mí Deireadh Foghmhair 1941. Clár na gComórtaisí. Dublin: Printed at The Sign of the Three Candles by Colm O Lochlainn, 1941. pp. 8. Royal octavo. Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare Three Candles item. €125

Not in De Búrca. The Patrons were: Douglas Hyde, Éamon De Valera, Cardinal Mac Rory and Liam Buckley, The Chairman - An Seabhac. An tOireachtas was founded in the early days of the language movement, before the First World War. It lapsed in the twenties, due to the divisions caused by the Civil War, and remained defunct until 1939, when it was revived under a broad-based committee sponsored by the Gaelic League. It continues until the present day, including in its activities lectures, social functions, literary and musical competitions, art exhibitions, etc.

317. [OLD IRA] National Association of Old IRA (Cumann Náisiúnta ath-Óglach na hÉireann). Clár First National Convention to be held in Mansion House, Dublin on Saturday and Sunday 20th and 21st March, 1937. Dublin: Dollard, 1937. pp. 31. Printed stapled wrappers. Some fraying to fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy. €125

In 1935, the IRA was banned once again, as were the Blueshirts. Moss Twomey was imprisoned, and was succeeded as chief of staff by Seán MacBride. De Valera's government increasingly followed a strict anti-IRA policy. In 1938, Seán Russell became chief of staff and set about preparations for a bombing campaign against Britain. In January 1939, the IRA Army Council declared war against Britain, and the Sabotage Campaign began a few days later.

FINE KELLIEGRAM BINDING 318. OLD SAILOR [Matthew Henry Barker] Tough Yarns; A Series of Naval Tales and Sketches to please all Hands, From the Swabs on the Shoulders down to the Swabs in the Head. By the Old Sailor, author of 'Greenwich Hospital', &c. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Effingham Wilson, 1835. pp. [6], 351, [1]. Bound by Kelliegram in full navy-blue crushed levant morocco, covers framed by gilt and blind fillets, enclosing in the centre within an oval fillet border with ship at head and anchor at bottom a Greenwich Pensioner inlaid design in brown, purple, red, grey, gold and black. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt with anchors and ships. Fore-edges ruled in gilt; wide gilt doubloures ruled in gilt; blue moiré-silk endpapers; blue and gold double endbands; blue silk marker. Binder's stamp in gilt on lower turn-in. Bound for Charles E. Lauriat of Boston with his name in gilt on front turn-in. From the library of Micajah Pratt Clough with his bookplate on front free endpaper. Top edge gilt. A superb example from this renowned bindery. A fine copy. €2,250

COPAC locates 2 copies only. Matthew Henry Barker (1790-1846), English writer of sea tales, was born at Deptford, where his father had attained some distinction as a dissenting minister. At an early age he joined an East Indiaman, and


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afterwards served in the Royal Navy, where, as he was without influence, he never rose beyond the rank of master's mate. Retiring from the service, he commanded a hired armed schooner, and was employed in carrying despatches to the English squadrons on the southern coasts of France and Spain. On one occasion he fell into the enemy's hands, and was detained for some months as prisoner of war. In 1825, he became editor of a West Indian newspaper, and was afterwards employed, from 1827 to 1838, in a similar capacity at Nottingham. Under the name of 'The Old Sailor',' he wrote a number of lively and spirited sea-tales, very popular in their day. The front cover coloured onlay is taken from George Cruikshank's frontispiece illustration of a Greenwich Pensioner. 319. O'MALLEY, Ernie. On Another Man's Wound. London: Four Square Books Ltd, 1961. pp. 320. Illustrated wrappers. Printed Bookplate of D.M. Skelly, on front free endpaper. 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.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 75 HAND-COLOURED COPIES 320. O'MEARA, John J. Giraldus Cambrensis [Gerald of Wales]. The History and Topography of Ireland. [Topographia Hiberniae]. Here translated from the Latin by John O'Meara. With a map and drawings from a contemporary copy c.1200 A.D. Mountrath: The Dolmen Press & Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1982. pp. 136. Title in red and black. Bound in full calf 'Hibernia' blind stamped on upper cover, title in gilt along spine. One of seventy-five copies on fine paper with the illustrations coloured by hand, and signed by the author, John O'Meara. This copy No. 8. Spine evenly faded. Owner's signature on front pastedown. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in slipcase. €575

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION NEW EDITION OF THE ANNALS OF CLONMACNOISE

321. Ó MURAÍLE, Nollaig Ed. by. The 'Annals of Cluain Mhic Nóis' translated in 1627 by Conall Mag Eochagáin (Annals of Ireland from the Earliest Period to AD 1408 – based on BL Add. MS 4817, with some variants from TCD MS 673). Edited by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, October 2016. Royal octavo. pp. circa 285. Green buckram, titled in gilt on spine. With slipcase. Approximately €75

The so-called Annals of Clonmacnoise - an inaccurate title bestowed in the 17th century by Sir James Ware - are a collection of Irish annals that purport to extend from the earliest times (Adam and Eve!) down to the year AD 1408. The text – an English translation completed in 1627 – is the work of Conall Mag Eochagáin, a Gaelic gentleman from Lismoyny, County Westmeath. The early portion of the text (about one-sixth of the whole) is based on the medieval work of pseudo-prehistory called Lebar Gabála Érenn (the Book of the Taking of Ireland, the so-called Book of Invasions), while much of the remainder is closely related to other collections of Irish annals, especially those of Ulster, Loch Cé and Connacht. The Irish text from which Mag Eochagáin worked is now lost, as indeed is the original manuscript of his translation. The entire work survives in a number of manuscript-copies penned in the later 17th century, as well as in some later copies. The only edition produced to date, that by Fr Denis


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Murphy, SJ, was published 120 years ago and is a sadly inadequate production, being based on one of the less satisfactory manuscripts. Among its many shortcomings is the deletion/censorship by the editor of some passages he deemed 'offensive'. A new edition has long been called for, and this Nollaig Ó Muraíle has now undertaken. To be published later this year, 2016, the edition is based on a manuscript which is deemed to be superior to the other surviving manuscripts, BL Additional MS 4817. This was written in 1661 by a native of Tralee, Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin. (Occasional words, and sometimes longer phrases, omitted by Ó Súilleabháin have been inserted from TCD MS 673 – the manuscript on which Murphy based his edition.) In accordance with modern historical practice, the text of the annals (running to approximately 100,000 words) has been modernised, in terms of both orthography and punctuation - except in the case of proper names (both people and places). (Nothing is gained by preserving the very irregular early 17th-century spelling, erratic capitalisation, etc., which make Murphy's edition so frustrating to use.) As is the norm with modern editions of Irish annals' collections – such as those published over the past seven decades by the School of Celtic Studies, DIAS - the various entries are divided into numbered paragraphs under the appropriate year. (Admittedly, the rather erratic chronological arrangement of these annals rendered this difficult in a number of instances.) Where an entry has a parallel in one of the other annalistic collections, this is inserted after the appropriate paragraph. Also inserted after each paragraph are the correct Irish forms of the proper names aforementioned - so many of which are quite unrecognisable in their often quite bizarre anglicised forms. Those Irish forms - using the standard Classical Irish spelling - will also facilitate the provision of a 'user friendly' series of indices. The publication of this new edition will be welcomed by scholars, who have all too often tended to ignore this intriguing text because of the difficulties of handling Murphy's now obsolete work.

322. [O'NEALE, Sir Phelim] New Intelligence from Ireland, Received the 17. of June, 1642. with The Arrivall of the Bishop of St. Davids, at Minehead in Sommerset Shire, who fled upon his conviction, and is now brought in a Bark from Dublin, and under Guard till Order from the House what to do with him. Sent to Master Otgar, Merchant in Swithing, Lane. With a Relation by another, of three Defeats given to Sir Phelim O'Neale, with the taking of Trunke, with the Crown in it. Also divers other Passages from other Places. London: Printed for Edward Blackmore, June 22 1642. Small quarto. pp. [1], 5. Modern half blue morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Rare. €575

Wing N 649. Sweeney 3161. COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 7. The Bishop in question was Roger Manwaring, an arch royalist, who was deprived of his vote in the House of Lords by the Short Parliament of 1640. Also reported here are some defeats inflicted upon Sir Phelim O'Neill between London-Derry and Coleraine. The Crown forces captured his trunk "wherein was his Crowne wherewith hee was crowned Prince of Ulster, which is sent to the Parliament in England by Lieuetenant Colonell Mervin". There is also mention of Captain Gibson's skirmish with the rebels at Kilcock where he slew six hundred of them.

LOUGHREA POET - SIGNED COPY 323. O'NEILL, Mary Devenport. Prometheus and Other Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition. pp. 124. Blue-grey cloth. Signed by the author on titlepage, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy in dull frayed dust jacket. €165

Mary Devenport O'Neill (1898-1957) poet and dramatist, a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell, and Austin Clarke, was born in Loughrea, County Galway. She was a pupil of the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street, Dublin where her family moved after the death of her father, a R.I.C. Sub-Constable in Loughrea. In 1889 she studied teaching at the Metropolitan College of Art. Her final play War, The Monster was performed by the Abbey Experimental Theatre Company in 1949 but was not published. When she was fifty, she published the present collection of poetry, which comprises thirty-three lyric poems, four "dream poems", one long poem, and a verse-play. She published regularly in The Dublin Magazine and contributed reviews to The Bell and The Irish Times. Two of her plays were performed by Austin Clarke's Lyric Theatre Company. Devenport engaged in lengthy correspondence with Clarke from 1929-48 concerning the production of her work and combining choreography with verse for these productions. This collection was the first collection of poetry published by an Irish poet, besides Yeats, which could be considered modernist. She is one of a small number of known early twentieth century Irish modernist women poets. Her regular Thursday salon was attended by W.B. Yeats, AE, Austin Clarke,


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Frank O'Connor and other prominent Irish writers and artists. She had a reputation as a psychic and served as consultant to Yeats while he was working on his book A Vision.

324. [OPEN WINDOW] The Open Window. First and Second Series. With two illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. Two volumes. London: Locke Ellis, 1910/11. Square octavo. pp. (1) 375, [1], iv (index), (2) 357, [2], iv (index). Quarter linen on blue papered boards. Top edge gilt. Volume one with rare dust jacket. A fine set. Scarce. €275

The Contributors include: Robin Flower, E.M. Forster, John Drinkwater, Harold Child, Hugh de Sélincourt, James Stephens, Herbert Trench, Gwendolen Darwin, Muirhead Bone, Jack B. Yeats, Walter de la Mare, Maxwell Armfield, Lord Dunsany and several others.

325. O'RAHILLY, Alfred. The Case for the Treaty. S.n. [1921?]. pp. 24. Green wrappers, a little suntanned. A good copy. Scarce. €135

Alfred O'Rahilly (1884-1969), University Professor and Administrator. Born in Listowel, County Kerry, in 1914 he joined the staff of UCC as Assistant in Mathematics, and two years later was appointed to the chair of Mathematical Physics. After the 1916 Easter Rising, O'Rahilly publicly supported Sinn Féin and was elected to Cork City Council as a Sinn Féin and Transport Workers candidate. Arrested early in 1921 for political writings, O'Rahilly was interned in Spike Island prison. He was released in October 1921 where he was constitutional adviser to the Irish Treaty Delegation. O'Rahilly supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1922 he composed a draft constitution for the Irish Free State with Darrell Figgis. In this pamphlet he deals with the issue of the Treaty, the Republican Oath, a lesson from South Africa, the Allegiance issue, Ulster, Powers of the Free State, the Associated Irish State, Freedom by Gradual Growth, What's a Name and Unity.

326. O'REILLY, Edward. An Irish-English Dictionary, containing upwards of twenty thousand words that never appeared in any former Irish lexicon; with copious quotations from the most esteemed ancient and modern writers, to elucidate the meaning of obscure words and numerous comparisons of Irish words, with those of similar orthography, sense, or sound, in the Welsh and Hebrew Languages. In their proper places in the dictionary are inserted, the Irish names of our indigenous plants, with the name by which they are commonly known in English and Latin. The Irish words are first given in the Original Letter, and again in Italic, for the accommodation of those who do not read the Language in its ancient Character. To which is annexed, a compendious Irish Grammar. A new edition. With list of subscribers. Dublin: Printed for the Author, by A. O'Neil, 1821. Quarto. Contemporary full diced russia, spine and corners professionally restored, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Early signature of M. Madden on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Rare. €575

Edward O'Reilly (1765-1830) Irish scholar and Lexicographer was born in Harold's Cross, Dublin, of Cavan parents. O'Reilly undertook the compilation of the work for which he is best remembered, his Irish-English Dictionary first published in 1817. In the following year he was appointed assistant secretary to the Iberno-Celtic Society with the purpose of preserving and promoting Irish literature. His work during the 1820s included a Dictionary of Irish Writers and catalogues of Irish manuscripts in Dublin libraries including Trinity College. In May 1830, O'Reilly was contracted to advise on Irish nomenclature for the early Ordnance Survey maps but spent only four months on this work before his death, also in Harold's Cross. Never a formal employee of the Survey, he was probably paid for his professional services. John O'Donovan replaced him in October 1830. Although very well known at the time, and proficient at translating manuscripts, the standard of his scholarship is recognised today as low. It was also thought that the best parts of his Dictionary were based on unpublished work accumulated by a man named Henry McAteer at the end of the 1800s. When McAteer left Ireland for


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America, O'Reilly took possession of his library. The Earl of Charlemont bought 10 copies. Sir William Betham 4 copies. Sheffield Grace, James Hardiman, Lord Norbury, Rev. Paul O'Brien, Daniel O'Connell and Henry Grattan also subscribed.

327. ORMSBY, Lambert Hepenstal. Medical History of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, from its foundation in 1753 down to the present time; including Biographical Sketches of the Surgeons and Physicians who served on its Staff; with the names of apprentices, resident pupils, clinical clerks and prizemen; also all students who studied at the hospital, from the year 1838. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Fannin & Co., 1888. First edition. pp. 407, [4], 49. Red Cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine, black endpapers. Spine slightly faded, mild soiling to covers. All edges red. A very good copy. Very scarce. €295

A Select Committee comprising of such luminaries as O'Connell, Shiel, Castlereagh. 328. O'SIOCHAIN, P.A. Aran Islands of Legend. Illustrated. Dublin: Foilsiúcháin Éireann, 1962. First edition. pp. viii, 192, 8 (plates - with multiple images). Green cloth, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €125

It has been written of these islands 'Ciuineas gan uaigneas', soltitude without loneliness. Part of their heritage from their past is this tranquil spiritual quality. This work deals with the legends, antiquities and literary associations of the islands.

PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE TRANSLATOR TO T.D. SULLIVAN 329. O'SULLIVAN BEAR, Don Philip. Ireland Under Elizabeth. Chapters towards A History of Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth. Being a portion of the history of Catholic Ireland by Don Philip O'Sullivan Bear. Translated from the original Latin by Marrhew J. Byrne. With John Norden's map of Ireland 1609-1611 in colour. Depicting Clan locations, rivers, mountains, castles etc. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1903. pp. xxviii, 212, [3 (List of Subscribers)], 8 (advertisement). Contemporary full green morocco, title, author and translater in gilt direct on spine; covers ruled in gilt; turn-ins gilt; comb-marbled endpapers. Signed presentation copy from the author to the journalist, poet and Home-Ruler, T.D. Sullivan, dated 11/5/1903 and further inscribed by T.D. Sullivan to 'Mrs. D.B. Sullivan / of Dunboy, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, By T.D. S[ullivan]. / May, 1905'. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Rare presentation copy with map. €575

Philip O'Sullivan-Beare (1560-1618), the only son of Donal O'Sullivan (1537-63), Lord of Beare and Bantry, was born c.1590 in Dunboy Castle, County Cork, the ancestral home of that branch of the O'Sullivan clan who were descended from the kings of Munster. He was educated in Waterford where he learned English and Latin. He took no part in the Desmond Rebellion, but entered the Nine Years War in 1601 when a Spanish force landed in Kinsale. After the defeat of Kinsale he was sent to Spain to be educated at Santiago de Compostella. Later on he entered the naval service where he distinguished himself. The Historia Catholicae is divided into four parts: (a) The much admired topography of Ireland; (b) An account of the pilgrimage of Don Ramon de Penllos to Lough Derg; (c) A History of the English in Ireland from the Invasion of Henry down to 1588; (d) Irish affairs down to 1618. According to Allison and Rogers it reprints "the text of the two catalogues of Irish Saints and heroes compiled respectively by Richard Conway and Henry Fitzsimon". The most dramatic of all events, though, is a family story. After the defeat at Kinsale and the capture of his castle at Dunboy, Donal O'Sullivan Beare led a thousand of his people, men, women and children, on a winter march northwards where he had obtained refuge from Brian O'Rourke in County Leitrim. Philip's father and mother were amongst the thirty-five survivors. This great retreat has been the subject of a fine modern retracing by Peter Somerville Large - From Bantry Bay to Leitrim, in which he picked up folk memory echoes all along the way. Many valuable historical documents are quoted, Donall O'Sullivan-Beare's letter to the King of Spain complaining about the terms of De Aguila's Kinsale capitulation; Florence Conry's statement of Catholic grievances. It is the only account of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland purely from an Irish or Catholic perspective, and is a refutation of the English and Anglo-Irish protestant histories. The O'Sullivan clan divided into two great branches - O'Sullivan Mór and O'Sullivan Bere. The latter took the lands south of the Kenmare river, in Bere, Bantry and Glanerought. These O'Sullivans played a leading part in the troubles of Elizabeth's reign. At that time Owen O'Sullivan was Chieftain, he made his submission in 1565, and was made a Knight whereby his lands were confirmed to him (thirty-nine quarters - 4,680 acres).


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T.D. Sullivan was the author of the Fenian anthem 'God Save Ireland', and the compiler of the well-known anthology 'Speeches from the Dock'.

SHIRLEY FAMILY COPY 330. OTWAY, Caesar A Tour in Connaught: Comprising sketches of Clonmacnoise, Joyce Country, and Achill. With illustrations engraved on wood. Dublin: Curry, 1839. pp. xii, 442, 5 (Curry's List). Blind stamped cloth. Armorial bookplate of Shirley of Ettington Park Manor and signature of Eliza Shirley on half-title. Occasional light spotting to plates. A very good copy. Scarce. €365

Rev. Caesar Otway (1780-1842) protestant clergyman, travel writer, and antiquary was born in Tipperary and educated at T.C.D. He became a Church of Ireland chaplain, and with Joseph Henderson Singer founded the Christian Examiner and Church of Ireland Magazine in 1825 and edited it for the following six years. With George Petrie he founded the Dublin Penny Journal in 1832 and wrote under the name of 'Terence O'Toole', beside his more frequent pseudonym 'O.C.' In the early summer of 1838, in order to visit the colony on Achill Island established by Edward Nangle with support from Otway himself, he travelled to the west of Ireland and on his return published this Tour in Connaught', which contains descriptions of Clonmacnoise and of pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick and Achill. In his writings Otway is vehemently anti-Catholic while fascinated by Irish folk customs and warmly sympathetic to the Irish peasantry. He was the author of three valuable and now scarce travel books "written in a kindly and cheerful spirit, with a keen appreciation of the picturesque; and depict a condition of things now almost past away". Caesar Otway died 16 March 1842 and was buried at St Ann's Church. His first marriage (1803), to Frances Hastings, daughter of a future dean of Achonry, James Hastings, produced three sons and two daughters. His second marriage (1837), to Elizabeth, a daughter of William Digges La Touche was childless.

331. [PARNELL, Charles Stewart] An Original Photographic print of Charles Stewart Parnell. Captioned 'The Last Photograph Taken of / Charles Stewart Parnell'. Mounted on card. 115 x 170mm. Tear to lower margin of mount, otherwise in very good condition. €165 Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) "the un-crowned King of Ireland" was an Irish nationalist politician and the founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party - a Party which led the campaign for Home Rule, but was left behind by the people when the struggle for Irish independence changed gear following the Easter Rising of 1916. Parnell was one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland, and was described by British Prime Minister William Gladstone as the most remarkable person he had ever met. His importance as a major figure in Irish history is commemorated in Dublin with the towering Parnell Monument, at the top of O'Connell Street.


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332. Mac PIARAIS, Pádraic. An Mháthair agus Sgéalta eile. Second edition with vocabulary. Illustrated. Dundalk: W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press, 1929. Second edition. pp. 71. Illustrated wrappers. With some notes and underlining in pencil, otherwise a good copy. €45

PEARSE'S CALL TO ARMS 333. PEARSE, Padraic. An Barr Buadh. Vol. I Numbers 1 and 2. Dublin, 16 & 23 March 1912. Each four page foolscap (single folded sheet). Mostly written by Pearse himself; other named contributors include his 1916 co-signatory Eamonn Ceannt and Eamonn Ó Tuathail. The text is entirely in Irish. €575

An Barr Buadh, in Irish mythology, was the trumpet sounded by Fionn Mac Cumhaill when he wished to summon the host of the Fianna. Pearse clearly intended his Barr Buadh as a call to arms for his own generation. The first number includes his poem 'Mionn' [An Oath], in which he swears by Tone's blood-filled wounds, by Emmet's noble blood, by the Famine dead, by the tears of Ireland's exiles, 'Go bhfuasclóchaimid do ghéibheann ár gcinidh / Nó go dtuitfidh muid bonn le bonn' [that we will free our people from bondage, or we shall fall side by side] Amen'. It also includes his prescient open letter to John Redmond, signed with a pen-name, warning him to beware of the Englishman's smile, and to arm himself with the strength of a lion and the guile of a snake. 'Bí borb le borb. Bí teann le teann. Bí cruaidh le cruaidh. Bí glic le glic ... Bí id fhear. Bí id' Thaoiseach. Bí id' Pharnell'. ['Meet bluntness with bluntness. Meet firmness with firmness. Meet toughness with toughness. Meet guile with guile ... Be a man. Be a leader. Be a Parnell.'] - advice which, alas, John Redmond was not well equipped to follow. An Barr Buadh ran to only eleven weekly issues, before Pearse closed it to concentrate on the latest crisis at his school, St. Enda's. The printer was never paid. The circulation was tiny, and even single copies are extremely rare. The present copies are well used, with creasing at folds and some fraying at edges, and have been pierced for filing at inner margins, without loss of text.

PEARSE'S FAREWELL TO LITERATURE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED IN IRISH BY THE PATRIOT

334. Mac PIARAIS, Pádraic. [PEARSE, P.H.] An Mháthair agus Sgéalta eile. P. Mac Piarais do sgríobh. Dundalk, Dún Dealgan: Wm. Tempest, 1916. First edition. pp. [4], 96. Quarter linen on blue papered boards, titled on upper cover. Uncut. This copy neatly inscribed by Pearse on front endpaper "Do Sheaghán Binéid / ó Phádraic Mac Piarais / 19. 2. 16", in Pearse's characteristic backward-slanting hand. A fine copy. €3,750

This was Pearse's last literary publication, containing the stories he had written since Iosagán in 1907. It includes six stories, including the well-known Bríghid na nAmhrán. The author's preface is dated 'Lá Samhna 1915' - Nov. 1st 1915, a few months after his great address at the funeral of O'Donovan Rossa. From that time onward he devoted all his time and energy to preparing for the Rising. The date of the inscription, 19 February, is just eight weeks before the Rising; Pearse had less than ten weeks to live. He was executed by firing squad on 3 May. He knew his life was forfeit, and was neither surprised nor dismayed by the decision of the court martial. We have not traced Seaghán Binéid (presumably Bennett). It is likely that he was a member of the Gaelic League, but he is not listed in Mac Aonghusa's history or in Diarmaid Breathnach's biographical dictionary. Somebody must know who he was; any information would be appreciated. Padraic Pearse (1879-1916) trained as a lawyer, but did not practise; it is believed he spoke in Court only once. From an early age he was an enthusiastic member of the Gaelic League, became editor of its journal 'An Claidheamh Solais' and founded a residential bilingual school, St. Enda's, in 1908. Educationally the school was a great success, but it did not prosper financially. From about 1912 Pearse became active in radical politics, and was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. He is credited with drafting much of the 1916 Proclamation. During the Rising he was President of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic.


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He surrendered the Republican forces on Easter Saturday to avoid further civilian casualties, was sentenced to death by a military court and was shot on 3 May. Presentation copies of An Mháthair are extremely rare, for obvious reasons.

335. [PEARSE, P.H.] Golden Moments with P.H. Pearse. Dublin: Whelan, circa 1918. 16mo. pp. 60. Wrappers. All very good. Scarce. €95

A selection from Pearse's nationalistic writings: "As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irishmen and Irishwomen is an attitude of revolt … Irish nationality is an ancient spiritual tradition, one of the oldest and most august traditions in the world".

336. Mac PIARAIS, Pádraic. Íosagán agus Sgéalta Eile. Beatrice Elvery do Mhaisigh. Dublin: Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1918. pp. 117 including vocabulary. With four colour plates. Printed light brown coloured wrappers. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper and on titlepage. A good copy. €45

One of several reprints of this attractive item, first published in 1907 and much used by learners. 337. PEARSE, Padraic. The Singer and Other Plays. Dublin & London: Maunsel and Company, 1918. First edition. pp. 123, 6 (Appendix). Printed brown wrappers. Some fraying to edges. A very good copy. €65 338. PEARSE, P.H. The Story of a Success. Being a Record of St. Enda's College, September 1908 to Easter 1916. Edited by Desmond Ryan. Dublin: Maunsel, 1918. Popular edition. pp. xiii, [1], 127. Printed brown wrappers. White price label on titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €65

Carty 173b. Pearse's own account of his educational philosophy and practice. 339. [PEARSE, Patrick] The Home-Life of Padraig Pearse. As told by himself, his family and friends. Edited by his sister Mary Brigid Pearse. Illustrated with family portraits. Dublin: Browne & Nolan 1934. pp. 167. Black cloth, titled in green on upper cover and along spine. A very good copy in rare repaired dust jacket. Rare. €165

After Mrs. Pearse died in 1932 there were legal difficulties over her Will and over the royalties on Patrick Pearse's writings. These led to problems between the two surviving daughters, Margaret and Mary Brigid. When Mary Brigid published this book in 1934, Margaret claimed some of the proceeds as having legal title to Patrick Pearse's autobiographical material. Mary withdrew the book from circulation, thus making it rare.

340. [PEARSE, P.H.] In First Century Ireland. [Essays]. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1935). Small quarto. pp. 43. Stiff green printed wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €95

Lectures reprinted from An Claidheamh Solais, largely inspired by P.W. Joyce's Social History of Ancient Ireland.

341. PEARSE, Pádraic H. Plays, Stories, Poems. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1950. pp. xix, 341, viii. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65

PROTECTION FOR AN INFORMER 342. PELHAM, Thomas. An interesting ALS from Thomas Pelham to Maj. Gen. Ross, Surveyor General of Ordnance, Dublin, 1 October 1796, concerning William Hanlon (or possibly Henlon), who 'belonged to the Artillery here but having given evidence in discovering a treasonable conspiracy, it has been thought prudent that he should be removed to England. He is an excellent stone-cutter and it is thought can be employed with advantage in any Government work'. Given the date, it seems likely that Hanlon gave evidence concerning the United Irishmen and their attempts to recruit among the military. With a second brief ALS from Pelham to Ross, enclosing a letter (details unclear). €485

Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (1756-1826) British Whig politician. He notably held office as Home Secretary under Henry Addington from 1801 to 1803. Chichester was the eldest son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester, and his wife Anne, daughter of Frederick Meinhardt Frankland. The Right Reverend George Pelham was his younger brother. He was educated at Westminster and Clare College, Cambridge. Chichester was surveyor-general of ordnance in Lord Rockingham's 2nd ministry (1782), and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783 (when he was also appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland). He represented Carrick in the Irish House of Commons from 1783 to 1790 and Clogher from 1795 to 1797. In 1795 he was sworn of the Privy Council and became Irish Chief Secretary under Pitt's government, retiring in 1798.


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343. PETRIE, G., OTWAY, C., O'DONOVAN, J. & HARDY, P.D. Ed. by. The Dublin Penny Journal 1832-1836. Four vols. Illustrated. Dublin: Folds & Hardy, 1832/36. Royal octavo. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco labels on spines within gilt foliate borders. 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". 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.

344. PETRIE, George. On the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. Illustrated with three plates (two coloured). Dublin: Printed by R. Graisberry, Printed to the Royal Irish Academy, 1839. Quarto. pp. [1], 208. Modern green buckram with blind-stamp Celtic design on covers, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from George Petrie to William Hackett, Esq. of Middleton, County Cork dated 17th Septr. 1842. Name clipped from lower margin of titlepage. A very good copy. €575

COPAC locates the TCD and BL copies only of this edition. Not in Bradshaw. A learned and exhaustive treatise on the Hill of Tara, the chief seat of the Irish Monarchs from the dawn of history to the middle of the sixth century. Contains also many transcriptions from the Dinnseanchus, Books of Ballymote, Lecan and Glendalough, the Leabhar Breac and the Leabhar Gabhala, with parallel translations chiefly by the great John O'Donovan.

345. PHILLIPS, Charles. The Most Eloquent Speech at Length of Mr. Phillips, in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, in the case of Guthrie v Sterne for Adultery. With the Author's Last Corrections. Not a Single Word Omitted. Hone's Fifth genuine Edition. Entered at Stationers' Hall. London: Printed for W. Hone, 55 Fleet Street, 1816. Fifth edition. Octavo. pp. 3-16.


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Disbound. Early signature of Thomas Barron on titlepage. A very good copy. €125 Charles Phillips (1786-1859), the celebrated writer and lawyer, friend of O'Connell and an ardent campaigner for Catholic Emancipation, was born in Stephen Street, Sligo. He graduated at Trinity College and was called to the Irish Bar in 1812 and nine years later to the English Bar. Lord Brougham appointed him a bankruptcy judge at Liverpool, and in 1835 he was promoted to Commissioner of Bankruptcy. His florid eloquence ensured his success as a criminal lawyer and for many years he was the leading counsel at the Old Bailey. One of the most memorable speeches of the Irish born Barrister, Charles Phillips (1787-1859). "The brilliant and overwhelming Appeals of the rich master-piece of eloquence were interrupted by the loud Applause of the Bar and a crowded Court, and dissolved the Jury and the Audience in tears. It should be in the hands of every Husband and Wife - of every Son and Daughter - the young and the old, of every Family, from the Palace to the Cottage. It will be read by ourselves - by our children - and by our children's children, with increased interest, delight, and admiration".

