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De Búrca Rare Books
A selection of fine, rare and
important books and manuscripts
Catalogue 106
Summer
2013
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CATALOGUE 106
Summer 2013
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Ritchie's Ireland Picturesque and Romantic. One of the several documents from item
10, Archive of James Roe, illustrates the lower cover. The inside front is illustrated by
item 8, Gaelic text in calligraphed lettering . The inside back is illustrated by one of the
magnificent coloured pictures from Banba , item 18.
Please note that we will vacate our premises in Dawson Street at the end of August.
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1. ABBOTT, Richard. Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922. Illustrated. Cork: Mercier, 2000.
pp. 340. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Very scarce.
€65
This book tells the story of the turbulent years in the history of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the
nationalist groups that rose to oppose them which eventually led to the disbandment of the force and
the establishing of the Irish Free State in 1922. The book records in detail the killing of serving and
former members of the RIC, supplying available background details of many of these fatal attacks.
2. [ACT] An Act to amend several Acts for enabling His Majesty's Postmaster General of Ireland
to purchase Premises for the Enlargement of the General Post Office in the City of Dublin.
Georgii III. Regis. [27th May, 1814]. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan,
Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1814. Folio. pp. 4.
€150
The GPO was at first located in a small building on the site of where the Commercial Buildings used to
be (now the Central Bank building) off Dame Street, and was afterwards removed to a larger house
opposite the Bank of Ireland building on College Green. On 6 January 1818, the new post-office in
Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) was opened for business. The foundation-stone of the building,
which is built after a design of Francis Johnston, was laid by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Charles
Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth, on 12 August 1814, attended by the Post-Masters-General, Charles
O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill and Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse. The structure was completed in the
short space of three years for the sum of £50,000.
3. [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 very good. Very rare.
€150
COPAC locates the TCD copies only.
With contributions by Richard Rowley, Anna G. Keown, H. Stuart, F.R. Higgins, E.R. Dodds, C.
O'Leary, H.O. White, D.L. Kelleher, Iris Tree and R.N.D. Wilson.
4. AN ENGLISHMAN [Douglas Goldring] Dublin Explorations and Reflections. Dublin:
Maunsel, 1917. pp. [viii], 272, 16 (publisher's list). Blue cloth, title blind-stamped on upper cover
and in gilt on spine. Occasional light spotting, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare.
€95
COPAC locates only 3 copies.
The author gives us an interesting if not patronising view of the Capital in the wake of the Easter
Rebellion. The chapters include: First Impressions of the Natives; The North Side; South Dublin; The
Galleries; Literature and Theatre in Dublin, etc. When reflecting in his chapter on 'The Intellectuals', he
castigates Hyde, Yeats, Plunkett and A.E. for their indignation expressed against George Moore who
gave us a certain impish malice in some of the portraits of these literary people in his trilogy. John
Eglinton said to Goldring: "To make an appearance in one of George Moore's books is like having your
portrait painted by a master. It is flattering, even though you may not personally be very pleased".
5. ANGIER, Francis. Lord Longford. The State of His Majestie's Revenue in Ireland, as the
Same was Given in to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majestie's Treasury
in England, by Francis Lord Angier, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. And also, The Humble Proposals
of the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Upon the said State. Together with His
Majestie's Contract Thereupon, Concerning His whole Revenue in Ireland, by Letters Patent
Bearing date the 4th of August, 1672. Decorated with woodcuts and engraved drop capitals.
London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb in the Savoy, 1673. Folio. pp. 35. [xxi], 35. Fine in recent
quarter morocco on linen boards. Exceedingly rare.
€1,350
Sweeney 159 Wing A 3163D (3/1). ESTC R214836. Goldsmiths'-Kress 2050. COPAC 3 copies only.
Part of the literature dealing with the "farming" out of the Irish taxes by Charles II. For its part it
represents a continuation contract by Richard, Viscount Ranelagh and partners offering an additional
"four score thousand pounds sterling to be paid in two years from the end of the Farm, by equal
portions half-yearly". The accounts and estimates commence on Christmas Day and continue for six
years up to 1674/75. The King's debts to the Civil and Military list were calculated at more than
£200,000. For their part those who "farmed" the taxes were entitled to collect the revenues accruing
from the hearth-money, customs and excise, wine-licences and quit-rents and this document would
appear to indicate that originally they had done a good deal for themselves. Sweeney states this work is
important, interesting and extremely scarce. The 1st and only Wing printing.
6. [ANNALS OF LOCH CÉ] The Annals of Loch 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
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of TCD Mss. Two volumes. London: Longman, 1871. First edition. pp. (1) 4, lix, 653, 31, (2) 4,
689, 31 (catalogue). Original quarter roan on black paper boards. Very good. Scarce.
€475
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 copy of these
Annals known to exist is a small vellum manuscript which was presented to Trinity College by Dr.
Leland in 1766.
7. [AN t-ÓGLÁCH] An t-Óglách: Vol. I. No. I (New Series). February, 1923 - Vol. III. No. 21
(New Series) October, 1925. Profusely illustrated. Sixty-five issues in three volumes. Complete.
Dublin: Printed by Alex Thom. Published by Permission of the Army Authorities, 1923/1932.
Quarto. Library quarter morocco on black buckram boards, original printed wrappers bound in.
Ex. lib. with stamps. A fine set.
€575
The first series of An t-Óglách (1918-1922) was edited by Piaras Béaslaí with contributions by Michael
Collins, J.J. O'Connell, and Rory O'Connor. It was the official organ of the Irish Volunteers. The new
series was the organ of the National Army of the Irish Free State. It featured biographical notes on
General Mulcahy, General Seán McMahon, Thomas F. Meagher, Michael Corcoran, Patrick Sarsfield,
General J. Shields, Lally of the Brigade, Field Marshal Lacy. There are interesting articles on: Army
Athletic Association, Information Bureau, The Salvage Corps, Gaelic Athletic Pastimes, The Medical
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Services, Marching Songs, Battalion Operations, Training, The Artillery, Tournaments, Sports in the
Army, Supplies, Army Pensions, Review at Bodenstown, Notes and Comments, etc.
The journals are profusely illustrated and with numerous advertisements. There are also crayon head
and shoulder sketches of the various commands throughout Ireland.
8. [ANON] A most unusual brochure with Gaelic text in calligraphed lettering illuminated in
colours, including an annual calendar of Saints' days. With sketches of a round tower, Celtic
cross and armorial shields throughout. Paris: Printed by L. Page. pp. 8. Signed 'I.M.', also 'P.B.
del.'. On grey laid paper, two tissue guards, cream cover printed in colours with Irish harp,
shamrocks and flourishes, fastened by a green ribbon, circa 220 x 170mm.
€375
The text begins with an account of 'Éire an tSeana Shaoghail' (The Ireland of ancient history), describes
Irish participation in America's struggle for independence, and concludes with an account of Irish
soldiers in 'An Cogadh Mór' (The Great War: Gallipoli, Serbia etc.). Its authorship is a mystery. The
uncritical reference to Irish soldiers in the Great War would seem to rule out a Sinn Féin source. A very
rare and unusual item.
9. [ANTI-IMPERIALIST] The Anti-Imperialist. "To break the connection with England" Tone. Official organ of the Anti-Imperialist Vigilance Association. Iml. I. Uimh. I. Samhain,
1926. Dublin: Printed by the Fodhla Printing Works, 1926. Broadsheet. Printed on both sides.
Folded. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare.
€150
The 'League Against Imperialism' was originally a loose-based socialist coterie called the 'League
Against Oppression in the Colonies'. Its appeal proved widespread and left-wing notables throughout
Europe were eager to utilise its full potential. The LAI was an organisation of particular interest to Irish
radicals.
The IRA attended the LAI World Congresses in February 1927, they were represented at the Congress
by Frank Ryan and Donal O'Donoghue, and upon their return to Ireland they took part in the formation
of an Irish LAI.
There appears to have been only one issue of their paper which carried the following articles: Armistice
Day; Naimhde na h-Impireactha; Imperial Piracy; Poppy Funds; A Loyalist Prayer; Where is the Flag
of England?; Ex-Servicemen Repudiate Poppy Day; "Peaceful Penetration"; Fascism in Ireland;
Ourselves and "Loyalists", and Another Monument to Imperialism.
The latter article dealt with the proposal for a memorial to the Irish war dead of the Great War: "We are
informed by the Dublin Press that arrangements had been completed to make Merrion Square Park a
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memorial in honour of the Irish men who were butchered in the 'Great War'. A large sum of money will
be expended in building this proposed memorial in honour of the Victories of British Imperialism".
10. [ARCHIVE OF JAMES ROE M.P.] An important file of documents, letters and appeals
received by James Roe, Westminster MP for Tipperary, during the years 1832-3. About 100
documents, mostly printed but including some manuscript and cyclostyled items, varying from a
few lines to several pages, covering a very wide variety of subjects, both Irish and general,
brought to his attention as MP.
€1,450
James Roe, of Roesborough, Tipperary, was one of the first generation of Catholic MPs elected after
Emancipation. He had been a co-founder of the Cashel Reform Club, which sought tithe reform, with
Michael Doheny and Thomas Wyse MP, and was a friend and benefactor of Doheny. It was Roe who
financed Doheny's legal studies in Gray's Inns, London, making it possible for him to follow a
professional career, which he could never have done otherwise as he came of poor people. Roe's file of
documents gives a vivid impression of the range of subjects to which an Irish MP was expected to
respond. About half the items relate to Irish affairs; the rest cover a very wide range of issues, both
British and Imperial, many of them related to radical and liberal causes. Almost all date from a single
year between mid-1832 and mid-1833, providing a snapshot of public concerns at the time. The
principal items include:Coercion laws (1833). Printed petition from inhabitants of Cork, denying the
county is disturbed; with three manuscript letters of protest signed respectively by Maurice O'Brien of
Tipperary, Chas. Egan of Borrisokane and Edward Kickham of Mullinahone, Callan. The last-named
must be a relation of the writer and Fenian Charles Kickham, author of the classic novel Knocknagow,
born in 1828 in Mullinahone where his father John was a shopkeeper. The writer of this letter was
evidently a man of standing in the community, and may have been the writer's uncle. Slavery. A very
interesting collection of about ten documents concerning the Parliamentary campaign to outlaw
slavery, March-July 1833, including policy statements from the Anti-Slavery Society, circulars on
Parliamentary strategy, two cyclostyled letters from Dublin 'Friends interested in the abolition of Negro
Slavery', May/July 1833, signed by William Urwick DD & Charles Orpen MD, a cyclostyled statement
from an Acting Committee of West India Traders; a Memorial to His Majesty's Government issued by
Samuel Gurney on behalf of some 300 named signatories throughout Britain and Ireland, including ten
Irish residents, April 1833; and other items. Jewish disabilities. Three cyclostyled circular letters from
the Jewish reform leader Isaac Goldsmid seeking support in Parliamentary divisions on the Jewish
Civil Disabilities Bill (of which Daniel O'Connell was a leading supporter), June 1833. Repeal of the
Union. Petition from Cork Trades Association [1833], also mss. notice of meeting of Irish members to
discuss Repeal. Poor Law for Ireland. Petition from Dublin citizens, 1833, seeking a proper poor law
system, to relieve 'a state of destitution and distress, revolting to any humane mind'. Monks of La
Trappe. An appeal for assistance for the expelled monks of Melleray in France, including some eighty
Irish, from a committee including Daniel O'Connell, with covering cyclostyled letter; Soap
Manufacture. Petition from the Corporation of Tallow Chandlers, Soap Boilers and Wax-Light-Makers,
otherwise the Guild of St. George, Dublin, about a duty favouring English manufacturers, Feb. 1833,
with two related items; City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. Four documents concerning a Bill to
allow the company to increase its capital, 1833, with two manuscript letters from its promoter Charles
Williams of Liverpool, asking for support against opposition from Scottish interests; Bradford Political
Union. Address to twenty named persons, including Messrs. O'Connell and Roe, congratulating them
on their opposition to tyranny and corruption; also an appeal for funds from the Metropolitan Male &
Female Orphan Society (Dublin), 1832, with a related letter; petition from Commissioners for
Improving the Port & Harbour of Drogheda, 1833, seeking power to borrow for canals; another from
Grand Jury of Drogheda complaining about unjust rate assessments; a petition from inhabitants of
Belfast, expressing concern about road tolls; 'Tyranny's Last Shift', broadside (Leeds printed)
criticising efforts to delay passage of a Bill regulating employment of children, 1833; cyclostyled letter
from a Dublin committee seeking funds for 'the estimable patriots Marcus Costello and Thomas
Reynolds', apparently imprisoned for non-payment of tithes; three letters from T. Ray of the National
Trades Political Union, Dublin, one in favour of 'the magnanimous patriots' Costello and Reynolds; two
documents from Thomas Conroy of Geashill, one with mss. annotations, 1832-3, complaining that
moneys intended for land improvements in district of Pobble O'Keefe were being diverted to roads and
bridges in Cork and Kerry; petition from John Kent Johnston of Dublin, newspaper agent, protesting
about post offices being allowed to sell newspapers, with covering cyclostyled letter, 1833; several
documents concerning alleged corruption in Liverpool; some items on banking matters; a petition from
the Journeymen Fishmongers and Poulterers of London, concerning Sunday trading; East India
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Company, petition from officers of the maritime service; memorial on the necessity for altering the
Game Laws; merchants and traders of Glasgow, complaining about the stamp receipt tax; annotated
statement from a Mr. Cochran on 'Negligence and Hauteur of Mr. Abercrombie, Chargé d'Affaires at
Berlin', with interesting postal markings; report of council of Birmingham Political Union on the case
of Mr. Charles Andrew Thomson, who lost his money through 'fraudulent alterations in the currency';
three various personal statements seeking redress or compensation; a letter and circular relating to the
Friends of Poland; an invitation to become a member of the Western Yacht Club, Tralee (Dec. 1832);
Chancery. Very interesting injunction restraining people from erecting weirs on the River Shannon;
and many other items. Virtually none of these documents was published in the usual way. They were
printed in small numbers for circulation to those thought to be interested or influential, and the vast
majority would have been quickly discarded. Many are probably unique surviving copies; the file as a
whole is certainly unique. Condition is generally good, though some items have fold marks or marginal
fraying. They are in what appears to be Roe's original red cloth folder. The file is of particular interest
and importance in showing that the new Irish MPs, under O'Connell's influence, were expected to be
sympathetic to liberal and libertarian issues which had no direct Irish connection.
11. ARNOLD, Matthew. On the Study of Celtic Literature. London: Smith Elder, 1867. First
edition. pp. xviii, 181, 2 (publisher's list). Brown cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper
cover and spine. From the library of L.J. Lloyd with his bookplate on front pastedown. Fraying to
spine ends, otherwise a very good copy.
€65
First published as a series of 4 articles in the Cornhill Magazine.
RARE THREE CANDLES ITEM
12. [ARTS COUNCIL] The Arts Council. Eight Annual Report and Accounts from 1st April
1959 to 31st March 1960. Presented to the Government and laid before each House of the
Oireachtas. Illustrated. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, n.d. [1960]. pp. 18. Blue paper
wrappers, title in white on upper cover. Apart from brush stroke on lower cover, a very good
copy. Rare. Not in De Búrca.
€65
13. ATTERIDGE, William. Royal Ulster Constabulary Constables' Guide revised to 30th June,
1936. Dublin: Alex Thom, n.d. [1937]. pp. xix. 911. Stamp of Government of Northern Ireland /
Ministry of Home Affairs on front endpaper signed 'Secretary'. Faded red cloth. Scarce.
€95
14. BAGWELL-PUREFOY, Charlotte. Carte-de-Visite Portrait Photograph of Charlotte
Bagwell-Purefoy (née Wilkinson). A full length portrait leaning against a table with fan in hand,
wearing a full length satin dress which short laced sleeves and laced collar.
The photographer was W. & D. Downey, London and Newcastle. In fine condition.
€125
Charlotte Bagwell was the daughter of John Green Wilkinson, D.L. She married Edward BagwellPurefoy of Greenfields, County Tipperary in July 1861.
15. BALLANTYNE, R.M. The Lakes of Killarney. Nelson's Hand-books for Tourists. With
frontispiece, folding map and ten coloured plates. London: T. Nelson, 1859. pp. viii, 112.
Owner's signature on front endpaper. Worn blind stamped and gilt embossed cloth.
€45
The rare first edition, with coloured plates; one of the earliest tourist handbooks, by the author of the
celebrated children's classic The Coral Island .
16. BAMFORD, Francis & BANKES, Viola. Vicious Circle. The case of the missing Irish
Crown Jewels. Illustrated. London: Parrish, 1965. First edition. pp. xi, 212. Light blue paper
boards, title in silver on spine. A very good copy in illustrated frayed d.j.
€45
A full account of the dramatic disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from Dublin Castle in the early
part of the twentieth century.
RARE IRISH LANGUAGE LITERARY MAGAZINE
17. [BANBA] Banba. Leabhar a hAon. Nodlaig, 1901. Cuid a hAon - Leabhar a Trí Meitheamh,
1906. Cuid a Dó. Fifteen issues in one volume. Dublin: Printed by Maunsell and Lecky, and
Published by the Proprietors The Gael Co-operative, Printing, Publishing & Trading Society,
1921-1922. Quarter library morocco on black buckram boards. Ex. lib. with stamps and library
plates. A fine set of this exceedingly rare magazine.
€375
Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (1874-1949) was an Irish writer, poet, editor, translator and a prominent member
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of the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) and the Gaelic Athletic Association. In 1901 he became
editor of Banba, and also became Irish-language editor of the Freeman's Journal. He wrote under the
pseudonym Tórna 'Banba'.
In one of the very few articles in English, the editor states: "Our sympathies are broad enough to extend
to everything that makes for the advancement of Ireland - socially, politically, and industrially - and
our attention shall be devoted in an especial manner to the strengthening of the economic position of
the country. We shall continually keep before us the importance of using the Irish language in dealing
with the ordinary concerns of life; and in working out the programme which we have mapped out for
ourselves, Irish shall be the principal medium, through which our ideas must largely find expression".
With chapters on: Casadh an tSúgáin; Paidí Bán agus an Saighdiúir; Pádraig Naomhtha Príomh-Apstal
Inse Banba; Lá na n-Amadán; Ag Imirt Bháire sa Ghleann Gharbh; Padrainn Féin; Cuisle Na hÉigse.
Teanga Na Banban Bláithe; I Measg na nUr-Leabhar; Tadhg Saor i gCorcaigh; Párlaimint na
Bhfigheadóirí; An Cailín Deórach; Stad na nGaedhilgeoirí; Ceist na Talmhán; Na bfáithfe Cfíoftamhla;
The contributors included: Tadhg Ó Donnchadha, Pádraig ua Duinnín, Conchubhar Ó Deasmhumhna,
Seaghán Ó Laoghaire, Pádraig Mac Suibhne, Dáithí ua hIarfhlatha, Micheál Ó Raghallaigh, An
Seabhac, etc.
RARE IRISH LITERARY MAGAZINE
18. [BANBA] Banba. Magazine of Fiction and General Interest. Illustrated. Vol. I. No. 1. May
1921. - Vol. III. No. 4. September 1922. Sixteen issues in three volumes. Dublin: Printed by
Maunsell and Lecky, and Published by the Proprietors The Gael Co-operative, Printing,
Publishing & Trading Society, 1921-1922. Quarter library morocco on black buckram boards.
Ex. lib. with stamps and library plates. A fine set of this exceedingly rare magazine.
€675
The Gael Co-operative Society was established by the leading administrators, publicists,
educationalists, and writers of Ireland to develop national thought and energy through the medium of
Banba , their monthly magazine of fiction and general interest.
This rare and interesting periodical includes Irish fiction, special articles, poetry and miscellanea. With
contributions by: Brindsley Macnamara, Miss L. McManus, Aodh de Blacam, Edward Martin, Daniel
Corkery, F.R. Higgins, Padraic Ó Conaire, George Shiels, F. Jay, J.J. O'Neill, F.J.H. O'Donnell, W.J.
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Lawrence, Eithne Ní Pheadair, P.J. Tuohy, etc.
With illustrations by George Monks, A. Ó Maolaoidh, Mícheál MacLiaimmhóir, Sean Mac
Murchadha, T. Lawlor, Howard Knee, Kathleen Ennis, Caitlín Nic Aonghusa.
19. BARNARD, Alfred. The Whisky Distilleries of The United Kingdom. A reprint with a new
introduction by Miss I.A. Glenn. With illustrations and maps. Newton Abbot: David & Charles,
1969. Quarto. pp. xii, 458, 38 (adverts). Brown buckram, titled in gilt. A fine copy in d.j. €165
The author in this authoritative work gives a lively account of the distilling industry at a time of change
and growth in the late nineteenth century, with over 160 pen portraits of individual distilleries,
embellished by fine illustrations. Originally published in 1887 by Harper's Weekly Gazette, this work
contains chapters on many Irish distilleries including: Birr; Bow Street; Bushmills; Dundalk; Glen;
Johns' Lane; Jones' Road; Limerick; Middleton; Nun's Island; Phoenix Park; Tullamore, etc.
20. BARRINGTON, Donal. The Church The State and the Constitution. Dublin: C.T.S., n.d.
(c.1959). pp. 16. Printed coloured wrappers. A fine copy.
€30
21. BARRON, Philip F. Ancient Ireland. A weekly magazine. Established for the purpose of
reviving the cultivation of the Irish language, and originating an earnest investigation into the
ancient history of Ireland. No. I. January 1, 1835 - No. IV. April, 1835. Four issues only of five.
Dublin: John S. Folds, 1835. Library buckram. Ex. lib. with stamps. A very good copy.
Exceedingly rare.
€475
COPAC locates the TCD and BL copies only.
Phillip F. Barron (1801-1860) Founder of the Irish College, Seafield, Bunmahon, County Waterford,
was born at Durrow House. After spending three years at Trinity College, Dublin he left without taking
a degree. In 1825 he purchased the Waterford Chronicle. Barron supported William Villiers Stuart
against Lord Beresford in the 1826 election. Due to financial problems he fled to France and then to
Italy. While in Europe he became interested in the culture, music and languages of the various
countries he visited. On returning to Ireland he was determined to open a school which would teach
Irish language and culture. Having gained support from scholars all over the country he opened a
school at Seafield in January, 1835, which had a comprehensive curriculum that included Irish,
Mathematics, Navigation, History, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. After nine months, due to financial
difficulties, the mortgage was foreclosed and Barron fled once more to France where he died in 1860.
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See item 21.
EDITIO PRINCEPS IN IRISH
22. [BEDELL, William] Leabhuir na Seintiomna ar na ttarruing go Gaidhlg tre churam agus
dhuthracht an Doctuir Uilliam Bedel ... The Books of the Old Testament translated into Irish by
the care and diligence of Doctor William Bedel, Late Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, for the
publick good of that Nation. London: 1685. Quarto. pp. [ii], 1142. With initial leaf on verso of
titlepage containing the Irish characters. Contemporary full calf, spine expertly rebacked. Very
good. A fine copy in contemporary full calf, spine expertly rebacked. All edges red. Rare. €6,750
Wing B 2759A. Sweeney 414.
William Bedell (1571-1642), was born to yeoman, Puritan stock in Black Notley, Essex. He is best
remembered in Ireland for his undertaking of a translation of the Old Testament into Irish. In a time of
bloody conflict, bigotry and racism he stood out as a beacon of ecumenism, as a noble and gentle
person, loved by most in the crucified Ireland of his time, a man who showed 'a rare charity' to his
opponents. He was according to one biographer: "on the side of equity and honesty and was fighting
against corruption and oppression". Bedell was a man revered not only by the English, but by the
native Irish as well. He witnessed great hardship among the peasantry and won the hearts of the people
for his kindness and generosity to them. He even went to the extent of learning their native language. In
1627, the Provostship of Trinity College, Dublin, became vacant and the Fellows, acting upon the
advice of Archbishop Ussher, unanimously offered him the post, which he graciously accepted. Two
years later he was consecrated Bishop of Kilmore and set himself two main tasks, firstly, the rebuilding
of the churches of his diocese that once had flourished, and secondly, the translation of the Old
Testament into Irish. The latter he began in 1632 with the assistance of two native speakers Murtagh
King (Ó Cionga), the chief translator, and James Nangle (de Nógla), the reviewer and corrector. They
were at that time Catholic, and Ó Cionga was in his seventieth year. Archbishop Marsh states that
Donnchadh Ó Sioradáin (Sheridan), one of the bishop's local ministers also helped. It was from this
Donnchadh that the famous literary Sheridans are descended and it is generally accepted that the extant
manuscript copy of the Bible was in his hand. The translation was completed in or about 1640 and
miraculously the manuscript copy was saved from the flames of a fire in Bedell's residence by Ó
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Sioradáin. Both translators eventually joined the Reformed Church and Ó Cionga was appointed Rector
of Templeport near Kilmore. However his tenure was short-lived and the last we hear of him is being
ill and in prison, a broken old man of eighty. On Saturday October 23, 1641 the Confederate Catholics
in support of Faith and King ('pro fide, pro rege') went into rebellion. The local leader Felim O'Reilly
visited the bishop to reassure him that no matter what happened, he would not be molested. In fact, he
would be the 'Ultimus Anglorum', the last of the English, to be driven from Ulster. He was however
taken to O'Reilly's castle in Loch Uachtar and in February, 1642 he died there. Goldwin Smith, writing
of the Civil War of 1641, wrote: "In Ireland, against the dark clouds of the storm, one rainbow
appeared. Bishop Bedel had won the love of his neighbours. He and his family were not only spared by
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the rebels, but treated with loving-kindness". Lecky wrote of him: "In that rebellion one English-man
was exempt from the hostility that attached to his race ... and when he died he was borne to the grave
with all the honours the rebel army could afford". O'Reilly of Breifne was heard to utter "Requiescat in
Pace Ultimus Anglorum. Ultimus Anglorum, Ultimus et Optimus Episcorum". This is the first
translation of the Old Testament into Irish and commonly called `Bedell's Bible'. It was Bedell's
intention to have the work printed in his own house, but the Bloody Rebellion of 1641 and his death in
the following year, meant that nearly half a century elapsed before publication became possible.
Having weathered countless vicissitudes, the manuscript ended up with the famous scientist,
philosopher and theologian, Robert Boyle (seventh son and 14th child of the Earl of Cork) in 1681. By
that time it was in such a state that parts had to be rewritten and retranslated. Archbishop Marsh, along
with Andrew Sall and Paul Higgins, both accomplished Irish scholars and both ex-Jesuits prepared the
work for publication. The printing was finished in 1685 (the year of Shakespeare's Fourth Folio), the
printer was Robert Everingham. Robert Boyle paid for the printing and a new font of type, which was
specially cut for this book and Tiomna Nuadh (New Testament) by leading London type founder
Moxon. An ex-priest, a Mr. Reilly, supervised the correction of the proofs in London and saw the Bible
through the press.
23. [BELFAST ACT] An Act, for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting, and Improving, the Several
Streets, Squares, Lanes, and Passages, within the Town of Belfast, in the County of Antrim; and
for removing and preventing all encroachments, obstructions and annoyances, therein; and also,
for establishing and maintaining a nightly watch, throughout the said town and precincts thereof,
and for other purposes. Friday the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred. Royal assent
given. John Gayer, D. Cler. Parl. Belfast: Printed for the Police Committee, 1827. pp. 68. Recent
half buckram on marbled boards. Some marginalia in ink. Lower margin of final two leaves
close-trimmed with loss of one line of text. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€275
No copy located on COPAC.
24. [BELFAST POLICE] Belfast Police Manual. Compiled for the use of the Royal Irish
Constabulary serving in the City of Belfast. Belfast: Baird, 1898. Second edition. pp. 242. Printed
linen boards. Repair to titlepage.
€95
25. BENCE-JONES, Mark. Burke's Guide to
Irish Country Houses. Volume I: Ireland. Edited
and with preface by Hugh MontgomeryMassingberd. Illustrated. London: Burke's Peerage,
1978. First edition. Folio. pp. xxxii, 288. Red paper
boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in
d.j.
€125
26. BETHAM, Sir William. Etruria Celtica.
Etruscan Literature and Antiquities investigated;
or, the Language of that Ancient and Illustrious
People compared and identified with the IbernoCeltic, and both shown to be Phœnician. Illustrated
with numerous plates, some folding. Two volumes.
Dublin: Philip Dixon Hardy and London:
Groombridge, 1842. pp. (1) xii, 396, (2) viii, 296,
39 (plates). Purple pebbled cloth, evenly faded.
Title in gilt on red morocco letterpieces on spine. A
very good copy.
€265
FINE BINDING
27. BLADES, William. The Enemies of Books.
Illustrated. London: Trübner & Co., 1880. pp.
xiii, [3], 114, 7 (plates). Bound by Bayntun
Riviere in later chocolate brown full morocco, spine with raised band titled in gilt direct.
Doublures with gilt fillets and a floral tool at corners, binders name in gilt on lower front.
Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Extremely rare. No copy located on COPAC.
€300
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28. BLAKE, Lady Edith. Jamaica Sketches from the 1890s. Two pencil sketches and one
watercolour drawing from an album, presumably connected with Lady Edith Blake, wife of Sir
Henry Arthur Blake, Governor of Jamaica 1889-97.
€325
The first illustration is of a party of walkers, three men followed by two ladies, at Roaring River,
March 1897. Attributed to Lord Basil Blackwood. Three are identified as: Arthur, presumably Sir
Henry Arthur Blake; Lord Westmeath, Anthony Francis Nugent (1870-1933), Hon. Attaché H.M.
Embassy, Washington, Asst. Private Secretary of State for Colonies; Lord Basil, third son of Marquess
of Dufferin, barrister, Deputy Judge Advocate South Africa 1900-1, Colonial Secretary Barbados,
(killed on active service 1917). All three were involved in the Colonial Service. Lord Basil was a friend
and contemporary of Hilaire Belloc, and illustrated Belloc's first six children's books. The second
illustration is a watercolour of Craighton, in the Blue Mountains, in St. Andrew's Parish, residence of
the Governor of Jamaica. The third illustration is a drawing of a veiled female figure with a manuscript
caption: "Copy of Mr. Richard Hill's sketch in pencil of the wraith of a Spanish lady frequently seen in
his house at Spanish Town. Sent to me by Mr. L. Hutchings, Craighton 26th August 1890". Pencil note
on back mentions Lady Blake Youghal Ireland. Edith Blake was the daughter of long-standing M.P.
and renowned parliamentary with Ralph Bernal Osborne (1808-82), of Newton Anner, Clonmel,
County Tipperary. In 1874 she married Henry Arthur Blake, who was born in Limerick and became a
R.M. in 1876. He was later Governor, successively, of Bahamas, Newfoundland, Jamaica, Hong Kong
and Ceylon. Cundall in his Studies in Jamaica History, 1900, dedicated that work to Lady Blake: "who
for many years had taken a deep interest in the welfare of Jamaica".
Sir Henry Arthur Blake GCMG, DL (1840-1918) was a British colonial administrator, Governor of
Jamaica and later Governor-General of Hong Kong. He was born in Limerick the son of Peter Blake of
Corbally Castle, County Galway, County Inspector of the Irish Constabulary, by his wife Jane Lane of
Lanespark, County Tipperary. In 1876 his father was appointed RM to Tuam, an especially disturbed
district in the west of Ireland, where he was noted as judicious and active. During the Land War he was
promoted to Special Resident Magistrate.
FOR THE PROVOSTS OF TRINITY COLLEGE
29. BODKIN, Thomas. The Importance of Art to Ireland. A Public Lecture delivered at Trinity
College, Dublin on the 24th June, 1935. Dublin: Printed and published at the Sign of the Three
Candles, 1935. pp. vii, [1], 24. Original printed wrapper. One of 50 numbered copies reserved for
the author. This is number 32, presented to Professor W.E. Thrift, Provost of Trinity, and signed
by Thomas Bodkin and the printer Colm O Lochlainn. From the library of E.H. Alton, Provost of
Trinity, with his signature on upper cover. A very good copy.
€275
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30. BONSALL, Penny. The Irish RMs. The Resident Magistrates in the British Administration
of Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts, n.d. pp. 224. Black paper board, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy
in fine d.j.
€65
31. [BOOK OF DURROW] Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Durmachensis. The Book of
Durrow. Two volumes. Berne: 1960. Folio. Pigskin & quarter pigskin. Wear to head of spine. A
very good copy. Scarce.
€1,350
Ireland in the earliest centuries of her recorded history was known throughout Europe as the Island of
Saint and Scholars; a place where books were written and treasured. The craftsmen and artificers of
early Ireland wrought costly and elaborate shrines for famous books. The Venerable Bede, the historian
of early England, writing in the first half of the eighth century, says: "At this period there were many
English nobles and lesser folk in Ireland who had left their own land during the episcopates of Bishops
Finán and Colmán, either to pursue religious studies or to lead a life of stricter discipline. The Irish
welcomed them all kindly and, without asking for any payment, provided them with books and
instructors". The Book of Durrow which is sometimes called 'the elder sister of the Book of Kells' was
probably written in the second quarter of the seventh century. This manuscript is so called because of
its association with the important Columban monastery of Durrow, in Offaly, where it was kept for
centuries. There is evidence to show that the book was at Durrow at the close of the eleventh century
from a manuscript insertion entered into the back of the book. In 1627, Conall Mac Eochagáin, the
translator of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, recorded that the book was in the custody of an ignorant man
and was used as a cure for sick cattle, the manuscript being dipped into water which was then given to
the cattle to drink. By 1677 it was in the library of Trinity College where the antiquary Roderick
O'Flaherty made some notes on the book, recording an inscription in Irish on the shrine, which in
translation reads: "The prayer and blessing of Colum Cille for Flann son of Maolsachnaill, King of
Ireland, who had this shrine made". Its ornamentation is almost as magnificent as that of Kells , but it is
more interesting because of its greater antiquity. The Book of Durrow is the earliest surviving insular
Gospel-book de luxe. It contains the Four Gospels in Latin, complete with the preliminaries, in a pure
Vulgate text which bears a remarkable resemblance to that of mss. St. Gall No.1395, claimed by C.H.
Turner to be the oldest manuscript of the Vulgate Gospels. The contributors to the Commentary are:
Dr. A.A. Luce; Dr. George Simms; Prof. Peter Meyer and Prof. Ludwig Bieler. This is the complete
facsimile edition with 17 plates in colour and 479 in monochrome. Limited edition of 660 copies.
A FINE SET - LIMITED TO 650 COPIES
32. [BOOK OF LINDISFARNE] Codex Lindisfarnensis. Olten & Lausanne: 1956-1959. Two
volumes. Imperial folio. Vellum in slipcase. Fine set. Very scarce.
€3,750
The inhabitants of the border country of England and Scotland were converted to Christianity by Irish
missionaries, who taught them to read and write, what a book was, and how it might be embellished.
St. Aidan, an Irishman, was sent from Iona in 635 A.D. and founded the monastery of Lindisfarne, just
off the Northumbrian coast and connected to the mainland by sands at low water. Sixty years after its
founding the wonderful Gospel-book was created. The Book of Lindisfarne is a manuscript written on
white calf-skin and illuminated by Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne from 698 to 721 A.D. in accordance
with the Celtic traditions bequeathed by the Irish founders of the community, who withdrew from
Lindisfarne, after the Synod of Whitby, to Mayo of the Saxons. The codex contains the text of the four
Gospels, each preceded by prefaces and a list of feasts on which a lesson from that Gospel should be
read. It is in the Vulgate text, with an Old English paraphrase, written in Irish character. The book as a
whole is elaborately illuminated, following the decorative formula of the Book of Durrow, but in a
more developed and profuse style. Miraculously the Gospel book has come down to us. Owing to
continuous Danish raids, the Lindisfarne community, tired of wandering about, decided to go to Ireland
and settle there. They embarked with their precious relics at the mouth of the River Derwent, but were
turned back by a great storm, in the course of which the Gospels were washed overboard. Whether by
divine intervention or not they were found next day undamaged on the estuarine sands, three miles
from the shore. The present facsimile contains twenty-eight plates in full colour and four hundred and
ninety in monochrome. Limited edition of 650 copies.
DESIGNED BY HARRY CLARKE
33. [BOOKPLATE] Bookplate designed by Harry Clarke for the architect Rudolph Maximilian
Butler. The design was also printed as a Christmas Card. A charming nocturnal vignette
depicting the house that Butler built on Ailesbury Road for himself and his family. Three elegant
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people saunter about on the terrace. A rejected draft of this design showed an old Mayo couple
peering up at the newly built church at Newport, where Clarke had manufactured the stained
glass windows. With the legend 'R.M. Butler's book'. 84 x 122mm. In fine condition mounted on
marbled paper.
€75
See De Búrca's The Harry Clarke Collection .
DUKE OF LEINSTER'S COPY
34. BOSWELL, James. Esq. Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Containing some poetical pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the tour, and never before published;
a series of his conversation, literary anecdotes and opinions of men and books; with an authentic
account of the distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II in the year 1746. A new
edition, illustrated, with introduction and notes, by Robert Caruthers, Esq., of Inverness. London:
Office of the National Illustrated Library, n.d. (c.1852). pp. xviii, 361, (2). Bound in
contemporary full red morocco, covers framed by gilt fillets and wide floral gilt roll. Spine
divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Arms of the Duke of Leinster in gilt in the
first, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt. With the armorial bookplate of
the Duke of Leinster on front pastedown. All edges gilt. Some minor wear to extremities,
otherwise a very good copy.
€225
35. [BOURKE, Earls of Mayo] A certified copy of an indenture dated 14th February 1873
between Hon. Henry Lorton Bourke, late of Hayes, County Meath, now of London and Rt. Hon.
Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, [seventh] Earl of Mayo, of Palmerstown House, County
Kildare, six pages large folio with one blank, with revenue stamps and endorsements, in a
copperplate legal hand, providing for the release by Lorton Bourke of a charge held by him over
valuable lands in Kildare and elsewhere, on payment to him of £3,000 by Dermot Bourke, Earl of
Mayo. The lands concerned include the town and lands of Palmerstown, Johnstown, Sallins,
Maudlins, several parcels near Naas and other specified lands in County Kildare, lands in
Kilmaine, County Mayo, a plot on the east side of Dawson Street (Dublin), lands in Meath, etc.
The document includes a summary of various settlements made by family members and others
since 1820, and is thus of considerable genealogical and historical interest.
€275
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
36. BOWE, Nicola Gordon. The Life and Work of Harry
Clarke. Prix de la Confédération Internationale des
Négocians en Oeuvres d'Art 1984. Profusely illustrated with
black and white reproductions and several groups of full
colour plates. Dublin: I.A.P., 1989. First edition. Quarto. pp.
xxix, 301. Edition limited to 50 copies signed by the author.
Bound in half morocco on marbled boards. Spine with raised
bands and elaborately tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt. A fine
copy in slipcase.
€450
Recognised internationally as a bizarre genius of his age, he has
been called the Irish Beardsley. This is the first substantial
biography of Clarke and a critical survey of his 'oeuvre'.
37. BRADSHAW, Henry. A Catalogue of the Bradshaw
Collection of Irish Books in the University Library
Cambridge. Three volumes. Cambridge: Printed for the
University Library 1916. First edition. Royal 8vo. pp. (1) 690
(2) 650 (3) 356. Repair to spines. A very good set in black cloth with gilt titles.
€485
A benefaction from the great antiquary and librarian Henry Bradshaw, 1831-1886. This major
reference works contains: Books printed in Dublin by known printers 1602-1882; List of printers and
booksellers in Dublin; Books printed in Dublin without printer's name, books printed in provincial
towns, books printed by Irish authors [printed elsewhere], books relating to Ireland [printed elsewhere]
in chronological order; Books and documents relating to the papacy, deposited in the University library
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by the Revd. Robert James M'Ghee, A.M., A.D. 1840; List of books added during the compilation of
the catalogue; addenda; notes and corrigenda and substantial index. The core of this collection of Irish
books Henry Bradshaw inherited from his father; these he nearly doubled and presented en bloc to the
University library in 1870. Additional books which he gathered up to his death in 1886 were presented
to the library by his family.
38. BRADY, Conor. Guardians of the Peace. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill, 1974. First edition. pp.
xvi, 254. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine price-clipped d.j.
€65
This work represents the first serious attempt to place the Garda Siochána in a historical and political
perspective. Throwing new light on many vital aspects of Ireland's development in the twenties and
thirties, the author looks critically at the performance of the modern Garda regarding their role and
function in Irish society.
39. BRADY, Edward M. Ireland's Secret Service in England. Illustrated. Dublin: Talbot, n.d. (c.
1928). pp. 160. Green cloth, title printed in blue on upper cover and spine. A very good copy.
Very scarce.
€185
40. BRADY, Thomas. he istorical asis o ocialis in Ireland. th liath
n l Chumann, n.d. (1907). pp. 16. Printed yellow wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare.
€65
41. BREATHNACH, Diarmuid & Ní MHURCHÚ, Máire. Leabhair Thaighde. 1882-1982
Beathaisnéis A hAon. A Dó. A Trí. Three volumes. Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta.,
1986/1992. pp. 114, 152, 171 (double column). Arlin, title in gilt on spine. Fine in d.j's.
€75
42. BREWER, John D. The Royal Irish Constabulary: An Oral History. Belfast: The Institute of
Irish Studies, Queen's University, 1990. pp. viii, 138. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€65
The book provides a unique oral history of the Royal Irish Constabulary in the years shortly before its
disbandment in 1922. John Brewer has interviewed fifteen of the survivors from this force and has
compiled a fascinating account of various aspects of the life in the RIC.
43. BROEKER, Galen. Rural Disorder and Police Reform in Ireland, 1812-36. Edited by
Moody, Beckett and Williams. London: Routledge, 1970. pp. ix, 254. Green cloth, title in gilt on
spine. A fine copy in frayed d.j. Very scarce.
€95
This work deals at length with the struggle of the Establishment to bring law and order to rural Ireland.
It traces the formation of the first 'Peelers' which resulted in the founding of the Irish Constabulary.
44. BROOKE, Miss [Charlotte]. Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes,
Elegies, and Songs, translated into English Verse. With notes explanatory and historical; and the
Originals in the Irish Character. To which is subjoined An Irish Tale by Miss Brooke. To which
is prefixed, a memoir of her life and writings, by Aaron Crossly Seymour, Esq. Introductory
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Discourse by Sylvester O'Halloran. Dublin: Printed by J. Christie, 1816. Second edition. pp.
cxxxvi, [2], 464. Ex lib. Carmelite Order, Dublin, with unobtrusive stamp. Recent green
buckram. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€325
The year 1789 will be best remembered in Europe for the political turmoil in France, but in Ireland it
heralded a turning point in literature, with the publication of Reliques of Irish Poetry. It was on the
whole very well received. The Critical Review of 1790 stated "To the poetical talent of her Gaelic
ancestors and her own, we pay respect. We have been entertained with her translations from every
different species of composition mentioned in the title-page, and recommend her performance to the
antiquary and men of genius". An intimate friend of Maria Edgeworth, she did an invaluable service to
her country, rescuing from oblivion the interesting remains of its ancient genius. Charlotte Brooke, the
only survivor of Henry Brooke's twenty-two children, was born at Rantavan, Co. Cavan, c.1745. She
was 'The first to appreciate and collect the scattered poems in the Irish language. These she translated
and published with the originals ... She certainly did an acceptable service to her country' - Webb.
ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY
45. [BROPHY] Tales of the R.I.C. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1921.
Fourth Impression. pp. [iv], 314. Original green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on
spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€65
46. BROWNE, Bernard. The Siege of Ross and the Battle of Ballinvegga - Battles of the Irish
Confederate Wars, March 1643. Illustrated. Carrigbyrne Pike and Choir Group, 2013. pp. 34.
Signed by the author. A fine copy in stapled illustrated wrappers.
€20
IN FINE BINDING
47. BROWNING, Robert. Poems by Robert Browning. With introduction by Richard Garnett,
and Illustrations by Byam Shaw. London: George Bell, 1900. pp. xix, [2], 377. Contemporary
full green morocco, spine with gilt raised bands and decorations. Bookplate of the Marquess of
Sligo. Top edge gilt. Occasional light foxing. A fine copy.
€75
48. BRYANT, Sophie. Liberty Order & Law Under Native Irish Rule. A Study in the Book of
the Ancient Laws of Ireland. London: Harding, 1923. pp. xxiii, 398. Decorated title printed in
black and light blue. Edition de luxe, limited to 500 copies. List of Patrons. Quarter linen on
paper boards, title on printed label on spine. Ex. lib. with stamps. Binding a little dull, internally
fine. Very scarce.
€125
49. BUNTING, Edward. A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, arranged for the
piano forte. Some of the most admired Melodies are adapted for the Voice. To Poetry chiefly
translated from the Original Irish Songs, by Thomas Campbell, Esq. and Other Eminent Poets;
To which is prefixed a Historical & Critical Dissertation on the Egyptian, British and Irish Harp
by Edward Bunting. Vol: 1st. Illustrated with five copper-engraved plates and title. London:
Printed and Sold for the Editor by Clementi, No. 26 Cheapside, 1809. Folio. pp. [ii], iii, 28, [2],
72 (double column). Later half green morocco on cloth boards. Neat stamp of 'The O Sullivan
Collection / Irish Traditional Music / Innis Farnard' on titlepage. Occasional foxing. Minor wear
to corners and spine ends. Very good. Scarce.
€385
SEAN O'SULLIVAN BEARE'S COPY
50. BUNTING, Edward. The Ancient Music of Ireland. Arranged for the Piano Forte. To which
is prefixed A Dissertation on The Irish Harp and Harpers, including an account of the Old
Melodies of Ireland. Illustrated. Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1840. Quarto. pp. vi, 100, 7 (plates),
[ii], xi, 109 (plates). Titles in red and black. Early nineteenth century full red morocco, spine
divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands; title and author direct in gilt in the
second and fourth, 'The O'Sullivan Beare' in gilt in the sixth. Water-silk endpapers, red, green
and gold endbands. Owner's signature and neat stamp of 'The O Sullivan Collection / Irish
Traditional Music / Innis Farnard' on titlepage. Light foxing to half-title. A very good and
attractive copy.