346. PIKE, W. T. Ed. by. Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century. By Rev. Richard Hodges. Contemporary Biographies. Edited by W.T. Pike. With two coloured plates (The River Lee - Evening, and Shandon Steeple after Lady Dobbin), two maps, numerous portraits and illustrations. Brighton: Pike, 1911. Quarto. pp. 319. Modern green buckram, Celtic design blind-stamped on upper covers, title in gilt on spine. Tape removed from some pages, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €325

There are over five hundred biographies of notable Corkonians at home and abroad. This work is further enhanced with a history of the city, county, castles and gentlemen's seats.

RARE TOPOGRAPHICAL WORK 347. PLUMPTRE, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland during the summer of 1814, and that of 1815. Illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author and eleven aquatints of remarkable scenery. London: For Henry Colburn, 1817. Quarto. pp. xv, 398. Recent half calf on marbled boards. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce. €1,250

COPAC locates 7 copies only. WorldCat 2. Abbey 457. Elmes & Hewson 2087. Bradshaw 7780. Goldsmiths'-Kress 21733.

Anne Plumptre (1760-1818), author, was the daughter of Dr. Robert Plumptre, president of Queens' College, Cambridge. She was well educated and versed in many languages. From 1802 to 1805 she resided in France and some years later published her observations in the Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in France. She made two visits to Ireland during the period 1814-15 and recorded her experiences in this splendid volume. Includes bibliographical references and index.


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348. [POWER, P.] Parochial History of Waterford and Lismore During the 18th and 19th centuries. With diocesan map. Waterford: Harvey, 1912. Quarto. pp. xx, 290. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front flyleaf. A fine copy. Very scarce. €365

COPAC locates only 2 copies (TCD copy in Ireland). Although no name of author appears on the titlepage of the above work, it is an open secret that the handsome quarto is due to Rev. Patrick Power, M.R.I.A., the Editor of the Waterford Archaeological Journal. In a brief Preface, the author disclaims any intention of offering the present volume as an adequate history of the Diocese, and he modestly states that the material here presented "may stimulate the advent of the future historian", but, in truth, the author need fear no compeer in the proposed task of issuing a Diocesan History of Wateford and Lismore - on the lines of O'Laverty, Carrigan, and Begley.

PRESENTATION COPY - PRIVATELY PRINTED 349. POWERSCOURT, Seventh Viscount. Muniments of the Ancient Saxon Family of Wingfield. Compiled by Mervyn Edward, Seventh Viscount Powerscourt, from the Archives in the British Museum, College of Arms, and Records Office, Dublin, and from other sources. Illustrated with family portraits, monuments, tombs, castles, deeds, brass plates and genealogical charts. London: Privately Printed for the Author by Mitchell and Hughes, 1894. Large Quarto. pp. viii, 88, 58 (illustrations). Original reddish-brown cloth, title and armorial bearings of the Wingfield family in gilt on upper cover. Signed presentation copy from Viscount Powerscourt to Sir T.F. Buxton, with his armorial bookplate. Top edge gilt. Fine. Exceedingly rare. €3,750

COPAC lists only five copies. Viscount Powerscourt informs us in the preface that these memorials of the Wingfields were commenced in 1880. Miss St. John Neville was commissioned to examine and collate all the records which could be found in the British Museum, Dublin Castle, and elsewhere. She also visited Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, accompanied by Mrs. Morris, daughter of Mr. George Bullen, Librarian to the British Museum, who made drawings of the castle, the tombs and monuments. On the advice of Mr. Bernard Quaritch, the records were put into the hands of Mr. Henry Farnham Burke, Somerset Herald. Added to this work are accounts of the interview of Marshal Wingfield with Queen Elizabeth I on his return from Ireland, which were related to the author by his grand-uncle, Rev. William Wingfield, Vicar of Abbeyleix, who also supplied the anecdotes of the visit of King George IV.

350. [PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE] Reduced facsimile of the 1916 Proclamation, on an A3 sheet with photographs and brief biographies of the signatories. Supplement with the Wolfe Tone Weekly, April 5, 1939. Scarce. On Monday of Holy Week, the Military Council met to finalise plans for the Rising. The historic Proclamation was prepared, calling on the Irish People to support the resurgent nation. 'Irishmen and Irishwomen in the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom ...' €475 351. [PUCKLE, James] The Club; or Grey-Cap for a Green Head, Containing Maxims, Advice and Cautions Being a Dialogue between a Father and Son. In which is Interspers'd the following Characters, Viz. Antiquary, Buffoon, Critic, Detractor, Envioso, Flatterer, Gamester, Hypocrite, Impertinent, Knave, Lawyer, Morose, Newsmonger, Opiniator, Projector, Quack, Rake, Swearer, Traveller, Usurer, Wiseman, Xantippe, Youth, Zany the Vintner. These Characters being merely intended, to expose Vice and Folly; let none pretend to a Key; nor seek for another's Picture, lest he find his own. For, Qui capit ille facit. The Sixth Edition, with Additions. Engraved frontispiece. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, For William Heatly, at the Bible and Dove in College-green, 1737. 12mo. Sixth edition. pp. [xx], 188, 5 (index). Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Old stain to titlepage. Edges of subscriber leaves frayed. A very good copy. Scarce. €485

ESTC T167230 with 6 locations only. The subscribers included several Dublin Booksellers Abraham Bradley, Samuel Dalton, George Ewing, Edward Exshaw, Richard Gunne, George Faulkner, George Risk who ordered multiple copies; Rev. D. Arthur Conolly, Michael Collins, Nathaniel Carson of Killough, William Dunkin, James Duffy, Charles Gardener, Henry Gaven, John Jacob of Sigginstown, John Luther, Mary Mahony, Benjamin Maddox, William Farrier, Bookseller in Limerick who ordered twelve books, Onesiphorus Phaire, William Parsons, Nathaniel Ryland, Ternan Rorke of Athy, Elizabeth and Roony, Ryly Towers, etc.


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352. [QUEEN'S COUNTY AUCTION] Broadside. The Representatives of the late Eyre Evans, Esq., of Liverpool, have honoured Subscriber with instructions to Sell by Auction at Garryvacum, (Mr. Evans's Irish Residence), Within 2 Miles of Portarlington, a station on the G.S. & W. Railway, on Tuesday, 18th November, 1862, the entire of the Farmstock, produce and implements 200 Sheep ... 9 horses ... Terms - Cash; Purchasers to pay 5 per cent Auction Fees (Auctioneers please take notice!). Wm. Fitzpatrick, Auctioneer, Valuer of Estates, and Cattle Salesman, Maryborough, and 5, Smithfield, Dublin. 300 x 440mm. Printed at the Leinster Express Office, Maryborough. In very good condition. €125

THE RAMBLER FROM CLARE AND TRANSPORTATION 353. [RAMBLER FROM CRAVE] Broadside Ballad. The Rambler from Crave. The Isle of France. With woodcut illustration at head. Single page, 170 x 246mm. S.n. [Dublin, c.1860]. Fine. €65 354. [RAPE SEED] Autograph signed letter from Philip Roche of Limerick, evidently a merchant, to Frederick Trench of Woodlawn near Loughrea, Co. Galway, dated 26 Jan. 1788, one page with cognate address leaf stamped Limerick, concerning an offer to supply rape-seed. 'It is this year very difficult to see any of good quality. And no other is fit for exportation. The good kind is properly black & sound, free of any white or light grains. I understand you have rape mills not very distant from your grounds, you would in my opinion make a better sale to the miller than by sending so far by land carriage to Limerick and unless it was capitally good, it would not answer my purpose of exportation. The price here rules for the very best fourteen shillings & six pence the barrel of sixteen stone, & the millers buy some of the middling kind for five to ten shillings the barrel. I never knew a year that produced such quantity of bad and damag'd seed …' €135 355. [RECEIPT] Richard Williams & Sons, 88 Dame Street, Dublin. Public Notaries and Stock Brokers to the Bank of Ireland. Receipt of stocks sold on the account of Edward Vernor, M.D., June 29th 1896. Single sheet octavo. Printed and with account details in manuscript. €65

WITH FINE JACK YEATS DRAWING 356. RHYS, Grace. The Prince of Lisnover. Coloured frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats. London: Methuen, 1904. First edition. pp. viii, 305, [1], 40 (advertisement). Blue pictorial cloth, title in gilt on spine. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to F. Josephine Wallis "I send this Irish Prince: / In memory of / The Welsh Queen's (Gwenevere's) / Invasion of Lested Lodge / on Saturday June 18. '04. / from / her friend / Grace Rhys." From the library of N.Hardy Wallis with his bookplate on front pastedown. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Light wear to spine ends and corners. A very good copy. Rare. €295

Grace Rhys, née Little, was from Roscommon. She married W.B. Yeats' friend Ernest Rhys.

357. [RISING COMMEMORATION] Cuimhneachán 1916-1966 Commemoration. A Record of Ireland's commemoration of the 1916 Rising. With colour and mono plates. Dublin: Printed by Dollard for the Department of External Affairs, 1966. Quarto. pp. 94. Green linen, title in gilt on upper cover. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45


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"They shall be spoken of among the people, And generations shall remember them, And call them blessed". With a message from the President Eamon de Valera and a foreword by the Taoiseach Sean Lemass.

POWELL-JONES DESIGNER BINDING WITH BINDER'S ORIGINAL TEMPLATE 358. ROBINSON, Julian. The Golden Age of Style. Profusely illustrated in colour. London: Orbis, 1976. Quarto. pp. 128. Bound in full black goatskin by C. P. Powell-Jones with his signature in gilt on upper turn-in. Upper cover with onlay pictorial decoration of a couple ballroom dancing, the lady with a plume of feathers in her hair and costume decoration, an emerald ring on her finger. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands flanked by gilt chain-link fillets; blue and gold endbands; inner goatskin joint; coloured patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. A delightful and attractive designer binding with the binder's original template loosely inserted. Housed in a blue buckram clam shell box. In fine condition. €1,250

The bindery was established by Phillip Powell-Jones, master in book binding. Examples of his work are exceedingly rare and none are available online. The Hay Binders business is located in the centre Hay-on-Wye, a delightful town, famed for its second hand book shops.

359. ROCK, Captain. A Popular History of Ireland. Number 3. Portrait frontispiece of King John. London: Published by J. Robins and 18, Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin, n.d. pp. 49-72. Pictorial stitched wrappers. A little frayed. Exceedingly rare. €125

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Not in NLI. 360. ROGERS, John Cooke. Thoughts for the Total Abolition of Tythes in Ireland, submitted with the utmost respect to The Consideration of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament Assembled, And of the Archbishops, Bishops, Clergy, and People in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. Dublin: St. Patrick's Day, Henrietta-street, 1824. Octavo. pp. [1], 4-19. Disbound. Neat embossed stamp of the Free Public Library on titlepage. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €125


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COPAC locates 2 copies only. No copy located on WorldCat. Not in NLI. An idea put forward by Rogers to assist in the suppressing of Rebellion in Ireland.

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361. [ROMAN CATHOLICS] A Dissertation, Addressed to a Friend, on the Propriety of Admitting the Roman Catholics of Ireland to a share in the Elective Franchise. Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street, 1792. pp. [ii], ii ,41, [1]. Modern wrappers. A fine copy. €175

ESTC T34638.

"6 COUNTIES STILL TO FREE" INSCRIBED BY MAUD GONNE MacBRIDE

362. ROONEY, Philip. Captain Boycott. Dublin: Talbot, 1946. First edition. pp. [2], 286. Modern half morocco on marbled boards, title and author in gilt direct on spine. Inscribed by on endpaper "Maud Gonne McBride / 6 Counties still to free / 11 Oct '46". Previous owner's signature. A very good copy. €475

Captain Boycott, the man whose name gave a dreaded word to the English language in the stormy days of the Land League. Philip Rooney's novel is set against the Ireland of the 1880's, the Land War, rack-rents, evictions and the absentee landlords. "Here on the shores of Lough Mask", said Father John O'Malley when summing up the outcome of that revolution, "you have forged a weapon that is stronger than violence. You have that weapon now to use against the grabber and the rack-renter … you can punish the rack-renter or the grabber. You can ostracise him. You can isolate him … you … you … you can Boycott him!".

363. ROSS-LEWIN, Harry. With "The Thirty-Second" In The Peninsular and Other Campaigns. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & London: Simpkin, 1904. Second edition. pp. xxiv, 368. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Name clipped from half title. A very good copy. €225

Originally published under the title The Life of a Soldier, by a Field Officer, in three volumes in 1834 and edited here for the first time into one volume by John Wardell. Includes bibliographical references. Harry Ross-Lewin of Ross Hill, County Clare is yet another of that small band of Irish soldiers of the Napoleonic era who wrote a memoir of his military service and in so doing left for posterity an invaluable volume of source material including his experiences of camp, campaign and battlefield. Like Wellington himself, Ross-Lewin came from a family of Anglo-Irish aristocrats. It was then perhaps inevitable he would enter the militia and subsequently transfer into the regular army. This was time of great military adventure and opportunity. Ross-Lewin saw the siege and fall of Copenhagen, took part in the battles of Roleia and Vimiera, the assault on Flushing and the storming of the Salamanca forts where he was severely wounded. His Peninsular War continued with the unsuccessful siege of Burgos and the retreat that followed, Badajos and the battle of Orthes as the campaign rolled through the Pyrenees to its conclusion in Southern France and Napoleon's abdication. The 32nd were called to battle once again for the Belgian Campaign of 1815 as Napoleon sought to regain the imperial crown as part of Kempt's 8th Brigade. The brigade was heavily engaged at both Quatre Bras and Waterloo itself sustaining over 1300 casualties. This is a riveting and essential firsthand account of the sharp end of the Napoleonic wars.


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Thomas Lewin lived in Croom, County Limerick, in the seventeenth century. He had accompanied Sir Richard Bingham (the scourge of the Bourkes of Mayo) to Ireland in 1586. George Ross of Fort Fergus was High Sheriff of County Clare in 1664. Born in 1625, he was the first to own lands and a seat in the country. They were the ancestors of George Ross-Lewin of Ross Hill, Killadysert, a cornet in the 14th Dragoons, who in 1776 married his cousin, Anne Lewin of Cloghans, County Mayo. He died in 1822 and was succeeded by Major Henry Ross-Lewin, J.P., the second of his four sons, who was born in 1778. He married Anne Burnett of Eyrecourt by whom he had eight children.