€485
51. [BUTT, Isaac] A 'Spy' caricature showing Butt in middle age with bow tie and top hat,
carrying a pen-knife, titled 'Statesmen, no. 143. "Home-Rule"'. Supplement to Vanity Fair , May
3, 1873. Lithographed in colours, 200 x 316mm.
€65
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Isaac Butt (1813-1879), was a barrister and politician. Born in Glenfin, County Donegal, educated at
Royal School, Raphoe, and T.C.D. A brilliant academic, he was one of the founding members of the
Dublin University Magazine; opposed O'Connell and the Repeal movement. He was defence counsel to
the Young Irelanders, William Smith O'Brien and Thomas F. Meagher. Butt became a Home Ruler and
practically founded that party in 1870. After seven years as M.P. for Limerick he was replaced as
leader of the nationalist parliamentary party by Charles Stewart Parnell. Butt died, as he had lived, in
relative poverty, he was imprisoned for debt in the aftermath of his defence of the Fenians. Despite all,
his contribution to Irish political life was enormous.
52. BYRNE, Matthew J. 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. 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]. Modern half green morocco on marbled boards,
title in gilt direct on spine. A very good copy. From the Arranmore library of noted antiquary Dr.
Tony Sweeney. Rare with map.
€275
PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR
HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
53. CADBURY, Geraldine S. Anna Strangman
Southall. Illustrated, with tissue guards. Oxford:
Privately printed for Anna Strangman Southall's
children and grandchildren by Horace Hart, Printer to
the University, 1912. pp. 73. Half vellum gilt on linen
boards. Top edge gilt., remainder with deckled edges.
Very good. Exceedingly rare.
€275
Not in COPAC. Anna Strangman Grubb was born in
Clonmel in 1841 and at the age of thirteen went to
Elizabeth Brady's school in Birmingham. She married
another Quaker, Alfred Southall in 1864, and their
daughter Geraldine (1865-1941) married into the
Cadbury family who made their fortunes in the chocolate
business.
WESTPORT HOUSE MANUSCRIPT
54. [CALLERS' BOOK] Westport House Estate
Callers' Book. A manuscript, ruled, covering the
period 7th August 1909 to 27th September 1917.
Listed are tenants' names, residence and the business
for which they called to the Estate Manager's office at
Westport House. Quarto. Ruled copy book. In very good condition.
€375
A very interesting manuscript callers' book listing the tenants' concerns and grievances. These were
numerous and varied, ranging from: Flooding at Carrowniskey; Reduction of Rents; Trespass; Fishery;
Employment; Leases; Sale of Holdings; Timber for Sheds; A Road on the Mountain; Change of Name;
Loss of Cattle and Horses, etc.
55. CAMPBELL, Joseph. Irishry. A Collection of Poems. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1913.
pp. x, 79, 4 (Books by Joseph Campbell). Blue paper boards, title on white printed label on upper
cover and spine. A superb copy in rare fine d.j.
€125
Joseph Campbell [Seosamh MacCathmhaoil] (1879-1944) was born in Belfast and educated locally. He
attended Belfast School of Art until about 1905, and won two bronze medals in national competitions
for art schools in Britain and Ireland. Influenced by Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Celtic ornamental
styles. Campbell was one of the most prominent artists of the Irish Revival, and illustrated numerous
books on Irish legends and folklore. He contributed to the Ulster Literary Theatre in its early days and
to the journal Uladh. He went to London and became Secretary of the Irish National Literary Society,
returning to Wicklow before the First World War. Arrested and interned for two years during the Civil
War, on his release he emigrated to America. In 1935 he returned to Ireland again, settling in Wicklow.
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He is perhaps best known for his illustrations for Mary Hutton's verse translation of The Táin ,
commissioned in 1907 but not published until the second edition in 1924.
56. CAMPION, John Thomas. Michael Dwyer or Insurgent Captain of the Wicklow
Mountains. A Tale of the Rising in '98. Dublin: M.H. Gill, n.d. (c.1930). pp. 128. Recent tan
cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€45
57. [CANE, Dr. Robert. Edited by.] The Celt. A Weekly Periodical of Irish National Literature.
No. I, Vol. I. August 1857 - No. 22, Vol. I. December, 1857. Edited by a Committee of the Celtic
Union. Dublin: John O'Daly, 1857. Contemporary half maroon morocco over marbled boards.
Early bibliographical notes on front endpaper, also with wrapper for the 1868 edition and
newspaper cuttings. Ex. lib., with stamps. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare.
€675
COPAC locates the TCD and BL copies only.
Dr. Robert Cane (1807-1858), nationalist, physician, and historian, was born in Kilkenny City. He was
a member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation. He qualified as an M.D. in 1836,
became a member of Kilkenny Corporation and was Mayor twice.
In October 1853 Cane founded the Celtic Union, a nationalist literary and political society. He edited
the society's magazine, The Celt, which first appeared in August 1857, announcing it would be 'Irish,
Celtic, catholic and progressive' with a mission: 'To stir up past memories. To develop existing
energies and resources, and to direct the national heart to pulsate with pride for the past and hope for
the future'.
At his home in William Street, Kilkenny, he regularly held evenings for nationalist writers, including
Charles J. Kickham. He was the model for Dr. Kiely in Kickham's Knocknagow. He influenced James
Stephens, and corresponded with Thomas Davis. He was visited by Charles Gavan Duffy and by
Thomas Carlyle.
He wrote an uncompleted History of the Williamite and Jacobite Wars (1859), published by the Celtic
Union, and contributed articles to The Celt, The Nation , and various antiquarian journals. There were a
further six issues of The Celt in 1858, and the magazine ceased publication when the author, after a
short illness, died of consumption on 16 August 1858. He was buried at St. John's cemetery, Kilkenny.
John O'Daly, author and publisher, was born at Farnane, County Waterford in 1800 and was educated
at a local hedge school. Like Carleton he was of peasant stock but while lacking Carleton's literary
genius, O'Daly was a much more versatile individual, a purveyor of fine books, a writer and publisher,
a good Irish scholar, a translator, an editor, and Secretary of the Irish Antiquarian Society. We know
the Munster poet Timothy O'Sullivan was a frequent visitor in his father's house. O'Donoghue tells us
in his Life of Mangan, that O'Daly was not approved of by certain of his countrymen on account of
having in his youth enrolled in the ranks of 'The Soupers' in Kilkenny.
John Keegan, another peasant poet tells us: "I first met O'Daly in Kilkenny in 1833, when he kept the
school there for teaching Irish to the Wesleyans of that city. He, I am sorry to say, has renounced the
Catholic creed, and was then a pious Biblical. He subsequently came back and is now living in Dublin,
Secretary to the Celtic Athenaeum, and keeps a bookseller's shop in Anglesea Street. He is one of the
best Irish scholars in Ireland ... low-sized, merry countenance, fine black eyes, vulgar in appearance
and manners, and has the most magnificent Munster brogue that I ever had the luck to hear".
By 1850 we find O'Daly publishing many works in Gaelic and on Irish history, often in collaboration
with that prince of scholars, John O'Donovan. Some of his Gaelic translations were versified by
Mangan. O'Daly was a founder member of the Ossianic Society of which he was president from 1855
to 1857. His book catalogues are both erudite and interesting. After he died in Dublin in 1878, no effort
was made to secure any of the manuscripts he left behind, some of them Carolan's, and their
whereabouts remain a mystery. Douglas Hyde purchased his books at the auction after his death.
He was described by Eleanor Hull as "The last of the grand old scholars of Ireland".
"AN ESTIMABLE MASS
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVIDENCE"
58. [CAREW MANUSCRIPTS] Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts, preserved in the
Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth. 1515 - 1624. Edited by J. S. Brewer and William Bullen.
Including The Book of Howth; The Conquest of Ireland, written by Thomas Bray. Six volumes.
London: Longman, 1867/73. Ex. lib. Historical Institute, with small stamps. Recent full buckram.
Very good. Very rare.
€1,675
The Carew Papers preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace contain the most
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important materials for the history of Ireland, and extend from the reign of Henry the Second to the end
of the reign of Queen Elizabeth the First. They were collected by Sir George Carew, President of
Munster and Earl of Totness, apparently for the purpose of writing a history of Ireland, and especially
the wars in Munster including the Desmond Rebellion. He died before he had completed the task. It
was finished and published under the title of Pacata Hibernia , by his natural son, Sir Thomas Stafford,
in 1633, to whom he had bequeathed his manuscripts. James Henthorn Todd described this unique
collection: "as an inestimable mass of the most important evidence". The collection consists of ancient
chronicles and histories of Ireland, Journals of the Proceedings of the Lord Lieutenants of Ireland, their
instructions, copies of Proclamations, Acts of Parliament, orders of council, ordnances, commissions,
memorials, decrees, certificates, estimates, indentures, royal charters, plans of castles and fortifications,
letters patent, maps and surveys, etc.
59. CARLETON, William. Esq. The Squanders of Castle Squander. Illustrated with woodengravings (10) by Wm. Meason and T. Williams after Topham. Two volumes. London: Office
of the Illustrated London Library, 1852. First edition. pp. (1) [iii], 311, (2) vi, 326, [2]. Carbine
red ribbed linen, upper covers with leaf pattern and title embossed in silver, similar design in
blind to lower covers. Spine expertly rebacked preserving original. Paper repair to top margin of
titlepage of volume one. Owner's signature dated 1888 on front pastedowns. Occasional light
browning. A very good set.
€375
Loeber C95. Brown 333. Sadleir 514. Hayley 35a.
William Carleton (1794-1869), was born in Prillisk, Co. Tyrone, one of fourteen children of a tenant
farmer. He went to Dublin and besides his novels, he also contributed articles to many journals: the
Christian Examiner ; the Family Magazine; the Dublin University Magazine, etc. He also wrote for The
Nation but as D.J. O'Donoghue said: "Carleton was never a Nationalist, and was quite incapable of
adopting the principles of the Young Irelanders". As a race we are reputed to be very severe when
appraising each other; a great man referring to this characteristic once said "an honest people, they
never speak well of each other"!. The Tyrone-born novelist although reared a Catholic and intended for
the priesthood, became a Protestant on marriage. He wrote for hire, writing for anyone that would pay
him, Catholic, Protestant, or Dissenter, and suited his material to the current clients needs and outlook.
60. CARROLL, Michael J. March into Oblivion. With illustrations and maps. Bantry: Studio
Publications, 2001. pp. xiv, 174. Signed by the author on titlepage. Colour illustrated wrappers.
A fine copy.
€20
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ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSIC RARITIES OF IRISH HISTORY
61. CARVE, Thomas. Lyra Sive Anacephalaeosis Hibernica, In qua De Exordio, seu Origine,
nomine, moribus, ritibusque Gentis Hibernicae Succincte tractatur; cui quoque accessere Annales
Ejusdem Hiberniae, Nec non Rerum gestarum per Europam ab Anno 1148. Usque ad
Annum1650. Editio secundo ... Authore R.D. Thoma Carve, de Mobernan Tipperariensi,
Sacerdote & Notario Apostolico. With six plates. Sulzbaci: Typis Abrahami Lichtenthaleri, 1666.
Quarto. pp. [xx], 455, [27]. With an index and a page of errata. Bound by Bedford in nineteenth
century full green levant crushed morocco. Covers framed by gilt and blind fillets with fleurons
enclosing in the centre a gilt grolieresque device. Spine divided into six compartments by five
gilt raised bands; title, place and year of publication in gilt direct in the second and third, the
remainder tooled in gilt to floral design. All edges gilt. The Shane Leslie copy with his bookplate
and signature. A fine copy of this exceedingly rare book.
€6,750
Walsh 102. Bradshaw 5567. Sweeney 856 lists the 1651 Vienna edition.
Thomas Carve [Carew] (c.1590-1672), was born at Mobarnan, Fethard, County Tipperary. He was
proud to claim lineage with his famous Anglo-Norman namesake who in the fifteenth century held high
office and great influence in Munster. He stated that his brother Sir Ross Carew was married to
Clarendon's sister, Lady Hyde. Carve's claim to this distinguished family was questioned by his
opponent the Irish-born Franciscan, Anthony Bruodin, who believed his surname was Carran - Carve
acknowledged that the Irish for his name was Ó Carráin. His sympathies were in many respects antiIrish, and, though skilled in his native tongue, professed his preference for English. His mother was
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probably a Butler of Ormond, and his early years were spent among the Butlers, to whom, he says, he
owed everything. Walter Harris in his edition of Ware's Writers of Ireland asserts that Thomas was
educated at Oxford. Following his ordination for the diocese of Leighlin, he left Ireland around 1624
and went to Germany as Chaplain to Walter Butler, Colonel of a Scotch and Irish regiment in the army
of Frederick II of Austria and saw service in the many campaigns of the Thirty Years War.
Carve returned to Ireland to visit his friends. In 1630 he rejoined Butler this time for two years, leaving
around the time of the death of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Lutzen. On Colonel Butler's death
in the autumn of 1634 he became chaplain to his successor Col. Walter Devereux who was the
'honoured' murderer of Wallenstein. Carew accompanied Devereux and his regiment throughout
Germany and following Devereux's death in 1640, he was appointed Chaplain General of all the
English, Scots and Irish forces. This work was first published in 1661 when Carew was in his sixties.
As a piece of book production, this later edition is much more desirable than the first edition. Not only
does the text extend the narrative which commenced in the year 1148 on beyond 1650 but it is surely
one of the very finest printings of any Irish-authored 17th century book. It conjured up a lyrical
response from Dibdin. It is also illustrated, and amongst the six engravings is an evocative depiction of
the author in old age, all the more valuable because we so seldom get a good likeness of the author in
Irish books of this era. The others show the harp, the national symbol; an allegory of Ireland; Charles I;
Donatus O'Brien on horseback against a Limerick background; and an adaptation of Hollar's plan of St.
Patricks' Purgatory, i.e. Lough Derg.
62. [CASTLEDERMOT] An Tóstal. Castledermot. Souvenir Brochure and Programme.
Carlow: The Nationalist and Leinster Times, 1953. pp. [24]. Printed stapled wrappers.
€75
Included in the brochure is an article on 'Castledermot - its History and Traditions'. The programme
included: Trooping the National Flag; Billiard Tournament; Ceilidhe; Parade of Armed Forces;
Concert; Tour and Historical Lecture; Children's Parade in Fancy Dress, etc. There was an exhibition
of work in the Vocational School which included Lord Edward Fitzgerald's ring and a lock of his hair courtesy of Lord Kildare, Kilkee Castle.
63. [CATHOLIC SCOUT] he atholic cout. n as
atoiliceach. 1936-1938. Ten issues
only. Dublin: Printed by Mahon for Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland, 1936/1939. Large octavo.
Illustrated wrappers. In original steel backed binder. Some fraying. Very good. Rare.
€250
COPAC locates the British Library copy only and gives the periodical as running from 1932 till 1939.
With contributions by: Liam de Burca, Patsy McCarthy, Jack Dent, John J. Dunne, Gerry Geoghegan,
D. Fitzsimons, John G. O'Farrell Rowe, James O'Gorman and Antoine Ó Maolaoidh.
64. CAULFIELD, Richard. LL.D. The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork,
from 1609 to 1643, and from 1690 to 1800. Edited from the original, with Annals and
Appendices compiled from public and private records. Guildford: Billing, 1876. Quarto. pp. xxx,
1191. Original brown cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine recently rebacked. A
very good copy. Rare.
€475
ELIZABETH CORBET YEATS' COPY
65. [CELTIC VERSE] A Little Garland of Celtic Verse. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher,
1905. Tall 12mo. pp. viii, 42. Printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Edition limited to 100
copies. Original full vellum, title printed in red and black on upper cover and spine. Elizabeth
Corbet Yeats' copy with her attractive bookplate. List of Mosher Books in form of bookmark
loosely inserted. A fine copy in original worn plain wrapper. Rare.
€245
Includes seven poems by William Butler Yeats. A nice association copy with his daughter's bookplate.
66. [CHAMBERLAIN, Neville] Standing Rules and Regulations for the Government and
Guidance of the Royal Irish Constabulary; Sixth edition. As approved by His Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant. Neville Chamberlain, Inspector-General. Dublin: Printed for His Majesty's
Stationery Office by Alex Thom, 1911. pp. ix, 610. Stamp of Down County Commandant's
Office with manuscript note on front pastedown to Capt. Houston dated February 26th, 1921.
Owner's signature on f.f.e. Blue cloth, with minor wear to spine ends. A good copy.
€145
The author subsequently became British Prime Minister.
67. [CHILDERS, Erskine] Erskine Childers, 1870-1922: A Sketch (based on Memories and
Letters). By Arthur Frederic Basil Williams. [London]: Privately Printed, 1926. pp. 34. Printed
wrappers. A fine copy. Rare.
€125
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Erskine Childers, originally a liberal imperialist (he served with Churchill in the South African war),
became first an Irish home-ruler and then a revolutionary separatist, dying by an Irish firing-squad in
1922. Childers' The Framework of Home Rule was his major work. He had become a convert to Home
Rule for Ireland around 1908 and came to live in Ireland in 1919.
In the opening paragraph the anonymous author tells us: "It is now over two years since my dear friend
Erskine Childers was shot by a firing party in Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin, and enough time has
now perhaps past to allow some of the bitter feelings aroused by the concluding years of his career to
be softened, and for those who knew him not, to hear what he appeared to one, though not
sympathising with his latest phase of thought and action, regarded him always as one of the noblest and
most unselfish of the men he has ever met".
68. [CHRISTIAN BROTHERS] Cóir Mhúite na Gaedhilge ó na Bráithribh Críostamhla. An
Chéad Leabhar. An dara cló. Baile Átha Cliath: Mac an Ghoill, 1920. pp. 22. Quarter linen on
printed boards. Ex libris Kensington Libraries with armorial bookplate and stamp. Scarce. €35
See items 65 & 68.
69. [CHRISTMAS ANNUAL] Dublin's Christmas Annual. December 1936. A Magazine for
Holidays. Illustrated. Bray: 1936. Quarto. pp. 47. Library buckram with original printed wrappers
bound in. Ex. lib., with stamps. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€265
With some interesting articles: Rambling Recollections Arrested for James Stephens. By Alice
Milligan; A Prison Love Letter, Mountjoy Prison, September 26th, 1867; Dublin's Most Sensational
Trial, Base Betrayal and Desertion [Yelverton]; How Dean Swift met his Servant-Man; The
Archbishop's Ghost. By Ed. Seymore; Jemmy and the Hangman; Ireland's Noblest Thoroughfare
(O'Connell Street); Cannibalism On a Limerick Boat, How young O'Brien of Limerick was killed and
eaten by his comrades; Singing Seamus, Penal Day Story, etc.
A DEFINITIVE STUDY OF THE MAYO COAST
70. [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. Four volumes. Dublin: Published by
Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd., for the Royal Irish Academy, 1911-1915. Royal 8vo. 67 parts in 3
volumes (part 8 was never published), plus index volume. Fine set in recent green buckram.
Complete sets are exceedingly rare.
€1,450
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 100 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.
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71. CLARKE, Austin. First Visit to England and Other Memories. Dublin: Bridge Press,
Templeogue, 1945. First edition. pp. 82. Limited to 250 copies. Original blue printed wrappers.
A very good copy. Rare.
€125
72. CLEMENTS, R.N. & ROBBINS, J.M. The ABC of Irish Locomotives. Complete list of all
Irish engines in service in 1949. With map and illustrations. London: Ian Allan, 1949. First
edition. pp. 56. 16 x 11 cm. Illustrated blue wrappers. Corner of cover lightly creased, otherwise
a good copy. Rare.
€45
With lists, illustrations, tables, dimensions of all locomotives in all Ireland: C.I.E.; Great Southern &
Western Railway; Midland Great Western Railway; Dublin S.E. Ireland Railway; Cork, Bandon and
South Coast Railway; Great Southern Railway; Narrow Gauge; Great Northern Railway; County
Donegal Railway.
73. [CLIFFORD, Sigerson] Programme. Earlsfort Players present Nano by Sigerson Clifford,
1948. The Play was produced and the setting designed by Liam Miller.
€65
The action of the play takes place at the Kitchen of the Gough Farmhouse at Filemore, County Kerry.
The cast included: Margaret Rowan; Maurice Kennedy; Máire O'Brien; Rory Kilkenny; Michael
Kinsella; Denis O'Donovan; Maura Murphy; Tadgh Murray; Tom Brett. May Shannon was the stage
manager and the pianist was Betty Lloyd.
74. COLE, Grenville, A.J. Memoir and Map of Localities of Minerals of Economic Importance
and Metalliferous Mines in Ireland. Portrait frontispiece of Sir Richard J. Griffith. Dublin:
Published by the Stationary Office, 1922. pp. 155. Printed wrappers. Some minor fraying,
€165
In pocket at end is a large folding coloured map (695 x 980mm) Geological Survey of Ireland map
showing the distribution of Peat-bogs and Coal fields in Ireland. Also the principle localities of
Minerals of economic importance. Published at the Ordnance Survey Office, Dublin, 1920.
75. COLEMAN, J.C. The Caves of Ireland. With illustrations and map. Tralee: Anvil Books,
May 1965. Quarto. pp. 88 (double column). Library buckram, original illustrated wrappers bound
in. With stamps. A very good copy. Scarce.
€35
76. COLGAN, John. Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae. With introduction by Brendan Jennings,
O.F.M. Frontispiece of John Colgan from a fresco (c. 1670) in St. Isidore's College, Rome.
Dublin: Stationery Office, 1948 reprint of the Louvain, 1685 edition. Thick folio. Quarter blue
morocco on blue buckram boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€385
John Colgan was born in the parish of Inishowen, County Donegal, in 1592. He left Ireland when he
was approximately nineteen years old in 1611 and nine years later was received into the Franciscan
Order at the Irish college of St. Anthony at Louvain during the guardianship of Father Hugh
McCaughwell. The Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae or Lives of the Irish Saints was begun at Louvain by
Father Hugh Ward and Father Patrick Fleming. Unfortunately they both died before they could publish
their work. In the meantime more material had been gathered not only by scholars on the continent but
especially by Brother Michael O'Cleirigh from which Colgan published the first volume of the Acta in
1645. It contains some two hundred and seventy lives of saints gathered from every available source
whether in manuscript or printed form.
77. [COLLINS, Michael] A Republican Ballad: The Death of Michael Collins. Ballad poem,
four verses of four lines, beginning 'Near Bandon town he lost his life, the hero of our race',
signed D.L. Dublin: S.n., (c.1922). Single octavo sheet, printed one side. Very scarce.
€175
"If ever in our history we should try to unite
Tis at this present moment, why not stop this cruel fight
Remember all the blood was shed your native land to save
Make peace and shake your brother's hand above
Mick Collins' grave".
78. COLUM, Padraic. Three Men. London: Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, 1930. First edition. pp.
36. Edition limited to 530 numbered copies, signed by the author. Quarter linen on illustrated
paper boards. Title and author on rectangular label on upper cover. Minor wear to corners,
otherwise a very good copy. A fine copy in very good and rare d.j.
€235
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RARE CONNOLLY ITEM
79. CONNOLLY, James. The Watchword of
Labour (Ballad). With music by J.J. Hughes,
Arranged by Andrew Keane. Three verses with
piano accompaniment. Cover with portrait of
Connolly. Dublin: Whelan, n.d., (c.1918). Quarto,
four pages folded. Edges a little frayed else good.
Rare.
€185
80. [CONSTABULARY DRILL] Drill and Field
Exercise of the Constabulary Force of Ireland; By
Order of His Excellency the Earl of Mulgrave, Lord
Lieutenant General and General Governor of
Ireland. Illustrated with fourteen figures. Dublin:
Printed by George and John Grierson, Printers to the
King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1836. pp. 80, [14
(figures)]. Fine in recent quarter morocco on
marbled boards. Exceedingly rare.
€475
81. [CORK BOOKSELLER] Engraved trade label
of Cork Bookseller Thomas White. [Cork, c.1777.] Engraved label (60 x 80mm) text framed by
decorative engraved floral border, manuscript annotation recording price of book into which label
was pasted originally, a few patches of fraying along one edge not touching image, otherwise
very good.
€175
The Cork bookseller and stationer Thomas White is recorded "at the Exchange of Cork" between
c.1777 and c.1780. This rare decorative engraved label would have been pasted into books he sold both
as a form of advertising and also a means of recording the price that the book had been sold for.
82. [CORK ALMS HOUSE] Manuscript
Ledger of Christ Church Alms House,
Cork. April 1868 to November 1910.
Listed are the names of those admitted to
the Alms House and Out-door Lists of
those receiving alms. The amounts vary
from 6d to 4/6 per week, with an entry for
each week and month of the year. A
quarto volume (149 pages), bound in old
worn calf with the label of: Barry Drew /
Bookseller,
Stationer,
Printer
/
Bookbinder / & Patent Medicine Vender /
97 Grand Parade / Cork / Engraving &
Copper Plate Printing. Inner joints
strengthened with coarse linen and with
the signature of Stanley Eastman, Christ
Church, Cork, 1892 on upper joint and
front endpaper. Also with signature of
Cannon Harley, Rector, Cork. With note
loosely inserted dated 3 December 1903,
acknowledging receipt of the manuscript
from the Steward of the County Club. In
very good condition.
€875
Within the walled city of Cork there were
two churches. The principal church of the city was Christ Church, also called Holy Trinity, on the
South Main Street. The church was on the site of the deconsecrated church that now houses the Cork
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Archives Institute. The English crown had the patronage of the church. The other church was Saint
Peter's which was roughly on the site of another deconsecrated church on the North Main Street that is
now home to the Cork Vision Centre. Saint Peter's was a prebend of the archdeacon of Cork. There
were chapels attached to both churches where chantry priests said masses for the repose of the souls of
the dead. Civic functions were held in Christ Church.
Stephen Skiddy, Master Vintner and native of Cork, the great benefactor, wrote his will on the 20th of
March, 1584, in the City of London. Skiddy made his fortune through trade in wine and the acquisition
of confiscated church property. Resident in Coleman Street and with business interests in the Vintners'
Hall in Thames Street, it is probable that Skiddy was kept informed of events in Ireland through his
family and trading connections in Cork. In 1582 there had been a famine and an outbreak of plague in
Cork and more than 30,000 people perished in Munster in a six-month period. Perhaps the social
conditions in his native city prompted Skiddy to leave a legacy to the poor of Cork.
Skiddy's will followed the traditional format of the Tudor period. Wealthy merchants were expected to
leave money or other commodities to the poor or to establish foundations for almshouses. Redemption
from sin, salvation for the soul, and entry through the gates of heaven all depended on one's attitude to
the poor either during one's earthly life or during one's eternal rest by leaving perpetual legacies
behind. The Vintners opened almshouses for their former employees. St. Martin of Tours, their patron
saint, is depicted in art as a wealthy knight on horseback who divides his mantle with his sword and
shares the cloth with a beggar. The symbol of St. Martin is found in the Vintners' coat-of-arms and is
displayed as a gold cartwheel on a red mainsail of a caravel.
In his will Skiddy left the largest charitable legacy in his will to the poor of Cork. Skiddy's charity is
still in existence today. The survival of his almshouse, however, has not always been assured and in the
early 1960s the trustees of the charity opened new homes in Pouladuff Road, selling the almshouse to
the North Infirmary Hospital who intended redeveloping the site. The demolition being postponed until
all remaining residents were re-housed, the Cork Preservation Society was formed by locals concerned
at the impending destruction of the almshouse and they successfully lobbied for the preservation of the
almshouse.
83. [CORK BURNING] An Original Photographic of the Ruins in Patrick Street after the
Destruction by the Black and Tans of the City of Cork by fire. Depicted are York House,
Sunner's, Medical Hall and buildings adjacent totally destroyed. With a large sign erected on the
rubble of one building 'Salvage Sale at Roches Stores' at 1 Merchant Street. 107 x 82mm. Some
small creasing, otherwise in very good condition. Exceedingly rare.
€265
The burning of Cork took place on the night of 11/12 December 1920, during the War of
Independence. It followed an Irish Republican Army ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, in
which one of the patrol, Spencer Chapman, was killed by an IRA grenade. In retaliation for Chapman's
death, the Black and Tans (Auxiliaries) and British soldiers set fire to a number of houses and then
looted and burnt numerous buildings in the city centre. Many civilians also reported being beaten, shot
at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces. Fire fighters later testified that British forces hindered
their attempts to tackle the blazes by intimidating them, shooting at them and cutting their hoses. Over
40 business premises, 300 residential properties, City Hall and the Carnegie Library were destroyed by
fire. Over £3 million worth of damage (1920 value) was done, 2,000 were left jobless and many were
left homeless. Two unarmed IRA volunteers were also shot dead in their home in the north of the city,
and a woman died of a heart-attack when Auxiliaries burst into her house.
British forces carried out many other reprisals on Irish civilians during the war, but the burning of Cork
was one of the biggest and most well known. The British government initially denied that its forces had
started the fires and blamed them on the IRA. However, a British Army inquiry (which resulted in the
Strickland Report) concluded that a company of Auxiliaries was responsible. Although many witnesses
described the burnings as systematic and organised, there is debate over whether they had been planned
before the ambush.
84. [CORK BURNING] Two Rare Photographic Postcards of the Ruins after the Destruction of
Cork by Fire depicting Ruins from Winthrop Street to Maylor Street and Ruins of Cash's, London
House & O'Sullivan's. Folded sleeve stamped 'The Photo Shop / Mac Sweeny's Pharmacy / 91,
Patrick Street, Cork'. In fine condition. Each measuring 138 x 90mm.
€150
85. [CORK DIRECTORY] Henry & Coghlan's General Directory of Cork for 1867. With
which is incorporated Wynne & Co's Business Directory of the Principal Towns in the Province
of Munster. Illustrated. Cork: Printed and published by Henry and Coghlan, 1867. pp. 14
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(adverts), xv, [38], 450, 118 (adverts). Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and
spine. Lower board with advert in gilt for T. M'Swiney's 'The Cork Arms' T. Stores' in Patrick
Street. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€375
86. [CORK DIRECTORY] Cork and Munster Trades' Directory. Accompanied with a
Gazetteer of Ireland, 1910. With two folding maps. Compiled and Published by Trades'
Directories, Limited, London Road, Edinburgh; and 256 Broad Street, Birmingham, 1910.
Quarto. pp. iv, 158, 58 (triple column). Faded blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Small tear to
folding map. From the library of Cork Young Men's Society with their library stamp. A very
good copy. Very rare.
€165
87. CORKERY, Daniel. The Hidden Ireland. A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth
Century. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1967. pp. 285. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers.
€15
Daniel Corkery's study of Irish poetry and culture in eighteenth century Munster is widely
acknowledged as having had a profound influence on the shaping of modern Anglo-Irish literature. The
author traces the origins of the Bardic Schools, with chapters on the Poets, Aodhagan Ó Rathaille,
Eoghan Ruadh Ó Suilleabháin, Brian Merriman and some minor poets.
88. [CORK HISTORICAL & ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY] Journal of the Cork
Historical and Archaeological Society. Vol. 1, 1892 - Vol. 41, 1936. Thirty four volumes.
Complete run apart from volumes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 38. Illustrated with numerous maps, folding
pedigrees and plates. Cork: Guy, 892/1936. Library buckram and cloth. Ex lib. with stamp. Wear
to some spine-ends, some joints starting. A fine set internally and generally very good. Although
not a complete set a great run of this sought after and scholarly journal.
€675
The Society was founded in 1891 for the collection, preservation, and distribution of all available
information relating to the history and archaeology of the City and County of Cork. These objects were
later extended to Munster and beyond. The journals, which continue to this day, are profusely
illustrated and maintain the well-merited reputation of the Society, for the variety of scholarly
contributions and a deep and diversified knowledge of local antiquities and genealogy.
A unique opportunity to acquire a great run of one of Ireland's leading antiquarian journals.
89. [CORK INVOICES] Album of Receipts, Invoices and Statements from Cork Businesses to
Major Newenham of Coolmore, Cork, various dates in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Also included: a large early photograph of Cork city, three studio photographs, letters and a
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licence for dogs. Large folio. Bound in modern full maroon buckram, title in gilt on upper cover.
A fine copy, of the utmost rarity.
€1,350
Contents include: "Friday 21st April, 1797 ... ". Account entries for Barley, Straw, Wheat etc., no
billhead; List of account entries in a copperplate hand, no billhead, probably dating from the late
eighteenth century, including entries for "Alderman Bury for Manure", "Patrick Barry of the Susanna
for Nurse", several entries to "Thos Newenham Esqr.", "Helena Keating for Gloves", etc, etc; Irish
Industries. R and J McKechnie, Steam Dyers and Cleaners (Advertisement); Ideal Weatherproofs
Limited, Bishop Street, Cork. Invoice dated 1960; Suttons Limited, Coal Merchants, Millers &c., 1,
South Mall, 1933; Oakenhead & Co., Seed & Manure Merchants, 86, Patrick Street, 1892; Suttons'
Coals, South Mall, 1906; Purcell & Company, Manufacturing Stationers, Patrick Street, 1914; John
Duke, Stalls 61, 62 & 63 Grand Parade Market, 1890 (for various cuts of meat); Provision & Cheese
Warehouse, Prince's Street for fowls, cheese, bacon etc, 1899; John Perry & Sons Limited, Hardware
Merchants, Patrick Street, 1899; The London House Ltd., General Warehousemen, Patrick Street,
1913; Robert Scott & Co. Limited, Iron and Hardware Merchants & Manufacturers, 1896; Mullins &
Sons, Carriage Builders, Warrens Place, 1904; Mullins & Sons, Carriage Builders, Parnell Place, 1914
(stamped receipt); County of Cork Agricultural Society, Great Horse, Cattle, and Dog Show to be held
at the Corn Exchange, Cork, on Wednesday and Thursday, 9th and 10th July, 1890. Receipt for
Members' Entry Fees; Wm. Dillon, Junr., Stalls 1 & 2, Mutton Lane, Prime Ox and Heifer Beef,
Choicest Wether Mutton, 1897; List of entries, no billhead, dated August 30, 1887?; Samuel Allsopp &
Sons, Limited, Burton-on-Trent. "Ale, Full to the Bung". Cork Agency, 25, Cook St., 1891; Mullins &
Sons, Carriage Builders, Warrens Place, 1901. For refurbishing a Brougham; William McIlwraith,
Engineer & Millwright, Rocksavage Engineering Works, 1911; Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878. ByeLaws with respect to Common Lodging-Houses in Cobh Urban District. Eight page printed document;
Dog Licence for Major Newenham of Coolmore, two black male cockers and one female, March 1913,
stamped; Dr. Hubert O'Keefe L.D.S., R.C.S.I., 57, South Mall, for various dental services, 1910 and
1911; Newsom & Sons, Patrick Street, for candles, cakes, jelly etc., 1910 (with stamped receipt); N & J
Cummins & Brothers, Queenstown, 1890s. Details of Bark 'Carl Gustav', arrived with cargo of "Deals"
from Quebec; The Pier House, Monkstown, 1897; Michael Sheehan & Son, General Fish Deales, 78
and 79, Grand Parade Market, 1899; M & E Sheehan, Fish, Ice and Poultry Merchants, 1, 2, 13 & 15,
Grand Parade Market, 1913; Engineering and Agricultural Implement Works, Merchant's Quay, Cork,
1897; J. Gallie, Plumbing & Gasfitting Establishment, 7, Harbour Row, Queenstown, 1897; Philip
O'Connor, Family Grocer & Provision Merchant, The Pier House, Monkstown, 1899; Robertson,
Leslie, Ferguson & Co. Limited, 1910; Modern Romanism. Two page pamphlet by Joseph D'Arcy Sirr,
no date, with a list of subscribers; Registered envelope stamped in 1912, to Irma Haemmerlé, Fota
Island, Queenstown from Odessa; Dog Licence for Major Newenham of Coolmore, two brown male
collies, one black and white male pointer, one black male cocker and one liver and white female
pointer, March 1905, stamped; Mullins & Sons, Carriage Builders, Warrens Place, 1910. For
refurbishing a Brougham and Stanhope Wagonette; D. O'Sullivan, Brush Manufacturer, Maylor Street,
1913; John Duke, 61, 62 & 63, Grand Parade Market, 1913; William McBride & Sons, Engineer &
Agricultural Implement Works, Merchant's Quay, 1913; The "London House", Limited, General
Warehousemen, Cork, 1913; Jennings's, Magnesia, Vinegar, and Mineral Water Manufactory, 1913;
John O'Connor, Hardware, Glass, and China Merchant, Monkstown, 1896; Baker & Wright Ltd.,
Patrick Street and Academy Street, 1913; Joseph Mayne, Central China, Glass and Lamp Warehouse,
Patrick Street, 1913; J. Twomey, Saw Mill Engineer, Pope's Quay, 1896; P. O'Sullivan & Co., Car
Cushions, 1912; Stamped receipt dated at Waterford, 18th March 1868, for "channel improvement"; R.
& J. McKechnie Ltd., The Dyers, Cleaners and Hat Renovators, 27-3-57; etc., etc.
Letters:
Three page letter in a fine hand to H.W. Newenham Esqr., dated 27th September, 1826 from James
Russell seeking employment as farm manager and detailing his previous experience.
Manuscript agreement dated Oct. 25 1827, made with James Russell. "£50 per Annum wages, he living
in my House".
Three page letter from Heathburn Hall, Ballinhassig to "Newenham", dated 17.4.00.
Letter from Baron de Pilar on notepaper headed "Imperial Consulate for Russia", dated 23rd April,
1890, refusing an expense claim for forwarding Hermann Johansen to Liverpool. "I thought you were
aware of the fact that we have only the right to recover expenses for the wrecked sailors".
Pamphlets:
The Diggings at Home. Fifteen page unbound pamphlet by The Very Rev. Edward Newenham Hoare,
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A.M., Dean of Waterford, 1853.
Photographs: Three studio photographs, one female, two male, presumably members of the Newenham
family, c.1900. Large photograph of Cork c.1900.
90. [CORK NEWSPAPER] James and Henry Knight. The New Cork Evening Post. Monday,
December 23, 1793. One issue only [No. 101]. Cork: Printed by James and Henry Knight, 1793.
Broadsheet. pp. 4. Very good in recent boards.
€125
Like The Skibbereen Eagle it kept abreast of international news covering the latest from Paris, New
York, Philadelphia, Brussels, London, &c. Closer to home there are notices of the Cork Militia,
Freemason meetings, Auctions, Edwards latest books for sale, Mr. Percy's Drawing School, O'Brien &
Barrett's Pale Ale, Lands and Houses for Sale, &c.
91. COUSINS, J.H. Etain the Beloved and Other Poems. With a pencil sketch of the author by
Florence Gillespie. Dublin: Maunsell, 1912. pp. vi, [2], 87, [1]. Blue gilt decorated cloth, spine
evenly faded. A very good copy. Top edge gilt.
€45
James Henry Cousins was an Irish writer, playwright, actor, critic, editor, teacher and poet. He was
born in Belfast into a Protestant family, but after his studies, he moved south as there seemed to be
more vitality in what became the Republic of Ireland. As he wrote in 1902 "We knew that Ireland had
attained freedom in the spiritual world and would soon attain it in the physical." Together with A.E.
(George Russell) and William Butler Yeats he played a major role in the Irish literary revival of the late
1890s – early 1900s. In 1915 he left for India as literary editor of The New India of Annie Besant
(1847-1933) and became one of the organizers of the university of the Princely State of Travancore,
where he headed the Department of Fine Arts and English Studies. Thus, he was in a privileged
position to study the interaction between Western and Indian thought with a critical eye.
Cousins was much appreciated by the Indian philosopher and social activist Sri Aurobindo who was an
attentive observer of Western evaluations of Indian culture. He also became a close co-worker with
Rabindranath Tagore with whom he shared the vision of the role of art in life. Cousins married Gretta
Gillespie, a suffragette and one of the co-founders of the Irish Women's Franchise League and All India
Women's Conference. She was a founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League and was a life-long
advocate of equality for women.
92. COUSINS, James H. The Awakening and Other Sonnets. Dublin: Maunsel & Co, n.d.
(c.1913). Square octavo. pp. [16]. Green blind-stamped cloth. A very good copy. Scarce.
€75
93. COYLE, Albert. Evidence on Conditions in Ireland. Comprising the Complete Testimony,
Affidavits, and Exhibits Presented before The American Commission on Conditions in Ireland.
Transcribed and annotated by Albert Coyle, Official Reporter to the Commission. Washington:
Bliss, n.d. (c.1921). pp. xiv, 1105. A very good copy in recent buckram with original wrappers
laid on. Carty 1010.
€175
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The American Commission of Inquiry was launched in the U.S.A. in August 1920 by Dr. W.J.
Moloney and Frank P. Walsh, to inquire into alleged excesses and atrocities of British troops and
police in Ireland. The original committee consisted of one hundred and fifty eminent Americans,
including Cardinal Gibbons (whose family originated in Partry, County Mayo), one Catholic
archbishop, four Catholic bishops, seven Episcopal bishops, four Methodist leaders, five U.S.
governors, eleven senators, etc. It is interesting to note that no British witness testified to the
Commission.
THE LAKELANDS LIBRARY
94. [CRAWFORD, William H.] Catalogue of the rare & valuable books, manuscripts &
engravings of the late W.H. Crawford ... Lakelands, County Cork, which will be sold by auction
by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... at their house, no. 13, Wellington Street, Strand,
W.C., on Thursday, the 12th of March, 1891, and eleven following days. London: Printed by
Dryden Press for Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1891. pp. x, [1], 280. Contemporary half red
morocco over marbled boards by Fazakerley of Liverpool, with original printed wrappers bound
in. Spine professionally rebacked, preserving original. A fine copy.
€675
William Crawford (senior) had moved from County Down to Cork around 1792. He was a co-founder
of the successful Beamish and Crawford brewery and he occupied a fine residence 'Lakelands' at
Blackrock, to the east of the city overlooking the widening River Lee. His son, William Crawford
(junior), continued his involvement with the brewery, but also was active in the cultural life of Cork
and he was a collector of art and rare books. He was one of the founders of the School of Art of which
his son, William Horatio, was a generous benefactor. Crawford had an extensive and wide-ranging
library. The journal of William Crawford (junior) provides a fascinating glimpse into the day-to-day
world of one of the wealthy, cultured merchants of Cork. It contains household accounts as well as a
list of books in the private library by Greek, Latin and Italian authors.
His son William Horatio inherited Lakelands, an old house 'richly stored with rare books, paintings and
engravings' from his father. He developed a renowned arboretum at Lakelands, specialising in rare
trees and shrubs. The Lakelands property passed into the possession of a solicitor, possibly as a bad
debt. The house was demolished after the death of W. H. Crawford in 1888.
The sale of the valuable library netted just over £22,255. Using average earnings the value in today's
terms would be in excess of £9,000,000.
95. CRONE, John S. A Concise Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Talbot, 1928. pp. viii,
269. Rebound in buckram, preserving original back strip. A very good copy.
€65
One of the best Irish biographical dictionaries, with far more entries than any other.
96. [CROSBY] Irish Musical Repository. A Choice Selection of Esteemed Irish Songs, adapted
for the Voice, Violin and German Flute. With engraved frontispiece and half title. London:
Printed for B. Crosby & Co., n.d. (c.1810). pp. 288. Later worn half morocco on marbled boards.
Some mild browning, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce.
€250
COPAC locates only the Oxford copy of this edition. Oliver & Boyd, printers, Edinburgh printed on
verso of titlepage. Our copy appears to be lacking the additional engraved titlepage as catalogued in the
Oxford copy.
Eighty-nine songs and tunes, some with Irish names of airs attached. A very interesting compilation,
showing the state of Irish popular song just before the advent of Thomas Moore.
97. [CROSBY, Bing] Announcement Leaflet for the Irish Premiere of 'The Bells of St. Mary's' at
the Savoy Cinema, Dublin. Starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. Dublin: [1945]. Single
illustrated sheet, with fraying to top edge.
€35
'The Bells of St. Mary's' is a 1945 American drama film produced and directed by Leo McCarey and
starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. Written by Dudley Nichols based on a story by Leo
McCarey, the film is about a priest and a nun who, despite their good-natured rivalry, try to save their
school from being shut down. The character of Father O'Malley had been previously portrayed by
Crosby in the 1944 film 'Going My Way', for which Crosby had won the Academy Award for Best
Actor. The film was produced by Leo McCarey's production company, Rainbow Productions.
98. CURRY, John. An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland, from the
Reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the Settlement under King William. Extracted from Parliamentary
Records, State Acts, and other authentic Materials. By J.C. M.D. Author of the Historical
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Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion in 1641. Audi alteram Partem. Dublin: Printed, and sold by J.
Hoey, and T.T. Faulkner, Parliament-street; G. Burnat, Abbey-street; and J. Morris, Fishamblestreet, 1775. First edition. Quarto. pp. [4], xxi, [3], 447, 6 (index). Modern half brown morocco,
title in gilt direct on spine. With signature of James Lanigan, Aran Quay, Dublin. light browning.
Some browning and occasional light foxing, titlepage a little dusted. Top edge trimmed, others
uncut. A good copy in an attractive binding. Rare.
€475
Not in Bradshaw. Gilbert 184.
John Curry, a descendant of the ancient family of O'Corra of Cavan, was a medical doctor and historian
of note. His grandfather commanded a troop of horse at the battle of Aughrim for the Jacobites, after
which the family's fortunes changed for the worse. Losing their lands in Cavan, the author's father took
to commerce, thus enabling young John to have a decent education. Due to his religion he was
disqualified from attending the university at Dublin. He therefore studied medicine at Paris and
obtained a diploma for the practice of physic at Rheims. Returning to Dublin he rose to prominence as
a physician and in his spare time concentrated on the history of his native land. To counteract the
prejudices against his fellow Catholics caused by the sermons preached annually at Christ Church on
the memorial day of the bloody Irish rebellion of 1641, he published a Dialogue in 1747 which was
attacked in a large pamphlet by Walter Harris ["a gentleman unversed in the philosophy of history, and
flagrantly abusive ..." - C. O'Conor]. He responded in a book entitled Historical Memoirs which was
well received, and subsequently in 1775 published his 'magnum opus', the above title furthering the
cause of his fellow countrymen.
EDMUND CURTIS'S OWN COPY WITH COPIOUS HISTORICAL NOTES
99. CURTIS, Edmund. A History of Medieval Ireland from 1086 to 1513. With three folding
maps of Ireland covering the period 1160 to 1500, and pedigrees of the chief families. Dublin:
Maunsel & Roberts, 1923. First edition. pp. vi [2], 436. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some
wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. Inter-leaved copy belonging to the author, signed
on front endpaper 'Edmund Curtis / the author / his private copy'. With copious historical,
topographical and genealogical notes with numerous corrections on almost every inter-leaved
page in the author's hand. Also loosely inserted is a two page octavo letter on Trinity College
headed paper in the author's hand to an unknown recipient discussing the De Burgo Lordship of
Connaught.
€675
Edmund Curtis (1881-1943), historian, was born in Lancashire of Irish parents. At the age of fifteen
while working in a rubber factory, he published poems which attracted support for his education. After
degrees at Oxford he was appointed Erasmus Smith Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin in
1914, he held the Lecky chair of History (also at Trinity) for the four years prior to his death in 1943.
He appears to have first visited Ireland around 1899, staying with his relations at Kilmacrennan,
County Donegal. During his regular visits he began to learn Irish, from as early as 1896 and had a
working knowledge of it by 1914. Curtis was professor of history in TCD (1914–39) and Lecky
professor of modern history (1939–43). He was a great friend of George Russell and endorsed the
poet–mystic's 1917 manifesto favouring dominion home rule, Thoughts for a Convention .
As part of his work with the Irish Manuscripts Commission he published with R. B. McDowell the
Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1922 on the year of his death.
The History of Mediaeval Ireland , his most important work of original research is of the utmost
importance to historians. Curtis expressed the view that medieval Ireland would have been better off
under the rule of a native dynast, than as a lordship under the English crown, and this attracted much
criticism from academics. Historians such as George Osborne Sayles and Steven Ellis have accused
Curtis of reading history backwards and projecting later nationalist ideology on to the intrigues of selfseeking particularist magnates. His most impressive scholarly defender, James Lydon, argues that this
reaction has led to the overlooking even of Curtis's unquestionable scholarly achievements as editor of
documents, explorer of neglected archives, and master of Irish-language as well as Latin and English
sources; and that while Curtis was certainly influenced by his political views, it is not unreasonable to
detect forms of 'patriot' ideology in late medieval Ireland.
100. CURTIS, Edmund. Ed. by. Calendar of Ormond Deeds 1172 - 1603. Six volumes. Dublin:
Stationery Office, 1932-1970. Red buckram, titled in gilt on spines. Fine. Complete sets of this
important work are rare.
€575
These deeds cover the mass of early documents which for a long time were preserved by the Butler
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family in Kilkenny castle and which are now housed in the National Library of Ireland. Since the
destruction of the Public Record Office at the Four Courts in 1922, the Ormond Deeds, numbering
several thousand, remain the largest single collection of medieval deeds and records now extant in
Ireland. For the most part they relate to the affairs of the powerful Butler family, but in addition they
contain a great number of deeds relating to other Anglo-Norman families in counties Tipperary,
Kilkenny, Waterford, Carlow and elsewhere. Many of the deeds are Royal Grants and Acts, Charters,
Episcopal Deeds, Papal Decrees, Treaties with Irish Chieftains, Pedigrees of important families, and of
particular interest are the Irish names of places.
TREATY DEBATE
101. [DAIL ÉIREANN] Official Report. Debate on the Treaty Between Great Britain and
Ireland. Signed in London on the 6th December, 1921. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. (1922). pp.
424. Owner's signature on f.f.e. A fine copy.
€150
102. D'ALTON, John. The Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin. With list of subscribers.
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, College-Green, 1838. First edition. pp. xii, 492. Recent green cloth,
title in gilt on spine. Some occasional light foxing and small ink stain to top margin. A very good
copy.
€75
With biographical notices of: George Browne; Hugh Curwen; Adam Loftus; Thomas Jones; Lancelot
Bulkeley; James Margetson; Michael Boyle; John Parker; Francis Marsh; Narcissus Marsh; William
King; John Hoadley; Charles Cobbe; William Carmichael; Arthur Smyth; John Cradock; Robert
Fowler; Charles Agar; Euseby Cleaver; John G. de la Poer Beresford; William Magee; Richard
Whateley. And of the Roman Catholic Archbishops; Matthew de Oviedo; Eugene Matthews; Peter
Talbot; Patrick Russell; Peter Creagh; Edmund Byrne; Edward Murphy; Luke Fagan; John Linegar;
Richard Lincoln; Patrick Fitzsimon; John Carpenter; John Thomas Troy; Daniel Murray.
103. DAVIDSON, Florence. Loan-Ends. Stories in Ulster. Illustrated from original linocuts by
Alfred E. Kerr. Belfast: The Quota Press, 1933. First edition. Quarto. pp. 120. Small portion of
front endpaper torn (no loss). Illustrated brown cloth. A very good copy.
€285
COPAC locates 4 copies only.
104. DAVIES, Dr. Noelle. Connolly of Ireland, Patriot and Socialist. Caernarfon: 1946. pp. 59.
Illustrated wrappers. Very good. Scarce.
€145
Short biography, introducing Connolly's ideas to Welsh socialists.
"BESIDE A LIBRARY, HOW POOR ARE
ALL THE OTHER GREATEST WORKS OF MAN"
105. [DAVIS, Thomas] Pictorial Record. Centenary of Thomas Davis and Young Ireland. 18451945. Compiled and edited by Michael Quigley. Illustrated. Dublin: Thom, 1945. Oblong quarto.
pp. [64]. Colour illustrated stapled wrappers.
€65
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One of the main attractions for the centenary celebrations was a week-long book fair in the Mansion
House. The committee included Sean O Faolain, Piaras Beaslai, Stephen Brown, S.J., Joseph Hone,
Mrs. Le Brocquy, Robert Greacen, Mrs. Salkeld, etc. In his opening speech Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy
emphasised the importance of reading Irish history and literature for the youth of Ireland: "Thomas
Davis was the prophet of Eire Óg. There was virtually no Irish reading for an Irishman one hundred
years ago and The Nation came at the right moment to nourish the newly-roused, but wholly famished
mind of the Gael with the pabulum which it was silently craving ... The Nation marked the beginning of
modern Irish history".
106. DE CUELLAR, Francisco. Spanish Armada. Illustrated account of the Francisco de
Cuellar story from paintings and drawings by Bernard MacDonagh. Sligo: n.d. (c.1965). pp. 71.
Illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce.
€35
107. DE GENNARO, Gaetano. Pastels and Paintings. Introduction by Kees Van Hoek. With 37
mounted plates. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1945. Large quarto. pp. [viii], 38, 36
(plates). Half diagonal ribbed cloth on printed boards. Special edition limited to 1,000 numbered
copies, signed by G. De Gennaro. Very good. Scarce.
€475
De Búrca 148.
De Gennaro, an Italian artist, worked for many years in Ireland where his paintings were highly
regarded and he became widely identified as an Irish artist. The subject matter is mainly of the
islanders of Inishere; portraits of Douglas Hyde, Sean Keating, Jack B. Yeats, Jerome Connor, Liam
Gogan, and also some Negro and East Indian subjects.
108. [DEMESNE GATE LODGES] The Demesne Gate Lodges of the Marquess of Sligo's
Westport House Estate covering the period April 1904 to August 1917. A manuscript with 119
pages of entries. Hard bound ruled copy book. In very good condition.
€375
A very interesting manuscript, written in ink, in a neat hand. With details of the closure of the estate
gate lodges usually for a period of twenty-four hours, on average four times per annum. Listed are the
named keepers with instructions personally related by George Taylor, Agent to the Marquess of Sligo.
There were in total four lodges: Quay Gate Lodge, Town Gate Lodge, Newport Road and Carrowcally
Gate Lodges. The keepers were: J. Bloxam, J. Callaghan, Martin Walsh, John Wakely, Thomas Peters,
James Johnstone, Michael Kettrick, Patrick Moran and Pat Cleary. The Gate Keepers were told that if
any of the public enquired why the demesne gates were closed, they were to reply "No reason has been
given to me. Those are my orders". This even applied to Mr. W. Hildebrand, Post Master and the Post
Boy. No bread van or parcels would be allowed through, letters were to be collected at the Post Office.
Each of the entries are signed and dated by George Taylor.
On the 24th October 1907 permission was granted for Mrs Livingstone to drive her motor car through
the Quay and Newport Road gates to go to and from the Rectory. Sir Henry Lynch Blosse with his
party on occasions got permission to drive his motor car through Westport Demesne. There are also
entries where permission to fish is given and where Mr. McLoughlin was granted lease to take
photographs. Also M.R. Laing was granted permission to take photographs in the Demesne. William
Palmer, Captain of Westport Cricket Club, and members of Westport Tennis Club were allowed to play
tennis in the Paddock. There are instances where named people from the town: James Ruddy, Joseph
Lavin, Michael McDermott and William Sheridan were prevented from passing through the Demesne.
Lord Sligo's Under Agent Burdett Browne had permission to ride his motor cycle through the gates. On
one occasion the gates were closed because drunken men were driving through the estate on a Sunday
afternoon.
On Monday 24th February 1913 Lord Sligo died and the gates were closed until 11th March in the
same year. Although during that period special permission was given to the Kilmeena Post Man, Miss
Spence the Countess of Altamont's nurse, Miss Powell, Miss Mary Gill and the Rev. Canon Hannay
(George A. Birmingham). In consequence of the death from pneumonia in France of Field Marshal Earl
Roberts the Demesne gates were closed to the public on 16th day of November 1914.
George Taylor accompanied Mr. Ulick Creagh Jenings of Ironpool and gave him a tour of the demesne
and house on 27th June 1917. The last entry is dated 19th August 1917.
109. DERRICKE, John. The Image of Irelande with a Discoverie of Woodkerne. With the notes
of Sir Walter Scott. Edited, with introduction, by John Small. With twelve folding woodcut
illustrations. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles, 1883. Quarto. pp. xxiv, 144. Limited to 286 copies.
Recent full green morocco, covers framed by a gilt floral roll, title and author on red morocco
letterpieces on spine. A fine copy. Rare.
€875
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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 Pyper 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.
110. [DE VALERA, Eamon] Dáil Éireann. Official Correspondence relating to the Peace
Negotiations, June-September 1921. Part I. Preliminary Correspondence, June 24th to July 9th,
1921. Part II. Correspondence arising from the conversations at London, between President de
Valera and the British Prime Minister July 20th to September 30th. Dublin: October 1921, pp.
23. Folio, blue wrappers.
€125
Historic series of letters exchanged between De Valera and Lloyd George, leading up to the Truce and
Treaty talks.
111. DILLON, Rev. E. Lays of Leisure Hours. Dublin: Philip Dixon Hardy, 1842. pp. viii, 234.
Presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'J. Bland / from Miss O'Gill / E.'corthy' in pencil.
Blind-stamped, grey-brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€375
COPAC locates the British Library and Cambridge copies only. O'Donoghue p.109.
The author was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he received B.A. in 1826 and M.A. in 1832.
According to O'Donoghue, he appears also to have published Lays of a Loiterer . He was an Anglican
Clergyman and Thomas Darcy M'Gee wrote about him in Boston Pilot, 1843.
112. DINNEEN, Rev. Patrick S. Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Bearla. An Irish-English Dictionary,
Being a thesaurus of the words, phrases and idioms of the modern Irish language. New edition,
revised and greatly enlarged. Dublin: Irish Text Society, 1927. pp. xxx, 1340 (double column), 4
(publisher's list). Original green gilt decorated cloth. New endpapers. Minor wear to extremities,
otherwise a good copy.
€45
A FIRST ON THE IRISH HORSE
113. DIONYSIUS ALEXANDRIUS. Dionysii Afri De Situ Orbis: opus studiosis necessarium,
Græce scriptum / idem in Latinitate a Rhemnio grammatico translatu, falso hactenus Prisciano
adscriptu . In ide , œlij alca nini annotatiunculæ, ex libris eiusde excerptæ. asil pud
Val. Curionem, 1522. 12mo. 62 leaves un-numbered (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. 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 Perie etes (Διονύ ιο ὁ Πε ιηγη ή , literally Dionysius the Voya er or raveller, o ten
Latinised 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.
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
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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.
114. [DOLMEN CHAPBOOK] A Miscellany in twelve parts. Edited by Liam Miller. Issued to
subscribers. Dublin: Dolmen 1954/60. Edition limited to 250 copies. Fine in bookbinder's
chemise folder. Complete sets are very rare.
€1,250
"The idea behind the Dolmen chapbooks was to print short texts with illustrations, using various type
formats and techniques within a uniform page size The series gives a fair picture of the very personal
interests which informed the Press at this time, and several of the titles were issued in other formats"
(Miller 17)
I.
The Ballad of Jane Shore by Donagh MacDonagh. Hand-coloured cut by Eric Patten. November
1954.
II. A Wexford Carol. With a design by Leslie MacWeeney. December 1954.
III. The Perfect Wife by Robert Gibbings. Wood engravings by the author. June 1955.
IV. Thirty Three Triads. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish. August 1955.
V. Death of a Queen by Thomas Kinsella. Drawings by Bridget Swinton. April 1956.
VI. The Mines of Siberia by Arland Ussher. Designed by Nelson Paine. May 1956.
VII. The Loves of Bregog and Mulla by Edmund Spenser. Hand-coloured mono-types by Leslie
MacWeeney. September 1956.
VIII. O'Reilly by Richard Weber. Typographic decorations by Liam Miller. June 1957.
IX. Irish Elegies by Padraic Colum. Device by Liam Miller. October 1958.
X. Angel Songs. Translated by Rhoda Coghill from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke. Decorations
after woodcuts by Albrecht Durer. December 1959.
XI. A Gaelic Alphabet by Michael Biggs, with a note on Irish lettering by Liam Miller. March 1960.
XII. Moralities by Thomas Kinsella. Designs after Durer. March 1960.
115. DONERAILE, Viscount. An early Photograph of Members of the Hayes St. Leger Family
at Doneraile Court. Included in the photograph are the Fourth Viscount, Lady Doneraile and their
only child Ursula Clara Emily, born 18th July, 1853 and her husband Bernard Edward Barnaby
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Baron Castletown of Upper Ossory, born July 29th, 1848 and married April 23rd, 1874. Inscribed
on photograph are the initials 'F.L.' dated 1879, presumably that is the year in which the
photograph was taken. [108 x 162mm]. In very good condition.
€235
The Viscount Doneraile was created twice in the Peerage of Ireland for members of the St. Leger
family. It was first created in 1703 for Arthur St. Leger, along with the subsidiary title of Baron
Kilmayden. This creation became extinct in 1767 on the death of the fourth Viscount. However, his
sister's son, St. Leger Aldworth, succeeded to the St. Leger estates and assumed the surname of St.
Leger in lieu of his patronymic. He notably represented Doneraile in the Irish Parliament from 1761 to
1776. The latter year he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Doneraile and in 1785 the
viscountcy was revived and he was created Viscount Doneraile.
His grandson, the third Viscount, sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1830
to 1854. His son, his son Hayes St. Leger, the fourth Viscount, was an Irish Representative Peer
between 1855 and 1887. He was succeeded by his second cousin, the fifth Viscount. His son, the sixth
Viscount, served as Mayor of the City of Westminster. On the death of his younger brother, the seventh
Viscount, this line of the family also failed and he was succeeded by his second cousin once removed,
the eighth Viscount. As of 2010 the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the tenth Viscount, who
succeeded his father in 1983. He lives in California.
The former family seat is Doneraile Court, a neo-Classical country house located in Doneraile Park, on
the edge of Doneraile, a small town near Mallow in north County Cork. The country house and the
surrounding park is now owned by the Office of Public Works (OPW).
Pasted on the verso of the photograph is a newspaper clipping on the death of the 4th Viscount. He was
born 30th September, 1818; married the 20th August, 1851, Mary Anne Grace Louisa, daughter of
George Lennox Conyngham, Esq. He succeeded his father, the 3rd Viscount, on 27th March 1854 and
died of hydrophobia from the bite of a pet fox in 1887. He was great-great grandson of the Hon. Mrs
Elizabeth Aldworth, of Newmarket, County Cork. She was born the Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger, and is
best remembered as 'The Lady Freemason', who was the first recorded woman to be initiated into
Regular Freemasonry. She was the daughter of Arthur St. Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile and 1st Baron
Kilmayden of Doneraile Court, County Cork.
116. [DONNELLY'S HOLLOW] An Tóstal. Donnelly's Hollow Pageant. Sunday, 2nd May,
1954. With introduction by James J. Byrne of Kilcullen. Illustrated. Carlow: Nationalist &
Leinster Times, 1954. Quarto. pp. 16. Printed stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €75
The Pageant included a boxing tournament in honour of the renowned Irish boxer Daniel Donnelly
(1788-1820) whose first recorded fight took place at the Curragh on the 14th September, 1814. Other
sporting events included: fencing, judo, wrestling and football.
EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES ONLY
117. DOOGUE, Declan. Et al. Flora of County Dublin by The Dublin Naturalists' Field Club.
Compiled and edited by Declan Doogue, David Nash, John Parnell, Sylvia Reynolds and Peter
Wyse Jackson. Frontispiece and other illustrations by Wendy Walsh. With numerous colour
photographs. Dublin: The Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, 1998. vii, 558. Limited edition of 100
numbered copies. Bound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts in quarter brown niger oasis over marbled
boards. Patron's name and number loosely inserted. Brown silk marker. Top edge gilt. Brown
buckram slipcase with arms of the club in gilt. A superb copy.
€375
The Dublin Naturalists' Field Club was founded in 1886 and early members included Robert Lloyd
Praeger and Nathaniel Colgan. It has the general aim of promoting an interest in all branches of natural
history.
118. DOWLING, William J. Harry Clarke, RHA. Dublin Stained Glass Artist. Dublin: Read to
the Old Dublin Society, 1956. pp. 8. Printed stapled wrappers. A fine copy.
€35
RARE DUBLIN LITERARY MAGAZINE
119. DOWNES, W.A. Ed. by. The Muse. The Magazine of the Dublin Writers' Club. Vol. 1.
No. 1. (All published ?) September, 1929. Printed and Published for the Dublin Writers' Club by
the Secretary, 1929. Quarto. pp. 42 (typed). Original blue illustrated wrappers. Ex. lib., with
stamps. Exceedingly rare.
€375
With contributions by: Brinsley MacNamara, Lennox Robinson, J.D. Beresford, G.E. Gill, E.L. Twiss,
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D.M. Large, Nora G. Kidd, Helen M. Kelly, Mary Pilkington, Cormac O'Connell, Kathleen Garrett,
Michael O'Beirne, Dorothy M. Emerson and R.A. Fitzgerald-Studdert.
120. DOWNEY, E. [F.M. Allen] Anchor-Watch Yarns. London: Ward & Downey, 1893. Sixth
edition. pp. 315. Printed wrappers. Spine rebacked. A good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€375
No copy of this edition located on COPAC. Two copies (fifth edition and 1897 edition) held at The
British Library and National Maritime Museum. The imprint on the wrapper gives the publisher as
James Duffy of Westmoreland Street, Dublin.
Edmund Downey (1856-1937) publisher and novelist, was born in Waterford, son of a ship owner. He
was educated at the Catholic University School and John's College, Waterford. In 1878 he moved to
London and worked for the publisher Tinsley Brothers and two years later became editor of Tinsley's
Magazine. In 1884 he established his own publishing house, Ward and Downey. He is credited with
one of the few publisher's who facilitated the publishing of works by living Irish authors, greatly
contributing to the popularisation of the Irish novel.
His own fiction includes Through Green Glasses (1887), Green as Grass (1892), Merchant of Killogue
(1894), Clashmore (1903) and the present work which is exceedingly rare.
ILLEGAL ASSOCIATIONS OF RIBBONMEN
121. [DR. DOYLE] The Pastoral Address of the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle, R.C. Bishop of Kildare
and Leighlin, against the Illegal Associations of Ribbonmen. Dublin: Printed by J.J. Nolan, 1822.
12mo. pp. 23, [1]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Some minor spotting to titlepage.
A fine copy.
€375
James Warren Doyle (1786-1834) Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin issued this address
to each Parish to be read to their flock if they had reason to believe that any member be suspected of
being involved in an illegal association. Ribbonism, whose adherents were usually called Ribbonmen,
was a 19th-century popular movement of Catholics in Ireland. It was active against landlords and their
agents, and was ideologically and sometimes violently opposed to the Orange Order.
The Ribbon Society was principally an agrarian secret society, whose members consisted of rural Irish
Catholics. The society was formed in response to the miserable conditions in which the vast majority of
tenant farmers and rural workers lived in the early 19th century in Ireland. Its objective was to prevent
landlords from changing or evicting their tenants. Ribbonmen also attacked tithe and process servers,
and later evolved the policy of Tenants' Rights. The existence of 'Ribbonmen' was recorded as early as
1817. The name is derived from a green ribbon worn as a badge in a button-hole by the members.
Depending on the district, the society was variously known as the Fraternal Society, the Patriotic
Association or the Sons of the Shamrock. The Ribbonmen's organisation was similar to that of the
Whiteboys or the Defenders of earlier periods. They were organised in lodges, and during the 1820s
were in contact with certain organisations of Radicals in England.
DARING ATTACK ON THE CORK AND KERRY COACH
122. [DREADFUL INSURRECTION] Dseadful Insurrection in Ireland. Last Week. A single
sheet broadside, printed on one side only (double column). Nottingham: Ordoyno Printer, n.d.
(c.1822). A very good copy. Rare.
€275
This broadside was printed from an article in the Cork Observer , January 26, 1822. Two days earlier
the Whiteboys of Clondrohid attacked the mail coach on its way from Tralee to Cork looking for
firearms and money. Wright in his History of Ireland [III] related that they "overturned the coach and
took possession of the mail. On the receipt of this intelligence Colonel Mitchell, who commanded at
Macroom, proceeded thence with a detachment of troops in the direction of Millstreet, near which
place the coach had been attacked, and found there a large body of men, partly armed, who made a
slow resistance, but who upon being attacked by the troops, fled with precipitation, and twenty-three
prisoners were secured".
There were various small battles between the military and the country people in that district at the
beginning of 1822, resulting in many deaths. Some of the battles have been preserved in contemporary
accounts and descriptions and others have lived on in tradition.
There is a misprint in the title 'Dseadful' instead of 'Dreadful'.
123. [DUBLIN] Illustrated Guide to Dublin with Notes on its History, Antiquities, and
Industries. Dublin: The Messenger Office, n.d. pp. 84. Recent cloth. Very good. Rare.
€125
No copy located on Copac.
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124. [DUBLIN] Physical and Topographical Map of the Country around Dublin. Geological
Map of the Country around Dublin. Edinburgh: John Bartholomew, Published for the Handbook
of the British Association Meeting, 1908. 570 x 425mm. Colour map. Scale: 4 miles to an inch.
Folded. Small tear to folds, otherwise in very good condition.
€35
SCARCITY OF GOOD BOOKS IN DUBLIN
125. [DUBLIN BOOKSELLER] Two letters typed and autograph from William F. Figgis to a
colleague J.G. Wilson, Esq. on Hodges, Figgis letterhead paper dated 9th and 13th November,
1933. Two pages quarto, typed and handwritten.
€285
William F. Figgis was the senior partner in the firm. In these letters he discusses the book business in
Dublin and the scarcity of good books for the Christmas stock: "I feel very dissatisfied with some
aspects o the hrist as stock. here is no lack o ediocre stu … but there see s to be a reat want
o any ood illustrated i t books ... I' a raid this will ean … and the hrist as turnover down". e
considered oin over to the London shops "but i you can ive e a ew hints … it i ht save e the
expense". He concludes by requesting a list.
126. [DUBLIN GRAND OPERA] The Dublin Grand Opera Society [in conjunction with Radio
Eireann] presents The Hamburg State Opera in Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte. Spring Season.
Gaiety Theatre Dublin .... April 24th-May 13th 1950. Souvenir Album. Illustrated. Dublin:
Printed by Elo Press for D.G.O.S., 1950. Quarto. pp. [44]. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers
printed in green.
€125
127. [DUBLIN GUIDE] Baile Átha Cliath. Dublin Official Guide. Illustrated. Dublin: The Irish
Tourist Association, n.d. (c.1931). pp. 160. Green cloth embossed in gilt on upper cover. Minor
wear to spine, otherwise a very good copy.
€35
128. [DUBLIN SCHOOL OF ANATOMY] Medical Certificate awarded to Mr. James Butler
from: The School of Anatomy, Medicine, & Surgery, Park Street, Dublin dated April 1839, with
the stamp of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Signed by William Auchinleck, and Dr.
Phillip Bevan. 250 x 400mm. Fine.
€85
129. [DUNLEARY HARBOUR] An Act to Alter and Amend an Act passed in the Fifty-sixth
Year of His late Majesty, for erecting a Harbour for Ships to the Eastward of Dunleary, within
the Port of Dublin; and to provide for the Erection of a Western Pier to the said Harbour of
Dunleary. [15th July 1820]. Dublin: Printed by George Grierson and Martin Keene, Printers to
the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1820. Folio. pp. 513-519. Disbound. In fine condition. €60
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130. [DUNRAVEN, Countess & Earl of] Memorials of Adare Manor by Caroline, Countess of
Dunraven, with Historical Notices of Adare by her son, The Earl of Dunraven. With duo-tone
lithographs by J.R. Jobbins, and fifty-five illustrations throughout text. Oxford: Printed for
Private Circulation, By Messrs. Parker, 1865. Quarto. pp. xii, 303, 31 (plates). Original green
cloth, gilt armorial device on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Rebacked. Small tear to margin of
a few plates. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€1,250
Only the BL copy located on COPAC.
Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin, third Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl was born in
London, 1812. He graduated B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1833, and as Viscount Adair represented
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Glamorgan as a Conservative 1837-1851. While in the Commons he converted to Catholicism and
concentrated his political activity on safeguarding religious education in Ireland. He succeeded his
father as third earl in 1850. He subsequently became one of the commissioners of national education in
Ireland 1861–71. Appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Limerick in 1864, he became a Knight of St. Patrick
in March 1866, and in June 1866 was created a peer of the UK, taking the title of Baron Kenry.
Described as 'a lover and patron of everything Irish, a resident landlord and an amiable and
accomplished gentleman' (Annual Register , 1871, pt ii, 161), Dunraven was interested in intellectual
pursuits, he studied astronomy and spiritualism, but Irish history and archaeology was his main interest.
A founder member along with Petrie, O'Donovan and Stokes of the Irish Archaeological Society in
1840 and the Celtic Society in 1845.
He is said to have visited every barony in Ireland and every island off the coast, nearly always attended
by a photographer. The chief results of his labours, which were designed as a continuation of those of
Petrie, were embodied in Notes on Irish Architecture (edited by Margaret Stokes), and the present
volume. He was a man of quick perceptions and great power of application, a zealous convert to
Catholicism, and a highly popular landlord. His mother was also interested in antiquarian studies; he
edited her papers as Memoirs of Adare Manor by Caroline, countess of Dunraven' (1865), which
included some of his own research on local archaeological remains, notes on the genealogy of the
O'Quins of Inchiquin and the Quins of Adare and the round tower of the church of Dysart. This work is
a minute and exhaustive treatise on the architectural remains of Adare and its vicinity, illustrated
throughout with a series of very fine tinted plates.
131. DUPLAIN, Claude. La Religion Vengée des Blasphêmes de Voltaire, en six cantos: Ou les
Horreurs de son Epitre à Uranie, Pour La Meditation Des Deistes, Et des jeunes Chretiens qui
n'ont pas encore secoüé le joug de la foi, pour les mettre en garde contre un Auteur dont les
ouvrages tendent à les surprendre et à les perdre. Par Claude Duplain. Par Claude Duplain.
Dublin: par J.A. Husband, No. 28, Abbey-Street, 1783. pp. [13],vi-xxvii,[5],6,[4],7-12,[4],1324,[4],25-43,[5],45-54[4],55-86,[2]. Old calf. Boards detached. Internally a fine copy.
€150
ESTC T12618. With 4 locations in Ireland and 3 in England.
In the final advertisement leaf we are told the author of this anti-Enlightenment poem was a teacher of
French, translator, and a teacher of English to foreigners, working from 6 Marlborough Street, Dublin.
Our copy has that address changed in a contemporary hand to 4 Jarvais Street.
With a half-title, and a list of 'Subscribers' names', the author dedicated this work to Walter Hussey
Burgh. Each canto is preceded by two leaves outside the pagination and register containing a divisional
title and a summary of the canto with notes.
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132. DURCAN, Paul. & LAMBERT, Gene. In the Land of Punt. Poetry by Paul Durcan.
Illustrations by Gene Lambert. Clashganna Mills Press: 1988. First edition. Sq. quarto. pp. 36.
Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Limited edition, signed by the poet and illustrator. Cloth. A fine
copy in protective wrapper.
€85
Seven poems by Paul Durcan accompanied by seven colour illustrations by Gene Lambert make up this
very attractive uncommon publication. Signed by both the artist and the poet.
133. [EARLSFORT PLAYERS] Programme. The First
Stage Presentation of 'Wrap Up My Green Jacket' by
Valentin Iremonger. Preceded by 'The Magic Glasses' by
George Fitzmaurice. Week of 15th September 1947.
Peacock Theatre. Dublin: 1947. Single sheet folded, lightly
damped-stained.
€45
Included in the cast were: Dennis O'Donovan; Kitty O'Brien;
Éamonn Keane; James Slavin; Ruby Shorthall, etc. Liam Miller
and James Slavin were responsible for the production and also
designed the settings.
134. EDGEWORTH, Maria. Tales of Fashionable Life.
Six volumes. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1809/1814.
Third and fourth edition. With the contemporary signature
of Ellen Bingham of Bally Gilbert on titlepages.
Contemporary full tree calf, spines with contrasting labels.
A fine set.
€175
135. EDGEWORTH, Maria. Patronage. Four volumes. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1814.
Second edition. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Later half calf over marbled boards. Some
minor spotting to prelims, upper joints starting, minor wear to extremities. A sound set.
€175
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), was born at
Black Bourton near Reading, and educated in
England. She returned to Ireland with her
father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, in 1782,
and taught the children of his later marriages,
sharing his progressive views on education.
During the 1798 rebellion Edgeworthstown
was spared by the insurgents because of the
family's standing with its tenants.
136.
EDGEWORTH,
Maria.
Harrington, A Tale; and Ormond, A Tale.
Three volumes. London: Printed for R.
Hunter, 1817. Owner's signature on front
endpaper. Later half calf over marbled
boards. Some minor spotting to prelims,
upper joints starting, minor wear to
extremities. A sound set.
€175
137. EDWARDS, Anthony. Edward's
Cork Remembrancer; or, Tablet of
Memory. Enumerating every remarkable
circumstance that has happened in the City and County of Cork, and in the Kingdom at large.
Including all the memorable events in Great Britain; with an account of all the battles by sea and
land in the present century. Also, the remarkable earthquakes, famines, inundations, storms,
frosts, fires, and all other accidents of moment, in every quarter of the globe, from the earliest
period, to the year 1792. Cork: By Anthony Edwards, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer, CastleStreet, 1792. pp. iv, 301, 8 (Edwards Catalogue). Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. From
the library of Alexandra Montgomery with his signature on A1. A fine copy. Scarce.
€475
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A FINE COPY OF THE "FINEST EDITION"
138. EGAN, Pierce. Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected; including Numerous
Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life, Who have acquired Notoriety from
their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversions of the Field, with Sketches of
various Animals of the Chase: To Which is Added, an Account of noted Pedestrians, TrottingMatches, Cricketers, &c. The whole forming a complete Delineation of the Sporting World. A
New Edition, considerably enlarged and improved. Engraved frontispiece, three portraits and
three hand-coloured aquatints or stipple-engraved plates (one folding), woodcut vignettes.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co., Paternoster-Row, 1825. pp. viii, 592, [16]
(publisher's list). Early twentieth century three quarter red morocco over red cloth boards, title
and author in gilt direct on spine. Cockerel endpapers. A fine copy.
€475
Pierce Egan (1772-1849) was a journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture. He was born in
the London suburbs, where he spent his life. His family background is obscure, but he claimed Irish
ancestry. By 1812, he had established himself as the country's leading reporter of sporting events,
which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and horse-races. The result of these reports, which won
him a countrywide reputation for wit and sporting knowledge, appeared in the four volumes of
Boxiana, or, Sketches of Modern Pugilism, which were published between 1818 and 1824.
So successful was Boxiana that Egan announced the publication of a regular journal: Life in London ,
appearing monthly at a shilling a time. It was to be illustrated by George Cruikshank (1792–1878), who
was London's leading satirist of urban life. The journal was dedicated to the King, George IV, who at
one time had received Egan at court.
Life in London appeared until 1828, when Egan closed it down. The publisher brought out a reprint in
1869, but the work had already established itself as a literary influence. He provided regular reportage
of the major capital trials and in 1824 launched a new journal, Pierce Egan's Life in London and
Sporting Guide, a weekly newspaper priced at eight pence-halfpenny.
He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, North London.
139. EGAN, Pierce. Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the
Chase, the Ring, and the Stage. Interspersed with Original Memoirs of Sporting Men, etc.
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Dedicated to George Osbaldeston, Esq. In twenty five parts. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes.
London: T.T. and J. Tegg, 1832. First edition. Printed by J. Haddon, Castle Street, Finsbury. pp.
414. (with index). Contemporary half red morocco on red cloth boards, title and year in gilt direct
on spine. Armorial bookplate of C. Beaufort Hunt on front pastedown. Minor wear to corners,
€365
140. ELLIS, Peter Berresford. Hell or
Connaught! The Cromwellian Colonisation of
Ireland 1652-1660. With maps and illustrations.
London: Hamilton, 1975. First edition. pp. [x],
268. Blue paper boards. Title in gilt on spine. A
very good copy in d.j. Top edge red. Scarce. €75
The Cromwellian confiscations were carried out in
order to meet the demands of the Commonwealth
Army of Cromwell's Ironsides, who demanded land
as payment for their services. According to the survey
made by Sir William Petty, out of a total of 21
million acres, 11 million were confiscated from the
Irish. By and large the Irish were banished to
Connaught and County Clare - on pain of death. This
was followed by the relentless persecution of
Catholics and mass transportations to the West
Indies. In 1670, over 7,000 ex-Cromwellian soldiers
and 1,000 or so Adventurers were confirmed in the
lands of the dispossessed Irish by Charles II.
141. [ESB] Report on Rural Electrification.
Prepared by the Electricity Supply Board. At the
request of the Minister for Industry and
Commerce. With Maps, Illustrations and tables.
Dublin: Stationery Office, n.d. (Published in September, 1944). Quarto. pp. 114 (double column).
Quarter library buckram on grey paper boards. Edition limited to 500 copies. Ex. lib. with
stamps. A very good copy.
€175
142. [ESTATE RENTAL] Manuscript Rental of the Marquis of Sligo's Estate for the year to 1st
May 1900. Receipts shown from 1st November 1899 to 31st October 1900. With index. Bound
by Charles Chambers, 36 Dame Street, Dublin, Printer, Account-Book Manufacturer, in full
black morocco. Title 'Marquis of Sligo' in gilt on upper cover. Octavo. A fine copy.
€675
The rental consists of 216 pages of entries. The pages are divided into columns with the following
headings: Denominations; Tenant's Name; Arrears Due; Annual Rent; Amount Received; Arrears
Remaining; Ordnance Valuation; Observations. Depicted are increases and decreases in annual rents
under the Local Government Act of 1898.
The Head Rents for Aillemore, Curraun, Falduff, Lisnahoora, Ballycroy, Newport Estate, totalled
£1194.8.9.
Land Now in Owner's Possession: Aillebaun, Ardogommon Woods, Barnaderg, Brackloon,
Carrowbeg, Cloonskill Bog, Coolbarreen, Corratowce, Deerpark, Derrintir, Derrylea, Demesne, Erriff,
Knockranny Wood, Lankill (Wood), Lettermaglenskea, Slauger, Teerinish, Roman Island (Plantation),
Westport Town, Louisburgh, Fisheries, Lehinch Tenants.
During this period the rents almost doubled.
143. FAIRLEY, James. Irish Whales and Whaling. Illustrated. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1981. pp.
218. Cream paper boards, title in brown on spine. Ex. lib. A very good copy in illustrated d.j. €65
This work contains a detailed account of all whales found in Irish waters, and chronicles the history of
whaling off Ireland from Viking times, with special emphasis on operations in Donegal Bay and
around Achill Island.
"NUMEROUS DEBTS DUE TO ME IN DUBLIN"
144. FALKINER, Sir Frederick. Autograph letter signed from Sir Frederick Falkiner,
Castletown, Isle of Man, addressed to Thomas Norman, Esqr., Mountjoy Square, Dublin. Dated
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17th October, 1803. Two pages quarto, cognate address leaf with part of wax seal.
€265
Sir Frederick Falkiner (?-1822) was a member of the Irish Parliament for the borough of Athy and a
staunch opponent of the Union who could not be bought. He committed suicide in 1824 after financial
troubles. In this letter Falkiner wrote: "I hope you will excuse my being so troublesome to you, about
the business I mentioned to you some time ago in Dublin with respect to Lord Mountjoy, & give me
leave to assure you, I should not but from the very particular way I am circumstanced Having taken a
Large Farm here, with House and Offices, very much out of repair, which has cost me a great deal
more, than I had any Idea of, nor indeed should I have taken it, even to have laid out, what I expected it
would have cost me, but that I was pretty certain of getting in, some part of the numerous debts due to
me in Dublin, and the Country parts of Ireland, but so much the reverse was the case, that after staying
about four months in Ireland for the purpose, I did not receive a Guinea either principal or interest, &
what is worse shall be obliged to take means to get some of them in, that is very distressing to my
feelings, & that to those that I distress'd myself to serve. I must also buy a large Stock of Cattle for
Winter, which I shall find very difficult to get the means to do - I should not have trespass'd so much
on your time about myself, but to convince you, that it is necessity, and no inclination that induces me
to make this application being satisfied from the honourable way I have always heard your Name
mentioned, & the warm, & handsome manner, you spoke to me, of my conduct in the business, that
when convenient the business would be settled - But it has occurred to me, as Lord Mountjoy's Income
is so great, and the sums so small, that you might without inconvenience to yourself accept bills, at two
or three months sight, or at different periods, or perhaps you would be so kind to allow me to draw on
you, for a part on ace: at two, or three months, so that it might be paid out of the Nov. Rents, and to
leave the remainder until another opportunity, it would be a great convenience to me, & would be a
favour ... ".
A fine letter discussing his financial troubles that eventually led to his suicide. The manuscript has a
small mounting remnant to the first page, but is in fine condition overall.
ONE OF OUR GREATEST CELTIC SCHOLARS
145. FENTON, Seamus. A Great Kilkenny Man. John O'Donovan. A Lecture Delivered in the
Town Hall, Kilkenny. Kilkenny: Kilkenny People, 1940. pp. 15 (double column). Red printed
stapled wrappers. A fine copy.
€30
THE GREATEST FAILURE IN IRISH HISTORY
146. [FIANNA FÁIL - GENERAL ELECTION 1932] A fine group of original political
handbills, broadsides and a poster issued by Fianna Fáil (including one Cumann na nGaedheal
handbill) during the 1932 General Election, covering various aspects of political policy, ten in
all: 1. Fianna Fáil National Election Poster, printed in green. 2. The Greatest Failure in Irish
History. 3. The Increasing Burden! 4. The Economic History of the Land of Erin. 5. What a
Fianna Fáil Government Can Do. 6. Listen! 7. "They have not even held the British Market - ". 8.
What the protection of Industries means to YOU! 9. General Election, 1932. County Dublin
Constituency. The Fianna Fáil Candidates. 10. Keep a Firm Grip of your Homesteads. Farmers.
(Cumann na nGaedheal). All in very good condition.
€675
The 1932 General Election is one of the most important in the history of Ireland. In comparison to the
ruling Cumann na nGaedheal, who had campaigned on its record of nine years of stable government
(following the Irish Civil War) the opposition Fianna Fail, led by De Valera, had an elaborate election
programme, designed to appeal to a wide section of the electorate. It played down its republicanism to
avoid alarm, but provided very popular social and economic policies.
The party promised to free I.R.A. prisoners, abolish the Oath of Allegiance and reduce the powers of
the Governor-General and the Senate. It also promised the introduction of protectionist policies,
industrial development, self-sufficiency and improvements in housing and social security benefits. In
the event Fianna Fail took power with the support of the Irish Labour Party and the first transition of
power in Irish history took place. There were fears of insurrection, mainly because of the bitter
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memories of the Civil War, but power was transferred peacefully, all parties putting aside their
personal differences, to ensure that democracy reigned supreme.
IRELAND IN PICTURES
147. FINERTY, The Hon. John F. Ireland in Pictures. A Grand Collection of Over 400
Magnificent Photographs of the Beauties of the Green Isle. Comprising views of the most famous
buildings, historic places, romantic scenery, venerable ruins, rich art treasures, etc., etc. With
historical and descriptive sketches by the Hon. John F. Finerty of Chicago. With coloured map of
Ireland. Montana: The Anaconda Standard, 1902. Oblong quarto. pp. 409. Green cloth decorated
in shamrocks, title in gilt in centre panel flanked by the Arms of the Four Provinces in gilt. New
endpapers. A very good copy.
€145
A superb photographic record of Victorian Ireland, which includes Enniscorthy, Maynooth, Glasnevin,
Trinity College, Carrick-a-rede, Cork, Galway, Achill, Evictions, Carrying Turf, etc.
148. FINNBHÉIL, Feargus. An Macléighinn. Leabhar Chomhráaidh. Cuid 1. Baile Átha Cliath:
Muintir na Leabhar Gaelighe, No 6 Sraid d'Oleir, 1912. pp. vii, 67. Printed boards, spine
rebacked. Ex. lib. Kensington Libraries with stamps, bookplate and library label. A very good
copy.
€75
Short instructions on method of teaching Irish.
149. FITZPATRICK, William J. History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries. With map and
numerous illustrations. Dublin: Published at the Offices, 1900. pp. xiv, 236, xx. Green cloth, title
in gilt on upper cover and spine. New front endpaper. Some minor wear, otherwise a very good
copy. Scarce.
€65
This work was continued and edited by W.J. Fitzpatrick's son, under the direction of a sub-committee
of the Board.
150. FLOOD, W.H. Grattan. A History of Irish Music. List of Subscribers. Dublin: Browne &
Nolan, 1913. Third edition. Small octavo. pp. xv, 357. Ex lib. with stamps. Blue cloth, title in gilt
on upper and spine. Some spotting to fore-edge. A very good copy. Scarce.
€95
The author traces the origin of Irish music from the earliest times through the various centuries, and
include chapters on: Irish Music in the Sixteenth Century; Anglo-Irish Music in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries; O'Carolan and his Contemporaries; The Jacobite Period; Irish Pipers on the
Eighteenth Century; Anglo-Irish Music from 1701-1800; Handel and Arne in Ireland; Harp Festivals
and Harp Societies; Shakespeare and Irish Music; Irish Music in the Seventeenth Century, etc.
The list of subscribers included: The King of Portugal; The O'Neill, Lisbon; Lord Walter Fitzgerald;
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Sir A. Conan Doyle; Professor Mahaffy; T.M. Healy; William O'Brien; Edward Martyn of Tillyra
Castle; Canon Sheehan of Doneraile; Douglas Hyde; Francis Joseph Bigger; T.D. Sullivan; Francis
O'Neill, Chief of Police, Chicago; Rev. E.A. D'Alton, and numerous peers of the realm.
WITH ALS FROM THE AUTHOR
151. FROUDE, James Anthony. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. Three
volumes. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1872/74. pp. (1) xv, 633, 24, (2) xi, 520, (3) viii,
519. With an autograph letter signed from the author to the historian Hugh Allingham (August 3,
1873?). Original blind patterned cloth. Spine of volume I expertly rebacked. Minor wear to
binding, otherwise a very good set.
€295
152. FURLONG, Nicky. The Wexford Guide. Official Irish Tourist Board Guide to County
Wexford. With colour illustrations. Dublin: Published by Bord Failte, n.d. pp. 28. Illustrated
wrappers.
€10
153. [GAELIC JOURNAL] Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge. The Gaelic Journal: Exclusively devoted
to the Preservation and Cultivation of the Irish Language. Founded, conducted and published by
the Gaelic Union. Vol. I. No. 1, 1882 - Vol. VI. No. 12, 1896. Illustrated with a map of Ireland in
the Third Century. Seventy-two issues in four volumes. Dublin: Joseph Dollard, 1882-1896.
Large octavo. pp. (1) vi, 400, (2) 909. Green gilt decorated cloth over bevelled boards, title and
armorial shield in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Ex. lib. with stamps and labels. A
very good set.
€475
The Gaelic Union (Aondacht na Gaeilge) was founded in March 1880 by a group of Irish-language
activists and scholars who had previously been members of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish
Language, including David Comyn, Thomas O'Neill Russell, and Canon Ulick Bourke. Dissatisfied
with what they judged to be the lack of dynamic popular impact of the former society, the Gaelic Union
founder-members wished to implement practical measures that would arrest the decline of Irish as a
living vernacular. It published a bilingual journal, Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, which was influential in
laying the basis for a new literature in Irish. Members of the council included Canon Ulick Bourke,
David Comyn, Michael Cusack, Thomas Flannery, Douglas Hyde, Edmund Hogan, W.M. Hennessy,
Maurice Lenihan and James O'Laverty, etc.
J.J. Doyle (1855-1929) was born in an Irish-speaking district of County Kerry, but his parents mainly
spoke English to him. He met David Comyn about 1875, and was inspired by him to improve his
knowledge of Irish. It was largely due to the efforts of Comyn and Doyle that Irisleabhar na Gaeilge
('The Gaelic Journal', later edited by Pearse) was founded in 1882.
David Comyn, Gaelic scholar, born in Clare in 1853, was the first editor of the journal and Michael
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Cusack was its first treasurer. After June 1894 the Gaelic Journal was published by the Gaelic League.
The contents include: Gaelic Prose (The Irish Language in the nineteenth Century, Origin and History
of Irish Names and Places, Where is the best Gaelic spoken?); Gaelic Poetry; English Prose; English
Poetry; Translations from Gaelic; Irish Texts; Notes and Queries; Gaelic Lessons; Correspondence;
Miscellaneous; Reviews and Notices of Books; Gaelic Texts and Translations from the Royal
University Programme.