364. RUSSEL, Richard. A Dissertation on the Use of Sea-Water in the Diseases of the Glands. Particularly The Scurvy, Jaundice, King's-Evil, Leprosy, and the Glandular Consumption. Translated from the Latin of Richard Russel, MD. by an Eminent Physician. Engraved frontispiece and two plates. Dublin: Printed for Geo. Faulkner, in Essex-Street and J. Exshaw, on Cork-Hill, 1753. First Dublin edition. 12mo. pp. iv, ix-xii, 204. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Surface wear to upper cover with partial loss. Lacking two leaves of the preface. A very good copy. €275 ESTC N8878 citing 6 locations only. See illustration opposite. 365. RYAN, Desmond. The Man Called Pearse. Dublin: Maunsel and Roberts, 1923. pp. [vi], 130. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Newspaper cutting dated 2nd March 1964 'Forty years a-writing' on front free endpaper. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. Scarce. €175

DUBLIN BOOKSELLER 366. RYAN, Richard. Autograph letter signed, dated 26 Aug.

1821, one page, address panel not present, commenting on a compendium of Irish biography, the Biographica Hibernica (2 vols, 1819-21), of which he was one of the sponsoring booksellers. He refers to 'the anecdote of Barry & Burke dining together (vol. 1 p. 70)', which 'is I think likely to excite interest & Risibility - of Curran every anecdote has been told & retold, too often I think already. It is worthy of remark that in the 2 Vols. are to be found the lives of Mr. Grattan & the whole of his Irish Parliamentary Contemporaries – in the Life of Grattan is inserted every speech of note he made herein including the memorable dispute with Mr. Flood'. He goes on to suggest that 'Should you feel disposed to insert any Lives whole I should beg to recommend to your particular notice, Lady Arabella Denny, Vol. 2 p. 74; Constantia Grierson Vol. 2 p. 285; Thomas Pleasants Vol. 2 p. 464; Mary Tighe Vol.2 p. 593; Capt. Tuckey Vol. 2 p. 601; and the short anecdotic Life of Capt. Stackpole Vol. 2 p. 563 ... The Ladies are such models of Talent & Excellence that I think you are too gallant to refuse them a notice also …' Some of these names have been ticked or crossed out, presumably by recipient. The name of the recipient at head of letter has been torn away. The purpose of the letter is not entirely clear, since he seems to be commenting on a work already published, or at least in proof; perhaps the suggestions are intended for a revised edition. The Biographica Hibernica was published for R. Ryan, M.N. Mahon and R. Milliken. €385

Richard Ryan (1796-1849), was born in Dublin. The family moved to London where his father became a bookseller, and afterwards Richard carried on the business in Camden Town. He wrote many songs and published several useful and interesting works including Biographia Hibernia (1821), Eight Ballads on The Fictions of The Ancient Irish (1822), Dramatic Table Talk anonymously, (1825) and Poets and Poetry (1826). Webb says of the Biographia: "it contains some information not attainable elsewhere, and is occasionally referred to in this Compendium".

367. [SABHAT, Sean] They Kept Faith. Dublin?: Roinn Eolais na Poblachta, 1957. pp. 20. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €75

Account of death of Sean Sabhat (South) and Fergal O'Hanlon, in the I.R.A.'s Border campaign of 1957.


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368. [ST. VINCENT DE PAUL] Rule of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Approval of the Sovereign Pontiffs, Gregory XVI., Pius IX., Leo XIII., Pius X., and Benedict XV. Sanction of the work of the Society in Ireland by the Irish Episcopacy, at the Synod of Maynooth, A.D., 1900. Dublin: Council of Ireland, 23 Upper O'Connell St., 1922. pp. 80. Maroon printed wrappers. In fine condition. €35

THE RARE FIRST EDITION 369. SCALE, Bernard. An Hibernian Atlas, or, General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland: divided into Provinces, with its sub-divisions of Counties, Baronies, &c. Shewing their Boundaries, Extent, Soil, Produce, Contents, Measure, Members of Parliament, and Number of Inhabitants; also the Cities, Boroughs, Villages, Mountains, Bogs, Lakes, Rivers and Natural Curiosities Together with the Great and Bye Post Roads : The whole taken from actual Surveys and Observations. By Bernard Scale, Land Surveyor, and beautifully engraved on 78 Copper Plates, by Messrs. Ellis and Palmer. London: Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, 1788. Quarto. Modern full green morocco, title in gilt along spine. Occasional light spotting. A very good copy of the rare first edition. €2,750

COPAC locates 2 copies only of this edition. Bonar Law A13. Bernard Scalè (fl. 1756-1780.), surveyor and topographer, dominated a school of land surveyors in mid-eighteenth century Ireland. He was brother-in-law and pupil of John Rocque, whom he assisted in the surveys for the Maps of Dublin City and its environs published in 1756. He practised as a land surveyor in Abbey Street, and issued a number of maps and some views of Dublin buildings. Chubb described his magnum opus as: "A beautifully prepared atlas, containing thirty-seven finely engraved maps of the provinces and counties of Ireland. Each map is preceded by an engraved plate of letter press giving a description of the county or province ... The compass indicators, on the maps, are of a highly decorative character ...". With coloured map of Galway city laid on front endpaper.

CORK PRINTED CLASSICAL POETRY ERNIE O'MALLEY'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE

370. SHACKLETON, Abraham. The Court of Apollo, with other Pieces of Original Poetry: also, Some Specimens of Translation, from the Minor Greek Poets. Cork: Printed for the Author, by W. West, 1815. First edition. pp. [8], 164, [2], with terminal errata leaf. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, paper lettering piece to spine 'Price 5s 5d - BOARDS'. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. From the library of the Republican, Ernie O'Malley with his signature on front endpaper. Extremities a trifle rubbed, some cracking to joints, label a trifle chipped else a fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €575


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COPAC & WorldCat locates 4 copies only. Not in Jackson. Johnson 815. A handsome and entirely unsophisticated copy of this collection of original poetry and classical translation by Abraham Shackleton (c.1753-1818), Master of the Quaker School at Ballitore which had been founded by his grandfather Abraham in 1726 and counted Edmund Burke amongst its former pupils. He decided however, to change the established practice of many years in the school, that of non-denominational education and restricted admission to Quakers only. This decision, in tandem with the effects of the 1798 Rebellion, led to the decline and eventual closure of the school in 1801. The school was, however, reopened by James White, Abraham Shackleton's son-in-law, five years later, and regained its former glory, catering for pupils of all denominations. The school, founded by the first Shackleton to reside in Ballitore had carried on for 73 years. Following the school's closure, Abraham retired to Ballitore Mill, taking charge of the business until his death in 1818.

HEATHENS OF INISKEA 371. SHAND, Alexander Innes. Letters from The West of Ireland 1884. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1885. pp. viii, 227, 4. Blue decorated cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Minor wear, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €575

COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 1. Alexander Innes Shand (1832-1907) was a Scottish barrister and author, critic, biographer, novelist and travel writer. As a correspondent for 'The Times' he toured the western sea-coast counties of Ireland in 1884, during the height of the Land War. Starting at Buncrana on August 21, he travelled through Donegal, Lough Erne, Sligo, Ballina, Westport, Croagh Patrick, Achill Island, Cong, Joyce Country, Connemara, Lough Corrib, Galway, Limerick, Kerry, and after one month ends up at Bantry. He gives us a graphic description along his route of the destitution of the tenantry; evictions; angling at Gweedore; beauties of Lough Gill; the heathens of Iniskea; emigration from Mayo; murders in Joyce Country; antiquities of Athenry; fishing on the Shannon; sport at Mucross; wayside beggars; an enterprising railway, etc.

WITH INSCRIBED AND SIGNED COMPLIMENT SLIP 372. SHAW, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch. New York: Brentano's, 1921. First American edition. pp. ciii, [3], 300. Green cloth, title on printed label on spine. Compliment slip inscribed and signed by 'G.B.S.', tipped into front free endpaper. Minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. €275 373. SHEEHAN, Tim. Lady Hostage. (Mrs. Lindsay). Illustrated. Cork: Sheehan, 2008. Second edition. pp. x, 198. Fine in illustrated wrappers. €15

The author describes the events around the Dripsey Ambush, "an ill-fated engagement in the War of Independence". The Lady Hostage was Mrs. Lindsay of Leemount House, Coachford, County Cork, who had outspokenly paraded her loyalty to the British Crown. The story portrays the humanitarian character of some British officers, particularly Lieutenant Colonel Gareth Evans who commanded the attack on the I.R.A. ambush party, as well as others on the Republican side who showed sympathy to the hostage. Mrs. Mary Lindsay, an elderly widow, was murdered by the IRA (along with her driver, James Clarke), on 9 March 1921. Attempting to prevent bloodshed she, along with a Roman Catholic priest, tried to persuade the IRA gang against a planned ambush. The IRA ignored them and she then warned the British Army of the planned ambush, which cost the lives of six IRA volunteers at Dripsey some time earlier. A character ("Lady Fitzhugh") based on Mrs. Lindsay was played by actress Dame Sybil Thorndike in the 1959 film, Shake Hands with the Devil, which starred James Cagney, Don Murray and Michael Redgrave. An IRA man named Frank Busteed later claimed credit for the killings and for burning down Mrs. Lindsay's home, Leemount House.

RARE OSCAR WILDE ITEM 374. SHERARD, Robert Harborough. André Gide's wicked lies about the late Mr. Oscar Wilde in Algiers in January, 1895, As Translated from the French and Broadcast by Dr. G. J. Renier. Minutely Examined & Commented upon by Robert Harborough Sherard ... With a frontispiece by Fernand Mouren. Calvi (Corsica), France: Vindex Publishing, [1933]. pp. 11, [1]. Printed faded green stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare. €265

COPAC locates 4 copies only. Catalogued from front cover. A reply to certain statements originally made by A. Gide in Si le grain ne meurt, and repeated by G. J. Renier in his Oscar Wilde. Includes bibliographical references.


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PIRATED DUBLIN EDITION 375. [SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley] The School for Scandal. A comedy. Dublin: Printed for J. Ewling, [1799?]. pp. vi, 93, [3]. Later full blue morocco, title in gilt on spine; turn-ins gilt. From the libraries of Edwin B. Holden & Edward Francis Carry with their bookplates. Upper joint starting, but firm. An attractive copy. All edges gilt. Rare. €285

COPAC locates 5 copies only. ESTC T762. A piracy. Cf. Rothschild. Prologue by David Garrick. Epilogue by George Colman. Dated from Rhodes. The British Library Catalogue suggests a date of ca. 1795. "Long regarded as the first edition, ... [this edition] is now generally discredited as the editio princeps" - Nettleton and Case. British Dramatists. 1969. p. 941.

SIMINGTON'S CIVIL SURVEYS 376. SIMINGTON, Robert C. The Civil Survey A.D. 1654-1656 County of Tipperary. Prepared for publication with introductory notes and appendices by R.C. Simington. Two volumes. With maps. Dublin: S.O. 1931/34. Quarto. pp. (1) xxviii, 388, (2) xxxiii, 418. Red buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good set. €275

Based on the knowledge and evidence of "the most able and ancient inhabitants of the country" the Civil Survey was a descriptive record of the land and of its owners in 1640. Written down in the course of the years 1654-56 from the testimony of juries representative of Gael and Norman, the survey set forth every estate of every proprietor of land in twenty-seven Irish counties. Ancestral tenures were recorded as well as titles by patent from the Crown. Abundantly rich in place-names and in information regarding Irish families, the Civil Survey was further distinguished by separate returns of Church lands, Crown lands, and Tithes.

377. SIMINGTON, Robert C. The Civil Survey A.D. 1654-1656 County of Limerick with a section of Clanmaurice Barony, County Kerry. Prepared for publication with introductory notes and appendices by R.C. Simington. With map. Dublin: S.O. 1938. Quarto. pp. xlviii, 532. Red buckram, title in gilt. A fine copy. €165 378. SIMINGTON, Robert C. The Civil Survey A.D. 1654-1656 County of Kildare. Prepared for publication with introductory notes and appendices by R.C. Simington. With map. Dublin: S.O. 1952. Quarto. pp. xlvii, 244. Red buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €125 379. [SINCLAIR, George] Useful and Ornamental Planting with Index. Published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-Row, 1832. pp. iv, 151. Cloth with soiling. Internally very good. €125 380. [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 persons interred ... Official Lists of Prisoners ... Casement Trial and Sentence ... Who's Who, etc. With numerous portraits and other illustrations. Dublin: Irish Times, 1917. Royal octavo. Second edition. pp. xvi, 286 (double column). Original pink wrappers, a little frayed. A very good copy in modern binder's cloth folder. Very scarce. €185

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381. [SINN FEIN REVOLT] An Illustrated Record of the Sinn Féin Revolt, April, 1916. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed and Published by Hely's Limited, n.d. (1916). pp. [34]. Oblong quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Cover dusty, paper repair to one leaf where two photos were excised. A good copy. Very scarce. €125

Story of the Rising, with a good range of photographs, documents, and diary of principal events. Not in Carty.

THE NOBLE SIR CHARLES COOT 382. [SM] A Discourse concerning the Rebellion in Ireland, Wherein these following particulars are observable: First, a commemoration of the noble Commander Sir Charles Coot deceased; with some other persons of quality yet living. Secondly, the horridnesse of the Rebellion, is set forth by way of expostulation with the Irish Catholiques. Thirdly, meanes are prescribed both to destroy the growing of Popery in that Kingdom, and to reduce the remaining Irish to conformity with us in Religion and manners. Lastly, advertisements and cautions, touching the present War in agitation; with some other not impertinent observations. By M.S. London: Printed for Richard Lownes, 1642. Quarto. pp. [i], 26. Title within a border of type ornaments. Bound by Riviere in nineteenth century full tree calf, covers framed by triple gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; splash-marbled endpapers. A fine copy. €1,350

Wing S 113. Sweeney 4574. COPAC locates 9 copies. WorldCat 3. NLI holds the Shirley copy. Included is "a commemoration of the noble commander Sir Charles Coot deceased". Amongst the author's various ideas on how the Irish Catholics should be dealt with are the following: "It is necessary to deprive them of all probable meanes whether of armes or places of trust, that they neither dare nor can rebell without infinite disadvantage ... Where their numbers (as in Ireland) doe much exceed the Protestants, I would wish that the generality of the common sort might be kept (like the Gibeonites) in a most severe and strict condition of servitude and vassalage to the English, till time reduce them to conformity with us ... No papist should be suffered to beare any office in Towne or Country ... What taxes, impositions or Customes, which other his Majesties subjects are legally liable to, I wish may be doubled on all Catholiques".