154. GARDNER, Phyllis. The Irish Wolfhound. A Historical Sketch. With over one hundred
wood engravings specially cut by the author and her sister. Dundalk: Dundalgan, 1981. pp. 253.
Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€45
A unique and valuable contribution to the literature of the Irish wolfhound.
155. [GATE THEATRE] Programme. Dublin Gate Theatre. Lord Longford presents 'The
Seagull'. By Anton Chekhov. Translated by George Calderon. October 1946. Dublin: Corrigan &
Wilson, 1946. Single sheet folded.
€35
The cast included: Eve Watkinson; John Izod; Christopher Casson; Iris Lawler; John Welsh; Gervaise
Mathews; Sheila O'Reilly; Maurice O'Brien; Charles Mitchell, etc.
156. GAUL, Liam. Masters of Irish Music. Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing Limited, 2006. pp. 127.
Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy.
€25
With chapters on: Turlough O'Carolan; Edward Bunting; Thomas Moore; John Field; Julius Benedict;
Michael William Balfe; Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore; Captain Francis O'Neill; Charles Villiers Stanford;
Patrick Joseph McCall; Margaret Burke Sheridan; Delia Murphy; John Feeney; Luke Kelly, etc.
SPECIAL EDITION
157. [GEORGIAN SOCIETY] The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic
Architecture and Decoration in Dublin. Introduction by Desmond Guinness. With numerous
plates and illustrations. Five volumes. Shannon: I.U.P. 1969. Quarto. Quarter morocco gilt on
illustrated paper boards. A very good set.
€1,250
158. GIBBINGS, Robert. Sweet Cork of Thee. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1951. pp. vii, 235.
First edition. Green cloth, bird in gilt on upper cover, title and bells in gilt on spine. Top edge
yellow. A fine copy in d.j. with minute loss.
€45
159. GIBBINGS, Robert. Till I End My Song. With engravings by the author. London: J.M.
Dent & Sons, 1957. First edition. pp. [vi], 234. Green cloth. Top edge green. Minor foxing to
endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in d.j.
€50
THE ANCIENT RECORDS OF DUBLIN
160. GILBERT, John, T. Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, in the Possession of the
Municipal Corporation of that City. Illustrated with facsimiles of documents, charters, deeds,
rolls, maps, etc. Nineteen volumes. Dublin: Dollard, 1889-1944. Qtr. morocco on pebbled cloth
with the arms of Dublin in gilt on all covers. Spine of volume one rebacked. A very good set.
Complete sets are exceedingly rare.
€1,650
Sir John Gilbert, (1829-98), historian and antiquary, was Ireland's greatest historical archivist. From an
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early age he was interested in the history and antiquities of his country, and when he published the
History of the City of Dublin in 1861, he won the Cunningham Gold Medal, of the Royal Irish
Academy. His appreciation of the importance of editing and publishing manuscript documents, and his
attacks on the treatment of Irish historical documents led to the founding of the Irish Public Record
Office in 1867. He was, with the general approval of the public, appointed Secretary, and retained this
post until 1875, when it was abolished.
161. GLIN, The Knight of, and PEILL, James. Irish Furniture. Woodwork and Carving in
Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union. Including A Dictionary of Irish Furniture
Makers by John Rogers. With photography by James Fennell and Dara McGrath. Newhaven and
London: Yale University Press, 2007. Large quarto. pp. viii, [4], 323. Edition limited to 75
numbered copies, signed by the authors. Generous quarter calf on marbled boards. Title and
authors in gilt on red morocco letterpieces. A fine copy in slipcase.
€365
162. GLYNN, Sir Joseph A. The Irish Brigade. Dublin: Veritas, n.d. (c.1930). First edition. pp.
32. A very good copy in illustrated stapled wrappers.
€20
163. GOGAN, L.S., MEEHAN, Rev. P., PLUNKETT, Count. Et al. The Moytura Record.
Illustrated. Dublin: Brown and Nolan, n.d. (c.1930). pp. 192, + adverts. Library buckram, with
original wrappers bound in. Ex. lib. with stamps. A fine copy. Rare.
€185
With chapters on: The First Battle for the Independence of Erin - the Second Battle of Moytura; A
Dissertation on Moytura; Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare; Christian Art in Ireland To-Day; The
O'Carolan Memorial Association of Ireland and America; Christian Moytura; The Giants' Graveyard at
Carrowmore, County Sligo; The Field Book of Kilmacatrany Parish, etc.
164. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical and Prose Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With Life.
Illustrated with eight engravings on steel. Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, n.d. (c.1850). 16mo. pp. xv,
560. Bound in contemporary full green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt. All edges gilt. A fine
copy.
€150
165. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. With a New Life
of the Author. In Four Volumes. Illustrated. Edinburgh: Published, for the Proprietors, by W. &
R. Chambers, Edinburgh; W. Orr, London; and W. Curry, Jun. & Co., Dublin, 1833. Bound in
near contemporary full calf, covers framed by triple blind fillets. Spine divided into five
compartments by four thick gilt bands. Author and volume number on contrasting morocco labels
in the second and fourth compartments. A fine set.
€275
166. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. With twenty-five coloured illustrations by
C.E. Brock. London & New York: Dent & Dutton, 1904. pp. xviii, 242. Bound in full vellum
with elaborate gilt floral decorations to upper cover and spine. T.e.g. gilt. A very good copy. €75
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167. GRAVES, Rev. James. Ed. by. A Roll of the Proceedings of the King's Council in Ireland,
for a portion of the sixteenth year of the Reign of Richard the Second, A.D. 1392-93. With an
appendix. Folding frontispiece from an original document of James, Earl of Ormonde, Lord
Justice of Ireland. London: Longman, 1877. Royal octavo. pp. ci, 342. Title printed in red and
black. Quarter pebbled cloth on black paper boards. Ex. lib. with stamps. Minor wear to corners,
otherwise a fine copy.
€175
168. GREEN, Green, G. Garrow. In the Royal Irish Constabulary. Portrait frontispiece.
London: James Blackwood & Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, n.d. (1905). pp. 259, [13 (publisher's list)].
Pictorial cloth, faded, otherwise very good. Very scarce.
€175
COPAC locates only 4 copies.
With chapters on: Cadet Life at the Depot; My First Faction Fight; How I went for an Heiress; My
Adventure with 'Honest' Ned; The Chestnut Mare - A Court of Inquiry; The Rival Hotels; The Bad
Station; Poteen; Tubbercurry - A Murder Case; Tinahely; Life in Shinrone; The Mutiny of the
Transport Corps and other matters; The Adventure of the Mail Train; The Retreat from Galway; Bruff;
Ned O'Grady's Eviction; An Irish Jury; An Action and An Action-at-Law; The Adventure of the
Banner; Reunions at Herbertstown; Ballyjamesduff, Athy, Conclusion of Service, A Night Inspection;
The Bogus Outrage; The Case of Constable Cooney; An Irish Petty Sessions.
169. GREER, Hugh. A Catalogue of Books (No 20, 1941; No 22, 1943; No 27, 1950; No 28,
1951) relating to Ireland. Offered at low prices by Hugh Greer, Cathedral Book Store. Four
issues. Carrickfergus: 1941/51. pp. 54, 49, 48, 43. Very good in illustrated stapled wrappers. €40
FROM BUNREE TO BARNACOLLEEN
170. GREER, Rev. James. The Windings of the Moy with Skreen and Tireragh. Illustrated.
With list of subscribers. Ballina: Western People, 1986. Second edition. pp. xi, 232. Green paper
boards. Fine. Scarce.
€75
A feast of articles chiefly on topography without as the author states: "any thought of publication, just
to pass away time, at a period of life when the writer suffered much from insomnia". The underlying
theme of the articles is the scenic beauty and grandeur of mountain, river, lake and sea. They include
notices of: Moyne Abbey; Killala - The Mouth of the Moy; The Wreck of the Arethusa; Enniscrone
now and then; Antiquities of Kilglass Enniscrone; From Bunree to Barnacolleen; Pullaheenyeaskey;
Skreen; Dromore West; The Great Nangle of Skreen; Ballina; Ard na Ree; Foxford; The Grave of
Michael Davitt, Straide; Meelick Round Tower; Swinford; Banada; Cnoc na Shea, etc.
LILY YEATS' COPY
171. GREGORY, Lady. Ed. by. Ideals in Ireland. Edited by
Lady Gregory. Written by "A.E.", D.P. Moran, George
Moore, Douglas Hyde, Standish O'Grady, and W.B. Yeats.
London: At the Unicorn VII Cecil Court, 1901. pp 180, 4
(publisher's list). Blue cloth, design in light green on front
cover, title in green on spine. Lily Yeats' copy with her
bookplate, designed by her brother Jack B. Yeats, on front
pastedown. A very good copy.
€175
With chapters on: Nationality and Imperialism. By A.E.; The
Battle of Two Civilisations. By D.P. Moran; Literature and the
Irish Language. By George Moore; What Ireland is Asking For.
By Douglas Hyde; The Return of the Fenians. By Douglas Hyde;
The Great Enchantment. By Standish O'Grady; The Literary
Movement in Ireland. By W.B. Yeats; A Postscript. By W.B.
Yeats.
INDEPENDENCE - NOT WITHOUT A STRUGGLE
172. [GREVILLE, Charles Cavendish Fulke] Past and Present Policy of England towards
Ireland. London: Edward Moxon, 1845. First edition. pp. 8, xv, [1 (errata)], 359. Contemporary
full polished calf, covers framed by double gilt fillets with a gilt flower tool in outer corners.
Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title on red morocco letterpiece in
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the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner floral design. Fore-edges gilt; red
and cream endbands; comb-marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Minor foxing to endpapers
and paper fault to outer lower corner of margin of p. ix with minute loss. A fine copy.
€375
An important work published in the same year as the Great Famine. It sets out serious discussion on
Ireland and the Establishment's attitude towards it. The author explains in the preface that the object of
this work was: "to present an intelligible narrative of the policy which England has pursued towards
Ireland throughout the whole period of their connection, with its changes, and its effects. In stating this
case, the recorded opinions and arguments of some of the greatest authorities who have written or
spoken upon Irish affairs have been produced, like witnesses, in support of an indictment". The author
further states that whosoever has observed political events over the previous half century should have
known that a fresh Catholic question had been started: "some great changes in Irish policy will
inevitably be made, though in all probability not without a struggle, the duration of which it will be
rash to predict". Little did he realise how prophetic his predictions were, Irish independence, some
eighty years later. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865), political diarist, was educated at
Eton and Christchurch. His chief claim to fame was his series of memoirs. For forty years he
painstakingly kept a political diary, designed eventually for publication. His attention to detail in all
matters is recorded with perfect impartiality and in a lively narrative. In compiling the present work he
was assisted by Sir George Cornewall Lewis, who was well acquainted with Ireland. He had reported
on the Irish Poor Law and was a member of the commission of inquiry into the state of religious and
other instruction in Ireland.
173. GUMBLETON, W.E. Esq. A Carte-de-Visite Portrait Photograph of W. E. Gumbleton,
Esq. A head and shoulders portrait wearing a morning jacket and displaying a large beard.
Inscribed on verso "To / W. E. Gumbleton Esq. / from H. Heney / with best / wishes / New Year
1894". The photographer was Guy & Company of Cork. In very good condition.
€125
William Edward Gumbleton 1840-1911 was an eminent Irish horticulturist with at least one species
(Arctotis gumbletonii) and two cultivars named after him. He was the elder of the two sons of Rev.
George Gumbleton, an Anglican clergyman, and Frances Anne (née Penrose). The Gumbleton family
had lived in Ireland for several generations and Rev. George Gumbleton was vicar of Affane, County
Cork. William Edward Gumbleton was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated
in 1858, but seems to have left the university before graduating, as there is no record of his being
awarded a degree.
As a young man, he travelled in Europe with his mother and studied languages, art and music, before
settling at Belgrove, County Cork, an estate owned by his family and situated on Great Island in Cork
Harbour. There, he devoted himself to horticulture, specialising in the growing of rare and newlyintroduced plants, particularly the species and cultivars of the Compositae such as Dahlia ,
Gnaphalium, Arctotis and Olearia .
Gumbleton was highly opinionated and quite intolerant of other people and of plants which he
considered 'inferior'. There are examples of cases where, during visits to other people's gardens, he
destroyed inferior specimens of plants, sometimes with his umbrella. The species Arctotis gumbletonii
was named after him by J.D. Hooker, "in tardy recognition of Mr. Gumbleton's services as a raiser and
flowerer of many fine new plants". He also had two cultivars named after him: Kniphofia 'W.E.
Gumbleton' and Azalea 'W.E. Gumbleton' .
He built up a comprehensive collection of botanical books which he bequeathed to the Irish National
Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.
174. [GUTH NA nGAEDHEAL] Guth na nGaedheal. Márta 1906. Being an Occasional Bilingual Magazine, published by The Gaelic League of London, and containing the Programme of
the Irish Musical Festival at Covent Garden Opera House, on St. Patrick's Day, 1906. Dublin:
Brown & Nolan, 1906. Oblong octavo. pp. 44, xvi (adverts). Illustrated wrappers, lightly soiled.
€75
The contents include: The Sentiment of Ireland; The Press of Ireland; Irish Dancing; The Triumph of
Douglas Hyde; Business Men and Ireland; Strike while the Iron is Hot; Monabhar; Support Home
Industry; Tomorrow at Westminster Cathedral; The Stage Irishman; Local Schools; Programmes.
Illustrated with several adverts.
175. GWYNN, Denis. Young Ireland and 1848. Cork: University Press, 1949. pp. 325. Blue
cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in scarce d.j.
€65
The attempted rising of July, 1848, was so quickly quelled that its vital importance in modern Irish
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history has never been recognised. Its leaders, William Smith O'Brien, Michael Doheny, Thomas
Francis Meagher and others were sentenced for high treason to be hanged, drawn and quartered. They
were subsequently reprieved and given 'free passage' to Van Diemen's Land. Professor Gwynn after
painstaking research presents the whole story in a vivid narrative.
176. GWYNN, Denis. The History of Partition (1912-1925). Dublin: Browne, 1950. pp. 244.
Green cloth, titled in gilt. Lower corner lightly bumped. A very good copy in frayed d.j.
€45
Was the partition of Ireland part of a deliberate plot by the British Government to keep a foothold in
Ireland? Does the fact that the Unionists say "No" to every approach means that the problem is
insoluble? All these questions are treated objectively by the author.
The chapters include: 1912 - The Home Rule Bill; 1913 - The Ulster Agitation; The Search for a
Compromise (1914); The Buckingham Palace Conference; The Six-County Proposal (1916); The Irish
Convention (1917-1918); Partition and the Treaty (1919-1921); The Ulster Boundary Commission;
Failure of the Boundary Commission.
177. GWYNN, Stephen. The Charm of Ireland Her Places of Beauty Entertainment Sport and
Historic Association. With illustrations by Paul Henry. London: George G. Harrap, 1937. pp.
314. Green cloth. Map in pocket at end.
€45
178. GWYNN, Stephen. The Fair Hills of Ireland. With illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Dublin
& London: Maunsel / Macmillan, 1914. pp. xi, 416. Green cloth.
€45
179. HALE, Leslie. John Philpot Curran. His Life and Times. Illustrated. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1958. First edition. pp. 287. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed
d.j.
€35
John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), was a prominent lawyer and anti-Unionist. He defended some of the
leading United Irishmen including Theobald Wolfe Tone, Napper Tandy, the Sheares Brothers,
Hamilton Rowan, William Drennan and Oliver Bond. His daughter, Sarah Curran, was the fiancée of
Robert Emmet whose defence Curran refused. He was appointed Master of the Rolls in 1807 and held
this post until 1814. Byron wrote of him: "The riches of his Irish imagination were exhaustless. I have
heard that man speak more poetry than I have ever seen written".
180. HARDIMAN, James. The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from
the earliest period to the present time (1820). Embellished with several engravings To which is
added, a copious index, containing the principal charters and other original documents. Galway:
Reprinted by The Connacht Tribune , 1958. Quarto. pp. xvi, 336, lxviii, 4 (index). Full maroon
buckram, titled in gilt. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy.
€60
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181. HARRIS, Walter. The History of the Life and Reign of William-Henry, Prince of Nassau
and Orange, Stadtholder of the United Provinces, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland,
&c. In which the Affairs of Ireland are more particularly handled, than in any other History. With
an Appendix, containing Copies of Some Original Papers not hitherto published. Illustrated with
plans of Sieges and Battles in Ireland, and Medals struck upon the most Memorable Occurrences
of his Life. As also, Two Dissertations. I. On the Government of Holland. II. A brief History of
the illustrious House of Orange. Dublin: Printed by Edward Bate in George's-Lane, for the
Author, 1749. Folio. pp. [vi], xii, 502, xcii. 17 illustrations on 12 plates. Contemporary full calf.
Spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€675
Bradshaw 1641 Gilbert 354.
Walter Harris's History of William III was printed anonymously in Dublin in 1747, in four volumes.
Harris complained that this work had been published, contrary to his wishes in a curtailed form by the
Dublin bookseller, who had undertaken the cost of its publication, and he himself issued this
unabridged edition illustrated with fine engravings two years later. There are fine folding maps and
plans of: Londonderry, Inniskillen, Carrickfergus, Dundalk, Charlemont, Cork, Kinsale, Ballymore,
Athlone, Galway, Limerick and of the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim. It was befitting that Harris
wrote this history, for his father had served as a lieutenant in the Williamite wars in Ireland in 1690-91.
CREATOR OF THE WORLD'S FIRST ANIMATED CARTOON FILM
182. [HARRY FURNISS] Self-Portrait of
Furniss at work with dedication and signature
dated 1909. 170 x 130mm. Fine.
€375
Harry Furniss (1854-1925) was born in Wexford.
Regarded as one of the greatest cartoonist, illustrator
and pioneer animator of the Victorian era. He was
educated at the Wesleyan College, Dublin, where he
produced The Schoolboy's Punch .
He moved to England in the 1870s to work for the
Illustrated Sporting . In 1880 he began contributing to
Punch, and in 1884 joined the staff of the magazine,
providing illustrations for The Essence of
Parliament. Hot tempered and brash, Furniss wasn't
an easy man to work with and some of his punishing
caricatures in Punch resulted in threats and even a
physical assault.
In 1912 he moved to the USA and worked in the film
industry with Thomas Edison, helping to pioneer the
world's first animated films in 1914. His two-volume
autobiography, titled The Confessions of a
Caricaturist was published in 1902, and a further
volume of personal recollections and anecdotes,
Harry Furniss At Home, was published in 1904.
Furniss wrote and illustrated twenty-nine books of his own, including the complete works of Charles
Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
183. [HAYES, Samuel] A Practical Treatise on Planting; and The Management of Woods and
Coppices. By S.H. Esq. M.R.I.A. and Member of the Committee of Agriculture of the Dublin
Society. With engraved title, four engraved plates and twelve vignettes. Dublin: Printed by Wm.
Sleater, Dame Street, Printer to the Dublin Society; And Sold by Allen & West, No. 15
Paternoster Row, London, 1794. pp. xii, 189. Light browning to titlepage. Original brown
patterned cloth. Spine rebacked. Very good. A very scarce and sought after item.
€950
First edition of this important work on gardening, landscape architecture, and tree management.
According to Hunt, it was intended as a practical handbook on the trees of Ireland and England. At the
end is a list of bounties paid by the Dublin Society, from 1783 to 1791, on the propagation and sale of
timber trees. Samuel Hayes (1743-1795), was a member of the Committee of Agriculture of the Dublin
Society, a group that did much to encourage planting of trees as early as the eighteenth century. He was
a Member of the Irish Parliament, Lieutenant-Colonel in Wicklow Militia, barrister, amateur architect
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and draughtsman, and devotee of trees. He wrote the first book on trees in Ireland. He designed and
planted Avondale making it one of the finest forests in Ireland. The estate upon Hayes's death passed to
the family of Charles Stewart Parnell, who made it his home and thus made it famous. The engravings
are by William Esdall. Includes a list of bounties for timber paid by the Dublin Society, and a list of its
Agricultural Committee. Illustrations: engravings, some signed 'Esdall sc.' Engraved vignettes in text,
cut by Esdall, some designed by the author.
184. HAYES-McCOY, G.A. A History of Irish Flags from earliest times. Profusely illustrated.
Dublin: Academy, 1979. Quarto. pp. 240. Brown arlin, title in black on spine. A fine copy. €165
Since the dawn of Irish history, numerous wars, invasions, rebellions, political movements and
upheavals have plagued our land; it is therefore to be expected that the history of Irish flags and
emblems is a rich and varied one. The first full-length history of the use of flags and emblems by
Irishmen traces the story from archival sources through to the victory of Clontarf, the Norman
Conquest, the Cromwellian and Williamite wars and follows the 'Wild Geese' to France and Spain, to
Austria/Hungary, the Germanic States and as far away as South America.
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185. HEALY, John. Nineteen Acres. Portrait frontispiece. Galway: Kennys, 1978. First edition.
pp. [vi], 138. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter
signed to Mary Corcoran from the author, thanking her for helping him with this production. A
very good copy in d.j.
€145
John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. He joined the Western People, Ballina,
as a cub reporter in 1948. Two years later he moved to Dublin to join the Irish News Agency, later
working with the 'Irish Press Group' before joining the Irish Times organisation in 1959, to become the
youngest editor of a national newspaper. Nineteen Acres portrays life in the basic unit, the family
smallholding.
186. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by.
Chronicum Scotorum. A Chronicle of Irish Affairs,
from the earliest times to A.D. 1135. With a
supplement containing the events from 1141 to
1150. One coloured plate. London: Longmans,
1866. pp. lvii, 419, 16. Original quarter pebbled
cloth on black pebbled boards, title in gilt on spine.
Ex. lib. with stamps. Minor wear to corners,
otherwise a fine copy.
€375
Written by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (1585-1666)
of that celebrated learned family who were historians
and antiquarians of Hy Fiachrach in north Connaught.
Dubhaltach was educated at Redwood by the
MacEgans and was a contemporary of Roderic
O'Flaherty and Dr. John Lynch. He was employed by
Ware who was indebted to him for much of the
information which enabled him [Ware] to acquire his
place as the distinguished Irish scholar of the
seventeenth century. For his services Ware never
credited this celebrated Irish antiquary who, for his
massive contribution to our history, genealogy and
literature surely deserves a place in the ranks of our
greatest Celtic scholars.
BOOK OF KELLS
187. [HENRY, Françoise] The Book of Kells. With a study of the manuscript by Françoise
Henry. With 126 colour plates and 75 monochrome illustrations. London: Thames & Hudson,
1976. Second edition. Large quarto. Gold cloth embossed in gilt. A fine copy.
€175
Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin.
188. HENTY, G.A. Orange and Green: A tale of the Boyne and Limerick. With eight full-page
illustrations by Gordon Browne. London: Blackie, n.d. (c. 1910). pp. 352, 32 (Publisher's list). Ex
lib. Saint Mary's Lending Library Altar Boys' Society with stamps. Spine evenly faded, some
wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy.
€45
189. HERLIHY, Jim. The Dublin Metropolitan Police. A Short History and Genealogical
Guide. With notes on medal awards and casualties and lists of members connected with the
London Metropolitan Police, the Irish Revenue Police the Royal Irish Constabulary and the
British Army. Illustrated. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. pp. xv, 264, [1]. A fine copy in
illustrated wrappers.
€45
190. HEZLET, Sir Arthur. The 'B' Specials. A History of the Ulster Special Constabulary.
Illustrated. London: Stacey, 1973. Third edition. pp. [x], 246. Green paper boards, title in silver
on spine. A very good copy in repaired d.j.
€45
The Ulster Special Constabulary (USC; commonly called the "B-Specials" or "B Men'") was a reserve
police force in Northern Ireland. It was set up in October 1920, shortly before the founding of Northern
Ireland. It was an armed corps, organised partially on military lines and called out in times of
emergency, such as war or insurgency. It performed this role in 1920–22 during the Irish War of
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Independence and in the 1950s, during the IRA Border Campaign.
The force was almost exclusively Protestant and Unionist and as a result was viewed with great
mistrust by Catholics and Nationalists. During the 1920s, it carried out revenge killings and reprisals
against Catholic civilians in the 1920-22 conflict. Unionists generally supported the USC as
contributing to the defence of the Northern Ireland polity from subversion and outside aggression.
The Special Constabulary was disbanded in May 1970, after the Hunt Report, which advised reshaping Northern Ireland's security forces in a less partisan manner and disarming the police.
191. [HIGGINS, F.R.] Gaiety Theatre Dublin. F.R. Higgins's Memorial Concert, Sunday, June
1st, 1941. Souvenir Programme. Dublin: Cahill, 1941. Quarto. pp. 8. Illustrated wrappers. Minor
tear to fore-edge. Very good. Very scarce.
€95
Higgins was a friend of W.B. Yeats and a director of the Abbey Theatre. Lennox Robinson said
Higgins "is the most interesting of Ireland's younger poets. His books of verse Island Blood, The Dark
Breed and Arable Holdings show him to be a poet of power personality and charm".
192. [HOMER] The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope. With notes, by the Rev.
Theodore Alois Buckley. With Flaxman's designs and other engravings. Second edition. London:
Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. pp. 384. Bound by John Field in contemporary full red morocco,
elaborately tooled in gilt, with their name blind stamped and also printed on front endpaper.
Early owner's signature on front flyleaf and his stamp on titlepage. All edges gilt. A very
attractive copy.
€75
ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY POLICE GAZETTE
193. [HUE-AND-CRY] The Police Gazette or, Hue-and-Cry, published for Ireland on every
Tuesday and Friday of the week. A good run consisting of 46 original editions from the period
January 1861 to August 1876, almost all are in very good condition.
€375
The Police Gazette was circulated to all RIC stations throughout Ireland. It lists the various crimes for
each county, the perpetrators of these crimes, with detailed physical descriptions of the individuals
concerned. In some instances rewards were offered for information. Offences include: cow and horse
stealing; assault endangering life; robbery; rape; infanticide; stabbing with a pitchfork; prison breach;
sheep stealing; homicide, etc. There are also lists of deserters from Her Majesty's Service in Ireland and
also deserters from the Militia in Ireland.
Two issues give reference to a reward for the capture of Thomas Q. Kelly and Timothy Deasey reputed
to be Fenians who, having been forcibly rescued from custody while being conveyed to Manchester
City Gaol, were successfully smuggled out of the country to America. Kelly became deputy to James
Stephens, founder-leader of the Fenian Movement in 1866.
194. HULL, Eleanor. Ed. by. The Poem-Book of The Gael. Translations from Irish Gaelic
Poetry into English Prose and Verse. With frontispiece. London: Chatto, 1912. pp. xxxviii, 370.
Accomplished amateur binding of full green morocco, gilt device in centre of both covers, title in
blind on spine. Recent quarter morocco. Top edge gilt. A very good copy.
€175
The contents include: The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses; Ancient Pagan Poems; The PoemBook of the Gael; Ossianic Poetry; Early Christian Poems; Poem of the Dark Days; Religious Poems of
the People; Love Songs and Popular Poetry; Lullabies and Working Songs.
With contributions from: Alfred P. Graves; Standish H. O'Grady; Kuno Meyer; Douglas Hyde; Eugene
O'Curry; Robin Flower; George Sigerson; James C. Mangan; P.H. Pearse; Sir S. Ferguson; Katharine
Tynan; George Petrie; Lady Wilde; Lady Gregory, etc.
"When I dwelt at home in plenty, and my gold did much abound,
In the company of fair young maids the Spanish ale went round Tis a bitter change from those gay days that now I'm forced to go,
And must leave my bones in Santa Cruz, far from my own Mayo".
Lament of Thomas Lavelle (c.1660) - The County of Mayo.
195. HURLEY, Jim. The South Wexford Coast. A Natural Heritage Coastline. With folding
map and Illustrations. Enniscorthy: 1994. pp. 24. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€15
196. HURLEY, Rev. T. Canon. St. Patrick and the Parish of Kilkeevan (County Roscommon).
Volume 1, all published. Illustrated. Dublin: Dollard, 1943. pp. xxvii, 618. Black cloth, titled in
gilt, with gilt motif of St. Patrick on both covers. Signed presentation copy from the author. A
very good copy. Scarce.
€225
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197. HYDE, Douglas. Love Songs of Connacht - Abhráin Grádh Chúige Connacht. Being the
fourth chapter of 'The Songs of Connacht'. With an introduction by Mícheal Ó hAodha. Dublin:
Irish Academic Press, 1987. Third edition. pp. x, viii, 158. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine.
Inscribed on front endpaper to Athair Ó Flannabha from Éamon Ó Cuív, Pádraig Ó Duitche,
Liam Ó Cadhain, Sean Breathnach, Áine Uí Chuív, Micheál Ó Tuathail, Peadar Breathnach and
Bríd Uí Bhearsula. A fine copy in fine d.j.
€125
198. [ILLSLEY - McCABE] Programme. Illsley McCabe Productions (Dublin) present The first
and only production in Eire of 'Little Lambs Eat Ivy'. By Noel Langley. Single octavo sheet
printed on one side only. Pencil date 28/IV/'49 on top.
€35
The cast included: Stanley Illsley; Pamela Beeson; David Basil Gill; Barry Keegan; Mairin Hayes;
Mabel Home; Grace O'Connor; Charles Turner; Ivor Earle; Helen Robinson; Leo McCabe.
199. [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.
€285
200. [D.M.P. INSTRUCTION BOOK] Instruction Book for the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
Dublin: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Alex Thom, 1900. pp. [ii], 188. With
D.M.P stamp on front pastedown. A very good copy in original pebbled cloth.
€145
201. I.O. [C.J. Street] The Administration of Ireland, 1920. With portrait frontispiece. London:
Philip Allan, 1921. First edition. pp. [vi], 468, 4 (publisher's list). Green cloth, badge of RIC in
black on upper cover, title and badge in black on spine, creasing to lower margin of a few leaves.
Covers slightly stained, otherwise very good. Scarce.
€65
With chapters on: The Easter Rebellion; Arming of the Republic; Royal Irish Constabulary; Question
of Reprisals and the Question of Ulster; Policy of the Government; Organisation of Sinn Féin;
Government of Ireland Act, etc.
202. [IRIS AN FHÁINNE] Iris an Fháinne. Uimhir a 3. Lughnasa, 1922. Dublin: Mahon's
Printing Works, 1922. Quarto. pp. 52. Illustrated wrappers.
€45
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Irish language periodical with contributions by: Piaras Béaslaí, Liam Ó Linn, Colm Ó Murchadha,
Seághan Mac hEnrigh, Leon Ó Broin, Máire Ní Ragallaig, Aghuistín Ó hAodha, Tadg Ó Scannaill,
Eric Mac Fhinn, etc.
203. [IRISH BOOK LOVER] The Irish Book Lover. A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and
Bibliography. Edited by John S. Crone. Volume I, Number 1, August, 1909 to Volume XXXII,
Number 6, September 1957. Thirty two volumes in thirty one. A complete run. London &
Dublin: Salmond, Hanna and Neale, Three Candles, 1909/1957. The first nine volumes in
original cloth bound by Galwey & Co., the remaining volumes in modern ribbed cloth, bound by
Paddy Kavanagh. A very good set. Exceedingly rare.
€2,750
The Irish Book Lover (1909-1957), was a quarterly review of Irish literature and bibliography
established by John Smyth Crone. Its thirty two volumes include authoritative bibliographies relating to
Irish printing and publication at home and abroad, studies, biographies, notes and queries, and
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obituaries of Irish writers, as well as comprehensive reviewing of contemporary works and some
original poetry, all making it a key source for literary researches. The editorial policy, which showed a
gentle partiality to Ulster, was non-militant nationalist and increasingly pro-Gaelic. The issues for 1916
and early 1917 contain obituaries of the Easter Rising leaders.
Leading contributors included D.J. O'Donoghue, F.J. Bigger, Ernest R. McLintock Dix, Rev. Stephen
Brown, Seamus Ó Casaide (editor from 1924), and Colm O Lochlainn - who took over publication, and
later editorship, at his Three Candles Press in Dublin, 1929.
Also included with this set is a typescript synopsis of the running index.
204. [IRISH MONASTERIES] An Album of Paper Clippings of Monasteries, Abbeys, Friaries,
Schools and Ecclesiastical Architecture in Ireland. With numerous original illustrations. Original
extracts pasted in album dating between 1833 and 1926. Small folio. 231 pages. In very good
condition.
€235
With extracts from The Graphic; The Freeman's Journal; The Century Magazine; The Dublin Penny
Journal; The Irish Independent; The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland ; The Dublin Saturday
Magazine; Catholic Fireside; The Irish Ecclesiastical Journal; The Irish Packet; The Cork Weekly
Examiner ; The Lamp; Dublin University Magazine; The Irish Rosary; The Irish Times.
There are detailed notices of Moyne, Rosserick, Kilconnell, Selskar, Mungret, Ossory, Moville,
Loragh, Fahan, Clonmel, Kilcrea, Kilmallock, Sligo and Timoleague, Mellifont, Bective, Baltinglass,
Jerpoint, Monasterevan, St. Mary's Abbey (Dublin), Holy Cross, Thomastown, St. Mary's Abbey
(Trim), Adare, Aghmacart, Castledermot, Clonmacnoise, Cong, Straide, St. Mary's (New Ross),
Multifernan, Ultanshanig (Maharees), Corcomroe, Donegal, Inismurray, Dunbrody, Ennis, Graigue-naManagh, Grey Abbey, Inish-Cealthra, Lislaghthin, Mount Melleray, Tintern,
With articles on: Life in an Ancient Irish Abbey; Suppression of the Monasteries in Ireland by Henry
VIII; The Greatest of the Schools of Ancient Eirinn; The Irish Thebaid; The Holy Places of Ireland;
The Book of the Dun Cow; George Petrie's Account of the Cross of Cong; Our Early Irish Monks Their Daily Religious Duties; Restoration of the Monastery of Iona and Monastic Life in England.
205. [IRISH PENNY MAGAZINE] The Irish Penny Magazine. No. 1. Vol. II. Dublin, January,
1842 - No. 13. March, 1842. Illustrated. Thirteen issues bound in one volume. Dublin: Printed by
T. Coldwell, 1841/1842. Small folio. pp. 104 (double column). Library buckram. Ex. lib. with
stamps and label. A very good copy. Very rare.
€95
With a feast of interesting articles including: Ancient Irish Literature; Ballysadare; Bray; Fairy Legends
of the North of Ireland; Irish Coins and Medals; Athy; Dun M'Patrick; Scattery Island; Ballymote
Church; Kilkee; The Agriculturalist; Bere Haven; Cod-Fishery of Newfoundland; Sketches from the
Animal Kingdom; Queer Stories. By A Queer Fellow; The First Locomotive; Cork; Leixlip; Origin of
the Irish Will With the Wisp (a Connaught Legend); Mellifont; Tara; Aghaboe Abbey; King Charles
and Blenheim Spaniels, etc.
206. [IRISH VOLUNTEERS] A 20th Century bronzed figure of an Irish
Volunteer. 31cm high (including plinth); stamped Lough Neagh Bronze
and signed Byrne.
€275
207. [J.K.L.] His Grace, the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin's Charge,
delivered to the Clergy of His Archdioceses, on the 24th of October,
1822, in St. Patrick's Cathedral. To which is added, a letter to his Grace,
in consequence of unjust animadversions against the Roman Catholic
Religion, contained in it, written by a dignitary of the Roman Catholic
Church. Dublin: By R. Grace, 1822. Fourth edition, 12mo, pp. 24. Recent
quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy.
€125
A leading Catholic who remains anonymous objects to some parts of the
primary charge of the newly appointed Archbishop of Dublin, William Magee
(1766-1831).
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM J.H. POLLOCK
208. JOHNSON, Lionel. Some Poems of Lionel Johnson. Newly
selected with an introduction by Louise Imogen Guiney. London: Elkin
Mathews, 1912. Small quarto. pp. 80, [4]. Signed presentation copy from
J.H. Pollock (An Philibín), dated Christmas 1920 "This little selection
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from a very refined poet is now out of print / I particularly recommend pages 42 - 48 & 52".
Illustrated wrappers. Some tanning, otherwise a very good copy.
€95
209. JONES, Hume R. The Irish Constable's Guide by The late Sir Andrew Reed, some time
Inspector-General Royal Irish Constabulary. Seventh edition by Hume R. Jones, Barrister-atLaw, Resident Magistrate. Dublin: Thom, 1918. Seventh edition. pp. xv, 658. Green cloth, with
badge of RIC in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy.
€195
THE DEVIL'S OWN
210. JOURDAIN, Colonel. The Connaught Rangers: the 1st Battalion, formerly 88th Foot; 2nd
Battalion, Formerly 94th Foot; 1914-1919 the 5th and 6th Service Battalion. Three volumes.
Coloured frontispieces. Profusely illustrated with plates and maps. Ballydehob: Schull, 1999.
Quarto. (1) 616, 37 [plates], 32 [maps], (2) 546, 59 [plates], 35 [maps], (3) 596, 54 [plates], 16
[maps]. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spines. Edition limited to 200 numbered sets. Fine. €325
The Connaught Rangers, the 'Devil's Own', the 'Gallant Fighting 88th', was raised 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. It is now over two hundred
years since the regiment was raised and almost eighty since its disbandment, but they are still arguably
the most famous of the Disbanded Irish Regiments, and are still held in high esteem, an honoured
name, among the Regiments of the British Army. Their glorious Battle Honours, Victoria Crosses won,
are the envy of all, chronicling their distinguished campaigns in Egypt, Europe, India, South Africa,
and the West Indies. They served in the Great War mainly in France and Flanders, they were also at
Gallipoli, the Balkans and the Middle East. An excellent production, Schull Books are to be
congratulated for this welcome addition to the Disbanded Irish Regiments series.
211. [JOYCE, James] The Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909. Edited by John Cooke. With
index of first lines. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, and London: Henry Froude, 1909. First edition. pp.
vii, [1], 803, [1]. Blue linen, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. T.e.g. A fine copy.
€125
Slocum & Cahoon B3.
Includes three poems by James Joyce, a very early appearance by this most esteemed writer..
212. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 16mo. pp. 22. Original
pale green printed wrappers, stitched. Lightly suntanned. A very good copy.
€75
Slocum & Cahoon A28.
Pomes Penyeach contains thirteen poems, beneath each poem is printed in italics the place and year of
composition.
213. JOYCE, P.W. A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland. Treating of the Government,
Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce;
Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People. With 213 illustrations.
London: 1906. pp. xxiv, 574. Green cloth decorated in gilt with Celtic crosses. Very good. €75
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214. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. Three volumes. Dublin, Phoenix, n.d. (c.1913). pp.
(1) xiv, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Very good in recent green cloth.
€275
This is the first work ever written on the subject, and is a marvel of industry, patience and accuracy. In
the preface to the third volume, Dr. P.W. Joyce says: "Indeed my notes on this subject from all sources
would be enough to astonish any person looking through them - enough indeed to alarm one at the idea
of classifying and using them.
The great name system, begun thousands of years ago by the first wave of population that reached our
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.
215. JOYCE, Robert Dwyer. Deirdre. Portrait frontispiece. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876.
First edition. pp. 262. Bound by Galwey & Co. of Dublin in contemporary half green morocco on
marbled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in
gilt direct in the second. Binders ticket on front pastedown. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Very
scarce.
€275
Not in Brown.
Robert Dwyer Joyce (1830-1883), a brother of the more famous, P.W. Joyce, was born at Glenosheen,
County Limerick, and was also a gifted writer. After teaching for a short while he switched to
medicine, graduated M.D. at Queens College, Cork, and emigrated to America where he practised in
Boston and lectured at the Harvard Medical School. During his time there he became closely associated
with the Fenian movement and was friends with leading Irish nationalists John Devoy and Michael
Davitt. He is best remembered as a songwriter: 'The Boys of Wexford' and 'The Wind that Shakes the
Barley' are among his best known works. He died at his brother's home in Rathgar within a month of
returning from the States.
Deirdre is a narrative poem dealing with ancient Ireland. Joyce presented a copy of this work to Oscar
Wilde when he visited Boston in 1882.
216. KEARNEY, Peadar. My Dear Eva. Letters Written from Ballykinlar Internment Camp
(1921). Introduced by Seamus de Burca. Dublin: P.J. Bourke, 64 Dame Street, 1976. pp. [iv], 46.
A very good copy in illustrated stapled wrappers.
€35
217. [KEARNEY-HEENEY] Kearney-Heeney Memorial Plaque to be Unveiled in Drumcondra
Churchyard, Dublin, where Heeney is buried. By Seamus de Burca. Illustrated. Dublin: S.n. pp.
8. Signed by Seamus de Burca. In fine condition.
€15
218. 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., 1902/1914. Green cloth with Celtic design embossed in gilt on upper covers.
Some staining to some covers. Very good.
€285
Geoffrey Keating was born c.1570 in Burges, County Tipperary. He is known to have gone about
Ireland in disguise collecting his materials, and apparently he met Michael O'Clery, Chief of the Four
Masters, on his travels. The history, begun in 1629, was completed in 1634 by which time he was
parish priest in Cappoquin. It was not published however for almost a century and O'Connor's
translation was not well received at the time. Of the prose writers of the seventeenth century Dr.
Douglas Hyde states: "He was a man of literature, a poet, professor, theologian, and historian, in one.
He brought the art of writing limpid Irish to its highest perfection".
219. KEIGHTLEY, S.R. The Ulster Landlord: His Genesis, Progress, and Exodus. Lisburn: The
Standard Office, 1901. pp. 16. Printed green stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare. €45
An inaugural address, delivered at a meeting of the Lisburn (Antrim and Down) Land Reform
Association held in Lisburn on the 11th April, 1901.
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220. KELLY, William. The Royal Irish Constabulary Ready Reckoner. Comprising correct
tables showing the amount of pay for broken periods in all ranks and classes of the Royal Irish
Constabulary. Dublin: Printed by Alex Thom, 1909. pp. 96. Small ink stain on upper cover. Very
good in printed stapled wrappers.
€135
221. KENNEDY, J.S. Rules and Regulations for the Control and Management of the Financial
Department of the Constabulary Force of Ireland; As approved by the Lords of the Treasury.
Dublin: Printed by George and John Grierson, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
1837. pp. 46. 'Withdrawn from Library' stamp on f.f.e. A very good copy in ribbed cloth. Of the
utmost rarity.
€365
222. KICKHAM, Charles J. Knocknagow or The Homes of Tipperary. Dublin: Duffy, n.d.
(c1950). pp. xvi, 620. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A sound copy.
€30
Knocknagow is one of the greatest of all Irish novels. It depicts in graphic detail rural life in a County
Tipperary village, treating the hardship of the peasants in the days of the Land War. In essence it is a
microcosm for Irish history in any County.
223. [KINSALE ARCHIVE] Manuscript: Corporation of Kinsale. A very interesting archive of
circa 100 manuscript documents relating to the business and financial affairs of the Corporation,
mostly circa 1719-23, with a few earlier, including a great variety of itemised bills, accounts,
invoices, appointments, payment orders, receipts etc. (often signed with a 'mark'), on sheets and
scraps of paper of various sizes, one on vellum, many addressed to John Haughton, Chamberlain,
many signed by Jas. Dennis (agent to the Corporation).
€2,500
Includes detailed accounts for the Kinsale Chamberlain's office 1723, with an auditor's summary
account, same year; a list of 'arrears uncollected by Edward Brinn Chamberlaine for the years 1721 &
1722'; a Grand Jury statement of sums required for repair of roads, bridges etc., 1722, with traces of
seal, addressed to 'Ye Worshipfull Sovereign of Kinsale'; a detailed legal account to the Kinsale
Corporation 1719; a payment order signed by Ja. Dennis for One Shilling to Thomas Hayes, March
1722/3, 'being soe much due to him for Whipping William Buckley about this Town for stealing a pair
of Shoes'; many tradesmen's accounts and receipts, including an account for 10/6d. from Wm. Harris
(evidently a carpenter), April 1723, for making a large rake, providing a double spring lock and a
drawer lock at the Church, providing a fire pan and poker for the 'Gard house', etc., the items
individually priced; and a wide range of other documents. A valuable collection, providing very useful
evidence of the Corporation's business, and more generally of the prevailing level of costs and charges
in Kinsale in the early 1720s. We have checked a number of the documents with Caulfield's Council
Book of the Corporation of Kinsale , and have not found them recorded there (in general Caulfield's
edition concerns itself with civic matters rather than financial details).
224. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth
Century. With illustrations and three maps. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1908. First edition. Roy.
8vo. pp. xvi, 451. Slight fading to cover, otherwise very good in original buckram. Arms of the
Bourke family in gilt on upper cover. Very scarce.
€475
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, Bourke, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.
225. 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.
226. [LARKIN, Jim] Some Pages from Union History. The Facts concerning Larkin's Departure
to America. Reprinted from the Voice of Labour . Dublin: ITGWU, 1927. pp. 12. Second edition.
Printed wrappers, stapled, minor tears to foot (no loss).
€225
An attack on Larkin including letters from Lillie Connolly, Kathleen Clarke and William O'Brien.
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See item 225.
227. LATIMER, Rev. W.T. A History of the Life and Times of Henry Cooke, D.D. LL.D. By
Rev. W.T. Latimer. Belfast: Cleveland, 1888. pp. 43. Printed wrappers, spine rebacked. From the
library of James Seery with his signature and neat stamp. Very good. Exceedingly rare.
€95
Rev. Henry Cooke (1788-1868), Presbyterian Minister, was born in Grillagh County Derry and
educated at Glasgow. He campaigned repeatedly against O'Connell's Irish policy. He was instrumental
in establishing the Free Church of Scotland and was totally against disestablishment.
228. LAWLOR, H.J. St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh. Translations of
Christian Literature. Series V Lives of the Celtic Saints. London & New York: Printed for
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge by The Macmillan Company, 1920. pp. lxvi, 183, 16
(Publisher's list). Blue blind stamped cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine.
From the library of the Franciscan Convent, Donegal with stamps. Minor wear to head and tail of
spine, otherwise a very good copy.
€65
229. LEATHAM, C.W. Sketch and Stories of The Royal Irish Constabulary. Dublin: Edward
Ponsonby, 1909. pp. 21. Very good in printed wrappers. Very rare.
€185
The author was a Commissioner of the R.I.C., and served in the force for over forty years.
230. [LE BROCQUY, Sybil] Sybil Le Brocquy 1892-1973. Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen, 1976.
pp. 28. Fine in printed wrappers.
€75
Not in Miller.
This booklet, compiled by Andrew Carpenter and designed by Liam Miller, was printed in an edition of
400 copies. It was issued by the Sybil Le Brocquy Memorial Committee to thank all the subscribers to
the fund, and to provide her family and friends with a keepsake.
231. LECKY, William Edward Hartpole. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. New
impression. Five volumes. London: Longmans, 1913. Fine. Dark red cloth, titled in gilt. Spine of
volume one with small nick. A very good set. Scarce.
€175
Treating the political and social life of Ireland during the heyday of the Protestant Ascendancy. The
work covers one of the most eventful and dramatic periods in Irish history, including the rise of the
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Irish Volunteers, the founding and growth of the Society of the United Irishmen, the diffusion of
French Revolutionary ideas in Ireland, the bloody rebellion of 1798, and the disastrous Act of Union
between Great Britain and Ireland.
232. LENIHAN, Michael. Hidden Cork. Charmers, Chancers and Cute Hoors. With
illustrations. Cork: Mercier Press, 2009. pp. 256. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine
copy in d.j.
€35
233. LE ROUX, Louis. Patrick H. Pearse. Translated into English by Desmond Ryan. Portrait
frontispiece. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1932. pp. xiii, 440. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Top
edge green. A fine copy in frayed d.j.
€65
234. [LIBRARY CATALOGUE] Ireland. A Bibliography of Material held at St. Deiniol's
Library. Compiled by Helen C Price, Assistant Librarian. Clwyd: 1983. Folio. pp. iv, 136.
Stapled printed wrappers. A fine copy. Scarce.
€150
Listed are almost 2,000 items relating to the history, topography, biography and literature of Ireland.
235. [LIMERICK MUSICAL] Programme. "The Daughter of the Regiment". Presented by the
Cecilian Musical Society (Coral and Orchestral Sections) at the Crescent Hall, commencing
Sunday 21st November 1948. Limerick: City Printing, 1948. Octavo. pp. 12. Printed stapled
wrappers.
€45
The cast included: Josephine O'Mahony; Geraldine O'Donovan-Reid; James Penny; Tom Dillon; Mary
Prendergast; Mary Lynch, etc.
236. LUDLOW, General. Three Tracts Published at Amsterdam, in the years 1691 and 1692,
under the name of Letters of General Ludlow to Sir Edward Seymour, and other persons,
comparing the oppressive government of King Charles I. In the first four years of his reign, with
that of the four years of the reign of King James II and vindicating the conduct of the Parliament
that begun in November, 1640. London: Reprinted by Robert Wilks, 89, Chancery-Lane, and
sold by White, Cochrane, and Co., Fleet-Street, London, 1812. Quarto. pp. xvii, 150. Separate
title for each tract. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by single gilt fillet. Spine with raised
bands and gilt decorations, title in gilt on maroon morocco label in the second compartment. All
edges marbled. Corners slightly bumped. A very good copy.
€275
Edmund Ludlow (1620-1693), distinguished parliamentary general, regicide, born in Wiltshire. He is
best remembered for his involvement in the execution of Charles I, and for his Memoirs, which were
published posthumously in a rewritten form and which have become a major source for historians of
the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Ludlow was chosen by Cromwell "as a fit person to be employed" to
act as second in command to Ireton, with the rank of Lieutenant-General of the Horse in Ireland in
1650. After Ireton's death in 1651 he succeeded him as Commander-in Chief, and spent several years in
Ireland. Ludlow was the fortieth in the list of those who signed the King's death warrant.
After his service in the English Civil Wars, Ludlow was elected a Member of the Long Parliament. He
broke with Oliver Cromwell over the establishment of the Protectorate. After the Restoration Ludlow
went into exile in Switzerland, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
SUPERB NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION
237. [LUTTRELL PSALTER] The Luttrell Psalter. Together with: Commentary by Michelle P.
Brown. London: The Folio Society, 2006. Edition limited to 1,480 numbered copies. 309 leaves.
Printed in full colour throughout and bound by Smith Settle of Otley in full blue Nigerian
goatskin on heavy bevelled boards, blocked with a design by David Eccles using gold, silver and
coloured foils, with the Luttrell coat-of-arms. Handmade endpapers from the Fabriano mill. Blue
and white endbands and two silk markers. All edges gilt. In a hand-made solander box with
leather label, together with the accompanying commentary (cloth-backed boards with paper label,
pp. 206), inset into the lower panel of the box.
€875
This facsimile edition of The Luttrell Psalter has been reproduced by photographer Laurence Pordes
from British Library Additional MS 42130 and printed at Cambridge University Press on Furioso
paper. The Luttrell Psalter is one of the British Library's supreme treasures. It has more than 600 pages
and the delicate task of recreating this masterpiece of English medieval art so accurately into a
complete full size facsimile edition took well over a year to achieve. Every stage of the production
process was subjected to the greatest attention to detail, from reproducing the subtle effect of fine
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worked gold and silver that decorate the pages of the manuscript, to finding a modern paper which
matches the weight and feel of the original animal skin vellum pages. The volume is accompanied by a
scholarly commentary by leading medieval manuscripts expert Michelle P. Brown, which details the
history of the manuscript and includes a folio-by-folio description.
238. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Temair Breg: A Study of the Remains and Traditions of Tara.
Notes on some Ogham inscriptions, including two recently discovered. With illustrations and
map. Dublin: Published by Hodges, Figgis, for Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1919.
Royal octavo. pp. [2], 231-404, 10 (plates). Half library morocco on cloth boards. Ex. lib., with
stamps. Wear to spine, repair to titlepage. A good copy.
€75
BOOK OF INVASIONS
239. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Lebor Gabhála Éirenn. The Book of the taking of Ireland. Edited
and translated with notes. Five volumes. Dublin: I.T.S. 1995/97. Quarter green buckram, title in
gilt on spine with Celtic decoration. Fine set in presentation slipcase.
€295
This work is associated with the great learned family of Ó Mhaoil Chonaire. The Leabhar Gabhála , i.e.
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.
240. McAULIFFE, Mary. Senator Kathleen A. Browne 1876-1943. Patriot, Politician and
Practical Farmer. Illustrated. Roscrea: Walsh, 2008. pp. xxii, 126. Limited to 700 copies only.
Blue arlin. Fine in fine d.j.
€75
Kathleen Browne participated in many of the political, national and cultural movements in Ireland in
the early 20th century. For her part in the Easter Rising she was jailed in Kilmainham, and was one of
the longest held prisoners there. She succeeded Alice Stopford Green in the Senate.
241. McCANCE, Captain S. History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 1650 to 1922. With
coloured plates, numerous illustrations and folding maps (in separate folder). Two volumes.
Cork: Schull, 1995. Second. pp. (1) x, 254, (2) x, 305, + maps. Limited numbered edition of 200
sets. Fine in buckram with slipcase. Very scarce.
€275
242. MacCARTHY, Denis Florence. Irish Legends and Lyrics, Poems of the Imagination and
Fancy. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 50 Upper Sackville-Street, 1858. pp. 211, 1. College Prize
awarded to George Fottrell with inscription from the College and his armorial bookplate.
Contemporary full green morocco, covers framed by a single gilt and double blind fillets
enclosing in the centre an Irish harp in gilt. All edges gilt. Some minor wear to head and tail of
spine and corners, otherwise a very good copy.
€175
Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817-1882), poet, was born in Dublin. He was educated at Dublin and
Maynooth, and though destined first for the church and then for the bar, his studies were mostly
literary. At school he showed that interest in Spanish which later in life he turned to good account. His
first verses 'My Wishes' were published in the Dublin Satirist in 1834, and for the next two years he
contributed to that paper both prose and verse. Like so many of his young contemporaries, MacCarthy
espoused the repeal movement, and in 1843, within twelve months after the founding of the paper, he
began to contribute to The Nation a series of political verse, over the signature of 'Desmond'. He also
joined in the work of the Irish political associations, but his political interests were always subordinate
to his literary tastes. On the rally of the Young Ireland party in 1845, he threw all his energies into
supporting The Nation. He was one of the petitioners in favour of the Provincial Colleges bill, which
was opposed by O'Connell; but in the following year (1846), on the final disruption of the Repeal
Association, he remained with the O'Connell party.
In 1853 he was appointed to lecture on literature at the Catholic University, Dublin, but after delivering
three discourses he resigned. Owing to ill-health in his family he had to leave Ireland in 1864, and after
travelling on the continent settled in London. In 1871 he was granted a pension from the civil list.
Shelley's Early Life, dealing principally with the poet's visit to Dublin, and raising the question as to
whether he had published any poetry before he left Oxford, appeared in 1872. In 1881 he received the
medal of the Royal Academy of Spain for his labours in Spanish literature. He spent the last few
months of his life in Ireland, and died at Blackrock, near Dublin, on 7 April 1882. He had nine
children, six of whom predeceased him. His son, John, published a collection of his poems in 1884, but
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some of his best work has been omitted from it. His daughter, Mary Stanislaus, a nun, also published
some poetry.
243. McCARTHY, Justin. A Short History of Our Own Times. From the Accession of Queen
Victoria to the General Election of 1880. London: Chatto & Windus, 1885. Fourth edition. pp.
[v], 448. Contemporary full tree calf, covers framed by a gilt floral roll. Spine divided into six
compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on the second, the
remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-centre corner design. Minor wear to head of spine,
€65
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), politician, historian, and novelist was born near Cork and family
circumstances frustrated his wish to read for the bar. He took to journalism in Liverpool and London
where he published a number of successful novels. In 1871 he joined the Irish Party under Parnell and
his History of Our Own Times established him as a popular historian. He was elected M.P. for County
Longford in 1879 and became vice-chairman of the party. Following the split over the O'Shea divorce
case, McCarthy led the anti-Parnell group but he remained on friendly terms with him.
The illustrations include portraits of: Sir John Pope Hennessy; Father Matthew; Gustavus Vaughan
Brooke; Thomas Moore; Isaac Butt; Daniel O'Connell; John Mitchell; Thomas Crosbie; Justin
McCarthy. There are three illustrations of buildings in Cork: North Gate Bridge and the City Gaol,
1797; Old Blackrock Castle and Admiralty Court, 1815; The South Gate, 1798, from Elizabeth Fort.
244. McCARTHY, Justin. Irish Recollections. With illustrations tipped in. London: Hodder and
Stoughton, n.d. pp. vi, 279. Green pebbled cloth, upper cover and spine with gilt fillets and gilt
shamrock roll, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Giulio Gelardi with his armorial
bookplate and library stamp. A fine copy.
€65
245. MacDONAGH, Oliver. The Hereditary Bondsman Daniel O'Connell 1775 - 1829. With
illustrations and map. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. pp. viii, 328. Grey paper boards,
title in silver on spine. A fine copy in fine d.j.
€50
Professor MacDonagh traces O'Connell's life in France and Ireland; his secret marriage; his financial
irresponsibility and cares; his thirty years' practice at the Irish bar - and the knowledge of local politics
and power structures which this brought him; his political agitations and mobilization of Irish opinion and the achievement of his primary goal, Catholic Emancipation, in 1829.
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246. MacDONNELL, J.H. The Story of Irish Labour. London & Manchester: National Labour
Press, n.d. (c.1919). pp. 24. Small quarto. Printed green wrappers. Exceedingly rare.
€165
The contents include: Struggle and Progress; The Reason of the Conquest; Wage Slavery begins in
Ireland; How Labour saved the Nation from Extinction; Labour in Ulster; The Town Workers;
Republican Labour; Trade Unionism in the Nineteenth Century; Labour War in Dublin; Industrial
Union and Easter Week, etc.
J. H. MacDonnell, solicitor, was prominent in Irish National Aid Association and Volunteer
Dependants' Fun, advising and looking after prisoners following the Rebellion of Easter week.
247. McDONNELL, Kathleen Keyes. There is a Bridge at Bandon. A Personal Account of the
Irish War of Independence. Illustrated. Cork and Dublin: Mercier, 1972. First edition. pp. 217.
Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine d.j. Scarce.
€235
248. McGUIRE, James & QUINN, James. Ed. by. Dictionary of Irish Biography. From the
Earliest Times to the Year 2002. Nine volumes. Dublin: R.I.A., 2009. Fine in cloth gilt.
€850
The Dictionary is the most authoritative and extensive biographical resource yet published for Ireland.
It outlines in over 9,000 entries the careers of prominent Irish men and women in all fields of
endeavour, including politics, religion, literature, music, entertainment and sport.
249. MacLIAMMÓIR, Micheál. The Ford of The Hurdles, A Masque of Dublin. An Historical
Pageant-Play to be performed at the Mansion House, Dublin, on September 9th - 15th at Eight
o'clock pm. Programme. Illustrated. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, n.d. (c.1929). Quarto. pp. 20.
Printed stapled wrappers. Loosely inserted is 'Dublin Civic Week' letterhead. A fine copy. €175
250. MacNEICE, Louis. The Revenant. A Song-Cycle for Hedli Anderson. Woodcut device on
titlepage. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1975. pp. 31. Pages unopened. Edition limited to 350 copies.
Quarter linen on blue paper boards, title printed in black on upper cover and on paper label on
spine. A fine copy.
€65
Two page introduction by Hedli MacNeice. Hand-printed set in Caslon type on Conqueror Azure Laid
paper. A sequence of twelve songs, divided by eleven interludes, originally written in the early 1940's.
This is an unnumbered out of series copy.
Hedli Anderson was the poet's second wife.
251.
[MacSWINEY,
Terence
J.]
The
Revolutionist. A play in five acts. Dublin and
London: Maunsel and Company, 1914. pp. viii,
136. Quarter pebbled cloth on green boards.
Browning to endpapers, binding dull, internally a
very good copy. Very rare.
€235
According to O'Hegarty, most copies of this book
were burned in a fire at the publishers (in 1916?). The
play centres on the fate of a radical revolutionary
(evidently modelled on the author), operating in
Ireland where limited Home Rule has already been
granted; his conflicts with comrades and the Church,
the role of secrecy in a revolutionary movement and
so on. Many of the ideas discussed have resonances in
MacSwiney's life, and the play is important for an
understanding of his approach to many issues (for
example he refused to join the I.R.B. because he
objected to its principle of secrecy).
252. MacSWINEY, Terence. Principles of
Freedom. Portrait frontispiece of MacSwiney.
Dublin: Irish Book Bureau, 1964. pp. 162. Brown
paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in
d.j.
€45
Originally published serially in Irish Freedom in
1912, MacSwiney had intended to revise these articles
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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.
253. MADDEN, Dr. Antrim and Down in '98. The Lives of Henry Joy M'Cracken, James Hope,
William Putnam M'Cabe, Rev. James Porter and Henry Munro. Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson
edition. n.d. pp. 247. Recent brown buckram, title in gilt on spine. Some browning to titlepage,
€30
254. MADDEN, R.R. The Shrines and
Sepulchres of the Old and New World:
Records of Pilgrimages in many Lands, and
researches connected with the history of places
remarkable for Memorials of the Dead, or
Monuments of a Sacred Character; including
Notices of Funeral Customs of the Principal
Nations, Ancient and Modern. Two volumes.
London: Newby, 1851. pp. (1) xii, 562, (2)
[iv], 692. Blue ribbed blind stamped cloth, title
in gilt on spines. Contemporary owner's
signature on titlepage. Ex. lib. with stamps.
Minor wear, otherwise a good copy.
€175
Includes a chapter on: the Hiberno-Celts and
Celtic Druids.
255. MADDEN, Thomas More. Ed. by. The
Memoirs (Chiefly Autobiographical) from
1798 to 1886 of Richard Robert Madden.
Edited by his son Thomas More Madden.
Portrait frontispiece. London: Ward &
Downey, 1891. pp. [vii], 328. Red blindstamped faded cloth. Light foxing to title, Ex
lib. Christian Brothers with stamps. A very
good copy. Very rare.
€275
Copac locates only 4 copies. Richard Robert
Madden (1798-1886), miscellaneous writer,
youngest son of Edward Madden, silk
manufacturer, of Dublin, by his second wife,
Elizabeth, was educated at private schools. He studied medicine in Paris, Italy, and St. George's
Hospital, London. While in Naples he became acquainted with Lady Blessington and her circle. He
returned to England in 1828, and in the following year was elected a member of the College of
Surgeons, of which he was made a fellow in 1855, and practised as a surgeon in Curzon Street,
Mayfair.
Madden was employed in the British civil service from 1833, first as a Justice of the Peace in Jamaica,
where he was one of six Special Magistrates sent to oversee the eventual liberation of Jamaica's slave
population, according to the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. From 1835 he was
Superintendent of the freed Africans in Havana. In 1839 he became the investigating officer into the
slave trade on the west coast of Africa, in 1847 the secretary for the West Australian colonies. In 1847
he was appointed colonial secretary of Western Australia, where he exerted himself to protect such
rights as still remained to the aborigines. Returning to Ireland on furlough in 1848 he interested himself
in the cause of the starving peasantry, and in 1850 resigned his Australian office for that of secretary to
the Loan Fund Board, Dublin Castle, which he held until 1880.
Madden is best known as the author of The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times , published in
London, 1843-6. He was a devout Roman Catholic, a patriotic Irishman, and an excellent host and
raconteur. He died at his residence in Vernon Terrace, Booterstown, in 1886, and was buried in
Donnybrook graveyard. Madden married in 1828 Harriet, youngest daughter of John Elmslie of
Jamaica. By her he had issue three sons, of whom two survived him.
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In the appendix to this volume there are copious genealogical, historical and family records of the
O'Maddens of Hy-Many. Also with notice of the Abbey of Meelick, its founders and their descendants;
notice of John Patten, Emmet's brother-in-law; John Cornelius O'Callaghan.
256. MAHAFFY, J.P. The Plate in Trinity College, Dublin. A History and a Catalogue.
Illustrated. London: Macmillan, 1918. Quarto. pp. vii, 94, [2], 11 (plates). Purple cloth, with an
illustration of the Mace inset on upper and lower covers. Title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A
very good copy in frayed d.j.
€95
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919), classicist, was born in Switzerland the youngest son of Irish
parents and resided on the continent till the family returned to Donegal in 1850. He entered Trinity
College, Dublin in 1856 where he had a outstanding career, being awarded the gold medal, the Madden
prize and a Fellowship in 1864. He was appointed Professor of Ancient History in 1871, President of
the Royal Irish Academy in 1911, Vice-Provost of T.C.D. in 1913 and Provost the following year. He
was highly regarded for his scholarship and almost every country in Europe conferred academic
honours on him. A scholar, lover of books, a talented musician, ardent cricketer, accomplished angler
and crack shot, Mahaffy played a leading part in the social and intellectual life of Dublin for more than
fifty years.
257. [MAHONY, Rev. Francis] The Reliques of Father Prout, Late P.P. of Watergrashill, in the
County of Cork, Ireland. Collected and arranged by Oliver Yorke, Esq. (Rev. Francis Mahony).
Illustrated by Alfred Croquis, Esq. (D. Maclise, R.A.). New edition, revised and largely
augmented. Folding plate (Fraserians), engraved half title, and numerous other illustrations by
Maclise. London: Bell & Daldy, 1866. pp. xiv, 578, 24. Contemporary half morocco on brown
pebbled cloth. Occasional light foxing. Book label of the Crampton Book Shop, Crampton Quay,
Dublin on front pastedown. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Scarce edition.
€175
COPAC locates only 5 copies of this edition.
Francis Sylvester Mahony, better known as 'Father Prout' was born in Cork in 1804, the son of a
prosperous woollen manufacturer from Blarney. He became a Jesuit and was appointed to the staff of
Clongowes Wood College, but vacated that post under a 'cloud' and entered the Irish College in Rome.
After ordination he was appointed to a parish in Cork, where he showed great devotion and courage as
hospital chaplain during a cholera epidemic. After a major row with his bishop, he went to London in
1834, where he began to write for Fraser's Magazine, with the pen-name Father Prout.
258. MANNIN, Ethel. The Wild Swans and other Tales based on the Ancient Irish. Illustrated
by Alex Jardine. London: Jarrolds, 1952. First edition. pp. 159. Green cloth, title faded on spine.
A very good copy.
€50
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259. MANNING, Maurice. The Blueshirts. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1987.
Second edition. pp. xii, 276. Colour illustrated wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the
author. A very good copy.
€45
260. MARSHALL, Robert. The Book of Belfast. Compiled for the 105th Annual Meeting, in
1937, of the British Medical Association. Illustrated. Belfast: Mayne, Boyd & Son, n.d. (c.1938).
pp. xiv, 161. Green faded cloth. Very good.
€45
SCARCE FAMILY HISTORY
261. MAUNSELL, Robert George. History of the Family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel) /
compiled chiefly from data collected during many years by Colonel C.A. Maunsell, written by
Edward Phillips Statham. Illustrated with coats of arms, facsimile documents, genealogical table,
plans and plates. Two volumes in three. London: Kegan Paul Trench, 1917/1920. pp. (1) xxi, 498
(2) xx, 448, (3) xii, 449-803. Owner's signature in pencil on f.f.e. Contemporary half blue
morocco on cloth sides. Fading and slight wear to spines and corners, otherwise very good. €475
The Maunsell family in Ireland are of Anglo-Norman origin and were numerous up to the end of the
seventeenth century. The name is now rare and chiefly confined to that class usually described as
landed gentry. The name occurs frequently in the Ormond Deeds, the Justiciary Rolls and the Irish
Fiants, located for the most part in the counties of Tipperary and Limerick. Maunsell's Bank was
founded by a member of this family in 1789 and was one of the leading private banking institutions in
Limerick. The name Maunsel is synonymous with the Irish literary renaissance of the first quarter of
the last century. The firm of Maunsel & Co. Ltd. of Dublin published works of every writer in that
movement except W.B. Yeats.
262. MEEHAN, Rev. C.P. The Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory
O'Donel, Earl of Tyrconnel; Their Flight from Ireland, and Death in Exile. Illustrated. Dublin:
James Duffy, 1868. pp. xvi, 583. Green patterned cloth, armorial shield in gilt on upper cover,
title in gilt on rebacked spine. A very good copy.
€65
263. MILLING, J. C. The R.I.C. ABC: or Police Duties in relation to Acts of Parliament in
Ireland. Mainly for the use of Magistrates, Solicitors, Petty Sessions' Clerks and Royal Irish
Constabulary. Belfast: John Adams, 1908. pp. [iii], 293, + adverts. Illustrated cloth. Loosely
inserted is publisher's order form with opinions of the press. A very good copy. Rare.
€165
A very comprehensive work dealing with about forty Acts of Parliament. The author summarises each
Act, and then appends a series of questions, with answers, the authority for the latter being shown by
quoting the section of the Act governing the point.
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264. MOORE, Thomas. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. With Life. Illustrated with eight
engravings on steel. Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, n.d. (c.1850). 16mo. pp. xxii, 490, [1]. Bound in
contemporary full maroon morocco elaborately tooled in gilt. All edges gilt. Occasional light
foxing to prelims. A fine copy.
€150
265. MOORE, Thomas. Reprinted Trifles. From Irish Melodies, 1820; Odes upon Cash, Corn,
Catholics, 1828; The Fudges in England , 1835. St. Sepulchre's Press, [1979]. Quarto. pp. 7. Very
good.
€65
266. MORAN, Gerard P. The Mayo Evictions of 1860. Patrick Lavelle and the 'War' in Partry.
Illustrated. Westport: 1986. pp. 143. Annotations to margin of one page. Very good in illustrated
wrappers.
€35
The author has produced an absorbing and objective account of the clash between 'The Patriot Priest of
Partry' and Baron Plunket of Tuam, a harsh landlord, condemned even by the Times of London. Among
the topics in this book special emphasis is given to the 'Soupers', the Workhouse, the Achill Mission,
the 'Castlebar Settlement', the Partry Evictions, etc.
267. [MORGAN, Lady] OWENSON, Miss. The Lay of an Irish Harp; or, Metrical Fragments.
Philadelphia: Printed and published by T.S. Manning, n.d. (c.1808). pp. xv, 180. Spine
professionally rebacked, and with repair to corners. Some browning to pages. A good copy.
Exceedingly rare.
€650
This edition not located on COPAC. Only 1 copy of the 1807 London edition recorded.
Lady Morgan (1779?-1859), novelist, was born in Dublin, the daughter of Robert Owenson (Mac
Owen), an itinerant actor and theatre manager of the Theatre. Her charming personality, selfconfidence and gaiety won her a place in the literary and social life of Dublin. A visit to the Marquis of
Abercorn, at Barons Court, County Tyrone in 1812, resulted in her marrying his physician, Sir Thomas
Charles Morgan. Proudly nationalistic, to overcome the indifference to everything Irish by the English,
and determined to combat the gross misrepresentation of her country, she decided to write and
accomplished this in her first major novel. In 1806 The Wild Irish Girl was published in London (no
Dublin publisher could even consider this book, due to the political climate at that time). It was an
overnight success, the one that made her famous, and established her reputation as a novelist.
268. MORGAN, Lady. A National Tale. Four volumes in two. Paris: Published by A. and W.
Galignani, 1828. 12mo. pp. (1) xi, 202, [vi], 222, (2) [iii], 234, [iii], 258. Contemporary half red
morocco on marbled boards. Flat spine decorated in gilt with title and volume numbers in gilt
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direct in the second and fourth compartments. Early signature of Elizabeth Somerville on both
volumes. Minor wear to extremities, small stain to front endpaper of Volume I, occasional light
foxing. A very good set.
€225
269. MORGAN, Lady. Lady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence.
Copyright edition. Three volumes in one. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1863. pp. xii, 330, [iii],
334, [iv], 312. Purple cloth, covers blind stamped, title in gilt on spine. All edges marbled. A
very good copy.
€275
270. MORLEY, Henry. Ed. by. Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First. Described by
Edmund Spenser, by Sir John Davies, Attorney-General for Ireland under James the First, and by
Fynes Moryson, Secretary to the Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputy. London: George Routledge,
1890. pp. 445, 2. Maroon pebbled cloth, title and floral decorations in gilt on spine. Some minor
spotting, otherwise a very good copy.
€75
271. MORRIS, F.O. Ed. by. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and
Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated with fine colour plates. Six volumes. London:
William MacKenzie, (c.1880). Quarto. Contemporary full morocco, covers framed by a wide gilt
roll enclosing in the centre the title and Windsor Castle blocked in gilt. Spine divided into six
compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and
fourth; turn-ins gilt; red and cream endbands; yellow endpapers. A.e.g. A very fine and very
attractive set.
€875
With a total 240 of chromolithographs. A beautiful series of coloured lithographed plates depicting
seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. All seats are described, complete
with lists of the former owners.
CORK GRAMMAR SCHOOL PRIZE
272. MORRIS, William O'Connor. Napoleon Warrior and Ruler and the Military Supremacy
of Revolutionary France. With maps and illustrations. New York and London: Putnam's Sons,
1908. pp. xvii, 433. Bound in full green calf, upper cover framed by a wave roll enclosing in the
centre the badge of Cork Grammar School in gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by five
gilt raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt
to a centre-and-corner design; board edges gilt; marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Traces of
mild water staining to front endpapers. A very good copy.
€125
273. MULHOLLAND, Rosa. Narcissa's. The Story of a Strange Quest. Illustrated by G. Demain
Hammond. London: Blackie, 1916. pp. 376. Green cloth, title and ring in gilt on upper cover and
spine. Top edge green. A very good copy.
€45
274. MURPHY, Rory & BINIONS, Gloria. Killanne, Enniscorthy, County Wexford.
Memorials to the Dead. Part 1: Historic Graveyard. Part 2: Church of Ireland Graveyard.
Photography: Kenneth Hemmingway. Illustrated. Killanne: For the Authors, 2001. pp. 56. Signed
by Gloria Binions. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€25
275. MURTAGH, Harman. Ed. by. 'The Emergency' 1939-45. The Proceedings of a
Conference organised by the Military History Society of Ireland, in association with the Military
Archives, at Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin, 18-20 June 1992. Illustrated. Athlone: 1994. pp.
144. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. Scarce.
€65
The contents include: Defence and the new Irish State; Mobilisation and Expansion; Mr. De Valera's
Appreciation; The Emergency Army; Plans and Operations; Aspects of Intelligence; The Emergency
Services; Powder and Ball Company, L.D.F.; Transition to Peace; The Marine Service; Germany and
Ireland in World War II; 'Bending the Beam' Myth and Reality in the Bombing of Coventry, Belfast
and Dublin, etc.
With contributions by: Peter Young, Denis Parsons, Donal O'Carroll, Colm Mangan, Eunan O'Halpin,
Jim Dukes, James P. Coyle, John P. Duggan, Joseph Carroll, Daire Brunicardi, Aidan Quigley, etc.
276. [NEALE CATALOGUE] Catalogue of Books on Ireland, chiefly Second-hand. Part I. (No.
X) History, Biography, Genealogy, Topography, Antiquities, Natural History, Economics,
Politics and Bibliography. Part II. (No. XI) Irish and Anglo-Irish. Literature, including First
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Editions and Association Books, and Local Irish Printing. Dublin: Walter G. Neale, 1917. pp. (1)
55, (2) 28. Very good in illustrated stapled wrappers.
€95
277. NEESON, Eoin. The Civil War 1922-23. Illustrated. Swords: Poolbeg, 1989. Second
edition. pp. [viii], 343. Colour illustrated wrappers. With ALS from the author loosely inserted. A
fine copy.
€35
278. NEESON, Eoin. The Life and Death of Michael Collins. Original typescript with
corrections and additions for the second edition. Over three hundred pages, with ties. Together
with a small archive of files, letters, copy letters, etc. Correspondence with Sean McBride, Ronan
Fanning, Solicitors and Publishers. Various typescripts relating to Michael Collins: An Address
given to UCC Historical Society by Eoin Neeson; Lecture by Jack Lynch at a Seminar on
Michael Collins in Mulranny; Lecture by Sean McBride on Michael Collins at the Patrick McGill
Summer School, Glenties; Questions put to Sean McBride; Press cuttings; Bibliography.
Corrected proof copy of the second edition The Life and Death of Michael Collins, etc. A
valuable and unique collection for students of Michael Collins.
€375
Eoin Neeson (1927-2011), journalist, historian and formerly Director of the Government Information
Bureau. He always wanted to be a writer and cut his teeth as a journalist in the provincial press. He
served as editor of The Kerryman and later moved to the Evening Mail. In 1961 he joined the staff of
Telefis Eireann. He was the author of several books, pioneering works on aspects of Irish history
notably The Civil War 1922-23, The Life and Death of Michael Collins and A History of Irish Forestry.
He took strong exceptions to reviews of his books and he alleged in one article that the reviewers
assessment was informed by "prejudice and spleen". He was also involved in controversy over Roger
Casement's 'Black Diaries'.
279. NEESON, Eoin. Thomas the Sceptic. Typescript of an unpublished novel. A large quarto
volume consisting of two hundred and seventy six typed pages. With corrections in the author's
hand. Bound in quarter linen on paper boards.
€275
280. NEWENHAM, W.H. Carte-de-Visite photograph of Captain W.H. Newenham. Full length
portrait, taken indoors wearing coat, holding a cane with one hand and his hat in the other, beside
the stairs. In very good condition.
€125
Pasted on verso of photograph is the death notice of Captain William Henry Newenham. He was born
in 1830, served in the 25th and 63rd Regiments, and was severely wounded at the Battle of Inkerman.
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He married first, Emily Berkeley, daughter of Robert Berkeley; and secondly, the Hon. Louisa
Edwardes, daughter of Lord Kensington. Newenham was a land owner in the County of Cork,
Limerick and Tipperary. He died in 1878 at his residence, Pailton House, Rugby.
281. NEWMAN, A. [Herbert Moore Pim] What Emmet Means in 1915. A Tract for the Times.
Dublin: Published at the Irish Volunteer Headquarters, Dawson St., [1915]. pp. 16. Orig. printed
wrappers, stapled.
€85
282. [NEWRY MAGAZINE] The Newry Magazine; or, Literary & Political Register. For 1816,
1817, and 1818. Volumes 2 to 4 (of 5) bound as one. Illustrated with engraved plates. Newry:
Printed by Alex. Wilkinson, Telegraph-Office, Margaret-Street, 1816-18. pp. 89-526, 566, 300
(double column). Brown cloth, title in gilt on morocco label on spine. Minor wear, otherwise a
very good copy.
€385
James Stuart (1764-1842) historian, was born in Armagh and educated at Armagh Royal School and
T.C.D. Although called to the bar he never practised. Stuart was the first editor of the Newry Telegraph
and between 1815 and 1819 also edited the Newry Magazine. In 1827 he founded and edited the
Guardian and Constitutional Advocate , but ill health forced him to abandon it.
283. Ní MHURCHÚ, Máire & BREATHNACH, Diarmuid. Leabhair Thaighde. 1560-1781.
Beathaisnéis. Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta., 2001. pp.223 (double column). Green
paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine d.j.
€45
284. NISBET, Alexander. Gent. A System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical: With the
True Art of Blazon, according to the Most Approved Heralds in Europe: Illustrated with suitable
examples of armorial figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families
in Scotland, &c. Together with Historical and Genealogical Memorials relative thereto. A new
edition. Two volumes. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood ... and Rodwell & Martin,
New Bord Street, London, 1816. Folio. pp. (1) viii, 440, xxii, [56 (plates)], (2) [iv], ii, 109, 191,
300, 49, xvi, [22 (plates)]. Bound by Fleming Bookbinder, Glasgow in contemporary full red
morocco over bevelled boards, covers framed to a panel design by double gilt fillets, royal arms
of Scotland in gilt in centre, sceptre and crown in gilt at corners. Spine divided into six
compartments by five raised bands, title in gilt direct in second, the remainder framed by gilt
fillets enclosing in the centre alternating armorial gilt shield of Scotland and sceptre and crown.
Armorial bookplate of Wallace on front pastedowns. A.e.g.
€475
Alexander Nisbet (1657-) the eldest son of Adam Nisbet and Janet Aikenhead, was born in Edinburgh.
He attended the course of philosophy at the university there. In 1682 he was laureated. For some years
he followed the profession of a writer in Edinburgh, but he commenced the study of heraldry at an
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early period of his career. Writing in 1702, he says he had barely finished his course of philosophy
"when I became happily acquainted with some who were no Strangers to the Science [of heraldry], and
e'en then I stole as many Hours as possible from business till about fourteen or fifteen years ago,
having wholly laid aside the Imployment of a Writer, I applied myself entirely and assiduously to this
Study". Nisbet was present at the depositing of the regalia of Scotland in the crown room of Edinburgh
castle in March 1707. He wrote an exhaustive description of the various articles, and that description
down to our own day was relied upon by every subsequent writer. He had access to the charter chests
of many noble and distinguished families, and the good use he made of his opportunities is attested by
the fact that Douglas and subsequent writers rely upon him for the early genealogies of several houses.
The national archives, kept in his day in the Laigh Parliament house in Edinburgh, were at his
command for such aid as could be got from the confused and wasting mass. But the great idea of his
life, for the execution of which he wrought and struggled steadily for upwards of thirty years, was to
present to the world a perfect exposition of the science of heraldry. He prepared himself for the task by
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making himself acquainted with the English and French systems. German, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish
armouries he appears to have had some familiarity with, through the medium of Latin writers. He
formed a collection of works on his subject, including several manuscripts, the more important of the
latter being enumerated in his introduction to his System of Heraldry, published in 1722.
Practically all the plates are hand coloured.
285. O'BEIRNE, J.W. Synoptical History of the Phoenix Park and its Institutions. Visitor's
Hand Book to the Principal Places of Interest in Dublin. With direct map. Illustrated. Dublin:
Pearl Printing, n.d. (c.1910). pp. 22, 2 (adverts), plus errata. Green printed wrappers, staples
rusting. A good copy. Scarce.
€75
LIMITED TO 250 COPIES
286. O'BRIEN, Eoin & CROOKSHANK, Anne. A Portrait of Irish Medicine. An Illustrated
History of Medicine in Ireland. With numerous coloured and mono illustrations, and folder in
pocket at end with charter and plates of the architecture. Dublin: Ward River, 1984. Folio. pp. xv,
307. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the authors and the then president of the
College, the late Victor Lane. Mint in full dark red morocco. The coat of arms of the Royal
College of Surgeons is embossed in 22ct gold on front cover, the spine is embossed with offwhite bars. Silk end-papers and in morocco and silk slip-case. Very scarce.
€675
Published to mark the bicentenary of the foundation of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The
history of Irish medicine is seen through the portraiture and sculpture in medical institutions in Ireland.
287. O'BRIEN, John. Around the Boree Log and Other Verses. Sydney: Angus & Robertson,
1969. pp. viii, 168. Red paper boards, title in black on spine. A very good copy in colour
illustrated but lightly frayed d.j.
€45
Includes such classics as 'The Trimmin's on the Rosary', 'The Little Irish Mother', '"We'll all be
rooned", said Hanrahan', 'Tangmalangaloo', as well as 'Around the Boree Log'. John O'Brien was the
pen-name of Father P.J. Hartigan, a parish priest in the diocese of Wagga-Wagga, New South Wales in
the 1940's. His verse reflects the daily life of the Irish settlers in the Australian bush-country.
By 1925, when Father Hartigan endeavoured to trace his ancestry in Lisseycasey, County Clare, the
Hartigan name had disappeared from the district. He did discover relatives on the maternal side with
the name Trousdell (when his mother came to Australia it had been Townsell). It may earlier have been
Townsend. The Australian saga of this branch of the Hartigan family begins in 1864 when Patrick
Joseph Snr. arrived in Australia from Lisseycasey. ... He married Mary Townsell (also from
Lisseycasey) at S.t Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, in July 1871.
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH ALS
288. O'BRIEN, Mrs. William. Around Broom Lane. London: Heath Cranton, 1931. pp. 144.
Green cloth, title printed in black on upper cover and spine. Signed presentation copy from the
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author to Terence O'Hanlon dated at Bellvue, Mallow, November, 1931. Also loosely inserted is
a two page octavo autograph letter signed from the author to the presenter of 'Sunday and other
Days' chats on books and man, requesting a mention on her book on the radio programme.
Library stamp of Terence O'Hanlon on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed d.j. Very
scarce.
€165
Sophie O'Brien (1860-1960), née Sophie Raffalovich, born in Odessa, Russia, the only daughter of
Marie and Hermann Raffalovich. She married William O'Brien M.P. in 1890. At the time, O'Brien was
editor of the Irish Land League newspaper, United Ireland . Sophie provided much moral and practical
support to her husband, acting as his secretary and devoting herself to his welfare, and her wealth was
used in financing his political activities. She produced a number of books and articles during her
lifetime.
William O'Brien M.P. (1852-1928) was a journalist, writer and a major nationalist political figure from
Mallow, County Cork. He was particularly involved in the campaigns for land reform in Ireland.
AN SEABHAC'S COPY
289. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Cré na Cille. Líníocht le Charles Lamb. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal
& Dill, 1949. Céad. pp. 364. Black pebbled cloth with title and design in gilt on spine. With the
signature of An Seabhac (Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha). A very good copy of the scarce first edition
in rare dust wrapper.
€265
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-1970) was probably the most outstanding Irish writer of the twentieth
century. Nobody, as yet, fully understands Cré na Cille (The Clay of the Graveyard ) in which the
author chooses death, in the form of a cemetery, as the vehicle for his account of the living. The
substance of the novel revolves around Caitríona Pháidín, a recently deceased Irish matriarch whose
history is revealed through conversations with various others lying in the graveyard. It emerges that her
life was consumed with the besting of her sister Nell. Depicted is the unpleasant side of Irish rural life,
the petty jealousies and feuds concerning land, religion, and politics; of people's inflated opinions of
themselves, etc.
290. O'CASEY, Sean. Three Plays. Juno and the Paycock. The Shadow of a Gunman. The
Plough and the Stars. London: Macmillan, 1957. pp. 218. Illustrated wrappers. From the library
of E.W. McCabe with his bookplate on contents page. A very good copy.
€45
First issued in St. Martin's Library series, 1957.
291. Ó CONAIRE, Pádhraic. M'Asal Beag Dubh agus Sleachta Eile. Áth Cliath agus Corcaigh:
n.d. (c.1955). pp. 120. Illustrated wrappers. Spine a little frayed. Scholar's name and address on
front endpaper. A good copy.
€15
292. O'CONOR, Carola D.D. Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres ... Epistolam
nuncupatoriam quae Codicum Vetustissimorum Hibernensium notitiam ... Annales Tigernachi ...
Annales Inisfalenses ... Annales Buellianos ... Annales IV Magistrorum, ex Ipso O'Clerii
Autographo in Bibliotheca Stowense ... Annales Ultonienses ... Itemque Indicem Generalem.
With map and plates. Four volumes. Buckingham: 1814-1826. Quarto. Superb set in recent
buckram. Exceedingly rare.
€1,250
Charles O'Conor (1764-1828), was grandson of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare. Educated at Rome,
where he was ordained a priest. In 1792 he was appointed Parish Priest of Kilkeevan, four years later
he published a memoir of his grandfather, Memoirs of the life and writings of the late Charles O'Conor .
This edition was suppressed as being dangerous to the family, and the Manuscript of a second volume
was burned by the author. The Marquis of Buckingham purchased Father O'Conor's grandfather's
manuscript collection, he was introduced to the Marquis as the most suitable person to edit and
translate the collection. In 1798, O'Conor was appointed Chaplain to the Marchioness of Buckingham
at Stowe, and continued after her death as Librarian to the Duke. This important work on the study of
Irish history and antiquities, was privately printed at the expense of the Duke. The contents includes:
Annals of Innisfallen; Annals of Boyle; Annals of the Four Masters; Annals of Ulster. The edition was
limited to 200 sets.
293. O'DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla
na Naomh O'Huidhrin. Edited with translation, notes, and introductory dissertations. Dublin:
Printed for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1862. pp. [vi] 64, 135, cxxxvii, 1 (errata),
iv. Brown blind stamped cloth, spine recently rebacked with title in gilt on black morocco
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letterpiece. With the armorial bookplate and blind stamp of Wigan Free Public Library. Minor
wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce.
€375
John Ó Dubhagain (O'Dugan) was chief poet to the O'Kellys of Hy Many and his poem was originally
contained in the book of O'Dubhagain, called Leabhar Ui Maine (Book of Hy Many). He was the
author of A Topographical and Historical Poem, of eight hundred and eighty verses, beginning
'Triallam timcheall na Fodhla' - (Let us go around Ireland). The poem gives the names of the principal
tribes and districts in Meath, Ulster and Connaught (Leath-Cuinn), and the chiefs who lorded over
them, at the time when Henry II, King of England, was invited to this country by Dermod Mac
Moragh, King of Leinster. From the first line of this poem, and from the few ranns that this author has
left us, on the districts of the province of Leinster, it would seem that it was his intention to have given
a complete account of all the districts and chief tribes in Ireland; and it would be a cause of much
regret, that he left unfinished so interesting a work, if it had not afterwards been taken up and
completed by his contemporary, Giolla-na-naomh-O'Huidhrin. For the account of the ancient families
of Leath-Mogha (Leinster and Munster) we are indebted to O'Huidhrin. His poem begins with 'Tuille
feasa ar Erinn óigh'- (An addition of knowledge on sacred Erin). According to the Annals of The Four
Masters, Giolla-na-naomh, a learned historian, died in the year 1420. There are two copies of these
poems in the library of the Royal Irish Academy; one in the handwriting of Cucocriche O'Clery, the
other in the transcript of Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh Genealogical Work, made for the Academy by
Eugene O'Curry.
294. O'FAOLAIN, Eileen. The King of the Cats.
Illustrated by Nano Reid. Dublin and Cork: The Talbot
Press, 1941. First edition. pp. 148. Quarter cloth on
brown paper boards. A well read copy in good
condition. Rare.
€150
295. Ó FIAICH, An tAthair Tomás. Irish Cultural
Influence in Europe VIth to XIIth Century. Map
designed by Thurlough Connolly. Cork: Mercier, 1971.
pp. 44. Illustrated wrappers. Owner's signature on
verso of front cover. A fine copy.
€20
296. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. The Fairy Goose and
Two Other Stories. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927.
First edition. Small Quarto. pp. 58. Quarter cream
linen on paper boards decorated in a shamrock design.
Title in printed label on spine. Limited edition, signed
by Liam O'Flaherty on half-title. Previous owner's
inscription on front endpaper. A fine copy.
€225
Liam O'Flaherty (1897-1984), novelist, was born in Gort
na gCapall on Inishmore in the Aran Islands. His father
was active in the Land League and his mother was
descended from a family of Plymouth Brethren from
County Antrim who had come to Aran to build lighthouses. Educated at Rockwell, Blackrock, and
U.C.D. He abandoned his priestly studies and joined the Irish Guards as Bill Ganly, using his mother's
maiden name and served for a while in France during the First World War. He was invalided out and
eventually returned to Dublin to take part in the Revolution. Afterwards he returned to London and
began his writing career. In spite of the large number of novels and the immense and deserved success
of some of them, particularly The Informer , O'Flaherty is best known as a short-story writer. O'Flaherty
separated from his wife and daughter and suffered a number of nervous breakdowns due to his
experiences in the trenches.
ONE OF THE MOST LEARNED MEN OF EUROPE
297. 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
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subscribers. Two volumes in one. Dublin: Printed by W. M'Kenzie, No. 33, College-Green, 1793.
pp. (1), lxxxiii, 8 (List of Subscribers), 292, [iii], 419. Later quarter maroon morocco on paper
boards. Occasional light foxing. The finest copy that we have had. Scarce. Very rare.
€675
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 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 MacFirbis, 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 MacFhirbhisigh 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 birthright; 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". A monumental work on the history
of Ireland from the earliest times to the year 1684. O'Flaherty consulted the Book of Lecan, the
Chronicle of Tighearnach O'Braein, the Liber Migrationum of Michael O'Cleary, and numerous other
Irish medieval manuscripts. The Irish type used in quotations and in giving the true forms of names is
also the one used in Seanmora ar na Priom Phoncibh na Creideamh , translated into Irish by Philip
MacBrady and John O'Mulchonri, and published in 1711 by Elinor Everingham.