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Sir Charles Coote, Bart., first landed in Ireland late in the sixteenth century, as a captain in Mountjoy's army. He was present at the siege of Kinsale, was appointed Provost-Marshal, and afterwards Vice-President of Connaught. In 1620 he was sworn on the Privy Council, and next year was created a baronet. He received large grants of land, principally in Connaught, out of which, at the breaking out of the War of 1641, he was, according to Carte, worth £4,000 per annum. He raised a considerable body of troops to act against the Irish, and soon distinguished himself. His first action in the war was the relief of the Castle of Wicklow, a service he executed with success. He was hastily recalled by the Lords-Justices to place Dublin in a proper state of defence. On his way, he was attacked by, but routed Luke O'Toole at the head of 1,000 native troops. Carte says Dublin "was but sorrily fortified, for the suburbs, which were large, had no walls about them; and the city wall, having been built about four hundred years, was now very much decayed, and had no flankers on it, nor places whereon the garrison might stand to fight. Sir Charles . . was a man of courage and experience, but very rough and sour in his temper, and these qualities of his nature being heightened by a recent sense of the very great damages he had sustained from the rebels in his forges [iron smelting works] and estate, put him upon acts of revenge, violence, and cruelty, which he exercised on all occasions with too little distinction between the innocent and the guilty". He raised the sieges of Swords and other strong places near Dublin, and repelled repeated incursions of the Irish upon the suburbs. His severity and intemperate language at the council board tended to send over many of the Catholic lords of the Pale to the Confederate Irish. Carte speaks of "his inhuman executions and promiscuous murders of the people in Wicklow;" and his condemnation of Father Higgins, brought to Dublin on safe-conduct by the Marquis of Ormond, is specially animadverted on by the same author. On 10th April 1642 he showed great bravery in the relief of Birr, and other strongholds in the vicinity, and after being forty-eight hours on horseback, returned to his camp without the loss of a man. "This," says Cox in his History, "was the prodigious passage through Montrath woods, which, indeed, is wonderful in many respects, and therefore justly gave occasion for the title of Earl of Montrath to be entailed upon the posterity of Sir Charles Coot, who was the chief commander of this expedition". Soon after his return to Dublin, he again marched out to the relief of Geashill. Being warned concerning the difficulty of retreating from some difficult passes he entered, he rejoined: "I protest I never thought of that in my life. I always considered how to do my business, and when that was done I got home again as well as I could, and hitherto I have not missed by forcing my way". He next occupied Philipstown, and then Trim. His death, early in May 1642, in the defence of that town, is thus related by Cox: "The Irish, to the number of 3,000, came in the dead of the night to surprise him; but the sentinel gave the alarm, and thereupon Sir Charles Coot, with all the horse he could get, being not above seventeen, issued out of the gate, and was followed by others as fast as they could get ready. The success was answerable to so generous an undertaking, and the Irish were routed, without any other considerable loss on the English side except that of Sir Charles Coot himself, who was shot dead; but whether by the enemy or one of his own troopers is variously reported. Upon his death, the government of Dublin was given to the Lord Lambert".

GREGORY OF COOLE COPY 383. 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). Bound by George Mullen of Dublin in full polished calf. Covers framed by double gilt fillets, a blind palmette roll enclosing in the centre a blind acanthus lozenge. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral design. Green and gold endbands; marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Richard Gregory Esqr. Coole, near Gort on front pastedown. All edges marbled. Spine rebacked preserving original. A very good copy. €1,250

In 1744 Smith, a Dungarvan apothecary 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.


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384. 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: 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. Contemporary full calf, spine and corners professionally repaired. Paper repair to corner of a few leaves. All edges green. 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.

385. SMITH, Pamela Colman. An attractive personalised printed Christmas card with greetings from B. Iden Payne, the theatre director, sometime Manager of the Abbey Theatre, cover with woodcut of a crowing cock by Pamela Colman Smith (friend of Jack Yeats), with her monogram, over a text from Hamlet. Together with: Commercially printed Christmas card inscribed by Dr. & Mrs. W.J. Lawrence (the theatre critic and journalist). €185 386. SOMERVILLE, E.OE. & ROSS, M. A St. Patrick's Day Hunt. Illustrated by Edith Somerville with eight coloured plates and textual drawings. London: Constable, n.d. (1902). Oblong quarto. pp. [viii], 47. Original pictorial cloth, after a design by Edith Somerville. Occasional light spotting to half title. From the library of Easton Neston with their bookplate. A fine copy. €375 Martin Ross's story has been described as a "masterpiece of bravura". In its mastery of Irish idioms, and as an example of how an Irish countryman tells a story, it cannot be surpassed. The illustrations were, practically all made from life, and were in all probability character-sketches of the country people of

south-west Munster. 387. SOMERVILLE, Edith OE & ROSS, Martin. Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. Illustrated by W.W. Russell, from Sketches by Edith OE Somerville. London: Allen, 1893. First edition. pp. viii, 200. Publisher's pictorial rush-green cloth. New front endpaper, name clipped from top of titlepage. Some minor spotting, two corners bumped. A very good copy. €185

Hudson 7. Edith Anna Oenone Somerville, author, artist, organist, feminist, inspiring leader and farmer was born in Corfu in 1858 and grew up at Drishane the seat of the Somerville family in Castletownshend, County Cork. Through her mother she was descended from Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe, this eminent lawyer was the great-grandfather of Edith and of her cousin and co-author Violet Florence Martin of Ross, County Galway, better known under the pen-name of Martin Ross. On the 17 January 1886 Edith first met Violet and from that moment their literary partnership began and continued until Violet's death in 1915. Edith although deeply saddened by the death of her beloved partner continued to write until the end of her own life insisting subsequent titles were jointly written. For her massive contribution to literature, in 1932 Trinity College conferred on her an honorary Litt.D. The Mistress of Drishane died in 1949. This book although dated 1893, was in fact published in November 1892, having been in the previous year serialised in The Ladies Pictorial.


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388. 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. 285 x 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'.

389. SPINDLER, Karl. The Mystery of the Casement Ship. With a foreword by Florence O'Donoghue. Illustrated. Tralee: Anvil Books, 1965. pp. 218, [6]. Illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. €150

The first full account of Sir Roger Casement's part in the prelude to the 1916 Rising. Captain Karl Spindler was Commander of the German Auxiliary Cruiser 'Libau' which, camouflaged as a Norwegian steamer (the 'Aud'), successfully broke the English blockade. He tells why, in his opinion, the arms landing attempt at Fenit failed. The book also contains authentic documents from the German Naval Archives and other sources, which disclose the real motives of the German government in giving assistance to the Irish Republic, but they make one wonder what Ireland's fate would have been if Germany had emerged victorious.

390. STOKES, Margaret. Notes on the Cross of Cong. Illustrated with two chromo-lithographs and two cuts. Dublin: Printed at the Dublin University Press by Ponsonby and Weldrick for Private Circulation, 1895. Quarto. pp. [4], 12, 2 (lithographs). Bound in modern full dark green morocco, upper cover framed by a blind wide interlacing Celtic design, titled in gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Edition: 224 copies only of this work have been printed. Of these, 200 numbered consecutively, are for subscribers; 24 lettered A to Z are for presentation. A very good copy in slipcase. €1,250

The Cross of Cong (An Bacall Buí, 'the yellow baculum') is stated to be the finest piece of metal, enamel and jewellery work of its epoch in Europe. The Annals of Innisfallen records in the year 1123 the bringing of the piece of the true cross into Ireland, and the making of this shrine for its preservation. The history of this reliquary is based upon the information afforded by the five inscriptions which fill the silver edges of the cross. It gives us the name of Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobair (Turlough O'Connor), King of Connacht for whom it was made; Muireadach O'Duffy, Archbishop of Connaught, for whose use it was intended; Donnel O'Duffy, the Bishop who watched over its progress, and Maelisu O'Echan, the artist who executed it. Sadly there is no further information of O'Echan, no monument is left to tell of his former greatness save the exquisite work of this magnificent treasure that has stood for almost nine hundred years, bearing witness to the marvellous power and delicate skill of this great artist. It was made around 1123 probably in either Roscommon or Tuam, and donated to the Cathedral church of the period at Tuam. The cross was subsequently moved to Cong Abbey, County Mayo, from which it takes its name. When George Petrie toured Connaught he visited Lord Abbot Prendergast (1741-1829), the last mitred Abbot of Cong, then living in a little cottage at Abbotstown, given to him by the ancestors of Oscar Wilde. He had found the reliquary in an oak chest in a cottage in the town, where it had been concealed since the time of the Reformation or at least since the rebellion of 1641. After his visit Petrie told Professor MacCullagh of his amazing discovery and the latter purchased it at his own expense for the Royal Irish Academy. An object of extreme grace and beauty the cross measures 76cm high and almost 46cm wide. It is made of oak covered with plates of copper, silver and brass, adorned with precious stones and ornamented with crystals, amber, gold and silver filigree; and niello (a deep black mixture of metals). The treasure is heavily influenced by Hiberno-Norse design of S-shaped animals interwoven with threadlike snakes. Professor MacCullagh when he spoke of this precious reliquary stated: "a most interesting memorial of the period preceding the English invasion, and one which shows a very high state of art in the country at the time when it was made".

391. STOKES, Margaret. Early Christian Art in Ireland. Illustrated. Part 1. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1932. pp. xii, 75. Green printed wrappers. A very good copy. €15


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WITH MAGNIFICENT COLOURED AQUATINTS 392. SULLIVAN, Dennis. A Picturesque Tour through Ireland, by Dennis Sullivan, Esq. Illustrated with numerous coloured views of the most interesting scenery. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26 Haymarket, 1824. Oblong quarto. pp. 25 (plates), 28. Modern half red morocco on original grey papered boards, title in gilt on original red morocco label on upper cover. A very good copy of this exceedingly rare topographical work. €5,750

Elmes and Hewson 2109 Abbey 460 Tooley 469. The author/artist notes in his introduction that "few parts of the British dominions are so little known to the English as the highly interesting sister-kingdom, of whose beauties we have given a small sketch in the following pages. Whatever may tempt the tourist, or man of fortune, to visit and explore the romantic, and beautiful, and often highly-cultivated scenery of Ireland". Diverting somewhat he castigates the absentee landowners for neglecting the country like faithless shepherds, deserting their posts, and consigning their tenantry to the gripping hand of a middle man ... Provided he can wring out of them the fortune he generally makes in a few short years. Sullivan then returns to the core reason for this work with a description of Ireland as: "a country possessing an infinity of wealth in its agricultural and commercial resources". He goes on "In Ireland the antiquarian may find full employment for the most active mind ... The artist will find, among the lakes and mountains of Erin, an inexhaustible store of subjects that are not surpassed in any other part of the world, either in romantic grandeur, or beautiful and pastoral simplicity". Perhaps one of the finest collections of coloured Irish aquatint views. The magnificent views depicted are as follows: The Mountains of Mome (Mourne); Irish Cottages, Wicklow; Stone Cross at Kilcullen; Wicklow Gold Mines; Mountains of Luganaquilla; Lough Erne, and Isle of Devenish; Abbey of Monaincha; Principal Lake at Killarney; Abbey of Aghaboe; Trim Castle; Giant's Causeway; Ballrichan Castle; Roche Castle; Belfast; Lough of Belfast; View of the River Shannon; Downpatrick; Loch Neagh; Carlingford Castle; Waterfall near Bantry; Salmon Leap at Leixlip; Dunamase; Bray Head; View of the River Blackwater; and Limerick.

AUTHOR PRESENTATION COPY 393. SULLIVAN, T.D. A Selection from the Songs and Poems. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1901. pp. viii, 209. Green cloth, titled in gilt, with gilt floral decoration on upper cover. Author presentation copy inscribed by him on 'Prefatory Note' page, presumably to Micheál Ó Duibhginn with his library stamp on same page. A very good copy. €65


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394. SURTEES, R. S. Mr. Romford's Hounds by the author of Handley Cross, Sponge's sporting tour, Ask mamma, etc. Illustrated by John Leech, H.K. Browne, &c. London: Bradbury, Agnew, n.d. pp. viii, [1], 405, 24 (plates). Pictorial red cloth over bevelled boards. Recased. A very good copy. €125 395. SWIFT, Dr. Jonathan. Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift. Written by Himself: Nov. 1731. London: Printed for C. Bathurst, in Fleet-street, 1739. Third edition. pp. 22. Later green cloth, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375

COPAC locates 5 copies only of this edition. Teerink-Scouten, 772. ESTC T50708. Foxon S925. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), man of letters, was born in Dublin, son of an Englishman who was steward of the King's Inn. He was educated at Kilkenny School and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1689, disgusted with the policy of preferment of Catholics being practised in Dublin by James II's Viceroy, Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell, and anxious for his future, he left Ireland and became personal secretary to Sir William Temple, a retired diplomat, who had helped arrange the marriage of William and Mary. He lived with him at Moor Park, Surrey, where he met Esther Johnson (Stella), who became a lifelong friend and on his advice, she settled in Dublin. He had hoped for a bishopric but had to be content with the Deanery of St. Patrick's, Dublin in April 1713.

396. SWORDS, Liam. The Green Cockade. The Irish in the French Revolution 1789-1815. Illustrated. Dublin: Glendale, 1989. pp. 271. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €30 397. SYNGE, John M. In Wicklow West Kerry and Connemara. Dublin: Maunsel, 1919. pp. [viii], 245, [1]. Recent half green morocco on linen boards, spine divided into five compartments by four raised bands; title in gilt on red morocco label on second. A very good copy. €175 398. [TEMPERANCE CRUSADE] An Appeal to Ireland. A Redemptorists Father. St. Patrick's, Esker, Athenry. In Irish and English. Dublin: O'Brien & Ards, Printers, 1911. Tall slim octavo. pp. [3], 4-64. Green pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €125 399. [THADY QUILL] 'Bould Thady Quill'. Adapted from an Old Irish Ballad by Joseph Crofts. Words & Music. Dublin: Waltons, n.d. (1951). Quarto. pp. 4. Cover stained. Scarce. €45

PROTEST ON TITHES 400. [THE ASS] Broadside Ballads. The Ass and the Orangeman's Daughter. Dolly Dixon. With woodcut illustration at head, Numbered 48 on lower margin. Single page, 192 x 253mm. S.n. [c.1840]. Partial loss to corners of top margin and edges frayed, otherwise good. Rare. €65 401. [THEATRE ROYAL] Original Playbill for the Performance of the Comic Opera of The Woodman ... Captain O'Donnell / Mr. N. Jones, (From the Theatre Belfast, his First Appearance here these Two Years) ... Mrs. Emily Dickson's, her Ninth Appearance here these 3 Years: in which she will introduce a Favourite Cavatina, & 'Why With Sighs." In Act 3. ... Together Lest us Range the Fields; By Mr. Short and Mrs. Dickens. To which will be added, the Farce of, St. Patrick's Day. To-morrow, The Beggar's Opera. On Friday, The Devil's Bridge; Richard, Coeur De Lion; The Public are respectfully Informed that Mr. Kean, From the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane is engaged, and will make his 1st appearance here on Monday Next in the Character of King Richard III. Mr. Pope, is also engaged. 230 x 283mm. Printed on one side only. Frayed around the edges, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €225 402. [THEATRE ROYAL] Original Playbill. This present Monday, August 22nd; will be performed the Tragedy of Macbeth ... to which will be added the Farce of The Weathercock ... On Wednesday, the Tragedy of Hamlett ... On Friday, for the last time, King Richard III. Tickets to be had of Mr. M'Nally, at the Theatre. 218 x 280mm. Printed on one side only. Frayed around the edges, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €225 403. THOMPSON, J.J. A Fragment, 22nd March, 1919. In Memory of J.J. Thompson, M.B., B.Ch. By his daughter. Dublin: Walker Printers, n.d. (c.1919). pp. 18. Stapled printed wrappers with light soiling. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €125

A tribute by a devoted daughter to her father who was born in Clonmel in 1862 and rose through the ranks of the Post Office service initially in Ireland and later on in England. In 1908 after distinguished service at home he was transferred as Assistant-Surveyor to the South Wales district, whose headquarters at that time was in Cheltenham (Secret Service?). She quotes in this pamphlet from a


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book in which her father was mentioned, where he was called 'Bellingham'. In fact a whole chapter was devoted to him: "It was Bellingham, big physically, mentally, morally - the strongest man in the Service; the man who, years before, had re-created postal Ireland, made order out of chaos, cleared it of inefficiency, carried idle, worthless, politically-nominated postmasters on his shoulders, and run, as a junior, the huge district that slothful chiefs had neglected and let down … Bellingham was now in England, broken in health, as a man who does three men's work must presently be; a martyr to the Surgeon's knife and to acute rheumatism, whose seeds had been sown in the course of many a twenty-mile before-breakfast walk with country postmen, in Irish rains and across Irish hills and bogs".