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; Lord Charlemont; Lord
Clonmell; Lord Cloncurry; Lord Clonbrock; Lord Donoughmore who ordered 20 copies; John Foster;
John Ferrar of Limerick who ordered 49 copies; Henry Grattan; numerous members of the Hely
Hutchinson family; John Kelly of Carraroe; The Duke of Leinster; David Latouche; Hugh M'Dermot of
Culavin; William M'Kenzie bookseller; Charles O'Conor; The Earl of Ormond; Chevalier O'Gorman;
Sylvester O'Halloran; Viscount Powerscourt; Sir Lawrence Parsons; Dominick Trant; Col. Vallancey;
Rev. Wade; numerous members of the O'Callaghan family; Archbishop Troy; Barry Yelverton, etc.
298. 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) 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 only 1 copy.
SIGNED BY ALL THE CONTRIBUTORS
299. O'HARA, Bernard Ed. by. Mayo. Aspects of its heritage. With maps and illustrations.
Galway: 1982. pp. [ix], 313. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by all the
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€150
contributors. A fine good copy in frayed d. j.
This book is a study of some aspects of the rich heritage of County Mayo. It covers the origin of the
County; it's history; archaeology; placenames; surnames; Ulster migration to Mayo; "The Year of the
French"; Mayo elections, etc.
With contributions by Bernard O'Hara, Nollaig Ó Muraíle; Desmond O'Neill; Gabriel Colleran; Rev.
Jarlath Waldron; Máirtín Ó Direáin; Brian O'Rourke; Barbara Buckley; Michael Leonard; Father Leo
Morahan and Thomas Neary.
300. O'HIGGINS, Brian. The Soldier's Story of Easter Week. Poems of 1916. Prison Letters,
1917-20 (hitherto unpublished). With sketches of the leaders by Liam C. Martin. Dublin: Brian
O'Higgins, 1966. pp. 117. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€85
Brian O'Higgins (1882-1966) was born in Kilskyre (Gleann na Mona), County Meath, moved to Dublin
where he became an active member of the Gaelic League and then became secretary of O'Curry Gaelic
College at Carrigaholt, County Clare. He took part in the Easter Rising, serving in the GPO garrison
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 Dáil'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.
301. O'KELLY, Michael J. Beal Boru, County Clare. Journal of the Cork Historical and
Archaeological Society. Part I, Volume LXVII, No. 205. With illustrations and folding maps.
Cork: 1962. pp. 27.Quarto. Printed wrappers. Staples rusting. A very good copy.
€25
Beal Boru is an impressive structure which lies on the County Clare bank of the Shannon River a little
distance above Killaloe. The form of the name used here is that which is still current in the
neighbourhood, but many variants are known.
302. Ó LAOÍ, Padraic. Annals of the G.A.A. in Galway. Volume I. 1884-1901. Galway:
Emerald Printers, 1983. pp. [iv], 230, [4]. Illustrated wrappers.
€65
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TWO BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME
A WEEK IN THE WEST AND SOUTH OF IRELAND
303. [AN OLD TRAVELLER] A Week in the South of Ireland; including A Tour to Cork,
Bantry, Glengarriff, Killarney, Kilkee, Limerick, and the Lower Shannon. Second edition,
enlarged. With folding map of Munster. Bound with: A Week in the West of Ireland. Illustrated
by W.F. Wakeman. With folding map of County Galway. Two works in one volume. Dublin:
McGlashan and Hodges & Smith, 1852. 16mo. pp. 94, [vi], 94, 52 (advertisements). Floral
patterned cloth, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece. Minor wear to extremities. Some notes
in pencil on front endpapers. Signature of Wm. Spickernell dated 1853 on front endpaper and on
titlepage of second book. Exceedingly rare.
€750
304. Ó LOCHLAINN, Colm. Ed. by. Irish Street Ballads. Adorned with woodcuts from the
original broadsheets. New York: Citadel Press, 1960. pp. xvi, 235. Green cloth. Scarce.
€35
A choice collection made by Colm O Lochlainn of over one hundred songs, many of them are of
respectable antiquity, and many more were made in fairly recent times. Every song has its tune, some
for the first time published, and nearly all of them are adorned with woodcuts taken from old Dublin
Broadsheet ballads.
305. Ó LOINGSIGH, Pádraig. Bórdóinín. A History of the Parish of Caherdaniel. Cork:
Published by Oidhreacht na Stéige, 1999. pp. xi, 332. Inscribed to Tony Sweeney mentioning a
plaque for his grandfather Detective Inspector John Sweeney of Scotland Yard. Also loosely
inserted a letter from the author to Tony Sweeney discussing the Sweeney Clan. Colour
illustrated wrappers. A very good copy.
€65
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
306. O'MAHONY, Sean. Frongoch. University of Revolution. With illustrations and maps.
Dublin: F.D.R. 1987. pp. 242. Illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author. A fine copy.
€75
RARE FIRST EDITION
307. O'MALLEY, Ernie. On Another Man's Wound. London: Rich & Cowan, 1936. First
edition. pp. 336. Light green cloth, title in green on spine. Signature of John P. Dalton on front
endpaper. Some minor foxing, binding a little worn. Part of dustjacket on front free endpaper. A
good copy of the rare first edition.
€75
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.
308. O'MOLLOY, Francis. Lucerna Fidelium [Lochrann na gCreidmheach], seu Fasciculus
Deceptus ab Authoribus Magis Versatus, qui Tractarunt de Doctrina Christiana. Rome: Typis
Sacræ Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, 1676. 8vo pp. [iv], 391, viii. Nineteenth century half
maroon morocco cloth boards. Unobstrusive water stain. Minor wear to binding, otherwise a very
good copy. Scarce.
€1,250
Wing O 291C Sweeney 3279.
Francis O Molloy acknowledging the sorry state of learning and religion in Ireland: "which proscribed
the public and even the private use of the Irish language in order that, when the latter had been
consigned to eternal oblivion, no knowledge might survive of native antiquities, of the Lives of our
Saints, of our Faith, of our ecclesiastical traditions", counteracted this by publishing Lochrann na
gCreidmheach, better known by its Latin title Lucerna Fidelium. It is a catechism of the doctrines of
the Irish Church printed in the Irish character at the press of the Congregation for the Propagation of
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the Faith in Rome, with a new Irish type specially cut there for this work. The book has two title pages,
one in Latin and the other in Irish. It was distributed in the Irish and Scottish missions, and to Irish
soldiers in Continental armies for their spiritual welfare. Happily for the bibliophile, uncut sheets in
fine condition, of this work were discovered in the loft of the Irish College at Rome. These in turn were
offered in a single lot (278 copies) at the sale of the library of J.P. Lyons, Dean of Killala, in 1845.
They were purchased by George Smith of Hodges and Smith, who had them bound up and afterwards
sold them for ten shillings each.
About 1675 the Irish priests at Rome had a new Irish type cut for the press of the Sacra Congregatio de
Propaganda Fide. Fr. O'Molloy's Lucerna Fidelium was the first book printed there. When Napoleon
"visited" Rome he carried off this type and lodged it in the Imprimerie in Paris. Marcel, the Director of
the Imprimerie, used the Rome Irish type of 1676 for this work Alphabet Irlandais.
309. [O'NEILL, Frederick] Royal Ulster Constabulary List and Directory 1937. Containing lists
of the Constabulary Departments, Government Departments, Resident Magistrates, etc. Belfast:
n.d. [1937]. pp. 71, + adverts. Recent buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€185
310. O'NEILL, Moira. Songs of The Glens of Antrim. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1923. pp. x, 61.
Title printed in red and black. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Top edge
gilt. A very good copy.
€35
311. Ó NUALLÁIN, Brian [Flann O'BRIEN] Mairéad Gillan. Báile Átha Cliath: Oifig an
tSolathair, 1953. Octavo. An chead chló. pp. 97. Printed blue stapled wrappers. A fine copy.
Very rare.
€235
The Irish translation of Brinsley MacNamara's Margaret Gillan written in 1933.
WITH 'AN BÉAL BOCHT' BY FLANN O'BRIEN
312. Ó NUALLÁIN, Ciarán. Éire Bliainiris Ghaedheal. Rogha Saothair Gaedheal mBeo. Áth
Cliath, Muinntear Chathail, 1941. Quarto. pp. 112 (double column). Library buckram. Ex. lib.
with stamps. A very good copy. Rare.
€250
With contributions by: Máire; Earnán De Blaghd; Séamus Ó Neill; Brian Ó Nualláin (Flann O'Brien);
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An t-Athair Pádraig De Brún; Tomás Bairéad; Domhnall Mac Grianna; Caoimhghín Ó Nualláin;
Sorcha Ní Ghuairim; Ciarán Ó Nualláin; An Canónach P. Mac Giolla Cheara; Pádhraig Ó
Domhnalláin; An Suibhneach Meann.
313. 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 calf. Spine tastefully rebacked. Notes in
ink on front endpaper, early owner's signature on titlepage. Light bumping to corners. 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
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.
314. O'SHEA, Rev. Joseph. O.S.F. The Life of Father Luke Wadding, Founder of St. Isidore's
College, Rome. With portrait. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 1885. pp. xvi, 200. Worn cloth. From
the library of the Franciscan Convent, Ennis. Scarce.
€35
315. [O'SULLIVAN, Humphrey] Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúileabháin - The Diary of
Humphrey O'Sullivan. Containing the Diary from the 1st January 1827 to July 1836, with poems,
miscellaneous sketches, vocabularies, etc. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Notes by
Rev. Michael McGrath, S.J. Four volumes. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society,
1936/37. Owner's signature on f.f.e. and label of the Educational Co. of Ireland on front
pastedown. A fine set.
€345
Humphrey O'Sullivan (1780-1838) was the son of Denis O'Sullivan, a Killarney school-teacher who
migrated to Waterford City in 1790. The following year father and son taught in a sheep-shed
belonging to James Butler between the Crossroads and Ballywalter in the parish of Callan, where they
remained until a schoolhouse was built for them. "In truth" says Humphrey, "it was a small
schoolhouse, some twenty feet by ten. The sod walls were put up on the first day, the timber roofing on
the second, and the thatch on the third". And, he adds, "many a long uneventful year my father and I
spent teaching in this hovel". After his father's death in 1808, he continued teaching at Callan where he
had an attendance of 130 pupils. In 1812 he married Mary Delahunty whose dowry was a draper's shop
in Callan. The Diary of Humphrey O'Sullivan is a document unique of its kind in Irish Literature. The
author was undoubtedly a man of great talent, ability and culture. Having experienced poverty and
hardship in his childhood, this he never forgot and used his influence generously and unfailingly to
help the poor and this is reflected in his diaries. They cover a vast range of subjects, such as botany;
agriculture; bird lore; the hardship of those who tilled the soil; the state of the country; O'Connell, his
election for Clare; the Monster Meetings; fairs, markets and prices; shipwrecks; the building of Dun
Laoghaire Harbour and the two Liffey Walls; the Thames Tunnel and foreign topics. A fascinating
piece of social history and self-portrait of a sensitive man.
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316. O'SULLIVAN, Seumas. Essays and Recollections. Dublin: Talbot, 1944. pp. 143. Quarter
buckram on paper boards. Very good in d.j.
€25
THE O'TOOLES & O'BYRNES OF WICKLOW
317. O'TOOLE, Rev. P.L. History of the Clan O'Toole (Ui Thuathail) and Other Leinster Septs.
With numerous illustrations, folding genealogical charts, coloured map of the County of
Wicklow, and coloured armorial bearing of Clan O'Toole. Together with: A History of Clan
O'Byrne. List of subscribers at end. Dublin: Gill, 1890. Quarto. pp. xvi, 604, 52, 7. Original green
cloth, armorial device and title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Rebacked. A very good copy.
Rare in this condition.
€675
This is one of the most comprehensive family histories ever written. Dr. MacLysaght tells us "The
O'Tooles are remarkable for their unremitting resistance to English attempts to conquer Ireland from
the late twelfth century ... to the end of the seventeenth century, when the country was finally
subdued". Their patrimony, near to the capital, was ideally suited to resistance on account of its
mountainous and wooded nature. They controlled an area coextensive with the diocese of Glendalough,
and their chiefs exercised the right of nominating the Abbots of that See. The author has painstakingly
researched, the various branches, persons of note, and illustrated this with numerous genealogical
tables. This edition includes as a supplement, The History of the Clan O'Byrne (Ui Faelan), which is
not present in most copies.
318. [OUTRAGES IN IRELAND] Abstracts of the Police Reports of some of the Principal
Outrages in Counties of Tipperary, Limerick, Clare, Leitrim, Roscommon. In the year 1845.
London: Printed by T.R. Harrison for H.M.S.O., 1846. Folio. pp. [i], 148. Light water stain to
upper margin of one gathering. Recent quarter blue morocco on blue buckram. A very good
copy. Exceedingly rare.
€325
Detailed police reports covering over nine hundred outrages throughout counties Tipperary, Limerick,
Clare, Leitrim, and Roscommon. For each county there are listings of the crimes committed and
detected, with dates, names of the injured persons and perpetrators where available. Designation of the
offences: murder, aggravated assault, house attack, maiming cattle, being in arms, unlawfully
administering an oath, etc.
The Great Irish Famine (1845-1852) caused mass starvation, disease and emigration. It also led to
unprecedented levels of crime in some areas.
319. [PARLIAMENTARY GAZETTEER OF IRELAND] The Parliamentary Gazetteer of
Ireland, adapted to the new Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical arrangements, and
compiled with a special reference to the lines of railroad and canal communication, as existing in
1844-45. Illustrated by a series of maps, and other plates, and presenting the results, in detail, of
the Census of 1841, compared with that of 1831. Three volumes. Dublin: London, and
Edinburgh: Fullarton, 1846. Quarto. Contemporary half calf on cloth boards. Repair to some
folds of a few maps. Very good. Scarce.
€485
320. [PARNELL, Charles Stewart] Original Portrait
Photograph of Charles Stewart Parnell in suit and tie. Captioned
'Mr. Parnell M.P.' 90mm x 60mm, mounted on card. Rare. €275
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; The Great Clearances; The Great Betrayal; Revolution; Isaac
Butt; Famine Again!; The Land League; The Coercion Struggle; The
Irish Nemesis, etc.
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321. [PEACE PRESERVATION ACTS] The Peace Preservation (Ireland) Acts, 1856-1875.
Dublin: Printed by Alex Thom, for H.M.S.O., 1875. pp. 52. Inscribed on f.f.e: "Dub Inspectors
Office / Issued 19 Aug. 1875. / Received Aug. 19th, 75 / H.J. McDermot". Faded reddish-brown
cloth, title in manuscript on paper label on upper cover. Very good. Exceedingly rare.
€375
COPAC locates the TCD copy only.
322. [PEARSE, P.H.] 'Who fears to speak of
Easter Week. '1916'. Poem. Five verses of eight
lines. Arranged by Phil O'Neill. Dublin: Printed
by O'Loughlin, Murphy and Boland, for J.J.
Walsh. n.d. (c.1922). Quarto. pp. 4 (single folded
sheet). Cover with portrait of P.H. Pearse,
Commandant General I.R.A.
€125
Not in Carty.
'Who fears to speak of Easter Week
Who dares it fate deplore
The red-gold flame of Erin's name
Confronts the world once more!'
323. PETER, A. Sketches of Old Dublin.
Profusely illustrated. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers &
Walker, 1907. pp. viii, 331, 5 (publisher's list). Ex
lib. with stamps. Red pictorial cloth. Cover a little
faded, otherwise a very good copy.
€75
FINE BINDING BY WARD OF BELFAST
324. PETRIE, George. The Ecclesiastical
Architecture of Ireland, anterior to the AngloNorman Invasion; comprising an essay on the Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland,
which obtained the Gold Medal and Prize of the Royal Irish Academy. With numerous
illustrations. Dublin: Hodges Smith, 1845. Second edition. Small folio. pp. xxi, 525. Bound by
Ward Brothers of Belfast with their engraved label on the lower pastedown, in contemporary
green morocco. Covers blocked in gilt and blind by fillets, dotted lines and chain-link tools; blind
inner dentelle made up of shamrocks. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised
bands, title in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece in second, the remainder tooled with gilt fillets
enclosing in the centre of the compartments a gilt Celtic knot; comb-marbled endpapers; gold
endbands. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.
€675
George Petrie (1789-1866), antiquary, was born in Dublin, the
son of a portrait painter. Educated at Samuel Whyte's School in
Grafton Street, and at the Art School of the Dublin Society,
where he excelled and obtained a silver medal for figure
drawing in 1805. When about nineteen he began to make
excursions through the country in search of the picturesque, and
to examine and take careful notes and sketches of antiquities.
His remarks upon these were even then characterised by great
acuteness of observation. For the present work he was awarded
the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal. In the preface he states:
"The work contains not only the essay on the round towers, very
much enlarged, but also distinct essays on our ancient stone
churches and other ecclesiastical buildings of contemporaneous
age with the round towers". Petrie's conclusions regarding the
Christian origin of these towers are now accepted by all leading
Irish scholars and antiquarians. His sole interest lay in the
preservation of Ireland's past culture, and he was devoid of any
personal ambitions. His illustrations constitute a pictorial record
of our ancient monuments, drawn with meticulous accuracy,
which has never been surpassed.
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THE DOWN SURVEY
325. [PETTY, Sir William] History of the Cromwellian Survey of Ireland, A.D. 1655-6,
commonly called 'The Down Survey'. Edited, from manuscripts in the libraries of T.C.D., The
King's Inns, and The Marquis of Lansdowne, by Thomas Aiskew Larcom. Dublin: for the Irish
Archaeological Society, 1851. Quarto. pp. [iv], xxiv, 426. Purple blind stamped cloth. Stamp of
Archaeological Institute in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on rebacked spine. Light foxing to
prelims. A very good copy. Scarce.
€475
The most important cartographical event in Ireland in the seventeenth century was the survey carried
out by Sir William Petty of the estates of the Irish landowners. The Down Survey as it was called,
resulted in the publication of Hiberniae Delineatio which was a milestone in Irish cartography. It took
thirteen months to complete and was carried out by1,000 men of Petty's choosing. For his services he
was paid £9,000, an enormous amount in those days, some of this money he invested profitably in the
purchase of soldiers' debentures. According to John Aubrey, one could view the whole of Petty's vast
estate, from the top of Mangerton, amounting to some 50,000 acres in the County of Kerry. It had long
been known that Sir William Petty had left an account of the Down Survey. He made several references
to this survey in his writings, and also mentions it in his 'Last Will and Testament'. In 1834, Mr. James
Weale, of the department of Woods and Forests, an ardent collector of books and manuscripts relating
to Ireland, purchased at the sale of the library of Lord De Clifford, a manuscript copy of the Down
Survey. On his death in 1838, this survey along with other manuscripts were purchased by the
Government. It was from this copy that Sir Thomas A. Larcom published the present volume for the
Irish Archaeological Society. The term 'Down Survey' simply means, the results were set down or laid
down on maps.
326. PETTY, Sir William. Hiberniae Delineatio - Atlas of Ireland. Newcastle upon Tyne:
Graham, 1968. Atlas folio, oblong. Facsimile reprint of the first edition first published in 1685.
Limited to 500 copies. Red buckram, title on printed label on upper cover. A fine copy.
€325
Sir William Petty (1623-1687), political economist, physician to the Parliamentary army in Ireland, and
Surveyor-General of Ireland, was one of the most successful adventurers to benefit from Irish
confiscation and one of the greatest benefactors to Ireland with his survey and economic writings.
Major General Larcom said of Petty his "survey will always remain one of the most remarkable
undertakings of which we have any record. We are not to estimate its merits as a topographical work by
the precision which has been attained in modern times ... as well as the circumstances under which it
was executed, and the short time (13 months) in which the whole operation was performed y". Petty
became a very wealthy man out of all of this. "It was" said John Mitchel, "in the County of Kerry that
Dr Sir William Petty had his principal estates. For years the vales of Dunkerron and Iveragh rung with
the continual fall of giant oaks. There was a good market; Spain and France were searching the world
for pipe-staves, in English dockyards there was steady demand for ship-knees ... There was no source
of profit known to the commerce and traffic of that day in which Sir William did not bear a hand". A
truly remarkable man, it is said of him that he had talents capable of achieving anything to which he
turned his hands to. Beside L1BC he King's Inns, and The Marquis of Lansdowne, by Thomas Aiskew
Larcom. Dublin, for I.A.S.
327. PETTY, William. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. Shewing the Nature and
Measures of Crown-Lands, Assessments, Customs, Poll-Moneys, Lotteries, Benevolence,
Penalties, Monopolies, Offices, Tythes, Raising of Coins, Harth-Money, Excise, &c. With
several intersperst Discourses and Digressions concerning Warrs, The Church, Universities,
Rents and Purchases, Usury and Exchange, Banks and Lombards, Registries for Conveyances,
Beggars, Ensurance, Exportation of Money / Wooll, Free Ports, Coins, Housing, Liberty of
Conscience, &c. The same being frequently applied to the State and Affairs of Ireland, and is
now thought seasonable for the present affairs of England. London: Printed for Obadiah
Blagrave, at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul's Church-Yard, over against the Little North-Door,
1679. Third printing. Small quarto. pp. [xvi], 72. A very good copy in recent full calf in the
seventeenth century style. Rare.
€2,750
Fulton 10. Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), P1940. Goldsmiths' 2302. ESTC R12436. Sweeney 3446 lists the
first edition.
The present work is Petty's first economic treatise following immediately after the Restoration, when
changes in the methods of raising revenue were being discussed. The extensive range of his survey is
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shown by the headings printed on the titlepage. According to Hull the book was first published in May
1662, when the Duke of Ormond was expected to go to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, though in fact he
did not go until July, by which time the book was less likely to be noticed. "One of the most
remarkable of the early tracts in any branch of political economy. Petty touches in this treatise on
various subjects of great interest and importance, and his remarks are uniformly distinguished by their
depth and appropriateness. He has in different parts of this tract indicated, with considerable
distinctness, the fundamental principle, by establishing which Mr Ricardo gave a new aspect to the
whole science, that the value of commodities is, speaking generally, determined by the quantities of
labour required to produce them and bring them to the market". [McCulloch p.318]. This edition,
which has minor corrections on the titlepage, was published against Petty's wishes. He wrote in a letter
to Aubrey of 29 May 1678: "As for the reprinting of the booke of Taxes I will not meddle with it. I
never had thanks for any publick good I did, nor do I own any such booke". Furthermore in a letter to
Sir Robert Southwell, he made it clear that the Treatise of Taxes would not be reprinted with his
approval.
328. [PHOENIX PARK MURDERS] Album of Original William Lawrence Photographs of all
the principal characters involved in the Phoenix Park Murders in May 1882. These include: The
Late Lord Frederick Cavendish, M.P.; The Late Thomas H. Burke, Esq.; The Prisoners Charged
with the Phoenix Park Murders, Taken from Life [Medallion portraits of Edward M'Cafferty,
Edward O'Brien, James Carey, Timothy Kelly, Joe Brady, Peter Carey, Peter Doyly & Laurence
Hanlon]; The Phoenix Park Trials, Joe Brady in the Dock [from Weekly Freeman]; "Skin The
Goat" (Fitzharris, the cabman); James Carey T.C. The Approver (2 photos); Phoenix Park
Murders; Scene of the Assassination of Lord F. Cavendish and Mr. T.H. Burke, 6th May, 1882;
Number One P.J. Tynan (2 photos); The Irish National Land League [Medallion portraits of M.
Harris, T. Sexton, P. Egan, Michael Davitt, M. Boyton, J.G. Biggar, John Dillon, T.P. O'Connor,
J. Barry, T.D. Sullivan, T.M. Healy, J.J. O'Kelly, P.J. Sheridan, T. Brennan, M. O'Sullivan, A.J.
Kettle, J.W. Walsh and Charles Stewart Parnell in centre]. Coloured lithographic portraits by
William Lawrence of: Judge O'Brien; Mr. Potter Q.C. (Attorney General); Mr. Nash Q.C.
(Solicitor General); Mr. Murphy Q.C. (Crown Prosecution); Dr. Webb Q.C.; Mr. R. Adams; Mr.
D.B. Sullivan. Bound with: Pigottism and The Times. The Phoenix Park Murders. Monday, April
18, 1887 (pp. 16). Quarto album, bound in contemporary half morocco. Spine rebacked. In very
good condition. An excellent rare collection.
€765
The Phoenix Park Murders were the stabbings on 6 May 1882 in the Phoenix Park in Dublin of Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke. Cavendish was the newly appointed Chief Secretary
for Ireland, and Burke was the Permanent Undersecretary, the most senior Irish civil servant. The
murders were performed with surgical knives. They had been concealed in the London office of the
National League and had been smuggled in by Mrs. Frank Byrne, the wife of the paid secretary of the
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English organisation. Cavendish – who was married to Lucy Cavendish the niece of British Prime
Minister William Ewart Gladstone – had only arrived in Ireland the very day he was murdered. He and
Burke were attacked as they walked to the Viceregal Lodge, the "out of season" residence of the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland. Thomas Myles, resident surgeon at the nearby Dr Steevens' Hospital, was
summoned to render medical assistance to the victims. The then Lord Lieutenant, Lord Spencer,
described suddenly hearing screams, before witnessing a man running to the Lodge grounds shouting
"Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke are killed". Responsibility for the assassinations was claimed by a
small hitherto unheard-of Republican organisation called the 'Irish National Invincibles'. The hunt for
the perpetrators was led by Superintendent John Mallon, of the G Division of the Dublin Metropolitan
Police. He was a Catholic who came from Armagh and had a shrewd idea of who was involved,
suspecting a number of former Fenian activists. A large number of suspects were arrested and kept in
prison by claiming they were connected with other crimes. By playing off one suspect against another
Mallon got several of them to reveal what they knew. The 'Invincibles' leader, James Carey, and
Michael Kavanagh agreed to testify against the others. Joe Brady, Michael Fagan, Thomas Caffrey,
Dan Curley and Tim Kelly were convicted of the murder and were hanged by William Marwood in
Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin in May and June, 1883. Others were sentenced to serve long prison terms.
James Carey was shot dead on board the 'Melrose Castle' off Cape Town, South Africa, in July, 1883,
by Donegal man Patrick O'Donnell, for giving evidence against his former comrades. O'Donnell was
apprehended and escorted back to London, where he was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey and
hanged in December, 1883. 'The Invincibles' and Carey are mentioned in the folk song 'Take Her Up
To Monto':
"When Carey told on Skin-the-goat,
O'Donnell caught him on the boat
He wished he'd never been afloat, the filthy skite.
Twasn't very sensible
To tell on the Invincibles
They stood up for their principles, day and night".
The 'Irish National Invincibles' were opposed by the Fenians for their extremist activities. Following
the trial and execution of five of their members for the Phoenix Park murders the organisation
disappeared. The outrage was a profound shock to Victorian England and Ireland and put paid to
Parnell's hope of a practical settlement with Gladstone. This album gives us a detailed and unique
pictorial record of one the most outrageous episodes in our history.
THE QUEEN'S PHOTOGRAPHER
329. [PHOTOGRAPH] An early Photograph (c.1870) of Dorcas Bousfield and John Bagwell.
Seated on a chair and holding hands, wearing velvet dress with laced collars and cuffs.
Photographer W. & D. Downey with details on verso of picture. Inscribed in ink are the names
Dorcas Bousefield and John Bagwell of Eastgrove. [109 x 165mm.] In fine condition.
€145
Bence Jones writes that this early 19th century house was built by Dorcas Bousfield, daughter of
William Bagwell and his wife Jane Harper. After her death it was inherited by the Bagwells and
remained in their possession until the mid 20th century. In 1837 John Bagwell is recorded as the
proprietor of East Grove and in the early 1850s, when the property valued at £40 was held from the
representatives of Viscount Middleton. Other 20th century owners include Loretta Brennan
Glucksman, and the Kelly family, musicians.
William and Daniel Downey were Victorian studio photographers operating in London from the 1860s
to the 1910s. They were born in South Shields. William, initially, was a carpenter and boat builder, but
in about 1855 he set up a studio in South Shields with his brother Daniel and later established branches
in Blyth, Morpeth and Newcastle. In 1863 they opened a studio in the Houses of Parliament and
produced portraits of every parliamentarian of the day. Their first Royal commission was to provide
photographs for Queen Victoria of the Hartley Colliery Disaster in January 1862.
330. [PILKINGTON, Matthew] Poems on Several Occasions. With list of subscribers and a
four-page poem by William Dunkin. Dublin: Printed by George Faulkner, 1730. First edition. pp.
[ii], iv, [x], 4, 189. Ex lib. Fore-edges of first two leaves strengthened. Recent quarter linen on
marbled boards. A.e.g. A very good copy.
€375
Foxon 575. Teerink 702. O'Donoghue 383. CBEL II, 563.
In the preface Pilkington states Jonathan Swift "condescended to peruse the following poems with the
greatest kindness and care, and honour'd them with corrections and remarks". The author and his wife
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Laetitia were involved with Swift and his circle, but they were a temperamental couple and Swift soon
tired of their company.
331. PLUNKETT, Joseph Mary. The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett. Frontispiece. Dublin:
Talbot, n.d. pp. xvi, 93. Olive green faded cloth. Very good.
€35
TRINITY PRIZE - IRISH BINDING
332. POPE, Alexander. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Complete. With his last
corrections, additions, and improvements: together with the commentary and notes of his editor.
A new edition, in five volumes. To which is annexed the life of the author, compiled from
Original Manuscripts, with a Critical Essay on his Writings and Genius. By Owen Ruffhead, Esq.
London: Printed for C. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, ... T. Cadell, and the Executors of A. Millar, 1769.
Quarto. Contemporary full calf. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet enclosing in the centre the
badge of Trinity College, Dublin, in gilt. No sign of Trinity Premium prize label on pastedowns.
Owner's signature on titlepages. Spines richly gilt, title and volume number in gilt on red
morocco labels with gilt floral decorations. Tools included are lyres, trumpets, dolphins, leaves,
flowers, dots, etc. Minor wear to extremities. A very good set.
€575
ESTC citation no.: T5448
The fifth volume, containing Ruffhead's Life
of Alexander Pope, has no general titlepage or
half-title for the Works.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet,
best known for his satirical verse and for his
translation of Homer. Famous for his use of
the heroic couplet, he is the third-most
frequently quoted writer in The Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare
and Tennyson.
Pope was the son of Alexander Pope, a linen
merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street,
London, and his wife Edith (née Turner), they
were both Catholics. Pope's education was
affected by the recently enacted Test Acts,
which upheld the status of the established
Church of England and banned Catholics from
teaching, attending a university, voting, or
holding public office on pain of perpetual
imprisonment. Pope was taught to read by his
aunt, and went to Twyford School in about
1698/99. He then went to two Catholic
schools in London. Such schools, while
illegal, were tolerated in some areas.
In 1700, his family moved to a small estate at Popeswood in Binfield, Berkshire, close to the royal
Windsor Forest. This was due to strong anti-Catholic sentiment and a statute preventing Catholics from
living within 10 miles of either London or Westminster. Pope would later describe the countryside
around the house in his poem Windsor Forest. Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from
then on, he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists
Horace and Juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil, as well as English authors such as Geoffrey
Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden. He also studied many languages and read works by
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek poets. After five years of study, Pope came into contact with
figures from the London literary society such as William Wycherley, William Congreve, Samuel
Garth, William Trumbull, and William Walsh.
Around 1711, Pope made friends with Tory writers John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Parnell and
John Arbuthnot, who together formed the satirical Scriblerus Club. The aim of the club was to satirise
ignorance and pedantry in the form of the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus. He also made friends
with Whig writers Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. In March 1713, Windsor Forest was published
to great acclaim.
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333. PORTER, Frank Thorpe. Twenty Years' Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate.
Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and Figgis, 1880. Tenth edition. pp. xii, 410, [2] (publisher's list).
Illustrated paper boards. Spine rebacked preserving original back strip. Covers and spine worn.
Exceedingly rare.
€175
This edition not located on COPAC.
Topics include: Whipping Young Thieves; Murder of Mr. Little; Royal Visits; The Dublin Garrison;
Donnybrook Fair; A Barrister; The College Row; A Colonel of Dragoons; The Count de Courcy;
Michel Perrin; The Close of 1848; Murder of Mr. Little; Excise and Customs Cases; The Liquor
Traffic; A Dublin Dentist; etc., etc.
334. [POSTCARDS] An Album of forty-one Irish Postcards (and others) circa 1920. Including
real photographic postcards by Mason of Dublin. The places illustrated includes: Dalkey Island;
Dun Laoghaire; Lake Acoos, Co. Kerry; River at Glencar and the Reeks from Glencar; Caragh
Beag River; Hotel, Glencar, Co. Kerry; Lickeen Bridge and Reeks; Pass of Ballaghbeama; Gap
of Dunloe; Black Stream Bridge, Gap of Dunloe; Kate Kearney's Cottage; Ross Castle; The
Rapids Killarney; Upper Lakes; Bay and Minaun Cliffs Achill; Dhulough Connemara; Doagh
Village Achill; The Sound; View from Slieve Mor Mountain Achill; Keem Bay; Lough Muck,
Leenane; Killary Bay; Leenane Hotel; Mongans Hotel, Carna; Going to School, Carna; Lough
Pibrum and Lough Sheedagh, Carna; Lough Glenaun; Going for Turf at Carna; Lough Scannive,
The Twelve Bens; Dooletter Lough, The Bathing Strand; Black Lake, Knockboy, and Scannive
River. Quarter linen oblong album. In very good condition. [Cards 140 x 89mm]. Fine.
€95
335. POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan. With illustrations. Philadelphia: David McKay
Company, 1929. Quarto. pp. 225. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Colour illustration of the
Fairy Caravan laid on upper cover. A fine copy in lightly frayed d.j.
€375
After the author finished her Peter Rabbit series Beatrix Potter intended to stop writing and it was only
with the persuasion of her American publisher, Alexander McKay, that she agreed to write this work
which was intended only for the American market. The illustrations are by Beatrix, include six colour
plates and twenty full page and forty-two smaller black-and-white drawings.
336. POTTER, Beatrix. The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit. London: Published by Frederick
Warne & Co, n.d. pp. 58. Paper boards with coloured medallion illustration in centre of upper
cover. A fine copy in lightly frayed d.j.
€45
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337. POTTER, Beatrix. The Story of Miss Moppet. London: Published by Frederick Warne &
Co, n.d. pp. 58. Paper boards with coloured medallion illustration in centre of upper cover. A fine
copy in lightly frayed d.j.
€45
338. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Jeremy Fisher. London: Published by Frederick Warne &
€45
339. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London: Published by Frederick Warne &
€45
340. POWER, John. Irish Literary Inquirer: or Notes on Authors, Books, and Printing in
Ireland, Biographical and Bibliographical, Notices of Rare Books, Memoranda of Printing in
Ireland, Biographical Notes of Irish Authors, &c. No. 1. July 17, 1865; No. 3. December 16,
1865; No. 4. April, 16, 1866. Three issues of four. London: Printed by James Martin and
published by John Power, 1865/66. pp. 12, 25-52. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. E.R.
McC. Dix' copy with his signature on front pastedown. Library buckram. Ex. lib. with stamps. A
very good copy of an exceedingly rare item.
€575
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COPAC locates only 1 copy in Ireland, the TCD copy which is in Xerox.
John S. Crone in his foreword to the first issue of The Irish Book Lover [see item 203] states; "Our little
venture in the field of Irish Bibliography cannot claim to be a Pioneer. That honour must be accorded
to a small publication entitled "The Irish Literary Inquirer", issued in London by John Power, formerly
of Belle-Vue, Youghal, as he states in his title-page. Of this only four numbers saw the light, and it has
now become a 'desideratum' amongst book-lovers". Little else is known of Power (1820-1872) even
though Crone did make some enquiries regarding him.
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
341. POWER, Rev. P. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, (Edited from MS. in the Bibliotheque
Royale, Brussels), and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, (Edited from MS. in Library of Royal
Irish Academy). With introduction, translation, and notes. Illustrated with folding map and
frontispiece facsimile of a manuscript in the handwriting of Brother Michael O'Clery. London:
I.T.S., 1914. pp. xxxi, 202, 28. Green buckram, gilt shield of the Society on upper cover, title in
gilt on spine. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy.
€125
342. PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd. Open-air
Studies in Botany: Sketches of British Wild
Flowers in their Homes. Illustrated by drawings
from nature by S. Rosamond Praeger and
photographs from nature by R. Welch. London:
Griffin, 1897. First edition. Octavo. pp. xiii, [1],
266. Contemporary full tree calf. Covers framed
by a gilt foliate roll enclosing in the centre the
arms of Rossall School. Spine richly gilt with red
morocco letterpiece. Premium prize label of
Rossall School on front pastedown. Slight wear to
spine. Very good and attractive copy. Rare. €245
Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865-1953) was one of the
most productive of Ireland's natural historians. Son
of William Praeger of the Hague, a linen merchant,
and Maria Patterson of Belfast, he was born in
Holywood, County Down. His interest in nature was
aroused when, as a child, he took part in the activities
of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. After
graduating in engineering from Queen's College
(now Queen's University), Belfast, he began his
career as a civil engineer with Belfast City and
District Water Commissioners. In 1893 he joined the
staff of the National Library in Dublin and in 1920
became chief librarian. His Flora of the County
Armagh (1893) was followed by many other publications, including surveys of Lambay and Clare
Island, the flora of the west of Ireland, and books of essays and reminiscences. There is a reply to Prof.
Carr's review of this work by Marcus Hartog tipped in.
343. PRENDERGAST, John P. The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. Three coloured maps.
Dublin: Mellifont Press, 1922. pp. xliv, 524. Cream buckram, title in gilt on spine. From the
library of Hugh and Grania Weir with armorial bookplate. A very good copy.
€125
A monumental reference work on this epoch in Irish history. The author possesses an intense human
sympathy that gives colour and life to his narrative, and he has the rare art of bringing home to our
understanding the sentiments and actions of men of another age. We see again before us the 'Old
English' barons of the Pale, who put loyalty to England before everything except their faith; the
Commonwealth or Cromwellian Commissioners who had their troubles; the officers of the army "doing
the work of the Lord", with the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other; the hunted priest with a
price on his head; the appalling troops of boys and girls on their way to be transported to Barbados; and
the 'Tories', or Rapparees fighting back and hitting the new Adventurers hard from their hiding places
in the bogs and mountains.
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MÁIRTIN Ó CADHAIN'S TRANSLATION?
344. [PROCLAMATION IN IRISH] Forógra Sheachtain na Cásca 1916. A translation to Irish
of the Proclamation of 1916, printed by Mahons of Dublin, possibly circa 1950. Single sheet 405
x 255mm, printed within a decorative border. Rare.
€275
A superb translation, clear, direct, terse and meticulously accurate, unsigned but certainly by a master
of the language. It is believed that the writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain worked on a translation of the
Proclamation while employed in the translations office of Leinster House around this time, and it is
likely that this item is in whole or part his work.
345. [REBELLION IN IRELAND] Royal Commission on the Rebellion in Ireland. Report of
Commission. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. London:
HMSO, 1916. Folio. pp. 126, 12. Recent quarter blue morocco on blue buckram boards. A very
good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€285
The Chairman of the Commission was Lord Hardinge of Penhurst. The commission was set up on the
tenth of May to enquire into the causes of the rebellion, and into the conduct and degree of
responsibility of the civil and military executive in Ireland in connection therewith. Augustine Birrell,
Chief Secretary for Ireland, contributed indirectly to the Rising by failing (together with Asquith) to
confront the Ulster unionists and by failing to take action against the republicans planning the Rising.
346. REED, Sir Andrew. The Irish Constable's Guide. Dublin: Alex Thom, 1895. Third edition.
pp. ix, 506. Reddish-brown cloth. Some fraying to section of top edge. Very good. Scarce. €145
347. REED, A. The Policeman's Manual, intended for the use of the Constables of the Royal
Irish Constabulary. Dublin: Alex Thom, 1887. Third edition. pp. [v], 182. Grey cloth, title in
black on upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce.
€125
348. REEVES, William. Ed. by. The Life of St. Columba, Founder of Hy; Written by
Adamnan, ninth Abbot of that Monastery. The text printed from a manuscript of the eighth
century; with the various readings of six other manuscripts preserved in different parts of Europe.
To which are added, copious notes and dissertations, illustrative of the early history of the
Columbian institutions in Ireland and Scotland. With two maps, five plates (four in colour), and
two genealogical tables. Dublin, for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1857. Quarto.
pp. [2], lxxx, 497, 1. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Cloth evenly faded, wear to spine ends.
This copy was printed for the Rev. Charles Porter, Member of the Society and with the armorial
bookplate of Charles Fleetwood Porter. Inner joints strengthened with tape. Very good. Very
scarce.
€185
349. REID, J.C. Bucks and Bruisers. Pierce Egan and Regency England. With illustrations.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. pp. xiii, 253. Purple cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very
good copy in frayed d.j.
€35
Pierce Egan (1772-1849) journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture was born in the London
suburbs, where he spent his life. By 1812, he had established himself as the country's leading 'reporter
of sporting events', which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and horse-races. The result of these
reports, which won him a countrywide reputation for wit and sporting knowledge, appeared in Boxiana,
or, Sketches of Modern Pugilism, which was the incomparable record of the golden age of pugilism. It
was Egan who first defined boxing as the sweet science.
In this, the first study of Pierce Egan the author outlines his life and describes his career, his intimate
knowledge of London low life, and his eccentric, cocky and resilient personality.
350. RICE, John Herman. The Irish Police Guide for the use of the Civic Guard and the Police
Forces of Northern Ireland. Eighth edition, revised. Dublin: Thom, 1923. pp. xv, 654. Green
cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy.
€185
351. [RISING] Norton's Malthouse Garrison. Souvenir of Reunion, Saturday, 4th. November
1950. Quarto. pp. 4 (single folded sheet). Illustrated with drawings of Tintown, Newbridge
Camp, Mountjoy, and reproduced photograph of Gen. Liam Lynch.
€275
The illustrated front cover has a quote from Liam Mellows: "The Republic lives, Our deaths make that
certain".
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WITH MAGNIFICENT HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVINGS
352. RITCHIE, Leitch. Ireland Picturesque and Romantic. With twenty hand-coloured
engravings and engraved half title from drawings by D. McClise and T. Creswick. London:
Longman, 1837. pp. vi, [1], 264. Modern half burgundy morocco on marbled boards. A.e.g.
Occasional mild foxing to plates. A very good copy.
€575
Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865) was a Scottish novelist and journalist. He was born at Greenock and
worked as a clerk in Glasgow, but about 1820 adopted literature as his profession.
Ritchie wrote four novels, of which the most successful was Wearyfoot Common and short stories,
including one of the first British werewolf stories The Man-Wolf (1831).
He was engaged by Charles Heath to write two series of books of travels, to appear under the titles of
Turner's Annual Tour , 1833-5, and Heath's Picturesque Annual, 1832-45. In connection with this
commission he visited many places abroad, the result being twelve illustrated volumes to which he
supplied the letterpress. The latter part of his life was spent in Scotland editing Chambers' Journal.
353. ROBINSON, Rev. Stanford F.H. Celtic Illuminative Art. In the Gospel Books of Kells,
Durrow, Lindisfarne. Illustrated with mono and coloured plates. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1908.
Large quarto. Bound for Hodges Figgis in crushed green goatskin over bevelled boards. Upper
cover blocked in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design within double gilt fillets, framing in the
centre the title in gilt, lower cover with a Celtic shield blocked in blind. Smooth spine with title
in gilt in large Celtic lettering; green, gold and purple endpapers; green and gold endbands. Top
edge gilt. A fine copy.
€575
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See item 352.
354. [ROCHESTER, Earl of] The True Patriot Vindicated, or a Justification of His Excellency,
the Earl of Rochester, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. From several false and scandalous reports.
London. S.n. A broadside printed on both sides. Folio. No date, early ink inscription dated 1701.
Folded.
€175
ESTC T51912.
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1641-1711), was an English statesman and writer. The second
son of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. Following the Restoration, he sat as member of
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parliament, first for Newport, Cornwall, and later for the University of Oxford. In 1665 he married
Lady Henrietta Boyle (died 1687), daughter of Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington and Cork. When his
father was impeached in 1667, Laurence joined his elder brother, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon,
in defending him in parliament, but the fall of Clarendon did not injuriously affect the fortunes of his
sons. They were united with the royal family through the marriage of their sister, Anne, with the future
King James II, making her Duchess of York.
355. [ROLL OF HONOUR] The National University of Ireland. War list. Roll of honour. Killed
in action, or died on active service. Dublin: Printed for the National University by Alex. Thom,
1919. pp. 42. Green cloth, title in gilt with armorial badge on upper cover. Ex. lib. with stamps. A
very good copy. Very rare.
€165
Also listed are the names of men for Military Distinctions, Award of Military Cross, Award of Croix de
Guerre, Award of Medaille des Eipidémies, Award of O.B.E., Award of M.B.E., Egyptian Order,
Award of C.I.E., and Award of Serbian Order of St. Sava.
356. [ROYAL CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL] Souvenir and Guide Gigas. Fête and Bazaar in
aid of the Royal City of Dublin Hospital. Ballsbridge, May 1902. Illustrated and with map.
Dublin: Printed and published by Hely's Ltd., 1902. pp. 143 (including numerous adverts).
Illustrated wrappers. Repaired. Corner clipped from bottom margin of titlepage. A very good
copy. Rare.
€275
Gigas was organised to provide sufficient funds to increase the accommodation of the number of
patients in the wards of the Royal City of Dublin Hospital from 100 to 140. It was formally opened by
the Lord Lieutenant on May 13th, 1902 at the R.D.S. grounds in Ballsbridge, Dublin. The patron of the
Bazaar was his Majesty King Edward VII. Includes portraits of County stall-holders: Mrs. Williams
Barrington; Mrs. Croker Barrington; Mrs. G.W. Casson; Mrs. C. Boyce; Countess Cadogan; Lady
Ashtown; Marchioness of Ormonde; Lady Maurice Fitzgerald; Lady Louth; Marchioness of
Conyngham; Duchess of Abercorn; Lady Carew; Mrs. Miller; Mrs. Malcomson; Mrs. Goulding; Emily
Lady Arnott; Mrs. Morgan; Mrs. J. Dwyer; Mrs. Nutting, etc.
357. [ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY] List of the Papers published in the Transactions,
Cunningham Memoirs, and Irish Manuscript Series, of the Royal Irish Academy, between the
years 1786 and 1886. With an appendix giving the names of the officers of the Academy, from
1785 to 1887, and of those to whom the Academy's Cunningham Gold Medals have been
awarded. Dublin: Published by the Academy, 1887. Quarto. pp. [iii], 81. Half library morocco on
cloth boards. Ex. lib. with stamps. A very good copy. Scarce.
€135
358. [R.I.C. REFORM] The R.I.C. A Plea for Reform. By the editor of 'The Constabulary
Gazette'. With frontispiece and map of Tipperary shewing Officer's Stations. Dublin: The Wood
Printing Works, n.d. (c.1907). pp: [iii], 85, [7 (adverts)]. Illustrated wrappers with minor loss to
corners. Spine expertly rebacked. Very rare.
€275
COPAC locates the TCD copy only.
The contents includes: The Belfast Indiscipline; Extravagance and Parsimony; The Officer's Horse;
Salaries & Allowances of Officers; Suggested Change; Promotion from the Ranks; The Constabulary
Rifle; The 1901 Inquiry; The Case of the Constabulary; The Rank of Acting Sergeant; The Head
Constable's Case; English and Irish Police Service Compared; The Canteen, Promotion, etc.
The appendix contains correspondence by members of the force.
"THE GREATEST FIGHTER IN IRELAND"
359. RYAN, Desmond. Sean Treacy and the 3rd Tipperary Brigade. Illustrated. Tralee: The
Kerryman, 1945. First edition. pp. 223, [1]. Quarter linen on blue paper boards. Very good.
Scarce.
€125
Sean Treacy's years were few, his story in the main is a story of guerrilla war against the Black-andTans. His life, although he always carried a book in his pocket and an ideal in his heart, was the life of
a man of action.
360. SALKELD, Blanaid. Hello Eternity! London: Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd., 1933. pp.
viii, [2], 11-60. Grey boards, title printed in black on upper cover. A fine copy in protective
glassine wrapper.
€75
Blanaid Salkeld, herself a poet, was a sister of the painter Cecil ffrench Salkeld and mother of Beatrice
Behan.
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361. SALKELD, Blanaid. The Fox's Covert. London: Dent, 1935. pp. [iv], 84. Grey paper
boards, title in black on spine. A fine copy in fine dustjacket.
€75
362. SALKELD, Blanaid. The Engine is Left Running. Cover and four pictures by Cecil ffrench
Salkeld. Dublin: The Gayfield Press, 1937. pp. [vi], 71, [1]. Brown illustrated boards. Edition
limited to 50 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. In very good condition. €125
363. SCOTT, Dr. A Guide to Cove; and the Harbour of Cork; with the Poem of "The Steam
Boat", reprinted from Bolster's Quarterly Magazine; and The Medical Topography of Cove, by
Dr. Scott. Cork: Messrs. Bolster, 7 Patrick Street; John Cumming, Dublin; Longman and
Company, London; Sold also, by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom, 1840. pp. [i], 106. Early
signature of Welland, Riversdale, dated 1842 on titlepage, with his armorial bookplate loosely
inserted. Contemporary light brown cloth, spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy.
Exceedingly rare.
€245
364. [SCULLY, Denis] Ireland's Grievances, Political and Statistical. Containing No. I. Lists of
Absentees formed at different periods; Peers and Commoners now resident in Dublin, and those
who were resident at the period of the Union. No. II. Peculiar causes relating to Ireland, which
produce Absenteeism; Laws against Absentees; arguments for and against these Laws. No.III.
Sketch of the various insurrections, with a review of the calumnies and misrepresentations of
Factious writers. No. IV. History of the Treaty of Limerick; Articles of the Treaty; Arguments of
Sir Theobold Butler, and others, against their violation. No. V. Famine of 1822, intended to show
how much we are the "Envy of surrounding Nations, and admiration of the World". To which is
added Mr. Scully's celebrated Statement of the Penal Laws : Published first in 1812 by H.
Fitzpatrick. Dublin: Printed by M. Staunton, Editor of the Evening Herald , for C.J. Wilkinson,
Limerick, 1824. pp. [iv], 349. Contemporary half calf on worn marbled boards. Small split to
joint of upper cover, repair to top margin of first leaf, one word shaved from page two. A very
good copy.
€295
365. SEACHRÁNAIDHE [Frank Ryan] Easter Week and After. Dublin: National Publicity
Committee, n.d. (c. 1930). pp. 16. Red printed stapled wrappers.
€145
'We who have lived in 1916, who have triumphed in 1921, who have known defeat in 1923, we shall
not go to our graves until that defeat be redeemed ...'
Frank Ryan (1902-1944) was a prominent member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of An
Phoblacht, leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil
War.
366. [SEAN O'CASEY] Programme. Noel Purcell in 'The Silver Tassie' in the Gaiety Theatre.
Week commencing Monday, 26th May, 1947. With advertisements. Dublin: Printed at East Wall,
by Hely's Limited, 1947.
€75
The cast included: Noel Purcell; Peggy Hayes; John McDarby; Helen Robinson; Julia Hamilton;
Robert Hennessy; Pat Nolan; Molly Hammond; Ian Priestly-Mitchell; Cecil Brock; B. Synott;
Elizabeth Clancy, etc.
The Silver Tassie is a four-act Expressionist play about the First World War, written between 1927 and
1928. It was O'Casey's fourth play and attacks imperialist wars and the suffering that they cause.
O'Casey described the play as "A generous handful of stones, aimed indiscriminately, with the aim of
breaking a few windows. I don't think it makes a good play, but it's a remarkable one".
In 1928, W. B. Yeats rejected the play for the Abbey Theatre. It premièred at the Apollo Theatre in the
West End of London in October 1929. It was directed by Raymond Massey and starred Charles
Laughton and Barry Fitzgerald. The set design for act two was by Augustus John. It ran for twenty-six
performances. George Bernard Shaw and Lady Gregory were both great admirers of the production.
The Irish première was in August 1935 at the Abbey Theatre, directed by Arthur Shields, though it ran
for only five performances. Despite being popular, the controversy it caused led to O'Casey's
permanent departure from Ireland.
SHELL GUIDE TO THE SHANNON
367. [SHANNON GUIDE] Shell Guide to the Shannon. Incorporating the Shannon Log. With
illustrations, maps, charts and tables. Dublin: Shell, 1977. Square quarto. Colour illustrated
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boards. A very good copy in ring binding as issued. Very rare.
€45
The contents include: Access Map; Riverlore; Fish Species; Index; Bibliography; Navigation Charts;
Distance Tables; Limitations of Draft & Bridges; Facility Tables; Log, etc.
368. SHAW, William. Cullybackey. The Story of an Ulster Village. With illustrations.
Edinburgh and Dublin: William McDonald, 1913. pp. xv, 201, (2). Maroon cloth, title in gilt on
upper cover and spine. Spine evenly faded. A fine copy.
€75
IRISH WOMEN'S FRANCHISE LEAGUE
369. [SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON, Hanna] A photographic postcard of the Irish Women's
Franchise League gathering at Hyde Park, London in 1912. A group of approximately thirty
women, some wearing cap and gowns, others in hats; with banners, flags and sashes. Included in
the photo are Margaret Cousins and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington who endorsed the back in pencil
"I W F L, / platform at Hyde Park / London / 1912". Also with three Policemen in the group.
[136 x 86mm]. In fine condition. Very rare.
€275
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) was born in Kanturk, Co. Cork. She belonged to a prosperous
farming and milling family. Her father, David Sheehy was a member of the IRB and later an MP, and
her uncle was the renowned Land League priest, Fr Eugene Sheehy. When Hanna Sheehy married
Francis Skeffington in 1903, her husband adopted her name in addition to his own demonstrating that
marriage was no barrier to equality between the sexes. Francis was born at Bailieborough, County
Cavan in 1878 and was registrar of UCD from 1902 to 1904 when he resigned after a public dispute
with the President (Fr. Delany) over the rights of women to academic status. They worked together on
many movements such as Women's Suffrage and International Peace. She lost her teaching job in 1913
when she was arrested and put in prison for three months after throwing stones at Dublin Castle. Whilst
in jail she started a hunger strike but was released under the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge of Ill
Health Act. Hanna was active during the Easter Rising carrying messages to the GPO where her uncle,
Fr. Eugene Sheehy gave spiritual comfort to the rebels. In January 1918, on behalf of Cumann na
mBan, she personally presented Ireland's claim for self-determination to President Wilson. Upon her
return to Ireland she was arrested and imprisoned together with Mrs Kathleen Clarke, Countess
Markievicz and Maud Gonne-MacBride in Holloway Gaol, London. They were released after a hunger
strike.
The Irish Women's Franchise League was an organisation for women's suffrage which was set up in
Dublin in November 1908. Its founder members included Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis SheehySkeffington and Margaret and James H. Cousins. Its paper was the Irish Citizen, which was published
from 1912 to 1920. The paper was edited originally by James H. Cousins.
The Irish Parliamentary Party under John Redmond was opposed to votes for women, as was the
British prime minister, Asquith. In 1912 in Dublin Asquith's carriage was attacked by Mary Leigh. In
that attack John Redmond was injured. In contrast, as a mark of solidarity with the women, James
Connolly travelled from Belfast to Dublin to speak at one of the IWFL's weekly meetings which was
held in the Phoenix Park, and members of the ITGWU provided protection and offered escorts to
women as they left the meetings. The league kept a neutral stance on Home Rule, but was opposed to
the World War. After the killing of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington by a British officer in 1916, it
supported Sinn Féin.
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370. SHEEPSHANKS, Beatrice. The Blue Hat and the Buffalo. Dublin: The Selerna Press,
1953. pp. [i], 8, [1]. Edition limited to 45 copies. Set in twelve point Gill Sans and printed by
hand by Michael G. Freyer at the Selerna Press, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, and finished in
June, 1953. This copy is number 23. Fine in printed stitched wrappers.
€475
The publisher, Michael G. Freyer lived in a flat in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin. From approximately
1948 to 1961 he ran a bookshop in Baggot Street called the Brown Jacket Bookshop. He was
approached by Liam Miller in the early days of the development of the Dolmen Press and became one
of the first shopkeepers to stock Miller's publications. It is thought that he may well have become a
kind of a patron to Miller and was apparently very supportive of his work with the Dolmen Press.
Interestingly, a neighbouring flat mate of Freyer at 53, Fitzwilliam Square, was one, Jack B. Yeats, and
they became good friends. As far as we can ascertain this book, in this very limited format is the only
Selerna Press book ever published by Freyer.
Freyer's Dolmen Press collection of circa 466 items is owned by Trinity College Dublin. Superb copy
of an extremely scarce item, with linkages to the Dolmen Press and a personal friendship between the
publisher and one who is recognised as perhaps Ireland's foremost artist.
371. SHERIDAN, Monica. My Irish Cook Book. London: Frederick Muller, 1966. pp. xvi, 168.
Green paper boards. Very good in illustrated frayed d.j.
€85
372. [SHERIDAN, Mr.] An Enquiry into the Plan and Pretensions of Mr. Sheridan Dublin:
[S.n.], Printed in the Year 1758. pp. 47, [1]. Modern wrappers. Very good. Very rare.
€375
ESTC T90532. ESTC with 2 locations in Ireland and 1 in England.
Concerning Thomas Sheridan's scheme of education.
Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) Irish actor, theatre-manager and a teacher of elocution was born in
Quilca, County Cavan, and was father of Charles Francis Sheridan and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His
godparent, Jonathan Swift, an early influence, taught him the importance of correct English and
elocution. Sheridan was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Dublin.
He made his debut as an actor in 1743, playing the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III at Smock
Alley, Dublin. In the next year or two he became immensely popular, and was, at the time, the most
popular actor Ireland had ever seen. He became manager of the Smock Alley theatre, before moving
permanently to England with his family in 1758. There Sheridan established himself as an educator and
teacher of elocution. He lived in London for a number of years, until, in 1770, he moved to Bath, where
he founded an academy.
373. [SHILLITO, Charles] The Country Book-Club. A Poem. Dublin: Printed by Zacharian
Jackson, For Richard White, No. 20 Dame-street, 1790. pp. 32. Recent quarter calf on marbled
boards. A very good copy.
€225
ESTC N1906.
374. SHILLMAN, Bernard. A Short History of the Jews in Ireland. Portrait frontispiece.
Dublin: Eason & Son, 1945. pp. 152. Red paper boards. Small nick to head of spine. A fine copy.
Very scarce.
€85
375. SINCLAIR, R.J.K., & SCULLY, F.J.M. Arresting Memories. Captured moments in
Constabulary Life. Illustrated. Coleraine: Printed by Impact Printing for the R.U.C., 1982.
Second edition. Oblong octavo. Green arlin, decorated in gilt. A very good copy in buckram gilt.
Scarce.
€65
376. SMITH, John. Irish Diamonds; or, A Theory of Irish Wit and Blunders: combined with
other kindred subjects. Engraved half-title, frontispiece and with other illustrations by "Phiz".
London: Chapman, 1847. pp. [xii], 175, 8 (publisher's list). Original blind stamped and gilt
decorated ribbed green cloth. Minor wear to corners and spine ends. Some rubbing. Scarce. €65
The chapters include: The English, The Scotch and the Irish; Definitions of Wit and Blunder; The
Author's Theory of Irish Wit; Genuine Irish Bulls; Genuine Irish Wit; A Few English Specimens; Wit
of All Nations; Blunders of All Nations; Irish Humour; English Humour, etc.
377. [SOLDIER'S SONG] Advertisement card for the Soldier's Song. The story of Peadar
Kearney by Seamus de Burca. Warm, human, exciting. Second printing. 15 illustrations. 255
pages. Price 7/-. Card printed on one side only. Stamp of P. J. Bourke, stage & film costumier, 64
Dame Street on verso. 202 x 130mm. In very good condition.
€25
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COPPERFACED JACK'S COPY
378. SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queene: By Edmund Spenser. With an exact collation of
the two original editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former containing the
first Three Books printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. To which are now
added, a new life of the author, and also a glossary. Adorn'd with thirty-two copper-plates, from
the original drawings of the late W. Kent, Esq; Architect and principal Painter to his Majesty.
London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of his Majesty's
Works, at Hampton-Court, 1751. Quarto. Contemporary full calf. Badge of Trinity College,
Dublin, in gilt on all covers. Trinity Premium prize label awarded to John Scott [Earl of
Clonmell] on front pastedowns. Owner's signature on titlepages. Spine sympathetically rebacked.
A very good set.
€765
ESTC citation no.: T35152
In the year 1580 Edmund Spenser, then aged twenty-seven, arrived in Dublin in the train of Lord Grey
de Wilton, the new Lord Deputy, as his secretary. Without doubt he witnessed the terrible butchery
perpetrated by this ruthless governor at Smerwick harbour in the Dingle peninsula (Grey on that
occasion was aided by Hugh O'Neill). It can be truly said that Spenser served out his apprenticeship
with a baptism of fire and blood under the unsparing Puritan Grey. The Queen was assured that he
tyrannised with such barbarity "that little was left in Ireland for Her Majesty to reign over but ashes and
carcasses" (Leland, Vol. II, p. 287).
In 1586 Spenser was rewarded with a grant of over 3,000 acres out of the forfeited estates of the Earl of
Desmond (confirmed by patent in 1590). Kilcolman Castle, about three miles from Doneraile, County
Cork, was the principal residence of the poet. The castle commands a magnificent view of the
surrounding countryside. However romantic it may be to picture the author of the Faerie Queene in this
picturesque setting, it is probable that he never resided in the fortress erected by the Earl of Desmond in
1347. Spenser's patent expressly obliged him to build a house for himself, which may have been
constructed attached to the keep.
Recent Spenser scholarship has acknowledged the significance of Ireland in everything he wrote after
1580, including most of the Faerie Queene which idolises Queen Elizabeth. Spenser was hated by the
Irish. When the Plantation of Munster collapsed during the course of the Nine Years War his castle was
attacked and burned in 1598. He and his wife (Elizabeth Boyle, cousin of the Great Earl of Cork)
barely managed to escape, but it is said their new-born child perished in the flames. The great poet died
in London in 1599 in penurious circumstances. It is difficult to trace the history of the poet's sons,
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Sylvanus and Peregrine, who remained in, or returned to Ireland. Hugoline, son of Peregrine, was
outlawed and suffered confiscation as a result of joining the Irish during the rebellion of 1641 and
again during the Williamite wars.
John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell (1739-1798), Lord Earlsfort, Viscount Clonmell, barrister and judge.
He was sometimes known as "Copperfaced Jack". He was also Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench
for Ireland. Scott was the third son of Thomas Scott (d.1763) of Scottsborough (made up of the estates
of Mohubber, Modeshill and Urlings), County Tipperary, by his wife, Rachel, daughter of Mark Prim
of Johnswell, County Kilkenny. His parents were cousins, being two of the grandchildren of Nicholas
Purcell, 13th Baron of Loughmoe. His elder brother was the uncle of Bernard Phelan, who established
Château Phélan Ségur, and Dean John Scott, who first planted the gardens open to the public at
Ballyin, County Waterford and married a niece of Clonmell's political ally, Henry Grattan.
Scott lived at Clonmel House, 17 Harcourt Street, Dublin. He also kept a country residence, Temple
Hill House, in County Dublin. Clonmell Street in Dublin is named in his honour, as is Earlsfort
Terrace. He had also gained a reputation of being an experienced duellist.
SPRIGGERS OF CROSSMOLINA
379. [SPRIGGERS] Notice to Spriggers. High Wages. The Subscriber begs to inform the
Spriggers of Crossmolina and Neighbourhood that he will attend at the House of Robert Devers,
Chapel-street, on Thursday, the 4th of August, and every Thursday following, for the purpose of
giving out and taking in Sprigging, for which he will pay the Highest Prices in the Trade. Money
paid when work is returned. James Hickson, Chapel-street, Crossmolina. Ballina: Printed at the
"Watchman" Office. A broadside printed on one side only. 225 x 280mm. Fair condition only,
but very rare.
€185
Pencil inscription on verso 'Found in the house o Ml. Keane … durin re-roofing 1st Sept 1927'.
'Spriggers' were specialised embroidery workers, who embroidered cloth with 'sprigs' of foliage.
380. [ST. PATRICK'S BREASTPLATE] Lúireach Pádraic: St. Patrick's Breastplate. From the
Old-Irish 'Liber Hymnorum'. English version by Colm O Lochlainn, with woodcut by Karl
Uhlemann. Planned and printed at the Three Candles in Fleet Street, Dublin. No date, c.1960.
Single large oblong octavo sheet, 455 x 180mm. (folded). A very rare and attractive Three
Candles item.
€135
Saint Patrick's Breastplate is a Christian hymn whose original Old Irish lyrics were traditionally
attributed to Saint Patrick during his Irish ministry in the fifth century; however, it was probably
actually written later, in the 8th century. It is written in the style of a druidic incantation for protection
on a journey. It is part of the Liber Hymnorum, a collection of hymns found in two manuscripts kept in
Dublin. The language of the poem, Dr. Hyde says, is very old; it is known to have been current in the
seventh century and it was then ascribed to Saint Patrick. It is called the "Lorica" and also "The Deer's
Cry." According to tradition, St. Patrick uttered it while on his way to Tara, where he was for the first
time to confront the power of Laoghaire, Pagan High-King of Ireland. Assassins were in wait for him
and his companions, but as he chanted the hymn it seemed to the hidden band that a herd of deer went
by.
381. [STEPHENS, James] Green Branches. Dublin: Maunsel, 1917. New edition. pp. 16.
Quarter brown buckram on green cloth. Inscribed presentation copy from the bibliographer John
S. Crone. Also with two autograph letters signed from Crone to the recipient of the book Cyril P.
Corrigan. A fine copy.
€225
A sequence of poems in memory of the dead of 1916.
382. STEWART, John Watson. The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, compiled by Samuel
Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1784. Being Leap-Year, and the Twenty-Fourth
Year of K. George III. Reign, till 25th Oct. Containing, The Days of the Year and Month; WeekDays; Sun's Rising and Setting; Moon's Age and Changes; a Table of Equation; the times of High
Water at Dublin-Bar. Several Tables, Altered, Renewed, or Continued. The Marriages and
Deaths of the Princes of Europe. The Names of the Lord Lieutenant; of His Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and of The Lords and Commons of Parliament. Also the Judges, and
several other Persons in places of High Trust and Office in Ireland both Civil and Military; The
Dublin Society: The Hospitals; The Roads and Fairs; The Post-Towns, Noted Places, referring to
them, and Foreign Postages. Bound with: The English Registry For Year Lord, 1784 (By John
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Exshaw, Bookseller,) or, A Collection of English Lists. Dublin: Printed for Samuel Watson,
Bookseller, at Virgil's Head, No. 48, Dame-Street, and Thomas Stewart, Bookseller, No. 1
King's-Inns-Quay, 1784. & Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, in Grafton Street. pp. 135, [iv], 131.
Contemporary full calf, covers tooled in gilt with a thistle roll, title in gilt on maroon morocco
label on spine. Upper board detached. Contemporary signature of Dean French dated 1784 on
titlepage. From the library of 'Cork Young Men's Society, with stamps'. A very good copy. Very
scarce.
€265
The first gathering is interleaved and with diary entries presumably by Dean French detailing: "very
great storm / great snow but calm". The entry for Sunday 22nd February, 1874 reads: "Deyed Theobald
Wolfe Esqr. at his house in Aughrim Street in the city of Dublin in 74th year of his age". Also noted is
the death of Dr. William Gore, Bishop of Limerick and a Visitation at Longford. The final entry relates
that Mr. Lindsey's note for £100 will be due in January 1785; and on Sunday 5th [December] his
grandson Robert, son of his son Robert, was born.
383. STOKES, Margaret. Three Months in the Forests of France. A pilgrimage in search of
vestiges of the Irish Saints in France. With numerous illustrations. London: George Bell and
Sons, 1895. Quarto. pp. li, 291, + erratum. Quarter olive green linen on dark green linen boards.
A fine copy. Rare in this condition.
€135
384. STOKES, Whitley. Ed. by. Irish Glosses. A Mediaeval Tract on Latin Declension, with
Examples Explained in Irish. To which are added The Lorica of Gildas, with the Gloss Thereon,
and a selection of Glosses from the Book of Armagh. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, for
The Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1860. Quarto. pp. [iii], 206, [1], 8 (I.A. & C.S.
Publications). Brown cloth, title in gilt on black morocco label on rebacked spine. With the
armorial bookplate and blind stamp of Wigan Free Public Library. Minor wear to corners,
otherwise a very good copy. Rare.
€175
385. STOKES, Whitley. Ed. by. The Tripartite Life of Patrick, with Other Documents relating
to that Saint. With plate. Two volumes. London: H.M.S.O., 1887. pp. (1) cxcix, 268, 38
(publisher's list), (2) 4, [ii], 269-676, 38 (publisher's list). Quarter pebbled cloth on black paper
boards. Ex. lib. with stamps. Minor wear to corners. A very good set. Very scarce.
€375
The Vita Tripartita Sancti Patricii (The Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick) is a bilingual Life of Patrick,
written partly in Irish and in parts in Latin from the late 9th century. It is the earliest example of a
saint's Life written in the Irish language and it was meant to be read in three parts over the three days of
the saint's festival.
The author of this life and its date cannot be ascertained. Colgan maintained that St. Evin, of
Monasterevin, who flourished about the middle of the sixth century, was the author, and O'Curry was
of the same opinion. Petrie thought it a compilation of the ninth or tenth century. Dr. Whitley Stokes
held that it could not have been written before the middle of the tenth century, and was probably
compiled in the eleventh. His main reason is that it contains entries which must have been made in the
seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth centuries. He cites ten instances of this kind, which, as he alleges, were
neither additions nor interpolations. It was written in the purest Gaelic.
386. SUPPLE, Kerry Leyne. R.I.C. The Magistrate's Guide being a Simple Book of Instruction
for Justices in the Conduct of their Office and of Guidance to Members of the Royal Irish
Constabulary and Clerks of Petty Sessions while assisting them. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis &
Dundalk: Tempest, 1901. pp. [iii], ii, 133, [1], 27 (adverts). Printed blue cloth. Signature of
Lewis E. Johnston, R.U.C. Glenravel Street, dated 1.1.'25 on front endpaper. A very good copy.
Scarce.
€135
387. SWEENEY, R. Mingo. Sween. Clan of the Battle-Axe. Clann na d'Tua Abu. A Brief
History of the MacSweeney (MacSuibhne) Galloglass. With genealogical charts and coats of
arms. Typescript. Torrance, California: Printed by The Augustan Society for R. Mingo Sweeney,
Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1968. Quarto. pp. xii, 112. In ring-binder as published. Very
good.
€75
388. [SWIFT, Jonathan] The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry in Beginning and
Carrying on the Present War. The fifth edition. London: For John Morphew, 1711. pp. 48. Recent
quarter calf on marbled boards. Title in gilt on morocco label on upper cover. With signature of
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John Watton dated 1810. Minor loss to top right hand corner of titlepage. Some browning and
mild foxing.
€325
Teerink-Scouten, 539. ESTC T31149. Goldsmiths', 4841
389. [SWORDS MAGAZINE] Swords Parish Magazine. January, February, March, August,
October, November, December, 1861. Seven issues of twelve. Swords: 1861. Library buckram,
with original wrappers bound in. Ex. lib. with stamps. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €350
No complete copy located on COPAC (single issues only in 5 locations).
With some interesting articles: A Lecture on the Antiquities of Swords. By William Reeves; The Book
of Armagh; A Few Words on Geology. By R.H. Scott; The Northmen and the Battle of Clontarf, etc.
CONSERVATION OF IRISH BOGS
390. SÝKORA, Conny. Ed. by. The Face of Ireland seen by William Allingham, Heinrich Böll,
Padraic Colum, Kevin Faller, Thomas Flanagan, Seamus Heaney, John Hewitt, Thomas Caulfield
Irwin, Patrick Kavanagh, Francis Ledwidge, Walter Macken, Seamus O'Sullivan, Adrian Roland
Holst, Thomas William Rolleston, John Silkin, James Stephens, John Millington Synge, Janneke
Tangelder, Marten Toonder, Muireadhach Úa Dálaigh, William Butler Yeats. Drawings by
Janneke Tangelder. Layout and other illustrations by Rieteke Verel. Onnen: For the Dutch
Foundation for Conservation of Irish Bogs, 1987. Square octavo. pp. 72. Green linen with
decorated panel. A fine copy.
€45
391. SYNGE, J.M. Plays by John M. Synge. The Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The
Well of the Saints, The Tinker's Wedding, The Playboy of the Western World, and Deirdre of the
Sorrows. London: Allen & Unwin, 1929. pp. [iii], 377. Very good in quarter linen on paper
boards.
€35
392. THORBURN, Archibald. A Naturalist's Sketch Book. With sixty plates, twenty-four of
which are in colour, and thirty-six in collotype. London: Longman Green and Co., 1919. Quarto.
pp. viii, 72, 60 (plates). Red buckram, covers framed by a single gilt fillet, title in gilt on spine
with a gilt device the 'Rose, Thistle & Shamrock'. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.
€285
Nissen 940. Anker 509. Ripley p. 289. Zimmer p. 635.
Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) Scottish artist and bird illustrator was born near Edinburgh. It was
perhaps from his father that Archibald Thorburn acquired the ability to create his minutely detailed
paintings and he sketched from a very early age. He painted mostly in watercolour, birds, animals and
flowers but he specialised in the study of game birds, as he had a tremendous knowledge of
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ornithology.
He regularly visited Scotland to sketch birds in the wild, his favourite haunt being the Forest of Gaick
near Kingussie in Invernesshire. His widely reproduced images of British wildlife, with their evocative
and dramatic backgrounds, are enjoyed as much today as they were by sportsmen and bird lovers of a
century ago.
Thorburn was also sufficiently highly-regarded by his contemporaries to have been asked to paint
Queen Victoria on three separate occasions. His skill, artistic talent and scientific observation ensured
that he was recognised as one of the leading artists of his time. He died in 1935.
393. TODD, James Henthorn. Ed. by. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill [Cogadh Gaedhil
re Gaillaibh] or The Invasions of Ireland by the Danes and Other Norsemen. From the original
text. With translation and introduction. With two coloured plates, specimens from the Book of
Leinster and Dublin Manuscript. London: Longman, 1867. pp. ccvii, 348, + errata. Original
quarter pebbled cloth on black paper boards. Ex. lib. with stamps, minor wear to corners,
€275
394. [TOLAND, John] The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington, Esq; Collected,
Methodiz'd, and Review'd, with An Exact Account of his Life Prefix'd, by John Toland. To
which is added, An Appendix, containing all the Political Tracts wrote by this Author, Omitted in
Mr. Toland's Edition. Engraved frontispiece and portrait of Harrington. London: Printed for A.
Millar, at Buchanan's Head, against St. Clement's Church, in The Strand, 1737. Folio. Large
paper copy (250 x 375mm). pp. xlvi, 632. Title in red and black. Bound in cont. full mottled calf,
spine and corners expertly rebacked and repaired. All edges red. A fine fresh copy.
€875
ESTC T146276.
This work is a seminal document of republicanism or anti-monarchism, relating especially to the Stuart
monarchy. Toland edited this and other republican texts, Milton's Life, Ludlow's Memoirs, in the late
1690s and established himself as one of the major writers of the 'Commonwealthmen'. As with
Ludlow's Memoirs he was not loath to make changes to the original text to suit his own purposes. This
edition contains additional material, Toland's Life of Harrington and Harrington's Political Tracts.
John Toland was an Irish speaker born, according to local tradition, at Ardagh in the parish of
Clonmany, Inishowen Peninsula in 1670. Daniel Harkin told the Rev. Philip O'Doherty in 1864 that a
woman of the name Toland who was born at Clonmany and then aged over seventy, tearfully told
Harkin, she had often heard from her father and grand-father that Toland, who had belonged to her
family, "had left the country, given up his religion, and had written against it". In 1856 one Michael
Toland, then a very old man and native of Ardagh in Clonmany recalled his recollections of John
Toland who was known locally as Eóghan na Leabhar or John of the Books, which name local legend
has it he obtained, when herding cattle, he fell asleep and when he awoke there was a book
mysteriously placed upon his head. He was brought up as a Catholic but he rejected that religion in his
teens probably on account of the support of a Protestant patron. He was educated at Redcastle, near
Derry and later at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He visited the Universities of Leiden
and Utrecht and studied under the famous scholar Freidrich Spanheim. He was involved in religious
and political controversy all his life and was engaged in correspondence with all the major thinkers of
the day (for example Locke and Leibnitz). He was a prolific and provocative writer and has had a
seminal influence in the fields of heterodox theology and republican politics.
Toland spent much of his life, after leaving Ireland in the 1690s, in London and on the Continent. He
died destitute in Putney in 1722. John Locke's great friend William Molyneux wrote: "This poor man,
by his imprudent conduct, has raised against himself so universal a commotion that it was dangerous to
be known to have spoken with him even once".
395. [TOLAND, John] The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington, with an Account of
his Life Prefix'd, by John Toland. Engraved portrait frontispiece of James Harrington and two
other plates. London: Printed for T. Becket, and T. Cadell, in the Strand; and T. Evans, in King
Street, 1771. Quarto. pp. [4], xl, 598, [18]. With printed marginalia. Contemporary full diced
russia, covers framed by a gilt chain-link roll. Flat spine with elaborate gilt tooling. Rebacked
preserving original. All edges yellow. Corners lightly bumped. A very good copy of the best
edition.
€350
ESTC T145707.
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SCORCHED EARTH POLICY IN CORK
396. [TONE PRESS] Beg to Report the Following "Good News from Ireland", as expressed in a
letter from Ensign Jones. Published in London August the 4th 1642.
Edited and arranged in this form by the Cork-born poet, Patrick Galvin. Brighton: Tone Press,
n.d. (c.1971). Eight pages folio with engravings. Edition limited to 200 copies set and printed by
hand at the Tone Press. In original envelope printed with title and publisher. Very good.
€175
"In this town [Clonakilty]
Named below
Found twenty men
Women and children
Killed all
None spared.
The blood disfigures us.
Later found hundreds more
Hidden in fields
Disposed of these
In rivers of blood"
397. [TONE PRESS] On the Murder of David Gleeson, Bailiff and Citizen of this Parish.
[Poem, 5 stanzas]. Based on the Irish of Sean na Raithineach (1737). No translator credited,
possibly by the Cork-born poet Patrick Galvin. Brighton: Set and printed by hand at the Tone
Press, July, 1971. Limited to two hundred copies. Folio. pp. 8. Printed in red, in original envelope
also printed in red with title and publisher. Attractive example of hand-printing.
€125
Sean O Murchadha na Raithineach ("na Raithineach" after the Cork village of his birth), or John
Murphy, born about 1700, was the last recognised head of the Blarney bards. Before him there was
Daithi O Murchu, or David Murphy, the blind harpist who entertained Grace O'Malley, known as
Granuaile the pirate queen.
398. TOWNSHEND, Charles. Political Violence in Ireland. Government and Resistance since
1848. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. pp. xii, 445. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine
copy in fine d.j.
€75
The author has painstakingly sifted through a wide range of original sources. The book illustrates the
origin and causes of groups opposing the claimed authority of the British State in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, from the secret agrarian societies to the Fenian organisations and the Irish
Republican Army.
"He has contributed so much that is new and important to our knowledge that this book at once takes
its place as in indispensable edition to the history of Anglo-Irish relations". F.S.L. Lyons - Times
Literary Supplement.
399. [TRACTS ON IRELAND] Tracts on Ireland, Political and Statistical. Number I. List of the
absentee Landlords of Ireland. Number II. Peculiar causes, relating to Ireland, which produce
absenteeism - laws against absentees - arguments for and against these laws. Number III. The
factious writers - the rebellions - the allegation that every insurrection is Popish. Number IV.
Treaty of Limerick. Number V. The Famine of 1822. Number VI. Statement of the Penal Laws
by D[ennis] S[cully], Esq. Barrister at Law; originally published in 1812, by Mr. Hugh
Fitzpatrick. Dublin, n.d. pp. 3-348, [1] (contents). Lacking title and first three leaves of part one.
Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Very scarce.
€150
400. [TREATY] Forum. Treaty Commemoration Number. 1921-1946, 25 Years. Dublin:
Published by Fine Gael by Powell Press, 1946. pp. 32. Folio. Colour illustrated wrappers. Corner
torn from pp. 3-4, with minute loss. Scarce
€65
Definitely a pro-Treaty publication. Includes some interesting photographs. With articles on: Collins
and Griffith Twenty-five Years After; Griffith Our Profoundest Political Thinker; Michael Collins
Statesman, Soldier, Man of the People; Kevin O'Higgins; Death Sentence on Sean MacEoin; The
Making of the Treaty; This Man Mulcahy; De Valera Knew a Republic could not be Achieved, etc.
AS TRUE TO THE SADDEST AND HEAVIEST TRUTHS OF IRISH LIFE
401. TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Landleaguers. Three volumes. London: Chatto & Windus,
1883. First edition. pp. (1) ix, 280, (2) vii, 296, (3) vii, 291, 32 (Publishers list), + half-titles.
Original gilt decorated green cloth, title in gilt on spines. Wear to extremities. A good sound set.
Exceedingly rare.
€1,250
Sadleir 68.
The purpose of Trollope's first visit to Ireland in 1843 was to investigate irregularities in the Post
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Office at Drumsna, County Leitrim, then managed by William Allen. After a weary journey he arrived
late in the village and stayed in a small public-house. His bedroom was approached by a flight of steps,
half stairs, half ladder, not far from perpendicular. The room had little in the way of furnishings, except
two beds close together, a table, chair and basin-stand. He retired to bed early, could not secure his
room door, after some time he fell into an uneasy restless sort of sleep, and was suddenly awoken by
the tread of footsteps approaching his bed. Frightened and half awake he leapt from his bed, caught the
intruder by the throat, in the ensuing struggle, the door opened and his antagonist stumbled and fell
down the stairs. Aroused by this noise, the late night drinkers rushed into the room and struck a light.
That very moment, Trollope heard the landlady cry out: " Oh, boys, that murderin' villain upstairs has
killed his raverance! ... We'll soon settle the damned Sassenach ". But for the intervention of the halfstrangled priest, it would have been curtains for Trollope. When peace was established apologies were
made all around. Trollope found out in actual fact that he had assaulted the local parish priest, who was
out on a late call and had decided to stay at the inn that night. Fortunately he was none the worse for his
encounter and afterwards he and Trollope became very good friends. Trollope featured this kindly
gentleman in this novel.
The Landleaguers was set in County Galway where an English Protestant family bought a property at
the height of the agrarian troubles. The most interesting aspect of this novel is the trials of those
boycotted and the incidents of the period, as well as the background on Irish social and rural life, as
seen by a sympathetic Englishman, although anti-nationalist. An admirable contemporary article on his
novels is found in the Dublin Review and deserves quoting: "This Englishman keenly observant,
painstaking, absolutely sincere and unprejudiced, with a lynx-like clearness of vision, and a power of
literal reproduction of which his clerical and domestic novels, remarkably as they exhibit it, do not
furnish such striking examples, writes a story as true to the saddest and heaviest truths of Irish life, as
racy as the soil, as rich as the peculiar humour, the moral features, the social oddities, the subtle
individuality of the far west of Ireland as George Eliot's novels are true to that of English life.
402. [TULACH A' TSOLAIS] Tulach a' tSolais. Souvenir Programme. Illustrated wrappers.€10
With contributions by Ruan O'Donnell and Johy Gray.
403. TYNAN, Katharine. Shamrocks. London: Kegan Paul, 1887. First edition. pp. viii, 198, 2.
Quarter green cloth on green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Ulick 6th
Marquess of Sligo and Agatha his wife with their armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Minute
tear to lower cover, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce.
€150
404. [ULSTER JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY] The Ulster Journal of Archaeology.
Volume I. 1894 - Volume XV. 1909. Fifteen volumes (complete run). Belfast: Marcus Ward, &
Davidson McCormack, 1894/1909. Library buckram. Ex. lib. with stamp. A very good set. €375
The Society was founded in 1853 "to advance the education of the public in archaeology and history,
particularly in regard to Ulster".
405. USSHER, James, Abp. An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland. Wherein the
judgement of antiquity .... is truely delivered and the noveltie of the now Romish doctrine
plainely discovered.
Bound with:
USSHER, James. A briefe declaration of the universalitie of the church of Christ, and the unitie
of the Catholicke faith professed therein - London: 1631. Quarto. A very good copy. STC 24548
with Wing adding another.
The text of a sermon delivered by Ussher before James I at Wanstead on June 20. Sweeney 5329
quoting the 1st edition.
Bound with:
USSHER, James. The substance of that which was delivered in a sermon before the Commons
House of Parliament, in St. Margaret's Church at Westminster the 18 of February 1620 - London:
1631. Quarto. A very good copy. STC 24554A. including a cancel titlepage with Wing adding on
an octavo edition.
Preached on the occasion of the members' reception of Communion "as a test against Popery".
The text: 1 Corinthian chapter X verse 17.
Sweeney 5365 quoting the 1st edition.
Bound with:
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USSHER, James. A discourse of the religion anciently professed by the Irish and British London: 1631. Quarto. A very good copy. STC 24549 with Wing adding another published in
1687 and termed "fourth edition.
Sweeney 5340.
Bound with:
USSHER, James. A speech delivered in the Castle-chamber at Dublin the XXII. of November
1622 - London: 1631. Quarto. STC 24555.
This was devoted to the question of the oath of supremacy and Ussher censured those officers
who had refused to take it. Sweeney 5368.
London: 1631. Quarto. pp. [xxvi], 583, 8 (catalogue), [1], 50, [1], 42, [8], 133, [11], [1], 12, [1].
Title page enclosed within double rule border. Engraved portrait frontispiece, not called for.
Contemporary full calf, spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy.
€1,250
James Ussher was born in the parish of St. Nicholas, in the city of Dublin, on the 4th of January, 15801, fifth among ten children of Arland Ussher, Clerk of Chancery, and his wife Margaret Stanihurst. 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 Faiths. His uncle
Stanyhurst tried to attract him towards Catholicism which he had adopted, but Ussher's leanings were
towards Anglicanism which he followed. His contacts with recusant scholars were extensive and
reciprocal. They included his uncle Richard Stanihurst, whose Brevis praemunitio pro futura
concertatione cum Jacobo Usserio (Douay, 1615) was directed against his nephew. He also exchanged
information with Bishop David Rothe of Ossory, author of the Analecta sacra nova . . . in Hibernia , the
Jesuit William Malone, and the Franciscans Thomas Strange, Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, and Luke Wadding.
In this way the vigorously catholic Louvain school made use of Ussher's private library, and in return
he had indirect access to manuscript sources in the Vatican library. Through Conall Mageoghegan of
Westmeath he was able to consult vital sources such as the Book of Lecan and of Book of Ballymote.
This world, in which the participants dealt with each other in terms of mutual respect, was a hidden
one. It functioned through codenames and intermediaries and occasionally broke down under the
strains created by politics and polemical print. So while Ussher's dealings with learned Catholics
extended over the three decades from the 1610s onwards, his first two publications as bishop of Meath
were detailed ripostes to Roman claims of superior antiquity After their victory at Kinsale in 1601, the
English Army generously gave the enormous sum of £1,800.00 for the purchase of a library for Trinity
College. Ussher had the delightful task of going to London to purchase the books. In 1612 he took the
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degree of Doctor of Divinity and in the following year published his first work Gravissimae
Quaestiones de Christianorum which he dedicated to James I. In 1621 he was appointed Bishop of
Meath, he was a regular visitor to London and favourite of the King, who before his death appointed
him to the Archbishopric of Armagh. His residence at that time was in a house at Drogheda (where he
kept his books including, the great masterpiece of Celtic illuminative art The Book of Kells) or
Termonfeckin in County Louth. He was strongly opposed to Bishop Bedell's efforts in revivng the Irish
language and to granting Catholics any toleration. He died at Ryegate in Surrey in 1656. He was a
prolific writer both in Latin and the English language. His biographer Dr. Elrington states "The works
which he had published sufficiently attest the stupendous extent of his information, and the skill with
which he could make use of the treasures he possessed". His name became celebrated throughout
Europe, and his services to the cause of literature, more especially in the departments of history and
chronology, have been acknowledged by all modern writers.
Sweeney 5323 quoting the Dublin 1st edition.
406. VAUGHAN, Miss Diana. Miss Diana Vaughan Priestess of Lucifer, by herself now a nun.
Translated from the Spanish by the Rev. Eugene Rickard, Meath, Ireland. Guadalajara, Mexico:
Printed by La Verdad, 1904. pp. xii, 203. Original frayed wrappers. Some pages dog-eared.
Exceedingly rare.
€375
COPAC locates the Oxford copy only.
The contents include: Masonic Titles of Miss Diana Vaughan; Recollection of an Ex-Palladist, June
16th; Lucifer in the Sanctum Regnum of Charleston, South Carolina; Number of Palladists; Devils
Instructions; Preparing for Battle; Critical Analysis; Apparitions in Charleston; Joan of Arc Chases
Four Devils; A Happy Day; Horrible Crime in London; Thrown to the Rats; A Contract with the Devil;
Thomas Vaughan; Origin of Freemasonry; Grand Masters of the Rosicrucians; Legend of Rosenkreuz;
Archbishop Laud, etc.
407. [VICTORIA IN IRELAND] The Queen in Ireland. Black & White Special. Profusely
illustrated. Dublin and London: The Black & White Publishing Company, n.d. (1900). Quarto.
pp. 32. Illustrated stapled wrappers, taped to spine. Some minor wear. A good copy from the
Arranmore library. Very rare.
€165
This publication was produced before Queen Victoria's last official visit to Ireland in April, 1900.
After arriving at Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire), the Queen set off in a convoy of four Royal carriages on
a nine-mile journey from Dun Laoghaire to Phoenix Park, via Leeson Street Bridge. By all accounts,
the 'endless streets full of enthusiastic people' (as she marvelled in her diary) presented an
extraordinary spectacle. This trip was all about giving Dublin – and Dubliners – a sense of imperial
identity, to make sure that every onlooker felt a part of this British-led world and that the little old
woman in the Royal carriage was not just the Queen but their Queen.
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408. WADE, Walter. Plantae Rariores in Hibernia inventae; or Habitats of some Plants, rather
scarce and valuable, found in Ireland; with concise remarks on the properties and uses of many of
them. Hand-coloured plate. Dublin: Graisberry, 1804. pp. xvi, 214. Attractive label of George
Connolly on front pastedown. Bookplate of George McMaster on front pastedown with label of
Greene's Library, 16 Clare Street. Contemporary full calf, a little worn. Title on red morocco
letterpiece on spine. All edges green. Very good. Very rare.
€750
No copy on Copac or ESTC. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. Lough Fea 350.
Walter Wade (1770-1825) was Professor of Botany at the Royal Dublin Society and an associate of the
Linnaean Society. He was instrumental in broadening our knowledge of the distribution of Irish plants,
and brought about the establishment in 1795 of the Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, of which he became the
first curator.
409. WAKEFIELD, Edward. An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political. Two volumes.
With oldin plate and ap o Ireland. London Lon an, urst … and rown, 1812. Quarto.
pp. (1) [i], xxiv, 762, (2) ii], 838, 88 (index). Modern quarter calf on cloth sides. A very good set.
Scarce.
€765
Bradshaw 7752. The author resided in Ireland and travelled throughout the country for nearly two
years, for the purpose of collecting materials for this outstanding work. He goes on to state: "When I
was in Ireland, I applied for information to people of every rank, from the nobleman to the peasant. To
give a list of the persons to whom I am under obligations, would appear ostentatious. Those to whom I
am indebted for hospitality, great kindness, and material assistance in the prosecution of my labours,
will, I hope, be contented with the only return for their generosity and disinterestedness which I have it
in my power to make - my warmest thanks, and lively remembrance of their favours. It will be
perceived that I am indebted to the Right Honourable Wellesley Pole for many official documents,
without any stipulation respecting the principles of my work; a proof of his liberality, and of his
willingness that facts should be laid before the public from incontrovertible documents".