SIGNED COPY 404. TIERNAN, Joe. The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings and the Murder Triangle. Illustrated. Dublin: By the author, 2002. pp. 284. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author. A fine copy. €20

Loosely inserted is a handout proclaiming: "Granada TV (who own Yorkshire) is attempting to prevent the publication of this startling new book and have intimidated publishers Mercier Press into pulling out of publication. This book is now published by the author".

405. TODHUNTER, John. From the Land of Dreams. With an introduction by T.W. Rolleston. With a photogravure portrait of the author. Dublin and London: Talbot Press & Fisher Unwin, 1918. First edition. pp. xxiv, 115, iv (notes), + errata. Dark green linen, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €85

John Todhunter (1839-1916) poet and playwright, was born in Dublin the son of a merchant, he was educated at the Quaker Schools at Mountmellick and York. He attended Trinity College Medical School, where he studied medicine. While at Trinity, Todhunter won the Vice-Chancellor's prize for English Verse in 1864, 1865 and 1866, and the Gold Medal of the Philosophical Society in 1866 for an essay. He also clerked for William Stokes while studying. He received his Bachelor of Medicine in 1867, and his Doctorate of Medicine degree in 1871. In 1870 he became Professor of English Literature at Alexandra College, four years later, he resigned from that position, and travelled to several places in Europe, including Egypt. In 1881, he finally settled in London, where his home in Bedford Park, Chiswick was located in a small community of writers and artists, who included W.B. Yeats. Todhunter was a founding member of the London Irish Literary Society.

406. TRACY, Honor. Mind you, I've said nothing! Forays in the Irish Republic. London: Methuen, 1959. pp. 176. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. Belvedere College School prize label on front free endpaper. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. €45

With chapters on: Forebodings; Back to Dublin; Party Politics; Some People; All Honour to St. Patrick; A Fresh Eye; Any Fish Rising; We all were Libelled!; A ferocious Anti-Clerical; Evening in Cork; On to Bandon; On to Kerry; A Journey to the Blasket Islands; Irish Pilgrimage. Honor Tracy is the pseudonym of Lilbush Wingfield (1913-1989), a British writer of novels and travel literature, was born at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Tracy joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and worked in its intelligence department until 1941. After the war, Tracy spent two years in Ireland working for the Irish Digest and for The Bell magazine, alongside her lover Seán Ó Faoláin. In 1947, she went to France and then roamed East Europe for the Observer. In 1948 she went to Japan for eight months and on her return to Ireland wrote Kakemono, an account of her travels there. She was described as "a brilliant linguist (she speaks French, German, Russian, Italian and some Japanese)", which assisted her greatly in her travel writing. Tracy then became a newspaper correspondent in Dublin. During this period, she was the subject of a lawsuit by Maurice O'Connell, parish priest of Doneraile, County Cork, who claimed he had been libelled by a pointed article Tracy had written in the Sunday Times about the new parochial house which he was building. Tracy successfully counter-sued and was awarded £3000 in damages.

407. [TRIMMER, Sarah] A Series of Prints of Roman History Designed as Ornaments for those Apartments in which Children Receive the First Rudiments of their Education. London: Printed and Sold by J Marshall. n.d. (c.1789). 16mo. pp. [2], 64 (plates). Contemporary worn calf, needs rebacking. Surface wear to covers. Internally a clean copy. €45 408. TURNER, Samuel B. Turner Genealogy. Illustrated with coloured coats of arms, pedigrees, facsimiles, monuments and engravings. London: Privately Printed for the author's widow, 1884. Quarto. pp. [8], 88, 39 (plates), + errata. Mauve cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on rebacked spine. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed from the author's wife Marian Turner to


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Emily Turner. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

409. USHER, James. Vox Hiberniae or Rather the voyce of the Lord from Ireland: A Sermon Preached in Saint Peters Church at Westminster, before divers of the Right Honorable, the Lords of the upper House in the High Court of Parliament, on the last publike Fast day, being Wednesday the 22th of December. 1641. Wherein the miserable estate of the Kingdome of Ireland at this present is laid open, and the people and Kingdome of England, earnestlie exhorted to turne to Almighty God by true repentance least the same Judgements or worse fall upon us. By the laborious and reverend Doctor, James Usher Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland. London: Printed at London for John Nicolson, under Saint Martin's Church within Ludgate, 1642. Quarto. pp. [16]. Disbound. Top of words 'Vox Hiberniae' just clipped by binder, ends dusty. Rare. €235

COPAC locates 5 copies only. WorldCat 3. Wing U 228. Sweeney 5372. The unauthorised publication of this sermon prompted Ussher to make a successful appeal to Parliament to have it suppressed.

JAMES USSHER, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH & PRIMATE OF ALL IRELAND

410. USSERIO, Jacobo. Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates. Quibus inserta est pestiferæ adversus Dei gratiam Pelagio Britanno in Ecclesiam inductæ Hæreseos Historia. Accedit Gravissimæ Quæstionis De Christianarum Ecclesiarum Successione & Statu Historica Explicatio. London: Benj. Tooke, 1687. Second edition. Folio. pp. [16], 136, 145-336, 339-509, [4], 507-548, [14], 191, [1]. Bound by Hering of London in 19th century full brown morocco. Covers framed by gilt fillets, a Greek key and wide floral roll; enclosing in the centre the arms of John Lumley Saville, 8th Earl of Scarborough. Spine divided into six compartments by five thick gilt bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second and third; board edges and turn-ins tooled with a gilt Greek key roll. Marbled endpapers. The Rufford Abbey copy with bookplates and also bookplate of John Bradley. All edges gilt. Minor wear to spine. A fine copy. Scarce. €1,650

James Ussher was born in the parish of St. Nicholas, in the city of Dublin, on the 4th day of January, 1580-1. He was the second student admitted to Trinity College, when its doors opened in 1593. He had a great interest in religion and his loyalties were divided between the Reformed and Catholic Faith. His uncle Stanyhurst tried to attract him towards Catholicism (which Stanyhurst had adopted), but Ussher's leanings were towards Anglicanism, which he eventually followed. One of his greatest works, Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates contains the most exact account of the Church, both in Britain and Ireland, from A.D. 20 to the end of the seventh century. It was commenced at the request of King James and Ussher dedicated this work to King Charles I. There is a Chronological index in which the events of each century are described. Dr. Elrington stated that "to panegyrize this extraordinary monument of human learning is unnecessary; to detail its contents impossible". John Lumley-Saville, 8th Earl of Scarborough (1788-1856), styled Viscount Lumley between 1832 and 1835, was a

British peer and politician., the son of John Lumley-Saville, 7th Earl of Scarborough, Prebend of York, younger son of Richard Lumley, 4th Earl of Scarborough and Barbara, sister and heiress of Sir George Saville, 8th Baronet. His mother was Anna Maria, daughter of Julines Hering. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1836 he assumed by Royal license the additional and principal surname of Saville. Scarbrough was returned to Parliament for Nottinghamshire in 1826, a seat he held until 1832, when the constituency was abolished. He then sat for Nottinghamshire North until 1835, when he succeeded


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his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire from 1839 to 1856. Lord Scarborough never married. However, he had five natural children, four sons and one daughter. He bequeathed his large property at Rufford, Nottinghamshire, to his second son Captain Henry Lumley (d. 1881), and on his death it passed to the fourth son, Augustus William Lumley (1829-1887). On the latter's death the property was inherited by Lord Scarborough's eldest natural son by a woman of French origin, John Lumley-Saville, who assumed the surname of Saville only. He was a prominent diplomat and was created Baron Saville in 1888. Lord Scarborough died in October 1856, aged 68, and was succeeded in the earldom by his first cousin once removed, Richard Lumley. "Gravissimæ quæstionis, de Christianarum ecclesiarum, in Occidentis præsertim partibus ... continua successione & statu, historica explicatio" has separate dated titlepage, pagination and register. With a preliminary imprimatur leaf.

EXTREMELY RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 411. [VANE, Anne?] Vanella: or an Elegy on the Death of Miss V------e: Writ by herself at the Bath, some few hours before her decease. Woodcut title and illustrations in text. [Dublin, 1736]. pp. 7. Stitched as issued. Woodcut title. Some light staining, edges frayed. A good copy. Extremely rare. €1,250

COPAC locates the BL copy only. ESTC T199880 with 4 further locations. WorldCat 1. No copy in TCD or NLI. Foxon V12, describes the illustrations as 'Rough mourning woodcuts'. Place of publication from ESTC Catalogue. On the death of Anne Vane but probably not written by her. A semi-pornographic fictionalised account of the affair that took place in Bath between the Hon. Anne Vane and Frederick Prince of Wales. Anne Vane (1705-1736), maid of honour to Queen Caroline and mistress to Frederick, Prince of Wales, known as 'the Hon. Mrs. Vane,' was the eldest daughter of Gilbert Vane, second Lord Barnard. In 1732 Anne Vane had a son, who was publicly christened Cornwell Fitz-Frederick Vane. It was alleged that the Prince was the parent. Horace Walpole states that 'Fred,' Lord Hervey, and the first Lord Harrington each confided to Sir Robert Walpole that he was the father of the child. The infant died on 26 Feb. 1735/6, and the unhappy mother, three weeks later at Bath.

412. VERIDICUS [Sir Richard Musgrave] A Concise Account of the Material Events and Atrocities which Occurred in the Late Rebellion, with the Causes that Produced them; and an answer to Veritas's Vindication of the Roman Catholic Clergy of the Town of Wexford. By Veridicus. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken, 32 Grafton Street; And J. Wright, 169 Piccadilly, 1799. pp. [iii], 101. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Some foxing to titlepage, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €285

ESTC T72775. Sir Richard Musgrave (1746?-1818), 1st Baronet, political writer, was born at Lismore, County Waterford, the first of the three sons of Christopher Musgrave of Tourin, near Cappoquin, local agent to the Duke of Devonshire. Educated at Oriel College, he was later called to the Irish bar. Through the Duke's influence he entered the Irish House of Commons as a member for Lismore in 1778, retaining his seat until the abolition of the Irish Parliament by the Act of Union. Although Musgrave's associations were with the Whigs until 1797, he was fiercely independent and privately was deeply hostile to the Catholics. This hostility may have been a consequence of his experiences as high sheriff of County Waterford in 1786 when Whiteboyism was rising there. Attracted


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to the Orange Order, by 1798 he was Orange grandmaster of the County. The 1798 rebellion and attempted French invasion prompted Musgrave, under the pseudonym Veridicus, to bring out two more pamphlets, 'To the Magistrates, Militia and the Yeomanry of Ireland' and the present work. The primary purpose of this pamphlet was to vindicate the Protestants; two revised, expanded editions followed in the same year. Musgrave was a man of considerable talent, warped by blind prejudice and savage party spirit. Though strongly attached to the English connection, he was no less strongly opposed to the Act of Union, and never sat in the imperial parliament. He died at his house in Holles Street, Dublin, in 1818. He was married to Deborah, daughter of Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart., of Doveridge Hall, Derbyshire, by whom he had no issue.

413. [VICARS, Arthur] The Scale of Precedence in Ireland. By Authority. Dublin: Ulster's Office, Dublin Castle, for H.M.S.O. by Alex Thom, 1897. 12mo. pp. 44, + corrigenda. Contemporary full crimson morocco, covers ruled in gilt, titled in gilt on upper cover. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €475

COPAC locates 1 copy only. With separate scales of precedence for men and ladies, rules of precedence, and a full listing of peers of the realm giving their relative precedence. The scale on page 3 gives a high precedence to the Lord Mayor, following only the Royal Family and Ambassadors. However a note records that this precedence 'is local' and does not extend beyond the precincts of the city'. It goes on to note that the Viceregal Lodge is not within these precincts. Printed for internal use only (colophon indicates only 509 copies were printed).

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WITH A CHAPTER ON 'THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF BOOKS' 414. WADGE, E. Harvey. Ed. by. The Irish Industrial Magazine. With coloured maps. Dublin and London: McGlashan & Simpkin, 1866. pp. iv, 503. Green cloth. Beehive in gilt and blind on covers; title in gilt on spine. Recased. A fine copy of an exceedingly rare work. €675

COPAC locates 4 copies only. Contains monthly issues for January to June 1866. The editor signed the introduction at Stradbrook Hall, Blackrock. With chapters on: The Industrial Arts of our Ancestors; Household Maxims; Joint Stock Companies; Bog Oak Carving and Fancy Good Manufacture; On the Utilization of Water Power


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in Ireland; On Mining and Quarrying in Ireland; The Fisheries of Ireland; Fuel; Emigration considered, whether beneficial to Ireland, or not; Industrial Progress: its Causes and Conditions; Episodes in Mining Life; Commerce and Trade - their Effects; The Pilchard; The Linen and Flax trade of Ireland; The Dublin International Exhibition and Irish Mining Industry; Wealth in Exhaustion - Wealth in Accumulation; Economics for Ireland; Pillow Lace and Lace Makers; Tourist traffic Considered as a source of Wealth; The Rise and Progress of Books, etc. With contributions by: E. H. Wadge, M. Haverty, George Henwood, T. Mac Nally, William Lupton, William C. O'Brien Tenison, Joseph Fisher, Martin Doyle, George Preston White, etc.


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415. WALKER, Joseph C. Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards; an Historical Essay on the Dress of Ancient and Modern Irish; and a Memoir of the Armour and Weapons of the Irish. Illustrated with numerous plates. Two volumes. Dublin: Christie, 1818. Second edition. pp. (1) xv, 400, [34, +4 (plates)], (2) xii, 433, 14 (plates). Later half calf over marbled boards, title and volume number in gilt on blue morocco double labels on spine. From the library of William Perceval Esq. with his armorial bookplate on front pastedowns. A fine set. Very rare in this condition. €485

COPAC locates 6 copies only. Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, along with his friend Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry, are "Important milestones in the later cultural history of the country ... Both authors break new ground in that they direct attention away from the contemplation of the remote past to observation of the contemporary Irish cultural scene and from historical speculation to literary appreciation of vernacular Irish poetry ... the two authors acted upon the spell of the romantic movement and their works may be regarded as its first literary fruits in Ireland ". - R.A. Breathnach, 'Stud. Hib'., 1965. There is a six page (double column) list of patrons which includes the Earl of Charlemont, Pat Byrne, Mr. Curry, Henry Daly, J. Egan, Pedal Harp Maker, Rev. T.P. Le Fanu, Mr. Hardiman, Mrs Leland, Sir Richard Nagle, Miss O'Meally, Mr. Quin, Mrs Tighe, etc.

416. WALSH, Edward. Irish Popular Songs; with English Metrical Translations, and Introductory Remarks and Notes. Second Edition, revised and corrected; with original letters never before published. Dublin: Peter Roe, Mabbot Street, 1883. pp. 175, [1]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. A fine copy. Very rare. €225

Songs in Irish with English translation on facing page. 417. [WALSH, Rev. Paul] The Life of Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill. Transcribed from the Book of Lughaidh O Clérigh with introduction, notes, glossary, text and translation by Rev. Paul Walsh and prepared for press by Colm O Lochlainn. Part I, Text and Translation. Part II, Introduction Glossary, etc. Dublin: Published for the Irish Text Society, 1988/1994. pp. (1) xi, 347, (2) [8], 467. Quarter green arlen on white marbled papered boards, Celtic shield in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on decorated spine. A very good set in slipcase. €125

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S COPY 418. WARE, Sir James [and HARRIS, Walter]. The Whole Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland, Revised and improved. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Containing the History of the Bishops of that Kingdom and such matters Ecclesiastical and Civil, in which they were concerned, from the first Propagation of Christianity therein to the present Time. Illustrated with Views of the Cathedral Churches, engraven on Seventeen large Copper-Plates. Vol. II. The History and Antiquities of Ireland, illustrated with Cuts of Ancient Medals, Urns, &c., also, the Canons, Nuns, Templars, Monks, Friars, and Hermits, in their proper Dresses: Engraven on Twenty-one large Copper-plates. Also, The History of The Writers of Ireland, in Two parts, viz. I. Such Writers who were born in that Kingdom, and, II. Such who, though Foreigners, enjoyed Preferments or Offices there, or had their Education in it; with an Account of all the Works they published. Written in Latin by Sir James Ware, Knight; now newly translated into English, revised and improved with many material Additions; and continued down to the Beginning of the present Century. Dublin: Printed for the Author, by E. Jones in Clarendon-street, and by S. Powell for the Author, 1739/1745. Folio. pp. (1) [xii], 660, 16 (index), (2) [6], 284, [4], [4], 363, 5 (index). From the library of Sir Robert Peel with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown of volume two. Contemporary full panelled calf in eighteenth century style, spines with double


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raised bands titled in gilt direct. Professional paper repair to top corner of titlepage. A very good set with a great provenance. €2,750

ESTC T146297. Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian, was born in Castle Street, Dublin. Educated at TCD. He collected and studied manuscripts and charters from an early age. Knighted in 1629, he succeeded his father as Auditor-General for Ireland in 1632 and became MP for Dublin University and member of the Privy Council. During the Civil War he was imprisoned by the Parliamentarians as a Royalist and then expelled from Dublin in 1649. After a year and a half in France, Ware settled in London and pursued his studies there until the Restoration of 1660, when he returned to Dublin and was re-appointed Auditor-General. From his emoluments of office he made generous contributions to widows and to fellow-Royalists who had been ruined by the war, while continuing to collect and preserve valuable historical material on Gaelic Ireland. It was around this time that he employed Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh to prepare transcripts and translations from Irish manuscripts. He published a number of treatises in Latin on Irish and ecclesiastical antiquities, as well as editions of Campion's History of Ireland and Spenser's View of the State of Ireland. His son, Robert Ware, translated and re-published his works, which gained wide circulation. The Whole Works of Sir James Ware was published in Dublin (1739-1746) by Walter Harris who married Ware's grand-daughter. The establishment of Irish literature and history as subjects of study in the general world of learning in modern times is due largely to the lifelong exertions of Sir James Ware. Sir Frederick Burton in his fine drawing of the three founders of the study of Irish history and literature, has rightly placed him alongside his contemporaries, Michael Ó Cléirigh, the hereditary chronicler, and John Colgan the Irish hagiologist. Ware died at his family house in Castle Street, Dublin and is buried in St. Werburgh's Church. His manuscripts are in the Bodleian and British Libraries.

419. [WAYTE BROTHERS] Bicycle order and Receipt 1902. An order form for Wayte Brothers, Cycle Engineers & Agents, Lemon Street, Dublin, listing the specifications for a bicycle to be made up for Mr. A. MacDonell of Hollybank Road, Drumcondra, with his requirements entered under a series of headings (model, frame, colour, gear, gear-case, tyres, rims, pedals, saddle, H-Bar, brake etc.), at a price of £16-16-0, to be paid in cash, dated 12 April 1902. Together with: a signed receipt for payment in full dated 6 May 1902. €135 420. WESTROPP, Thomas Johnson. The Ancient Forts of Ireland: being a contribution towards our knowledge of their types, affinities, and structural features. Illustrated with plates and sketches throughout text. Dublin: Published at the Academy House .. Sold by Hodges Figgis, 1902. First edition. Quarto. pp. 579-730, 8 (plates). Modern green cloth boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275

Thomas John Westropp (1860-1922) Antiquary, was born in Limerick. From his youth he had a keen interest in folklore and archaeology. He became a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in 1886 and its president in 1916. He contributed many papers to its 'Journal' and other archaeological periodicals.

ANTIQUITIES OF LIMERICK AND CLARE 421. WESTROPP, Thomas Johnson. A Collection of Historical Pamphlets on the History and Antiquities of County Clare and County Limerick by Thomas Johnson Westropp. Two volumes. Volume I: (i) Ancient Remains near Lehinch, County Clare. (ii) Kilkee and its Neighbourhood. (iii) County Clare Folk-tales, III. (iv) A Study in the Legends of the Connacht Coast. Part II. (v) A Description of the Ancient Buildings and Crosses at Clonmacnoise. (vi) The Desmonds' Castle at Newcastle OConyll, County Limerick. (vii) Carrigogunnell Castle and the O'Brien's of Pubblebrien, in the County of Limerick. (viii) Notes on certain Primitive Remains (Forts and Dolmens) in Inagh and Killeimer, County Clare. (ix) Prehistoric Remains (Forts and Dolmens) in the Burren, County Clare. (x) The Crosses and Slabs of Inishowen (by H.S. Crawford).


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Volume II. (i) Types of Ring-Forts Remaining in Eastern Clare (Quin, Tulla, and Bodyke). (ii) Types of Ring-Forts Remaining in Eastern Clare (Killaloe, its Royal Forts, and their History). (iii) Types of Ring-Forts Remaining in Eastern Clare. (iv) Fortified Headlands and Castles on the South Coast of Munster. Part I. From Sherkin to Youghal. (v) Fortified Headlands and Castles on the South Coast of Munster. Part II. From Ardmore to Dunmore. (vi) Fortified Headlands and Castles in Western County Cork. Part I. From Cape Clear to Dunmanus Bay. (vii) On Certain Typical Earthworks and Ring-Walls in County Limerick. Part I. (viii) On Certain Typical Earthworks and Ring-Walls in County Limerick. Part II. The Royal Forts in Coshlea. (ix) The Ancient Sanctuaries of Knockainey and Clogher, County Limerick, and their Goddesses. (x) The Earthworks, Traditions, and the Gods of South-Eastern County Limerick, especially from Knocklong to Temair Erann. (xi) The Assembly-Place of 'Oenach Cairbre and Síd Asail at Monasteranenagh, Co. Limerick. (xii) Dun Crot and the "Harps of Clíu", on the Galtees, County Limerick. Dublin: R.S.A.I. & P.R.I.A., 1909-1920. Quarter morocco on cloth boards, wear to spine of Volume II. Original printed wrappers bound in, in most instances. A very good collection. Very rare. €375

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422. WHARTON, Sir George. Bellum Hybernicale or Ireland's Warre Astrologically demonstrated, from the late Celestiall-congresse of the two Malevolent Planets, Saturne and Mars, in Taurus, the ascendant of that Kingdome. Wherein likewise, their future opposition in the Signs Sagittary and Gemini, (most ominous to London, and many other of the south and West parts of England) is mathematically handled. The ignorance, malice, mistakes, errors, insolencies, and impertinencies, of Iohn Booker, (in his astrologicall observations upon the said conjunction, in a late pamphlet of his, styled, A bloody Irish almanack, &c.) discovered, corrected, refuted, and retorted: and the author further vindicated, from his, and Master Lilly's former frivolous, false, and malicious aspersions, throughout the whole discourse. By Capt. Geo. Wharton, Student in Astronomy. [London]: Printed in the Yeere, 1647. Small quarto. pp. [iv], 36. Modern full crushed levant burgundy morocco by Bayntun of Bath. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets; spine divided into three compartments by two gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct; corners of board edges hatched in gilt; turn-ins ruled in gilt with corner fleurons; marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands; red silk marker. From the library of Brent Gration-Maxfield with his name lettered in gilt along turn-in. Lengthy bibliographical note in pencil by Gration-Maxfield. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,350

COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 4. Wing W 1543. Sweeney 130. Astrologers played their part in the Civil War with royalist predictions stemming from the pen of Wharton who was paymaster to the artillery of Charles I. This was his contribution to the debate occasioned by the work of A Manapian. He described Booker as "that grand and traitorous imposter" while Booker in turn labelled Wharton "that arch turn-coat". Provenance: The Brent Gration-Maxfield copy. His library was auctioned in London by Sotheby's in 1981. Place of publication from Wing. Astrological woodcuts in the text.

423. WHATELEY, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin. Autograph letter signed 'Rd. Dublin' dated 16 May [18]57, on mourning paper, three pages octavo to Messrs. Parker (publishers or printers), mainly concerning his edition of Bacon, and whether the time has come for a cheap edition, which 'must be in very small type if in one volume, & portable', etc.; also discussing other publishing matters. €165

Richard Whateley (1787-1863), best known for his lectures on Political Economy, was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin 1831-1863. A man of liberal views and a surprising choice for the Dublin post, he supported Catholic Emancipation in 1829, and also supported the State grant to Maynooth College in 1845.

CORK AUTHOR 424. WHITE, W. J. The Devil You Know. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. pp. 256. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €65

An Irish academic returns from England to a post in the Dublin Institute for Historical Studies and sets off a chain of comic events.

425. WILDE, Oscar. An original carte-de-visite photograph of a young Oscar Wilde, aged seven years sitting on what appears to be a stump of a tree in a garden setting. With manuscript note on verso 'Oscar Wilde 1861'. 60 x 98mm. Lightly faded but in very good condition. €575 Oscar Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin (the second of three children born to Sir William Wilde and Jane Francesca [Elgee] Wilde. Lady Wilde wrote under the pseudonym "Speranza" (the Italian word for 'Hope'), poetry for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and was a lifelong Irish nationalist. She read the Young Irelanders' poetry to Oscar and Willie, inculcating a love of these poets in her sons. Lady Wilde's interest in the neo-classical revival showed in the paintings and busts of ancient Greece and Rome in her home. William Wilde was Ireland's leading oto-ophthalmologic (ear and eye) surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services as medical adviser and assistant commissioner to the censuses of Ireland. He also wrote books about


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Irish archaeology and peasant folklore. A renowned philanthropist, his dispensary for the care of the city's poor at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin, was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road. On his father's side Wilde was descended from a Dutchman, Colonel de Wilde, who went to Ireland with King William of Orange's invading army in 1690. On his mother's side Wilde's ancestors included a bricklayer from County Durham who emigrated to Ireland sometime in the 1770s. Wilde was baptised as an infant in St. Mark's Church, Dublin, the local Church of Ireland (Anglican) church. When the church was closed, the records were moved to the nearby St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street. Davis Coakley references a second baptism by a Catholic priest, Father Prideaux Fox, who befriended Oscar's mother circa 1859. According to Fox's own testimony written by him years later in Donahoe's Magazine in 1905, Jane Wilde would visit his chapel in Glencree, Co Wicklow for Mass and would take her sons with her. She then asked Father Fox to baptise her sons. Fox described it in this way: "I am not sure if she ever became a Catholic herself but it was not long before she asked me to instruct two of her children, one of them being the future erratic genius, Oscar Wilde. After a few weeks I baptized these two children, Lady Wilde herself being present on the occasion." In 1855, the family moved to No. 1 Merrion Square, where Wilde's sister, Isola, was born in 1857. The Wildes' new home was larger and, with both his parents' sociality and success, it soon became a "unique medical and cultural milieu". Guests at their salon included Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson. Until he was nine, Oscar Wilde was educated at home, where a French bonne and a German governess taught him their languages. He then attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Until his early twenties, Wilde summered at the villa, Moytura House, his father built in Cong, County Mayo. There the young Wilde and his brother Willie played with George Moore. Isola died aged nine of meningitis. Wilde's poem "Requiescat" was written to her memory.

426. WILDE, Sir William R. Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands: with notices of Lough Mask. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings. Dublin: MacGlashan & Gill, 1872. Second edition. Small quarto. pp. x, 306. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine with a steam-boat in gilt on upper cover. Some minor wear to spine, otherwise a very good copy. €245

Sir William Wilde (1815-1876), surgeon, antiquarian and topographical writer, was born at Kilkeevin, County Roscommon, the son of Dr. Thomas Wilde and his wife, Emily Fynne, a native of Ballymagibbon, near Cong, County Mayo. He had a successful private practice specialising in eye and ear treatment, and opened an Ophthalmic Hospital and Dispensary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear in 1844. In November 1851, Wilde married Jane Francesca Elgee ('Speranza' of The Nation), with whom he had three children, among them Oscar Wilde.

427. WILSON, Thomas. The Sacra Privata; or, Private Meditations and Prayers, of Bishop Wilson; Accommodated to General Use. Dublin: Printed By John Barlow, Bolton-Street, 1796. First Irish edition. 12mo. pp. xvi, [2], 248. With an additional inserted list of subscribers on one leaf. Contemporary tree-calf, gilt, contrasting red morocco title label. Rubbed, with loss to surfaces, spine, corners and edges. Ink inscription of Mary Nisbett, dated June 1799, on title. A good copy. €325


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The Bath editions and this Dublin appearance are all rare, with ESTC locating only five copies in three locations (BL, NLI and Univ. College, Dublin) - none of which mention the additional subscriber leaf. ESTC T85027. Thomas Wilson (1663-1755), Irish-born Anglican clergyman educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he was a contemporary of Swift. Appointed Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1698, he became well known for his tolerance of Catholicism, Dissenters and Quakers. Published in Bath in two editions (1786, 1792) before this Dublin edition of John Barlow. It is unsurprising that Barlow, a pioneering printer who later worked for the Gaelic Society in printing non-English language works, published the first Irish edition of the private devotions of the clergyman responsible for the production of the first book printed in Manx, Coyrle Sodjeh (London, 1707).