Highly important source for the Socio-Economic History of Ireland. With chapters on: Name,
Situation, Extent, and Divisions; Soil, Bogs, and Minerals; Climate; Landed Property; Rental, and
Tenures; Rural Economy; Harbours; Light Houses; Internal Communication; Manufactures, and
National Industry; Topography; Police; Commerce; Imports; In-land Fisheries; Herring Fishery; The
Past State of Money and Circulating Medium; Weights and Measures; Prices; Revenue and Finance;
Representation; Government; Administration of Law; Grand Jury; Rebellion of 1798 - The Rising of
the People; The French Invasion; Education; Charter Schools; Foundling Hospital; Church
Establishment; Tithe; Religious Sects and Parties - Catholic Claims; Catholic Clergy; Catholic
Population; Religious Sects and Parties in the Counties of Ireland; Population; Customs, Manners, and
Habits in the Counties of Ireland; Defence, etc.
410. WAKEMAN, William F. Archaeologia Hibernica. A Hand-Book of Irish Antiquities,
Pagan and Christian. Especially of such as are easy of access from the Irish Metropolis. With
numerous illustrations. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & London: W. Orr, 1848. First edition. pp. xvii,
[1], 176, [2]. Original green cloth, covers framed by blind stamped interlacing with Celtic Cross
in centre of upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€125
411. 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). Modern half brown morocco on green cloth
boards. A very good set. Very scarce.
€385
This edition not in Bradshaw. Gilbert 879.
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.
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EDITION LIMITED TO 95 COPIES ONLY
412. WALSH, Maurice. Whiskey. With a foreword by Ken Mawhinney. Frontispiece of James
Cassidy's Distillery. Dublin: Irish Whiskey Society, 2011. pp. vi, 17. Edition limited to ninetyfive copies. Signed and numbered by Barry Walsh, son of the author. Green and brown marbled
boards. Title and author on upper cover on an engraved label.
€65
See items 412 & 416.
413. WALSH, Rev. Paul. The Ó Cléirigh Family of Tír Conaill. With the Ó Cléirigh
Genealogies. Illustrated. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1938. pp. [viii], 54, + folding
genealogical chart. Owner's signature on half-title. Stiff wrappers with printed label. Upper cover
lightly faded. A very good copy.
€145
A permanent and accurate record of this historic family from its first appearance in Irish history to its
decline after the confiscations of the seventeenth century.
414. WALSH, Rev. Paul. Irish Men of Learning. Dublin: Three Candles, 1947. pp. vi, 311. A
very good copy.
€175
Treating the learned families of O'Duigenan, O'Maolconaire (Conroy), O'Cuirin (Curneen), Mac an
Bhaird (Ward), MacFirbhisigh, and their massive contribution to Irish historiography. Edited by Colm
O Lochlainn, this book is the fruit of thirty years intensive study of Irish scribes and their manuscripts.
"The book is not a collection of scraps; it is a unit; it is a monument to Éigse Éireann" - Aodh de
Blacam.
LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES ONLY
415. WALSH, Wendy F. & NELSON, E. Charles. 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. Castlebourke: By Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund
Burke Publisher, 1997. pp. x, 212. Quarter green morocco on gold cloth boards. Spine with
raised bands and title in gilt. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the author, illustrator and
publisher. A fine copy. Rare.
€475
Prior to this publication, An Irish Flower Garden Replanted was out of print for almost a decade. Dr.
Nelson relates that "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
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gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telifís Éireann. 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".
The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including 10 new
watercolours for this edition), and 18 figures in Chinese inks.
416. [WALSHE, Miss Elizabeth Hely] The Foster-Brothers of Doon. A Tale of The Irish
Rebellion of 1798. Illustrated. London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. (c.1865). pp. 394, 6
(publications). Re-bound with original blue patterned cloth mounted on upper cover and spine,
titled in gilt. Some minor spotting. A.e.g. A very good copy.
€85
Loeber W17.
Elizabeth Hely Walshe was born in Limerick and died in the Isle of Wright in 1868 (1869 according to
Allibone and Watters). She was a Protestant Evangelical writer, who spent part of her life in Canada.
Her father was a clergyman and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Elizabeth was a dedicated
Sunday-school teacher, an accomplished musician and artist who was interested in the education of the
poor. She died of consumption in the Isle of Wright.
IN FINE BINDING
417. WARD, Hon. Mrs. The Microscope, or Descriptions of Various Objects of Especial
Interest and Beauty, adapted for Microscopic Observation. With directions for the arrangement of
a microscope and the collection and mounting of objects. Illustrated by the author's original
drawings. London: Groombridge, 1870. pp. vi, 154, 8 (coloured plates). Bound in contemporary
full crimson morocco. Upper cover framed by a single gilt fillet, enclosing in the centre the gilt
armorial arms of the Petyt family of Yorkshire. Spine divided into six compartments by five
raised bands, title in gilt on blue morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to
a floral design. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Very scarce.
€275
Mary Ward (1827-1869), astronomer, microscopist, artist and entrepreneur was born at Ballylin,
County Offaly, the youngest child of the Rev. Henry King and his wife Harriette. From an early age
she showed a great interest in astronomy and natural history, which was encouraged by her cousin Lord
Rosse, in Parsonstown, just fifteen miles away. In 1854 she married Henry William Crosbie Ward of
Castle Ward, County Down, the second son of the third Viscount Bangor. William Parsons' sons built a
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steam-powered automobile. On 31 August 1869, Mary and her husband Henry Ward, 5th Viscount
Bangor were travelling in it with the Parsons boys and their tutor, when Mary was thrown from the car
on a bend in the road at Parsonstown. She fell under its steel wheel and died almost instantly. When a
doctor, who lived near the scene of the accident, arrived within moments, he found her cut, bruised and
bleeding from the ears. The fatal injury was a broken neck. For the statisticians Mary Ward has the
unfortunate distinction of being the country's first motor fatality.
418. WARE, Sir James, Knt. The Antiquities and History of Ireland. Containing 1. His
Inquiries into the Antiquities of Ireland ... 2. His Annals of Ireland from the first Conquest by the
English ... 3. His Commentaries of the Prelates of Ireland from the first planting of Christianity ...
4. His two Books of the Writers of Ireland ... 5. By way of Appendix is added that rare and
admirable Discourse of Sir John Davis ... Now first published in one volume in English; and the
Life of Sir James Ware prefixed. Dublin: Printed by A. Crook, 1704/05. Folio. pp.
[20],172,[14];76;164,64,175-196,[4];70;44;55,[1], 28;[4],42,[4];59,[1], 2 (errata). Titlepage
printed in red and black. With four additional titlepages. Old half calf, rebacked. Occasional light
foxing and browning to some pages, paper repair to fore-edge of a few leaves. Some early
marginalia. Very good. Scarce.
€675
ESTC N30990.
The author dedicated this work to James Duke of Ormond. Illustrated with fine engravings: Queen
Mary; Map of Hibernia; Saint Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg; Insignia; Archiepiscopalium Hiberniae;
419. [WATERFORD HISTORICAL JOURNAL] Journal of the Waterford & South-East of
Ireland Archaeological Society. Vol. IX. 1906 - Vol. XVII. 1914. Illustrated with maps,
genealogical tables and numerous plates. Nine volumes. Waterford: Harvey, 1906/1914. Half
black library morocco. Ex. lib. with stamps. Wear to spines and some rubbing. A very good run
of an exceedingly rare provincial archaeological journal.
€475
The Waterford and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society was founded in 1893 and issued its
first journal a few months later. The President was the Most Rev. R.A. Sheehan, the Vice Presidents
included: Earl Roberts, Dudley F. Fortescue, John Newport White, Count De La Poer, Rev. William P.
Burke.
This is undoubtedly the most important collection of articles published on Waterford. A most
authoritative reference work on its history, topography, genealogy, distinguished Waterford families,
place names, early printing, folklore, heritage, music, poetry and archaeology. It is unrivalled as a
source for the study of that County's antiquities. Illustrated with delineations of castles, monasteries,
abbeys, round towers, Celtic crosses, dolmens, court cairns, megalithic tombs, genealogical charts,
maps, houses, portraits, etc.
AN EXCELLENT REFERENCE WORK
420. WEBB, Alfred. A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished
Irishmen, and of Eminent Persons Connected with Ireland by Office or by their Writings. Dublin:
Gill, 1878. pp. xix, 598. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Name cut from title and halftitle. Recased. A very good copy.
€75
A most valuable addition to the biographical and historical literature of the Kingdom of Ireland. The
author was aided by thoroughly competent researchers, especially by the Rev. Dr. Reeves.
421. [WEIGHTY QUERIES] Weighty queries relating to the past present and future state of
Ireland; calculated for the present and future benefit of that unhappy kingdom and tendered to the
serious consideration of all who are willing to be inform'd. How it became unhappy, and how it
may yet be made happy again to posterity - London: Richard Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms in
Warwick Lane, 1691. Folio. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. pp. 4. Disbound. A very good
copy in quarter leather binder's folder. Extremely rare.
€475
Sweeney 5566. The 1st and only Wing printing - W 1258A. ESTC R230818.
ESTC gives 2 locations in Ireland and 3 in England.
A post Treaty of Limerick pamphlet set out in a series of loaded questions, for instance: "Whether the
degenerate Irish of English extraction be not more Jesuited, Frenchified and more inveterate against the
British than the ancient Irish, and needs not a much more circumspect eye of the Government over
them? Whether in all ages there hath not been observed a greater aptitude in the British to turn Irish,
than in the Irish to become British?"
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422. [WESTERN PRIEST] The Two Policies. Sinn Féin or … Parlia entarianis . y a
Western Priest. Foreword by Rev. Michael O'Flanagan. Dublin: [S.n.], n.d. (c.1918). pp. 15.
Printed wrappers. Exceedingly rare.
€225
No copy located on COPAC. Carty 1002a.
"This pamphlet, written by one of the most earnest and brilliant of the young priests of Connacht,
deserves the serious consideration of all the Irish people".
A Sinn Féin pamphlet of the 1918 General Election campaign.
LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY'S COPY
423. WESTON, Jessie L. Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle. Translated by Jessie L. Weston. With
designs by Caroline Watts. London: David Nutt at the Sign of the Phoenix, 1903. 24mo. pp. xvi,
84. First edition. Coloured pictorial cloth. From the library of Lady Gregory with her bookplate
and printed Coole Park slip tipped in. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise a fine and desirable
item.
€135
Number 6 in the David Nutt series of Arthurian Romances.
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424. WHITE, James Grove. Historical and Topographical Notes, Etc. on Buttevant,
Castletownroche, Doneraile, Mallow, and Places in their Vicinity. Volumes 1 and 2 of four.
Profusely illustrated with the houses of the Cork countryside. Cork: Printed and Published by
Guy and Co., 1905/1911. pp. (1) [iii], 412, (2) [ii], 329. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine
set. Exceedingly rare.
€450
Among the finest works of local history in Cork, or any other County, are the Grove White notes on
places in north Cork published between 1906 and 1915. Colonel James Grove White was an officer in
the British army with an all-consuming interest in the local history of north Cork. He collected items on
the history and antiquities of his chosen area in the field, from manuscripts, books, journals, gravestone
inscriptions, and any other sources he found useful. The invaluable information he gathered was
arranged in alphabetical order and encompassing Buttevant, Doneraile and a host of other places in
between. Among the entries you will find parish histories, family pedigrees, histories of the big houses
and castles, notes on antiquarian relics and anecdotes gathered by Grove White himself. Added value is
given to many of the entries by the inclusion of Grove White's transcriptions from manuscripts in the
Four Courts which were later lost during the fire there in 1922. In his preface to the first volume Grove
White wrote: "I trust that they [the notes] will be found to form a not unimportant contribution to the
past history, antiquities, etc., of this portion of the County".
425. WHYTE, Samuel. The Shamrock: or, Hibernian Cresses. A Collection of Poems, Songs,
Epigrams, etc. Latin as well as English, the Original Production of Ireland. To which are
subjoined, Thoughts on the Prevailing System of School Education, Respecting Young Ladies as
well as Gentlemen: with Practical Proposals for a Reformation. Dublin: Printed by R.
Marchbank, in Coles-Alley, Castle-Street, 1772. Quarto. pp. xviii, [14 (list of subscribers)], 515,
[3], [10]. Inscribed "Anne Wilson" on titlepage. Modern quarter calf on marbled boards, title in
gilt direct on spine. A very good copy. Very rare.
€475
ESTC N22315.
Samuel Whyte (1733-1811) was born on board a ship just entering the Mersey and was the natural son
of Captain Solomon Whyte, Deputy-Governor of the Tower of London, who owned considerable
property in Ireland. Samuel was brought up by the Sheridan family in Dublin and he became one of the
most prominent schoolmasters of that city in the eighteenth century. He founded the English Grammar
School for young gentlemen at 75, Grafton Street. He was proud of the fact of having some famous
pupils including Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the Duke of Wellington, Thomas Moore, and George
Petrie. In addition to the poetry of many of his pupils, this important work contains a large number of
Whyte's own poems. It was the first Irish collection of poetry and his practical thoughts for the reform
of education in Ireland.
The list of subscribers include: Edmund Burke, Esq.; Earl of Clanricard; Mr. Jonathan Fisher; Mr.
Arthur Guinness; Mrs. (John) Latouche; Dr. Leland; Robert Maddock; Henry Quin and Samuel
Watson, etc. There is also a list of young gentlemen subscribers, pupils of Samuel Whyte including:
Richard Sheridan; Charles Henry Coote; William Tandy; Lord Devlin; Lord Wellesly; Lawrence
Parsons; Thomas (Buck) Whaley; David Latouche, etc.
426. WILDE, Oscar. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & other stories. London: Osgood, 1891. First.
pp. [iv], 168. Bookplate on front pastedown. Bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly in cont. half
brown morocco gilt, light brown linen covers, brown silk marker. Original illustrated wraps
bound in at end. Top edge gilt. Very good.
€375
Mason 345
427. WILDE, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. Paris: 1903. Small quarto. pp. [xvi], 154.
Edition limited to 250 copies. Bookplate on front pastedown. Bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly
in cont. half brown morocco gilt, light brown linen covers, brown silk marker. Original wrappers
bound in at end. Top edge gilt. Very good.
€375
Mason 627 "It is not his wit, then, and still less his knack of paradox-twisting, that makes me claim for
him a place apart among living dramatists. It is the keenness of his intellect, the individuality of his
point of view, the excellence of his verbal style, and above all the genuinely dramatic quality of his
inspirations" - W. Scott, 1894.
428. WILDE, Oscar. Sebastian Melmoth. London: Humphreys, 1904. First edition. Small
quarto. pp. [iv], 223. Bookplate on front pastedown. Bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly in cont.
half brown morocco gilt, light brown linen covers, brown silk marker. Original wrappers bound
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€475
in at end. Top edge gilt. Very good.
Mason 633 In 1895 while enjoying the success of The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde allowed
himself to be lured into a libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, who had
strenuously objected to his son's relationship. Queensberry left a card in the Albemarle Club inscribed
"To Oscar Wilde, posing as a sodomite". The case proved a disaster, and was unsuccessful for Wilde
following a devastating cross-examination by Edward Carson. Wilde in turn was charged with gross
indecency and was sentenced to two years penal servitude with hard labour. On his release from prison
he immediately left England and, bankrupt and homeless, spent the rest of his life wandering aimlessly
about Italy and France, sometimes with Douglas, sometimes with Ross, using the pseudonym Sebastian
Melmoth. Wilde died of cerebral meningitis at the Hotel d'Alsace in November 1900, where he
received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUBLIN PRINTING
429. [WILLIAM III] An Act for taking Special
Bails in the Country upon Actions and Suits
Depending in the Courts of King's-Bench,
Common-Pleas, and Exchequer. Dublin, Printed
by Andrew Crook, Printed to the Kings most
Excellent Majesty, on Ormonde-Key, 1695.
Folio. pp. 6. Fine. Extremely rare.
€385
Sweeney A349. The 1st and only separate Wing
printing - I 309. ESTC R216033. ESTC gives two
locations in Ireland and one in England.
The chief justice and other named judges will
"from time to time, as need shall require, impower
such and so many persons, other than common
attorneys and sollicitors, as shall be fit and
neccessary .... to take and receive all and every
such recognizance .... of bail."
430. [WILSON, Sir R.T.] A Full Report of the
Trial of Major-General Sir Robert Thomas
Wilson, Michael Bruce, Esq. and Capt. John
Hely Hutchinson, before The Court of Assize at
Paris, on the 22d of April, 1816, and two
following days, for aiding the Escape of Count
Lavalette; including a short memoir of Sir R.T.
Wilson. With an appendix, containing the
celebrated letter to Earl Grey. Translated from
the French. London: Edwards, 1816. pp. 70.
Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards.
Titlepage lightly spotted and soiled, otherwise a
very good copy. Very scarce.
€375
Copac locates the Cambridge copy. O'Higgins 4.305.
General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Kt (1777-1849) was a general and politician who served in Egypt,
Prussia, he served in Ireland during the 1798 rebellion and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army
in 1812. He sat as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1818 to 1831. He served as
the Governor of Gibraltar from 1842 until his death in 1849. He had a distinguished career in the Army
and the diplomatic service. He continued to serve with the Russian army during 1813 and was placed in
command of the Prussian reserve, distinguishing himself at Bautzen and being awarded the order of St.
George on the battlefield. Removed owing to political machinations by Castlereagh, then Foreign
Minister, Wilson served with the Austrian Army of Italy during the campaign of 1814. Post-Waterloo,
in 1816 he was involved - along with John Hely-Hutchinson and Michael Bruce - in the escape attempt
made by the Comte de La Valette following a death sentence being passed on the latter by the French
Restoration government. Placed on trial at the French Cour d'Assises, he was sentenced to three months
in prison and was subsequently criticised by the Prince Regent for his role in the affair.
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431. WINDELE, J. Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork and its vicinity;
Gougan Barra, Glengarrif, and Killarney. Cork: Messrs. Bolster, 70 Patrick Street; John
Cumming, Dublin; Longman and Company, London; Sold also, by all Booksellers in the United
Kingdom, 1842. Second edition. pp. viii, 412. Extra blank pages at end with photographs of John
Windele, Abraham Abell and one other unidentified. Loosely inserted on The Grove House Hotel
notepaper are historical notices on O'Mahony's castle. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Later
quarter pebbled cloth on linen boards. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€265
432. WINTER, Sir Ormonde. Winter's Tale. An Autobiography. London: The Richards Press,
1955. pp. 358. Blue library buckram, title in gilt on spine. Ex. lib. Linen Hall Library, Belfast
with stamps. A very good copy. Scarce.
€125
Brigadier-General Sir Ormonde de l'Épée Winter KBE CB CMG DSO (1875–1962) British Army
officer and author who after service in World War I was responsible for intelligence operations in
Ireland during the Anglo-Irish War. He later became a British Fascist and fought for the Finnish Army
in the Winter War.
Winter was a Royal Artillery officer and served in the First World War. He was appointed as Chief of
the British Army intelligence branch and deputy chief of police in Dublin where he was known as "O,"
and "the holy terror". Prior to his appointment as CIO he was an 'old' Colonel, who next found himself
a young Brigadier-General. Draconian in outlook he was reported to have precipitated the suicide of
three of his juniors.
In the Irish War of Independence he was appointed by the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill. Even
given Winter's lack of experience in the espionage field. 'O' impressed at the time with his initial
reorganisation of heavily centralised departments. Mark Sturgis wrote of the Dublin Castle regime; "'O'
is a marvel, he looks like a wicked little white snake, he can do anything" . (Sturgis papers) If nothing
else he was innovative, yet his detractors claimed him to be obsessed with cloak and dagger operations.
In his final report to the British Government Winter listed the main methods of his intelligence
gathering.
See item 434.
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433. WOOD-MARTIN, W.G. Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland. A Folklore Sketch. A
Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian Traditions. With numerous illustrations. Two volumes. London:
Longmans, 1902. pp. (1) xx, 405, (2) xvi, 438. Owner's signature on f.f.e. Blue ribbed cloth, title
in gilt on rebacked spines. A very good set.
€325
Colonel William Gregory Wood-Martin was born at Woodville, Sligo in 1847 and after a distinguished
military career he took a keen interest in the history and antiquities of his native country. The author
states: "The interest of this branch of archaeological study arises from recognition of the fact that the
present is the outcome of the past, and that an adequate apprehension of the past is necessary to the
understanding of human life under present condition".
434. WRIGHT, Rev. G.N. Scenes in Ireland. With Historical Illustrations, Legends, and
Biographical Notices. Embellished with thirty-six hand coloured engravings. London: Printed for
Thomas Tegg, 1834. pp. viii, 235. Original printed boards. Spine expertly repaired. Early
signature and bookseller's label on front endpaper. A fine copy. Scarce.
€325
George Newenham Wright, (c.1794-1877), Irish writer and Anglican clergyman, was born in Dublin,
the son of John Thomas Wright, a medical doctor. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1814 and
M.A. in 1817. He held several curacies in Ireland before moving to St. Mary Woolnoth in London. By
1851, he was a teacher of classics, resident in Windsor. In 1863 he was master of Tewkesbury grammar
school. From the 1820s to the 1840s Wright published some topographical works and schoolbooks on
subjects ranging from the Greek language to biography and philosophy. There were several books on
Ireland, two of which have illustrations by George Petrie.
435. [YEATS, Jack B.] The Shanachie. An Illustrated Irish Miscellany. Two volumes.
Illustrated. Dublin: Maunsel, 1906 /07. Quarto. pp. (1) [iv], 130, (2) 250, [6 (recent
publications)]. One volume in pictorial cloth linen and one in library half morocco. Ex library
copy with stamp. Cloth dusty and worn.
€375
The Shanachie was effectively Maunsel's house-journal. It may have been modelled on the London
magazine The Dome, and follows its example in using good paper and printing high-quality
illustrations. The standard throughout is exceptionally high. Contributors include virtually all the major
Irish writers and illustrators of the day; W.B. Yeats, Jack Yeats, their father John B. Yeats, Shaw,
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Dunsany, George Birmingham, Lady Gregory, Padraic Colum, Synge, Barlow, Cousins, George
Fitzmaurice, Pat (P.D. Kenny), Stephen Gwynn, Hugh Thompson, Elinor Monsell, Seaghan Mac
Cathmhaoil, William and Richard Orpen, Grace Gifford and the cover by Beatrice Elvery, etc. etc.
The second volume has the original wrappers bound in.
IRISH PLACE NAMES
436. [YEATS, Jack B.] Player's Cigarette Cards. A complete set of the first and second series of
Irish Place Names cigarette cards. Fifty cards, beautifully illustrated in vibrant colours by Jack B.
Yeats with the names in English, Irish, literal meaning and historical commentary on verso.
Published by John Player & Sons, Dublin, circa 1934. All in very good to fine condition. [See
NLI Newsletter, Winter 2009].
€475
YEATS'S OIL PAINTINGS
437. [YEATS, Jack B.] Jack B. Yeats. A Catalogue Raisonné, of The Oil Paintings by Hilary
Pyle. Profusely illustrated with colour and black & white illustrations. Three volumes. London:
Deutsch, 1992. First. pp. lxxxi, 524. Large quarto. Cloth. Edition limited to 1,550 numbered
copies, of which 1,500 are for sale. Fine in slipcase.
€875
Hilary Pyle, the world's leading authority on Jack B. Yeats and his art, has worked for almost thirty
years on this, the definitive catalogue of his oil paintings. Volumes one & two contain the author's
scholarly introduction and the catalogue. Volume three contains the plates with 111 in colour and 713
in black and white. Essential for serious collectors or students of Yeats' work.
438. YEATS, William Butler. The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats in Verse and
Prose. Eight volumes. Vol. I: Poems Lyrical and Narrative. Vol. II: The King's Threshold; On
Baile's Strand; Deirdre; Shadowy Waters. Vol. III: The Countess Cathleen; The Land of Heart's
Desire; The Unicorn from the Stars. Vol. IV: The Hour-Glass; Cathleen Ni Houlihan; The
Golden Helmet; The Irish Dramatic Movement. Vol. V: The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red
Hanrahan. Vol. VI: Ideas of Good and Evil. Vol. VII: The Secret Rose; Rosa Alchemica; The
Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi; John Sherman and Dhoya. Vol. VIII:
Discoveries; Edmund Spenser Poetry and Tradition; & Other Essays. Portrait frontispieces to
volumes I, III, V and VII. Stratford-on-Avon: Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. Ex
lib. The Meyer Sassoon Library, Paris, with stamps. Later full brown buckram. Top edge gilt, the
remainder untrimmed. The covers of three volumes lightly faded, otherwise very good.
€875
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IN FINE BINDING
IDEAL FOR PRESENTATION
439. YEATS, W.B. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. London: Macmillan, 1961. pp. xviii,
565. Bound by Bayntun of Bath in full green polished calf. Covers framed by double gilt fillets.
Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on red
morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design with a gilt
shamrock in the centre; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers; green and cream
endbands. All edges gilt. A fine and attractive copy.
€375
MERVYN WALL'S COPY
440. [YEATS, W.B.] The Arrow. W.B. Yeats Commemoration Number. Illustrated. Dublin: The
Abbey Theatre, 1939. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Mervyn Wall's copy
with his signature on upper cover. A very good copy.
€125
Devoted entirely to W.B. Yeats, with contributions by Austin Clarke, Edmund Dulac, Oliver St. John
Gogarty, F.R. Higgins, John Masefield, etc. Illustrations by J.B. Yeats, Sean O'Sullivan, Max
Beerbohm, etc. and a facsimile reproduction of a letter by W.B. Yeats.
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EDMUND BURKE PUBLISHER
A SELECTION OF FINE BOOKS FROM OUR PUBLISHING HOUSE
B1. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new
introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery,
and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his
closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction
houses. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328.
The limited edition in full green goatskin gilt with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins
also in gilt. Housed in a fine slipcase. It includes the list of subscribers. Last few copies.
€475
The general edition is limited to 1,000 sets
superbly bound in green buckram, with a
medallion portrait embossed in gilt on the
upper covers, and in slipcase.
€95
Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at
Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of
a small farmer. Educated locally, and at the age
of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post
Office. He joined the I.R.B. in London. During
Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to
James Connolly in the GPO. With The
τ’Rahilly he led the irst party out o the Pτ
immediately before its surrender. Arrested,
imprisoned and released in December 1916.
After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918
general election and the establishment of Dáil
Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made
Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for
Finance, and organised the highly successful
National Loan. A most capable organiser with
great ability and physical energy, courage and
force of character, he was simultaneously
Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of
Organisation, Director of Intelligence and
Minister for Finance. He organised the supply
of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack
intelligence network and an execution squad
nicknamed Twelve Apostles. He was for a long
time the most wanted man in Ireland but he
practically eliminated the British Secret Service
with the Bloody Sunday morning operation.
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Edmund Burke Publisher
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
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his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes.
This is arguably one of the most eagerly awaited Irish books for many years.
B2. BOURKE [de Búrca], Éamonn. Burke People and Places. With clan location maps,
illustrations and 50 pages of genealogies. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke
Publisher and Whitegate, Ballinakella Press, 2001. Fourth. pp. 173. Fine in stiff illustrated wraps .
Enlarged with an extra 35 pages of genealogies.
€15
B3. CHANDLER, Edward. Photography in Ireland. The Nineteenth Century. Illustrated.
Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. Folio. pp. xii, 44 (plates), 134. Fine in fine d.j.
€20
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B4. 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:
y Éa onn de úrca, 1997. We have republished ‘one o the rarest o all Irish books’, with a
new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain. The edition is limited to 300 copies, and handsomely
bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase.
€190
Lecky described this volu e “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 ”. he new introduction by Pádrai Ó Riain,
contains the irst published account o ol an’s recently discovered anuscript notes to the Triadis.
This reprint should stimulate further the growing interest in the history of the Irish saints.
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B5. COSTELLO, Willie.
onnacht Man’s Ra ble. Recollections of growing up in rural Ireland of the
thirties and orties. With an introduction by Dr. o Mitchell. Illustrated by erry τ’Donovan and ront
cover watercolour by James MacIntyre. Map on end-papers. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Fourth edition. pp. xii,
211. Fine in French flaps.
€15
A deeply personal collection of memories and a valuable account of Irish history including cattle fairs,
threshing, rural electrification, interspersed with stories of the matchmaker, the town crier, the chimney
sweep and the blacksmith. Over two thousand copies sold in the first week of publication.
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B6. 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
B7. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995.
pp. xvi, 453, 6 (extra maps), lxxxiii. Fine in full buckram, with illustrated coloured dustjacket
depicting Jobson’s anuscript ap o Kerry 1598.
€45
Mar aret usack’s istory o the Kin do o Kerry is an excellent work treatin o the history,
topography, antiquities and genealogy of the County. There is an excellent account of the families of:
he τ’ ullivans 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.
LIMITED EDITION
B8. DALTON, Charles Ed. by. Kin
harles he econd’s Irish r y 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 Kin ’s Letter ooks 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 re odelled. Kin
harles’s new ar y dates ro 11th February, 1661 and
when the Irish parlia ent et in May the Lord hancellor in or ed the ouse that “ there were twenty
months” arrears due to the ar y.
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. τne ay wonder how these ‘rene ades’ ound their way into the new Royalist levies.
he answer is that these sa e o icers not only supported the Restoration but were ea er in the Kin ’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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LIMITED EDITION
B9. 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. Thanks largely to the efficiency and foresight of Captain Hutchison, the first Harbour
Master, the port built as an ‘ sylu ’ harbour or port o re u e, beca e with the introduction o stea 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.
B10. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous
illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2002.
Second edition. pp. xiv, 184. Fine in fine d.j.
€20
B11. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon.
Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy 8vo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in d.j. Very scarce.
€90
The author Tony Donohoe, farmer and keen local historian has chronicled in great detail the history his
ancestral parish from the early Christian period to the present. This authoritative work is the result of
thirty years of meticulous research and is a most welcome contribution to the history of County Mayo.
In the oreword ho as ildea annon states “Tony Donohoe has brought it all vividly to light in his
impressive history. Using his treasure trove of published and unpublished materials, patiently
accumulated over the decades, he has told the story of an ancient parish with a scholar’s eye for the
telling detail ... has made effective use of the unpublished Palmer and Pratt estate papers to help
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bridge the dark gap between seventeenth-century documents detailing the changeover in land
ownership from native to settler, and nineteenth-century sources”.
B12. [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.
B13. GLEESON, Rev. John. Cashel of the Kings. A History of the Ancient Capital of Munster
from the date of its foundation until the present day. Including historical notices of the Kings of
Cashel from the 4th century to the 12th century. The succession of bishops and archbishops from
St. Ailbe to the present day. Notices of the principal abbeys belonging to the territory around
Cashel, together with items of local history down to the 19th century. Illustrated. Dublin: De
Búrca, 2001. pp. [ii], xix, 312. Fine in fine d.j.
€40
Cover design by courtesy of Mr. Patrick Meaney, Cashel, County Tipperary.
An important and scholarly work on one of the most celebrated places of historic interest in Ireland. In
medieval times it was the ecclesiastical capital of Munster. Conquered by the Eoghanacht tribe
(Mac arthys) led by onall orc in the i th century who set up a ortress on t. Patrick’s Rock. hey
ruled over the fertile plains of Munster unchallenged and their title King of Cashel remained
synonymous with that of King of Munster. In law and tradition the kings of Cashel knew no superior
and did not acknowledge the overlordship of Tara for five hundred years.
Fr. John Gleeson (1855-1927), historian, was born near Nenagh, County Tipperary into a wealthy
farming family. Educated locally and at Maynooth. Appointed curate of Lorrha and Templederry, later
parish priest of Lorrha and Knock in 1893 and Lorrha in 1908. A prolific writer and meticulous
researcher, he also wrote History of the Ely O’Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond.
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B14. HARRISON, Alan. he Dean’s Friend. nthony Ray ond (1675-1726), Jonathan Swift
and the Irish Language. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1999. pp. xv, 175. Fine in fine illustrated
d.j.
€35
The book introduces us to 17th and 18th century Ireland and to the interface between the two languages
and the two cultures. It is a fascinating study of the troubled period after the Battle of the Boyne,
encompassing historiography and antiquarianism; contemporary linguistic study and the
sociolinguistics of the two languages in contact; Swift and his friends in that context; and the printing
and publishing of books in Stuart and early-Georgian Ireland.
A CLASSIC OF THE GALLOGLAS FAMILIES
B15. 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 aps, illustrations and enealo ies o the Mac weeneys, lan Donald and the τ’σeills o
Tír Eoghain. With an introduction by Professor Eoin MacNeill. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca,
for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. pp. xxi, 391. Superb facsimile reprint, bound in full
buckram, with head and tail bands. In coloured dustjacket depicting three galloglasses and an
Irish Foot Soldier of the 16th century.
€45
They were a force to be reckoned with. An English writer of the period described them as follows:
“The galloglasses are picked and selected men of great and mighty bodies, cruel, without compassion.
The greatest force of the battle consisteth in their choosing rather to die than to yield, so that when it
cometh to handy blows, they are quickly slain or win the field. They are armed with a shirt of mail, a
skull, and a skeine. The weapon they most use is a battle-axe, or halberd, six foot long, the blade
wherof is somewhat like a shoemaker’s knife, and without pike; the stroke wherof is deadly”.
ANNALS OF ULSTER
B16. 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 r. Michael τ’ lery, hie o
the Four Masters, for his masterpiece.
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LIMITED EDITION
B17. 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. Top edge gilt. 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 a ily o τ’Dui nans. he
only original copy of these Annals known
to exist is a small vellum manuscript
which was presented to Trinity by Dr.
Leland in 1766.
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. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase.
€110
HIS NEVER-FORGOTTEN COUNTRYSIDE ABOUT
GLENOSHEEN
B19. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W.
Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Three volumes. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii,
538, (3) x, 598. Fine.
€165
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This scholarly edition is enhanced with a new introductory essay on the life of that noted scholar from
County Limerick, P.W. Joyce by the late Mainchín eoi he, 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 ”.
B20. KILROY, Patricia. Fall of the Gaelic Lords. 1534-1616. Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca
for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. x, 192. Illustrated. Fine in illustrated d.j.
€29.50
No period in Irish history is quite so full of drama, heroism and tragedy as the eighty-odd years from
the mid 16th to the early 17th centuries: the age of the fall of the Gaelic lords. This intriguing and
moving narrative recounts the passing of Gaelic Ireland when the Tudor Crown sought to subdue the
island and the Irish chiefs defended their ancient territories and way of life.
Beginning in 1534 with youn ilken ho as’ de iant stand at the ates o Dublin astle, it tells the
story o Red u h τ’Donnell’s capture and escape, the rise o the reat u h τ’σeill 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.
B21. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth
Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebourke: De Búrca, 2000. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi,
451. Fine in fine d.j.
€45
Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It
deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map
of the County, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo:
τ’ onnor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke Mac William Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret,
Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.
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LIMITED TO 200 COPIES
B22. LOEBER, Rolf & Magda. Ed. by. Irish Poets and their Pseudonyms in Early Periodicals.
Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 2007. pp. xxii, 168. Fine in illustrated d.j.
€65
Many Irish poems remain hidden in the periodicals and were published under pseudonyms. Therefore,
the identity of hundred of Irish poets often is elusive. The discovery of a manuscript of pseudonyms of
Irish poets made this volume possible. It lists over 1,200 pseudonyms for 504 Irish poets whose work
appeared in over 500 early periodicals published in Ireland, England, North America, and Australia.
Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber are researchers at the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh.
They have both extensively published on Irish history and literature. Their most recent book is A Guide
to Irish Fiction (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).
B23. LOHAN, Máire. n ‘ ntiquarian raze’. he 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
orn in 1861,
t. Patrick Lyons, ‘ he
ntiquarian
Police an’, served with the Royal Irish onstabulary ro
1886 - 1920. While stationed in the West of Ireland, he
developed a keen interest in documenting the fieldmonuments 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 rown on his ‘antiquarian craze’, he pre erred not to be
acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for
his ine ind 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 photo raphs (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.
B24. MacEVILLY, Michael. A Splendid Resistance. A Life of IRA Chief of Staff Dr. Andy
Cooney. Foreword by Sean O Mahony. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2011. pp. xix, 427.
Paperback in coloured illustrated French flaps.
€20
Hardback in coloured illustrated dustjacket.
€50
Limited edition of 50 copies in full green morocco gilt, in slipcase.
€225
The appointment of Andy (Andrew) Cooney as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
while still a medical student was the highpoint of a military career which began in 1917 and was not to
end until 1944. Prior to this he had served as a Volunteer, GHQ Officer, Brigade Commander and
Divisional Commander before being appointed to the IRA General Staff with the rank of
Quartermaster-General in 1924 and Chief of Staff in 1925, at which time he was elected as Chairman
of the IRA Executive. Cooney was to retain this post until 1927. Afterwards, he remained close to the
IRA General Staff until he emigrated to the USA.
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Michael MacEvilly’s meticulously researched life of Dr. Andy Cooney shed s 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, County Mayo. He was educated at St. Jarlath’s olle e,
Tuam, County 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 an interest in the Irish Judo Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland.
Irish history and the Irish lan ua e were Michael’s ajor interests. his pri arily ste
ed ro his
detailed research of the history of the MacEvilly family, especially their involvement in the War of
Independence of which he was particularly proud. Irish republican history was an enduring passion and
he became a keen scholar and book-collector on the area. He was an active member of the Committee
of the 1916-21 Club and was President from 2000 to 2001. Michael passed away in 2009. He is sadly
missed by his family and friends.
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EDITION LIMITED TO 10 SIGNED SETS
B25. 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 qtr green morocco on cloth boards. Spine
divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco
letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design.
White endbands. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to ten sets only, signed by the Publisher and
Editor.
€1,650
The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo,
compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at the height of the Cromwellian Wars
in the mid-seventeenth century. The work has long been recognised as the most important source for
the study of Irish family history, and it is also of great importance to historians of pre-17th century
Ireland since it details the ancestry of many significant figures in Irish history - including: Brian
Boroimhe (d.1014); Ulick Burke, Marquis of Clanricarde (d.1657); James Butler, Duke of Ormonde
(d.1688); Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell (d.1589); Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of
Antrim (d.1683); Garrett Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (d.1536); Diarmuid Mac Murchadha (d.1171);
Myler Ma rath, rchbishop o ashel (d.1622), Murrou h τ’ rien, aron o Inchiquin (d.1674);
Fea h Mac u h τ’ yrne (d.1597); Rory τ’ onor.(d.1198); Red u h τ’Donnell (d.1602); u h
τ’σeill, Earl o yrone (d.1616); τwen Roe τ’σeill (d.1649), and any, any ore.
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 τ’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.
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. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. Full buckram
gilt, in presentation box.
€635
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The original text, both prose and poetry, of both works is accompanied by a painstaking English
translation. But, perhaps most important of all, the edition includes, in addition to several valuable
appendices, a comprehensive series of indices which provide a key to the tens of thousands of personal
names, surnames, tribal names and place-names that the work contains. In fact, the portion relating to
personal names is the largest Irish language names index that has ever been compiled.
B27. MARTIN, Edward A. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors. With short
biographies. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in d.j.
€36
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B28. MELVIN, Patrick. Estates and Landed Society in Galway. With a foreword by Desmond
Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, December, 2012. pp. 512. Full buckram
gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin.
Standard edition
€75
Limited edition
€255
This work is based on a Trinity College Dublin Ph.D. thesis prepared under the direction of
Professor L.M. Cullen. It investigates and describes the varied origins and foundation of estates
and proprietors in Galway and how that process was affected by the political turmoils and
transplantations of the 17th century. The aftermath of these turmoils in England and Ireland saw
the establishment of a core number of successful estates founded largely by ambitious families
able to trim their sails to changing times and opportunities. Alongside these estates there
remained at the same time a fluctuating mass of smaller proprietors whose lands frequently fell to
more able or business-like landowners. Penal laws and poor land quality resulted in exile –
sometimes temporary - for many of the older Catholic landowners.
The book describes how, by the 19th century, the variously rooted strands of proprietors became
bound together by the common interest of property, security and class and survived with their
social if not political influence largely intact through the 19th century. The role of this large and
diverse gentry class in local administration, politics, social life and as landlords is described in
some detail. The size of the county and complexity of changing estate history prevents the book
from being exhaustive or a complete history of all estates and gentry families. These Anglo-Irish
families (the term is unsatisfactory) became largely sidelined, irrelevant and forgotten by the
modern nationalist Irish state. Their numbers and variety in Galway is made clear through a large
range of house illustrations.
Many of the old landed class and nobility embodied values worthwhile in society. The wealthiest
were patrons of much of the culture and art of old Europe. They stood for continuity, tradition, a
sense of public duty, standards and refinement in manners. Many of them fostered the pursuit of
outdoor sports and horseracing. They linked their frequently remote places to the wider world
and they were at the same time cosmopolitan and local without being parochial. Although a
declining social force they frequently held liberal attitudes against the power and dominance of
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state, church, and the ever expanding bureaucracy in modem society and government. Some, of
course, did not always live up to ideals. - Knight of Glin.
The contents include: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Origins and Establishments of Estates;
Estates and Estate Management; The Social Life of the Gentry; Marriage, Family and Careers;
The Gentry as Landlords; The County and Local Roll of the Gentry; The Gentry and Politics;
Ideas of Class and Historical Identity; Review and Retrospect.
B29. 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
B30. O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of
lectures delivered by the late Eu ene τ’ urry, M.R.I. ., Pro essor o Irish istory 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 in slipcase.
τ’ urry’s twenty-one Lectures on the
Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History,
delivered at the College during the terms 1855
and 1856 were published with an appendix in
one volume. They are a mine of information on
the subject of our Irish manuscripts and are
illustrated with numerous facsimile specimens.
His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and
Customs of the Ancient Irish , delivered at the
University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the
last one only a fortnight before his death) were
published in Dublin in three volumes. These
were edited with an introduction (which takes up
the whole of the first volume), appendices and
other aterial by Dr. W.K. ullivan. τ’ urry’s
works stand to this day as a monument to one of
our greatest Celtic scholars.
Dr. σollai Ó Muraíle states “This, the single
most substantial work produced by one of the
great pioneering figures who laid the
foundations of modern Irish scholarship in the
fields of Gaelic language and literature,
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medieval history and archaeology, has been exceedingly difficult to come by (even in some reputable
libraries) for the best part of a century. It is therefore greatly to be welcomed that it is now being made
available again, by De Búrca Books - not just for the sake of present day scholars but also for the
general reader who will derive from its pages much enjoyment and enlightenment about the lifestyle
and general culture of our ancient forebears”.
B31. 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 ro Roderic τ’Flaherty’s transcript. o enhance the value o this asterpiece a colour
reproduction o aptista oazio’s ap o Ireland 1609 is included in a atchin older.
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 τ’ lery, a Franciscan lay brother. e hi sel 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”.
he reat work re ained, or the ost part, unpublished and untranslated until John τ’Donovan
prepared his edition between 1847 and 1856. he crownin achieve ent o John τ’Donovan’s edition
is the copious historical, topographical and genealogical material in the footnotes which have been
universally acclai ed by scholars. Dou las yde wrote that the τ’Donovan edition represented “ the
greatest work that any modern Irish scholar ever accomplished ”.
More recently Kenneth σicholls says “O’Donovan’s enormous scholarship breathtaking in its extent
when one considers the state of historical scholarship and the almost total lack of published source
material in his day, still amazes one, as does the extent to which it has been depended on by others
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down to the present. His translations are still superior in reliability to those of Hennessy, MacCarthy
or Freeman to name three editor-translators of other Irish Annals ... his footnotes are a mine of
information”.
A superb set of this monumental source for the history of Ireland.
B32. SWEENEY, Tony. Catalogue Raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver. A Short Descriptive
Catalogue of Surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial & Domestic Plate dating from the
Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary,
William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. In a
fine buckram binding by Museum Bookbinding and printed in Dublin by Betaprint. Signed and
numbered limited edition of 400 copies, 360 of which are for sale. Fine in illustrated d.j. €135
Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal
Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in
and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.
DE-LUXE LIMITED EDITION
B33. 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
reen. Upper cover tooled in ilt with a horseshoe enclosin a tre oil with the heads o ‘ adler’s
Wells’, ‘ rkle’ and ‘σijinsky’, above lake waters ( W σ-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 or 42 years. e shared R E television co
entary with Michael and ony τ’ ehir
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over a period of thirty-five years. Dr. Sweeney was also a form analyst with the Irish Times, and author
of two previous books Irish Stuart Silver, a Catalogue Raisonné (1995) and Ireland and the Printed
Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of
Ireland.
His late wife Annie, a former French stage and screen ballet dancer whose film credits included
L’Homme au Parapluie Vert starring Fernanded and Chanteur de Mexico with Luis Mariano. For over
a quarter of a century, in her role as turf statistician, she supplied the Irish Times with course facts and
figures.
Francis Hyland a former stockbroker turned bookmaker is currently chairman of the Irish National
Bookmakers Association. A passionate racing researcher, he co-authored with Guy St. John Williams,
histories of the ‘Irish Derby’ and the ‘Ja eson Irish rand σational’.
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. Bound in full buckram gilt.
€95
B35. TALBOT, Hayden. Michael ollins’ τwn tory. old to ayden albot. 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 o treatin everyone, ro
rthur ri ith to the “ lowliest of his supporters”, with
equal consideration and politeness. Talbot made it his business to meet Collins as often as possible and
durin
onths o close association ollins i pressed hi as “the finest character it had ever been my
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good fortune to know”. He valued their friendship more than any other.
his work contains an invaluable insi ht into ollins’ thinkin and actions durin this epic
period of Irish history. It deals at length with Easter Week, The Black and Tans, The Murder of
Francis Sheehy Skeffington, the Treaty negotiations and his vision for the resurgent nation
which, unfortunately he was given too little time to develop in practice. Rare interviews with
Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill further enhance this book, which has long been out of print
and hard to find in the antiquarian book market.
Originally published in 1922, our edition has a new introduction and an index which was not in
the first edition.
B36. 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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B37. 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. We are seeking
subscribers for the limited edition of 300 sets, and they will have their names printed in a 'List of
Subscribers' to this work. Price for this special limited edition €295.
We are almost there with number of subscribers, but we still need your support.
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. Available October 2013.
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