428. [WOLFE TONE ANNUAL] Wolfe Tone Annual. Complete set. 1932-1962. Thirty-two volumes. Illustrated. Dublin: By Brian O'Higgins, 1932-1962. Pictorial wrappers. A very good set. Complete sets are exceedingly rare. €675

With numerous articles by leading scholars & patriots of the day. Initially conceived to show the continuity of the Separatist Republican claim. Subjects include, Penal Days; Story of 1798; 1916 Before, and After; Nationality & Nationhood; Poetry; Song; Biographies of patriots etc. etc. It includes the scarce 1944 issue, which was stopped by Censor & published in 1945. The editor, Brian O'Higgins, was born in 1882 in County Meath. He moved to Dublin where he became an active member of the Gaelic League and secretary of O'Curry Gaelic college at Carrigaholt, County Clare. He took part in the Easter Rising and was deported to Frongoch. On his release O'Higgins participated in the building up of both the new Sinn Féin organisation and the Irish Volunteers. These activities led to his deportation again in February 1917 as part of the arrests of the first 'German plot.' O'Higgins was elected as T.D. for West Clare in the 1918 general election and, in June of the following year, he set up one of the first arbitration courts under the authority of Dail Eireann. He opposed the Treaty; he opposed the founding of Fianna Fail by De Valera; and, remaining a committed member of Sinn Féin and the Second Dail to the last, he signed the delegation conferring the Second Dail's authority to the I.R.A. in 1938. Apart from publishing poems, ballads and prayers, often under the name of Brian na Banban, O'Higgins was also editor of the Wolfe Tone Weekly and the Wolfe Tone Annual in the 1930s and 1940s.

429. WRIGHT, Rev. G.N. Tours in Ireland; or, Guides to the Lakes of Killarney; the County of Wicklow; and the Giants Causeway. Illustrated by maps; and engravings, after drawings by George Petrie, Esq. Three volumes in one. London: Baldwin, 1823. pp. [1], viii, 97, [3], 6 (plates); [1], x, 159, [7], 6 (plates); v, [3], 134, [2], 5 (plates). Each part with separate titles. Contemporary full burgundy straight-grained morocco (satchel style), title in gilt on spine. Light wear to extremities, light foxing to margins of plates as usual. A very good copy. Rare. €475

KING OF HANOVER'S HAND COLOURED COPY 430. WRIGHT, G.N. Ireland Illustrated in a Series of Views, of Cities, Towns, Public Buildings, Streets, Docks, Churches, Antiquities, Abbeys, Towers, Castles, Seats of the Nobility, etc. from original drawings by G. Petrie, W.H. Bartlett, & T.M. Baynes. With descriptions by G.N. Wright. London: H. Fisher, Son, and Jackson, 1833. Quarto. Engraved half-title. pp. [iv], 80, 40 (hand coloured plates), with eighty engraved views. From the library of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, with his monogram stamped on front free endpaper and titlepage. Contemporary full patterned cloth (relivio in style), title in gilt within a decorative gilt shield on spine, paper label with library shelf mark at heel. Some mild foxing to a few plates but the vast majority in excellent condition, with tissue guards. A fine copy. €1,650

Ernest Augustus I (1771-1851) was King of Hanover from 1837 until his death. He was the fifth son and eighth child of George III, who reigned in both the United Kingdom and Hanover. As a fifth son, initially Ernest seemed unlikely to become a monarch, but Salic Law, which barred women from the succession, applied in Hanover and none of his older brothers had legitimate male issue. Therefore, he became King of Hanover when his niece, Victoria, became Queen of the United Kingdom, ending the personal union between Britain and Hanover that had existed since 1714. Ernest was born in England, but was sent to Hanover in his adolescence for his education and military training. While serving with Hanoverian forces in Wallonia against Revolutionary France, he received a disfiguring facial wound. In 1799, he was created Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale. Although his 1815 marriage to the twice-


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widowed Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz met with the disapproval of his mother, Queen Charlotte, it proved a happy relationship. By 1817, the mad King George III had only one legitimate grandchild, Princess Charlotte of Wales, and when she died in childbirth, Ernest was the senior son to be both married and not estranged from his wife. This gave him some prospect of succeeding to the British throne. However, both of his unmarried older brothers quickly married, and King George's fourth son, Edward, Duke of Kent, fathered the eventual British heir, Princess Victoria of Kent (later Queen Victoria). With the 1800 Act of Union Irish Catholics were still prevented from entering Parliament. Catholic emancipation was a major political issue at that time. The Duke of Cumberland was a strong opponent of giving political rights to Catholics, believing that emancipation would be a violation of the King's Coronation Oath to uphold Anglicanism, and spoke out in the House of Lords against it. Protestant Irish organisations supported the Duke; he was elected Chancellor of the University of Dublin in 1805 and Grand Master of the Orange Lodges two years later. In January 1829, the Wellington Government announced that it would introduce a Catholic emancipation bill to conciliate the Irish. Disregarding a request from Wellington that he remain abroad, Ernest returned to London, and was one of the leaders against the Catholic Relief Act 1829, influencing King George against the bill. Within days of his arrival, the King instructed the officers of his household to vote against the Bill. Hearing of this, Wellington told the King that he must resign as Prime Minister unless the King could assure him of complete support. The King initially accepted Wellington's resignation, and Ernest attempted to put together a government united against Catholic emancipation. Though such a government would have considerable support in the House of Lords, it would have little support in the Commons, and Ernest abandoned his attempt. The King recalled Wellington. The bill passed the Lords and became law. A tour of Ireland, with text by Wright, and 40 engraved plates with tissue guards. The plates have 2 images per plate (so 80 images in total), and there is also an additional engraved title page. The plates include: the Bank of Ireland, Blarney Castle, Sligo, Viceregal Lodge, Waterford, the Wellington Testimonial, Kilkenny Castle, the Lower Lake of Killarney, Inchmore Castle, the Abbey of St Sligo, Cork Prison, College Street in Dublin, Giant's Causeway, Home's Hotel in Dublin, Howth Light-house (the vignette on the title page), Limerick Custom House, Dunmore Pier, Londonderry, and Dublin Post Office, to name a few.

431. WRIGHT, G.N. Ireland Illustrated from original drawings by G. Petrie, W.H. Bartlett, & T.M. Baynes and others. With descriptions by G.N. Wright. Introduced by Maurice Craig. Kilkenny: Boethius, 1989. Second edition. Quarto. pp. [18], iv, 80, 41 (plates, including engraved half-title), [20]. Bound in full burgundy morocco over bevelled boards. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet, enclosing in the centre a gilt Celtic Cross, replicated in blind on lower. Spine


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ILLUSTRATIONS HAND-COLOURED BY THE AUTHOR 432. YEATS, Jack B. The Treasure of the Garden. A Play by Jack B. Yeats. Scenes and Characters together with Book of the Words and full Directions for Playing on a Miniature Stage. With hand-coloured illustrations by the author. London: Elkin Mathews, [1902]. Quarto. pp. 26. Blue printed wrappers with a 'Pirate' hand-coloured on upper cover. A very good copy in solander box by Paddy Kavanagh. Very rare. €850

COPAC locates only 6 copies. Although the title states 'hand-coloured illustrations', this work was in fact issued in both states, i.e. coloured by Jack B. Yeats and uncoloured copies at a far cheaper rate. The copy on offer here is coloured by Yeats. The third and most elaborate of his plays for young people. The intention was that the illustrations should be cut out and mounted on card for performance, so very few copies have survived intact. Publisher's advertisement on at end.

433. YEATS, Jack B. The Scourge of the Gulph. One of Jack B. Yeats' Plays for the Miniature Stage. Cover page hand-coloured and illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. London: Elkin, [1903]. pp. [16]. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy in clamshell box. Very rare in this condition. €685

The second of his plays for young people. The hand-colouring of the cover is probably by Yeats himself.

RARE COMPLETE SET OF BROADSIDES A MASSIVE ANTHOLOGY OF JACK B. YEATS' GRAPHIC ART

434. YEATS, Jack B. A Broadside No.1 (June, 1908) - Seventh & Last Year, No.12 (May, 1915). 84 numbers complete as issued. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1908/15. Folio. Published monthly by Elizabeth C. Yeats and the Dun Emer (later Cuala) Press. Edition limited to 300 copies of each issue. Third number signed by Jack. B. Yeats. The hand colouring is clean and fresh and of high quality throughout. The Broadsides are housed in a custom-made quarter morocco solander box. €18,750


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A Broadside was issued monthly, for seven years, in an edition limited to 300 copies only. Each contains three original woodcut designs by Jack B. Yeats (occasionally more), of which the first two are hand coloured after the artist's design. The third woodcut, which usually occupies a full page, is generally left uncoloured. Each issue consists of a single folded sheet 280 x 190mm printed on three sides, the last left blank. Some of the smaller drawings may also be found as Cuala prints or greeting cards, but the majority of the larger illustrations (mostly 125 x 176mm) have never been reprinted. Changes in print technology mean that no modern printer, however expert, could do justice to these plates; hence the original set of Broadsides will remain the only source for this massive anthology of Jack Yeats' graphic art (over 250 drawings). The subject matter ranges from his familiar West of Ireland subjects, to the Cockney life of London, his pirate fantasies and illustrations inspired by various poems. The literary contents (chosen by Jack B. Yeats) include: old Irish ballads; sea shanties; poems by Mangan, J.J. Callanan, Padraic Colum, Seamus O'Sullivan and others, and work under several pseudonyms thought to refer to Jack Yeats himself. Although 300 copies of each issue were printed, the number of complete sets at this stage is very much smaller; and because of the vulnerable format, sets in fine condition throughout (as the one on offer) are almost unobtainable. While prices have understandably been rising, this graphic masterpiece may still be acquired for less than the price of a medium-sized watercolour by the artist. No. 3 Broadside signed by Jack B. Yeats. Signed copies of the Broadsides are exceptionally rare, as Yeats was living in Devon at the time and the Broadsides were issued by Cuala in Dublin.

435. YEATS, Jack B. Life in the West of Ireland. Drawn and painted by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin and London: Maunsel and Company, 1912. Quarto. pp. [vii], 120. Blue cloth, publisher's device and title in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. Out of series copy of an edition of 150 copies only. A fine copy. Scarce. €850

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, 32 line drawings, and 16 reproductions from paintings of the artist.

436. YEATS, Jack B. Regatta. An Original Cuala Press Hand-coloured Print. 150 x 200mm. Framed and glazed. In very good condition. €175 437. [YEATS, William Butler] Irish Literary Society Gazette. Nos. 9-10, December 1900 and March 1901. Two parts. London: Printed by Woman's Printing Society. Small quarto. pp.18, 20. Printed green card covers. Very good. Very scarce. €1,250

COPAC locates a few copies only in TCD [not our numbers]. Not in NLI. Laid in No. 9 is a Voting Paper laid in for Election of Committee, 1901 (candidates include Evelyn Gleeson, Miss E.C. Yeats, W.B. Yeats). No. 10 with a notice laid in stating that 'owing to the lamented death of Lord Russell of Killowen, the usual Autumn dance has not been held this year'. No. 9 includes the lecture programme for the coming year, the text of T.W. Rolleston's lecture 'One Hundred Years of Irish Song', obituary notices of Lord Russell of Killowen and Margaret Stokes, a report of the inaugural meeting with more on Lord Russell, Stephen Gwynn's lecture on 'Irish Humorists of the 19th Century', etc. No. 10 includes the Annual Report and accounts for 1900-01, Ernest Rhys' lecture on 'A Hundred Years of Irish Fiction', Dr. John Todhunter and R. Barry O'Brien on 'Patrick Sarsfield', etc. An exceptionally scarce periodical, whose circulation apparently was confined to members. The Irish Literary Society of London was one of the earliest harbingers of the Literary Revival, founded in 1891-2 by a group including Yeats, D.J. O'Donoghue, T.W. Rolleston, Dr. John Todhunter and Lionel Johnston. Its first President was Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.

438. YEATS, W.B. The Fiddler of Dooney. A Cuala Press hand coloured print reproducing and illustrating one of Yeats' best-loved early poems (123 x 182mm) in fine condition. Framed and glazed. The illustrated signed G.A., probably George Altendorf (1904-1966), Art Editor of The


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Irish Press. This was one of the most popular prints issued by the Cuala Press. €475 "A couple of miles from Innisfree, no four or five miles from Innisfree, there is a great rock called Dooney Rock where I had often picnicked when a child. And when in my 24th year I made up a poem about a merry fiddler I called him "The Fiddler of Dooney" in commemoration of that rock and of all those picnics. The places mentioned in the poem are all places near Sligo". The poem includes the celebrated lines: "For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance".

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM W.B. YEATS TO SHEILA LA TOUCHE FRANKS

439. [YEATS, W.B.] The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935. Chosen by W.B. Yeats. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1936. First edition. pp. xlvii, [1], 450, 1 (Colophon). Blue linen, cover and spine framed by a gilt roll, with title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signed presentation copy from W.B. Yeats to Sheila Franks 'on her Twenty first birthday / June 2nd 1937 from / W.B. Yeats'. Also loosely inserted a note signed by Jack B Yeats to Sheila La Touche Franks wishing her long life and happiness in her marriage to Robert Ganly Long (note covered in cellotape). Top edge gilt. A very good copy in rare repaired dust jacket. €875

With a 42 page introduction by Yeats. Sheila La Touche Franks was the daughter of Thomas William Franks and Erma Ida Ryan. She married Robert Ganly on 16 May 1953.

440. [YEATS, W.B.] An Etching with Aquatint of W.B. Yeats by Jack Coughlin. Medallion portrait, 280 x 280mm. Signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Framed and glazed. In fine condition. €285

Jack Coughlin was born in 1932 in Greenwich, Connecticut. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the Art Students League, New York. His prints were selected for the Associated American Artists' 1966 New Talent in Printmaking Exhibition. Since then his work has been exhibited extensively and added to museum collections around the world. Widely respected as a printmaker of exceptional craftsmanship, he has also created low relief sculptures in the lost wax-bronze casting technique. He is well known for his prints of literary figures but has also a large body of work utilizing animals, birds of prey and grotesques in addition to his current passion for drawing musicians. He has long worked on a series of etched portraits of notable Irish authors, and these have been exhibited in Ireland at the David Hendriks Gallery and Ib Jorgensen Fine Art.

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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. 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 pictorial wrappers. 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 dust jacket. €20

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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


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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.

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.

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 dust jacket 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. Top edge gilt. 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.


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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 dust jacket. €45

B12. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy octavo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in dust jacket. Almost out of print. 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 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 dust jacket. €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


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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.

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 dust jacket. €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”.


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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


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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

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 dust jacket. €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 dust jacket. €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 dust jacket. €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

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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


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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.

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 and 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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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. Quarto. Bound in quarter 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.


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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. Quarto. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. In presentation box. €635

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 dust jacket. €36

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


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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 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.

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

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, 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

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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 quarto. 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 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 dust jacket. €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.


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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 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, (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland.

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 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


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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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B38. McDONNELL, Joseph. Cork Gold-Tooled Bookbindings of the 18th and 19th Centuries. A Forgotten Heritage. Folio. A limited edition of 250 copies. Illustrated with colour and mono plates. Ninety six pages, quarto. There will be a printed list of, we would very much appreciate your patronage. Price approximately €150. This new study reveals for the first time the importance of Cork as a centre of de luxe bookbinding during the eighteenth century, and dispels the widely held belief that only Dublin produced sumptuous gold-tooled bindings during the same period. Examples range from school book prizes, estate maps, to the grandest folios, many previously described in library and booksellers’ catalogues as Dublin workmanship. Cork is well known for its famous 18th. and 19th. century silver and glass, but now its forgotten heritage of fine bookbinding will be revealed as equally rich and distinctive, attesting to the flourishing book trade in the city. The limited edition volume will consist of an introductory

essay, followed by a fully illustrated and detailed catalogue of the bindings and tools.

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